Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1951
Nancy Carlyon Millett (MA) (see ’49 undergraduate).

1957
Donald Messina (Mas) (see ’56 undergraduate).

1960
Val Evans Rathbone W (Mas) (see ’58 undergraduate). . . . Marjorie Manuel White W (Mas) (see ’60 Eastman).

1967
Jim Flowers S (MBA) is director of the VT KnowledgeWorks business incubator at Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center. . . . Brian Pecon S (MBA) writes that he retired as a senior vice president at FedEx. He now works for the City of Memphis and Shelby County in Tennessee as director of industrial economic development.

1969
Betsy Neary Sholl (MA) is the author of Late Psalm, a book of poetry.

1970
Stuart Platt S (MBA) (see ’55 undergraduate). . . . Hu Sheng-cheng (PhD) was appointed chairman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development for the government of Taiwan.

1971
Daniel Litynski (MS) stepped down as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Michigan University to return to teaching and research.

1973
Clyde Bailey (MS), president of the National Bar Association and a patent counsel for Eastman Kodak Co., was the keynote speaker at the Monroe County (N.Y.) Bar Association’s Law Day luncheon last April. . . . Raymond Lorion (PhD) is dean of Towson University’s College of Education in Towson, Md.

1974
Mike Nichols (PhD) is the author of Stop Arguing with Your Kids: How to Win the Battle of Wills by Making Your Children Feel Heard. Mike is a psychology professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

1976
Stephen Hoffman S (MBA) (see ’75 undergraduate).

1979
John (Jed) Dietz S (MBA) is director of the Maryland Film Festival. . . . A. J. Dole S (MBA) (see ’87 undergraduate).

1980
Rick Rashid (PhD) has joined the board of trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Rick is senior vice president of Microsoft Research.

1981
Franklin Kalk (PhD) has been appointed chief technology officer of DuPont Photomasks. . . . Mary Sachs-Hanrahan (Mas) (see ’87 undergraduate).

1982
Russell Bayer S (MBA) is chief financial officer of the Latin American division of Clorox.

1984
Clifford Abramsky S (MBA) (see ’83 undergraduate). . . . Paul Prabhaker S (PhD) is associate dean and associate professor of marketing at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart Graduate School of Business.

1985
Roberta Britting S (MBA) has been appointed vice president of strategic account management for lender services at Ellie Mae Inc. . . . Mary Ho (MA), president and founder of the humanitarian organization China Millennium Council, presented geneticist, anthropologist, and filmmaker Spencer Wells with the first Oneness of Humanity award, sponsored by Rochester public television station WXXI, in April.

1987
Christopher Progler (MS) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . Scott Reisinger (MA) (see ’80 undergraduate).

1988
Alice Calabrese Smith S (MBA) (see ’84 undergraduate).

1989
Shane Coppola S (MBA) (see ’88 undergraduate). . . . Michael Liess S (MBA) is president of GlobalWare Solutions. . . . Brian Prince S (MBA) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . John Wickson S (MBA) has been appointed director of alliances and international air logistics for Delta Air Lines.

1990
Young-kee Kim (PhD), a physics professor at the University of Chicago, was elected coleader of Collider Detector at Fermilab, an international research group that will experiment with energy acceleration. . . . Suchart Techaposai S (MBA) is chief investment officer for Ayudhya JF Asset Management in Bangkok, Thailand.

1991
Nathan Fong S (MBA) and his wife, Christina, announce the birth of their daughter, Grace Yiu-Yun, on February 26.

1992
Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos (PhD) is a mathematics professor at the University of Patras in Greece. He also is the author of An Introduction to Lie Groups and the Geometry of Homogeneous Spaces. . . . Paul Graven S (MBA) and his wife, Frauke, announce the birth of their daughter, Lena Amelie, on August 16, 2003, “during the New York City blackout,” he writes. . . . Dennis Kloster S (MBA) is vice president of sales and marketing at International Environmental, a producer of hydronic fan coils.

