From the May/June 2008 Issue

Bernard Buonanno, Sr. '35 AM (see Elaine Berlinsky Fain '70).

Lee Jacobus '59 AM (see '57).

Robert J. Shapiro '60 MAT retired in June 2007 after 50 years as a teacher, principal, and superintendent of the Warwick, R.I., public schools.

Allister Fraser '62 ScM (see '54).

Richard F. Santopietro '64 ScM (see '61).

Susan Adler Kaplan '65 MAT (see Elaine Berlinsky Fain '70).

Hilary Salk '65 MAT (see '63).

William Stork '66 MAT writes that in fall 2007 he was awarded the Teacher Tribute by Stanford for exceptional teaching. Contact William at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Terrell Simon Murphy '69 MAT (see Anna Murphy Deutmeyer '99).

Michael Weir '70 PhD (see '65).

D. Gordon MacLeod '71 ScM writes: "I retired in June 2007 after nine years as head of school at Tampa Preparatory School. I am now enjoying time playing golf and visiting grandchildren in New Jersey and California." Contact Gordon at 935 River Basin Ct., #102, Bradenton, Fla. 34212; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

John S. Henke '73 MAT just received his MSLIS degree from the Syracuse Univ. School of Information Studies. He plans to retire from his position as a social studies teacher at Brookfield Central School in Upstate New York and enter the library field.

Wendy Orr Arienzo '77 ScM (see '77).

Jerry Tessendorf '84 PhD (see Johanna Masse '98).

Eric Golin '91 PhD (see '81).

Dan Tapiero'91 AM (see Jane Brodsky Sprung '88).

Tony Affigne '92 PhD (see '76).

Drew Davis'99 ScM (see Anna Murphy Deutmeyer '99).

Christine Gray '99 AM has accepted a job as the travel assignment editor for USA Today. She previously worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer as a deputy features editor responsible for the Image section. She married Don Faust in October 2007 on Captiva Island, Fla. Brown alum Stephanie Grace '87, political columnist for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, was among the attendees.

Michael Kowalski '99 ScM (see Johanna Masse '98).

Joshua Marshall '03 PhD of Talking Points Memo was awarded a George Polk Award in 2008, most specifically for his role in reporting on the U.S. Attorney scandal. This also marked the first Polk Award to be awarded to an internet blogger.

Heather L. Brennan '05 MAT is teaching middle school and currently enrolled in an educational leadership program. Contact Heather at 20 Maude Ave., Coventry, R.I. 02816; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Andi Fein '05 ScM (see Susan Warren Weston '03).

From the March/April 2008 Issue

Allen S. Goldman '53 ScM (see '51).

Rev. William Olewiler '67 AM of White Hall, Va., and Nancy Payne of Orange Park, Fla., announce their engagement. The wedding is scheduled for April 26 in Orange Park at CrossRoads Lutheran Church. The couple will live in Orange Park, near Jacksonville, beginning in July. William's first wife, Mary Baugh, passed away two years ago from cancer.

Ronald A. Sudol '67 AM has been appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oakland Univ. in Michigan. He was previously associate provost and continues as professor of rhetoric.

Dennis Butcher (see '72).

Bernard Mendillo '73 AM (see '70).

Joanna E. Rapf '73 PhD (see '63).

Mary Hutchings Reed '73AM (see '73).

Connie Sancetta '73 ScM (see '71).

Hon Fong Louie Mark '74 PhD and Roger Mark '76 PhD (see Yvonne Mark '92).

Jill Grigsby '77 AM (see '76).

Joel D. Scheraga '81 PhD (see '76).

Mark Spitzer '81 PhD (see Leah Sigal Spitzer '81).

Anna Bobiak Nagurney '83 PhD (see '77).

Russell Potter '91 PhD published a new book, Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, in September. He lives in Providence with his partner, Karen Carr, and their three children, two dogs, five cats, and one mouse. Contact Russell at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Noel O'Dowd '92 PhD and Peter McHugh '92 PhD have recently been appointed to full tenure professorships in Ireland. Noel now holds the chair in mechanical engineering at the Univ. of Limerick, following 13 years in the department of mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London. Peter holds the newly established chair in biomedical engineering at the National Univ. of Ireland, Galway. Contact Noel and Peter at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it and This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Eileen M. Angelini, PhD '93 writes: "In July 2006 my family and I relocated from the Philadelphia area to the Buffalo, N.Y., area for my new position as associate professor of French and chair of the department of modern languages at Canisius College. It is nice to be back in a liberal arts environment. Most recently, the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers gave me the Ruth E. Wasley Distinguished Teaching Award Post-Secondary. What an incredibly warm welcome to the state of New York. Most importantly, my 7-year-old daughter is thriving in the public school system in Williamsville, N.Y."

Nestor Matthews '97 PhD has earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor in the department of psychology at Denison Univ. Contact Nestor at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Andrew Flescher '00 PhD published a new book, The Altruistic Species, with Templeton Foundation Press in 2007.

Roger Mark Jr '00 MAT (see Yvonne Mark '92).

Andrew Mirsky '00 ScM (see Joshua Edelglass '99).

Eric Huang '01 PhD (see '94).

Lori Bielinski Matten '02 AM (see Joe Hou '98).

Len Erickson '03 PhD (see '94).

Andi Fein '05 ScM (see Susan Warren '03).

From the January / February 2008 Issue

Richard Cook ’48 AM (see Bernie Bell ’42).

Marilyn Tarasiewicz Erickson ’59 AM (see ’57).

Erich Kunzel ’60 AM (see Ben King ’64).

Mel B. Yoken ’61 MAT has published Breakthrough: Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias, a celebration of the educator who revolutionized the art of learning languages. Mel has published eight books, including this most recent one, and has received several prestigious awards from the French Academy, the French government, the New York State Foreign Language Association, and MaFLA. He is the director of the Boivin Center of French Language and Culture at UMass Dartmouth.

Susan Adler Kaplan ’65 MAT (see ’58).

William Silvert ’65 PhD (see ’58).

Gerald J. Michael ’66 ScM (see ’65).

Tom Kuhlman ’67 PhD, an associate professor emeritus of English at Creighton Univ., recently published Baroque Nebraska, published by AuthorHouse, and an article on

S.J. Perelman printed in Studies in Jewish Civi

lization; American Judaism in Popular Culture, printed by Creighton University Press.

Susan Johnston ’68 MAT is the coauthor of Princess Bubble, a modern-day book celebrating singleness and written to reduce the overwhelming sense of failure, self-doubt, and despair that some single women face. Contact Susan at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

L. Robert Smith ’68 ScM was elected treasurer of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. He is still trying to figure out how he had time to work before he retired. Contact him at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

John Freeman ’69 ScM (see Isabel Jackson Freeman ’69).

Walter Liedtke ’69 AM was named Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition, The Age of Rembrandt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Walter’s 1100-page catalogue of the 228 Dutch paintings in the museum (where he has been curator of European paintings since 1980) was published in August 2007. In 1993 he was made Knight in the Order of Leopold by King Albert II of Belgium, in recognition of his publications on Flemish art.

Allen Dyer ScM ’70 (see ’67). Marilyn Friedman Hoffman ’71 AM

(see ’67).

Dirk T. Held ’72 PhD (see ’60).

Jaimee Wriston Colbert ’76 AM has published a new book, Dream Lives of Butterflies: Stories, which explores the discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots at the end of 20th century America. It is also a finalist for the USA BookNews National Best Books of 2007 Awards in Fiction/Stories.

Kristin Hayes ’77 AM (see David Lichtenstein ’99).

Joanne Schneider ’77 PhD writes: “My book Age of Romanticism appeared in May 2007. I am in my last year as chair of the history department at Rhode Island College. I look forward to returning to the rank of regular professor!”

