Class Notes

ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING

Dean’s Medal

University Trustee Thomas Sloan ’65, ’67 (MS) currently serves as a director at Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc., Nashville’s largest banking company. Since graduating with degrees in optics, he has had an accomplished career in ophthalmic manufacturing and banking, as well as earned recognition for his entrepreneurial activities and civic contributions.

In addition to his service as a trustee, Sloan has been active on several University committees, including the Optics Blue Ribbon Panel, the Meliora Campaign Cabinet, and class reunion committees. With his wife, Linda ’67, he has championed the role of the arts at Rochester. The couple helped establish the Theatre Capital Endowment Fund to support a new arts and theater building on the River Campus, which is scheduled to open in 2020 and will be named in recognition of their leadership support. The Sloans are charter members of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s leadership giving society.

James S. Armstrong Alumni Service Award

Noah Pizmony-Levy Drezner ’00 is an associate professor of higher education and program director of the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a visiting professor of education and philanthropic studies at Beijing Normal University. Internationally known as a researcher on educational philanthropy, he is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Philanthropy & Education. His recent work explores how the social identities of individuals may affect their giving to higher education and how institutions can engage their alumni in more inclusive ways.

Pizmony-Levy Drezner earned a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Among his many roles, he serves as president of Rochester’s Hillel program, a board member of the Justice Policy Institute, and cochair of the Network Leadership Council in Metro New York City. A charter member of the George Eastman Circle, he also serves on the University’s Alumni Board and Diversity Advisory Council.

John N. Wilder Award

Erick ’77 and Nancy Barry Bond ’78N are the key principals of Bond Benefits Consulting, an employee benefits consulting firm based in Rochester. Erick founded the company, where he also serves as CEO, as well as the workplace wellness company WPV, which provides worksite wellness benefits. Nancy joined Bond Benefits Consulting as a vice president in 1993 after a 15-year nursing career. She is also the founder of the real estate holding and management company NEBB.

The couple are active as volunteers and supporters of the University. Erick is a member of the Arts, Sciences & Engineering National Council, the Rochester Philanthropy Council, and the George Eastman Circle, and he has served on several of his class reunion committees. Nancy has been active as a member of the Rochester Network Leadership Cabinet, the George Eastman Circle, several class reunion committees, and as cochair of the Rochester Philanthropy Council. They also established the Erick ’77 and Nancy ’78 Bond Family Scholarship Fund to support students in Arts, Sciences & Engineering and the School of Nursing, and they have established an endowment to support the University’s initiatives in community-engaged learning.

SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Norman Neureiter ’52 is a senior advisor to the Center for Science Diplomacy for the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and the founding director of the AAAS Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy. His career includes significant contributions to science, business, and US foreign policy. He served as a key advisor in the White House, a senior executive at Texas Instruments, and was the first science and technology advisor to the Secretary of State.

After graduation, Neureiter studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Munich, ultimately receiving his PhD in organic chemistry from Northwestern University in 1957. He began his career at Humble Oil and Refining as a research chemist and began teaching German and Russian at the University of Houston. Beginning in the 1960s, Neureiter held key positions at the National Science Foundation, the White House Office of Science and Technology, and the State Department. He also held leadership roles at Texas Instruments until his retirement from the company in 1996.

Neureiter is a member of the George Eastman Circle.

HAJIM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCES

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Jeanine Hayes ’92 is chief intellectual property officer at Nike, where she oversees the company’s intellectual property groups. A former vice president and deputy general counsel at Yahoo, Hayes has held positions in intellectual property, business litigation, licensing, technology, entertainment, and consumer products before joining Nike in 2011.

As an optics student at Rochester, she was also a varsity member of the soccer and track and field teams. Hayes is a registered patent attorney, having received her law degree from Loyola Law School, where she was articles editor of the school’s law review.

She is a member of the Hajim School’s Advisory Committee.

EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Donald Hunsberger ’54E, ’59E (MM), ’63E (DMA) is a professor emeritus of conducting at Eastman, where he is recognized for elevating the Eastman Wind Ensemble to international prominence. As a conductor, author, arranger, and recording artist, Hunsberger is considered a leader in efforts to establish the principles of the modern wind ensemble.