1993
Phil Fraher S (MBA), chief operating officer of the software company Visual Numerics, has been appointed to the industrial advisory planning committee for the Supercomputing Conference. . . . Patrick King S (MBA) has been named a vice president at Eastman Kodak Co. He joined the company last May as general manager of worldwide consumer output in the company’s digital and film imaging systems group. . . . Mike McCourt S (MBA) is vice president of marketing and business development for Soleo Communications in Rochester.

1994
Don Drennon-Gala W (PhD) published two opinion pieces about public education on the news Web site Chattanoogan.com. Don is a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Department of Justice. . . . Ronald Pratt (PhD) (see ’89 undergraduate).

1995
Lisa Hardy Norwood W (MS) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . Renelle Risley S (MBA) and her partner, Cynthia Smyth, welcomed twins Zachary Stetler and Zoe Ann on February 18. They join sister Mandelyn, 3. Renelle is a project manager at Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

1996
Garfield Duncan S (MBA) writes that he and his wife, Jacquelyn Browne Duncan ’97S (MBA), purchased their own AAMCO center in Winston-Salem, N.C. They have twin daughters, Jordan and Alexis. . . . Muzzammil Hassan S (MBA) (see ’85 undergraduate). . . . John Niecikowski S (MBA) and his wife, Kirsi, announce the birth of their son, Nicholas William, on February 5. Their first son, Michael Paul, was born on May 14, 2002. John is manager of capital markets and securitization for Deloitte and Touche in New York City. . . . Marcia Robinson S (MBA) has published, with Ravi Kalakota, Offshore Outsourcing: Business Models, ROI and Best Practices. . . . Howard Smith W (EdD) has been appointed superintendent of the Williamsville (N.Y.) Central School District.

1997
Jacquelyn Browne Duncan S (MBA) (see ’96). . . . Alan Stacklin S (MBA) is chief technology officer for Akoya Inc. in Northfield, Ill.

1998
Jeff S (MBA) and Maureen Fallon Fagnan S (MBA) announce the birth of their daughter, Zoey, on May 20. Jeff writes, “Mom and daughter are happy, healthy, and hungry. What a rush.” Jeff is a partner at Atlas Venture in Waltham, Mass. . . . Chiharu Yamane Mochizuki S (MBA) and her husband, Fumio, announce the birth of their son, Taiyo, on February 23. He joins his sister, Himawari. Chiharu works for Japan’s national tax agency in Tokyo. . . . Ewout Steenbergen S (MBA) writes, “I am in a new position at ING; I am general manager of RVS Insurance, a large Dutch insurance company that’s part of ING Group.”

1999
Christopher Burns S (MBA) (see ’97 undergraduate). . . . Kevin DiGiacomo S (MBA) is a vice president in the business banking department of M&T Bank in Rochester. . . . Robert Holzhauer S (MBA), a pediatrician at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, conducted a study on the benefits of a school-based asthma treatment program, which was presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology in March.

2000
Debbie Freidman W (MS) (see ’99 undergraduate). . . . Zdenek Kratky S (MBA) writes, “Almost 36 hours to the minute after I returned home from speaking at the Simon School, my wife, Nikola, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Zdenek Jr., ‘Mini Z,’ on April 9. Mom and baby are doing great, and I couldn’t be happier.” . . . Laura Sayegh S (MBA) and Michael Piccolo were married on September 27, 2003, in Rochester. Laura is a finance project manager at Xerox, and Michael is controller at Hahn Automotive Warehouse. . . . Ven Swaminethan S (MBA) is founder and president of Princeton Business Solutions, a data processing company, in Princeton, N.J.

2002
Ann Freling S (MBA) (see ’96 Nursing). . . . David Gushue (MS) and Shannon Blair were married on July 12, 2003, in Rochester. David is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University. Shannon is a substitute teacher. . . . Heather Lambert-Shemo S (MBA) and her husband, Jeff, announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Claire, on April 21. Heather is an assistant product manager with American Greetings in Cleveland. . . . Marc Straus S (MBA) is director of Exact Software Nederland BV.

2003
Jimmy Benzaquen S (MBA) works for Banco de Brasil in New York City. . . . Ron Butler S (MBA) is the contact mailing list manager for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. . . . Pavan Gundepudi S (PhD) is director of client services at Talant in Bethesda, Md.