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Rochester Review
November–December 2008
Vol. 71, No. 2

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River Campus Undergraduate 1960s

1961

Marvin Dainoff ’70 (PhD) has joined the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, part of Liberty Mutual Group, as director of the institute’s Center for Behavioral Sciences. He will direct research focusing on the behavioral, cognitive, and organizational factors underlying workplace injuries and highway collisions.

1962

Patti Cullen VanKouwenberg ’69N (MA) sends a photo of Gannett freshman hall friends from 1958 who gathered in Penfield. N.Y., in July for lunch and reminiscing. Pictured (front row) are Patti, Jo Emy Whang ’63N, and Sue Adams Brown ’59, ’60N, ’63N (MS); (second row) Marilyn Kronmiller Ashman, Lucinda Finley Wilcox ’89W (EdD), and Nancy Bliss Johnson.

1967

F. Richard Cosin writes that his daughter, Emily, graduated from college in California with plans to enter a master’s program at Boston University’s medical school this fall. After a career as an administrative law judge for more than 30 years in San Francisco, he officially retired in 2004 but has continued working part time. In 1999, his family moved from San Francisco to the East Bay suburb of Orinda for “a more rural feeling and one of the best public schools in California.” He would like to receive e-mails from friends. His address is a-rcosin@ sbcglobal.net. . . . L. Gerald Rigby was named a “top attorney” in southern New Jersey in the August issue of SJ magazine. A partner in the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner, he represents family-controlled businesses in a gamut of legal and tax matters.

1969

Sandra Lee Kawano received the Community Service Award from the Chinatown Health Clinic Foundation and the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York City. The health center, where she started as a volunteer nurse and is a board member, serves immigrant Asian families in the metropolitan area and New Jersey. On that same evening in June, she received an Excellence in Public Service Award for community work from the 100 Year Association of New York, an organization of businesses that have existed in New York for more than a century. Sandra is the CEO of the family-run insurance brokerage firm Harold L. Lee & Sons, which was founded in 1888. (Also see ’89 River Campus graduate.) . . . Donald Winter (see ’88).