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IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO—ON FEBRUARY 10, 1961—THAT THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED A SPEECH AT NYU, TITLED “THE FUTURE OF INTEGRATION.” SEEN HERE IS FRONT-PAGE COVER - AGE OF THE EVENT FROM THE HEIGHTS DAILY NEWS —THE STUDENT PUBLICATION OF NYU’S FORMER UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CAMPUS IN THE BRONX. AN EDITORIAL BY CHIC GOLDSMID DESCRIBES HIS IM - PRESSION OF MEETING THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER DURING A LUNCH - EON THAT DAY: “OF MEDIUM BUILD, DR. KING IS A SLOW-SPEAKING, CAREFUL MAN. HE IS DELIBERATE AND ANALYTIC IN HIS STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS. WHEN YOU ASK HIM SOMETHING HE LISTENS INTENTLY, LEANING TOWARD YOU. YOUR QUESTIONS ARE ABOUT INTEGRATION AND WHAT CAN BE DONE IN THE NORTH. DR. KING IS INTERESTED. YOU NEVER FORGET THAT.” THIS YEAR, THE UNIVERSITY COMMEMORATED THE ANNIVER - SARY OF THIS HISTORIC VISIT DURING THE ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION WEEK, WHERE THE MLK HUMANITARIAN AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO DR. FRITZ FRANÇOIS (WSC ’93, MED ’97, ’07) OF THE NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER FOR HIS EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI.

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A TSIPI BEN-HAIM / TSOA, GSAS ’81 S S NOTES Building Walls That Unite

by Amy Rosenberg

N THE LATE 1970S, TSIPI BEN-HAIM WORKED IN it’s the students who give take care of the projects, TEL AVIV AS A COMMANDER IN THE ISRAELI the wall a monthly main - they own them—and they tenance check. “If you un - care more.” I ARMY. LAST SUMMER, SHE WAS BACK IN THAT derstand that you have Born in Russia and country as executive and the creation of more than in the wall’s creation. But built something,” Ben- raised in Israel, Ben-Haim artistic director of City- 280 public art displays it was the students, ages 10 Haim says, “then it’s came to the United States Arts Inc., a nonprofit ded - around the world, begin - to 18, who designed each yours. You are invested in in 1979 to earn a master’s icated to community- ning with painted murals image and laid the tile it, and you have to respect degree in Slavic languages based art projects, and she and later adding mosaics pieces one by one. And it. When young people and comparative literature was leading a different and sculptures to its reper - kind of troop: a coalition toire. of Jewish and Arab youth Under Ben-Haim’s di - building a peace wall in rectorship, CityArts has Jaffa. The wall, a tile mo - widened its scope, saic depicting scenes of so - launching the peace walls cial harmony—a dove, a and engaging in public art pomegranate, a side-by- restoration projects, such side church, synagogue, as the repair of the tile and mosque—is one of benches that curve around several that Ben-Haim has Grant’s Tomb in Upper helped establish in cities Manhattan. Among the around the world, includ - programs they’ve recently ing New York, Karachi, initiated are Young Minds and Berlin. “My goal is to Build Bridges, formed af - activate youth to do some - ter 9/11 as a way for thing good in the world,” young people to reach out she explains. “And to help across international, class, them connect with each and ethnic borders, and other.” Windows of Opportuni - Ben-Haim was hired in ty, which provides funds 1989 to revitalize City- for kids to study art. “The Arts, after it was declared students do everything,” dead in the wake of Wall Ben-Haim says. “We em - Street’s crash two years ploy artists who guide earlier. Starting it up again them, but they design from scratch, she adopted the projects and carry the organization’s original them out.” mission—to galvanize the For the Jaffa peace wall, skills and creative ener - CityArts chose the space gies of young, mainly dis - (a long wall lining the side advantaged, people and of a busy street) and the engage them in beautify - motif (peaceful co-exis - ing their own neighbor - tence), and hired artists to hoods. Since 1968, lead about 1,500 students CityArts has coordinated from 30 different schools

