Class Notes
River Campus Undergraduate: 1980s
Reunion News
College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering classes celebrating reunions
October 6–8, 2006
Slater Society: All post-50th Reunion Classes
65th Reunion: 1941
60th Reunion: 1946
55th Reunion: 1951
50th Reunion: 1956
45th Reunion: 1961
40th Reunion: 1966
35th Reunion: 1971
30th Reunion: 1976
25th Reunion: 1981
20th Reunion: 1986
15th Reunion: 1991
10th Reunion: 1996
5th Reunion: 2001
More about Meliora Weekend
1980
Dainis Hazners is the author of (some of)
The Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend, a book of poetry, for which
he won the 2003 Iowa Poetry Prize. . . . David Higgins
’87 (PhD) has been named executive vice president and head of U.S. operations
for BioMedica in San Diego.
1981
Joseph Bocchiaro sang the praises of Buffalo,
his hometown, in the essay “Western New York is Great Place to Call Home,”
published in the Buffalo News last February. . . . Mark
Cohen writes, “In April 2003, I became chief of professional technology
for Lifetime Health in Rochester. I am also chief of service for AfterHours
Medical Care and am seeing patients at my internal medicine/pediatric practice
at Lifetime Health in Pittsford.”
1982
In a letter to the Brighton-Pittsford Post, Iain
Currie wrote that he had visited Cathy Fromme Prairie in Fort Collins,
Colo., a park dedicated to his classmate, Cathy Potter-Fromme,
after she died of breast cancer in 1992. . . . Steven
Males is vice president of affiliate marketing for the Univision Networks,
part of Spanish-language media company Univision Communications.
1983
Jim Takacs (see ’87).
1984
Paul Navazio has been appointed finance director
of the City of Davis, Calif. Previously, he was budget manager for the City
of Berkeley, Calif.
1985
Wade Norwood (see ’86).
1986
Alex Macario ’88S (MBA), ’90M (MD)
has published A Sabbatical in Madrid: A Diary of Spain. Alex, an associate
professor of anesthesia and health research at Stanford University School of
Medicine, moved his family to Madrid for a 10-month sabbatical in August 2001.
. . . Lisa Norwood ’95W (MS) writes, “I
am the president of Rochester’s Society of Women Engineers and am on the
board of the Rochester Engineering Society. I am also overseeing a three-year
pre-engineering program funded by the New York State Department of Transportation
for 25 City of Rochester high school students, with programs during the April
school break for girls interested in fashion and engineering. The best way to
reach me and my husband, Wade ’85, is by
e-mail: lnrw (at) seas (dot) Rochester (dot) edu and wadesean (at) prodigy (dot)
net.” . . . Brian Prince ’89S (MBA)
donated $85,000 to Flower City Habitat for Humanity to build a new home on Rochester’s
southeast side, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Brian founded Renaissance Finance, an investment company that will fund commercial
and development projects in low-income communities, including Rochester. . .
. Judith Reinsdorf was promoted to vice president
and corporate secretary of Tyco International. . . . Janis
Levine Rubin has been named a vice president of New York Life Insurance.
. . . Jeanne Putinas Spencer ’90M (MD),
program director of the family practice residency program at Conemaugh Memorial
Medical Center in Johnstown, Pa., and clinical assistant professor of family
and community medicine at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey,
Pa., is co-author of the article “The Newborn Foot,” published in
American Family Physician. . . . Glenn Stambo
writes, “I am an interventional radiologist and partner in SDI
Radiologists in Tampa, Fla. I presented a publication at the International Symposium
of Endovascular Therapy last January in Miami.”
1987
Amy Lyn Blake writes, “Jim
Takacs ’83 and I joined the law firm Casnert Edwards in Boston
as partners in the family law department.” . . . Peg
Herrmann Tanner and her husband, Tony Tanner
’90S (MBA), moved from Rochester to Scottsdale, Ariz. “We’re
adjusting to the new life and sunshine with our children, Luke, 3 1/2, and 21-month-old
twins, Katherine and Veronica,” Peg writes. “If the travels of our
friends and colleagues bring you to the Scottsdale area, stop by for a visit!”
. . . Jorge Torre-Verdejo, who now goes by Jorge
Ajuria, writes, “I joined the Ft. Lauderdale Renal Group, where I practice
intensive care nephrology. I just had a chapter entitled ‘Choice of Hemodialysis
Membrane’ published in Heinrich’s new edition of Principles
and Practice of Hemodialysis.”
1988
Julie Baylin Forgash writes, “My husband,
Jeff, and I live in Evanston, Ill. My husband’s twin daughters from his
first marriage live with us full time.” . . . William
Grazier is chief information officer of Viastar Holdings. . . . Craig
Mondschein ’89S (MBA) and his wife, Elizabeth, announce the birth
of their daughter, Amanda Shira, on June 20, 2003. Amanda joins big sister,
Gabrielle, 6. Craig is the director of global banking and cash management at
Honeywell International. The Mondscheins live in West Orange, N.J. . . . Kenneth
Slater was made partner of the law firm Halloran & Sage in the Hartford,
Conn., office. He practices in the areas of environmental land use and business
and commercial law. . . . Adrian Smalls and Monica
Miranda were married September 20, 2003, at the Interfaith Chapel on the River
Campus. In addition to members of the basketball team and basketball coach Mike
Neer, several alumni and staff members attended: Marvin
Owens ’90, Tim Talley, Kim Dyce-Faucette
’89, ’90W (MS), ’97W (MS), Ben
Keegan ’00, Rodney Lyde ’95,
Shelly Clements ’89W (MS), David
Neal Sellers ’87, Logan Hazen, director of residential life, and
Linda Ellis of the office of the dean of students. Adrian is a Rochester city
police officer and volunteer assistant men’s basketball coach at Rochester.
Monica is director of fraternity and sorority affairs at Rochester and is working
on her doctorate in higher education at the Warner School.
1989
Eric Fitzgerald, an attorney with the law firm
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, was appointed to the national
advisory committee of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty
Underwriters. . . . A District of Columbia court granted a preliminary injunction
last December prohibiting the Department of Defense from administering the anthrax
vaccine to military service members or civilian contractors in a case argued
by Mark Zaid. He said the case was the culmination
of more than five years of hard work trying to protect American service members
and civilian contractors from experimental vaccines.
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