Class Notes
River Campus /Graduate
1948
John Baynes W (Mas) (see ’43 undergraduate).
1949
James Beall W (Mas) (see ’43 undergraduate).
1951
Richard (Dick) Baldwin W (Mas) (see ’43 undergraduate).
1961
Aida Dipace Donald (PhD) has published Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman (Basic Books).
1964
Richard Ognibene (MA), ’73W (EdD) writes that he’s edited and contributed to A Persistent Reformer: Jonathan Kozol’s Work to Promote Equality in America (Peter Lang Publishing).
1968
Linguist Mel Resnick (PhD) has published an expanded second edition to his Introducción a la historia de la lengua española (Georgetown University Press), an introduction to the history of the Spanish language from its Indo–European origins to the present. Mel’s wife, Nancy, writes that Mel has developed ALS and completed the second edition with coauthor Robert Hammond.
1973
Cheryl Neel Mendelson (PhD) has published The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World (Bloomsbury). She teaches philosophy at Barnard College. . . . Richard Ognibene W (EdD) (see ’64).
1977
Photographer Barry Myers W (Mas) has published the book Del Mar at 75: Where the Turf Meets the Surf (Active Light Press). The book contains more than 150 pages of color photos by Barry, along with text by sports journalist Jay Privman.
1979
Jane Dubin (MS) (see ’78 undergraduate).
1986
Vittorio Grilli (PhD) has been appointed Italy’s minister of finance.
1988
Snorri Snorrason S (MBA) has published Asymmetric Economic Integration: Size Characteristics of Economies, Trade Cost, and Welfare (Springer), an investigation of the relationship between the size of a country and the effects of economic integration.
1990
Ted Fagenson S (MBA), the chief operating officer of the Car Charging Group, a provider of electric vehicle charging services, has been appointed to the board of directors of the company. The company is headquartered in Miami.
1992
Ray Grosshans (PhD) writes that he’s been named deputy director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The center is a partnership between the Idaho National Laboratory, Boise State, Idaho State, and the University of Idaho. Formerly a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Ray moved to Idaho Falls in 2006 to manage the center’s research programs, which focus on energy generation, transmission, and distribution, and on expanding the nuclear science and engineering workforce.
1993
Stephen Meyer S (MBA) has been named president and CEO of Welch Allyn, a medical diagnostics equipment company in Skaneateles, N.Y.
1997
Marcia Scherer W (PhD) (see ’86 School of Medicine and Dentistry).
1998
Dave Moreau S (MBA) writes that the smartphone app Georeader, which he created in 2011 for the Android operating system, is now available for the iPhone on iTunes.
1999
Will Heusser (MA) writes that he and his wife, Ann, welcomed a daughter, Heidi Sui Heusser, last March. Will is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Cypress College in Orange County, Calif., and Ann is an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles.
2000
Greg Hogan S (MBA) (see ’96 undergraduate).
2001
Brent Wahba S (MBA) (see ’88 undergraduate).
2002
Bridget Cooks (PhD) has written a book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press). Bridget is an associate professor of art history, African-American studies, and visual studies at the University of California at Irvine.
2009
Amy Collins Hogan S (MBA) (see ’96 undergraduate).
2010
Zack Freed S (MBA) (see ’07 undergraduate).
2011
Dustin Cote (MS) writes that he and his wife, Nicole, welcomed a son, Miles, in December. . . . Jeremy Friedman W (MS) (see ’08 undergraduate).
2012
Aaron Carpenter (PhD) (see ’05 undergraduate).