Lisa Dennison ’78 AM was named to a newly created position, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in October. She has held the position of deputy director and chief curator at the Guggenheim since 1996, and has been a member of the curatorial department since 1978. Lisa aided in the preparation of several important exhibitions,including Arshile Gorky, 1904–1948: A Retrospective (1981). She was promoted to assistant curator in 1981, associate curator in 1990, collections curator in 1991, curator of Collections and exhibitions in 1994, and deputy director and chief curator in 1996.

Mahmud Hasan ’82 PhD can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Susan Schilling Keats ’82 PhD (see John Keats ’75).

Cary Honig ’84 MAT (see Jennifer Borman ’85).

Sila Liane Chakrawarti ’89 AM (see ’79).

Valerie Tutson ’90 AM (see Justin Green ’48).

Erin Egan ’91 MAT (see Jennifer Borman ’85).

Deborah Merrill ’91 PhD released Moth-ers-in-Law and Daughters-in Law: Understanding the Relationship and What Makes Them Friends or Foe in September 2007. She is a sociology professor at Clark Univ.

David Durfee ’92 PhD (see Celinda Gourd ’04).

Alexander Merk ’92 ScM (see Hanna Tikkanen Merk ’91).

Diane Hoffman-Kim ’93 PhD (see Celinda Gourd ’04).

Anna Klosowska ’94 PhD, an associate professor of French at Miami Univ. of Ohio, is the editor of Madeleine de l’Aubespine: Selected Poems and Translations, published by the Univ. of Chicago Press as part of its series, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Klosowska has published widely, including a 2004 book, Queer Love in the Middle Ages, and in 1988 conceived and edited Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts, widely hailed as an important volume in her field.

Mark Amerika ’97 MFA writes: “For those who are interested, I have just published two new books: META/DATA: A Digital Poetics and 29 Inches: A Long Narrative Poem More info at: markamerika.com.”

Brent Stuart Goodwin ’97 AM has been promoted to supervisor of the U.S. Departmentof HomelandSecurity’sLAXCommand Center. He oversees the coordination of state, local, and federal antiterrorism efforts. He also maintains the readiness of the department’s Emergency Operations Center. Contact him through classmates.com.

Sam Houser ’97 PhD was appointed secretary of the college and executive assistant to the president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Sam can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Edward Bok Lee ’98 MFA was appointed assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Metropolitan State Univ. (Minn.). He will teach poetry, fiction,andmemoir writing with an emphasis on the experiences of

U.S. people of color. Stephen Martin’99 AM (see Jennifer Borman ’85). Andrew Mirsky ’00 ScM (see Josh Lawrence ’99). Dorkina Myrick ’01 MD, ’01 PhD (see ’01 MD). Thomas Kucera ’02 ScM (see Andrew Paulsen ’01). Christina O’Connor ’02 MAT (see David Lichtenstein ’99). Sharon Sonenblum ’03 ScM (see Rachel

Cruz ’01).

Jason Sobel ’03 ScM (see ’02).

Sean Cannella’04 ScM (see Nicole Fis

chler ’03). Maureen McCamley ’04 ScM (see Celinda Gourd ’04) Linda Yeh ’04, ’05 MAT (see Celinda Gourd ’04). Michaela Andrews ’03, ’06 MAT (see Celinda Gourd ’04). Elizabeth Deweerd ’05, ’06 ScM (see Celinda Gourd ’04). Melissa Labonte ’06 PhD (see Thad Williamson ’92). Portia Thurmond ’06 MPH (see Vincent Capaldi ’02). Gerald Patterson ’07 PhD (see Celinda Gourd ’04). Ninian Stein ’07 PhD (see Laura Schmitt Olabisi ’99 and Jasmine Waddell ’99).

From the November / December 2007 Issue

Paula Jespersen Diehl ’54 AM (see ’47).

Christine Holmberg Freiberger ’59 MAT (see ’56).

Douglas Anderson ’62 AM (see Celia Wu Sophonpanich ’83).

Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson ’62 AM (see Celia Wu Sophonpanich ’83).

,Rosalie Greenberg Goldman ’66 MAT (see ’56).

Alice Clemente ’67 PhD (see ’56).

Sally Goldin ’75 AM (see Celia Wu Sophonpanich ’83).

Jack W. Silverstein ’75 PhD was named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The induction ceremony took place July 30 at the IMS Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. Jack received the award for seminal contributions to the theory and application of random matrices. He is a professor at North Carolina State.

Susan Lukesh ’76 PhD (see ’68).

Bella Brodzki ’80 PhD has published Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory (Stanford Univ. Press, 2007).

Richard Gourse ’80 PhD (see ’71).

Joan Lescinski ’81 PhD resigned after nine years as 14th president of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana to become the 13th president of St. Ambrose Univ. in Davenport, Iowa. Joan is the first woman to be president of St. Ambrose.

Pornchai Suchitta ’83 PhD (see Celia Wu Sophonpanich ’83).

Jeffrey Lesser ’84 AM (see ’82).

Lonzia Berry ’89 AM (see Celia Wu Sophonpanich ’83).

Ted McEnroe ’92 MAT (see Cindy Moser ’90).

Joseph Samuel Houser ’97 PhD was appointed secretary of the college and executive assistant to the president at Franklin Marshall College on July 1. Joseph can be reached at 722 State St., Lancaster, Pa. 17603; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Asimina Georges ’00 PhD has joined Fish & Richardson PC as a technology specialist in the Boston office. She will support the firm’s Patent Prosecution Group in the area of chemistry. Before joining Fish, Asimina was a senior scientist at Infinity Pharmaceuticals.

Andrew Shen ’00 MAT (see ’99).

Patrick MacRoy ’01 AM (see Anna Goldberg ’02).

Jon Reiter ’01 ScM (see Anna Goldberg ’02).

Matt Herman ‘04 ScM (see William Starrett Esworthy ’05).

Sarah Lang ’04 MFA is currently touring North America in support of her new book, The Work of Days (Coach House Books). With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, she will then circumnavigate the globe, writing her next book in and about airports. Sarah can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Jarrod Lynn ’07 ScM (see William Starrett Esworthy ’05).

From the July / August 2007 Issue

Ernest Hofer ’47 AM (see ’46).

Arsen Shamshoian ’59 MAT (see Mike Rubin ’00).

Arthur Louis Levin ’62 AM (see ’59).

John Worsley ’63 MAT (see ’56).

Mike Griem ’66 ScM (see ’65).

John E. Finnerty ’68 AM (see ’65).

Geoffrey R. Barrow ’68 AM, ’71 PhD, manages the nonprofit indianasailing.org, which offers sail racing and adventure expeditions on Lake Michigan to young sailors, mostly Hispanics and African Americans in disadvantaged high schools. The sailors will compete in the Chicago–Mac race and Soling nationals again this year.

Stuart Flashman ’69 ScM (see ’69).

Louis Schepp ’74 ScM (see Barry M. Nathan ’70).

David Altshuler ’71 AM (see ’71).

Paul Schopf ’73 ScM (see Jane Seigler ’73).

Geoffrey Stewart ’73 AM (see ’73).

Ken Cieplik ’74 MAT (see ’73).

Tony Coelho ’80 PhD (see Mike Rubin ’00).

Glenn Cummings ’84 MAT was unanimously elected as the ninety-eighth speaker of the Maine House of Representatives in Dec. He is professor of economics and entrepreneurship at Southern Maine Community College and the Univ. of Southern Maine.

Steven Zhu ’92 PhD returned to New York, after working in Tokyo for three years. He is currently working at Bank of America as head of risk management analytics. Steven can be reached at 111-14 76^th Ave. Apt. 116, Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Mike Gleason ’94 PhD (see ’82).

