Class Notes
River Campus /Graduate
1965
Jerry Gardner (MA) (see ’58 undergraduate).
1969
Leslie Miller Kraff W (MA) (see ’61 undergraduate).
1971
Charlotte Mendoza W (EdD), professor of education at Colorado College, has been awarded the 2012 Distinguished Teacher Educator Award from the Association of Teacher Educators. The national award is given to one faculty member each year. Charlotte directs the elementary teacher education program at Colorado College and teaches courses on elementary and secondary literacy, social studies, and language arts, as well as elective courses on contemporary issues in education.
1974
Thomas Perry (PhD) has published Poison Flower (Mysterious Press), his seventh suspense novel featuring the fictional Seneca heroine Jane Whitefield. . . . Richard Thaler (PhD), the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Nicholas Molodovsky Award in May. The award, given by the CFA Institute, an international association of investment analysts, recognizes innovative research that makes a wide impact on the investment profession. Richard’s research on behavioral economics culminated in his coauthorship of the bestselling book, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale University Press, 2008).
1985
John Wecker (PhD) has been named president and CEO of the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute. John was formerly the global program leader of vaccine access and delivery at the global health nonprofit PATH.
1991
Amit Goyal (PhD) has been named a 2012 fellow of the Materials Research Society. Amit is a materials scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, near Knoxville, Tenn. His specialty is high-temperature superconductivity. . . . Judith Paniccia Ricker S (MBA) (see ’76 Eastman).
1995
Anthonie (Ton) Langeler S (MBA) has published a book, Innopreneur: 100 Chronicles on How Circumstance, Preparation, and Brilliance Advance Innovation (Channel V Books).
1996
Julie Bentley (PhD) (see ’90 undergraduate). . . . John Mark Reynolds (PhD) has been named provost at Houston Baptist University. Formerly, he was founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, near Los Angeles, where he designed and administered a great books program for honors students. He’s also a panelist on the Washington Post blog “On Faith.”
1997
William Peniston (PhD) writes that the book he coedited in 2007, Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France (University of Nebraska Press), has come out in a French edition: Bougres de vies: Huit homosexuels du XIXe siècle se racontent (ErosOnyx). . . . Julie Anne Taddeo (PhD) (see ’87 undergraduate).
2004
Melissa Bernstein Ser (PhD) writes that she’ll be starting this summer as the director of congregational learning at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, Mich.
