Bringing out the Dead the out Bringing

THIS 1880S ANATOMY LECTURE AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL BELLEVUE AT LECTURE ANATOMY THIS 1880S BILL” THE “BONE BEFORE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE HAVE WOULD OF NEW STATE IN THE AUTOPSIES LEGALIZED OF 1854 WHICH KNOWLEDGE ONE MEANS BY “[T]HERE IS BUT YORK. OF THE DISSECTION IS BY OBTAINED—IT BE PERFECTLY CAN OF THE PRESIDENT DRAPER, JOHN W. ARGUED THE DEAD,” SPEECH. IN AN 1853 FACULTY, COLLEGE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY WERE AMONG THE NYU PROFESSORS AND OTHER DRAPER BAN. IN LIFTING THE INSTRUMENTAL REFORMERS BRINGING OUT THE DEAD THE OUT BRINGING

CLASS NOTES 1930s

SHIRLEY KAUFMAN WOLFORD / WSC ’35 / is proud to be “going on strong” after publishing her 20th book, The Voice of the Turtledove (Wings ePress).

ROBERT SCHULMAN / ARTS ’36 / has been a reporter and feature writer in St. Louis, a staff correspondent in Chicago for Time, Life, and Sports Illustrated magazines, and director of a prize-winning TV documentary. 1940s

RALPH BRANCA / STEINHARDT ’44, ’48 /, the former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, was featured in Joshua Prager’s book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bob- by Thomson, Ralph Bran- ca and the Shot Heard Round the World (Pan- theon), which relates how New York Giants batter Thomson stole the signs for Branca’s fastball, con- sequently winning the 1951 National League pennant.

HARRIET KUPFERBERG / STEINHARDT ’45 / recently made a gift to name the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holo- caust Resource Center and Archives at Queensbor- ough Community College.

MYRON GABLE / STERN ’47, STEINHARDT ’70 / delivered the plenary ad-

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JAKE BURTON CARPENTER / WSUC ’77 KING OF THE MOUNTAIN by Christian DeBenedetti

f any doubts lin- the finish line to relish it which controls an esti- fore transferring to study ry, Vermont, after gradua- gered that snow- all was Jake Burton Car- mated 40 to 50 percent economics at NYU. While tion and started experi- boarding had penter, one of the sport’s of the $400 million snow- there, he interned for a menting in the back of progressed from progenitors. He had good boarding industry. New York hedge fund man- a barn with a Snurfer, a Ifringe sport to reason to smile: The en- It’s been a wild ride ager who spurred him to snowboard-like toy with center stage, they were tire U.S. team—including steering such an iconic think about launching a a rope attached to the erased during last year’s then-19-year-old gold brand, but Burton still op- snowboard business—and nose for maneuvering. “I XX Olympic Winter Games medalist Shaun White— erates with the laid-back even threw in some early jigsawed it, I urethaned it,” in Torino, Italy. There, was outfitted head to toe attitude considered typical financial assistance. Bur- says Burton of his pointy, before crowds of 10,000 in white pin-striped uni- of the sport. A former ton moved to Londonder- bindingless fiberglass 1977 per day, American snow- forms made by his Ver- competitive skier, he start- SNOWBOARD MOGUL BURTON, WHO’S BOARDED ON EVERY boarders dominated the mont-based company, ed out at the University of CONTINENT BUT ANTARCTICA, LITERALLY SITS ON TOP OF THE events, and standing at Burton Snowboards, Colorado at Boulder be- WORLD DURING A RECENT TRIP TO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. PHOTO © JEFF CURTES PHOTO © 2007 BURTON SNOWBOARDS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 61) PAUL CLASS AFTER PLAYING WITH KELLER / A SNURFER IN COLLEGE, dress at the meeting of BURTON ADAPTED THE EARLY the Academy of Market- WSC ’48 / SNOWBOARD-LIKE TOY FOR ing Science and the was included HIS FIRST PROTOTYPE. American Collegiate in the Marquis Retailing Association in 2006 edition 2006. He is one of eight of Who’s Who NOTES members of the ACRA in the World. Hall of Fame. NICHOLAS A. THELMA LEVY HENNER CLEMENTE / / WSC ’47 / is now a WSC ’49, LAW ’56 / was member of the Harvard a justice of the New York Institute for Learning in State Supreme Court for Retirement. She lives more than 25 years, as in Cambridge, MA, and is well as a senior partner at writing her memoirs, titled law firms in Brooklyn. He From Jewish American lives in upstate New York. Princess to Cambridge Bag Lady. SIROON SHAHINIAN / GSAS ’49, ’57 / is the ROBERT F. BRODSKY / chairperson of the NGO ENG ’48 / has published Health Committee, design- his first nontechnical ing revolutionary programs book, On the Cutting on health at the United Edge: Tales of a Cold Nations. War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, HELEN TORRES / STERN Guided Missile, ’49 / has been a successful prototype. “The quality sport exploded in popu- ed States—continues to Computer and Space business owner and real es- was good.” And despite larity around the country, surprise the Long Island Ages (Gordian Knot tate broker for more than not selling any in the rankling the ski world. native. “I never saw it Books), which 22 years. She is a strong first year, he had moved “The people who had hitting the mainstream,” describes his 60-year supporter of the arts in the more than 700 by 1979, been ski bums when they he admits. “It was always career in engineering, Tampa Bay area and is when one of his boards were kids wouldn’t ac- an alternative.” spacecraft design, sponsoring a free opera was used to win the cept it, didn’t want this Today, Burton snow- and astronautics concert at Vinoy Park in St. World Snurfing Champi- youth culture back on boards a dependable education. Petersburg, FL, this fall. onship, bringing instant their mountains,” Burton 100 days a year and exposure and credibility. explains. “The process of shares this love with his