52 / SPRING 2011 / NYU her. “I realized it was (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 50) folktales were told by his wonderful to write about He has published numer - father, a master Chasidic art and what art could ous books, including Be - storyteller, on Yiddish do,” she says, “but what tween the Species and radio in the 1950s and became very important to Just a Dog: Animal Cruel - early ’60s. me, after having my own ty and Ourselves . child, was the idea of giv - MARIA MARKHAM JOSHUA HALBERSTAM THOMPSON / STERN P ing kids a voice.” Now, H O T

O she says, it’s impossible to / GSAS ’78 / received a ’79, WAG ’81 / has joined © I R literature fellowship the Integrated Resource

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M “Seeing kids build their A N self-esteem, their sense of to translate Chasidic Commission as an energy from the Graduate School graduating, she married ownership, their under - stories from Yiddish. The analyst. of Arts and Science; artist Zigi Ben-Haim standing of each other, of while there, she took and worked as a New collaboration, of the role courses in art and art his - York–based art critic for they play in shaping the tory whenever her sched - Israeli publications. But future—that doesn’t feel ule allowed. After her work didn’t satisfy like work.” 198 0s

BELOW: TSIPI BEN-HAIM HELPS A YOUNG PAINTER TOUCH UP A MURAL. ABOVE: STUDENTS WORKING ON THE PEACE WALL IN ISRAEL. JANET GOLDNER / Award from Kettering

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N ect at the Museum of SCPS ’90 / won an T A L

E Arts and Design in New Emmy Award for his work R York until May. The exhi - on the Major League bition explores the broad Baseball Network’s spectrum of contempo - MLB Tonight . rary African art, design, and craft worldwide. ILENE KILBERG WILKINS / WSUC ’82 / MARK L. MAIELLO / was named Central Flori - GSAS ’81, ’86 / co-edited da Woman of the Year by the recently published the Women’s Executive Radioactive Air Sampling Council of Orlando for her Methods (CRC Press) and work as CEO of UCP of was voted president-elect Central Florida, an educa - of the Greater New York tional organization for Chapter of the Health special-needs people. Physics Society. PATRICIA HURT JONES JAY GOLDBERG / GAL / LS ’84 / earned a Doc - ’82 / recently opened the tor of Psychology in clini - Bergino Baseball Club - cal psychology from house in a Greenwich Vil - Argosy University in lage landmark building. Washington, D.C. The clubhouse sells hand - made baseballs and fea - GARY MYERS / WSUC tures an art gallery. ’84 / , professor of law at the University of Missis -

BRIAN J. M CCARTIN / sippi, is also now serving CIMS ’82 / of Flint, MI, as associate dean for re - has received both the search. His sixth and 2010 Educational Scholar most recent book, Ques - Award and the Distin - tions & Answers: Intellec -

guished Researcher (CONTINUED ON PAGE 55)

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LEONARD N. STERN T COULD BE ARGUED THAT DAVID SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 212-998-4040 FREEDENBERG, KNOWN AROUND TOWN AS [email protected] I FAMOUS FAT DAVE, ISN’T QUITE BIG ENOUGH LIBERAL STUDIES 212-998-6880 to live up to his Tour on the Wheels of because it was his taxi [email protected] moniker—but his enor - Steel takes passengers on a driver days that helped NYU ALUMNI RELATIONS mous passion for food is gastronomic journey him compile a mental 212-998-6912 undeniable. One reason through New York City Rolodex of food treas - [email protected] he enrolled at NYU was in Freedenberg’s iconic ures. “People are pretty NYU STEINHARDT “to be near the city’s myr - white ’82 Checker proud of their little neigh - 212-998-6942 [email protected] iad culinary institutions,” Marathon. The cus - borhood secrets, so I just and after earning his de - tomized ride—which en - asked every fare that I NYU WAGNER 212-998-7537 gree in history, the first tails snacking at an array had,” he says. “At this [email protected] job he applied for was at of eateries—has been pro - point it’s literally my life’s The New York INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY the original Nathan’s in filed in work to discover all the OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Coney Island. And now, Times , Saveur magazine, best food in New York.” ah Schimmel’s Knish Bak - 212-992-7800 after years of working and on ABC News to The 32-year-old Mary - ery, and Guss’ Pickles, [email protected] low-wage jobs in the food name a few, and his ex - land native fell in love with where Freedenberg was SCHOOL OF CONTINUING industry while moon - pertise has landed him on the city as a student living such a big customer that AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 212-998-7003 in the East Village, where he eventually worked [email protected] he was a regular at there just so he could eat SCHOOL OF LAW “Some people in Pommes Frites and Ve - as many pickles as possible 212-998-6410 niero’s Pasticceria & Caf - (about 50 per day). He also [email protected] college chase girls— fé. “Some people in found work as a bread SCHOOL OF MEDICINE I was chasing the college chase girls—I was truck driver, cheese mon - 212-263-5390 [email protected] chasing the food,” he re - ger, and hot dog vendor at food.” calls. The first eating tour the Brooklyn Cyclones SILVER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK he ever gave was at NYU ballpark. “I did those jobs 212-998-9189 lighting as a cab driver, every Big Apple episode as president of the history for the food,” he says. “If [email protected] he’s actually found a way of Anthony Bourdain’s club—a walk through the I was going to do some - TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS to eat for a living. travel show No Reserva - Lower East Side that in - thing for the money, I’d 212-998-6954 tions. [email protected] Famous Fat Dave’s Freedenberg’s clas - cluded the legendary go down to Wall Street.” Five Borough Eating sic cab is especially fitting Katz’s Delicatessen, Yon - What started as a hob -

54 / SPRING 2011 / NYU MARYLAND NATIVE DAVID (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53) Thrill of the C FREEDENBERG TAKES tual Property , has just Chaste: Find - PASSENGERS ON A GASTRO - L been published by ing Fulfill - NOMIC JOURNEY THROUGH A NYC IN HIS WHITE ’82 LexisNexis. ment While CHECKER MARATHON. Keeping Your S GREG ROBINSON / WAG Clothes On S you think that you don’t ’84 / has been named (Thomas Nel - NOTES like knishes, maybe the first executive direc - son) (written you’ve just never had a tor of the Bainbridge Art as Dawn great knish.” Museum in Bainbridge Eden) enter It’s hard to believe that Island, WA. its 10th print - Famous Fat Dave started ing. In May 2010, she out as a picky eater in GLORIA CAHILL (NOW received her MA in theol - childhood and was then a HEFFERNAN) / GSAS ogy from Dominican provincial college student ’87 / , former director of House of Studies in who didn’t venture north community service at Washington, D.C., where of 11th Street, until he NYU, has been appointed she continues to study. brought his old Toyota director of development Camry from home— for InterFaith Works of EMELIE M. HOWARD / a decision that proved Central New York in STEINHARDT ’89 / pub - fateful. “Once I started Syracuse. lished Heart Stars , which driving all over the city includes first-person ac - I realized I loved every JULIE CROTTY-GUILE / counts by women dealing inch of it and that I could GAL ’87 / is currently in with traumatic incidents spend the rest of my life her 20th year of teaching of heart disease coupled exploring,” he says. voice and piano at the with biographies of fa - Freedenberg has done Noteworthy Music Studio mous women, such as precisely that in the decade in Omaha. This year she Betty Friedan, and their since, except today he will celebrate 21 years of ultimate demise from traverses the urban terrain marriage to Peter Guile the disease. in a taxi he lovingly named and continue work on her “Sweetness” and outfitted latest album of original SUSAN G. METZGER / with a roof light that reads music. WAG ’89 / was named EAT . The old-school ve - senior policy adviser of hicle attracts a lot of atten - DAWN EDEN GOLD - the Metropolitan Trans - tion: Upon pulling into STEIN / STEINHARDT portation Authority in traffic, a group of girls on ’89 / saw her book The June. the sidewalk smile and wave. Later when the car by in 2002 grew into a ommendation and he can parks alongside a street full-time business a few rattle off 50 top spots in all sweeper outside Katz’s years ago after a trip to five boroughs, as well as Deli, the sanitation work - 1990s Cairo where Freedenberg the history of the dish. er hops out and cracks a met a boisterous cabbie His tours can be cui - joke about needing a ride WARREN ALEXANDER / GAYLE M. HORWITZ / giving private tours of the sine specific—from sushi to Boston. “Driving the GSAS ’90 / is now a WAG ’90 / has been pyramids. “I thought, If to soul food—or chosen Checker around makes member of the board of named chief operating this guy’s doing it for a liv - by themes such as the New York feel like a small directors of the Brooklyn officer of the Battery Park ing, why don’t I? ” he says. Midnight Munchies town in the 1950s Mid - Waterfront Artists Coalition. City Authority. The career change proved Cruise or Sweet Tooth west, where everyone a natural fit. After all, Free - Tour, but the most popu - knows each other,” Free - CONSUELO HERNÁNDEZ KYNYA V. JACOBUS / denberg had long been lar is Famous Fat Dave’s denberg explains. “It’s a / GSAS ’90, ’91 / partici - WSUC ’90 / was promoted known for his nearly en - Faves. “People don’t know huge city that can feel very pated in the 20th Interna - to the position of senior cyclopedic knowledge of that they want broccoli anonymous and lonely tional Poetry Festival of corporate counsel at New York meals—and rabe with sausage and gar - sometimes, but it’s like all Medellín in July 2010. Pfizer, Inc. She lives with her now he could share that lic knots—but they do,” of a sudden I know every - About 100 poets from 58 husband in Pennsylvania. with both tourists and lo - he explains. “I try to open body, so it makes my life countries took part in the cals. Ask for a pizza rec - people’s minds to food. If here feel very surreal.” event in Colombia. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 57)

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 55) which is a biography of her father, LAURA NEWBERN / GSAS ’91 / a political journalist, radio talk received a2010 Rona Jaffe Foun - show host, and Anglican priest. dation Writers’ Award, which is given annually to six female writ - NANCY KANE / STEINHARDT keepskeeps youyou up-tup-to-dateoo-dat ers who demonstrate excellence ’96 / is finishing her term as pres - on the UnivUniversity’sersiity’s and promise in the early stages ident of the National Dance Asso - NYUU eextraordinaryxtraordinary of their careers. ciation and will be taking on a new role with the board of directors of AlumniAlumnni alumni, ffaculty,aculty, HEYWARD DONIGAN / WAG ’92 the Lloyd Shaw Foundation, an or - and sstudenttudent / has been named CEO of Value- ganization dedicated to the per - MagazineMagazinne newsmakers.newsmakers. Options Inc., the nation’s largest formance and preservation of independent behavioral health- traditional music and dance. care company. EnsureEnsure that youyou continuecontinue toto getget this DAISY AUGER-DOMÍNGUEZ / award-winningaward-winning publicationpublication in youryour HOWARD LUTT / TSOA ’92 / , WAG ’97 / was recently named mailboxmailbox byby makingmakking a contributioncontribution after launching and directing The the managing director of execu - ofof $25$25 toto TheThe FundFund forfor NYU.NYU. Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer tive search initiatives worldwide at CNN, has moved to ESPN. recruitment and executive search Donate online www.nyu.edu/giving/ He joined its team this fall and at Time Warner Inc. or call 1-800-698-4144 is directing shows, including SportsCenter . CONSTANCE HASSETT-WALKER / WAG ’97 / recently received the WithWith youryour giftg ofof $25,$25, youyou will alsoa receive an NYU Alumni CardCard that entitlesentitle you to KATHLEEN KINSOLVING / TSOA President’s Research Initiative eexclusivexclusive benebenefitsfits and discounts.discount ’95 / published Gadfly: The Life Award at Kean University in and Times of Les Kinsolving— Union, NJ, where she is an assis - ForFor moremore information,inforrmation, visit White House Watchdog (WND), tant professor of criminal justice. alumni.nyu.edu/benefitsalumni.nyu.edu/benefits

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NOTES THE MAN OF SUMMER

by Sally Lauckner / GSAS ’10

UBBED THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTS - son, the Dodgers became There’s a photo of the white WRITERS, ROGER KAHN BEGAN REPORTING the first racially integrated hand and the black hand team. Later Robinson coming together, which D ON BASEBALL AND THE BROOKLYN DODGERS joined the Montreal Royals Shuba called the handshake in 1952 for the New York Kahn’s Brooklyn childhood covering the sport. and hit a home run during of the century. It was re - Herald Tribune . He later and the Dodgers’ path to his first game. [Teammate] markable. wrote about sports for victory in the 1955 World WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST George Shuba was on first If you look at history Newsweek , Time , and Es - Series. Sports Illustrated CHANGES THAT BASE - base and shook Robinson’s from person to person, quire , authored 20 books, called it “the best baseball BALL HAS UNDERGONE hand [at home plate]. I would say: no Jackie SINCE 1952? Money. There was a fine Dodgers pitcher, Carl Er - skine, who struck out 14 Yankees in the 1953 World Series, and he earned $30,000. Back then the ballplayer worried about what he would do when his playing days were over. Also in the ’50s, the games were in the after - noon. There was no thought of playing at night; it would have been sacri - lege. Now television net - works dictate the starting time based on when they’ll get high ratings. Another change is the crowd’s obscenity. Fans in the ’50s, especially in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED CALLED THE BOYS OF SUMME R “THE BEST Brooklyn, were loud, but BASEBALL BOOK EVER WRITTEN.” I don’t remember bad lan - and owned a Class-A mi - book ever written,” but guage. A couple years ago nor league team, the Utica Kahn insists, “I wasn’t try - I went to Shea Stadium for Blue Sox, which he helped ing to write a baseball book, a Braves game, and they steer to the 1983 New I was writing a book about kept shouting, “Chipper York-Penn League title. the passage of time and what [Jones] sucks! Chipper But it was his 1972 mem - it does to people.” sucks!” for nine innings. oir, The Boys of Summer , Now living in Stone that solidified his place in Ridge, New York, with IN WHAT WAY HAS BASE - baseball history. The semi - wife Katharine, Kahn, 83, BALL HAD THE MOST nal text, which has sold talked to NYU Alumni Mag - IMPACT ON AMERICAN more than three million azine about the current state CULTURE? copies, alternates between of baseball and his early days By signing Jackie Robin -

58 / SPRING 2011 / NYU Robinson, no Martin WHICH CURRENT PLAY - sulted in Tim’s tremen - Luther King Jr., no Presi - ER BEST REPRESENTS dous performance during dent Obama. That’s the THE SPORT? the 2010 postseason. 2000s significance of this sport. Giants pitcher Tim Lince - cum is 170 pounds, yet he AFTER ALL THESE NICOLE FELD / TSOA BRYAN DAY / WAG ’03 / WHAT DID YOU THINK can throw the ball 95 miles YEARS, DOES ANY - ’00 /, executive vice pres - has taken a new position OF THE QUALITY OF per hour. Baseball is unlike THING STILL SURPRISE ident and producer of Feld as management analyst PLAY IN THE LAST other sports in that nor - YOU ABOUT BASEBALL? Entertainment, was se - at the Pentagon manag - WORLD SERIES? mal-size people can play at I am constantly impressed lected by Jewish Women ing boards, committees, They’re throwing harder the highest level. by the players’ talent—the International as a 2010 and task forces. than they used to. An 85- Lincecum’s father stud - power and agility of the ma - Women to Watch honoree miles-per-hour fastball was ied the biomechanics of jor league hitters, the dis - for her accomplishments SHARON O’SHAUGH - the major league standard; pitching and concluded tance of the outfield throws, in the entertainment field NESSY / STEINHARDT now it’s in the 90s. The that throwing is about and the amazing hooks and and her commitment to ’03, ’04 / is completing level of play is excellent, hinges—the shoulder is a swerves that pitchers can do upholding Jewish val - her second year of law but with instant replay hinge, the wrist is a hinge. with a baseball. The fear of ues.Starting with the school and intends to we’re seeing that the level He taught young Tim how failing is still a part of the 134th edition of Ringling pursue a career as a of umpiring is not what it to get all the body hinges game, but the glory of not Bros. and Barnum & Bailey prosecutor. ought to be. into his motion, and it re - failing is, too. Circus, Feld became the

ROGER KAHN AT HOME NEAR KINGSTON, NEW YORK, WITH THE TYPEWRITER HE USED TO WRITE first female producer in TYLER H. AMASS / CAS HIS 1972 BEST-SELLING MEMOIR. Ringling Bros. history. To - ’04, LAW ’07 / received

P day, she manages the a 2010 Above & Beyond H O T O largest live family-enter - Pro Bono Achievement S © S

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O ciate attorney at the law W JENNIFER AHERN firm of Gibson, Dunn & LAMMERS / WAG ’00 / Crutcher, Amass was recently joined the Asso - honored for tackling a ciated Grant Makers, difficult custody and visi - serving Massachusetts tation case that was a and New Hampshire as positive, life-changing ex - the director of member perience for his client. programs and services. MARIEKE TUTHILL MATT DORTER / TSOA BECK-COON / GAL ’04 / ’02 / is executive direc - has joined Schnader Har - tor of MainStages, an or - rison Segal & Lewis LLP’s ganization that provides litigation services depart - residential camps with ment in its Philadelphia teaching artists and a office. fully developed theater program. MARCO MARANO / STERN ’04 / and his ABIGAIL W. TRUTOR / fiancé, Dejou Bencomo- STERN ’02 / wed Peter Jasso, will be married in J. Mead in Hinesburg, VT, Rome on June 18. The last August 21 and re - two founded Country - ceived her MBA from Bred, a specialty travel both McGill University in business that focuses on 2008 and the University distinctive cultural travel of Vermont in 2009. to Europe. She is the program direc - tor for Fletcher Allen’s AVA GRAHAM DAWSON Center for Health Care / CAS ’07 / and JOSEPH Management in Burling - TERRANELLA / CAS ’07 /

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VERY YEAR, AMERICAN COMPANIES THROW at the Children’s Place and ian schools that had been AWAY MILLIONS OF PROMOTIONAL PENS—THE Toys “R” Us to see looted down to bare walls whether they had anything during the country’s 15- E UNWANTED LEFTOVERS IMPRINTED WITH OLD to donate. “I got two tons year civil war. The Liberian logos, last year’s confer - schools and 160 communi - programs as test prep for of surplus stuff with two president, Ellen Johnson ence dates, or discontin - ty-based organizations in school entrance exams and phone calls,” she explains. Sirleaf, personally thanked ued brand names. Melissa Malawi, the organization tailor training exchanges Word of the donation Kushner at a charity event Kushner imagined a sec - provides more than 54,000 with American design spread around the UN, and in New York and marveled ond life for them, and so children a year with pens as schools. “We take a holis - colleagues soon called on at what she’d tapped into. far her five-year-old non - well as new shoes, essential tic approach,” she explains. profit, Goods for Good, medications, and school “I don’t want to just give has steered 3.5 million of uniforms made of surplus away stuff. I want to make For her first trip to these pens away from the American fabric and craft - sure that I’m allowing kids Malawi, Melissa Kushner landfill and into the hands ed by older Malawian or - to access an education.” of Malawian orphans. For phans. Last year, 250 of Although its web of ac - notes: “I got two tons many schoolchildren, who these young tailors, whom tivity grows more intricate of surplus stuff with two are required to buy their the organization trains, by the day, Goods for Good own supplies, this can made 22,000 uniforms. started with a somewhat phone calls.” make the difference be - The nonprofit also offers offhand gesture. While tween staying in school or administrative support to working at the United Na - Kushner to arrange other “I never planned on start - dropping out. local communities, stocks tions, Kushner got the surplus goods donations: ing a nonprofit, [but even - Kushner founded schools with various class - chance to travel to Malawi First, several tons of winter tually] I felt like I had no Goods for Good on the room supplies, and, with her boss, a former clothing went to children choice,” Kushner says, re - simple principle that one’s through partners, arranges UNICEF coordinator in Pakistan displaced by the membering the group’s surplus can fill another’s professional development there, and, as she says, “did - 2005 earthquake, and then simple origins. “It’s all from urgent need. Now work - for Malawian teachers. n’t want to go empty-hand - 400,000 pens and as many something as simple as a ing through 20 public Kushner hopes to add such ed.” So she called contacts notepads arrived in Liber - pen.”

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 59) CUNY-wide speech contest. at the Boys & Girls Clubs of versity of Pennsylvania’s RYAN CANUELLE / were married in Cape May, the Northtowns. master’s in biotechnology STEINHARDT ’10 / is NJ, on April 19, 2009. MARYANN TIERNEY / program, where he will earn director of education and WAG ’07 / has been named CONRAD WALKER / a dual degree along with a programming at Main- ROBIN LEVENSON / regional administrator for STEINHARDT ’08 / was master’s in business admin - Stages in Astoria, NY. STEINHARDT ’07 / was Region III with FEMA. appointed campus operat - istration at the Wharton hired last fall as an assis - ing officer of Berkeley School in May. He recently TARA NORONHA / tant professor of communi - KATHYRN JORDAN / College’s new Brooklyn won the Ford Foundation WAG ’10 / recently cation studies and speech STEINHARDT ’08 / joined location. MBA Research Fellowship became a youth economic at CUNY LaGuardia in a the Buffalo Zoo in NY as to write a report on elec - empowerment adviser tenure-track position. He events coordinator in Octo - AMIR SATVAT / WAG ’09 / tronic medical records and at Mercy Corps, based was appointed chair of the ber. Previously she worked was accepted to the Uni - their value to health care. in Uganda.

Obituaries New York University mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff, and friends, including:

EDGAR TAFEL / ARCH ’32 CLAIRE SIMMONS / WSC ’49, STEINHARDT ’56 MARGARET ROWLAND POST / STEINHARDT ’67 MILTON GRODNER / STERN ’34 A. NORMAN CRANIN / DEN ’51 LUCIE COOK EVENS / STEINHARDT ’74

MILTON BABBITT / WSC ’35 JOHN A. M CMANEMIN / GSAS ’51, STERN ’56 SALLY MENKE / TSOA ’77 JAMES W. ELLWANGER / STERN ’42 HELEN DAROS / STEINHARDT ’52 ELIZABETH M. BLICKENS / GSAS ’78 ALAN J. STEIN / ARTS ’42 PAUL C. KRUEGER / ENG ’52 MICHAEL C. AXELROD / LAW ’81 BURTON ROBERTS / ARTS ’43, LAW ’53 VITO E. MASON / STEINHARDT ’52 SUSANNA KNAPP / GAL ’82, WAG ’86 GERALD LAXER / ARTS ’44 ARNOLD VILONEN / STERN ’52 ALAN SOUDAKOFF / LAW ’84 ELLIOTT JACOBSON / WSC ’45 JAMES AMLAW / STERN ’53 DAVID GURLAND / TSOA ’90 FLORENCE MONROE / STEINHARDT ’45, ’53, ’67 JOSEPH RALSTON HENDERSON / STEINHARDT ’54 STUART KOLINSKI / LAW ’90 PHILIP PERSON / DEN ’46 LAWRENCE A. DINERSTEIN / WSC ’56 ASEYE DEMASIO / STEINHARDT ’91 CAROL C. LEE / STEINHARDT ’47 ANDREW J. BORASH / WSC ’57 CHRISTOPHER THOMAS / TSOA ’91 HENRY TAUB / STERN ’47 JOHN WALTER RICHY / ENG ’57 STEFANOS TSIGRIMANIS / TSOA ’08 RALPH WEISS / ENG ’48 LILLIE MORRIS WALKER / WSC ’58 WILLIAM “BILL” REILLY / FACULTY STANLEY B. WINTERS / WSC ’48 ROBERT CHARLES WAGNER / STEINHARDT ’62 MARTIN LEO STERNBERG / FACULTY ROSE MIRABELLI FACELLE / WSC ’49 LILLIAN WARM / SSSW ’66 GARY WINICK / TSOA FACULTY

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WHAT FOURTH-ANNUAL TEAR IT UP!—PINK ZONE EVENT

WHERE JEROME S. COLES SPORTS CENTER

WHY TWICE A YEAR, THE NYU BASKETBALL TEAM’S TEAR IT UP! NIGHTS FEATURE FREE FOOD, LIVE MUSIC, AND LOTS OF CHEERING. IN FEBRUARY, STUDENTS GOT FIRED UP FOR A DOUBLEHEADER AGAINST CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY WITH A SPECIAL THEME: FIGHTING BREAST CANCER. “SEEING THE MASS OF PINK TIE-DYE IN THE BLEACHERS IS REALLY MOTIVATING,” SAYS DANCE TEAM MEMBER JENNA CHIN (TSOA ’12), WHO PERFORMED AT HALF - TIME. “I LOVE THAT WE CAN COMBINE SCHOOL SPIRIT WITH SUPPORTING A GOOD CAUSE.” THE EVENT RAISED MORE THAN $2,500 FOR THE MILES OF HOPE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION—DONATED IN MEMORY OF MARY CLAY, A FORMER ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE WHO FOUGHT THE DISEASE.

—Elisabeth Brown

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