Alejandra Placci ’00 MAT writes: “I have just recently accepted a job in the Buenos Aires office of Axialent. I moved there in late May 2007. I’m very excited to spend time in the ‘mother country’ and hope to be there for at least a few years. If anyone is in town, please drop me a line.” Alejandra can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Antonios Augoustakis ’01 PhD received tenure in the classics department of Baylor Univ. in Feb.

Liz Cho ’02 AM (see Valerie Phillips ’98).

Wendy Schiller ’02 AM (see George Rollinson ’57).

Heather L. Brennan ’05 MAT writes: “I’m currently teaching college writing at the Community College of R.I., as well as English language arts in the Mansfield schools. Over the summers, I teach poetry at the Hamilton House on Angell St.” Heather can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

From the May / June 2007 Issue

Mary Ann Rossi ’57 AM has been included in a new publication, Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, edited by Barbara J. Love, in partnership with Veteran Feminists of America. It was created to document the “Second Wave” movement and motivate younger generations.

Joyce Reed ’65 AM (see Leslie Armstrong ’62).

Stan Schretter ’68 ScM (see ’65).

John (Jack) Freeman ’69 ScM (see Isabel Jackson Freeman ’69).

Lynn Mooney Hickey ’69 AM (see ’67).

John V. Guttag ’73 ScM (see Peter Norvig ’78).

Cliff Hickey ’77 PhD (see Lynn Mooney Hickey ’67).

Mark L. Asquino ’78 PhD (see ’71).

Geoffrey A. Landis ’88 PhD writes: “In January, I finished my stint as the Ronald E. McNair Visiting Professor of Astronautics at MIT and returned to my home base, the NASA John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, where I am a scientist in the photovoltaics and space environmental effects branch. I continue to spend half my time working on the Mars Exploration Rovers mission, and look forward to finding some time to start writing science fiction again.”

Stephen Eskilson ’95 PhD (see Maya Grosz ’93).

Christopher Hays ’95 ScB (see Elizabeth Perez ’99).

Antonios Augoustakis ’01 PhD received tenure in the classics department of Baylor University in Februrary.

Hanya El-Sheshtawy ’01 MAT (see Ron Kiino ’97).

Kristy Juaire’02 ScM (see Lisa Cisneros ’01).

Joe Coleman ’03 PhD (see Ellen Stern Griswold ’01)

Josh Schwartz’03 ScM (see Dana Ross ’99).

Benjamin Steinfeld ’05 MFA (see Jessie Ratey ’01).

From the March / April 2007 Issue

Dean Staats ’48 AM (see ’46).

Erich Kunzel ’60 AM, the conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, was awarded a 2006 Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush. The National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the U.S. Government. Erich first appeared as conductor of the Pops in October 1965.

Austin D. Carroll ’63 MAT was elected this past summer as chairman of the board of trustees of St. Thomas Aquinas College, a Catholic college of the Dominican tradition located in Sparkill, N.Y. Brother Carroll remains active in the field of higher education through board service and publications.

Peter Gillis ’64 PhD (see ’52).

Susan Rosenfeld ’65 AM (see ’64).

Ruth Ann Williams ’66 PhD can be reached at 2402 Delgado Dr., Tallahassee, Fla. 32304.

Neal Sondergaard ’77 PhD (see Sally Olver Sondergaard ’76).

Mary Greene Horvath ’78 MAT writes: “Chas and I have two wonderful sons, ages 11 and 14. We are enjoying their transitions from elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school. It will be an interesting year.” Mary can be reached at 60 Laurel St., Concord, Mass. 01742; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Jerry Weil ’84 ScM (see ’83).

Paul Beade ’88 ScM, ’94 MD (see Lauren Cohen Starr ’94).

George Hradil ’91 PhD (see Christina Boyd Zavell ’85).

Ted McEnroe ’92 MAT (see Naline Lai ’89).

Phil Lai ’95 AM, ’99 MD (see Lauren Cohen Starr ’94).

Catherine Torigian ’95 PhD, who has been head of the foreign language department at the Browning School in New York City since 2003, was awarded the American Philological Association’s Award for Excellence in Pre-Collegiate Teaching at the Association’s January 2007 meeting in San Diego. The award is given annually to two teachers of Latin at the pre-collegiate level. Catherine attended the meeting with her husband, Anthony Gini ’89 PhD, and their 2-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Catherine Torigian-Gini.

Brent Goodwin ’97 AM handles critical incident and crisis management and coordinates antiterrorism in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Los Angeles Command Center. He writes: “In my spare time I like to fish for mahi mahi, albacore, or yellow-fin tuna. Otherwise, I enjoy sailing to Catalina Island. I can be reached through classmates.com.”

Esther Isabelle Wilder ’97 PhD writes: “In September my husband, Saam Trivedi, and I celebrated the birth of our daughter, Tara Naomi Trivedi. Both Saam and I are professors at the City University of New York (CUNY). Saam is in the philosophy department at Brooklyn College, and I am in the sociology program at Lehman College. We live in Riverdale, N.Y., and can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ”

Tim Cooley ’99 PhD received the 2006 Orbis Prize for Polish Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in recognition of his new book, Making Music in the Polish Tatras (Indiana). Tim is an associate professor of music at U.C. Santa Barbara. He can be reached at 166 Kingston Ave., Unit B, Goleta, Calif. 93117.

Benjamin Hertzog ’99 PhD (see Trevor S. Mottl ’98).

Chris Bowley ’00 PhD, a technical specialist for the past five years at Fish & Richardson, is now an associate in the Patent Prosecution Group. Prior to joining Fish & Richardson, he served as a senior research physicist in the Optical Systems Division of 3M.

Erik Sylven ’02 ScM (see Michael Jesionowski ’00).

Sam Marks ’06 MFA received the first-ever John C. Russell Fellowship from the Brown Graduate Program in Literary Arts. The fellowship is named in honor of John C. Russell ’91 MFA, a promising young playwright who died at age 31. Sam will serve as an adviser to graduate playwrights and will curate two staged readings of plays by Brown undergraduates while continuing to develop his own work.

From the January / February 2007 Issue

Arnold Soloway ’48 AM (see Laurie Reeder ’86).

Ed Clarke ’51 PhD (see Dick Tracy ’46).

Allen S. Goldman ’53 ScM (see ’51).

Richard Doenges ’55 AM retired in 1991 as dean of College of Arts and Hu man i ties at the University of Bridgeport.

Raymond H. Lopez ’63 AM has just completed his 40th year teaching finance and economics classes in the MBA program at the Lubin School of Business, Pace Univ. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Academic Federal Credit Union, which provides financial services to employees of fifteen colleges, universities, and secondary schools in the New York metropolitan area. Raymond can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Kenneth Pruitt ’65 PhD is professor emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He can be reached at 3512 Mountain Park Dr., Birmingham, Ala. 35213; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Norman Reynolds ’65 ScM (see ’63).

John Brandenberg ’69 PhD was honored as the first recipient of Lawrence University’s Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity Award during its June 11 commencement. This new award recognizes professional accomplishment in scholarship of creative activity and symbolizes the importance of both endeavors in advancing the mission of Lawrence University.

George V. Frisk ’69 ScM, professor of ocean engineering at Florida Atlantic University, has been named vice president elect of the Acoustical Society of America. Professor Frisk is an expert on ocean and seafloor acoustics. He has authored and coauthored many publications. He also holds the title of scientist emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Glenn W. Mitchell ’69 ScM, ’75 MD (see ’67).

John A. Stankovic ’79 PhD (see ’70).

Carla Ballon Gorrell ’81 PhD (see Ellen Seely ’77).

Stephen Siegel ’85 PhD (see Alex Kruglov ’02).

Allyson Poska ’86 AM writes: “My book Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006) was just awarded the Bainton Prize, the Sixteenth-Century Studies Association’s award for the best book in early modern history or theology.”

