River Campus

Undergraduate

1970

Gerald Itkin writes that he continues to split his time between homes in Portland and Bend, Ore. He is partially retired as a trial lawyer and takes select cases, often assisting other lawyers on difficult matters. He was elected president of the Mazamas, the Pacific Northwest’s 3,000-member, 114-year-old alpine mountaineering organization. . . . Ronnee Press Lipman (see ’69).

1973

Myra Hirschberg sends a photo and a “joint update” of her and four classmates who have been getting together regularly since graduation. Pictured are (from left) Maureen Henehan Famiglietti, Andrea DiGaetano, Sandy Noymer, Myra, and Eileen Lewis. Andrea, who celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary last December, is practicing gynecology in Voorhees, N.J., where her husband, physician Peter Turner, is medical director of the Voorhees Pediatrics Facility. Andrea’s practice has shifted since completing a fellowship in integrative medicine with Andrew Weil in 2003. E-mail her at fivesparks@comcast.net. Maureen lives in Auburn, N.Y., and works at University Hospital in Syracuse in the pediatrics department, coordinating clinical trials for children with HIV/AIDS—work that sent her to Africa in 2006. E-mail her at famiglim@gmail.com. Myra left a career as a labor negotiator for the New York City public hospital system to move to Canada in 1995. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband, Tom Calwell. Together, they travel throughout North America, teaching and leading dances for weddings and community events. Visit www.dancingthread.ca or e-mail her at info@dancingthread.ca. Eileen has lived in West Los Angeles since 1980, where she specializes in commercial real estate lending with First California Bank. Her son, Matthew Ryan, celebrated his bar mitzvah last summer, and she is hoping that all her higher education gives her the wisdom to survive his teenage years. E-mail her at lewis.e@sbcglobal.net. Sandy moved to Israel 20 years ago and now lives in Ramat Hasharon with her husband, Jonathan Ariel. Life in Israel has included Scud missiles falling near her home and office in 2003 and the terrorist bombing of a restaurant in her office building in 2000. She manages the technical communications department of a small high-tech company and tries to find time for folk dancing. E-mail her at sandynoymer@yahoo.com.

1974

Rise Zywotow Birnbaum was honored as one of the Washington Business Journal’s 207 “Women Who Mean Business.” Her company, Z Communications (better known as zcomm), also was recognized by the publication as one of the top 15 public relations agencies by revenue in the D.C. metro area. . . . Alex Schloss sends a photo of him with daughter Rona ’10 at Meliora Weekend. Alex is a periodontist in New York City, where he also helps the Rochester admissions office by interviewing high school students and representing the University at college fairs. Rona is planning to study abroad in Israel in 2008.

1975

Howard Stein was honored with the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Long Island last November. Long Island Cares presented the award to Howard, a partner in the real estate practice group of the law firm Certilman Balin, for his work with abused children, the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island.

1976

Zach Kleiman has written the preface to W. Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Random House). Zach integrates a philosophically and psychologically based style to teaching and coaching tennis and other sports in Los Angeles, working with clients referred by psychologists and psychiatrists. As one of only two certified Inner Tennis teachers, he will assist at the first Inner Game Conference in April in Westlake, Calif., and is working on his book, Mastering Life Through Tennis —Freeing Your Forehands and Phobias. . . . Harriet Washington won a PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles 17th Annual National Literary Award for her nonfiction book Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday).

1979

Bob Bly was named 2007 Copywriter of the Year by American Writers & Artists Inc. In addition to authoring more than 70 books, Bob is considered a top direct-marketing consultant and was featured in the January 2007 issue of Monthly Copywriting Genius. . . . Gail Webb is manager of the Ohio Project, a Cincinnati-based initiative to provide free legal assistance to those with pension problems, particularly people with low and moderate incomes. Since its founding in 2001, the project has recovered more than $10 million in pension benefits for workers, retirees, and their families.