Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1946
Hendrick Van Ness (MS) (see ’45 undergraduate).

1951
Clifford Swartz (PhD) (see ’45 undergraduate).

1960
Victor Greene (MA) retired from his position as professor emeritus of history at the University of WisconsinÐMilwaukee but continues his research. He is the author of A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old World and New.

1970
James Acheson (PhD), professor of anthropology and marine sciences at the University of Maine, was named the 2004 winner of the American Anthropological Association’s Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. . . . Robert Brown (PhD) is professor of communications at Salem State College in Massachusetts. He received the college’s award for best faculty publication for the book Joan Alcover: Elegies, which he translated with Catalan-language scholar Kristine Doll. Last June, Robert received the Joanne Fussa Distinguished Teaching award in the Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from Harvard University’s School of Continuing Education, where he is an adjunct professor in the graduate program. In July, he was named to the editorial board of the Public Relations Review. . . . Gary Ostrower (PhD), professor of history at Alfred University, participated in a symposium at Harvard University honoring the work and career of historian Akira Iriye, who retired from Harvard’s history department.

1971
Hal Hicks S (MS) is a member of Disabled American Veterans’ board of directors and heads the eighth district of the national executive committee. Previously, he was state commander for the DAV.

1973
Kathy York Haaland (PhD) is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a neuropsychologist at the Albuquerque Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She is the vice chair for Research in Psychiatry and was the president of the neuropsychology division of the American Psychological Association for 2003Ð04. She was named a V.A. Research Career Scientist and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. In 2004, she won the A. Earl Walker award from New Mexico’s medical school in recognition of her research, which focuses on the study of motor deficits in stroke and Parkinson’s disease patients. Her husband, David Haaland (PhD), is a senior scientist at Sandia National Labs. Their son, Ryan, is a student at Oregon State University.

1976
Kathy Carrese Gerbasi (PhD) (see ’71 undergraduate).

1977
J. Theodore Anagnoson (PhD), professor of political science at California State University–Los Angeles, received the university’s President’s Distinguished Professor award for 2004Ð05.

1979
Bernice Weiss Skirboll (MS), founder of Compeer Inc., is now the company’s executive consultant.

1980
Pamela York Klainer’s W (EdD) strategic consulting firm, Power and Money, hosted an executive summit last October for female business leaders to find ways to “dig in and support city and county government to make the [Rochester] region work economically for all its citizens.” Gail Evans ’94S (MBA), director of the worldwide e-business technology platform for Kodak Worldwide Information Systems, attended. . . . Kyle Smith S (MBA) is president of the consulting firm RedWind Group in Houston.

1982
James Sharpe S (MBA) is vice president of business development for Oragenics, a Florida biotechnology company. Previously, he founded and was president of Ankyr Consulting in New Jersey.

1983
Lynn Hatrick S (MBA) is CEO of UStec, a home networking services company in Victor, N.Y.

1984
Thomas McLain S (MBA), chairman, CEO, and president of Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, was elected chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization BioFlorida. . . . Dennis Shogren S (MBA) was promoted to senior vice president of finance for Modtech Holdings. Previously, he was chief financial officer for the company.

1986
Taj Bindra S (MBA), former chief financial officer and executive vice president for Chase Home Finance, has been named executive vice president of finance and servicing operations of mortgage banking at Washington Mutual. . . . Suzanne Kronick Tunnell S (MBA) has joined Crisis Nursery of Greater Rochester as executive director. The organization provides a safe haven for young children whose families are in crisis. . . . Howard Zemsky S (MBA) has been appointed to the Buffalo State College Council. Howard is a managing partner of Taurus Capital.

1987
Gary Austin S (MBA) is vice president of MEDecision Inc. . . . Bhaskar Chakravorti (PhD) is a partner and “thought leader” at the Monitor Group. He is the author of The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World. . . . Russell DiGate (PhD) (see ’80 undergraduate).

1988
Alice Calabrese Smith S (MBA) is president and CEO of the Humane Society at Lollypop Farm in Perinton, N.Y. Previously, she was executive vice president of the organization.

1989
Efrain Rivera S (MBA) has been named corporate vice president and treasurer of Bausch & Lomb.

1990
Charles Avallone S (MBA) and Terri Gumina announce their engagement. A July wedding is planned. . . . Frederick Kulikowski S (MBA) was appointed president and COO of Commercial Federal Corp. He also was named a member of the company’s board of directors. Previously, he was senior vice president in charge of business banking at M&T Bank Corp. . . . John LaCarte S (MBA) (see ’89 undergraduate).

1991
Dana Mehnert S (MBA) has been named vice president and general manager of business development and operations for the RF Communications division of Harris Corp. in Rochester. He has been with Harris since 1985, most recently as vice president of international operations and U.S. government sales and operations. . . . Christopher Webber S (MBA) and Andrea Reinking were married on July 10 in Fayetteville, N.Y. Christopher is a senior buyer for Welch Allyn, and Andrea is a doctoral candidate at Syracuse University. They live in DeWitt, N.Y.

1993
Quincy Allen S (MBA) is president of the production systems group at Xerox. He had been senior vice president of Xerox Business Group Operations.

1994
Gail Evans S (MBA) (see ’80). . . . Dharmesh Panchal (MS) is a senior optical engineer at DRS Optronics, a division of defense electronics producer DRS Technologies. . . . Kelly Zou (MA), ’97M (PhD) has been promoted to associate professor of radiology and statistics at Harvard Medical School.

1996
Andrew Hopkins S (MBA) (see ’95 undergraduate).

1997
Sonya Armstrong W (PhD) was the recipient of the 2004 national Leadership Award for Excellence in Teaching from Clark Atlanta University. Sonya is assistant professor of mathematics at West Virginia State University. . . . Cynthia Rapp (MS) (see ’95 undergraduate). . . . Erik Rausch W (MS) (see ’90 undergraduate).

2000
Susan Chuang W (PhD), assistant professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University’s College of Human Services and Health Professions, presented “Swedish Adolescents’ Relational and Assertive Self-Concepts Across Social Contexts and Relationships,” with Michael Lamb and Philip Hwang, at the American Psychological Society’s 16th annual convention in Chicago last May.

2001
Ron Wille S (MBA) has been named vice president of sales and marketing for VanDamme Associates in Rochester.

2003
Ray Giamartino W (EdD) writes, “I have taken a district office position as the director of student performance in the Churchville-Chili (N.Y.) Central School District. My literacy-based research continues.” . . . Kelly Kuehn S (MBA) is a staff accountant at Mengel, Metzger, Barr & Co. in Rochester. . . . Craig Lefort (MS) (see ’04).

2004
Michelle Conroy (MA) and Craig Lefort ’03 (MS) were married last October in Keuka Park, N.Y. Michelle is a lab technician at the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology at the Medical Center, and Craig is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rochester. . . . Colin Goldsmith (MS) (see ’03 undergraduate). . . . Chandana Thammana (MS) (see ’03 undergraduate).