Beth Montgomery Brown ’87 MAT (see Matthew Brown ’86).

Ann Harleman ’88 AM received the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fiction Fellowship Award. Ann is the author of two books, and one coming in 2007. She has won three previous Rhode Island State Council fellowships in the past, as well as Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships and many other writing honors. She is on the faculty at Brown and RISD.

Elizabeth Searle ’88 AM is the author of three books of fiction and received national media coverage for her latest work, Tonya & Nancy: The Opera, an original opera based on the infamous Harding–Kerrigan skating scandal. The opera, with music composed by Abigail Al-Doory, premiered at the American Repertory Theatre’s “new space for new works” in Boston in May. The show received coverage from the Associated Press, ESPN Hollywood, Sports Illustrated, MSNBC and National Public Radio. A new West Coast production of the opera is in the works. Elizabeth lives with her husband and their 8-year-old son, Will, in Arlington, Mass. She teaches fiction writing in the Stonecoast MFA program.

Elysabeth Bidwell Ray ’93 MAT (see ’92).

Lisa Chick ’94 MAT (see ’93).

Brook Conner ’94 ScM (see ’91).

Arthur Gianelli ’94 AM was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Nassau Health Care Corporation on Oct. 23. The corporation includes a tertiary teaching hospital, an extended care facility, and six community health centers and provides safety-net health care for the uninsured and underinsured in Nassau County. Art can be reached at artgianelli@ aol.com.

Ann Costelloe Landenberger ’94 MAT (see ’76).

Esther Isabelle Wilder ’97 PhD married Saam Trivedi in early 2006. They welcomed their daughter, Tara Naomi Trivedi, on Sept. 14. Also in September, Esther’s book Wheeling and Dealing: Living with Spinal Cord Injury was published by Vanderbilt University Press. This is her second book in the area of disability. Her earlier book, Voices from the Heartland: The Needs and Rights of Individuals with Disabilities, was written with William H. Walters ’02 PhD and published in 2005 by Brookline Books.

Avijit Sen ’98 AM (see Indy Sen ’00).

Chao-Yang Lee ’00 PhD (see Irene Ho ’00).

Matthew Kromer ’01 ScM (see Elizabeth Schoenfeld ’01).

Jie Zhang ’01 ScM and Dongyuan Piao ’00 PhD married on Aug. 27. Jie and Dongyuan met and fell in love when both attended Brown graduate school. In attendance at the intimate wedding ceremony were the bride’s and groom’s family and friends. They can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Tien-Lih Chen (see Irene Ho ’00).

Douglas Klahr ’02 PhD (see ’77).

Grismaldy Laboy ’02 MAT (see Ivonne Ferrer ’01).

Bob Altshuler ’03 ScM (see Igor Helman ’01).

Chris Weeks ’03 ScM (see Melissa Zerofsky ’03).

Sheldon Provost ’04 ScM (see Melissa Zerofsky ’03).

From the September / October 2006 Issue

Walter Chucnin ’41 AM(see Beatrice Minkins ’36).

Margaret Porter Dolan ’43 AM (see Martha Ahlijian Kevorkian ’39).

Anne Maven Young ’48 ScM (see ’44).

Howard Young ’48 PhD (see Anne Maven Young ’44).

Lotte Van Geldern Povar ’62 MAT (see Nancy Cantor Eddy ’48).

Susan Rosenfeld ’65 AM (see ’64).

Robert J. Bucci ’67 ScM, technical consultant for product design and analysis at Alcoa, has been named a 2006 recipient of the ASTM award of merit and accompanying title of fellow—the highest ASTM recognition for individual contributions to standards activities.

Robert Marino ’69 PhD was appointed president of the American Univ. of Rome.

David Tarr ’70 PhD(see Rainy LaVenture ’00).

Hon Fong L. Mark ’74 PhD (see Seamus Mark ’02).

Bud Wiley ’77 MD (see ’74).

Jon Cristy ’76 AM (see Terri Kiser Cristy ’75).

Roger Mark ’76 PhD (see Seamus Mark ’02).

Panos J. Antsaklis ’77 PhD, the H.C. and E.A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Univ. of Notre Dame, received the 2006 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal at the engineering awards dinner on May 27 during Commencement weekend. Established in 1997 as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of engineering at Brown, the award is presented to alumni who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments in their engineering careers. Panos previously served as a faculty member at Brown as well as at Rice Univ. and London’s Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty. The medal was designed by Walter Feldman, professor of art at Brown. Panos can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Michael Toman ’78 AM has been appointed director of the RAND Corpor­ation’s environment, energy, and economic development program.

Paul F. Barbara ’80 PhD was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April 2006. He holds the R.J.V. Johnson Welch Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Univ. of Texas at Austin and is the director of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology. Paul enjoys living in Austin with his wife, daughter (soon to go off to Wellesley College), and their two Jack Russell terriers.

Andrea Libresco ’82 MAT writes: “After a six-year journey, I finally got my doctorate in social studies education this spring from Teachers College at Columbia Univ.—just in time to go up for tenure this fall at Hofstra Univ. As was the case with course work at Brown, apparently there’s still nothing like a deadline to make me write the paper.”

Joanna Scott ’85 AM received the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction for her recent novel, Liberation. The English-Speaking Union of the United States presents the award annually to authors whose works make an outstanding contribution to interpreting the life and culture of the United States to other English-speaking people. Joanna is the Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English at the Univ. of Rochester.

Rich Vorder Bruegge ’91 PhD (see Beth Parks ’85).

H. Sanjeeva Balasuriya ’93 ScM, ’96 ScM has been hired as an assistant professor of mathematics at Connecticut College. Sanjeeva’s research interests include applied analysis, fluid dynamics, applications, modeling and nonlinear dynamics.

George Strander ’93 PhD, of Albion, Mich., has been elected president of the Michigan Probate and Juvenile Registers Association (MPJRA). George is court administrator and probate register for the Ingham County probate court in Lansing. He also serves on the Albion city council,

From the May / June 2006 Issue

Eleanor McMahon '54 A.M., Pawtucket, R.I., received an Honorary Doctor of Business and Economics degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering on Nov. 21. She was honored for her devotion to her field and her contributions to the nation's educational institutions, systems, and policies. She is a distinguished visiting professor at the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown.

John Ainsworth '59 Ph.D. retired from the U.S. Department of Defense as a member of the senior executive service. He served for nine years as the scientific director of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. He writes: "My wife, Carolyn (Hastings College '60), and I plan to stay in the Washington area and be tourists for about a year and then move back to the San Francisco area where our three grown children and six grandchildren reside." John can be reached at 11354 Empire Ln., North Bethesda, Md. 20852; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Ting-wei Tang '64 Ph.D. has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Electronical and Electronic Engineers. A professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Ting-wei was recognized for his contributions to numerical and computer modeling of high-speed and high-power semiconductor devices. These highly sophisticated models have helped improve the performance of a new generation of transistors and diodes, and have significantly reduced design and manufacturing costs for the semiconductor industry.

Michael M. Carroll '65 Ph.D. (see Carolyn Gahagan Carroll '64).

Susan L. Phillips '78 A.M. was elected as an international vice president of the 1.4 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers Union at the union's convention in July. She is responsible for planning and implementing programs involving women and retirees. Susan can be reached at 711 Chesapeake Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 20910; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Gail Donovan '88 A.M., Portland, Maine, writes that her short story "Trying to Go Nowhere" was published in the Chicago Tribune as a winner of the 1998 Nelson Algren Literary Award.

Nina Zannieri '80 A.M., Pawtucket, R.I., was elected president of the New England Museum Association (NEMA) at the organization's recent conference in Burlington, Vt. Previously she served in several capacities on the NEMA board, most recently as vice president. Nina is director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston.

