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1964 John Tobin ’66 (MS) writes, “I was quite sad to hear of the passing of my swimming coach, Bill (Buzz) Boomer ’63W (EdM).” John says that Boomer and longtime Rochester coach Roman (Speed) Speegle, a namesake for the Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatic complex, were the inspirations that have kept him swimming throughout his life. He adds, “My wife and scuba partner, Joanne Beals, says I was born with gills. I have also supported the sport I love by being a swim official for the past 55 years at the college, master’s, high school, and summer club levels. This resulted in my being inducted into the Colorado Swimming Hall of Fame on January 15, a week after Boomer’s death. I really didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to say in my acceptance comments; however, remembering Buzz and Rochester was perfect.”

1968 Louis-Jack Pozner writes, “I am celebrating 50 years of admission to the New York State Bar. I’ve lived and practiced in Albany, New York, all that time and am not ready to retire yet. I’ve been to all seven continents, raised three children, have four grandchildren, and have enjoyed seeing a grandson achieve dean’s list grades for three and a half years at the U of R. I’m looking forward to attending his graduation in May 2022.”

1970 Nancy Heller Cohen ’70N has released the fifth boxed set of her Bad Hair Day mystery series, in which “Marla solves a murder at her day spa in the midst of the December holidays, investigates her best friend’s suspicious car accident, and enters a bake-off contest at a farm festival where she discovers a dead body in the strawberry field,” writes Nancy. “She even saves a neighbor and her pet from a ‘cat-astrophe’ in a bonus short story.” Nancy’s most recent book, Styled for Murder (Orange Grove Press) received a Best of 2021 recognition from Suspense Magazine and a Crown of Excellence review from InD’Tale Magazine.

1972

50th Reunion

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1977

45th Reunion

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1978 Doug Pleskow, clinical chief of gastroenterology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, sends news: He has been promoted to professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he oversees the clinical operations of an academic gastroenterology division with 65 clinical faculty members and trainees who perform approximately 25,000 endoscopic procedures yearly. . . . David Tillman (see ’12).

1982

40th Reunion

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1983 Dave Aikens ’84 (MS), president and CEO of Savvy Optics, writes that he and Richard Youngworth ’02 (PhD), the founder and chief engineer of Riyo, along with Eric Herman, have published Modern Optics Drawings: The ISO 10110 Companion (SPIE Press), a guide to better understanding the ISO 10110 optics drawing notation system and how to use it to create modern optical drawings. Dave adds that he received the 2021 A. E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

1984 Eve Balick writes that she has taken a job as an associate director of career services at Seton Hall University’s law school in Newark, New Jersey. She and her husband, Ken, have recently become empty nesters: They have two grown daughters living and working in Manhattan and one daughter in college. Eve says she welcomes alumni interested in connecting with Seton Hall law students to contact her.

1985 Nancy Mertzel has been elected to a three-year term as president of Women Owned Law, a national nonprofit networking group dedicated to women entrepreneurs in the legal field. She has practiced intellectual property law for more than 25 years and is the founding owner of New York City–based Mertzel Law.

1986 In April Christine Joor Mitchell ran the 126th Boston Marathon—her 13th consecutive Boston run—in honor of classmates and field hockey teammates Nancy Melvin Taylor ’86N, who died in 2003, and Doreen Gostin Massie. Christine writes that she’s a charity participant, “fundraising to help Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers get closer to the ultimate finish line—a world without cancer.”

1987

35th Reunion

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Lynn Snyder Fountain has been named a partner at the law firm Day Pitney. Specializing in energy and utilities law, she works out of the firm’s Hartford, Connecticut, office. Previously, Lynn was on the faculty of the University of Connecticut’s law school, where she developed and managed the Center for Energy and Environmental Law as well as taught courses in renewable energy law and energy regulation and policy.

