University of Rochester

Rochester Review
January-February 2010
Vol. 72, No. 3

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River Campus Graduate

1940

William Form (MA) (see ’38 undergraduate).

1965

Paul Ford S (MS) (see ’57 undergraduate).

1969

Bill Schafer W (EdD) (see ’64 undergraduate).

1970

Doug Rupert ’62S (MBA) (see ’63 undergraduate).

1973

Roy Whitney S (MBA) (see ’57 undergraduate).

1976

Dick Kievit S (MBA) and his wife, Sue, have coauthored a children’s book, Brian the Brave (self-published).

1978

Elizabeth Kincaid-Ehlers (PhD), a poet and psychotherapist in Connecticut, has written a new collection of poems, Seasoning (Antrim House).

1985

Amy Leenhouts Tait S (MBA) has been elected to the board of directors of the IEC Electronics Corp. in Newark, N.Y. Amy is the CEO of Broadstone Real Estate, a Rochester-based commercial real estate development company, and a director of Home Properties, a developer of apartment communities, also based in Rochester.

1987

Kenneth Shive (MA) received the Legion of Merit Medal from the Army when he retired after 30 years of service that took him to Egypt, South Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Yemen, and in which he served roles from assistant operations officer and company commander to U.S. military academy instructor and Defense Department and Army attache. The medal recognized Kenneth’s exemplary service in the year from June 2008 to June 2009 as a foreign liaison chief and deputy chief of the Office of International Engagement in the Defense Intelligence Agency. In particular, Kenneth improved equity among the 130 defense attaché offices worldwide.

1989

Meirav Chovav (MS) (see ’86 undergraduate).

1992

Lesley Stolz (PhD) has been appointed vice president of business development at the San Francisco–based biotechnology firm Sutro Biopharma.

1994

Tami Kelly Noel W (MS) (see ’91 undergraduate).

1996

Mike Noel (PhD) (see ’91 undergraduate).

1997

Bridget Klenk (MA), W (MS) (see ’95 undergraduate).

1999

Alissa Quinn Haas ’99W (MS) (see ’97 undergraduate). . . . Jeffrey Jackson (PhD), an associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., has published Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 (Palgrave Macmillan). This year marks the flood’s 100th anniversary.

2004

Melissa Bernstein Ser (PhD) and her husband, Sam, announce the birth of their second child, Yonatan Chaim, in September. He joins big brother Ariel Moshe, 3. Melissa writes that she continues to serve as an academic coordinator for the Ramah Jerusalem High School, and that she and her family live in Jerusalem. . . . Brent Znosko (PhD) and Jennifer Chierek were married in August in Crystal City, Mo. Brent’s PhD mentor, Douglas Turner, was in attendance. The couple spent their honeymoon “hiking, relaxing, and sight-seeing in Maui, Oahu, and on the Big Island of Hawaii.” They live in St. Louis, where Brent is an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University and Jen is an attorney at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne. Brent encourages classmates to contact him at znoskob@aim.com.

2006

Daniel Donaghy (PhD) has published a new book of poetry, Start with the Trouble (University of Arkansas).