Class Notes

1960 Art Pearson (MD) (see ’58 College).

1987 Sarah Whitman (MD) and her daughter, Lauren, have started a nature photography note card project, “50 Percent Cards,” on Etsy. Sarah has been making cards featuring her own photography for many years, but only began selling on Etsy when her daughter suggested the idea of a business that also serves as a charity fundraiser. Sarah writes: “The name ‘50 Percent Cards’ was chosen because 50 percent of all profits are donated to environmental charities, and 50 percent goes to Lauren for tuition at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.” Sarah and Lauren were featured in their local suburban Philadelphia paper, The Chestnut Hill Local, last December.

1998 Jayakrishna Ambati (Res) has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition for his groundbreaking work in the development of therapies to treat macular degeneration. Jayakrishna holds the Dr. E. Vernon Smith & Eloise C. Smith Endowed Chair in Macular Degeneration Research at the University of Kentucky. The National Academy of Inventors is a nonprofit organization in Tampa, Florida, designed to recognize and promote invention in academic research settings. Jayakrishna will be formally inducted at the academy’s annual conference, held in April at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. . . . Seth Jacobson (Res) (see ’91 College).

2006 Beth Urbonas Emerson (MD) (see ’02 College).