Class Notes

1951 Arnold Ciaccio writes: “Following a 50-year career in the law, including two terms as elected Monroe County surrogate judge, I am now enjoying an active retirement in my 88th year! I am particularly pleased with the achievements of my six children and 19 grandchildren. My children include two MDs, a vet, a county judge, and two daughters with outstanding business careers. Among my grandchildren, four have law or medicine degrees, 11 have college degrees, and four are in secondary schools.” Arnold adds that he also has nine great-grandchildren and that “nine-hole golf twice weekly is my chief recreational activity—a comedown from my seven handicap days.” . . . Dave (Scribe) Ocorr (see ’52 and ’64).

1952 Tom Sarro died last April, his cousin Robert Sarro writes. Tom excelled in both baseball and basketball and was inducted into the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. Robert sent a copy of the May 6, 1951, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle article giving an account of the Yellowjackets baseball game against St. Lawrence University in which Tom drove in nine runs, a record that still stands. “Scoring 11 runs in a wild fifth inning, the University of Rochester baseball team went on to thump St. Lawrence University, 21–7, yesterday on the River Campus diamond,” wrote reporter Pat Brasley. “The UR’s big inning saw 17 men march to the plate. Tommy Sarro set a new Varsity record when he drove in six runs in one inning with a triple and a double. Wayne (Bud) Colahan and Capt. Dave Ocorr both doubled in the same frame. Sarro was the big gun all afternoon. He homered in the sixth to plate three more RBIs. He had three for five at the plate, a homer, triple and double. He drove in nine runs—another Varsity record—and scored four himself.”

1953 Henry Metzger’s family writes that Henry died last November after a two-year bout with cancer. They write: “He spent almost his entire career at the National Institutes of Health pursuing basic research in molecular aspects of the immune system and in administration—serving for 10 years as the first director of intramural research with the newly formed National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Henry was active in many professional associations, including the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Medical Committee for Human Rights that provided medical support during demonstrations related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Vietnam War. Henry enjoyed reading in science and history, hiking in the White Mountains, cooking, and, before his final illness, running, having qualified for and completed the Boston Marathon in 2007 and 2008, among many other marathons. In retirement he also volunteered with Learning Ally, recording scientific textbooks for blind and dyslexic students.” Henry and his wife, Deborah, had been married more than 60 years and had three children together: Eran, Renée, and Carl.

1956 Responding to a call from Alumni Relations for “recent travels, career developments, favorite UR memories, family updates, or anything else you want to share,” Don Hultquist ’62M (PhD) responded with some memories. He writes: “I was a chemistry major on the River Campus and a biochemistry graduate student at the medical school from 1956 through 1962. I remember vividly three events during those years that shaped the rest of my life.” In 1953, “All undergraduates were instructed to attend a showing of The Nuremberg Trials on a large screen in the basketball arena. After the showing, the whole campus was dead silent for the rest of the evening and even into the next day. I attribute to that event my lifetime of peace activism, including currently leading a group addressing early signs of autocracy.

“In 1956, my chemistry senior research project demonstrated that synthetic zeolites could be used to separate two aliphatic alcohols that had the same molecular weight but different shapes. My presentation of these results won third prize and $10 in competition with other U of R chemistry majors and introduced me to the U of R biochemistry department. I concluded that research and lecturing were fun and easy and that led me to conduct biochemical/medical research and teach for five decades at the U of R, University of Minnesota, UCLA, and University of Michigan.

“In 1961, while a graduate student, I noticed a vivacious, young therapist at work at the medical school. A quick introduction, an invitation to attend JFK’s opening presidential campaign event, and the rest is history—a lifelong partnership, children, grandchildren, a great-grandchild, genealogical research, and many more political events.”

1958 Margie Taylor Adams sends a photo of herself and five other members of the Class of 1958, taken last October. From left to right are Joyce Timmerman Gilbert, Nancy Kelts Rice, Margie, Charleen Dorwald Drotning, Susan Storing Maybeck, and Irene Colley Kaplan. . . . Martha Beck Burton ’60 (MA) writes that her daughter got married in December 2016 at Hardeberga Kyrka, “a medieval Lutheran church near Lund, in the province of Scania, Sweden.” She includes a photo, noting that she is “the old lady at the right, getting ready to toss rose petals.” She adds that “the bride and groom live in Virginia and work in Washington—a chemical engineer and a historian, respectively.” . . . Hedy Cohen Rose writes that she remains busy with educational and civic projects related to her experience as a survivor of the Holocaust. As a six-year-old girl in the Netherlands, Hedy went into hiding, just blocks from Anne Frank, during the Nazi invasion. Hedy has been involved with the Global Citizenship Alliance, a nonprofit that partners with American colleges and universities to offer global citizenship education. She also participated last fall in a symposium at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, in the Netherlands, entitled “Seeking Refuge: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Refugees and Asylum.”