In 1965, Hunsberger succeeded Frederick Fennell ’37E, ’39E, ’88 (Honorary) as the conductor of the ensemble, a post he held until 2002. During that time, he is credited with widening the ensemble’s repertoire to range from colonial Americana to sophisticated works by contemporary composers. He also led the ensemble on tours throughout Japan and Southeast Asia and organized recordings such as Carnaval with Wynton Marsalis, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts in 1987. He has cowritten the book The Art of Conducting, and coedited the essay collection The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY

Dean’s Medal

Paul Fine ’57, ’61M (MD), ’66M (Res) is a professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University. A lifelong Rochesterian, Fine taught Rochester medical students and clinicians throughout his 50-year career, a commitment that earned him multiple teaching awards and honors.

After undergraduate and medical education at Rochester and service in the US Air Force, Fine founded in 1967 an internal medicine private practice, Olsan Medical Group, which evolved into one of the community’s largest private practice groups. In 1999, the practice moved to the University’s Primary Care Practice Group. Fine retired from active practice in 2008.

He and his family have contributed to the establishment of three University professorships. The Julius, Helen and Robert Fine Professorship supports Alzheimer’s disease care and research in memory of Fine’s extended family. The Helen Aresty Fine and Irving Fine Professorship in Neurology is named for his sister-in-law and brother. The Paul H. Fine Professorship in Medicine was established by the Chester F. and Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust in recognition of Fine’s career as a physician. Fine and his late wife, Rochelle, also started the Paul and Rochelle Fine School of Medicine and Dentistry Merit Scholarship Fund for current medical students.

A member of the School of Medicine and Dentistry Alumni Council, he has served on the Medical Center Trustees Council and on the boards of several Rochester-area health care organizations.

John N. Wilder Award

Richard Goldstein ’70M (MD) is a prominent internist whose medical career included clinical and leadership roles at Massachusetts General Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

A member of several organizations, including the American Economic Association, the American Society of Internal Medicine, and the American Federation for Clinical Research, he has served as a journal reviewer for the Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Health and Society, and Medical Care. During his career, he also served as a medical consultant for the German consulate in Boston, where Goldstein worked with Nazi concentration camp survivors to document symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder so they could receive additional medical support and restitution.

In 2017, he endowed the Louis A. Goldstein Distinguished Professorship in Spinal Surgery, in honor of his father, Louis Goldstein ’32M (MD), ’37M (Res), who was a pioneer in the understanding of spinal deformities and orthopaedic surgery. He also funded the Mildred Messinger Goldstein Fund, in honor of his mother, to provide support to the Eastman Community Music School.

Humanitarian Award

Gregory Ogawa ’89M (MD) is an ophthalmologist at Eye Associates of New Mexico, a practice with 14 clinical locations and a staff of more than 50 ophthalmologists and optometrists. He regularly manages complex patient cases, often for the underserved, as well as performing reconstructive procedures for patients who have experienced a range of injuries. He has a faculty position at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where he teaches medical students and ophthalmology residents.

He received his medical degree from the School of Medicine and Dentistry and finished his ophthalmology residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

He and his wife, Diane, founded an initiative to encourage people to begin giving back to the community of Albuquerque early in their adult lives. Their younger daughter, Allison, is a member of the School of Medicine and Dentistry Class of 2022.

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Philip Greenland ’74M (MD), ’78M (Res) is the Harry W. Dingman Professor of Cardiology and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a fellow at the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute. Additionally, he is the director of the Center for Population Health Sciences at the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern. Greenland is also a visiting scientist in cardiovascular epidemiology at Clalit Research Institute in Israel.

A clinician whose work has helped shape cardiovascular care guidelines, Greenland was among the first to recognize the disparate ways in which women are affected by heart attacks and to explore the major risk factors that often precede heart attacks.

He completed his residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in 1978. Beginning his faculty career at Rochester, he joined Northwestern in 1991.

Alumni Achievement Award

Hongbo Chi ’01M (PhD) and Ping Li ’03M (PhD) are members of the Memphis, Tennessee, medical community, where Chi is a professor in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Li is the principal scientist and biological laboratory manager in the Spine Division at Medtronic.

