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Linda Gillim, vice president of institutional advancement at Nazareth College in Rochester received the "Professional Fund Raiser of the Year" award from the Genesee Valley Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Excellence. . . . Roger Silver writes that having spent five weeks traveling in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, as well as sailing on the Baltic Sea, he is coming out of retirement to "settle" in Japan and Korea teaching English on Air Force bases for the University of Maryland. He adds that he taught in Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan in 1969-70. . . . Ann Weintraub W, '69W (Mas), vice president of the Women's Foundation of Genesee Valley, received the Valued Colleague Award from the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at Rochester. The award is given each year to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the work of the Anthony Center.

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40TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Ronald Knight has been named executive vice president at Harris Interactive, Inc. He also was appointed president of the group responsible for business and consumer services, brands, and consulting at the Rochester-based Internet research company. A member of the University's Board of Trustees, Knight had been senior vice president and chief operating officer of the business process management group at Sutherland Group Ltd. . . . Irene Stillings has been named vice president of business development at ConneXt, a Seattle-based company specializing in the development of billing software.

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Leslie David Simon e-mails that his book, NetPolicy.Com: Public Agenda for a Digital World, has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. An honorary member of the Trustees' Council of the College, Simon is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., a policy advisor for the State Department, and a lecturer on policy issues at the National Defense University. . . . Brian Turner reports that he is a member of the board of directors of the Scottish Gaelic Society of America. He notes that in 1998 he recited the 23rd Psalm in Scottish Gaelic for the commemoration of the Black Watch Cairn at Fort Ticonderoga.

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A visit from artist Barbaralee Bank Milon of Jacksonville, Fla., to paint the scenery of the Finger Lakes was the occasion for a mini- Class of '63 reunion at Keuka Lake. The accompanying photo shows Milon, Canandaigua Lake residents Will '81S (MBA) and Lynne Vilnow McCoy, and Keuka Lake residents Bob Worden '67 (MS) and Bonnie Dennis Barney. Barney, also an artist, sent in the photo. "None of us has changed a bit in 40 years," she notes, adding, "Don't look at the picture."

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John Tiede has been named director of training and development at Quality I. C. Corp., headquartered in Austin, Tex.

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John Burruto has been named the principal at Windsor High School in Connecticut. . . . W. Scott Champney, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at East Tennessee State University, received the school's Distinguished Faculty Award in Research for 2000. . . . Richard Dufresne e-mails to say that when he found himself between positions as a drug discovery chemist, he filled in by developing a new form of plant graphics and distributing his salvia collection to major nurseries and botanical gardens around the world. He adds that low-resolution images of his salvia are available on his Web site http://home.infinet. mindspring.com/~salvia. . . . Bruce Feldman writes that he has been appointed executive director of human resources at Mission Industries, Southern Nevada's largest industrial laundry, linen, uniform, and restaurant supply company. He is responsible for all employee and labor relations matters for the 3,000-employee company.

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35TH REUNION
OCTOBER 12-14, 2001

Alan Batkin '66 (see '90).

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John Major has been named chief executive officer at Novatel Wireless, Inc., of San Diego, Calif.

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Jane Batkin (see '90).

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Neil Baldwin, executive director of the National Book Foundation and the author of several books and an award-winning screenplay, opened the University's 39th season of the Hyam Plutzik Memorial Poetry Series and the Donald R. Clark Enrichment Program in the Humanities last fall on the River Campus. The noted biographer's latest book, Henry Ford and the Jews, is forthcoming in 2001. . . . Lawrence Lipman, an attorney in private practice with offices in Fair Lawn, N.J., and Garnerville, N.Y., has been elected vice president of Jewish Family & Children's Services of North Jersey, headquartered in Wayne, N.J. Lipman has been active with the organization as a member of its board of directors for several years.

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