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Rochester Review
January-February 2009
Vol. 71, No. 3

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1969

Ferenc Szasz (PhD) has published Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends (Southern Illinois University Press). Ferenc is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

1971

Daniel Litynski (MS), professor of electrical and computer engineering at Western Michigan University, is serving a one-year term as dean of its College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

1973

Joe Safier S (MBA) (see ’72 undergraduate).

1975

Karen Alkalay-Gut (PhD) (see ’66 undergraduate).

1981

Gail Suhre Chambers S (MBA) (see ’00 undergraduate).

1987

Gail Suhre Chambers W (PhD) (see ’00 undergraduate).

1988

Larry Hessney S (MBA) was promoted by the public accountancy firm of Freed Maxick Battaglia in Buffalo to director at RSM McGladrey.

1993

Miriam Van de Sype S (MBA) (see ’92 undergraduate). . . . Daniel White W (MS) has been appointed a district superintendent for the Monroe County Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

1994

Donney Drennon-Gala W (PhD) was appointed co-vice chair for 2008-12 to the Correctional Trainer Certification Commission, sponsored by the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel and the American Jail Association. For the 2008-09 term, he has been appointed both by the Society for the Study of Social Problems as a member of the Lee Founders Award Committee and by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences as a member of the Affirmative Action Committee. He also was appointed in 2007 as a proposal reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education for its Higher Education Programs in Washington, D.C. Don writes that in addition to keeping a rigorous writing schedule and his professional service, his 10 grandchildren keep him quite busy.

1995

Razak Hossain (PhD) (see ’90 undergraduate).

1996

Bethany Hicok (PhD) has published Degrees of Freedom: American Women Poets and the Women’s College, 1905–1955 (Bucknell University Press). The book traces the influence of the women’s college on the development of three American poets, including Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, Elizabeth Bishop at Vassar, and Sylvia Plath at Smith. . . . Andrew Hopkins S (MBA) (see ’95 undergraduate).

1997

Cynthia Rapp (MS) (see ’95 undergraduate).