Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1959
Lester Brune (PhD) is coauthor of The Quest for Missile Defenses, 1944–2003, with Richard Burns. Lester is professor emeritus of history at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. He is working on a book about the war in Iraq.

1965
Edward Foster (PhD), Mina Schwabacker Professor of English and the Humanities at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., received the college’s Thomas D. Howells Award for distinguished teaching in
humanities last May.

1967
Matt Young (PhD) (see ’62 undergraduate).

1970
Gary Ostrower (PhD) writes, “I was re-elected mayor of Alfred, N.Y., last year. I’ve been named a Fulbright senior lecturer and will spend the spring semester of 2005 at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, teaching recent American history and the Vietnam War, as well as researching the origin of the General Assembly’s 1975 ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution. I’ll then return to my usual position as professor of history at Alfred University and continue to play tennis and ski . . . badly.”

1975
Joseph Doody S (MBA), president of North American delivery for Staples, has been elected to the board of directors of Casella Waste Systems in Rutland, Vt.

1976
Leonard Jason (PhD) is coauthor of Havens: Stories of True Community Healing, with Martin Perdoux.

1981
Jerid Fisher (PhD) and Allison Styliadis were married on June 26 in Geneva, N.Y. Jerid is a neuropsychologist and the president of Brain Injury Consultants in Fairport, N.Y. Allison, a registered nurse, is an occupational health consultant at Pactiv Corp. . . . Brian Wolpert S (MBA) is global director of “over-the-counter” operations and documentation for GlobeOp Financial Services in New York City. . . . Harvey Zabinsky (PhD) joined Piper Jaffray & Co. in Chicago, as director of fixed income strategy in investment research.

1984
Rich Tamulski S (MBA) joined Minrad as controller in April 2003. He recently was promoted to vice president of finance.

1985
Michael Franco W (EdD) has been named vice chancellor for development and public relations at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Previously, Michael was vice president of college advancement at St. John’s College in New Mexico. He also had been associate vice president of development at Rochester.

1986
Michael Henderson S (MBA) is president of new generation systems for Telcordia Technologies, a New Jersey–based telecommunications software and services company. . . . David Jarosz S (MBA) has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for PediaMed Pharmaceuticals in Florence, Ky.

1988
Reid Barbour (PhD) is Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. His most recent books are John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England and Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England. Contact Reid at rbarbour (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu. . . . Michael Jin (MS) (see ’86 undergraduate).

1991
John Engel S (MBA) has been appointed senior vice president and chief operating officer of Wesco International in Pittsburgh. . . . James Warner S (MBA) (see ’90 undergraduate). . . . Donna Brindisi Wenk S (MBA) is a senior vice president of Paetec Communications.

1992
Emery Brewer S (MBA) is comanager of the Driehaus International Discovery Fund. . . . Len Leger W (MS) has been named executive director of the Emil Fries School of Piano Tuning and Technology in Vancouver, Wash. . . . Vrinda Rajgarhia S (MBA) owns Sweet World, a chain of candy stores in India.

1993
Michael Cumbo (PhD) (see ’81 undergraduate). . . . Rita Garcia S (MBA) and her husband, Ron Ibarra ’01S (MBA), have started a consulting service for businesses and nonprofit organizations. Their Web site is www.businesspartnersplus.com. . . . Tom Pasko S (MBA) is a founder of Frozen Ropes of Rochester, a year-round baseball and softball training center.

1995
Barry Lederman S (MBA) (see ’91 undergraduate). . . . Jeffrey Mastroleo S (MBA) is president of Alliance Leasing’s commercial leasing unit.

1996
Carl Bonner (PhD) (see ’79 undergraduate). . . . Andrew Hopkins S (MBA) (see ’96 undergraduate). . . . Nobuaki Otsuki S (MBA) writes, “I am working at Accenture as a strategy consulting manager. I got married in May 2003 in Hawaii. My wife, Emi, and I are enjoying city life in Aoyama, probably the most fashionable area in Tokyo.” . . . Dan Richter S (MBA) writes, “My wife, Micki, and I are the proud parents of Jesse and Ethan. The boys were born on May 29.”

1997
Eric Klein W (MS) is an English teacher at Scarborough High School, in Scarborough, Maine. . . . Arti Arora Raman S (MBA) was the first female recipient of the Simon School’s Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance. She is the cofounder, chief technology officer, and vice president of product planning for Liquid Engines, a cash flow and tax management software company in Sunnyvale, Calif. . . . Cynthia Rapp (MS) (see ’96 undergraduate).

2001
Ron Ibarra S (MBA) (see ’93). . . . Asif Khan S (MBA) has started a new position in structured products marketing at Goldman Sachs.

2002
Martin Ahrend S (MBA) is a founder of the e-learning company a2-c in Switzerland. Prior to founding the company, Martin worked for six years at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant. . . . William Hall (MS) (see ’99 undergraduate). . . . Sandro Kriesch S (MBA) writes, “My second son, Sascha Dario, was born on July 3.”

2003
Ray Giamartino W (EdD) recently published a joint research chapter in Teaching All of the Children. The research focuses on the demographic risk factors of preschool-age learners. . . . Alberto (Bobby) Uy S (MBA) writes, “Mariel Annika was born on June 27. She joins her three older sisters, Marice, 16, Meggy, 12, and Marianne, 5.”

2004
Danielle Blauw (MS) (see ’02 undergraduate). . . . Janice Hohl S (MBA) and Branislav Svec were married on July 3 in Amherst, N.Y. Janice is a student at New York University’s Real Estate Institute, and Branislav is an associate at American Express Corp. s