Adam Szpiro '94 Sc.M. (see Alex Klibaner '95).

From the November / December 2004 Issue

Two books written by Norm Morris ’62 AM, Ghetto Memories and Ghetto Memories Revisited, which relate stories about the old DRM suburbs of Boston, are being made into videos and DVDs. The producers are looking for any additional film footage or pictures that may be available. More information about the books and production can be obtained at www.ghettomemories.org.

Paul K. Nakane ’63 PhD, a professor at the Environmental Biotechnology Institute at California Polytechnic State Univ., was the first recipient of an award named in his honor by the International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. The international group named the award in Paul’s honor in recognition of his scientific accomplishments and leadership in scientific societies in the United States and Japan.

Peter P. Gillis ’64 PhD (see ’52).

Sally E. Goldin ’75 AM (see ’75).

Robert A. Moffitt ’75 PhD has been named to the Krieger-Eisenhower Professorship in Economics at Johns Hopkins Univ. He is best known for his research on the economic consequences of welfare and other antipoverty programs on work, marriage, and childbearing. He has published important work on the economics of labor, population, and demography and has formulated and tested economic models of marriage, cohabitation, female headship, and fertility. This spring he was appointed editor in chief of American Economic Review and chaired a National Academy of Sciences panel of experts on welfare reform to review current research on the topic. Robert is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a national associate of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bob MacDonald ’93 PhD (see ’89).

Patrick Reynolds ’94 AM has been given a one-year appointment as assistant professor of theater at Eastern Mennonite Univ.

Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting ’94 PhD has been named director of the African American studies program at Vanderbilt Univ. She held a chair of Africana studies for three years at Hamilton College.

Alan Arehart ’97 PhD and Robin McCarthy Arehart ’93 MAT had a daughter, Renée Alexi Arehart, on April 9, in Pasadena, Calif. Alan is an engineer at Northrop Grumman. Robin, who had been serving as English department chair at Crescenta Valley High School, is taking some time off to care for Renée.

John Iceland ’97 PhD (see ’92).

Duncan B. Black ’99 PhD was revealed as “Atrios,” one of the more notable bloggers who covered this year’s Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Keith Schmidt ’00 ScM (see ’00).

Sarah Chase ’04 PhD (see Paul B. Alexander ’52).

Jessica Cooper ’04 AM (see ’03).

Duncan Vinson ’04 PhD (see Joanne Wilkinson ’90).

From the September / October 2004 Issue

Homer Smith ’33 PhD (see ’29).

Peg Porter Dolan ’43 AM (see Hank Vandersip ’56).

Norman G. Einspruch ’59 PhD, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Univ. of Miami, has received the 2003 Alexander Orr Award for Excellence in Teaching. A faculty member of the college since 1977, Einspruch is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also coauthored a paper with Bonita Preston entitled “An Investigation Tool Resource,” which received the Outstanding Student Paper award at the International Conference on Productivity and Quality Research held in Miami.

Christine Holmberg Freiberger ’59 MAT (see Hank Vandersip ’56).

Norm Morris ’63 AM reports that his books Ghetto Memories and Ghetto Memories Revisited are being used to create a historical video and DVD about the Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan areas of Boston; Arizona State is also using the books as part of a course in sociology. More information is available at www.ghettomemories.com, or by contacting Norm at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

John Worsley ’63 MAT (see Hank Vandersip ’56).

Steven C. Batterman ’64 PhD has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is managing partner of Batterman Engineering and a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the American Society for Safety Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, and the American Society for Engineering Education.

Joyce Reed ’65 AM (see ’61).

Dave Halvorsen ’66 MAT (see ’55).

Frances McRae Cairncross ’67 AM, who lives in London and chairs the Economic and Social Research Council, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is a senior editor of The Economist. Her latest book, The Company of the Future, examines the challenges and opportunities technology poses for corporate structure. In October she will take up the post of rector of Exeter College, Oxford.

Barrett Barnard ’70 MAT (see Hank Vandersip ’56).

Linda G. Thompson ’71 MAT, professor of mathematics at Carroll College, was honored at their commencement ceremony with the Benjamin F. Richason Jr. Faculty Award, which honors faculty who demonstrate excellence in teaching, research, and educational innovation.

John Mills ’73 PhD is president of Paul Smith’s College in Paul Smiths, New York. Previously he served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at the school, and taught at Dartmouth, Harvard, Temple, and Clarkson universities, as well as at the Univ. of Copenhagen.

Hon Fong Louie Mark ’74 PhD (see ’69).

Steve Hochstadt ’83 PhD (see ’70).

Robert Berchman ’84 PhD was appointed professor of philosophy and religious studies at Dowling College.

Jeffrey Lesser ’84 AM (see ’82).

Kathleen Mellor ’89 AM, an ESL teacher at Davisville Middle School in North Kingstown, R.I., was named 2004’s National Teacher of the Year in April. The first Rhode Island teacher to win the honor, she was recognized at a White House ceremony and was named godmother of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Jewel of the Seas. She has taught at Davisville for nineteen years.

Alana Thorpe-Bender ’91 PhD (see Hank Vandersip ’56).

Tony Affigne ’92 PhD (see ’76).

Owen Doonan ’93 PhD has just finished an eventful first year as assistant professor of art history at California State Univ. at Northridge. His wife, Nursel, gave birth to their first child, Dylan Ogan, in March. Two days earlier Owen’s first book was published. Sinop Landscapes: Exploring Connection in the Hinterland of a Black Sea Port (Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum Press) is based on his continuing research project along the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Owen can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Lisa Pruitt ’93 PhD, a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, was one of nine people chosen for the Presidential Award of Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. Lisa was honored at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., in May.

Vivek Arora ’95 PhD was appointed IMF resident representative in South Africa in January.

Daniel Cavicchi ’96 PhD received the 2004 John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. The award is given annually to a member of the faculty who demonstrates exceptional ability fostering student learning. He has taught a variety of courses in history, politics, music, and film over the past three years as assistant professor of American studies. Daniel can be reached at danlynnc
@verizon.net.

Tony Lee ’96 PhD (see Yeuen Kim ’92).

Adrienne Miller Drinkwater ’97 PhD and Matthew Drinkwater ’98 PhD announce the April 26 birth of Laura Danielle. They can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , 6 Partridge Meadow, West Suffield, Conn. 06093.

Sarah Ruhl ’01 MFA (see ’97).

Tien-Lih Chen ’02 MAT (see Franco Capaldi ’99).

Josue Ramirez ’02 PhD (see ’87).

Adam Fontecchio ’03 PhD (see ’96).

Tia Malkin-Fontecchio ’03 PhD (see Adam Fontecchio ’96).

Mijail Serruya ’03 PhD (see Jeffrey Wetz­ler ’96).

From the July / August 2004 Issue

Ruth Manter Lind ’42 AM (see ’39).

Arnie Soloway ’48 AM (see Bernie Bell ’42).

Norm Sprinthall ’59 AM (see Marshall H. Cohen ’54).

John Jeffers ’63 MAT (see Barbara Clark Jeffers ’59).

Jacqueline Jones ’63 MAT (see ’59).

Michael M. Carroll ’65 PhD (see Carolyn Gahagan Carroll ’64).

Grace Azevedo Murphy ’67 AM (see ’59).

John M. Cross ’68 AM (see ’66).

Kenneth Starr ’69 AM, former Whitewater special prosecutor, will take over as dean of Pepperdine Univ.’s School of Law on Aug. 1.

John Sapinsley ’70 AM (see Bernie Bell ’42).

Joe Augustyn ’71 AM, of Fairfax, Va., has joined the consulting firm of Booz/Allen/ Hamilton after a twenty-eight-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Rick Schwertfeger ’72 MAT (see ’70).

