Class Notes
River Campus Undergraduate: 1970s
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
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1970
Andrew Meyers, vice provost for research at the
University of Memphis, has been named executive director of the university’s
FedEx Institute of Technology. He will continue in his role as vice provost.
. . . Daniel Sharpe is an author of the updated
edition of Taxation of Distributions from Qualified Plans 2003/2004.
He is an attorney with the law firm Hodgson Russ in Buffalo. . . . David
Smith, vice president and general manager of Melles Griot Optics Group
in Rochester, was profiled in a January edition of the Rochester Business
Journal.
1972
Roseanne Leipzig ’82M (Res) was named a
McCann Scholar in 2003. The program, funded by the Joy McCann Foundation, recognizes
medical educators for excellence in mentoring. Roseanne is professor and vice
chair for education in the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. . . . Eliot
Moshman (see ’66).
1973
David K. Barnes, president emeritus of Agenda-International
Group, has joined the faculty at Quinnipiac University’s Lender School
of Business in Hamden, Conn.
1974
James Green has been promoted to senior vice president
of preclinical and clinical development sciences at Biogen Idec. . . . Wayne
Yokoyama is a professor of internal medicine and of pathology and immunology
at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has earned recognition for his
studies of “natural killer” immune cells and how they help defend
the body against cancer and viruses.
1975
David Grossman writes that last winter, several
members of the Class of ’75 and their spouses—Merrill
Feinberg Gutstein, Barry Pollack, Laura Shifrin Tarlowe, Joanne Taylor Lester,
Gary Tannenbaum, and Paul
Fortgang—were the guests of David and his wife, Margie, for a minireunion
at the Grossmans’ home. David writes, “We decided that we look the
same as we did in 1975, except for the updated clothes and hairstyles! We’ll
all be attending our 30th reunion and look forward to meeting everyone at the
Welles-Brown Room in the library.” . . . Stephen
Hoffman ’76S (MBA) has been named chief executive officer of Element
K in Rochester. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer of
Blackboard Inc. . . . Michael Lax has been appointed
to the board of directors of Phase III Medical Inc.
1976
Steve Freshman (see ’01).
1977
Nancy Segore-Freshman (see ’01). . . . Jeffrey
Tischler ’78S (MBA) is vice president of Asta Funding in Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.
1978
Margaret Ashida, director of corporate university
relations at IBM, was a guest essayist in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
last November. She called for more women and people of color to join the fields
of science and technology. . . . Kerry Barnett
was named senior vice president of strategic communications and public affairs
of the Regency Group, a four-state affiliation of BlueCross/BlueShield companies.
Kerry will be based in the Portland, Ore., office. . . . Richard
Goldweit, director of interventional cardiology at Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center in Englewood, N.J., was recognized in the “Best Doctors”
edition of New York Magazine in 2003. He and his wife, Nina
Sheiman Goldweit, have two children, Daniel, 19, and Alana, 16. Nina
is a reading specialist at the Dwight-Englewood School. . . . Seth
Jacobs has been named to the board of directors of Operation Access,
a San Francisco–based nonprofit agency that helps provide free surgery
for the uninsured. Seth is senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate
secretary for Blue Shield of California. . . . Arthur
Matin was named executive vice president of worldwide sales for the Veritas
Software Corp.
1979
Robert Bly is the author of Webster’s
New World Letter Writing Handbook. . . . Robert
Khuzami has been appointed Deutsche Bank’s general counsel for
the Americas. . . . Alan Rubenstein (see ’01).
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