Class Notes
River Campus Graduate
1956
Frank Cesare (MS) writes that he welcomed the birth of his 10th grandchild, Harlan Joseph Seaman, in January. He notes that Harlan is also the nephew of Jon Cesare ’80.
1968
Mary Lou Myers Grevatt W (MA) (see ’57 undergraduate).
1974
Frank Leana (PhD) is the coauthor of Pathfinder: An Action Plan (iUniverse, 2010), a guide for parents and educators to help students make the most out of high school. Frank is an author, lecturer, and counselor in New York City and Cambridge, Mass.
1975
Karen Rosenstein Alkalay-Gut (PhD) (see ’66 undergraduate).
1976
Gary Francione is the coauthor of The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? (Columbia). Gary is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University. . . . David Glenwick (PhD), a professor of psychology at Fordham University, has edited a book, A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick (Hamilton Books). Henry Glenwick is David’s late father. David writes that the memoir covers his father’s first 40 years (1909–48) and “focus on his experiences as a physician first in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II and subsequently in labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany.”
1977
Leon Fink (PhD), the Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has written a book, Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (University of North Carolina).
1985
Peter Biggs S (MBA) has been promoted to vice chair and chief retail banking officer at the Bank of Hawaii. Peter joined the bank in 2000 as senior vice president and manager of consumer deposits and most recently was senior executive vice president of retail banking.
1986
Theresa Gingras Wingrove (PhD) has been named vice president of regulatory affairs at ImmunoGen, a Boston-area biotechnology company that develops targeted anticancer therapies.
1987
Steven Greiner (PhD), ’89 (Flw) has written a guide for investors, Ben Graham Was a Quant: Raising the IQ of the Intelligent Investor (John Wiley & Sons). Steven is the head of risk research for FactSet Research Systems, a market data firm based in Norwalk, Conn. . . . Meera Rao S (MBA) has been appointed chief financial officer at the semiconductor manufacturer Monolithic Power Systems, based in San Jose, Calif. . . . Mark Russo (MS) (see ’85 undergraduate).
1989
Steven Greiner (Flw) (see ’87). . . . Thomas Hemmick (PhD) (see ’56 Eastman).
1992
Yansu (Christie) Ju (MS) has been named a managing director and head of Hong Kong and China equity research at the investment firm the Jeffries Group. . . . Mark Zagorski S (MBA), who joined the data management firm eXelate in April 2008 as chief revenue officer, has been promoted to CEO of the company.
1993
Deb Kalafarski LaBudde S (MBA) (see ’92 undergraduate).
1997
Sujeet Kumar (PhD) writes that in 2007, he founded Envia Systems, a clean technology fuel company in California’s Silicon Valley. He is currently president and chief technology officer of the company. In 2009, R&D magazine recognized the company with an R&D 100 Award for its high-energy-density lithium battery. In 2010, the company was awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and $1 million from the California Energy Commission to develop a next-generation lithium battery for electric cars. This past January, at a town hall meeting to discuss President Barack Obama’s clean energy agenda, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ’70, ’98 (Honorary) announced a $7 million investment in Envia by General Motors.
1998
James Knapp (PhD), an associate professor and Edward Surtz, S.J., Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, has published a book, Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser (Palgrave Macmillan).
1999
Carl Isley S (MBA) has been appointed group vice president for M&T Bank’s central New York commercial banking division, based in Syracuse.
2000
Mark Berrettini (PhD) has written a book, Hal Hartley (University of Illinois Press), a critical overview of the realist film director’s work. Mark is an assistant professor of film studies at Portland State University in Portland, Ore.
2001
Valery Chirkov (PhD) is a coeditor of Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context: Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being (Springer), with Richard Ryan ’81 (PhD), a psychology professor at Rochester. Valery is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. . . . Jennifer Rouke (PhD) has joined the engineering staff at ASE Optics, part of Rochester Precision Optics.
2003
Bryan McAllister S (MBA) writes: “I’ve recently been named by Berkley Surety Group as branch manager of the newly created St. Louis field office. My family and I miss Rochester and have many fond memories of our experience there.”
2006
Emily Aronstam Duga S (MBA) (see ’99 undergraduate).
2008
Jason Nordhaus (PhD) (see ’03 undergraduate). . . . John Wilson (MS) (see ’07 undergraduate).
