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'70
30TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-15, 2000
Permed to Death, a mystery novel by Nancy Heller Cohen '70N, has a December publishing date. The book is the first installment of Cohen's "Bad Hair Day Mysteries.". . . Robert Sachs was named president and chief executive officer of the National Cable Television Association in Washington, D.C.
'71
John Mueller e-mails: "Live long and prosper Class of '71!" . . . Lewis Singer was awarded the William Obrinsky Student Teaching Award from the department of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in June.
'72
Bruce Rafel married Jan Saltiel at the Crystal Palace in Livingston, N.J., in August. Rafel is an owner of Rafel Brothers, a shearling coat manufacturer and retailer in New York. . . . William Skinner is vice president of human resources at Onsale, Inc., an Internet retailer located in Menlo Park, Calif.
'73
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-15, 2000
Lester Ezrati has been named vice president of tax, licensing, and customs for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif. . . . Mary-Frances Winters '82S (MBA) has published Unleashing Your True Potential in the Workplace: A Journal for Self-Discovery and Unprecedented Performance, a personal journal intended to guide people to find passion in their work.
'74
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-15, 2000
After several years of small roles on television shows such as ER, Friends, and Caroline in the City, Deborah Jo Rupp is starring as "Kitty Forman," the beleaguered but ever-cheerful mother in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. The show opened its second season this fall.
'75
25TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-15, 2000
Robin Jacobson's first collection of poems, Eye Drops, published by Ruah, is the winner of this year's "Power of Poetry Chapbook Competition." Jacobson participated in a number of poetry readings and led creative workshops in the San Francisco area this fall. . . . Sue Jacobson reports that she has moved to Sarasota, Fla., and is concentrating her legal work in commercial real estate, banking, and business law with the firm of Livingston, Patterson, Strickland, and Weiner. . . . Andrew Miller reports that he received his master's in linguistics from the University of Connecticut in 1976, married Marsha Nadler (she attended Rochester 1971-73 but graduated from the University of Virginia), and is now chief technologist at Prism Software Corp. in Lake Forest, Calif. . . . Richard Whittington is a senior semiconductor analyst for Banc of America Securities LLC in San Francisco, a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. . . . Steven Zisser works in the office of general counsel at Nationwide Insurance Companies in Columbus, Ohio.
'76
Ira Kaplan, partner with the corporate and securities practice of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, has been named to the firm's executive committee. He serves as chair of Council Gardens. Kaplan also is a member of the planning committee of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. . . . Peter Miller has joined the imaging supplies division of Nashua Corp. as director of manufacturing for toner and developer products. Nashua Corp. is located in Nashua, N.H. . . . James Myers '77S (MBA) has been named chief operating officer at Infodata Systems. The Fairfax, Va.-based company specializes in Web-based electronic document management.
'77
Terry Gillen was awarded an Urban Health Initiative Fellowship by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Gillen, along with four other Philadelphia-area recipients, will work closely over the next two years with Philadelphia Safe and Sound to help make the city a safer, healthier place for children. . . . Ken Scheffter, a consultant to the Department of Energy in the Washington, D.C., area, was prompted by the fall issue of Rochester Review to remember former Wilder Tower suitemates David Rich, Robert Hill, Eric Larkin '78, Walter Milowic, Jim Stratton, and Bill Wertheimer. Scheffter reports that he's lost touch with Rich and would like to reconnect. He can be reached at SCHEFFTER2@aol.com. . . . William Seawick is vice president of marketing and business development for Blaze Software, Inc., located in Mountain View, Calif. . . . Lawrence Siegel was elected to the board of directors of the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center located in Commack, N.Y. Siegel is a partner in Davidow, Davidow, Siegel & Stern, LLP.
'78
Leslie Abramson received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 1997. Her book on self-reflexivity in the films of Alfred Hitchcock is scheduled to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. She is teaching film studies at Loyola University in Chicago during the 1999-2000 academic year. . . . Michael Dunn '82M (MS), '83M (MD), '87M (Res) completed the Ironman USA competition in 12 hours, 40 minutes. The competition consists of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a marathon (26-mile run). Dunn is a neurologist in private practice and is married to Cynthia McGuire Dunn '81, '85M (MD), '88M (Res).
'79
Mark Bergman writes that he has returned to the Rochester area and is product manager at Info Directions, Inc., in nearby Victor, N.Y. The software development company specializes in billing and customer care software for the telecommunications industry. "I am single and sharing my life with a beautiful 4-month-old Tibetan spaniel," Bergman wrote this summer. . . . Robert Bly has been appointed editor of Bits & Pieces for Salespeople, a monthly pocketsize mini-magazine providing tips, techniques, and inspiration to sales and marketing professionals. His latest book, The Encyclopedia of Business Letters, Fax Memos, and E-Mail, was recently released by Career Press. The book features hundreds of model letters, faxes, and e-mails. The book can be ordered online at www.amazon.com or by calling Career Press at 1-800-CAREER-1. . . . Ruth Moore writes: "Greetings from Kinderhook, N.Y., birthplace of President Martin Van Buren. I have been appointed first deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, where I am responsible for the day-to-day operations of this state agency of 550 employees. From March until June of this year, I served as deputy commissioner for administration. From 1990 to March 1999, I worked as an attorney for the department. In that position, I successfully defended the state's Right to Farm Law in the Court of Appeals, drafted numerous pieces of legislation, and wrote several articles on agriculture and the environment, including "Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: The New York Experience," Drake Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 (1997). I am living in Kinderhook, which is in the upper Hudson Valley, with my husband, Mark Wilson, and our sons, Alex, 13, Matthew, 11, and Thomas, 11." . . . Donald Rose has been made a partner at the New York City offices of the accounting, tax, and consulting firm KPMG, where he is responsible for providing legal assistance to partners, principals, and employees across the firm's service lines and industry segments. . . . Joanne Rose is executive managing director for Standard & Poor's structured finance ratings unit. The global financial information services provider is headquartered in New York City. . . . Sharon Sacks and her husband, Harry Haddon, report that they have a new son, Scott Martin, born on July 15, 1998. Friends can reach Sacks at sksacks@paonline. com.
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