Alumni Gazette

In the News

I love to teach children because they haven’t learned any bad habits. I like teaching adults, too, but when you’re an adult, it’s harder to be corrected. Children just do it.

—Dianne Chilgren ’62E, on teaching piano, in the Seattle Times. She has been the Pacific Northwest Ballet company’s pianist and piano soloist since 1985.

Bailey Heads National Bar Association

Clyde Bailey ’73 (MS), a research and development patent attorney at Eastman Kodak Co., has been named the 61st president of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of predominantly African-American lawyers and judges. He took over as president last August.

As the head of the association, he plans to increase service to underserved communities and increase the representation of minorities and women in the judicial system. Bailey also is president of the board of directors for the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Zaid Works on Lockerbie Bombing Settlement

Attorney Mark Zaid ’89 is helping to implement a $2.7 billion settlement from the Libyan government to the families of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Zaid, a Washington, D.C.–based lawyer, represents about 40 families of people who died when Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Scotland. He has been a key figure in the effort to recover damages from those believed responsible for the terrorist act, including pushing legislation to allow victims of terrorism to pursue civil litigation against recognized terrorist states.

When the framework for the compensation package was announced last August, Zaid told CNN that the outline was “a significant and substantial step forward.”

Rochester students Katharine Hollister ’90 and Eric Coker ’90 were among the 259 passengers on the plane.

NASA Research Center Taps Alumnus

Julian Earls ’66M (Mas) has been named director of one of NASA’s top research facilities, the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The radiation physicist will lead the center’s 1,900 employees in developing high-power propulsion systems for future deep-space exploration missions.

Earls has worked at the center since 1968, when he led the health physics program. He held several administrative positions during the ’80s and ’90s and was named deputy director in 2002.

Grad Sails to Gold

Gordon Borges ’90 sailed to victory in the 2003 Pan American Games, winning a gold medal as a member of a four-man United States team during competition in the Dominican Republic last summer.

Borges was one of more than 114 sailors from 17 countries taking part in the games, which included seven different sailing classes.

The Pan Am Games have been held every summer before the Olympic Games since 1951. They serve as Olympic-qualifying events for many sports.