employees, giving them CELEBRATE THE REUNION season passes to the re- 1950s CLASSES OF 1953 AND 1958! Burton Snowboards sort at Stowe Mountain. controls an estimated He constantly tests new LENA GIBBONS / WSC of Wisconsin-River Falls. gear, and recently man- ’50, GSAS ’52 / was rec- He recently completed his 40 to 50 percent of aged to take off an en- ognized for her noble mil- 15th book on literary cen- the $400 million tire year with his wife itary service during World sorship. For more infor- and three boys to travel War II by Congresswoman mation, visit www.uwrf snowboarding industry. the globe, snowboarding DIANA DEGETTE / LAW .edu/pa/2006/0610/ and surfing. “I was just ’82 /. A psychiatric social 1009065.htm. By the mid-1980s, getting snowboarding up in the Canadian worker, Gibbons attended snowboarding had be- into resorts was really Rockies with friends,” he to the emotional wounds JESSIE COLSON / come a bona fide coun- tough, and there’s still recalls, “and I was think- of military personnel. STEINHARDT ’53, ’62 / tercultural phenomenon, four that don’t even al- ing, ‘It just doesn’t get wants his fellow alumni to fueled by the bad-boy low it.” Still, the eventual any better.’ But none of NICHOLAS KAROLIDES / know that he is currently image of many early rid- success—by 2002, there this would have hap- STEINHARDT ’50, ’51, happy and in a rewarding ers. But Burton still were more than seven pened if I wasn’t really ’63 / is a professor of period in his life.

faced obstacles as the million riders in the Unit- in love with the sport.” English at the University (CONTINUED ON PAGE 65)

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alumni profile

RUTH BARCAN MARCUS / WSC ’41 Champion Logician

by Nicole Pezold / GSAS ’04

UTH BARCAN MARCUS HAS NEVER PAID the field of quantified man,” while modal logic MUCH ATTENTION TO THE CONFINES OF GEN- modal logic.” deals with propositions For those in need of a that ascribe possibility or DER—NOT AS A STICKBALL-PLAYING TOMBOY R primer, nonmodal logic is necessity: “It is possible during the Depression in Rather, the quick- all,” notes Don Garrett, limited to propositions that Socrates is human.” the Bronx, nor as a cham- witted 86-year-old scaled NYU professor of philoso- concerning what is actual, “It was generally believed pion fencer who might life’s hurdles with disci- phy and Marcus’s former such as “Socrates is hu- that if you extended modal have competed in the 1940 plined reasoning and, student. Her many honors Olympics had it not been through her work in along the way have in- canceled because of war, modal logic and moral cluded head of the Ameri- “Not only did Marcus and certainly not as a rare dilemmas, among other can Philosophical break into philosophy, revered woman philoso- areas, extended the Association Board of Offi- pher. “I never worried bounds of analytical phi- cers, fellowship in the which was then a nearly about making my way,” losophy—and the place of American Academy of all-male preserve, but into Marcus muses one after- women in that field. “Not Arts & Sciences, and re- noon in her New Haven, only did she break into cently recipient of the logic, which was perhaps Connecticut, home. “And I philosophy, which was prestigious 2008 Lauener the most male-dominated think that’s what made it then a nearly all-male Prize for an Outstanding easy for me. That started preserve, but into logic, Oeuvre in Analytical Phi- of all,” notes philosopher when I was playing stick- which was perhaps the losophy. Garrett says: Don Garrett. ball and never changed.” most male-dominated of “She basically invented

