Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1980s

1980
Dainis Hazners is the author of (some of) The Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend, a book of poetry, for which he won the 2003 Iowa Poetry Prize. . . . David Higgins ’87 (PhD) has been named executive vice president and head of U.S. operations for BioMedica in San Diego.

1981
Joseph Bocchiaro sang the praises of Buffalo, his hometown, in the essay “Western New York is Great Place to Call Home,” published in the Buffalo News last February. . . . Mark Cohen writes, “In April 2003, I became chief of professional technology for Lifetime Health in Rochester. I am also chief of service for AfterHours Medical Care and am seeing patients at my internal medicine/pediatric practice at Lifetime Health in Pittsford.”

1982
In a letter to the Brighton-Pittsford Post, Iain Currie wrote that he had visited Cathy Fromme Prairie in Fort Collins, Colo., a park dedicated to his classmate, Cathy Potter-Fromme, after she died of breast cancer in 1992. . . . Steven Males is vice president of affiliate marketing for the Univision Networks, part of Spanish-language media company Univision Communications.

1983
Jim Takacs (see ’87).

1984
Paul Navazio has been appointed finance director of the City of Davis, Calif. Previously, he was budget manager for the City of Berkeley, Calif.

1985
Wade Norwood (see ’86).

1986
Alex Macario ’88S (MBA), ’90M (MD) has published A Sabbatical in Madrid: A Diary of Spain. Alex, an associate professor of anesthesia and health research at Stanford University School of Medicine, moved his family to Madrid for a 10-month sabbatical in August 2001. . . . Lisa Norwood ’95W (MS) writes, “I am the president of Rochester’s Society of Women Engineers and am on the board of the Rochester Engineering Society. I am also overseeing a three-year pre-engineering program funded by the New York State Department of Transportation for 25 City of Rochester high school students, with programs during the April school break for girls interested in fashion and engineering. The best way to reach me and my husband, Wade ’85, is by e-mail: lnrw (at) seas (dot) Rochester (dot) edu and wadesean (at) prodigy (dot) net.” . . . Brian Prince ’89S (MBA) donated $85,000 to Flower City Habitat for Humanity to build a new home on Rochester’s southeast side, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Brian founded Renaissance Finance, an investment company that will fund commercial and development projects in low-income communities, including Rochester. . . . Judith Reinsdorf was promoted to vice president and corporate secretary of Tyco International. . . . Janis Levine Rubin has been named a vice president of New York Life Insurance. . . . Jeanne Putinas Spencer ’90M (MD), program director of the family practice residency program at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pa., and clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., is co-author of the article “The Newborn Foot,” published in American Family Physician. . . . Glenn Stambo writes, “I am an interventional radiologist and partner in SDI Radiologists in Tampa, Fla. I presented a publication at the International Symposium of Endovascular Therapy last January in Miami.”

1987
Amy Lyn Blake writes, “Jim Takacs ’83 and I joined the law firm Casnert Edwards in Boston as partners in the family law department.” . . . Peg Herrmann Tanner and her husband, Tony Tanner ’90S (MBA), moved from Rochester to Scottsdale, Ariz. “We’re adjusting to the new life and sunshine with our children, Luke, 3 1/2, and 21-month-old twins, Katherine and Veronica,” Peg writes. “If the travels of our friends and colleagues bring you to the Scottsdale area, stop by for a visit!” . . . Jorge Torre-Verdejo, who now goes by Jorge Ajuria, writes, “I joined the Ft. Lauderdale Renal Group, where I practice intensive care nephrology. I just had a chapter entitled ‘Choice of Hemodialysis Membrane’ published in Heinrich’s new edition of Principles and Practice of Hemodialysis.”

1988
Julie Baylin Forgash writes, “My husband, Jeff, and I live in Evanston, Ill. My husband’s twin daughters from his first marriage live with us full time.” . . . William Grazier is chief information officer of Viastar Holdings. . . . Craig Mondschein ’89S (MBA) and his wife, Elizabeth, announce the birth of their daughter, Amanda Shira, on June 20, 2003. Amanda joins big sister, Gabrielle, 6. Craig is the director of global banking and cash management at Honeywell International. The Mondscheins live in West Orange, N.J. . . . Kenneth Slater was made partner of the law firm Halloran & Sage in the Hartford, Conn., office. He practices in the areas of environmental land use and business and commercial law. . . . Adrian Smalls and Monica Miranda were married September 20, 2003, at the Interfaith Chapel on the River Campus. In addition to members of the basketball team and basketball coach Mike Neer, several alumni and staff members attended: Marvin Owens ’90, Tim Talley, Kim Dyce-Faucette ’89, ’90W (MS), ’97W (MS), Ben Keegan ’00, Rodney Lyde ’95, Shelly Clements ’89W (MS), David Neal Sellers ’87, Logan Hazen, director of residential life, and Linda Ellis of the office of the dean of students. Adrian is a Rochester city police officer and volunteer assistant men’s basketball coach at Rochester. Monica is director of fraternity and sorority affairs at Rochester and is working on her doctorate in higher education at the Warner School.

1989
Eric Fitzgerald, an attorney with the law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, was appointed to the national advisory committee of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters. . . . A District of Columbia court granted a preliminary injunction last December prohibiting the Department of Defense from administering the anthrax vaccine to military service members or civilian contractors in a case argued by Mark Zaid. He said the case was the culmination of more than five years of hard work trying to protect American service members and civilian contractors from experimental vaccines.