Luis G. Sarmiento ’74 AM (see ’73).

Vikram K. Kinra ’75 PhD has been elected a 2004 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics. He is the General Dynamics Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M Univ.

Sarah C. O’Dowd ’76 PhD has published A Rhode Island Original, the first biography of Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall: reformer, poet, editor, botanist, spiritualist, and early campaigner for women’s rights. Sarah, a retired professor of psychology, is a board member of the Pembroke Club of Providence. She lives in Barrington, R.I., and Venice, Fla.

Neil Selvin ’76 ScM has been appointed chief marketing officer for Approva Corp. He previously served as president and CEO of several technology companies, including Pivia, OneWorld Systems, and Global Village Communication, and was the director of marketing for portable computing at Apple Computer.

Ezra Greenspan ’81 PhD has been named Kahn Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at Southern Methodist Univ. He has taught in the English departments at Tel Aviv Univ. and the Univ. of South Carolina. His son Noam is a member of the class of 2005.

Efstathios E. Michaelides ’81 PhD, a professor at Tulane, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Medical Engineers.

Jeffrey Lesser ’84 AM (see ’82).

Pedro Noguera ’84 A.M. (see ’81).

Jeffrey A. Brown ’87 PhD was appointed senior deputy comptroller for International and Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He previously headed the risk analysis division at the OCC.

Jeffery J. Leader ’90 PhD has published Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation. He is an associate professor of mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Valerie Tutson ’90 AM (see ’87).

Eileen M. Angelini ’93 PhD reports that France Divided, the film she cowrote, codirected, and coproduced, had its New York premiere at the New York City Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center Jan. 28 and 29.

Prema Kurien ’93 PhD, of Syracuse, N.Y., has joined the Maxwell School of Syracuse Univ. as an associate professor of sociology. Prema was an assistant professor of sociology at USC. She’s also a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion.

Ed Bielawa ’96 ScM (see ’95).

Valérie Key Orlando ’96 PhD, associate professor of French at Illinois Wesleyan, has been selected to participate in a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar in Morocco.

Seth Boatright Horowitz ’97 PhD writes: “My sound design firm/independent record label NeuroPop is releasing its second music CD, Overload: The Sonic Intoxicant. The CD combines ambient electronic music with neurosensory algorithms to generate ‘emotional soundtracks’ and is available through CDBaby and Tower Records. For more information, go to www.neuropop.com, or contact me at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ”

Bessie Dernikos ’98 AM (see Michael F. Keyes ’95).

Jane Wang Bielawa ’99 ScM (see ’95).

Jeff Moore ’99 ScM (see Michael F. Keyes ’95).

Lori Penna Bonynge ’00 ScM (see Sarah Livson Levy ’98).

Dmitriy Gershenson ’00 PhD and Victoria Gershenson announce the Feb. 14 birth of Anna Alexandra. Anna joins big sister Ilana, 3. Reach them at dgershenson @imf.org.

Dan Trelogan ’03 ScM (see Cathy Dechert Bernath ’97).

From the May / June 2004 Issue

Ernest H. Hofer ’47 AM (see ’46).

Edward Clarke ’51 PhD (see ’46).

Astrid Bottis Kromayer ’51 AM writes: “Last October my husband, Peter, and I traveled to Brown for a mini-reunion for a presentation by Robert Glickman ’51 AM, a fellow former graduate student, to a group of faculty and students in the Hispanic and Portuguese studies department. Also present was Jose Amor y Vasquez ’57 PhD, who is still teaching at Brown. Bob and I were grad students with him more than fifty years ago.” Astrid can be reached at 235 W. Langhorne Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. 18017.

Lee Jacobus ’59 AM (see ’57).

Parker G. Marden ’66 PhD, president of Manchester College in northern Indiana, received an honorary degree from Martin University in Indianapolis.

Bob Rothenberg ’67 MAT (see Dana Cook Grossman ’73).

Larry Smith ’68 ScM (see Nancy Schuleen Helle ’55).

Bob Blackburn ’68 AM (see Mort Gilstein ’55).

Monica Schaefer Devens ’70 AM (see ’70).

Barrett Barnard ’70 MAT (see Justin Monti ’99).

Chris Kende ’70 AM (see ’70).

Ronn Edmundson ’72 AM writes: “My son, Jordan Alexander, turned two on Dec. 12. Having observed his positive impact on ladies young and old at heart, I have decided to write him a book on how to conduct himself with the fairer sex over his lifetime.” Ron can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Gerald Fetner ’73 PhD joined the Educational Broadcasting Corp. in New York City as director of foundation and government grants. He has published Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History (State Univ. of New York). Gerald can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

John A. Gable ’72 PhD edited The Man in the Arena: Selected Speeches, Letters & Essays by Theodore Roosevelt. The book has been included in the Legacy Project’s books for the armed forces. The paperbacks are oblong and sized to fit into pockets so they can be carried in the field. Similar books were distributed in World War II. John is executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Najwa Adra ’75 AM writes: “I have been involved with a literacy project in Yemen that teaches women to read and write using their own oral poetry as text. I’m very pleased to report that National Geographic’s Web site has featured the project.” Najwa can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Micheline Nilsen ’75 AM received a PhD in art history from the Univ. of Delaware in January.

Luiz Valente ’83 PhD (see Nancy Schuleen Helle ’55).

Michael E. Morris ’84 ScM writes: “I’ve been in this corner of Southeast Asia for almost six years now. Although the past year has been really tough on both a professional and personal level, I’m optimistic that 2004 will see a turnaround.” Michael can be reached at 987 Bukit Timah Rd., #07-13 Felicium Ct., Singapore 589628; mmorris@ starhub.net.sg.

Jessan Dunn Otis ’85 AM married Albert R. Otis on Dec. 30, at the White Street Pier in Key West, Fla. She writes: “We sold darn near everything we owned, bought a motor home, and began journeying down the East Coast to Key West. We plan to drive through the South, then head for Alaska—and beyond. Al and I, along with our ten-year-old Sheltie, Sassy, would enjoy suggestions and recommendations about where to go and what to see, taste, touch, feel, smell, and hear as we continue our journey.” Jessan can be reached at 400 Putnam Pike, Suite D, #117, Smithfield, R.I 02917; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Kathleen Myers ’86 PhD has published Neither Saints Nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Spanish American Women (Oxford). She was promoted to full professor at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Constantine Megaridis ’87 PhD, a professor at the University of Illinois–Chicago, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a member of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Combustion Institute.

Carl Brownell ’89 MAT and his wife, Jeanine, announced the Nov. 6 birth of their first daughter, Amelia O’Nan Brownell.

Patricia Powell ’91 MFA recently had two novels released under Beacon Press’s Bluestreak imprint: A Small Gathering of Bones (with a new introduction by Thomas Glave ’98 MFA) and Me Dying Trial (with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat ’93 MFA). Patricia’s latest novel, The Good Life, is forthcoming.

Horacio D. Espinosa ’92 PhD, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

James Thomas Stevens ’93 MFA has been awarded a Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society to research the Stockbridge Indian Community of Western Massachusetts for material for a long historical poem. Stevens is the author of Tokinish and Combing the Snakes from His Hair. He is professor of English and Native American studies at SUNY–Fredonia.

Bob Arellano ’94 MFA (see ’91).

Sara Lindheim ’95 PhD has published Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid’s Heroides (Wisconsin).

Kipp Bradford-Zeiler ’96 ScM (see Joanie Morris DiMicco ’95).

Ben Boer ’98 ScM (see Torri Still ’97).

Sarah Leavitt ’99 PhD has authored a new Web exhibit, “A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit,” at the National Institutes of Health history office.

Ai Ping Wendy Tan ’99 AM (see Leyla Goldsmith Leatherwood ’98).