1988 Jeannine Donato Gibson has published her first book, Beloved (Freiling). Jeannine writes that having been an English literature major at Rochester with a long, rewarding, and varied career as a marketing professional, “It really feels as if I have come full circle. Plus, I work in higher education now! I still remember lugging around the Norton Anthology of English Literature across the quad to class and discovering the writings of metaphysical poet John Donne. This is my first volume of inspirational poetry, which touches on nearly every aspect of life: joy, sorrow, doubt, faith, grief, despair, hope, loss, relationships, family. My hope is that this collection of modern-day psalms in plain language speaks to each reader wherever they are along their journey of life, love, and faith. It is especially timely given what we have all individually and collectively endured since early 2019.”

1991 Tiffany Taylor Smith was appointed vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of Dayton in Ohio in January. In February, she was recognized by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as one of 25 “innovative and dynamic women leaders paving the way for others in higher education.” The news magazine’s annual list of honorees also included Amanda Stent ’01 (PhD), the inaugural director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby College in Maine (see ’01 Graduate). Tiffany joined Dayton as the inaugural executive director for inclusive excellence, education, and professional development in 2017 before being appointed assistant vice president. Tiffany is also pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership at Dayton.

1992

30th Reunion

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Jeff Reznick has published a book, War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter: A Cultural History of a Creative Life (Anthem Press). It’s the first book-length study of the German-born artist and poet, who was also a nephew of the novelist John Galsworthy. Jeff is chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

1993 Scott Philbin writes that he has been promoted to shareholder in the law firm Gross Shuman. He joined the firm’s Buffalo office in July 2021. As a litigation attorney with more than 20 years of experience, he represents corporations, insurers, and financial institutions in business and commercial matters at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal court.

1997

25th Reunion

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1998 Megan Dunn, a council member of Snohomish County, Washington, has been appointed to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Local Government Advisory Committee. The 39-member committee, Megan writes, represents a diverse cross-section of cities, counties, towns, and communities across the United States and provides advice and recommendations on issues related to the shared goals of promoting and protecting public health and the environment.

1999 Roger Soares, comptroller and senior real estate accountant at Invest Newark, the city’s nonprofit economic development corporation, has been appointed to the board of directors of Easterseals New Jersey. Roger has held senior management positions at Mitchell Titus, PricewaterhouseCooper, and KPMG and is pursuing an executive MBA at the University of Michigan. He mentors middle and high school students through the First Tee and iMentoring organizations.

2000 Greg Gregory writes that he has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director at PRECISIONadvisors, “where I will head up the strategic and analytic consulting division of Precision Value & Health. In this function, I collaborate with leadership from global and emerging biopharmaceutical companies to help bring innovative therapies to patients, with a particular passion for rare diseases and orphan drug commercialization, as well as infectious disease and vaccines.”

2002

20th Reunion

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2005 Anna Tomczyk has been named a partner at the Dechert law firm in New York City, where she is a member of the corporate and securities practice group.

2007

15th Reunion

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2009 Kate Lewis Stoy has joined Fox Rothschild LLP in Pittsburgh, as a partner in the litigation department. Before joining Fox Rothschild, Kate was of counsel in the Pittsburgh office of the international law firm McGuireWoods.

2012

10th Reunion

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Leah Peres ’18D (Pdc) and Nicholas DaPrano were married last October at the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa in Rochester. Leah sends a photograph (see page 48) showing (clockwise from top) Anish Patel ’13, Jacob Ark, Peter Evangelatos ’14, Ryan Rezvani ’14, Zachary Freed ’07, ’10S (MBA), Karen Gromer Freed ’07, ’10M (MPH), Emily Hallam ’11, Claudia Shapiro Brinkhurst, Julia Liston, Kathleen Malloy ’16, Nicholas, Leah, Juliaana DiGesu, Brian Rook, Travis Talerico ’13, Matthew Corsetti ’21M (PhD), Mary Abbe Roe, Andrew Harris, and Michael Youngward ’14. . . . Alex Silverman (see ’14). . . . Laura Tillman and Jon Yousefzadeh were married last November at the Mansion at Oyster Bay on Long Island. Laura’s father, David Tillman ’78, sends a photograph (see page 48) and writes that several members from the Class of 1978 gathered to celebrate the wedding of “the daughter of one of their own” along with a similar number from the Classes of 2011 and 2012. David adds, “Laura went on to earn her master’s in occupational therapy at Columbia University and is practicing her craft at a special needs school for disadvantaged children in the Bronx.” Pictured are, from left (front row), Karen Oliver ’79, Jon, Laura, Lauren Polster ’11, Priyanka Shetty, and Rachel Parry; (back row) Michael Shapot ’78, Russell Fox ’78, Gary August ’78 and his wife, Gabi, Michael Messing ’78, Emily Berkowitz, Suparna Dang Gosain, David, Jim Goodman ’78, and Mike Snyder.

