Class Notes

River Campus Graduate

1953
Louis Carrese (Mas) (see ’50 undergraduate).

1960
Val Evans Rathbone W (Mas) (see ’58 undergraduate).

1961
Alan Leader S (MS) (see ’50 undergraduate).

1966
George Gray (PhD) is executive director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and a lecturer in risk analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. In January, he presented a talk on “mad cow disease” to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

1969
John Barry’s (MA) book, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, was on The New York Times bestseller list in March. . . . Carole Jolley Nary W (Mas) (see ’64 undergraduate). . . . Len Schutzman S (MBA) is chair of the advisory board for Nth Orbit.

1973
Jim Chiafery S (MBA) joined LaVoie Strategic Communications Group as senior vice president. . . . Peter Palermo S (MBA), founder and chairman of Strategic Triangle, has been named chairman of the board of directors at Communication Synergy Technologies. . . . Janet Ballotta Zandy (MA) is the author of Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work. She is a professor of language and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology.

1974
William Bond S (MBA) has been appointed vice president of technology commercialization at Science Applications International.

1976
Janet Hasak (Mas) is associate general counsel of patent law at Genentech, a biotechnology research company based in San Francisco. . . . Stephen Hoffman S (MBA) (see ’75 undergraduate).

1978
David Burns S (MBA), president and CEO of Gleason Corp., was profiled in the January issue of Business Strategies Magazine. . . . Jeffrey Tischler S (MBA) (see ’77 undergraduate).

1980
Thomas McCullough S (MBA) writes, “I was elected president of the national capital region chapter of the Data Management Association in Washington, D.C., for 2003–2005 and was keynote presenter at the November 2003 Data Management Forum in Crystal City, Va. The title of my speech was ‘A Data Warehousing Success Story at the U.S. Army National Guard.’”

1981
Jerid Fisher (PhD) and Allison Styliadis announce their engagement. A late June wedding is planned.

1982
Bob Ballard S (MBA) was promoted to senior vice president of guarantor services at Sallie Mae. . . . Robert Wiltenburg (PhD), dean of Washington University’s College of Arts & Sciences, was chair of the committee in charge of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2003.

1984
Thomas McLain S (MBA) has been elected to the board of directors of Eastman Chemical Co. He is CEO and president of Nabi Biopharmaceuticals.

1985
Melissa Walker Heidari (MA) is the editor of To Find My Own Peace: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886–1910.

1987
David Higgins (PhD) (see ’80 undergraduate).

1988
Carol Anthony Davidson S (MBA) has been appointed senior vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer of Tyco International. . . . Walter Kosar (PhD) and Mary Murphey were married on September 14, 2003, in Allentown, Pa. . . . Alex Macario S (MBA) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . John McCray S (MBA), vice provost for urban affairs at the University of Rhode Island’s Feinstein campus in Providence, has received the George T. Downing Award for Education and Politics from the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society. . . . Karen Smith-Pilkington S (MBA) is senior vice president and vice chair of Eastman Kodak Co.’s Greater Asia region.

1989
Craig Mondschein S (MBA) (see ’88 undergraduate). . . . Brian Prince S (MBA) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . Sabrina Thomas W (MS), assistant professor of family and consumer sciences at North Carolina Central University, received a research award from the national Endowment for the Humanities to support her work on the book The History of Dolls as a Sociology of Black Childhood.

1990
Pierre Héroux S (MBA) is the owner of the Pittsford, N.Y., restaurant, Simply Crepes. . . . Tony Tanner S (MBA) (see ’87 undergraduate).

1991
Ellen Sternberg Bevan (PhD) has been appointed director of advancement for Fairport (N.Y.) Baptist Homes Caring Ministries. Previously, Ellen was director of annual giving, then director of special gifts, for SUNY Geneseo. She also was director of development for Wilson Commencement Park.

1993
Microbiologist Christopher Sommers (PhD) was named North Atlantic Area Early Career Scientist of 2003 for the Agricultural Research Service.

1995
Lisa Norwood W (MS) (see ’86 undergraduate). . . . Philip Pecora S (MBA) (see ’92 undergraduate).

1996
Eben Howard S (MBA) has been named regional director of heart services for Banner Health in Colorado. Eben also is director of the Western States Burn Center at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo.

1998
Caurie Miner Putnam W (MS) (see ’97 undergraduate).

2000
Mary DiMartino S (MBA) and Brad McAdams were married on October 18, 2003, at the Granger Homestead in Canandaigua, N.Y. Mary is an analyst at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in Collegeville, Pa., and Brad is a financial analyst at Lockheed-Martin in King of Prussia, Pa. They live in Gilbertsville, Pa.

2001
Robert Dedrick W (MS) and Mandy Morrell were married on August 2, 2003, in Geneva, N.Y. Both work at Canandaigua Academy: Robert is a science teacher, and Mandy is a school psychologist.

2002
Paul Ames joined Yanni Partners, an investment consulting firm in Pittsburgh, as director of the institutional data division. As director, he is responsible for the company’s proprietary databases of investment manager performance, statistics, and distinguishing product characteristics. Previously, Paul was a consultant with Biophan Technologies in Rochester.

2003
Steven Stagnitto S (MBA) (see ’98 undergraduate).