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1959 David Linderman and David Sutliff traveled to Normal, Illinois, last September to visit Robert Baker ’60W (MA). The three classmates and members of Alpha Delta Phi were accompanied by Jean Linderman, Judy Rector, and Margaret Shaw Becker, who hosted the minireunion. David Sutliff writes that Robert and Margaret “both taught at nearby Illinois State University and have retired in Normal. Over several hours, many tales of derring-do from yesteryear were recounted and perhaps burnished, along with updates of recent travels and numerous children and grandchildren. Politics was, of course, never brought up. Plans were also hatched to attend the reunion in 2019, which because of some time warp phenomenon might be our 60th.” . . . Barbara Jean Hunt Homolka died in October, writes her daughter Alice Homolka Tate ’93. In her last years, Barbara, who had dementia, “was mostly nonverbal, but every now and then, if you started the class cheer she would join along and shout:

‘We’re the class that has the spirit,

Everywhere you go you hear it,

Integration is the sign,

U of R, U of R, ’59!’

1960 Apologies to Don Hart, whose military rank we got wrong in the Fall 2018 issue. Don retired from the Air Force in 1984 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. When he wrote to Review last fall, he had been recognized by Florida Governor Rick Scott with the Governor’s Veterans Service Award at Camp K-9, the headquarters of K-9s for Warriors in Ponte Vedra, Florida. Lt. Col. Hart has volunteered there for many years. In a follow-up note, he wrote: “One of the reasons for submitting the article was in hoping readers would check out the organization K9sforwarriors.org. Ninety percent of the dogs were themselves rescued, then trained and matched with a vet suffering from PTSD. After a three-week on-campus intense training, the vets return home with the dog—all expenses paid. I have personally observed healing that is just short of a miracle!”

1962 Pat Keenan Knapp sends a photo from the most recent minireunion of several classmates, held last September, and the last of Tony Cohen, who died two months later. The group has met 11 times in the past 20 years at locations including Colorado, California, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York City, Tennessee, and Vancouver. This latest gathering took place in Tony’s hometown of Winchester, California. Pictured are (back row, left to right) Bob Reeback ’68 (PhD), Bill Knapp, Gary Kish ’66M (MD), ’71M (Res), Pat, Carl Zlatchin, Betty Zlatchin; (front row, left to right) Roger Nelson, Tony, and Lefty Nelson.

MEDALLION REUNION OCTOBER 3–6

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1964 John Denison ’69W (MA) writes: “Richardson’s Canal House Inn in Pittsford was the venue for a dinner gathering of UR ‘geezer jocks’ on opening night of Meliora Weekend. The guest of honor was Dave (Scribe) Ocorr ’51, who coached all the attendees in football, basketball, or baseball in the 1960s. Coach Ocorr regaled the former Yellowjackets with amusing and enlightening tales from his 70-year relationship with the University.” Pictured are (front row, left to right) Dave Wormuth ’65, Dave, Charlie Rathbone; (back row, left to right) Guy Bailey ’68, John, Dave Noonan, Stu Levison, and Dick Rice ’65. . . . After a 28-year military career, Bill Lee has retired from the Air Force Reserves at the rank of lieutenant colonel. He also retired from his career as a sales manager for commercial audio/video systems. “I’m currently traveling extensively in my motor home!” he writes. . . . Sharon Morehouse Nimeh ’84W (MS) has retired from work in the Rochester City School District and from Monroe Community College. Despite recovering from knee-replacement surgery last May, she writes, “Life is good.” She has four grown children and seven grandchildren. Her two oldest grandchildren are in college. . . . Daniel Walkowitz ’72 (PhD) writes: “I just published an edited collection, The Culture of Work in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury), and a book, The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States (Rutgers University Press). The book, part family history, part tour guide, and part history, takes readers to 23 cities in eight countries where I seek to hear stories of people like my paternal grandparents in whose footsteps I always imagined myself (as a Rochester activist!) walking.” Daniel is a professor emeritus of history at New York University.