2014 Anna Berman and Alex Silverman ’13 were married last November. Anna writes, “We met in Wilson Commons in 2011 and never looked back! We were so lucky to get married in the Catskills surrounded by friends and family.” Pictured from left are Jared O’Loughlin Foreman ’13, Reed Rising, Jon Zeleznik, Alex, Anna, Amanda Lee, Isa Geltman Dunkel, Michelle Koblenz, and Lauren Fischer Allen ’13. . . . Sydney Robinson, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and Jovan Phillips were married last October in Philadelphia, where they live, surrounded by friends from Rochester.

2016 Amy Elias and Alexander Goldman were married in November in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Amy writes, “Our ushers and one of my bridesmaids were U of R alumni, and we had alumni guests from both sides of the family, too!” She is a doctoral candidate in molecular, cell, and biochemistry at Brown University. From top left are Mindy Schweitzer Elias ’81W (MS), Dan Goldman, Amy, Amanda Pelisari, Stephanie Dworkin ’14, Ann Elias Dreiker ’84, Scott Dreiker ’83, ’86 (MS); bottom, David Mullin ’19S (MBA), Griffin Pellitteri ’18, and Collin Bowen. As for Alex, Amy adds, “Somehow he’s not in the picture—haha.” . . . Harshita Mira Venkatesh has been named a fellow at Breakthrough Energy, a network of organizations founded by Bill Gates to accelerate clean energy innovations by providing financial and professional resources to innovators working on early-stage technologies. The 2021 inaugural fellows come from leading research and business institutions in North America, Europe, and New Zealand and will receive support to innovate in electrofuels, cement, steel, hydrogen, and fertilizer. Harshita, who served as a research assistant in the mathematics and economics departments while at Rochester, later obtained an MBA from the University of California Berkeley.

2017

5th Reunion

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1952 Patricia MacDonald (PhD) (see ’05 School of Medicine and Dentistry).

1966 John Tobin (MS) (see ’64 College).

1967 Frank Hsiao (PhD), a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has published two books with his wife, Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao (PhD), a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado Denver: Development Strategies of Open Economies: Cases from Emerging East and Southeast Asia (World Publishing, 2020) and Economic Development of Emerging East Asia: Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea (Anthem Press, 2015). Frank writes, “We both are very proud of being Rochester alumni, and we have acknowledged our teachers at Rochester (Professors Lionel McKenzie, Richard Rosett, and Ronald Jones) in the books.”

1984 Dave Aikens (MS) (see ’83 College).

2000 Peter Stone (PhD), an associate professor of political science at Trinity College Dublin, is coeditor of Bertrand Russell: Public Intellectual (Tiger Bark Press), the second edition of which, he writes, was published last fall.

2001 Last fall Amanda Stent (PhD) was named the inaugural director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Colby College in Maine. She was recognized this winter by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as an “innovative and dynamic women leaders paving the way for others in higher education.” The news magazine’s annual list of honorees also included Tiffany Taylor Smith ’91, vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of Dayton in Ohio (see ’91 College). Amanda’s previous positions include natural language processing architect in the chief technology office at Bloomberg; director of research and principal research scientist at Yahoo; principal member of the technical staff at AT&T research labs; and associate professor in the computer science department at Stony Brook University–SUNY.

2002 Richard Youngworth (PhD) (see ’83 College).

1964 Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr (DMA), a professor emeritus of clarinet at Michigan State University, writes that the three-volume set Verdehr Trio Archival Series (Blue Griffin) was released in 2021. The trio consists of Elsa on clarinet, her husband, Walter, on violin, and Silvia Roederer ’80 on piano. “We made 25 recordings on Crystal Records over a number of years, and these three volumes are the final CDs to be released,” Elsa writes. “The first volume contains transcriptions we made for the trio of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Grieg, and other well-known composers.” The second and third volumes contain pieces commissioned by the trio from European composers and from American composers.

1967 Raymond Eagan, organist for the First United Methodist Church in Santa Barbara, California, performed his own compositions for solo organ as part of “The Three Organists” concert at the Santa Barbara Music Club in November. It was the club’s first concert since February 2020. Raymond included his composition “The Space Shuttle Soars in Space,” dedicated to the late David Craighead, a professor of organ at Eastman from 1955 until his retirement in 1992.

1969 A February concert at the Jerusalem Music Center celebrated the release of a CD featuring the works of composer Max Stern, a professor emeritus of Ariel University in Jerusalem and one of Israel’s most celebrated modern composers. Max Stern: Retrospective, was released in December 2019 by the Israel Music Institute and the Ministry of Culture. Max is also one of 14 alumni artists who have composed fanfares especially for Eastman’s centennial celebration.

1972 Composer, organist, and pianist David Owens teamed with violinist Cynthia Cummings in October for a livestreamed recital presented by the Chelmsford (Massachusetts) Center for the Arts. They performed a sonata by Irving Fine as well as works by Mozart and Fauré.

1976 Paul (Chris) Gekker, a professor of trumpet and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland’s music school, writes that in May 2020 he released Moon Marked (Divine Art Recordings Group), his second CD with the recording company. “It features contemporary music for trumpet in various settings,” he writes, “and two of the composers are Eastman grads: Lance Hulme ’89 (MM) and Eric Ewazen. In November 2021, the American Prize awarded this CD second place in the solo instrumentalist category.”

1977 Violinist and composer Sandra Goldberg Hairgrove (MM) was chosen as musician of the month by the HorizonVU Sound and Movement forum in August 2021. Earlier in 2021, she participated in the first Swiss Female Composers Festival in Zürich, Switzerland, where she has lived since 1985. Sandra was a member of the Zürich Chamber Orchestra until her retirement in 2017.

1980 Silvia Roederer ’80 (see ’64).

1981 Composer Dan Locklair (DMA) has released a new CD, Requiem and Other Choral Works (Convivium Records). The performers include conductor Rupert Gough, the choir of Royal Holloway, organist Martin Baker, and the Southern Sinfonia at Christchurch Priory in Dorset, UK.

1988 Walt Straiton (MA) has been named director of sales for MusicFirst, Wise Music Group’s digital education division. He previously was an educational support manager for Conn-Selmer, a manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments.

1989 Lance Hulme (MM) (see ’76).

1990 Jim Tiller (MM) (see ’17).

1996 David Cutler (MM), who holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of South Carolina’s music school, has published the illustrated, full-color book The Game of Innovation: Conquer Challenges. Level Up Your Team. Play to Win. (McGraw-Hill). David is a speaker, consultant, teacher, author, musician, and Aspen Global Leadership Fellow as well as the founder and CEO of the Puzzler Company, a firm that helps business, education, and arts organizations strengthen teams and gamify problem solving. Last December David was recognized by the Yamaha Corporation of America as its first master educator for music business and entrepreneurship. . . . Andrew Irvin (MM), concertmaster for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, was named by Musical America in December as a Top 30 professional of 2021. Andrew’s virtual concert series, Bedtime with Bach, which ran for 80 consecutive nights and included more than 150 performances by Arkansas Symphony Orchestra musicians and friends, received international attention and reached a combined audience of more than a million people in 30 countries.

2000 Pianist Tracy Cowden (DMA), the Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professor in Music and music department chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has released Rapture and Regret (MSR Classics). She writes, “This recording includes music for voice and piano and for solo piano by renowned American composer Daron Hagen. Four of the five sets are world premiere recordings, including Vegetable Verselets, which I commissioned.”

2002 Justin McCulloch ’21 (DMA), a professional double bassist, and his wife, Ann McCulloch ’20S (MS), a registered nurse and health care quality professional, presented a webinar last December hosted by Eastman Performing Arts Medicine to discuss performance anxiety, the University resources that are available to students suffering from performance anxiety, and how to achieve peak performance on stage—as well as how to be a supportive family member to a professional musician. The webinar was recorded and made available on Eastman’s YouTube channel.

