Class Notes

River Campus Undergraduate: Slater Society–1950s

1952
Michael Telesca received the 2006 Edwin F. Jaeckle Award from the University at Buffalo law school and the school’s alumni association last November. The highest honor that the school and the association bestows, the award is given annually to someone who has made significant contributions to the school and to the legal profession. He also received an award from the Rochester Education Foundation for his commitment to Rochester city school students.

1955
Robert Stern ’62E (PhD) sends an update: Hazkarah, his composition for cello and string orchestra, had its New York premiere last October at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with Matt Haimovitz on cello and Li Jian conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. And his oratorio Shofar had its world premiere last November at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., with Deborah Rentz-Moore (soprano), Frank Kelley (tenor), David Kravitz and Donald Wilkinson (bass), Coro Allegro, and artistic director David Hodgkins.

1958
Robert O’Brien is the author of Barbed-Wire Battleground (Trafford Publishing), a book about the Korean War. He writes, “At a time when North Korea has assumed a threatening posture, this book reveals the mindset of the North Korean military during the Korean War, a mindset they still exhibit to this day.”