1965 Dick Rice (see ’64). . . . Dave Wormuth (see ’64).

1966 Robert Schoenberg writes: “I am thrilled to have been the recipient in September of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Association of Social Workers—Pennsylvania Chapter. The award was presented during the Keystone Gala at Kalihari Resort, not far from my home in the Poconos. My good friend Joan Eggleston accompanied me to the dinner.”

1968 Guy Bailey (see ’64). . . . Stephen Rush writes that he’s been promoted to the title of Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Edward S. Agent School of Business at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is a special advisor to the dean on new technologies.

50TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1969 Lew Archer (see ’70). . . . As the Class of 1969 approaches its 50th reunion, we asked graduating senior and University Communications student employee Suzie Ziegler ’19 to catch up with Alan Finder, the chair for the milestone reunion class. She asked him, what was on his mind when he was getting ready to graduate? What were his plans, and would he do anything differently? Here’s her report:

As Alan Finder walked across the stage to receive a diploma in history, he had one thing on his mind: avoid the draft. The Vietnam War was raging and, like many of his contemporaries, Finder had no interest in fighting for a cause he didn’t believe in.

“That was the top priority for anyone who graduated, to avoid being drafted,” he says. “You had to put your future to the side.” Finder was eager to begin a career in academia, but graduate programs were no longer viable deferments. Determined to postpone conscription, he put his fellowship offers on hold and sought a teaching position in the South Bronx. After a couple of years his lottery number was finally up, but chronic asthma became his saving grace: he failed the physical.

With the path to academia finally cleared, Finder enrolled in an American studies graduate program at Yale and earned a master’s degree. “I felt very prepared for Yale,” he says. “The skills that I learned [at Rochester], to think analytically and rigorously and learning to write with clarity, these are things you can apply to anything in life.”

But ultimately, Finder decided that academia wasn’t for him. It was time for a career change. As a strong writer and a devoted patron of newsstands, Finder was drawn to journalism. “I applied to every newspaper I saw,” he says. “I must have applied to a hundred papers.” Finally, a managing editor took a chance on him. And it’s a good thing he did, because Finder went on to become a columnist for the New York Times and is still a contributing writer today.

Looking back on the spring of 1969, Finder reflects on the restlessness he felt as a recent graduate. “I wanted to get my life started and things kept getting in the way. I spent four or five years trying to avoid the draft, then trying out academia, and then finally finding something that fit for me. What was the rush?”

His advice? Be patient. Give yourself time to try things out and find what clicks for you. “Life is long,” says Finder. “It doesn’t feel that way when you’re 21 or 22, but it is.”

1970 Judith Branzburg has published The Liberation of Ivy Bottini: A Memoir of Love and Activism (Bink Books). The book shares the story of Bottini, “one of the pioneers in the feminist and gay and lesbian liberation movements,” as told by Bottini to Judith. . . . Nancy Heller Cohen ’70N writes: “I had a great time at Boucheron World Mystery Convention in St. Petersburg, Florida. I spoke on a panel about ‘The Business of Cozies,’ attended a cocktail party with other Florida Chapter Mystery Writers Association members, and met lots of writers and fans.” Nancy adds that she’s released the 15th book in her Bad Hair Day mystery series, Trimmed to Death (Orange Grove Press). . . . Bob Sattin writes: “The former residents of Anderson 740 (plus two) from the Class of 1970 came from far and near to meet in October in West Hurley, New York, for their fourth minireunion. All have fond memories of their time at U of R. The picture was taken in Kingston, New York, along the Rondout Creek. From left to right are Ron Ainspan (Asheville, North Carolina), Jordan Carter (Novato, California), Barry Rosenthal (Washington, D.C.), Lew Archer ’69 (Teaneck, New Jersey), Rob Stiratelli (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Bob (St. Petersburg, Florida), Ken Levitt (New York City), and Rob Green ’71 (Pittsburgh). Plans are already under way for the next get-together in a few years.”