Chrissy Woodward Dougherty ’00 ScM (see Jen Kay ’99 and Chrissy Wilt ’99).

Jonathan Segal ’02 AM (see Jonathan Grossberg ’02).

Mitzi Sales ’03 MAT (see ’00).

From the March / April 2004 Issue

William M. Peterson ’48 AM (see ’48).

James W. Hanner ’62 M.A.T (see ’58).

Jonathan Vaughan ’70 PhD, professor of psychology at Hamilton College, has been elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association for 2004.

Marcel Ausloos ’70 ScM writes: “I received a doctorate honoris causa from the Univ. of Houte-si-Plou on Feb. 8, 2003, for my work on econophysics.”

Ron Markoff ’71 AM (see ’71).

Morry Edwards ’73 MAT writes: “The newly expanded and revised second edition of my book Mind Body Cancer Wellness (Acorn) has been published. I will be presenting three poster abstracts at the first annual American Psychosocial Oncology Society Conference.” Morry can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Robert G. Mair ’79 PhD (see ’72).

Janet Bickel ’76 AM has started her own business as a career development coach specializing in medical school faculty. She is the author of two books: Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education (Univ. of Iowa Press) and Women in Medicine: Getting In, Growing and Advancing (Sage). For more information, visit janetbickel.com.

Marly Youmans ’76 AM has published her debut poetry collection, Claire (Louisiana State). Marly is the author of three novels: The Wolf Pit, winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War fiction; Catherwood; and Little Jordan.

Lisa Rubin Neal ’81 ScM served as project manager for Plimoth Plantation’s online learning center. The center won the prestigious Massachusetts Interactive Media Council 2003 Education Award.

Warren Trepeta ’81 PhD (see ’73).

Kathryn Dunbar Gargiulo ’83 MAT writes that she completed a sabbatical from her position as English teacher at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Ill. During her break, Kathryn completed her plus-thirty certification with a concentration in the teaching of reading. She also became a literacy volunteer for western Cook County, Ill. She can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Irvin Lustig ’83 ScM (see ’83).

Susan Keen ’86 AM (see ’84).

Jose Estabil ’88 ScM (see Pay Boylan Ong ’84).

Ernest E. Rothman ’88 PhD, an associate professor and chair of the mathematical sciences at Salve Regina Univ., has coauthored Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks (O’Reilly & Associates). Ernie also won first prize at the 2003 Newf Tide Annual Photo Contest. The winning photograph of his Newfoundland, Max, appeared on the front cover of Newf Tide Magazine in 2003. Ernie lives in Newport, R.I., with his wife, Kim. Ernie’s Web site is homepage.mac.com/samchops/.

Jeff Fiedler ’94 AM (see Charles “Chip” Giller ’93).

David Danaher ’95 PhD (see Christopher Ott ’93).

Stacia Chmura Furtado ’01 ScM (see Jennifer DeLucia ’95).

Dan Filler ’02 MAT (see Stephen Filler ’69).

J.T. Park ’03 PhD (see ’88).

From the January / February 2004 Issue

Rowena Bellows ’33 A.M. (see Anita Bellows Rogowski ’31).

Dick Cook ’48 A.M. (see Bernie Bell ’42).

Atle Gjelsvik ’62 Ph.D. (see Carol Canner Gjelsvik ’59, Annie Gjelsvik ’91).

Nathalie Coulter Grabar ’63 A.M. writes: “I have wonderful memories of a small graduate school, where all members of all departments knew each other and enjoyed it. Thanks to the alumni directory, I found classmates and friends gathered all around the world.” She can be reached at 121 Rue de la Pompe, 7 E Cour, 75116 Paris, France.

John Howard ’65 M.A.T. (see ’59).

Kenneth Barkin ’65 Ph.D. writes: “After thirteen years of editing Central European History, I have stepped down as editor.” He can be reached at UC Riverside, History Department, Riverside, Calif. 92521.

David Nicholas ’67 Ph.D. was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim fellowship will help fund David’s research on regional identities in Germanic Europe between 1270 and 1500.

Ruth Meyer ’68 A.M. was named senior curator at the Carl Solway Gallery. She will be responsible for exhibition research, organization, and documentation, and sales. Ruth has taught art history at the Univ. of Cincinnati and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Thomas Ryder Park ’68 Ph.D. continues to own and operate the Adirondack Center in St. Johnsville, N.Y., an experimental learning center for disadvantaged youth. Thom and Susan reside in Tallahassee, Fla. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Walter Liedtke ’69 A.M. writes: “I have been the curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1980. Since organizing “Vermeer and the Delft School,” at the Met and at the National Gallery, London, in 2001, I have been writing the first catalog of all the Met’s Dutch paintings.”

Bakul Kamani ’71 Sc.M. writes that after twenty years he is still in the office supplies business. “My son, Amit, has joined me in the business. My daughter, Anjali, is in Philadelphia working as a supervisor with Blue Cross/Blue Shield.” Bakul can be reached at 1955 Katie Hill Way, Windermere, Fla. 34786; (407) 299-9649.

Judith Wolder Rosenthal ’71 Ph.D. (see ’67).

Isabelle de Courtivron ’73 Ph.D. has edited two books, Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Culture and Society in Contemporary France and Livres in Translation: Bilingual Writers on Identity and Creativity.

Grace Farrell ’73 Ph.D. was named a finalist in the biography and memoir category of the Connecticut Book Awards for her book, Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased (UMass Press). The awards, which are the Connecticut Center for the Book’s tribute to the state’s literary notables, were held in the atrium of Hartford’s City Hall.

Randolph Steinen ’73 Ph.D. (see ’62).

Ira L. Strauber ’73 Ph.D., professor of political science at Grinnell College, won the American Political Science Association’s C. Herman Pritchett Award for his book Neglected Policies: Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education.

Greg Exarhos ’74 Ph.D. has been named a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society. He is being recognized for his fundamental studies of charge transport phenomena in dielectric films and the use of spectroscopic methods to relate resident structure and chemistry to film properties.

Travis Hedrick ’74 Ph.D. writes that he is now professor emeritus of health management at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. He was a member of the health administration faculty for twenty-five years, and chairman for fifteen. Travis can be reached at 41 Home Ave., Middletown, Conn. 06457.

Rita Duarte Marinho ’79 Ph.D., also known as Rita Moniz, is dean of liberal arts at Towson University. Rita can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Michael Timberlake ’79 Ph.D. writes: “I moved to Utah in 2000. The mountains are great; the city is interesting. I’m currently chair and professor in the sociology department at the University of Utah.” He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Anna Bobiak Nagurney ’80 Ph.D. (see ’77).

Anne Castleton ’86 A.M. writes that she manages internal communication for F. Hoffman La Roche in Basel, Switzerland. Anne’s four children are all grown and independent, and she is enjoying exploring Europe, although she says she does not enjoy having to explain the behavior of the Bush administration. Anne can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Geoffrey Landis ’88 Ph.D. was awarded the Hugo Award for his story “Falling onto Mars,” which was named the best short story of 2002 at the recent World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto. This is Landis’s second Hugo award. He also won in 1992.

Jay W. Bonner IV ’84 A.M. reviews books regularly for Oyster Bay Review and Asheville Poetry Review. A review of C.D. Wright’s Steal Away is forthcoming in the next issue of Asheville Poetry Review. He continues to teach writing and literature at Asheville School. Jay can be reached at 360 Asheville School Rd., Asheville, N.C. 28806; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Jeffrey Lesser ’84 A.M. (see ’82).

Selena Maranjian ’86 M.A.T. (see ’84).

Makhosazana Matshitse ’90 M.A.T. (see ’89).

John Mustard ’90 Ph.D. (see Cameron Mustard ’75).

Peter Gizzi ’91 M.F.A. has published a new book of poems, Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan).