2005 Jay Kacherski (MM), a guitar instructor at Loyola University New Orleans, has released Synthesis (Frameworks Records), a collection of new works for classical guitar from Mexican composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. “It is one of the end products from a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico after graduating from Eastman,” writes Jay. He also teaches at McNeese State University and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and is a member of the Texas Guitar Quartet, artistic director of the Houston Classical Guitar Festival and Competition, director of the Francis G. Bulber Youth Orchestra Guitar Program, and director of the Loyola Guitar Festival.

2006 Eric Polenik (MM) (see ’08).

2008 Clarinetist Marcy Bacon (DMA) is one of four Eastman alumni members of the Rochester-based, artist-led ensemble fivebyfive, which released its debut recording, Of and Between (ArtistShare), in December. The ensemble comprises Marcy; pianist Haeyeun Jeun ’16 (DMA); double bassist Eric Polenik ’06 (MM); guitarist Sungmin Shin ’18 (DMA); and flutist and artistic director Laura Lentz. Of and Between includes collaborations with seven composers in response to stained glass art by Judith Schaechter and photography by James Welling.

2010 Ben Thomas ’12 (MM) (see ’13).

2012 Jacob Dalager (MM) writes that he joined the faculty of New Mexico State University last fall as an assistant professor of trumpet and jazz. He teaches applied lessons, directs the jazz ensemble, leads the faculty brass quintet, and runs the annual Jumpstart Jazz Festival. In addition, he has released his debut solo trumpet album, Paradigms (Tonsehen). . . . Ben Thomas (MM) (see ’13).

2013 Trumpet player, artist, composer, and educator Dave Chisholm (DMA) delivered the keynote address for the River Campus Libraries Comic Con at Rush Rhees Library in December. Dave has published several graphic novels, including Enter the Blue, Instrumental, and Chasin’ the Bird, all three published by Z2 Comics. He directs the jazz ensemble and teaches a course on comics and related media at Rochester Institute of Technology and is on the faculty of the Hochstein School in Rochester. . . . Mike Conrad (MM), an assistant professor of jazz studies and music education at the University of Northern Iowa, sends an update: “In early 2020, I founded the Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra and was awarded an Iowa Arts Council Art Project Grant to compose, premiere, and record the Fertile Soil Suite.” Mike plays piano on the recording, which was released as a digital album last December. A full video of the August 2021 recording session is available on YouTube. “In 2019,” Mike writes, “I collaborated with Stegreif Orchester in Berlin (an ensemble that includes Eastman alumnus Alistair Duncan) on an hour-long creative reimagination of Beethoven’s Third Symphony. Also In 2019, I was commissioned by the USAF jazz band, led at the time by Eastman alumnus Ben Thomas ’10, ’12 (MM), to make a modern jazz arrangement of ‘Yankee Doodle,’ which premiered in Kyiv, Ukraine.” Mike writes that he has presented at several conferences in recent years, including, in 2021, the Jazz Education Network Online Conference and the Iowa Bandmasters Association Online Conference; in 2020, the Iowa Bandmasters Association Online Conference; and in 2019, the Jazz Education Network Conference in Reno, Nevada, and the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers Symposium in Greeley, Colorado.

2016 Haeyeun Jeun (DMA) (see ’08).

2017 Kyle Peters (MM), the percussion instructor at the Eastman Community Music School and a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, composed and performed an advanced level multipercussion duet, “All Green Lights,” with Jim Tiller ’90 (MM), principal percussionist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (YouTube).

2018 Jacek Blaszkiewicz (PhD) (see ’21). . . . Kevin Bodhipak writes that he was hired as a music mock-up artist for the soundtrack in Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story. Kevin created electronic MIDI/VST renditions of Bernstein and Sondheim’s songs and underscore, which were then rearranged by composer David Newman and recorded by the New York Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel conducting. . . . Sungmin Shin (DMA) (see ’08).

