Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: 1970s

1970
Hodgson Russ attorneys Daniel Sharpe, David Farmelo ’75, and Kenneth Friedman ’76 are listed in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

1971
Ann Weiss is the editor of The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, an updated and expanded collection of photographs that Jewish deportees brought to the death camps and that were confiscated by the Nazis.

1972
Chester Arazy received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work in support of the PEO Aircraft Carriers Small Business Initiative Research Program, in which he spearheaded the development of high-temperature pipe and equipment insulation for shipboard applications. Chester retired from the Department of the Navy last September. . . . Gene Cretz is deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. . . . Susan Bass Levin is community affairs commissioner in New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s cabinet. She was chief operating officer of Corzine’s campaign. . . . Dianne Waite Newhouse is CEO of the Volunteers of America of Western New York. . . . Michael Vitolo was promoted to counsel at the law firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood in White Plains, N.Y. Michael is a member of the firm’s real estate practice group.

1973
Bret Berner is chief scientific officer and vice president of product development at Depomed, a pharmaceutical company in Menlo Park, Calif. . . . William Savino is a coauthor of the commercial law section of the Syracuse Law Review, an annual survey of the developments and trends in New York State law.

1975
David Farmelo (see ’70).

1976
David Carlucci was named chairman of IMS Health. He also is CEO and president of the company. . . . Kenneth Friedman (see ’70). . . . Ethan Vishniac, a professor in the physics and astronomy department at Johns Hopkins University, has been named editor-in-chief of the Astrophysical Journal. . . . Harriet DeBose Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

1977
George Jenkins writes, “Like most of my classmates, I celebrated my 50th birthday last year. Robert Steinback visited from Miami, as did Leslie Hamlin-Williams from Indianapolis and Rochelle Watson from Rochester. We had a lot of fun. Also, I took a cruise to Alaska in June 2005.” . . . Bruce Leicher is vice president and general counsel of Antigenics, a biotechnology company in New York City. . . . Anthony Rafel is a managing member of the litigation law firm Rafel Manville in Seattle.