1971 Rob Green (see ’70). . . . Dan Kirschenbaum has published his eighth book on weight management, Taming the 7 Most Fattening Excuses in the World: Rethinking Your Healthy Obsession Pathway to Lifelong Weight Loss (Warren Publishing). Dan is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University and director of behavioral health at Georgia Pain and Spine Care. . . . Jennifer Pallin Maloney sends a photo from a minireunion. “For our annual get-together this year,” she writes, “we spent five days in Seattle. We enjoyed glorious weather, time on Puget Sound, some great food, and the sights and sounds of Seattle.” Pictured from left to right are Sharon Weissend ’77W (MA), Delores (Dolly) Forgensi Terzian, Judy Cook Palmer, Leslie Hope Braun, and Jennifer.

1973 Alan Cohen has been named editor of the Milbank Quarterly, a journal of population health and health policy. Alan is a professor of health law, policy, and management at the Boston University School of Public Health as well as a professor of markets, public policy, and law at Boston University’s business school. . . . Len Joy ’74S (MBA) writes that this year he’s published his second novel, Better Days (Moonshine Cove Publishing), as well as Letting Go (Len Joy), a collection of short fiction. Len’s blog, “Do Not Go Gentle. . . ,” can be found at Lenjoy.blogspot.com.

45TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1974 Gerry Feldman (see ’75). . . . Bob Katz (see ’75). . . . Jerry Koch-Gonzalez writes: “I got my start with social change activism, training, and intentional community living at the U of R. I’m living with my partner, Ted Rau, and family in Amherst, Massachusetts, at the Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community, training people in consent decision making and nonviolent communication.” Jerry is also a cofounder of the nonprofit Sociocracy for All and coauthor, with Ted, of Many Voices, One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy (Sociocracy for All). . . Steve Taffet (see ’75).

1975 Bennett Keiser writes that he “hosted a rabble, including an authentic Smitty’s (mac salad and white bread) chicken dinner in Florida this past December. Pictured are (back row, left to right) Bob Katz ’74, Tom Hennessey, Steve Taffet ’74, Reed Martin, Rick Renzi, Mitch Miller ’76; (front row, left to right) Gerry Feldman ’74, Robert (Bucky) Levine, Becky Kantor-Martin, Bennett, and Steve Goldsmith.

1976 Theresa Canada ’89W (EdD) has published a book, Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of the Silk Stocking Sisters (Peter Lang). . . . Mitch Miller (see ’75).

1977 Bob Dardano (see ’91 Graduate).

1978 Mark Waltzer has been appointed section chief of general dentistry in the Department of Dentistry at Virtua Health System in southern New Jersey. He has been a clinical attending in the general practice dental residency for 35 years.

40TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1979 Will Stevens writes: “I just returned from South Asia where I taught a graduate course in Old Testament theology. Students represented eight language/people groups. Amazing experience and great food!” . . . Joseph White writes: “Greetings from Seattle! I’m currently music director of the Thalia Symphony, director of the Ravenna Strings, and violist/violinist in the Coho Quartet. My compositions ‘Concerto for Oboe d’Amore’ and ‘Medallion’ were recently premiered by the Thalia Symphony and Ravenna Strings, respectively.”

1980 Jan Jacobs Currie (see ’53 Nursing).

1981 Joseph Ganem, a professor of physics at Loyola University Maryland, has published a book, The Robot Factory: Pseudoscience in Education and Its Threat to American Democracy (Springer). “The book raises many questions about education and science policies in the US,” writes Joseph. He addressed some of the questions in an article called “America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Science,” published last November on the Scientific American website at Blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/americas-love-hate- relationship-with-science/.

1982 Deborah Green, a geologist, has been named the 2018–19 Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Applied Geology by a division of the Geological Society of America and the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists. Deborah works in consulting and industry and writes about geology on her website, Geologistwriter.com. She’s the second woman to be awarded the lectureship, which is aimed to promote student awareness of applied environmental and engineering geology. She’ll be traveling to colleges and universities around the country this academic year speaking with students about careers in applied geology, her work and studies, and important issues in the profession, such as the need for greater diversity and the challenges of communicating science to policymakers and the public.

1983 Randy Whitestone sends photos from last fall’s Meliora Weekend of several Class of 1983 members who worked on the Campus Times. “The group photo was taken at a Campus Times open house hosted by my son Trevor ’19, who is now editor-in-chief,” Randy writes. Pictured in the front row are Susan Krasner (left) and Illyse Kaplan; and in the back, from left to right, are Randy, Dick Keil, and Mark Mozeson. “The other photo is of Trevor and me,” adds Randy. “I was a managing editor but am proud he has outdone me as E-in-C!”

35TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1984 Christine Bohner Miyachi writes: “I’ve been working for Xerox for over 20 years as a software systems engineer. On top of that Rochester connection my youngest son is now a junior at the University. It was surreal being back on campus with him. And I’m about to be a grandmother—my daughter is due in April. Both she and my middle son work as software engineers. My husband and I go back to Japan almost every year with our whole family and our next trip is in 2020 for the Olympics. I hope to see you all at the 35th reunion.” . . . Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert, has published Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World (W. W. Norton & Co.).

1988 Lisa Papp Garcia, a registered dietitian, has been recognized with the Emerging Dietetic Leader Award by the New Hampshire Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

30TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1989 Tracy Frommer-Duberman is the coauthor of From Competition to Collaboration: How Leaders Cultivate Partnerships to Drive Value and Transform Health (Health Administration Press). Tracy is president and CEO of the Leadership Development Group in New York City.

1990 Carolyn Haberek Blanco-Losada writes: “Nine members of the University of Rochester Delta Gamma Fraternity gathered in September in New Mexico for a girls getaway reunion.” Pictured are (front row, left to right) Donna Schwind Border ’90N, Janice Gillman Greenberg, Jennifer Novell Miller ’93; (back row, left to right) Maria Habbe Cosgrove, Ashley Sartor McNamara, Elizabeth Docteur ’93 (MS), Eileen McCarthy Cakouros, Carolyn, and Nicole Kaplan.

1993 Jennifer Novell Miller (see ’90). . . . Alice Homolka Tate (see ’59).

25TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1994 Frank Townsend writes: “I’m excited to serve on the Reunion Committee for the Class of 1994, and hope to see the entire class back in Rochester this fall.” Frank teaches Latin at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, where his daughters, Ellie and Mary, are in high school. He’s married to Jeanne Traer Townsend ’95, who is the database manager at Tabor, and adds that he recently completed a master’s of education degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education in school leadership. “Join us next October in Rochester!”

1995 Janine Jurkowski has been promoted to full professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health. She’s also the associate dean for public health practice and is taking part in the semester-long Provost Fellowship for Public Engagement. . . . Jeanne Traer Townsend (see ’94).

1996 Keith Thompson has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching fellowship to Belfast, Northern Ireland, next year. One of only 38 chosen nationwide, Keith writes: “It is a great opportunity and reflects well on the great preparation I was lucky enough to have at Rochester.” Keith, who was an anthropology major at Rochester, teaches social studies at Ithaca High School in Ithaca, New York. According to an announcement from the Ithaca City School District, Keith will spend January to June 2019 “investigating how students develop and navigate their own political identities. Specifically, he will concentrate on the ways by which schools in the United Kingdom help young people have challenging and meaningful conversations across race, socioeconomic, and ideological divides.”

20TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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1999 Mona Sepulveda writes that last spring, she was promoted to senior health client manager, dependent verification services, at Alight Solutions.

2000 Darria Long Gillespie ’06M (MD) writes that she’s published a book, Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable (Da Capo Lifelong Books). She adds, “I’m an ER doctor and mom, and regularly appear on national TV” on networks such as CNN and HLN. . . . Tim Pastore ’02 (MA) has been named CEO of All3Media America, the US-based arm of the independent television, film, and digital production company. Previously Tim was president of original programming and production at National Geographic Partners. Tim has received multiple Emmy nominations and won the Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking in 2017 for his work as executive producer of LA92.

2001 Dave King (see ’02).

2002 Susanna Mayo writes: “A group of alumni and their future Rochester graduates had an amazing time celebrating the 40th birthday of Dave King ’01, ’01 (MS) and reminiscing about the good ol’ days this past July in the Boston area.” In attendance were Dave’s wife, Rachel Heafitz King, and their three children, Eliza, Naomi, and Alexander; Anthony and Nellie Coats Yandek and their daughter, Addie, and son, A. J.; Emily Berenson Steinmann with her husband, Jake, and children, Isaac and Eliana; Laura Vivier Vaughn (Laura’s husband, Matthew Vaughn, and children, Nolan and Callie, were not in attendance); Nate Work with his wife, Emily, and daughter, Audrey; Rishi Mulgund and his wife, Kiran Reddy, and their son, Avi; Jonathan Lawrence with his wife, Jess Steel, and their daughter, Evelyn; and Susanna with her husband, Josh Hanson, and their daughter, Emma (not pictured). Susanna adds that Brian Kehoe is “artfully represented” in the photo, and his wife, Lindsay, and children, Clara and Connor, are not pictured. “Meliora to all and happy birthday, Dave!”

15TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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2004 Chloe Corcoran was named one of the Rochester Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” honorees for 2018. Chloe grew up in Rochester’s 19th Ward and worked until recently as associate director of alumni relations at Rochester. She’s now the assistant director of alumni engagement, focusing on diversity and inclusion, for the University of California, Davis. She’s also pursuing a doctorate in higher education at the Warner School.

2008 Greg and Kate Cieply Skipton ’09 welcomed their first child, Gemma Sage, in October.

10TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6

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2009 Kelly Hopper writes: “In November 2017, I was lucky enough to marry my amazing wife, Jennifer, of California, Missouri. We were surrounded by family and friends, and UR alumni showed up in force!” Pictured from left to right are Jesse Taub ’10W (MS), James Heiligenthaler, Bill Mack ’10W (MS), David Goott ’10W (MS), Kelly, Kaitlin Fitzgerald Porpiglia ’16M (MS), Chris Porpiglia, Jon Garon, Jeff Samet, and Karel Schurman. . . . Kate Cieply Skipton (see ’08).

2010 Trish Morse writes: “I was married on Lake Ontario this past July to Chris Milling of Austin, Texas. We are excited to welcome our first child in April 2019.”

2011 Jon Grima has been named to Forbes’s 2019 “30 under 30.” One of 600 “youthful visionaries” in an array of fields, Jon, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, was cited for his creative contributions to science. As Forbes notes, Jon “has helped develop the Nuclear Pore Hypothesis of neurodegeneration, which posits that defects in the nuclear pore complex may be a common factor in a number of degenerative diseases like ALS. This has led to new drug targets and compounds to treat such diseases.”

2013 Zachary Sheptin writes that he and Danielle Suchman were married at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. They’re living in the city, where Zach is a senior consultant at FTI Consulting and Danielle is the director of operations at Strayboots Inc. Pictured from left to right are Matthew Hazelett, Joshua Holtzberg, Thomas Mayer, Michael Grogan, Erin Keegan ’14 (MS), Duncan Weals ’14, and Devin Embil. . . . Ryan Vogt ’15W (MS) has taken a position as a physics and astronomy teacher at the Pennington School in New Jersey.

2014 Deborah Cooper-Schifitto ’15 (MS) and Anthony Cooper-Schifitto ’15 (MS) were married last September at Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, New York, followed by a reception in Rochester at ArtisanWorks. “We first met freshman year living next door to each other in Sue B Holli 2,” Deborah writes. From left to right are Robert Mariuz ’13, ’14 (MS), Kierstan Ryan ’15 (MS), Lisa Benison ’15 (MS), Courtney Astemborski ’15 (MS), Ashley Nguyen, Deborah, Anthony, Rebecca Flannagan, Demian Spindler, Trevor Ivanov ’15, ’16 (MS), and James Rutledge. . . . Kyle Fedorchak and Anupa Manjunatha write: “We met as freshmen when we both lived in Gilbert Hall. Fast forward eight years later and we are newly engaged and living in Boston!” Anupa is in the physician assistant program at Boston University School of Medicine and Kyle is an engineering manager at Foundation Medicine Inc. in nearby Cambridge. . . . Benjamin Lovell writes he and his wife, Clanice, “are beyond elated to announce the recent birth of our first child, Raydon Tinson-Lovell.” . . . Nate Mulberg has been named assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Richmond.

2015 Qi Ying (Queenie) Li writes: “In May 2018, I married my best friend, Kevin McClelland. We are so grateful to the University and especially the Department of Chemistry for bringing us together!” (See photo, page 69.)

2017 Caitlyn Borden Gilmore writes that after spending a year after graduation working, she began studying to become a mental health counselor through the Expressive Therapies program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She adds that she, her husband, Robert, cat, Darcy, and dog, Velcro “posed for a cheesy Christmas picture.” (See photo, page 69.) . . . Mary Sicoli graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing from Northeastern University.