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

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1969

April Anson Dammann (MA) sends a photo and a note: “After a long Hollywood career writing for TV and film and producing local plays, my first book will be published early next year by Angel City Press. The Historical Society of Southern California awarded me two research grants for the project, which is the tale of Earl Stendahl, a visionary Los Angeles art dealer.”

1970

Marvin Dainoff (PhD) (see ’61 undergraduate).

1971

Les McClure (MS) writes that he has retired from Pfizer Global Research after spending 16 years in the diabetes department. He’s living in Connecticut and says he plans to stay there.

1976

Jan Hasak (MS) writes that she has published the book Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on Surviving Cancer (Xulon Press). As a patent attorney at the biotech giant Genentech, Jan chronicles her story of battling breast cancer twice while raising three boys with her husband, Jim Hasak (Mas). . . . Leonard Jason (PhD) writes that he’s a professor of psychology at DePaul University. Over the last year, he has secured $6 million in NIH funding to continue his work with disadvantaged people. Leonard also cowrote Rescued Lives: The Oxford House Approach to Substance Abuse (Routledge).

1977

Michael Hertzel S (MBA) (see ’74 undergraduate). . . . Dennis Leiner (MS) (see ’75 undergraduate).

1979

Dale Rudiger S (MBA) (see ’78 undergraduate).

1982

Bruce Berkowitz (PhD) has published the book Strategic Advantage: Challengers, Competitors and Threats to America’s Future (Georgetown University Press).

1983

Carolyn Ainslie S (MBA) has been named Princeton University’s vice president for finance and treasurer. She has served as vice president for planning and budget at Cornell University since 1998. . . . Hasan Pirkul S (PhD) has been named one of the most influential people in Collin County, Texas, by the magazine Inside Collin County Business. He is dean of the school of management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

1984

Doug Ambrose (MA) was promoted to professor of history at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. He joined the faculty in 1990.

1989

Geoffrey Liu S (MBA), the 2008 president of the National Association of Chinese American Bankers, was honored at the association’s annual meeting in August. And among those there to recognize him was Sandra Lee Kawano ’69. Geoffrey is president of Chinatrust Bank (USA), headquartered in Southern California with more than 25 branches nationwide.

1990

Stuart Wright S (MBA) was appointed chief financial officer at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

1991

Amit Goyal (PhD) has been named a corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. His research has focused on high-temperature superconductivity.

1994

Suzanne Bystrak S (MBA) and Graeme Millar S (MBA) send a photo announcing the birth of their daughter, Alyssa, born in May. . . . Ed Shanshala W (MS) was named executive director at Ammonoosuc Community Health Services in New Hampshire. He has been the agency’s chief operating officer since 2005.

1997

Lucas Binder S (MBA) (see ’96 undergraduate).

1998

John Pickert (MS) has joined the business development and consulting staff at Franek Technologies, which specializes in providing backup power to laboratories. . . . Thad Schofield S (see ’91 undergraduate).

2000

Paul Stukenborg (MS) (see ’98 undergraduate). . . . Laura Beck Stukenborg W (MS) (see ’98 undergraduate).

2003

Joe Carmichael W (MS) has published the book Permanent Adolescence: Why Boys Don’t Grow Up (New Horizon Press). . . . Patrick Carr (MA) coedited Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources: A Guide for Library and Information Professionals (Routledge).

2006

Jason Neiser (PhD) is an assistant professor of physics at Centre College in Danville, KY.