Class Notes

Graduate/Arts, Sciences & Engineering

1956

Frank Cesare (MS) writes: “I’m proud to announce that my grandson, Stephen Cangelosi, has been accepted for undergraduate admission to the School of Arts & Sciences Class of 2018 and is the recipient of a Meliora scholarship. Stephen is also the nephew of Jon Cesare ’80 and the cousin of Laura Aiuppa ’85.”

1957

Donald Messina (MA) (see ’56 College).

1958

Florence Cawthorne Ladd (PhD) writes that she’s written her second novel, The Spirit of Josephine: A Family Reunion in Paris (Côte-d’Or Press). She published her first novel, Sarah’s Psalm (Scribner) in 1996. Florence is the retired director of Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute, now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

1959

Michael Lodato (MA) has published A Handbook for Managing Strategic Processes: Becoming Agile in a World of Changing Realities (AuthorHouse). Michael worked in strategy, sales, and marketing for more than 40 years and was an associate professor and executive-in-residence at California Lutheran University.

1983

Michael Dotsey (PhD) has been promoted to senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. . . . Elinda Fishman Kiss (PhD) writes that she received three awards from the University of Maryland during the 2013–14 academic year: the Krowe Outstanding Teacher Award, the Top 15 Percent Teaching Excellence Award, and the Office of Career Services Distinguished Faculty Partner. Elinda teaches in the finance department of Maryland’s business school.

1985

Petar (Pete) Arsenovic (MS) died in May from pancreatic cancer. His wife, Angela Friedel-Arsenovic, writes that Pete was associate branch head of the optics branch of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center when he was diagnosed in March. In 2013, he celebrated 25 years of service at NASA, and he and Angela celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. She adds that she and other members of Pete’s family would welcome fond memories or photos from Pete’s time at Rochester. They have also established a memorial fund in Pete’s name at St. Joseph School in Baltimore. Friends can contact Angela at arsenovic@juno.com.

1992

Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos (PhD) has been promoted to associate professor of mathematics at the University of Patras in Greece. . . . Marnie LaVigne (PhD) (see ’84 College).

1995

Daniel Diermeier (PhD) has been named dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Daniel is an expert on political institutions, formal political theory, business and politics, and crisis and reputation management. Prior to his appointment at Chicago, he was the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

2000

Mark Ferrandino (MS) (see ’99 College).

2004

Mara Kozelsky (PhD) is coeditor of Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered (University of Wisconsin Press). Mara is an associate professor of history at the University of South Alabama.

2006

Andrew Cullison (PhD), previously an associate professor of philosophy at SUNY–Fredonia, has moved to DePauw University to become an associate professor of philosophy and the Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics.