SPRING 2007 magazineFOR QUEENS COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS

Pursuing the Cold Facts of Global Warming Pops is Tops

Jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis greets a cou- ple of young jazz fans at one of this year’s series of free Pops is Tops con- certs for local school children, held in the garden at the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Over 1500 students from Elmhurst and East Corona attended the event held over three days in May. Vol. XII, No. 2, Spring 2007 www.qc.cuny.edumagazineFOR QUEENS COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS Faddis led a group of musicians (below), which included renowned saxophonist and QC professor Antonio Hart ’93 (far right), in a series of performances fol- 4 Mailbag I attended Queens from vious day. I consider Coach lowed by Q & A sessions in which stu- In the News 1947–49. My daughter attended Salmons to have been a friend for- dents asked the musicians about their Queens for two years before ever, and a major influence on my 8 QC Friends Then and Now graduating with a BS from development during my tenure at instruments and music. The Write Stuff BY MARGO NASH In 1947 my best friend Frances SUNY Old Westbury. My son the college. Segall and I entered Queens Edward graduated from Queens My years at Queens produced 10 College as freshmen at the age of in 1994 with a BA in English lit- three memorable mentors: Elements of Style 16. Not only were our days as stu- erature. He and I own an engrav- Professor John Williamson, who BY LESLIE JAY dents an educational experience, ing and design business that has introduced me to the beauty of 12 but our lifelong friendship, which done some work for various beginning mathematics in a year Building Bridges Between began in high school, was cement- buildings on campus. Prior to of night school; Professor Banesh Muslims and Jews ed at the college. that, I had a career as a church Hoffman, who led me to the world BY BOB SUTER of advanced mathematics as an 14 adjunct to my study of physics; Bookshelf and Coach Salmons, who led me BY LESLIE JAY & BOB SUTER to the world of basketball, but 16 more important to the world of Team Player teamwork and training to use BY LESLIE JAY one’s skills within the limitations 18 imposed by nature. I always Global Warming “knew” that I was a poor student Comes to a Boil and a lousy basketball player BY BOB SUTER based on disastrous high school 22 experiences, but the three afore- Cupid on Campus mentioned directed me so that I BY LESLIE JAY could perform reasonably well On campus: Frances Segall (l.) and Beverly Lundy (r.) in 1947 and 2005 within my physical, mental, and 24 emotional limits, and I graduated Lost in World War II, Remembered on Campus Frances received her BA and organist and a choir director. in 1951 with a sense of self- BY BOB SUTER MA at Queens and her PhD at In July 2005 Frances and I respect and accomplishment not Georgia State University in went back to Queens to have our present upon matriculation. 26 Atlanta. Her 47-year career includ- picture taken on the steps of the I must have driven Bob Alumni Notes ed teaching in Brooklyn, NY, building where we were pho- Salmons berserk with my clumsi- North Carolina, Tennessee and last- tographed 58 years before. It ness, my limited ability, and my Maria Terrone ly 23 years in Georgia, and was the was wonderful to go back and inability to make a foul shot, but ASSISTANT VP FOR COMMUNICATIONS recipient of many honors. In 1989 see how much of the campus has under his tutelage I grew, and by John Cassidy she was one of five finalists for changed, and how much has my senior year was able to hold EDITOR Georgia Teacher of the Year; in remained the same. my own. Thank you, Bob, for all Dyanne Maue 1994 she was state STAR teacher; you did for me. I am grateful for CREATIVE DIRECTOR Beverly Lundy Dietrich and in 2005 she received the Jamaica, NY our relationship and will always Bob Suter Margaret Bynum Award for com- be in your debt. WRITER mitment, leadership, and demon- Bohdan (Dan) Kostyshyn ’51 Georgine Ingber strated excellence in educating Coach Bob Salmons DESIGNER Charlotte, NC Georgia’s gifted children. She and I was saddened to receive notifica- PHOTOS: Nancy Bareis 2, 4 (clocktower), 5 tion from Sue Salmons on January (Zubizarreta), 6, 7 (Misiano), 10-11, 12 (Muyskens- her husband Raymond Dubner are Send your letters to Q Magazine, Hamdani), 13, 16, 20 (Kimerling, Hendrey), 22, 23 world travelers. Frances recently 1 that Robert Salmons, former Queens College, Kiely Hall 1307, (Cannons), 25, 31; Dyanne Maue 10 (paisley swatch, coach of the early Queens College dress, shoe); Stephen Pekar 18-19, 21. COVER: retired after teaching teachers of Flushing, NY 11367 or email Stephen Pekar ‘86 in Antarctica (Photo by Pekar) basketball teams, had died the pre- [email protected]. BACK COVER: Paul Morse, The White House the gifted since 1997.

Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 3 Laura Hunter Colwin, In the News 1911–2006 Manifesto Destiny: Students Laura Hunter Colwin, Speak Out on the Radio professor emerita of Armstrong House Museum Improves, Measure By Measure The burden of financing a college education. Inadequate sup- biology, died December port for victims of domestic violence. Lack of health care for An empty lot across the street from the Town Car, the model Armstrong drove. 6, 2006 in Miami. She undocumented immigrants. These are among the issues Louis Armstrong House Museum will be “We are deeply grateful to Senators was 95 years old and Queens College students raised in five shows aired earlier this the site of an 8,500-square-foot visitors John Sabini and Serf Maltese, Assembly- survived by three years year on local radio station WBAI. The thought-provoking series center, thanks to a $5 million award from men José Peralta and Jeff Aubry, and all her husband, Arthur. grew out of an assignment for a social theory course taught in Laura graduated from the fall by Sujatha Fernandes (Sociology). New York State. the other elected officials who worked so Bryn Mawr College in “We began the class by reading texts like Marx’s “The visitors center will provide sub- hard to acquire this essential funding,” 1932. Her early interest was in protozoology Communist Manifesto,” says Fernandes. “But sometimes, read- stantial benefits not only to our visitors, says Cogswell. and she did part of her graduate research at ing classical social theory is hard for today’s students. So I Because the total cost for design and Zubizarreta but to our community,” says museum direc- the Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL) asked them to write their own manifestoes.” Encouraged to pick topics they cared about, the students made no effort to avoid tor Michael Cogswell, who plans to hold construction is estimated at $9 million, in Woods Hole, MA. During this time Laura exhibitions, concerts, lectures, and other Queens College must raise $4 million for controversy. Natalie Ochoa protested increases in college tuition, while Nabila Chowdury met Arthur Lentz Colwin, a postdoctoral fel- cited the obstacles faced by people who lack legal residential status. Natalie Eugene events in the new space. In addition, the the center, slated for completion in 2009. low from Yale. There was immediate chem- described the impact educational inequality has on minority communities. Nicole Hunchik center will have room for the gift shop, cur- Lord Cultural Resources, one of the world’s istry between the two, but they decided to wrote about her relatives’ battles with drug addiction. And Alexandra Zubizarreta pushed Louis and Lucille Armstrong at home rently based in the house’s garage. When top museum design firms, and Hardy put off a wedding until Arthur found a per- for changes in the legal system to provide better protection for abused spouses. construction is finished, the garage will be Holzman Pfeiffer Associates developed the manent job. This happened in 1940, when he These papers were so compelling that Fernandes shared them with her sister, host of restored—and occupied by a 1967 Lincoln master plan for the center. The CUNY Department of Design, Construction, and was offered a position at Queens College. WBAI’s early morning program, Wakeup Call. Convinced that the student manifestoes deserved a wider audience, Deepa Fernandes and colleagues Mitch Jeseritch and Management will supervise the project. This job offer did not extend to Laura— Abdulai Bah arranged for the youthful authors to be taped reading their work aloud at Other museum needs will be addressed regulations on hiring family members made a Heroine of Hit TV Show Plays a QC Grad joint appointment impossible—so Laura WBAI’s studios in Manhattan. The recordings were integrated into Wakeup Call shows with the help of $100,000 from the estate broadcast in late February and early March. Queens College is back in prime time. of Peter John Willcocks. A London-born worked at Vassar. In 1948 hiring regulations “My sister said listeners were excited; they called in and sent in emails,” the profes- Having been consigned to the purgatory of syndication since fan of big band music, Willcocks loved were relaxed to allow Laura to be hired, but sor reports. “The students thought the experience was great, too.” only as an Instructor. It wasn’t until 1967— first-run episodes of “Seinfeld” stopped airing in 1998, the col- Satchmo’s work in particular: his funeral in by which time Laura and Arthur had co- lege can now boast a new sitcom character with claims to 2005 featured the Armstrong song “What a being an alum—Betty Suarez, better known as “Ugly Betty.” The authored 46 scientific papers, received major Wonderful World.” Benny Andrews, 1930–2006 series, which airs on ABC-TV, chronicles the unlikely pursuit of funding from the NIH, and co-chaired an The bequest will go toward the pur- a career at a fashion magazine by Betty (played by actress international conference—that the regulations Whether standing before his canvasses or in the classroom, Queens College art chase of software that will allow the America Ferrera, who won an Emmy for her performance), a were repealed and Laura received a one-step professor Benny Andrews struggled for social justice. museum to catalog its growing collec- smart, determined Latina from Jackson Heights whose less-than- promotion from Instructor to full Professor. tion. The remainder of the funds will be Raised in rural Georgia, Andrews, like his nine siblings, picked cotton to bolster fashion-conscious exterior belies the beautiful soul within. The Colwins used the newly invented the paltry income his parents realized from sharecropping. The first member of his used for development. “We have a lot of electron microscope to study the process of The top-rated network series among those that debuted last family to graduate from high school, he served in the United States Air Force for fall, “Ugly Betty” is produced by Buena Vista Worldwide TV, major fundraising ahead of us, and we’ll fertilization in Hydroides, Saccoglossus, and three years; then he relied on the G.I. Bill to take classes at the Art whose president is Laurie Younger ’73. be bringing in an outside consultant,” other marine organisms. Their discoveries notes Cogswell. led to a fundamental change in the under- Institute of Chicago. standing of the fertilization process. They In 1958 he moved to New York. Working in a figurative idiom disproved the then-prevailing dogma that the at a time when abstract art was more popular, A Residence Hall for the College? sperm penetrates the egg during fertilization, Andrews won acclaim for his paintings, prints, and demonstrated instead that the mem- drawings, and collages. Never reticent, he If all goes as halls and other CUNY colleges are following the design and construction of a low-rise, on- branes of sperm and egg undergo a complex tackled topics that ranged from his mem- planned, in fall 2009 suit. Offering the residential experience has campus residence hall. No public funds will fusion process. ories of the segregated American South a small group of allowed these colleges to increase their pop- finance the project, which is estimated to Colleagues and students remember Laura to the war in Vietnam. Queens College stu- ulation of high-achieving students, and cost $63 million and expected to accommo- as an exceptionally kind and caring person dents will enjoy an Queens College hopes to do the same. date 450–550 students. It will also include who emphasized the joys of scholarship and Arriving at QC in 1968, Andrews experience unique In addition, with a residence hall, the underground parking for 200 cars—an discovery. She inspired dozens of her stu- remained a campus institution until in the school’s Aaron Copland School of Music can enroll increase of 10% in campus parking. The dents to become scientists. 1997; he also created a highly regarded seven-decade exis- talented musicians from around the world, building will be located between the gym The Colwins made generous gifts to the art program for the New York state tence: They will no and science programs can bring in doctoral and the library, on the site of the current college and MBL following their QC retire- prison system. He died on November longer have to cope and master’s students who could not other- outdoor tennis courts. (New tennis courts ment in 1973. At Queens they endowed the 10. “He was the quintessential art with a commute at wise afford to study in New York City. The will be built at another location.) At four to Colwin Prize, an annual award given to an worker activist,” says Lowery Stokes the beginning and hall will also house foreign exchange stu- five stories, its height will not exceed that exceptional graduating biology major. The Sims ’70, professor emerita of the end of their school dents and students from the borough of of the library, and so will not obstruct any college honored the couple in May 1993 by Studio Museum in Harlem, one of day. Queens College Queens who prefer to attend a college that views. naming the former E Building Laura and will finally have a residence hall. offers the residential experience. The residence hall, however, is not Arthur Colwin Hall. 30 major institutions—including the “We need to remain competitive both In early March, following meetings with intended to increase the student population. Laura is buried in the cemetery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the within and outside CUNY in attracting the community leaders and elected officials, the Says Muyskens, “Queens College will remain Church of the Messiah, in Woods Hole, Museum of Modern Art—to include best students,” says President James college published a Request for Proposals, a commuter campus, committed to our mis- next to her husband. Hmmmm, a 1978 Benny Andrews drawing Andrews’s work in their collections. Muyskens. Hunter and City College have soliciting interested developers regarding sion of educating New Yorkers.” Uldis Roze (Biology) in pen and ink

4 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 5 In the News Gifts for Byzantine, Jewish Studies Exciting changes are underway at both the in Holocaust studies. Ungar, the founder and Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek chairman of National Envelope Corporation, Rossabi is College’s Newest Distinguished Professor Studies and the Jewish Studies program was the only Jewish soldier in a Polish mili- and center. tary unit that fought the Nazis at the onset As one of the ground to study, he looked farther afield, returned to New York in 1986 to accept an The former boasts a new named chair of World War II. In 1942 he was taken to the world’s top immersing himself in Chinese and Japanese appointment at Queens; he also started for Byzantine studies, made possible by a Janowska Concentration Camp, from which exponents of and getting a bachelor’s degree in general working at Columbia as an adjunct. His donation of $400,000 from the Kallinikeion he later escaped. “It is crucial that the his- Mongolian cul- history at New York University. growing reputation as a scholar and his Foundation. “It is necessary to emphasize tory of the Holocaust not be forgotten,” ture, Morris Rossabi was in graduate school at steady release of articles and books, includ- the study of Byzantium at Queens says President James Muyskens. “The Rossabi has Columbia, looking for a dissertation topic con- ing Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times College,” says Christos Ioannides, director Ungars’ generosity will ensure that genera- forged a nected to Central Asia, when, like Archimedes, (1988)—hailed as one of the best biogra- of the Greek Studies Center, “because we tions of students learn about this terrible career that he had his eureka moment in the bathtub. “I phies of Khan to be published in the West— have the largest number of students of time in human history and the importance spans acade- realized that no one had done Khubilai Khan,” attracted the attention of the Soros Greek origin of any university in the United of tolerance.” mia and con- he recalls. His research into the Mongolian Foundation, which tapped him to participate States. At the same time, more non-Greek Meanwhile, Arthur Anderman, chairman temporary pol- emperor earned him a PhD and laid the foun- in its open society initiatives in Mongolia. students are being attracted to the study of the advisory board of the Center for itics. In the dation for his life’s work, which would help “I interviewed the president, non-govern- of Byzantium, a world civilization that last- Jewish Studies, has donated $100,000 to process, the change perceptions of a regime that once mental organizations, and women’s groups,” ed one thousand years and provides the the center as a 70th birthday gift to his college’s lat- dominated much of Asia. says Rossabi, now a member of the advisory link between antiquity and modern wife, Carole, a Queens alum. “This gift will est Distin- Contrary to popular belief, history isn’t board of Soros’ Project on Central Asia. Greece.” Vasileios Marinis, a scholar who help the center continue to thrive and guished always written by the victor. “The Mongolians “Promoting democracy is important and has been a fellow at the Metropolitan grow,” says center director William Kathleen Gilje’s 2005 oil portrait of Robert Professor of History has made some history didn’t develop a written language until late,” very rewarding.” With his repeated trips to Museum of Art, is the first Kallinikeion Helmreich. Because the Andermans are Rosenblum as the Marquis de Pastoret. of his own. Rossabi explains. “Their history was written the region and his entrée to the nation’s Visiting Professor of Byzantine Studies. particularly interested in the arts, some of Born in one multicultural city—Alexandria, by the people they conquered, who exagger- leaders, the professor has been able to For the Jewish Studies program, entre- the money will be earmarked for semi- Robert Rosenblum, Egypt—Rossabi easily adapted to another in ated the destruction and death toll. There develop expertise in the issues facing preneur William Ungar and his wife, Jerry, a annual concerts. Lectures and film series his early teens, when his family moved to was another side to the Mongolians, who Mongolia, which is adjusting to the collapse QC graduate, have endowed a professorship are also likely to be funded. 1927–2006 Manhattan. Already fluent in English, French, appreciated culture and were eager to pro- of communism. Arabic, and Farsi, he seems to have been mote trade.” When he’s not teaching, or traveling, An art history superstar, Robert Rosenblum pre-equipped for scholarly pursuits. But find- After teaching at Case Western Reserve Rossabi can be found at his desk, working on ’48 celebrated the high-brow and the low-, ing the Mideast too close to his own back- University for about 15 years, Rossabi his latest book: “a big history of China.” Hamlisch and Slackman Receive Q Award and everything in between. At the time of On Thursday nurture in its stu- his death last December, he had organized evening, June 21, dents. This year simultaneous exhibitions at the Grand Palais Many Happy Returns for Rosenthal Library in Paris and the Houston Museum of Fine Queens College the Q Award was Arts: The former show explored portraiture When alumni visit Queens “There’s really no way to hosted its annual Q presented to Oscar from 1760 to 1830, and the latter focused on College, they not only remi- pay back what we received Award Gala at the and Tony Award- several hundred years of dog art. nisce about how much the from Queens College,” says Marriott Marquis in winner Marvin Rosenblum had a career that spanned school shaped their future, but Michael. “With the opening of academia and curatorship. After completing many also express a desire to this lounge, we feel like we’re New York City. Hamlisch ’68 and a bachelor’s degree at QC—where he stud- the founding presi- give something back. part of the college again.” Each year the Slackman Hamlisch ied with legendary art historian Frances This was especially true of Meanwhile, other members Queens College dent of Commerce Godwin—and a master’s in musicology the alumni honored at this of the college community have Foundation bestows the Q Award Bank, David Slackman ’70. The from Yale, he immersed himself in art histo- year’s Rosenthal Library Donor helped expand Rosenthal’s on accomplished men and women evening also included a special ry, earning a PhD from New York Reception: Ann Birstein ’48, holdings. Elena Frangakis- University. He taught at Princeton, Yale, and and Michael and Barbara Syrett (History) donated about who reflect the qualities of intel- salute to all QC graduates in the Oxford before returning to NYU, where he Twomey ’48. 750 volumes owned by her hus- lect and spirit the college hopes to entertainment business. was professor of fine arts for four decades. A well-known novelist, crit- band, the late David Syrett A curator at the Guggenheim Museum of ic, and teacher, Birstein chose (History). Included in the gift Art since 1996, Rosenblum prided himself this occasion to give the college are scarce primary sources pub- Talking to Students About Television on overturning conventional standards. “If I nine boxes of original manu- lished by the Navy Records Vincent Misiano ’72 has been one of the most in- can enjoy Frank Capra, why can’t I enjoy Opening the Twomey Lounge (left to right): Student Association Vice President scripts, research, notes, and Society of the United demand television directors of the last decade. Norman Rockwell?” he asked, when his Saleem Rasul; Associate Library Director Shoshana Kaufmann; President James other primary source materials Kingdom. Ina Avrich donated (Another, coincidentally, is brother Chris ’76.) His cred- Guggenheim show on the iconic American Muyskens; alumni Barbara and Michael Twomey ’48; and Chief Librarian Robert spanning over half a century to about 600 volumes from the its include “Law and Order,” “The West Wing,” “Prison illustrator angered art-world cognoscenti. Shaddy. thank her alma mater for “open- library of her late husband, Break,” and “Medium,” to name a few. Misiano took Rosenblum first attracted attention with ing up a whole new world.” Included in this fitting tribute to the college, since Birstein Paul Avrich (History), an authority on some time from his busy production schedule in Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century treasure trove are greeting cards and notes began her first novel, Star of Glass, as an Russian history and anarchism. And December to visit his alma mater. At a lunchtime speak- Art, which gave the neoclassical period a she traded with her husband, the great liter- English honors paper in her senior year. Her Kenneth Soehner, the Arthur K. Watson ing appearance—part of a program for students to meet modernist spin. “With a combination of ary critic and cultural historian Alfred “devoted professors” helped her win a liter- Chief Librarian of the Metropolitan successful alums—he noted how his experiences at a iconoclasm, faultless lucidity and wit, he school that’s not exactly known as a quick route into Kazin, as well as letters from such friends ary prize to complete the work. Museum of Art—employed at Rosenthal a smashed aesthetic prejudices the way physi- The Twomeys were on hand to “celebrate the entertainment industry provided just that. Those and notables of the time as Bernard decade ago as a part-time reference librari- experiences included collaborating with brother Chris and fellow student Gus Makris in cists smash atoms,” noted the New York Malamud, Sophie Tucker, Saul Bellow, Elie Ann’s successful career and life,” and also an—gave the Art Library 63 cartons of valu- shooting a short film on campus starring another alum who went on to a successful Times. Forty years after its publication, Wiesel, Ralph Ellison, Erica Jong, and to dedicate the new student lounge named able art monographs and exhibition catalogs, entertainment career: Jerry Seinfeld ’76. Transformations, like the man who wrote it, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The archive seems a for them on the first floor of the library. many of them recent imprints. remains widely influential.

6 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 7 Nancy Crampton

I felt in sync with him [W.G. Sebald]. Marion Ettlinger Rick DeWitt We“ locked eyes. Afterwards, he wrote me a postcard saying, ‘The best part about being Mary Cross Mary in New York was talking to you’.” –Joe Cuomo

Jerry Bauer Jerry he still introduced, directed, and prepared each event. “Nobody could conceive and run this kind of program without, himself, being part and parcel of the writing process,” said nov- elist and story writer Cynthia Ozick. “He is deeply, deeply literarily minded.” It was his Annie Lebovitz suggestion to have the roundtable discussion about the novel, she said. Last July the New York Times reviewed The Din in the Head (Houghton Mifflin), a collection of essays in which Ozick discuss- es the centrality of the novel. But she was not happy with the Times reviewer. He Clockwise from top left: Cynthia Ozick, E.L. wrote “a horrendously hostile, nasty, mean-

Doctorow, Norman Rush, Joyce Carol Oates spirited, trivializing review,” she says. The Robert E. Woolmington review seemed to suggest that the novel had declined in importance, she thought. “So Joe saw this and got the idea [for the round- table discussion].”

and Edward Albee rode in that old car, and Casper Tringale seemed to be having a good time en route, Leonard Lopate expressed admiration for Write Cuomo said. all that his friend has accomplished. “Joe is It has been a long road to lovely oak-pan- really the founder, the spirit, and everything eled LeFrak Hall, with many writers along else. The whole thing really has to do with THE the way. the people that Joe has established relations Among the ones Cuomo felt especially with over the years, and, then, his reputa- close to was the late German novelist tion. Writers who will go out to Queens W. G. Sebald, whom he interviewed in College will not go to a lot of places. 2001, ten months before Sebald was killed Maybe the 92nd Street Y.”

Stuff Marion Ettlinger By Margo Nash in a car crash. The interview was “intense,” Lopate also expressed his regard for the Nobelists, Booker Prize winners, magi- Cuomo recalls. Readings program audiences. “It is an The Queens College Evening Readings pro- cal realists, post-colonialists, post-mod- “I felt in sync with him. We locked eyes. engaged audience that cares about literature, gram marked its 31st anniversary this past ernists, freedom fighters, Beats, New Afterwards, he wrote me a postcard saying, otherwise they would not be coming to

season. What makes America’s greatest writ- Journalists, old journalists, reclusive writers ‘The best part about being in New York was these things. It isn’t like we are bringing out Jacques Love ers return again and again? Some say it is and dueling writers have all answered his talking to you.’” J-Lo and Madonna. We’re bringing out peo- Joe Cuomo ’75, founder and director of the siren song. This past year’s season kicked off with a ple who are dealing with ideas and, some- series. What is that song? “I feel a personal roundtable discussion featuring 2006 Nobel times, really complex ideas.” “I’m always honored when he asks me,” connection with each of those writers,” said Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, Booker Prize Working with the Queens College Even- said Jamaica Kincaid, the Antiguan-born Cuomo, 54, a tall man with silvery hair, winner Salman Rushdie, and New York ing Readings program is “very demanding,” novelist and short-story writer. She read for ruddy cheeks, and a soft voice. “They feel I Public Library Literary Lion Medal winner Lopate said. Like so many who have been a the first time in 1986 at an Evening understand their work, and they respond.” Norman Manea. Tom Stoppard and E.L. part of it, he said he does it because “the Reading. She fainted. But Joe Cuomo, she In 1976 Cuomo—Queens College gradu- Doctorow came on other occasions, and series is amazing,” and “I really love Joe.” said, picked her up and helped her get ate, fiction writer, WBAI radio host, and there was a roundtable with Cynthia Ozick, through it. “He is so caring. He has such professor—wanted to build a community of Norman Rush, and James Wood titled The For more information on the Evening Readings Chester Williams good literary judgment. I could never say no writers for his students. The first person he Life and Death of the Novel. Mary Gordon, series, visit www.qc.cuny.edu/readings to him.” invited was QC professor and poet Marie winner of the 2006 Story Prize in February, In fact, you could say your A.B.C.’s with Ponsot. Their first venue was a classroom. also spoke. All the talks were moderated by Above left to right: Norman Manea, 2006 Nobel all the literary lions who have not said no to After the readings, the growing audience WNYC radio host Leonard Lopate. Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Evening Joe: Albee, Bellow, Cheever, Doctorow, would repair to Cuomo’s apartment. For For years, Cuomo did all the interviews. Readings Director Joseph Cuomo, and moderator Ellison, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Heller, several years, Cuomo brought his readers to However, in recent years he has shared those Clockwise from top right: Susan Sontag, Leonard Lopate, backstage just after the Irving, James (P.D.), Kesey, Lessing, and the college in his old Dodge Dart with the duties with Lopate. This was the first season Frank McCourt, Tom Wolfe, Derek Walcott, November 7 roundtable on The Art of Writing. Miller, for starters. leaky windows. People like Ralph Ellison Cuomo did not do any of the interviews. But Jhumpa Lahiri, and Jamaica Kincaid The couturiers represented in the College textile and apparel majors a better Historic Costume Collection at Queens understanding of history and design. “We College would get most fashion plates excit- call it a working collection,” explains Lowe, ed. “That’s an Ungaro from the ’80s, with the who has been in charge of it since 1991. “We have thousands of pieces spanning the big shoulder pads of the period,” says late 18th century to the present, and they’re Elizabeth Lowe, chair of the Department of used primarily for instruction.” Family, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, The potential applications are limitless. who has brought out a few of the more iconic Professors may bring garments into the class- examples. The colors and length—or lack of room flat or on mannequins, or take photos of length—in the next one are clues that it’s the them to accompany lectures. In the course work of Emilio Pucci, “probably from the History of Costumes and Furnishings: French late 1960s or early ’70s,” continues Lowe. Revolution to the Present, the clothes could Nearby, awaiting a photographer, are a pair of be used to show changes in Western tailoring ladylike Chanel suits, a sumptuously tailored techniques and materials; in Apparel Science Gallanos coat, a white lacy frock from I and II, they might illustrate the differences Givenchy, and a beaded black flapper dress between mass production and couture. whose designer is unknown. Additionally, items sometimes make appear- But for all their vintage appeal, these ances in exhibitions on campus, such as The items are no longer meant to be worn, Fabric of Cultures show presented at the except perhaps by a dress form. They are Godwin-Ternbach Museum last spring. unique teaching tools that give Queens Every article arrives as a donation; in Every article arrives as a donation; in Elements of recent years, many have been sent over to the college by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Prof. Gene Lakin explains the finer attributes of a Givenchy dress to students (l to r) Gloria Wu, Nijaah Howard, Jordana Mandel, Linda Harkem, Zoe Ross, and Mia-Moore Ray.

By Leslie Jay recent years, many have been sent over to bered and tucked away in an approximately Finland and a black velvet number by Oscar tyle the college by the Metropolitan Museum of 30-by-30 foot room in Remsen Hall. de la Renta, with crisp taffeta cuffs, collar, S Art. Women’s outerwear is the core of the Hats, lingerie, and wedding gowns rest in and hem. Shoes stand two-by-two in glass- collection. “We’re strongest in designer acid-free boxes. Gowns hang in metal door cabinets, shelved by the decade. clothing from the ’80s on,” reports Lowe. wardrobes or, for lack of storage space, on “Typically, these collections are labors of But her collection also comprises undergar- racks under clean cotton sheets. “We have to love,” admits Lowe, who has literally put ments and accessories, as well as items for move the dress forms to access the clothes,” heart and sole into the job: There, among the men and children, and even a few pieces— says the professor, clearing space so she can footwear, is a pair of suede sandals that she such as kimonos and caftans—from non- open one of the wardrobes and pull out a wore several decades ago. Western cultures. They’re carefully num- cheerful print dress by Marimekko of

Displayed against an Oscar De La Renta dress (background) are an Emilio Pucci dress and other items rep- resentative of ’60s fashion, including a “Mod” shoe and samples of paisley print fabric (left) and fabric bear- ing a Marimekko “dot” pattern.

Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 11 based Maimonides Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting peace and under- standing between Jews and Muslims. “The Building Bridges reason I have worked so hard to put the cul- ture of Islam on the map,” he has said, “is because I have always believed that the real weapon of mass destruction is ignorance. Between Muslims and Jews Once you tackle that, you have solved a lot of problems.” Khalili was followed by two musicians Rosenblum described as “rock stars” in their must be dead, and still having to deal with By Bob Suter genres: Salman Ahmad, a native of Pakistan these whispers that Sal was an accomplice who founded the popular South Asian band The crowd in LeFrak Concert Hall on to an unspeakable crime. Junoon, and fiddler Yale Strom, an American May 1 had come to hear Common Chords, a “Finally, on March 21, 2002, Sal’s Jew in the forefront of the revival of the joyous concert of Klezmer and South Asian remains were identified at the site of the Hebrew music form Klezmer. Their groups music. But first, they heard one of the sad- World Trade Center. Sal was no terrorist; he played individual sets, then joined in an dest stories to come out of 9/11. is a hero.” impromptu collaboration. “A recent graduate of Queens College as On stage with Muyskens was Sal’s moth- After the musical interlude, Rabbi well as a trained paramedic and ambulance er, Talat Hamdani ’98. Before presenting her Ammiel Hirsch of Manhattan’s Stephen driver, Mohammad Salman Hamdani saw with a memorial in honor of her son, the Wise Free Synagogue and Sheik Ahmed the Twin Towers on fire and knew that he president noted, “When I think of Sal, I Dewidar of the Islamic Society of Mid- had to get downtown and try to save lives,” think of another exceptional Queens College Manhattan took the stage for an interfaith noted President James Muyskens on the student: Andrew Goodman. Both Andrew Salman Ahmad, who performed at the May Common Chords concert, is also teaching a course on Islamic dialogue on the theme “A Search for Music and the Culture of South Asia at the college. stage of the silent hall. “Sal didn’t come and Sal freely chose to go to one of the Common Ground.” Following this, the audi- home that night. No one saw Sal for days. most dangerous places in America: Andrew ence was invited to sample foods from Not too much later, the rumors began. to the Deep South in 1964 to help with the “It is in the spirit of meeting of minds, nailing Jell-O on a wall.” Kosher and Halal dietary traditions, offered “The rumors claimed that Sal, a registration of black voters, and Sal to the rather than clash of civilizations, that From the outset, another important com- under the banner of “Food for Thought.” Pakistani-American Muslim, must have con- burning World Trade Center on September we’ve organized this art exhibition and ponent of the Middle East and America President James Muyskens presents Talat Hamdani Rosenblum presented two other programs spired in this outrageous act of terrorism, a 11. Both knew their decision might cost public programs, which celebrate our project has been training public school ’98 with an engraved remembrance of her son, in March: “Building an International them their lives, and both paid dearly for who died at the World Trade Center on mutual achievements and probe our com- social studies teachers to pass on the lessons Community of Muslims and Jews with the their actions. September 11, 2001. mon challenges,” said Rosenblum of the of its unique curriculum. To date, over 300 Children of Abraham” and “Sesame Street “Sal, of course, was a Muslim; Andrew ambitious effort that has been funded by teachers—who are in contact daily with over in the Middle East: Paving the Road to was a Jew. How dare people say that our er and understand each other better.” grants from the Ford Foundation and the 40,000 students—have received the training. Coexistence.” The latter featured Lewis differences are greater than the things we The semester’s events reflected the les- Clinton Global Initiative. Salman Ahmad of Junoon, who is also a Bernstein ’69, executive vice president for have in common?” sons being explored in Rosenblum’s class- visiting professor in the college’s Copland education, research, and outreach for room, where Muslim and Jewish students School of Music, joined Rosenblum in tak- Sesame Street Workshop and executive pro- have been learning “to walk in the other IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES ing the curriculum and cultural programs to ducer of its award-winning series “Sesame FINDING COMMON GROUND side’s shoes,” immersing themselves in the OF PEACE local high schools. This culminated in April Street.” Bernstein also supervises the work- Finding what Jews and Muslims have in history and culture of the side antithetical While deeply involved in organizing the in an exuberant musical performance and shop’s global outreach programs, which common has been the goal of the remark- to their own beliefs and advocating for semester’s programs, Rosenblum’s students educational exchange at Forest Hills High includes a Middle Eastern version of the able project The Middle East and America: that side’s position in the ongoing Middle saw their class undergo a change in focus, School with over 700 students. popular children’s show called “Sesame Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of the East conflict. reflecting the shifting nature of the Middle Many students were so moved by the Stories,” broadcast in Arabic and Hebrew. Minds (see Q, Spring 2005, available In February the initial event in the East conflict. During and following the program that they came by the busload to “Sesame Stories” is credited with helping to online), of which that day’s concert was the series, Bridging the Cultural Divides, days of warfare between Israel and join the overflow crowd at the semester’s break down stereotypes and fostering greater final event of the semester. Begun in 2004 highlighted similarities in the Islamic and Lebanon last year, they monitored multiple final program Common Chords, where understanding among young Palestinians, by Mark Rosenblum (Director of Jewish Jewish traditions. Nasser David Khalili Arab, Israeli, and American news media Ahmad and Strom reunited for an extended Israelis, and Jordanians. Studies and the Michael Harrington Center) ’74, an Iranian-born Jew who has amassed outlets online. concert. At the conclusion, with both bands Mohammad Salman Hamdani ’01 (Photo courtesy of In addition to the performance programs, and Michael Krasner (Political Science), the the world’s largest and most comprehen- “The students got the media’s draft of on stage and many in the audience on their Talat Hamdani) an exhibition of fine art photographs of project examines the historically contentious sive collection of Islamic artifacts (see Q, history,” Rosenblum said, “saw where it was feet, Ahmad announced they would close the objects from Khalili’s collection, The charge that was unbelievable to anyone who relationship between Muslims and Jews with Spring 2006), returned to campus to pre- wrong, where it was right, with competing performance with “an old Sufi song,” refer- Grandeur of Islamic Art in Image and knew him. I can’t imagine the pain his par- the aim of proving, as Muyskens noted, sent an illustrated lecture on “The Art of national and ethnic spins on it. They got an ring to the Islamic mystical tradition. It Object, appeared at QC’s Godwin-Ternbach ents must have felt: raising their son to care “that people of good will, with seemingly the Possible.” experience in the complexities of trying to turned out to be John Lennon’s anthem to Museum throughout the semester. for others, knowing in their hearts that he irreconcilable differences, can come togeth- Khalili is co-founder of the London- nail down facts, which was a little bit like world peace, “Imagine.”

12 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 13 12 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Add Your Name to the Alumni Plaza Bookshelf and Support Queens College Students Celebrate a graduation, highlight a special occasion, By Leslie Jay and Bob Suter Fidel’s powerful grip. Pontius Pilate’s wife, from pedicurists to or remember a parent or loved one with a unique gift: a Cuba Represent! subway riders. Poet Eamon Grennan notes: commemorative brick. 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14 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 15 Important sporting events that have occurred during Richard Wettan’s years at QC: December 1997 Men’s Water Polo defeated UC San Diego to finish third at the NCAA Division I Final Four, becom- ing the first team TeamPlayer from the East Coast to ever win a game at the Final Four. “I walked into that building [FitzGerald Gymnasium] and said to myself, ‘Okay, May 1998 Men’s Baseball beat Dowling College to this is home,’” Rick Wettan recalls. Today, he is the college’s assistant vice capture their first New York College Athletic Conference Tournament president for athletics. Championship, as well as their first NCAA Division II Bid March 1973 By Leslie Jay he’d feel comfortable: FitzGerald Gym. “I to Brooklyn College for his master’s, while show that the graduation rate of the Knights Women’s Basketball finished May 1999 Women’s Softball beat Molloy College— walked into that building and said to serving as a lecturer and track coach at his and Lady Knights is higher than that for the second in the myself, ‘Okay, this is home,’” he recalls. alma mater. For his doctorate, Wettan went general student population. 6–5 in 12 innings and 9–0—for their first In 1961, on his first day as an undergradu- nation NYCAC Championship and earn their ate at Queens College, Richard Wettan ’65 Today, as assistant vice president for athlet- even farther afield, moving to Ohio to obtain With college sports restored to fitness, after losing to first NCAA Bid. was understandably a little overwhelmed. ics, he oversees all the varsity teams and his degree at Ohio State University. By 1969 Wettan’s next challenge is to upgrade Immaculata So he made a beeline for the place where recreational programs. he was back at Queens, teaching phys ed school facilities. “We’ve sought grants from College, 59–52, A Queens native raised and coaching soccer. He has been here ever the city, the state, and the university,” he in the AIAW March 2002 Queens College in Little Neck, he was the since, working his way up from lecturer to says. “This spring, with money from the Championship game played in won their first of only athlete in the Wettan associate professor to assistant vice presi- City Council, we’re renovating the outdoor FitzGerald Gym. two NYCAC Men’s household. “My interests dent for athletics. fields. Previously, we did the indoor tennis Basketball were unusual in my fami- Over the decades, Wettan has seen the center.” FitzGerald, his undergraduate home Championships by ly,” he says. “My brother school grow and modernize. “There’s been a away from home, is also due for a rehab. beating New York is an oral surgeon.” tremendous amount of construction,” he “It’s a great old building,” muses Wettan. February 1975 Tech, 80–63, in Nonetheless, at Martin reports. “The facilities have improved great- “It’s huge—45,000 square feet. That space Lady Knights become the first women’s FitzGerald Gym. In doing so, they Van Buren High School, ly.” So have campus-wide systems. would be very difficult to duplicate today.” basketball team to play at Madison Square Garden. received their first Rick experimented with “Registration used to take several days,” he Of course, athletes are not the only ben- of three NCAA Bids. several sports before set- adds. But other changes proved more traumat- eficiaries of an improving infrastructure. tling on cross country—“I ic. “Until 1975, there was no tuition here,” he All kinds of bodies surface at the new col- March 1977 Montclair State defeated QC, 102–91, in November 2003 was too short for basket- says. “In effect, every athlete had a scholar- lege fitness center. (Wettan admits that his The NYCAC Champion Women’s ball,” he notes—and track. ship. But when the city almost went bankrupt, isn’t one of them; at the moment, his the opening game of the first women’s basketball doubleheader ever played at Volleyball team defeated Bryant College, He ran long-distance we lost the entire scholarship program.” favorite form of exercise is sharing long Madison Square Garden. The games 30–19, 22–30, 30–28, 30–27, in events of a half-mile and To maintain Queens’s appeal for sports- walks with his wife, Leslie.) He takes par- drew 12,336 fans, then a record for a FitzGerald Gym to win the first of two more. In college he did minded students, the college applied for ticular pride in the fact that 1500 to 1800 women’s event at the Garden. consecu- get to play basketball as Division II status from the National local children come here every summer for tive NCAA Division II well as baseball, soccer, Collegiate Athletic Association, becoming day camp, where the activities include lan- December 1980 Northeast and track. the only branch of CUNY to achieve that guages, science, and drama, as well as FitzGerald Gym hosted a charity basket- Regional Because he’d skipped a distinction. Subsequently, Wettan encour- sports. “We try to make it fun for the kids ball game for Italian earthquake relief. titles and grade, Wettan was all of aged the school to create incentives for ath- and help them keep up their schoolwork,” Some notables in attendance included advance to 16 when he matriculated letes. “Some people think athletes should be he says. The rest of the year, a similar pro- Rick Cerone, Willie Randolph, and Joe the NCAA at college. Despite his pure amateurs. But if students don’t get gram is held on Saturdays. Pepitone of the Yankees, Ron Duguay of Elite Eight. the NY Rangers, Bobby Nystrom of the youth, he had already cho- financial aid and have to work 20 hours a The big item on Wettan’s long-term NY Islanders, and boxer Gerry Cooney. sen his major: physical week, how can they be students?” he asks. agenda is the construction of a residence education. “I knew where “Financial aid takes the pressure off.” hall. “We do house some students in apart- I belonged right off,” he By offering grants in aid, Queens has been ments off-campus,” he observes. “However, 1981 Glen March—now Dr. Glen March—was explains. “The people in able to elevate its sports profile. Men’s and dorms would allow us to recruit on a much awarded the first Queens College the department were women’s track and men’s soccer are the latest wider scale. Teams that are successful Athletics Grant in Aid. extremely supportive.” squads to be added; others may be introduced bring in students from across the country (For some sports high in the future. The college currently fields 20 and the world.” “My overall philosophy is, the more stu- May 1995 points during Wettan’s teams, nine for men and 11 for women. Women’s Tennis defeated Quinnipiac years at the college, see “We’ve always had a strong name in women’s dents you help, the better your life is,” he September 2004 College on QC’s outdoor courts to win 1972–73 Women’s Basketball made sidebar page 17.) athletics,” Wettan comments. “We’re very concludes. “A lot of people helped me; I the NCAA Division II East Regional in history as the first women’s team to be After completing his aware of Title IX.” At this school, academic consider this payback.” their first of five appearances and inducted into NYC Basketball Hall of bachelor’s degree, he performance matters, too. Athletes get as advance to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Fame. headed across the border much tutoring as they need. Indeed, statistics

16 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 17 An assistant professor in the college’s The increased warmth led to the ice sheets QC HELPS FOCUS THE NATION School of Earth & Environmental Sciences retreating into the interior of the continent, Pekar is one of a number of faculty whose GLOBAL (SEES) and a research scientist at the causing the sea level to rise over 100 feet research relates to this escalating problem. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of above what it is now. Their findings support the conclusion Columbia University, Pekar is part of “Only by understanding what happened reached by a long-standing and solid con- ANDRILL (Antarctic Drilling), a multina- in the past can we begin to understand sensus of scientists and international organi- tional program that aims to unlock the what’s happening today and try to predict zations: Global warming has become per- secrets of Antarctica’s climatic and glacial the future,” says Pekar. haps the greatest threat to human societies. history over the past 50 million years. The There is a correlation between levels of The most compelling statement was WARMING group is trying to learn more about the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global offered February in Paris—which was experi- Earth’s history of extreme climate change by warming: more carbon dioxide yields more encing its warmest winter in 500 years. At drilling, through ice and the sea below, pen- global warming. The planet has gone that time the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on etrating over 1000 meters into the seafloor through periods of extreme global warming Climate Change released a report, Climate to obtain core samples of sediment deposit- before, Pekar notes, typically during times Change 2007, which offered the unequivocal ed up to 20 million years ago. Pekar is of enhanced volcanic activity, resulting in consensus of 2,500 scientists from 130 coun- COMES examining sediment and microfossil evi- much higher levels of atmospheric carbon tries that the trend toward potentially cata- dence within the core samples to learn dioxide. But rising carbon dioxide levels strophic global warming is caused by human about a period when the now-frigid land- today aren’t coming from volcanoes; they’re activity, which began with the dramatic scape of Antarctica was still vegetative— coming from human activity, he asserts. increase in fossil fuel use during the 19th-cen- and the climate of the Antarctic coasts was “The ice core samples confirm that we haven’t tury Industrial Revolution. Even President TO A BOIL probably at least 16°F warmer than today. seen levels like these for 800,000 years.” George W. Bush, who adamantly opposed the By Bob Suter At the coldest place on Earth, Stephen Pekar ’86 is searching for clues that may help explain why our planet is rapidly getting warmer.

Members of the ANDRILL Program at work in the Southern McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica

18 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 19 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, con- people say: ‘You guys got rich contributing released from these northern soils due to THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY ceded recently that climate change is a to this problem; you need to lead the way in warming self-accelerates and contributes to The Focus the Nation effort will conclude “serious challenge.” solving it, then we will take action.’” the warming. And if we reach that point, it with another symposium next January 31, at The enormity of the challenge was Rodberg is a long-time advocate of energy won’t matter whether or not we put plugs in which time each participating group will brought home to the QC community on conservation, having issued a call to action our smokestacks, because the release of car- hold a nonpartisan forum with elected offi- January 31, when Pekar convened a panel of nearly three decades ago in a Village Voice bon from natural storage has the potential to cials and candidates for office to discuss faculty with global warming experience as article entitled “An Energy Plan for New York run away, like a chain reaction.” global warming. Each campus will vote on part of Focus the Nation, a one-day event City.” He surprised many in the audience by Hendrey then described the Gaia its top five national priorities for action, pro- taking place at hundreds of colleges, univer- noting that New York City is one of the most Hypothesis, a concept formulated in the ducing a campus-endorsed policy agenda for sities, and public schools, intended to kick energy-efficient cities in the country thanks to 1960s by James Lovelock, a research scien- the 2008 elections. off a yearlong discussion on climate change. its extensive public transit system, its use of tist who proposed that planet Earth is essen- QC is joining other CUNY faculty and stu- Pekar’s panel took to the stage at LeFrak steam heat—a by-product of electricity gener- tially a living organism and all of the life dents in planning events leading up to the Concert Hall following a screening of An ation—and its population density, which functions on it are interdependent. By this symposium, including the second annual Inconvenient Truth, the Academy Award-win- makes more efficient use of public services theory, Hendrey explained, the Earth has CUNY science exhibition and lecture series ning account of Al Gore’s crusade to raise such as street lighting. But, Rodberg empha- homeostatic abilities: “That means the Earth on Governors Island. Its theme will be awareness about global warming. The panel sized, much more needs to be done. is self-regulating, self-maintaining, kept in “stabilizing the climate in the 21st century” included Judith Kimerling (Political the proper condition to sustain life.” (contact [email protected] or Science), Leonard Rodberg (Urban Studies), AN UNEXPECTED THREAT And a major disturbance to the Earth’s [email protected] for information). and George Hendrey (SEES). If global warming has a ground zero, it’s like- efforts to maintain life in the broadest While thinking globally, the QC commu- Kimerling had just ly to be in one of the world’s coldest regions. sense could have serious nity has continued to act locally. During returned from the Amazon “I’ve had the pleasure of managing large consequences for human Earth Week (April 16-20), the school joined rainforest, where she has research programs in the Arctic, up on the life. “It’s likely that we’ll campuses across the country in offering been chronicling for 18 North Slope of Alaska, for the Department of be entering into a climate films, lectures, and presentations by local years the disastrous effects Energy,” George Hendrey told the Focus the regime that humans have organizations intended to further raise aware- of oil exploration and pro- Nation audience. In a calm, deliberate voice, never been exposed to ness of the global warming threat and means duction on indigenous peo- he then described perhaps the most frighten- before.” to alleviate it. The week began with the ples. “We have less than ing climate change scenario of all. Hendrey then noted that announcement by City Councilman James Kimerling 5% of the world’s popula- Explaining that large amounts of organ- Hendrey Lovelock, “who has Gennaro (D–Fresh Meadows) of the award- tion in this country,” she observed, “yet we ic carbon are naturally present in peat received many scientific accolades and ing of a $168,000 grant for the construction use more than 25% of the world’s energy bogs and plant matter in northern forest awards,” gave a lecture in November at the of a “green roof” on a portion of the col- resources,” in the process, releasing about soils and tundra areas, he noted that as New York Academy of Sciences. “He said lege’s Science Building. Students under the 30% of the greenhouse gases that produce these areas grow warmer, a process of that after reviewing the latest global research supervision of Hendrey developed a feasibili- SIX THINGS YOU CAN DO global warming. “respiration” takes place, and this natural- and models it appears that we’ve gone past ty study, which determined that by creating a Citing the Bush administration’s rejec- ly occurring carbon is thrown into the the threshold; we’ve now entered into the vegetative surface of selected plants, cooling costs for the building could be cut dramati- 1. Your car 4. Light bulbs tion of the Kyoto Protocol, Kimerling atmosphere as carbon dioxide. self-accelerating process. Not everybody When buying a car, look for the one Replace incandescent bulbs with more noted, “There is a real disconnect between “What many scientists are afraid of,” he agrees with Lovelock; I don’t want to agree cally while improving air quality. with the best fuel economy. Each gal- efficient compact fluorescents, which the leadership of this country and the inter- said, “is that we will come to a point at with Lovelock, but his views need to be lon of gas you use releases 25 pounds come in all shapes and sizes. If every national political climate. Around the world which the rate at which carbon begins to be taken with great seriousness.” BACK TO THE FUTURE of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Better U.S. household replaced one regular Stephen Pekar is preparing to return to gas mileage reduces global warming light bulb with an energy-saving model, Antarctica with the ANDRILL program this and saves you thousands of dollars at it would reduce global warming pollu- fall. “We’re going to have 30 scientists from the pump. Look for new technologies tion by more than 90 billion pounds STORMS AND THE CITY four countries. I’ve been selected to be a like hybrid engines. over the life of the bulbs—the same as stratigrapher,” he says, referring to his role taking 6.3 million cars off the road. One aspect of global warming that could belts, he explains, “It becomes bigger; it studying the layers they will penetrate. “And 2. Choose clean power You'll also save money on your electric have particularly dire import for coastal expands its wind field so that two to three I hope a QC graduate student will join the More than half the electricity in the bills and light bulbs. cities like New York is the increase in times the area is affected. And the right scientific team.” U.S. comes from polluting, coal-fired ocean temperatures. In addition to rising angle formed by the New York-New Jersey He is also submitting proposals for power plants, the single largest source 5. Plant a tree sea levels caused by the melting of the coastline makes this the most dangerous seismic and drilling projects in 2008 and of heat-trapping gas. In some states In addition to storing carbon, trees polar ice caps, higher ocean temperatures place in the country for a hurricane,” Coch beyond, projects to go even deeper to you can switch to electricity compa- planted in and around urban areas and might contribute to an increase in the fre- warns. “Winds are blowing from east to west nies that provide 50 to 100 percent residences provide much-needed quency of large, destructive hurricanes. and piling all the waters of the continental retrieve evidence from a time about 50 mil- renewable energy. (For more informa- shade in the summer, reducing energy Nick Coch (Earth & Environmental shelf along the shore. In the south, this is no lion years ago when Antarctica was green tion, go to Green-e.org) bills and fossil fuel use. Sciences) believes the metropolitan region problem because it goes down to Florida and and covered with trees, a time scientists call will soon face a storm as savage as the out. In the north, there’s no place for the Greenhouse World. If present warming 3. Buy Energy Star 6. Make your voice 1938 hurricane that struck Long Island and water to go up, so it generates the most dan- trends continue unabated, Pekar’s research New England, killing nearly 700 people. gerous storm surges in America.” may literally take him back to the future. appliances heard Coch has devoted 15 years to recon- While a storm surge here would be These items may cost a bit more, but If elected officials and business lead- the energy savings will repay the extra ers hear from enough people that structing all of the hurricanes that have more severe, we would have an easier time areas. In Manhattan, the east side and WEB SITES offering additional information investment in a few years. If each U.S. their energy policies may lose them occurred north of Virginia. “They are much escaping. “If you’re in South Carolina and west side will be moved to the central part, about topics in these stories: more catastrophic because they move two want to get away from a hurricane, you’ve which is well above any water damage.” household used the most efficient votes and business, they will respond. to three times faster than the ones in the got a 50-mile drive. In New York it’s a two- The owner of a home on the south www.andrill.org (Antarctic Drilling) appliances available, each year we south,” he says. mile drive because the core of Long Island shore of Long Island, Coch laughs as he www.focusthenation.org would save $15 billion in energy costs Source: Global Warming Web site of the Because a northern hurricane leaves the is these high glacial hills like Ridgewood, describe his personal evacuation plan: “If (Global Warming Solutions for America) and eliminate 175 million tons of heat- Union of Concerned Scientists easterly wind belts around Georgia and Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens. All we have it hits Long Island, we go to New York; if it www.climatecrisis.net (An Inconvenient Truth) trapping gases. www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/ becomes influenced by the westerly wind to do is move people to the high central hits New York, we go to Long Island.” http://nymag.com/news/features/24364/ (New York Magazine–The Five Year Forecast)

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she did graduate returned to Queens to attend school at night, liked the sport, and surprised herself by college radio sta- studies in psycholo- she was too busy to be choosy. having a good time. Eventually, the two tion, where she gy at the University Chris, a poli sci major living in Jackson became an item. They got married a year became a newscast- of Tulsa—“people Heights, was interested in the topic—he took after Chris’s graduation and set up their first er, and Richard, a thought I must be Russian for two years. He was also interested household in Germany, where the groom, quiet, reserved type brilliant because I’d in Pat, the only female in the room, whose who had been drafted by the army, was sta- with no discernible gone to Queens late arrivals gave him an opportunity. “She tioned. By the fall of 1970 they were back fashion sense, College,” Barbara came in wearing a hat, and I thought, ‘That’s in Queens. Both got jobs, and Pat finished worked behind the notes—and worked a gorgeous girl! I want to sit next to her,’” he her degree. scenes. He asked as a volunteer in says. “So I’d get to class early enough to Today, the Cannons live in the New her on a date after By Leslie Jay Houston’s probation make sure that the seat next to me was avail- Jersey suburbs. He is a lawyer for a pharma- she, as a joke, said, department. Once able.” Striking up conversations in a variety ceutical company; she, after careers in poli- “I’d love to go out with someone like you.” Flushing may not have the romantic reputa- their daughter was of foreign accents, he struck his serious, tics, public relations, and education, is a That first evening was a disaster. The tion of Paris or Rome. But Cupid can show born, the Twomeys bookish classmate as silly. She described freelance writer. They’re the parents of three movie was boring and, to make matters up anywhere. For decades, students have settled in Westbury, him to her mom, who promptly advised, “Go children in their twenties. “I owe it all to worse, a policeman spied the broken head- been meeting their soulmates at Queens Long Island. Now out with him.” Queens College and that Russian history light on Richard’s car and gave him a ticket. College. Here are the stories of three cou- ensconced in a When the goofy guy invited Pat to go class,” concludes Pat. Nonetheless, the two went out a second time, ples who found enduring love on campus. Manhattan apart- bowling, she said yes, even though she dis- and a third. “He grew on me,” admits Lori. ment, they’re enjoy- “Like a fungus,” adds Richard, a Rego Park The Twomeys ing a vigorous retire- native who might be expected to appreciate ment as they look for- Lori Berger & differences in temperament and behavior—he Michael Twomey on campus, the future spouses weren’t on ward to their 58th anniversary. “We’ve been Richard Pollina majored in anthropology. They got engaged & Barbara Moore especially friendly terms. “His frat brothers really lucky,” says Michael. “We’ve had at the end of their junior year and married in Twomey would talk to me, but he didn’t,” says great lives.” The story of Lori Berger ’82 and Richard December 1983, astonishing many of their Barbara with a laugh. That situation Pollina ’82 is another example of the power- friends and acquaintances, who didn’t think When Michael Twomey ’48 and Barbara changed after the two ran into each other at ful attraction of they’d make it to the altar. Moore Twomey ’48 matriculated, the col- the library, a place that neither was in the opposites. Lori, an After more than 20 years of marriage, in lege was new and small and most students habit of visiting. Soon they were cutting Chris Cannon & extroverted poli sci which they moved to Long Island and had a were on limited budgets. “Nobody had any school to see the movie Vacation from Pat Riccioli Cannon major from daughter, now in her teens, the couple has money,” recalls Barbara, a Jamaica High Marriage. Their own marriage began on Whitestone, was seen their personalities adapt. “I was loud,” School grad who chose Queens over Hunter October 8, 1949, 364 days after Michael Like the Twomeys, Chris Cannon ’68 and immersed in student observes Lori, who used to be an advertising at the recommendation of a neighbor. proposed and barely within a deadline Pat Riccioli Cannon ’73 met serendipitous- government activi- sales rep for magazines and newspapers, and Michael, an alum of La Salle Academy in imposed by his fiancée, a psychology major ly—in a Russian history course. One of them ties. “I was the cam- now sells mortgages. “I’ve calmed down Manhattan, was a case in point: He juggled who had announced that “If we’re not mar- had no affinity for the subject matter. “I was pus affairs coordina- from that.” She says that Richard, vice presi- classes and multiple jobs. “I majored in eco- ried within a year, we’re not getting married.” locked out of the class I did want, and I tor responsible for dent of research at a TV rep firm, has nomics because it was easy,” he comments. At first, the pair moved frequently. He needed the credits,” reports Pat. A political clubs,” she explains. become more outgoing. But one thing hasn’t “I didn’t have time to study.” rose in the corporate ranks of what would science major who commuted from Ozone “I barely went to changed. “We’re really each other’s best Although they had glimpsed each other become the American International Group; Park to a secretarial job in Manhattan and class. I was involved in a lot of extracurricu- friend,” she says. lars.” One of those extracurriculars was the The Cannons

22 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 23 THE FALLEN HARRY ACHISON CHASE ANDREWS JOHN M. APPLEBY JOHN ISAAC BEATTY JOHN BRADLEY Lost in World War II, HARRY BRENG GORDON J. BROOKS JOHN CHARLES BURT Remembered on Campus JOSEPH GERARD COLGAN WALTER STANLEY CROW FRANCIS JOSEPH DALY FRANK JAMES DONNELLY ARTHUR JOHN DUGAN CHARLES DELAGE FIECHTER Army-issued flag long kept in storage in the like the Long Island Press or the Crown; no By Bob Suter WILLIAM FISHER QC library, six students who were active in one had come up with this list before. We either the History Club or History Honor came up with 1,200 names, but a lot of them ARTHUR JOSEPH FOLEY Society participated in the effort initiated were repeats—someone would be listed as CHRISTIAN JOHN GABRIEL last spring under the direction of Joel Allen Robert and then again as Bob. Where we MEYER BERNARD GELMAN (History). It began, he says, with one stu- had distinct individuals, we put them on the GEORGE WILLIAM GENNER dent scouring yearbooks from the 1940s for final list, which is 977 names. That’s surely DAVID WILLIAM GOTTLIEB hen four students solemnly information on any students who had served. not complete, but that’s all we have at this IRVING GREENBERG announced the names of Queens College’s The group then established a preliminary moment. It was interesting to see that there CHARLES GREENE war dead at the dedication last November of roster of those who had died from lists pub- was a sizable number of women on the list, W JEROME LIONEL HAFT the World War II Veterans Memorial Plaza, lished in the contemporary campus newspa- as well as a large number of faculty.” JOHN DAVID HAMMARSTROM their participation represented considerably per the Crown and in the Long Island Press. more than a ceremonial gesture. The event “Eventually we compiled them all into a FINAL ROLL CALL DAVID PETER HENRY, JR. would not have transpired in quite the same list of 61,” says Allen. “This included 60 The names of the 59 dead, cast in a WESLEY MAXWELL HERBORN way were it not for their efforts as part of a students and one staff member, a janitor.” bronze plaque atop a black granite pedestal GARSON HENRI HERTZEL, JR. small group of students who were deter- Then, following the guidelines of the situated at the base of the campus flagpole, IRVING KATZ mined to learn the fate of hundreds of their Freedom of Information Act, the students were unveiled at the November 10 ceremo- AUSTIN LAWRENCE KENNEDY predecessors who served in the pivotal con- made 61 separate requests to the National ny—the day before Veterans Day. JEROME LAWRENCE KLEIN flict of the last century. Archives. Looking crisp in his uniform from his ARNO FRANK KUHN The memorial and the student research “We got responses. In some cases they service days, Franco attended the dedication EDWARD CLARENCE LAURITA effort were both ideas of Arnold Franco ’43, a were very detailed histories and in some ceremony under a clear autumn sky, accom- LEO WILLIAM LEVINE veteran whose own distinguished service with cases not,” says Allen. “We found out that panied by members of his family spanning an elite group of code breakers in World War two students actually didn’t die in the war. three generations. Visibly moved at finally MORRIS LEVY II was recently recognized by the French gov- In one case, the student was missing in witnessing an event he had so long wished ARTHUR THOMAS LIBLIT ernment with its highest award, the Legion of action and the Long Island Press reported to bring about, Franco offered some heartfelt PETER JOSEPH MCGIRR Honor. A former history major who funds an him deceased. We were able to correct that. words to the assembled dignitaries and invit- JOSEPH MELANSON annual prize for the history department, He actually died in 1999. ed guests, who included Rosemary ROBERT FRANCIS MINNICK, JR. Franco provided the $100,000 funding for the “With the remaining 59,” says Allen, “the McCarthy, the sister of one of the first QC JAMES SYLVESTER MONTAGUE memorial and suggested the important student students did research like a WWII history students to die in the war, Robert Francis JOHN FRANCIS MORRELL role in the project. buff would do: ‘What was going on at Minnick, Jr. JOHN LOUIS MUZII Bougainville Island where so-and-so died in Also participating in the ceremony— H. EDWARD NERSO YOUTHFUL HEROES January 1943?’ They constructed this whole which included addresses from elected offi- “Here you have this brand-new college narrative of World War II based on where cials, a representative from the military, and WILLIAM JOSEPH O’KEEFE whose first five classes are sacrificed to Queens College kids were—and they were a military honor guard—was another QC HENRY CARL PAULSEN World War II,” says Franco. “You’re talking all over the place.” alum whose life was dramatically affected JOHN ANTHONY REGAN about a body of 1,600 students; the school Allen and the students were surprised to by the war. Samuel Menashe ’47 was just 19 PETER PHILIP RENZO was small.” Describing the many Queens learn that some of those who died never when his unit was thrown into the devastat- RICHARD HAMER RICHARDS College students who were either killed or, even left the country: “A sizable number— ing Battle of the Bulge. He was one of the WARREN ROBINSON like himself, wounded, Franco declares, 12 or 13—died in military training in the few members of his company to survive. REYNOLD JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ “The toll was enormous.” U.S. A lot of them were aviation cadets in Now, a distinguished poet, he read a few of SEYMOUR POSNER ROSENBLUM “I see it as a loop,” he says of the current the days before the Air Force.” his works specially chosen for the occasion. CHARLES RUBIN students participating in the project, “tying During the summer months the group He included a poem called “The Offering,” the students here today with members of the switched its focus from the dead to the big- which concludes with the words: CHARLES GEORGE SCHAEFER pioneer classes.” ger challenge of creating a list of all mem- GUNTHER JOACHIM SCHAUMBERG The dead outlast Using as their starting point the figures bers of the QC community who had served GABRIEL SCHLITT Whatever we offer. 58 and 1235 (58 dead; 1235 wounded), in the war. “That was a big task,” observes NORMAN JAY SIEGEL emblazoned beneath a black star on an Allen, “because we didn’t have anything HARRY GEORGE STARK SAUL STEIN At the World War II Veterans Memorial Plaza, Arnold Franco joins Will Spisak, one of the students who researched QC’s war dead. MARTIN JOSEPH WALDEN WILLIAM EVERETT YOUNG, JR. 24 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Alumni Notes

1951: Charlie Eisenhauer is enjoying an ignited the second of NOW. From 1974–76 she was national coordi- active retirement in Rockville, MD, where he wave of the nator of NOW’s Women in the Arts task force, helps to provide shelters for the homeless. He women’s move- and worked on Women’s International Year art spent the better part of his career at the National ment. Suzanne was events through the United Nations. An artist and Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., con- one of the first nine sculptor who has traveled extensively in Europe, ducting research on nuclear radiation shielding members of the Asia, and Africa, Suzanne uses her work to bridge problems and, later, on the calibration of neutron Connecticut the world’s cultures . . . 1957: Ted Grudzinski, instruments. His most notable assignment? National founder of the Queens College Vocal Ensemble, Serving in 1980 on the President’s Commission Organization of was honored at concerts the group presented on . . . 1956: Suzanne on Three Mile Island Women (NOW) in Nov. 29 and Dec. 7, 2006, in celebration of its Sandra (Feingold) Eizenman and Allen Hausman Benton has been included in the book Feminists 1968, and was later 50th anniversary. The program included Who Changed America 1963–1975 (University of president of the Requiescat, a piece Ted wrote in 1956 and recent- United States Department of Justice in Illinois Press), which profiles key individuals who Western CT branch ly revised. He retired in 1993 after teaching Washington, D.C., Sandy and I arrange our time so that we can travel and cruise several times a Benton choral music at the high school and college levels Dead End Boys Seek Alumni . . . 1960: Stevanne Auerbach was named year” . . . Neil Marmor writes that he remains Kaitsen Woo: “A Fish In Water” 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year by the professional grateful for “a true liberal arts education in a The Dead End Boys was a fraternity at QC from approximately 1938 to 1970. Many have organization Women in Toys and Playthings mag- meritocracy where admission was a function of been active in alumni activities, including the Alumni Plaza (see page 15), and are now A year after followed professional tracks. (His older azine, which honored her at their third annual grades only. My career has included engineering, trying to re-establish contacts with all their brothers. If you are a missing DEB, reconnect he had grad- brother would become a doctor, his younger Wonder Women of Toys Dinner in Manhattan on financial services, running my own small compa- via email at [email protected], or contact Dom Benvenuto by phone (516-570-4050) or uated from sister, a lawyer.) February 11. Stevanne, the child play and toy ny, and serving as the business manager of a per- by mail at 1983 Marcus Avenue, Suite 106, Lake Success, NY 11042. Queens But Woo gained a different perspective expert known as Dr. Toy, is the director of the forming arts presenting organization. I’ve been College with from his fellow students. “There were Shown above is a group of DEBs in 1953. Front row, from left: Vince Algeri, Jerry Haller, Jack Institute for Childhood Resources and the author enjoying life in San Diego for the past six years. a bachelor’s always about 40 to 50 advisors working Herschlag, Mel Schlechter, Dom Benvenuto, Ray Porfilio, John Pangarliotis, Fred Shapiro. Back row, of Smart Play/Smart Toys: How to Raise a Child I can jog in shorts and sail year-round. I keep an degree in together in the center,” he says. “It helped from left: Dave Blaustein, Dan Couri, Bernie Brodsky, Vinnie Colavitti, Sid Rothman, Lou Castelloti, with a High P.Q. (Play Quotient), which has been ice scraper in my trunk as a reminder of Big mathemat- open me up to the personal side of things. Tony Del Pizzo, Rudy Haluza, Mike Bickerman, Bob Stern, Mike Hertz. published in nine countries. Her Web site, Dr. Apple winters. What’s to complain about? It’s ics, Kaitsen While focusing on other people’s problems, Toy’s Guide (www.drtoy.com), has served as a been a great trip and it isn’t over yet. Go Queens Woo ’87 land- I had a chance to focus on my own. I was valued resource for parents, teachers, buyers, con- College!” . . . 1965: Barry Cohen has been ed at a per- the largest beneficiary of the program.” As spent much of the last year participating in painted six-foot-long sign on his ’66 Dodge that sumers, and the toy industry since 1995 . . . devoting himself to the fight against myotonic sonal cross- a result, he became comfortable taking Muscular Dystrophy Association conferences and read ‘I Love Queens College.’” You can get in 1961: Peggy Sapphire tells us that “A Possible muscular dystrophy, co-writing Disabled & roads. He risks, such as passing up an architecture fundraisers . . . Nanette Rainone has been touch with Mike to talk about the old times at Explanation, my first poetry collection, has been Challenged: Reach for Your Dreams with his son was working as a budget analyst for New job to take an unpaid internship that would appointed interim director of Flushing Town Hall. [email protected] . . . 1969: Joanne published by Partisan Press, a small, not-for-profit York City—and the position made him miser- offer better experience, and later, leaving a Previously a consultant, she has also worked in Doades, the director of curriculum development press committed to progressive prose and poetry. able. “It was an important job, but it was secure position to launch his own firm. radio and in politics; in 1979 she created the for the Union for Reform Judaism’s Department The book is available from Partisan Press the worst job I ever had,” he recalls. “I “From the Peer Advisors, I learned it was Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn to promote of Lifelong Jewish Learning, is the author of (www.partisanpress.org) and/or Blue Stone wasn’t cut out to be a public servant.” OK to give new things a shot,” he adds. “If cultural and educational programs . . . Marsha Parenting Jewish Teens: A Guide for the Books, P.O. Box 8, Craftsbury, VT 05826” . . . Then, using the money he had saved by it doesn’t work out, you do something else.” Temlock reports that her book, Your Child’s Perplexed (Jewish Lights Publishing). Joanne is a 1962: Vincent Dunn spent 42 years with the living at home with his parents, he enrolled Today, much of what Woo is doing Divorce: What to Expect—What You Can Do, featured speaker at conferences, workshops, and Fire Department of New York, becoming a deputy in architecture school at SUNY Buffalo. “I involves historic preservation, such as the was published by Impact Publishers. Parents training programs on Jewish parenting and Jewish chief before retiring from the force. Now, as a felt like a fish in water,” he says, the sense exterior restoration and interior rehabilita- Without Partners has endorsed the title as a identity development topics . . . 1970: Elliot Z. contributing editor to Firehouse magazine and the of relief audible in his voice. “Everything I tion of St. James Parish Hall in Elmhurst, a unique resource for parents whose children are Levine returned to the campus briefly in March, author of best-selling books and instructional touched became easy.” Apparently, other project that earned his firm the Lucy G. or have been divorced. For information, visit when the Western Wind vocal ensemble appeared videos, he shares his firefighting knowledge with people liked the results. Woo’s eponymous Moses Preservation Award from the New www.yourchildsdivorce.com . . . 1966: at Colden Auditorium. A classical singer and others . . . 1963: Primal Cell, a show of sculp- architecture firm, based in Manhattan’s York Landmarks Conservancy in 2005. His Edward Ray, president of Oregon State composer based in New York City, Elliot is an ture by Joan (Greene) Fine, was presented by trendy SoHo neighborhood, boasts a grow- firm handles contemporary assignments, University, received the Distinguished Service original member of the internationally acclaimed the Tria Gallery in Manhattan from Feb. 22 ing list of honors and wins enough projects too; it recently executed the design for the Barry Cohen (r) and son Terry Award from Ohio State University, where he had sextet, which devotes itself to a cappella music. through March 23. Joan’s work can be viewed at to keep its Taiwan-born founder busy at all memorial in honor of the people killed by worked for 33 years as a professor and adminis- With a repertoire that ranges from Renaissance www.joanfine.net . . . 1964: Allen Hausman Terry, who has the condition. An industrial and times—he has even been known to work the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 trator, ultimately becoming executive vice presi- motets to 1950s rock and roll, the Western Wind notes that “I now share my life with the woman I organizational psychologist who holds graduate during the Chinese New Year. in the Rockaways. “I lived in Queens,” he dent and provost. Edward assumed the presidency performs at venues across the country and coordi- met at Queens College in 1961 in science class. degrees from Columbia University and the Not that he’s complaining. Indeed, he says. “It has a lot to offer and we do of Oregon State in 2003 . . . 1967: A state panel nates an arts-in-education program in the local We dated for several years and then got married University of Tennessee, Barry taught at the credits Queens, and the Peer Advisors pro- important projects there.” named Howard Weitzman to the short list of public school system. The group has produced 19 to others. After more than three decades apart, University of West Florida before launching his gram in particular, with giving him the skills He feels equally strongly about the Peer qualified replacements for New York Comptroller recordings, 11 of which have been released on its Sandra Eizenman, nee Feingold ’65 and I own firm. His wife, Jewel Cohen ’66, com- he needed to perform his own makeover. As Advisors, which is why he became a found- Alan Hevesi, who resigned the post. Because the own label, Western Wind Records . . . 1971: reunited and merged our families, which now pleted a master’s in guidance and counseling an undergraduate, he had drifted from ing member of its alumni committee. “The State Assembly appointed one of its own mem- Sue Fox (MLS) has applied her research skills to include her daughters, my sons, their spouses, and from the University of Tennessee and subse- major to major, unsure of what he wanted contacts I made there have stayed with bers to the job, Howard has remained comptroller numismatics, teaming up with her husband to our nine grandchildren. We are living happily ever quently became a registered nurse. In addition to to be. “The pressure wasn’t about choosing me,” he says. “I feel indebted to the pro- of Nassau County . . . 1968: Michael Gillman write a series of books about American coins. after in Fairfax County, Virginia. Sandra retired their son, the Cohens have one daughter, Wendy, a career, but choosing an identity,” explains gram, and would like to see it continue.” (MA ’72) notes that “I was at Queens College Their latest effort, The United States Gold Coins from teaching elementary school in Briarcliff and two grandchildren. “Life is certainly a jour- Woo. Meanwhile, his siblings did what their from June 1963 until September 1972 and it still of Augustus Saint Gaudens, comes out this year. Manor, NY, in 2000. Although I will soon mark ney, and sometimes the road less traveled is the immigrant family expected of them: They Leslie Jay seems like yesterday and will always be the best In a career high point in October 2001, the couple my 35th anniversary of practicing law with the most significant one for all of us. I know that has been the case for me,” comments Barry, who has time of my life. I was the guy who had a hand- reunited the three Bicentennial coin artists with

26 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 27 Supreme Court and spent tions, and presents regularly at national, state, and five years presiding over the local conferences. Her current research addresses Queens Treatment Court, a special education needs of children in foster care Celebrate problem-solving drug court . . . 1974: Dario Cortés is president and direc- that has won national atten- tor of the American School Foundation, a K–12 Queens College tion for its efforts to reduce American school in Mexico City. Before this, he Day recidivism. Leslie speaks held senior administrative positions at the often on treatment court pan- University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, the at Madison Square Leach els and on community panels University of Maryland, North Carolina State, related to youths and criminal justice. He holds a Fairleigh Dickinson, and the University of Garden Sue Fox (r) with husband Les, former President master of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a postdoctoral We have just made Gerald Ford, and daughter Jamie. Massachusetts and a juris doctor from Columbia degree in education. Dario holds a second one arrangements with the President Gerald R. Ford, who autographed cards Law School . . . Andrea G. Zetlin recently from Harvard, as well as a master’s from the on the occasion. Sue’s expertise is not limited to received the Outstanding Professor Award from University of Virginia and a doctorate in foreign Women’s National money; The Beanie Baby Handbook, which she California State University, Los Angeles. languages and Latin American studies from the Basketball Association to and her husband co-authored, spent six months on Cofounder of the C. Lamar Mayer Learning University of Illinois. A certified K–12 teacher, celebrate Queens College the New York Times best-seller list in 1998 . . . Center at the school, where she is a professor of Dario worked early in his career as a substitute at Day on Sunday, July 29, in 1972: Norma Kershaw gave a lecture about education in the Division of Special Education a yeshiva, where students called him “Rabbi Madison Square Garden, when the New ancient Mediterranean mosaics in January at the and Counseling at the Charter College of Cortés” . . . 1976: Gail Satler is the author of York Liberty will play the Connecticut Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Education, Andrea represents the university in Two Tales of a City: Rebuilding Chicago’s Mesa, CA. Norma started her archaeological efforts to support the Architectural and Social Landscape, 1986–2005 Sun at 4 pm. Come and meet the players career at age 45 by volunteering at a dig near improvement of urban edu- (Northern Illinois University Press). A professor and talk with QC basketball legend Jerusalem . . . Leslie Leach, administrative cation throughout the greater of sociology at Hofstra University, Gail received Donna Orender ’78, President of the judge of the eleventh judicial district, Supreme Los Angeles community. A her MA in sociology from QC and went on to WNBA, after the game. Tickets are $10 member of the Cal State LA Court, Queens County, was named a deputy attor- receive her PhD in the same subject from the and $19.50. To order, contact: ney general by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. faculty since 1989, she has CUNY Grad Center. In Two Tales of a City, she Alexis Grassadonio The top judge in the borough since May 2004, written more than 100 book explores how architecture shapes the social envi- WNBA Team Business Leslie also teaches business law at York College. chapters, journal articles, and ronment . . . 1977: Denise Becker has joined He has served both criminal and civil terms in the Zetlin other professional publica- Prudential Carolinas Realty as a sales associate at and Development Phone: 212-407-8742 Ximena Rua-Merkin: Keeping Her Eye on the Olympics Email: [email protected] could have done; it exposed me to all service at the games, but that didn’t work aspects of campus life.” She also joined out, either.” So she opted for plan C—to the company’s Ballantyne- Queens’s first class of Big Buddies, which become a member of the Bolivian team. area office in Charlotte, NC. paired college students with children who The big question was, how? “I had to Previously, she served as the were homeless or otherwise at risk. (She’s find a sport that I could train in and com- VP of American Datagraph, happy to report that her mentoree, Carlos, pete in,” she explains. As a novice, Rua- Inc., where she worked for is now a police officer with three children Merkin felt her chances were best in disci- more than 25 years. Denise of his own.) plines that didn’t already have a big follow- can be reached at Upon graduating with a degree in com- ing in her home country, such as shooting denise.becker @prucaroli- munications, Rua-Merkin went into televi- and archery. She chose the latter, because Becker na.com . . . 1978: Bruce sion production. Then, because that indus- she’s averse to guns. Fortunately, she Eder created the script for the music documen- try left New York City for cheaper loca- found two archery ranges, and skilled tary The Moody Blues, part of the Classic Artists tions, she segued into the nonprofit sec- coaches, right here in Queens. Series from Britain’s Impact Films. The movie tor, holding a series of senior positions at After taking 2005 off to practice and covers the history of the celebrated English rock Covenant House and the American Red attend tournaments, Rua-Merkin is setting band best known for the song “Nights in White Sixteen years after she earned her bache- Cross. In 2006 she started a new job at her sights on entering international events Satin.” A journalist who has written for the lor’s degree at Queens College, Ximena the Community Resource Exchange, a that will qualify her for Olympic competition Village Voice, Newsday, and other publications, Rua-Merkin ’91 is aiming at a different tar- Manhattan-based not-for-profit consulting at 70 meters, the only female category. Bruce has a second career in the film industry. As a get: representing her native country, group that helps other nonprofits with She’s making progress: Last summer, she writer/producer/narrator, he has recorded more than Bolivia, at the Olympic Games in 2008. fundraising, public relations, and board and two other women picked up silver two dozen audio commentary tracks for movies “I came here as a foreign student to development. medals in open team competition at the issued by the Criterion Collection and other video learn English,” says Rua-Merkin. “Then I While she advanced in her career, Rua- National Outdoor Championship in Colorado companies. Additionally, he has overseen numer- was given the option to take college cours- Merkin nurtured another dream: She want- Springs. Rua-Merkin also has to establish a ous CD releases devoted to classic film music, es, and I decided to continue my studies.” ed somehow to participate in the Olympics. Bolivian archery association, so she can historical classical recordings, and vintage rock, Her transition to an American university “Sports have always been important in my represent her country officially. Her status country, and blues for Sony Music Special involved more than just adapting to another life,” she says. “In high school, I competed as a literal and figurative long shot doesn’t Products and Polygram Records . . . 1979: language. “I had gone to a high school that in track and field. When I worked in televi- concern her. “Once I tried archery, it Brian Gruber is the founder and CEO of was very structured,” she adds. “Here, I sion, I hoped to cover the Olympics, but seemed like I was made for it,” she says. FORA.tv, the first company to deliver interactive was presented with so many options. that didn’t work out. Then I hoped to be media, driven by video content, that focuses on That’s what took me to the Peer Advise- part of the Red Cross team that provided Leslie Jay the world’s great thinkers, leaders, and writers. ment Office. It was one of the best things I The goal of FORA.tv is to create an Internet- based community that will engage in discussions

28 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 29 and debates on the world’s most interesting politi- and academic chair of the arts and humanities Sight to Sound, a Weiskopf composition that cal, social, and cultural issues. Among those cur- division. A member of the board of directors of includes movements named for Joan Miró, Pablo Homecoming Weekend Sept. 15–17! rently providing content for FORA.tv are C- the League of Composers International Society Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and other artists. Walt SPAN, the Cato Institute, the Hoover Institution, for Contemporary Music and the American Italian studied music at the Eastman School of Music in the World Affairs Council, Americans for an Historical Association, Linda has received annual Rochester, NY, and then earned a master’s degree Each day will feature a different special event. On Saturday, September 15 we will Informed Democracy, and a number of leading composers’ awards from the American Society of in clarinet performance at Queens. As a saxo- be holding a special Millennium Graduates Event starting at 7:30 pm. On Sunday, independent bookstores across the nation. Brian Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Her articles phonist, he’s been compared to John Coltrane. lives in San Francisco and holds a master’s degree on contemporary composers appear in the New He’s also making a name for himself as a com- September 16, all alumni are invited to come to campus for a special day of events, in broadcast management from Pepperdine Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Linda, poser. “I’m doing what I was born to do,” says sports, music, and catching up with old friends. The fun starts at 11 am. And on University . . . 1980: Dan Schechter was who is writing a book titled Music and Early Walt. “I’m lucky to be able to do it” . . . 1990: elected vice president of GEICO, where he over- Greek Myths, holds a PhD from the CUNY Alicia A. Weissmeier studied law at Pace Monday, September 17, we will be holding our Second Annual Golf and Tennis sees staff development. Until February, Dan was Graduate Center . . . Paul McGovern led the University after graduation. Now she’s the man- Classic at the beautiful Fresh Meadow Country Club in Lake Success, NY. the insurance company’s assistant vice president New Vocal Collective, a 17-voice ensemble, in a of staff development . . . 1981: Fran Capo,a Christmas concert at the Salyard Center for the comedienne, adventurer, author, and motivational Arts in Conway, NH. Paul is the chorus master of This year we will be honoring one of our own at the Classic, Robert Wann ’82, speaker known as the World’s Fastest-Talking the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre and music Chief Operating Officer of New York Community Bancorp. To register for this year’s Female, has joined the cast of a new reality show director of the Granite State Choral Society . . . centered around the life of fitness celebrity John 1987: Joseph Goldberg writes that he keeps Classic, visit www.qc.cuny.edu/QCSPORTS/golf_tennis_classic.html or call Erin Basedow. Recorded in 7-minute episodes for busy as the chancellor commander of the webcasting, John Basedow TV: Television Fit to Knickerbocker Lodge of the Knights of Pythias Dollard at 718-997-2724. Online registration for September 15 and 16 will be Watch features Fran as an adventurous friend who and as an emergency room volunteer at New York available soon. fast-talks the star into odd situations. She also Queens Hospital. A World War II Coast Guard breaks into different voices on the show, animat- veteran, Joseph retired from the U.S. Postal ing objects and animals as she sees fit—not a big Service in 1981 after working as an international stretch for someone who does character voice- claims examiner for 40 years, winning numerous wide programming strategy group, including in sets of original compositions as part of the Look for us on the Web as we are always adding Alicia Weissmeir and husband Jason Marek overs for a living. “So far,” she reports, “I’ve fast- awards for distinguished service . . . 1988: facilitating communication between Disney and Brooklyn Jazz Underground’s mid-January inau- news about the college and upcoming events: talked John into hanging with penguins and exer- Nadeen Edwards has just released her first solo aging partner of Lapatin Lewis Kaplan & Jetix Channels to coordinate and roll out pro- gural festival at Smalls in Greenwich Village. The www.qc.cuny.edu/alumni_affairs cising with seals; now I’m working on getting CD, a Gospel fusion collection Just in Time. Weissmeier, PLLC, in midtown Manhattan. She gramming strategies on a global basis. A Disney Barcelona-born bassist is a founding member of him to eat fire.” Fran reports she also made her Based in Stroudsburg, PA, Nadeen teaches junior says that her personal life is thriving, too. “On executive since 2004, David previously worked at the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a collective of MISSING ALUMNI dramatic debut recently in a play about domestic high math and, with her husband, does weekend August 28, 2005, I married Jason A. Marek at the Ragdoll USA Inc., the Itsy Bitsy Entertainment bandleaders who are dedicated to improvisational We have lost touch with many of our alumni. violence called Write to Heal . . . 1985: Linda duty as musical director of Pocono Community Garden City Hotel in Garden City, NY. We make Company, and Marvel Enterprises. A member of music . . . Yu-Hsien Wu was the soloist in Usually they did not let us know when they Ardito is provost of Dowling College, where her Church . . . 1989: When tenor saxophone player our home in New Hyde Park” . . . 1991: David the New York State Bar, he is a graduate of the Tyzen-Hsiao’s Cello Concerto in G at the moved. Addresses can be updated at previous positions included associate provost of Walt Weiskopf appeared last fall at the Levine is vice president of worldwide program- National Law Center at George Washington Sheboygan Symphony’s March 24 concert. A www.qc.cuny.edu/QCF. the School of Arts & Sciences, chair of the Baltimore Museum of Art, his repertoire matched ming strategy and windowing for Disney Channel University. David resides in Los Angeles . . . member of the faculty at Ripon College, she department of music, executive chair of faculty, the environment. He and his band opened with and Jetix. He oversees all aspects of the world- 1992: Ted Alexandro is collaborating with fel- earned a doctorate in cello performance last year SUPPORT THE ARTS @ QC low stand-up comic and QC alum Hollis James from the University of Wisconsin at Madison . . . You may never see your name up in lights on ’92 on the pilot for his own 30-minute show on 2006: Anet Abnous had a solo exhibition at St. Broadway, but you can see it in one of QC’s the- It didn’t work out law from New York University. Active in Comedy Central . . . 1996: Sarah Lasry has Vartan’s Cathedral in Manhattan. Anet showed atres. Celebrate yourself, a friend, or a loved William H. Booth, that way. Some the NAACP from the age of 16, he later published a cookbook, The Dairy Gourmet: one—while supporting the arts on campus— 1922–2006 months before gradu- became its New York State chair, then paintings that drew on her Armenian heritage and ation we got orders to New York City Human Rights Commis- Secret Recipes from Tastebuds Café. A self-taught her experience as a member of a religious minori- with a plaque affixed to one of the new seats in William H. Booth, chairman of New York report to Camp Upton sioner, later a Criminal Court judge and kosher chef who catered her own engagement ty in Iran, where she grew up. Colden Auditorium. To find out more, contact the City’s Commission on Human Rights in the out on Long Island to acting NY Supreme Court justice. party last fall, Sarah operates a restaurant in Development Office by phone (718-997-3920), 1960s and later a Criminal Court and New begin our Army The last time I saw Bill I was in his Howell, NJ. She gravitated toward cooking upon email [email protected], or write to York Supreme Court justice, died Dec. 12 careers. Bill and the courtroom. My office on Park Avenue had growing disenchanted with jobs in marketing, SEND US YOUR NEWS! the QC Foundation (65-30 Kissena Boulevard, at his home in Florida. He was a member rest of us reported to been robbed over a weekend, but our alert We want to hear more from you. Tell us where of the Queens College entering class of teaching, and head-hunting . . . 1997: Dean Flushing, New York 11367). Upton on March 3, elevator operator called the police and you are and what you are doing, and enclose a 1939, scheduled to graduate in 1943, but Radinovsky had a one-month show at World War II intervened. He returned to 1943, for the Army’s reception process. they caught the thief. Many weeks later he Metropolitan College of New York’s Next Gallery photo. Be sure to let us know when you move. Q MAGAZINE UPDATES Getting your hair shorn, pulling garbage appeared before Judge Booth and I was Queens, graduating in 1946. His classmate in Soho. In The Artist’s Process: Materials as Email: [email protected] Check the college’s Web site this summer for a Jim Doyle shares his memories of this detail or other kitchen duty, cleaning there as the complainant. It was a quick Inspiration, Mail: Alumni News, Office of Alumni Affairs, Web-only update of Q. remarkable man. latrines were all bad enough, but for all of affair; the perpetrator agreed to go into a the Woodside resident exhibited Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, us one of the worst parts of that traumatic drug rehabilitation program. small-scale sculpture, prints, and paintings Bill was a handsome young man in college, time was the shock of seeing our admired Bill and I made some friendly talk about inspired by his more ambitious projects . . . Flushing, NY 11367 tall and slender, and stayed that way the friend Bill Booth shunted off with “colored Queens College and our memories, and 2001: Alexis Cuadrado led his trio and quartet Phone: 718-997-3930 rest of his life. He had a great smile and a troops,” as they were then called, to a seg- then parted. It was good, though, to see ready laugh but projected a firm dignity, regated part of the camp. Bill again and be in his courtroom, and to Harvey Laudin ’47 Mary A. Filsinger Costello ’55 Margaret Mihalik Gogolak ’63 and had a lot of friends at Queens. My Discrimination was nothing new to Bill, witness him dispensing the justice he had WE REMEMBER William H. Bollenbach ’49 Rhoda Edelman Gorman ’55 Diane Katz Werner ’65 wife, then Ethel Clancey, and I were I assume; he must have experienced it in a been pursuing all his life. Robert E. O’Connor ’41 Charles Camarata ’49 Marianne Kochman ’55 Robert O’Leary ’71 pleased to be among them. thousand ways and places growing up, Helen Usefon Torres ’41 Theodore Ether ’49 Doris Peterson Rubasch ’55 James Miller ’72 After America’s entry into World War II, although not at Queens College. For the Jim Doyle is a columnist for Catholic New York newspaper and has published two S. Frank Redo ’42 Ivy Bennett Prucha ’49 Eugene E. Chermack ’56 Robert Edward Angland ’74 the draft became a threat to our complet- rest of us, though, it was a real shock; we books collecting his columns: Two Voices Marianne R. Freundlich ’43 Otto K. Bergmann ’50 David Goldberg ’56 Helen J. McDonough ’76 ing college, and 54 men of our class, had not seen such raw segregation before. (with his son Brian), and Tales from a Real Estelle Rapport Friedman ’44 Erick Torres ’50 Erne Mewhinney Levins ’56 Dorothy Jean Buxton Roebuck ’76 including Bill, opted to join the Army’s Bill served as a Master Sergeant in the Life. He was executive director of the Dorothy E. Breitwieser Gondela ’45 Sergio Valle ’50 Robert J. Fazio ’57 Michael H. Smith ’80 Army Air Corps in Italy, and after the war Enlisted Reserve Corps, in exchange for Catholic Press Association, 1958–88, and Dorothy W. Cunningham ’46 John David Wheeler ’50 Ruth M. Perilla Jaffe ’57 Erich Miller ’92 returned to Queens, graduating in 1946. their commitment to let us graduate in is now retired. He and his wife, Ethel, live Ruth B. Bowes Hobbs ’46 Sally Moskowitz Beres ’51 Robert W. Hartman ’58 Bradley J. Baymack ’97 1943 before we had to go to active duty. He got his law degree and a master’s in in Lake Mary, Florida. Helen Horowitz Lustberg ’46 William Heine ’53 Seraph Petrusa Knapp ’58 Edith Turecan Kettel ’47 Jack Zuckerman ’53 Jon Stephen Branning ’63

30 Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE Q MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 31 Gregory Rabassa Honored at the White House Distinguished Professor Gregory L. Rabassa (Hispanic Languages), one of the world’s leading translators of Latin American literature, has been awarded the 2006 National Medal of Arts. He received the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence from President George W. and Mrs. Laura Bush at a ceremony last November in the White House Oval Office. Rabassa, who has taught at the college since 1968, is perhaps best known for his translation of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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