Class Notes

1950 Mary Lee Monroe Birmingham has written a genealogy, “History of the Monroe Clan and some Descendants of Isaac Monroe and Sarah Monroe,” which has been accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution for the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. She writes: “I’ve been researching this for over 60 years and began when I was a student at the U of R. The Monroes, known as the Doctors Monroe, came from Washington County, New York.”

1958 Dee Molinari writes: “I was in Atlanta for New Year’s weekend, on a Road Scholar trip. One of the other travelers listed Canandaigua as her home, so I immediately went over to say hello, having recently moved to Pennsylvania from Fairport, New York. She was Beatrice (Trixie) Sanborn Meteyer ’67. She was traveling with a friend, Merri Merriman Boylan ’68, whom she had met on a previous trip when they realized they had sung together in a UR chorus. It is such a small world. They were enjoyable members of the group! While in Atlanta, I had an opportunity to get together with Jerry Gardner ’65 (MA) and Adrienne (Sydney) Horne Langdon ’07, ’07E. Some of you may remember Sydney as the recent graduate who was the staff support for our 50th reunion and did a terrific job of keeping us all focused and organized. She has married her college sweetheart, Joel Langdon ’09, and they have a beautiful daughter. Sydney now works for Turner Communications. It was great to see them. Jerry and I hope to see many of you at our 60th next year! How did we get so old so fast?”

1964 John Milne died in June 2016, his wife, Dorothy, writes. John grew up in Barre, Vermont, and as a youth attended Lotus Lake Camp, where he and Dorothy met. After graduating from Rochester with a degree in electrical engineering, he embarked on a career in secondary school teaching. John spent most of his career—from 1978 until his retirement in 2008—as a physics teacher at Deerfield Academy, where he also coached tennis. In addition, after he and Dorothy married in 1967, the couple took over as directors of Lotus Lake Camp, which had been founded by Dorothy’s father in 1952. Dorothy writes that as a science teacher, John was known for hands-on learning. “One of his favorite projects with students was converting a gas-powered Chevy S-10 truck to electric to be used by the Deerfield Academy maintenance department.” John and Dorothy raised two sons, J. Martin and Justin, and had four grandchildren.

1967 Beatrice (Trixie) Sanborn Meteyer (see ’58).

1968 Merri Merriman Boylan (see ’58). . . . David Graham ’73M (MD) (see ’10). . . . Louis-Jack Pozner writes that he recently observed the 45th anniversary of his admission to the New York State bar. “After several years of service in three levels of New York State courts in the 1970s—including a clerkship at the New York State Court of Appeals—I closed my solo practice office and am of counsel to Mack & Associates, a boutique family law firm in Albany.”

1970 Nancy Heller Cohen ’70N has published the 13th book in her Bad Hair Days mystery series. In Facials Can Be Fatal (Five Star Publishing), “salon owner Marla Vail’s new day spa hits a snag when a client dies during a facial.”

1971 Alan Feinberg has joined the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, or SV2, as a partner. “SV2 partners are ‘venture philanthropists’ who pool our financial capital to fund a diverse portfolio of small, innovative nonprofits based in the San Francisco Bay Area” and help them build strong and sustainable organizations, he writes. “Given the staggering levels of inequality right here in our own backyard, with many of our neighbors struggling just to get by, I feel compelled to make social responsibility a top priority and feel equally fortunate to be in a position to do so.”

1976 John Accordino has been named dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He’s been at the university since 1986, when he joined the faculty of the urban studies and planning department. He’s since served as director of the university’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and has overseen multiple partnerships with universities abroad. . . . Alan Lipkin writes: “I have been practicing otolaryngology in the Denver area since 1986. In addition to my full-time medical practice, I am a part-time nature and wildlife photographer. I recently started a photography website with some of my images. Check it out at Coloradophotodoctor.com.” . . . Al Power ’80M (MD), ’83M (Res) writes that’s he’s been named Schlegel Chair in Aging and Dementia Innovation at the Schlegel–University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging. Al’s book, Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care (Health Professions Press), was named a 2010 Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing and was reissued last September. Al includes a photo of himself taken by Kirk Moldoff ’79M (MS), who stayed with him during the 40th reunion celebration during Meliora Weekend last fall. Kirk is a medical illustrator and photographer.

1978 David Tillman, Michael Shapot, Michael Messing, and Russell Fox met for a weekend of skiing in Park City, Utah, last February. They send a photo from the minireunion, which they’ve been holding regularly for more than 20 years.

1981 Randy Otto writes that he’s coauthored a book, Ethics in Forensic Psychology Practice (Wiley), with two longtime colleagues. Randy is a professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida.

1985 Jay Marinstein, a commercial litigator, has been promoted to managing partner of the Pittsburgh office of the law firm Fox Rothschild. . . . Peter Szabo has published a family memoir, Finding Maria (Chickadee Prince Books). It tells the story of his friendship with his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, that began after “a grudging afternoon visit” he made to see her when he was a young man. Peter lives in New York City and is an organizational consultant with a focus on nonprofits working on environmental issues. He has published articles in multiple magazines as well as a volume of poetry, Death and Life (Bloomingdale Press).

1986 Christine Joor Mitchell ran her eighth consecutive Boston Marathon in April in memory of Nancy Melvin Taylor and in honor of Doreen Gostin Massie and three other friends. Nancy and Doreen were field hockey teammates in addition to classmates. Christine started running the Boston Marathon as a participant in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team-in-Training program. This year, for the fifth consecutive year, she served as a mentor to other runners participating with Team-in-Training. “Over the years,” she writes, “my passion has grown for running; honoring the fighters, survivors, and taken; and LLS’s mission. I have also raised more than $80,000, thanks to the generosity of family, friends, and strangers.” Christine aims to raise $100,000 by the end of June. Her website is at http://bit.ly/cjmBOS17.

1988 Eric Malden (see ’89).

1989 Chris Wood celebrated two anniversaries this past fall: 20 years of marriage to his wife, Kristin, with whom he has two sons, Eric, 18, and Ryan, 16; and 10 years working at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, where he has been a leading architect of the leveraged finance and investment banking strategy of the firm. Helping Chris and Kristin celebrate their wedding anniversary were Eric and Ryan as well as many Rochester friends. Pictured are Brad Ellis, Eric Malden ’88, Jeff Blaydes, Mary Blades, Rene Malden, Greg Krohner ’91, Susan Widmer, Rob Waldeck, Stephanie Rosseau, Ryan, Chris, Todd Rosseau, Kristin, Eric, Lisa Murphy, Genie Donnelly, Brian Donnelly, and Joel Alper, and Lori Alper.

1991 Greg Krohner (see ’89).

1992 Marc Esposito has been named vice president of crew and values relations at JetBlue. He first joined JetBlue in 2014.

1993 Christina Bucci-Rechtweg ’97M (MD) (see ’68 Eastman). . . . Victoria O’Brien Paterson is first violinist for the Broadway production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard. The production, starring Glenn Close, runs through June 25, 2017. Victoria is founder of the Lumiere String Quartet and executive director of the American Modern Ensemble. She lives in New York City with her husband, composer Robert Paterson ’95E.

1996 Tom Hall ’08W (EdD), principal of Brighton High School near Rochester, has been named 2017 New York State High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State. Tom began his career as a biology teacher at Brighton High School and has been principal of the school since 2012. He also served for several years as principal of French Road Elementary School, also in the Brighton Central School District. Tom was nominated by teachers, students, fellow administrators, and members of the community. Under Tom’s leadership, graduation rates for special education students reached 88 percent in Brighton, the highest in Monroe County, and general graduation rates rose 10 points, to 96 percent.

1998 Bethany MacLennan Centrone, a senior counsel in the Rochester office of the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, has been named a cochair of the firm’s school districts practice. Bethany specializes in school as well as labor and employment law.