2021 Stephen Armstrong (PhD) writes that he, Jacek Blaszkiewicz ’18 (PhD), and professor emeritus Ralph Locke, all scholars connected with the Department of Musicology, wrote three of the four articles published in the fall 2021 issue of the University of California Press’s scholarly journal 19th-Century Music, which covers all aspects of Western art music between the mid-18th and mid-20th centuries. The articles are “Bellini’s II pirate as Virtual Tourism in Late Georgian London” (Armstrong); “Chez Paul Niquet: Sound, Spatiality, and Sociability in the Paris Cabaret” (Blaszkiewicz); and “The Exotic in Nineteenth-Century French Opera, Part I: Locales and Peoples” (Locke). . . . Justin McCulloch (DMA) (see ’02).

1976 Tim Quill (MD), ’79 (Res), professor emeritus of medicine, of psychiatry, of medical humanities, and of nursing at the University and the founder and former director of the Medical Center’s Palliative Care Program, has coedited a volume of case studies that provide context to analyze a poorly understood option for people facing end-of-life decisions. Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford University Press) is Tim’s eighth book as author or editor on palliative and end-of-life care. A fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, he’s a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a founding board member of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

1985 Daniel Briceland (MD), ’86 (Res), an ophthalmologist in private practice, has been named president- elect of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, an organization that represents about 32,000 ophthalmologists. He will assume the role in 2023. He previously served as the academy’s secretary for state affairs and is involved with its leadership development program, including as a former program director. Daniel oversees the country’s largest insurer of ophthalmologists as chair of the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company’s board. He was the medical director of Spectra Eye Institute for nearly 20 years. He is a former member of the Arizona Medical Association’s board and served on its legislative committee as well as on the legislative committee of the Arizona Ophthalmological Society, where he also served as president.

2005 Jon Haymore (MD) sends a photograph of himself with Patricia MacDonald ’52 (PhD). Jon writes, “We met a long way from Rochester—all the way in Spokane, Washington. However, it was only after a few encounters that Patricia and I discovered we were both alumni of the U of R,” though their graduations were separated by 53 years. “Dr. MacDonald,” now age 98, he writes, “is an amazing woman who received her PhD in psychology from Rochester. She was a psychology professor at [Spokane’s] Whitworth University from 1955 to 1994 and the first woman at Whitworth with a PhD. It has been an honor to get to know her and to have our Yellowjacket bond.”

2018 Leah Peres D (Pdc) (see ’12 College).

1970 Nancy Heller Cohen (see ’70 College).

1980 Eileen Sullivan-Marx (MS), dean of New York University’s nursing college and the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of Nursing, writes that she completed a two-year term as president of the American Academy of Nursing last October.

2015 Adrian Finch (MBA) (see ’19).

2019 Mike Alcazaren (MBA) writes that “after 11 years together,” he and Adrian Finch ’15 (MBA) were married in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, last October. “We were happy to share our special day with some of our closest friends and family,” writes Mike. “The selfie is of all the Simon alumni who were at our wedding.” He adds that he and Adrian moved to Rochester last year to purchase their first home. Pictured from left to right are Shah Choudhury (MBA), Victoria Vossler (MBA), Kara Frost (MBA), David Trotto ’13 (MBA), Mrigendra Mrityunjaya (MBA), Jasmine Mitchell (MBA), Bryson Wade (MBA), Mason Neureuter (MBA), Mike, Adrian, Katherine Wade (MBA), Fernada Veiga Nunes Dias (MBA), Colin Hartford (MBA), and Dylan Hodownes ’20 (MBA).

2020 Ann McCulloch (MS) (see ’02 Eastman).

1988 Clark Godshall (EdD), the senior district superintendent of Orleans/Niagara BOCES in Medina, New York, writes that he has been appointed commodore of the United State Coast Guard 9th District Auxiliary located in regions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. He leads the uniformed volunteer force acting in support of the active-duty US Coast Guard in its boating safety missions and support operations.

1994 Don Gala (PhD), president and CEO of the Educational Consultants Network based in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area, has been appointed to the Committee on Affirmative Action of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for a two-year term. Don writes that he has previously served on the committee for an aggregate of eight years.