Steven Hales ’92 Ph.D. (see Susan Hay Hales ’85).

Timothy D. Malefyt ’97 Ph.D. is the new director of cultural discoveries at BBDO Advertising in New York City and has published Advertising Cultures (Berg). A former dancer with Joffrey Ballet, Timothy taught ballet at Brown, received a Fulbright scholarship to study flamenco in Spain, and earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. In his current position, he is often quoted in the New York Times, Business Week, and Rolling Stone.

Linda Reinen ’93 Ph.D., an associate professor of geology at Pomona College, won the Geological Society of America’s 2003 Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Education.

John Robinson ’95 M.F.A. has published The Sapphire Sea (William Morrow). He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; 21 Belmont St., Portland, Maine 04101.

Frank McLellan ’96 Ph.D. (see Scott Paley ’95).

Hanya Sheshtawy Sustache ’97, ’01 M.A.T. (see Gilberto Sustache ’96).

Monica J. Maurer ’98 Sc.M. announces the Oct. 27 birth of her son Lucas Kian George, at Princesse Grasse Hospital in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Monica can be reached at monica. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

David Fryer ’99 Ph.D. (see Terry Lubin ’98).

Jenifer Allsworth ’01 Ph.D. (see Annie Gjelsvik ’91).

Dina Silvaggio ’02 A.M. writes that she is teaching fifth grade E.S.L. at Asa Messer Elementary School in Providence.

Sarah Berman ’03 A.M. and Mike Panich ’03 Sc.M. (see Meagan McKenney Gillette ’02).

Sherry Weitzen ’03 Ph.D. (see Annie Gjelsvik ’91).

From the November / December 2003 Issue

Yung Hsuan Chou ’54 A.M. and Don Breslow ’57 Sc.M. (see Marshall Cohen ’54).

Jim Carroll ’57 Sc.M. (see Maxwell Howell ’51).

Elaine Richard Pastore ’58 A.M. (see Marshall Cohen ’54).

David Nicholas ’67 Ph.D., professor of history at Clemson, has been named a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He will use the fellowship to complete research on a book, The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c. 1270–1500.

Martha Cornog ’68 A.M. (see ’66).

Lynn A. DeNoia ’80 Ph.D. (see ’68).

Patricia Howell Geyer ’80 A.M. (see Maxwell Howell ’51).

Lourdes Morales-Gudmundsson ’81 Ph.D. writes: “I finished a five-year stint with my husband, Reynir Gudmundsson, at the Universidad Adventista de las Antillas, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and subsequently joined the Spanish faculty at the Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford, where I worked for eleven years, receiving tenure. In 1996, I accepted a position as full professor at La Sierra Univ., Riverside, Calif., to be close to my elderly parents. I chair the Department of Modern Languages and keep busy teaching, writing, and setting up tutoring centers for at-risk Latino children in the area.” Lourdes can be reached at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Joel Scheraga ’81 Ph.D. (see ’76).

Andrew Douglas ’82 Ph.D., the associate dean for academic affairs in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins, has been appointed to serve as interim dean of engineering.

Ian Taplin ’86 Ph.D. married Cindy Kelly in June 2003. They outdoor wedding ceremony took place in Hawaii. Ian and Cindy live in North Carolina, where Ian is a professor of sociology at Wake Forest Univ.

Jack Praschnik ’89 A.M. has joined Radian Asset Assurance Inc. as senior vice president of global strategies.

Eileen Angelini ’93 Ph.D. writes: “In October 2002 I finished my thirty-seven-minute documentary, La France Divisée/France Divided. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project took three years. My codirector, Barbara P. Barnett, and I are now fund-raising again so we can give the film free of charge to as many interested secondary and post-secondary teachers as possible, as well as create a Web site. The film is now also being entered in several national and international film festivals.”

Allison Smith-Estelle ’94 A.M. (see Craig Burns ’93 and Arielle D. Stanford ’93).

Phil Blair ’95 M.A.T. (see Craig Burns ’93).

David Primo ’98 A.M. (see Bonnie Meguid ’95).

Alva Rogers ’98 M.F.A. writes that she is the Theater Communications Group/NEA Playwright-in-Residence at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, where she is working on a commissioned play. She received a Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Grant that was used to produce her play, the doll plays, at Atlanta’s Actors Express Theater. The play was directed by Peter Dubois ’97, artistic director of Perseverance Theater in Alaska. Alva’s collection of three short plays, belly, three shorts, was produced by New Georges at the Off-Off Broadway theater Here, in SoHo. It opened in September and ran through the first week of October.

Tad Heuer ’99, ’99 A.M. (see Lisa Cole ’99).

Sandi Pike ’00 Sc.M. (see ’99).

Dale Bertrand ’02 Sc.M. (see Mariah Sieber ’99).

From the May / June 2003 Issue

Ruth Manter Lind ’42 A.M. (see ’39).

Anne Maven Young ’48 Sc.M. (see ’44).

Donald D. Hook ’61 Ph.D. writes: “I have continued to write in the fields of linguistics, theolinguistics, history, and religion since my retirement from Trinity College in 1994. Some books include Switching Churches: A Layman’s Guide to a New Commitment and Psychograms of Sickness and Death: A Partial Autobiography. Another, Back Then—Those Were the Days: Recollections of a Boy Growing Up During the Great Depression, is due out soon.” Donald can be reached at 5 Blue Heron Dr., Georgetown, Del. 19947; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson ’62 A.M. writes: “Thai Brown’s alumni classes, spanning forty-four years of Thai students and families studying at Brown, gathered at the Bangkok home of Pornchai Suchitta ’83 Ph.D. this January. Present were Supawan Lamsam Panyarachun ’77, Sudhana Napombejra ’81, Supaprat Panyarachun ’05, and me. Also joining the group was Douglas D. Anderson ’62 A.M.”

Victoria Santopietro Lederberg ’66 Ph.D. (see Sarah Lederberg Stone ’88).

Bob Rothenberg ’67 M.A.T. (see Susan Hsia ’97).

Charlotte Downey ’71 A.M., ’78 Ph.D., is editor of the series American Linguistics 1700-1900 and is now preparing the 44th volume. She can be reached at 15 Sumner Brown Rd., Cumberland, R.I. 02864.

Ted Clarke ’75 M.A.T. (see ’74).

Everett C. Goodwin ’79 Ph.D. has published Down by the Riverside: A Brief History of Baptist Faith (Judson Press, 2002). The volume joins two others by Goodwin, The New Hiscox Guide for Baptist Churches (Judson Press, 1995) and Baptists in the Balance: The Tension Between Freedom and Responsibility (Judson Press, 1997). Goodwin is senior minister of the Scarsdale Community Baptist Church in Scarsdale, N.Y., and formerly senior minister of the historic First Baptist Church of Washington, D.C.

Steven Ruby ’76 M.A.T. writes: “After three years of teaching and twenty-two in sales management for such media outlets as Comcast Cable and Cumulus Media, I opened my own ad agency last May. My wife, Linda, and I have been married almost twenty-four years. We have two sons, Ben, 22, and Jake, 20.”

Sally K. Ward ’77 Ph. D. writes: “I am the very happy recipient of the 2003 Lindberg Award for Outstanding Teacher-Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire.”

Tony Keats ’78 A.M. (see ’77).

Bob Mander ’95 Sc.M. (see Mary Ann Campo ’92).

Lisa Kusel ’88 A.M. and her husband, Victor Prussack, announce the Feb. 23, 2002, birth of their daughter, Loy. Lisa and Victor moved to the Sierra foothills in northern California a few years ago and restored an 1871 miner’s cabin. Lisa’s collection of interconnected stories, Other Fish in the Sea (Hyperion), will be published in the fall. Lisa can be reached at