2000 Brian Gottesman, a partner at the law firm of Berger Harris, writes that he is a contributor to the book Litigating the Business Divorce (Bloomberg BNA) and also coauthors the legal blog Business Law Basics. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Rachel, and their children. He adds that in his spare time, he continues to study history and write historical fiction. His published writings include “Gudmund’s Solution” (The Bencher: The Magazine of the American Inns of Court, March/April 2006) and “The Silent Wife” (The Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, November 2006). He has also written two novel-length manuscripts, The King of Zion and Before the World Falls.

2003 Kathy Aligene writes that she married Marc Lener at the City Club of Washington, D.C., in March. Kathy and Marc met as medical residents at Mount Sinai. Kathy practices psychiatry and interventional pain medicine in New York City, and Marc is a research fellow in psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. . . . Jon Durfey writes that he married Caitlin Hoffman in Rochester in August 2016. Pictured behind Jon and Caitlin are, from left to right, Lonny Mallach, Christina Boice-Mallach, Jason Berger, Igor Kotlyar, Robert Kamen, Amy Coron ’14S (MBA), Joe Burnett, Letty Laskowski-Burnett, Meng Wang ’02, ’09S (MBA), and Kanwarpaul Grewal.

2005 Chrishelle Lawrence is the author and illustrator of a children’s book, Monster Truck-tastrophe, the story of a boy who wakes up as his favorite monster truck. Chrishelle published the book under her imprint, CML Literature, which she founded to promote books featuring African-American characters.

2006 Erika Winkler, an attorney, writes that she’s joined the New York City–based luxury fashion company Coach Inc. as director and senior counsel. Previously, she was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer US, where she focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

2007 Christopher and Sandra Schunak Hancock ’09 welcomed a son, Hunter Gabriel, last November. . . . Adrienne (Sydney) Horne Langdon ’07E (see ’58).

2008 Ryan Watson and Sarah Townsend ’10 were married at the Chapel Hill Chapel in Rochester last August. Sarah writes: “We met at a ’90s-themed dance party in Wilson Commons in 2008.” Pictured from left to right are Andrew Alkon (best man), Ryan, Sarah, John Golden ’10, Julie Debski ’10 (maid of honor), Daniel Rosenblum ’10, Irene Minkina ’10, Michael He ’06, ’07S (MBA), and Ciara He.

2009 Sandra Schunak Hancock (see ’07). . . . Joel Langdon (see ’58).

2010 Mike Collins and Heather Graham write that they were married at the Interfaith Chapel on the River Campus last September. Pictured in front of Rush Rhees Library are Chris Packhem, Shane DePutron, Allison McComb DePutron, Jake Gardner ’11, Lisa Cole, Pat Burke, Elise Van Pelt Ingram ’12, Mark Ingram ’11, David Graham ’68, ’73M (MD) (the bride’s father), Marc Epstein, Heather, Mike, Katie Medford ’09, Rachel Twardowski, Adam Paine ’11, Greg Waldman, Elizabeth Barnes, Rebecca Landzberg, Heather Pedrin Bauer ’11, and Tom Bauer. . . . Steve Guzski writes that he and Nicole Krestos were married last June in Buffalo. They live in Rochester, where Steve is an actuarial analyst at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Nicole is an assistant director of admissions at the Simon School. The bridal party included Bryan Guzski, a physical therapist at the Medical Center, as well as Daniel Brien ’09, Elisabeth Karuza ’14 (PhD), Patrick Locke ’17S (MBA), Meaghan Paganelli ’09, Devin Shane ’08, Nate Stein ’11S (MS), Nate Stein, and Taylor Smith Veenema ’13S (MBA). . . . Sarah Townsend (see ’08).

2012 Mike Beato and Taryn Ocko were married last October at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, New York. Pictured from left to right are Allison Guggenheim Shaber, Tom Anderson ’15, Adam Chernick ’10, Harry Ledley, Taryn, Mike, Ruth Dabek Hoffman ’76, Braden Czapla ’13, and Jeff Williams ’15.

2013 Rimsha Khan has joined the Syracuse, New York, law firm of Hancock Estabrook as an associate. While in law school, Rimsha worked in the New York State attorney general’s office, the Erie County Bar Association, the Volunteer Lawyer’s Project, and the University at Buffalo law school’s Health Justice Clinic.