Class Notes

1979 George Holloway (MBA) coauthored Medical Obituaries: American Physicians’ Biographical Notices in Selected Medical Journals Before 1907 (Volume 8) (Routledge). Originally published in 1981 and then again in 1995, Medical Obituaries is an extensive index of American physicians and surgeons from the 18th and 19th centuries, before the American Medical Association began publishing journals. The book also includes a list of graduating classes at American medical colleges before 1907. . . . Paul Thornton (MBA) published The Joy of Cruising: Passionate Cruisers, Fascinating Stories (BookBaby), a book of “anecdotes, stories, and profiles of cruisers who have some unique or interesting perspective.” A university administrator, Paul lives in Fort Myers, Florida.

1985 Jose Piazza (MBA), a charter trustee of Rutgers University, will serve a second term as co–vice chair of the board of trustees through 2023. He is a vice president of business excellence finance at Verizon Communications.

1997 Julie Schultheiss Buehler (MBA) was named vice president for finance and administration at SUNY Geneseo. Before her appointment, she was an executive consultant at Mitrano and Associates, a consulting firm that advises nonprofit and higher education institutions, and prior to that, vice chancellor for information services and strategy and chief information officer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Julie served in various roles, including deputy chief information officer, at the University of Rochester for 24 years before joining UMass.

2006 Chris Johnston (MBA) (see ’04 College).

2011 Serah John (MBA) writes: “I recently won an award for Excellence in Music Education at the Times Power Women 2019 hosted by the Times of India, Bangalore.” Serah is the founder and CEO of BlueTimbre Music in Bangalore.

2015 Adrian Finch (MBA) got engaged to Mike Alcazaren, an MBA candidate at Simon. Mike writes, “We got engaged in Norway this spring. While chasing the northern lights, we stopped off at a frozen lake in northern Norway, where I popped the question. We’re planning to get married next year at a small ceremony in New England followed by a large reception in Rochester for friends and family. We’ll be moving to Seattle this summer for my post-MBA job at Amazon. We’re very excited to start this next phase of our life together!”

2018 Joseph Seroski (MBA) and Diana Seroski welcomed their second child, Noa Teagan, in February.