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River Campus Undergraduate 1970s

1974

Nanette Weitman Mantell has been named a managing partner at the Princeton, N.J., office of the international law firm Reed Smith. She is also a founding trustee, former president, and current board member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey, and a founding member of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners. . . . Barb Schaffer TeKolste has joined the Wilmington, Del., firm Intellitec Solutions as a business development manager in charge of existing clients and new sales.

1976

Richard Cogen is the new leader of the energy and environmental practice group at the law firm Nixon Peabody. He is based in the firm’s Albany office. . . . Stephen Bonadies has been named chief conservator and deputy director of collections management for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

1977

Bruce Rapkin has been appointed director of the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Comprehensive Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Bruce will also lead a new division of Einstein’s Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. . . . Todd Federman, a former hedge fund manager, has published Rhymes for Turbulent Times (CreateSpace, 2009), a satirical exploration of the global financial meltdown, told in verse.

1978

Jane Dubin ’79 (MA) is president of the theater production company Double Play Connections, and has joined the producing team of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests, performed on Broadway from April through July. Her last show, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, won the 2008 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award for “Outstanding New York Theater—Broadway/Off-Broadway.”

1979

Ken Troger reports that he has taken up running and completed the New York City Marathon in November.

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