Chi has been recognized by the Arthritis Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the American Asthma Foundation.

Li holds three US patents and has been recognized by both commercial and nonprofit organizations. She is currently a member of the Society of Women Engineers, the Orthopaedic Research Society, and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Chi and Li were married in 1995.

Alumni Service Award

Ralph Józefowicz ’82M (Res), ’85M (Res), ’86M (Flw) is a professor of neurology and medicine and associate chair for education in the Department of Neurology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. The program director of the Neurology Residency Program, he also serves as director for a second-year medical student course and as codirector for the third-year neurology clerkship.

Fondly referred to as “Dr. J” by his students, Józefowicz has been recognized for his teaching and service by his students at Rochester and colleagues from national organizations. A one-time Fulbright Scholar at Poland’s Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, he has continued a relationship with Jagiellonian that has resulted in a medical education exchange program between Jagiellonian and Rochester. He also received the Merentibus Medal “for great services rendered to Jagiellonian University.”

Józefowicz earned his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before completing residencies and a fellowship at Rochester. He joined the faculty in 1984.

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Dean’s Medal

Jane Tuttle ’79N, ’84N (MS) is a professor emerita with more than 40 years of experience as a nurse and educator, including 25 years at Rochester, where she was a leader in revamping the family nurse practitioner program.

Tuttle directed the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Rochester from 1999 until her retirement in 2017. During her tenure, she served as director of the primary care nursing program and as nursing discipline coordinator for programs funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She also held a secondary appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Tuttle received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Rochester and a PhD in family studies from the University of Connecticut. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Humanitarian Award

Elizabeth Sloand ’75N, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, has earned recognition for caring for children and families in underserved populations, both domestically and abroad.

Working as a volunteer medical missionary in Haiti since 1999, Sloand has served as the East Coast team leader of the Leon Medical Mission, has led health promotion and education activities in Haitian elementary schools and orphanages, and was selected for an interdisciplinary team of elite health professionals from Johns Hopkins to deliver emergency humanitarian health care to victims of the Haiti earthquake.

She also holds a joint appointment at Johns Hopkins’s Department of Pediatrics. She graduated from the School of Nursing with a bachelor’s degree in 1975. She earned her master’s degree in nursing from the University of Maryland and her PhD from Hopkins’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

An elected fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Sloand is also a research project consultant for the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center, and she has collaborated with nurse educators in Brazil to address the needs of families of children who undergo liver transplantation.

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Nancy Dianis ’85N (MS) is vice president and study area director of Clinical Trials Area for Westat, a company that provides research services to agencies, businesses, and other organizations. Since joining the organization in 2001, Dianis has served as Westat’s principal investigator, project director, or project manager on many trials and clinical studies of infectious diseases, blood-transmitted diseases, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, cancer, and trauma.

She is currently Westat’s principal investigator and corporate officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuberculosis Trials Consortium. A registered nurse and education specialist, Dianis has more than 30 years of experience with management and operations. She earned a master’s degree through Rochester’s Adult Primary Nurse Practitioner Program.

Legacy Award

Steven Young, a municipal designer at Thornhoff Consulting Engineers Inc. in Texas, and Susan Young, a senior consultant at Foth Infrastructure and Environment in Minnesota, established the Anna Bater Young Endowed Scholarship Fund at the School of Nursing in memory of their mother, Anna Bater Young ’41N, ’52N. Designed to support nursing students at the University, the fund is named in recognition of a graduate who herself had a career in nursing and who worked to encourage students to pursue nursing education at Rochester.

Anna Bater Young received her diploma in nursing in 1941. After graduation, she joined the emergency department staff at Strong Memorial Hospital and later was chosen to represent the school as a nursing instructor in the Department of Nursing at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City during World War II. She returned to Strong after the war and worked as an administrative assistant while working toward her bachelor’s degree in nursing, graduating in 1952.

After taking time to raise her family, she returned to Strong in the mid-1960s and began recruiting students to the School of Nursing. In 1977, Young received the Elsie Andrews Award from the Red Cross for her embodiment of the “spirit, traditions, and care that only a nurse can give.”