Rochester Review, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
NASA has selected biologist James Pawelczyk
'82 and three other scientists to train as payload specialists for a 16-day
Neurolab mission, scheduled for launch on the Space Shuttle Columbia in
early 1998. Via this mission, which is dedicated to research on the nervous
system and behavior, research teams from nine countries will carry out 31
studies in the microgravity environment of space. Pawelczyk is an assistant
professor of applied physiology at Penn State University and holds a Ph.D.
in biology from the University of North Texas.
Back on earth--in Palm Beach, Fla., to be exact--trumpet player
Roger Thorpe
'62E (Mas) was inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame in a ceremony
last March at the Breakers Hotel. Just out of high school in the mid-fifties,
Thorpe joined the brass section of the Glenn Miller Band and later went to
work for Woody Herman and Les Elgart. Sammy Kaye nicknamed him "The Professor"
(today he is a retired professor at Dutchess Community College) and, a year
before his death, handed Thorpe his baton. . . Seymour Schwartz
'57M (Res), chair of the Department of Surgery at the University, has earned
yet another award--this time, the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement
Award in Clinical Science, presented to him by the New York University School
of Medicine. Schwartz, a 1950 graduate of the NYU medical school, was cited
as "the very model of an academic surgeon.". . . Few people have their hometown
set aside a day for them--but Clyde Sutton
'38 has. For his contributions "as an exceptional human being and an outstanding
civil servant who displayed extraordinary competence and overall professionalism
throughout his career," the Atlanta City Council declared April 25, 1996,
to be "Clyde T. Sutton Day." From 1959 to 1982, Sutton was chief probation
officer for Atlanta and has, since his retirement, served as a volunteer
probation officer.
Soprano René Ross Fleming '83E has received the new Solti Prize from France's L'Academie du Disque Lyrique. The award, named for conductor Sir Georg Solti, goes annually "to an outstanding singer from the younger generation of recording artists." Also in the spring, she sang the role of Marguerite in the Chicago Lyric Opera production of Faust--and won praise from the Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, which declared that she "sings a heartbreaking Marguerite with a luscious, rich voice.". . . Shifting now from the arts to the sciences: Charles Piersall, Jr. '70S (MBA), president and CEO of Amadis Inc., was the 1995 winner of the Award of Merit from the American Society for Testing and Materials. With the award, he becomes a fellow of the 35,000-member international society, which promotes voluntary standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
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