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63) chairman of the Physi- CECILY BARTH cian Consortium for FIRESTEIN / STEIN- Performance Improve- HARDT ’55 / recently ment in the North Shore- showed her artwork at the Long Island Jewish Joseph Wahl Arts Gallery Health System in New in Woodland Hills, CA, and York. He is also the chair- at the Mona Lisa Gallery man emeritus of the in Maplewood, NJ. To view Board of Regents of the her work, visit www.cecily American College of barthfirestein.com. Physicians and the past president of the Ameri- BERNARD M. ROSOF / can Society of Internal MED ’57 / was elected Medicine.

CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1960s CLASSES OF 1963 AND 1968!

PETER HUTT / LAW ’60 / ELLEN-JOAN WAGNER / has joined the Life Line STEINHARDT ’62 / is the Screening board of direc- author of The Science of tors, a leading provider of Sherlock Holmes (Wiley). preventive mobile health In 2007, she was also a screenings, which has featured speaker at the screened nearly five million American Academy of people and helped to save Forensic Sciences. ABOVE: IN HER 1941 YEARBOOK, RUTH BARCAN MARCUS, THEN thousands of lives over the A COMPETITIVE FENCER AND ASPIRING PHILOSOPHER, WAS FLORENCE GURLAND / VOTED “MOST BRILLIANT GIRL” BY NYU CLASSMATES. LEFT: THE past decade. NOW 86-YEAR-OLD SCHOLAR BLAZED A TRAIL IN MODAL LOGIC. STEINHARDT ’63 / is a GERALD “JERRY” FREED- jewelry maker who special- modal propositions. The returned to Yale in 1973— MAN / STEINHARDT ’61, izes in one-of-a-kind pieces. work laid the foundation only four years after the ’64 / has been the chair of for later theories on the university opened its the social studies depart- DAVID BELLA / ENG ’64 / meaning of names and undergraduate college ment at the Los Angeles has contributed a chapter the nature of necessity to women—where she County High School for the to Salmon 2100: The Future systems to quantifica- itself. remains as a senior Arts for the past 21 years. of Wild Pacific Salmon tion, it would end in gib- For the next 18 years, research scholar. He is the recipient of nu- (American Fisheries Soci- berish,” explains Marcus Marcus continued to pon- While the number merous teaching awards ety), an anthology on how of the prevailing theory der and publish as she of female philosophers and honors. to save wild salmon. in 1941, when at the age worked mostly independ- has crept up since she of 19, she left NYU with ently of any university so entered the academy, NEAL P. GILLEN / STERN LOU DE LUCA / STEIN- a BA in mathematics she could tend to four it remains markedly ’61 / is the executive vice HARDT ’64 / is CEO of and philosophy and en- young children with her low—around 21 percent president and general coun- United Activities Unlimit- tered graduate school at husband, physicist Jules of full-time faculty— sel of the American Cotton ed, a drug-prevention Yale University. “There’s Alexander Marcus. In according to a 2006 Shippers Association, and agency providing services usually a challenge,” she 1964, the University of report for the APA’s the author of Dinner in for 16,000 youths in 27 says, “such as ‘that Illinois at Chicago ap- Committee on the Sta- Bordeaux (AuthorHouse), public schools on Staten can’t be done,’ ‘this will pointed her to her “first tus of Women. And yet, a thriller that takes place Island. He is also an ad- lead to contradictions’— serious job”: “chairman” Marcus’s sex has never in France in the weeks junct professor of educa- and that’s a catalyst for of their nascent philoso- colored her work’s re- following 9/11. tion at Wagner College and me.” In her dissertation, phy department, which ception by peers. “My currently completing his she devised a theorem, she built from two to 20 work didn’t lend itself to PETER A. HOWLEY / ENG EdD. now called the Barcan members in the space of free interpretation,” she ’62, STERN ’70 / joined Formula (for her maiden six years. “I never looked says. “I proved theo- his 2007 NYU Reunion JAMES B. HOFRENNING / name), which facilitates for a job,” she notes— rems, and in a field that Committee. He lives in STEINHARDT ’64 / is the the use of quantifiers in they came to her. Marcus had been untouched.” California. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 66)

NYU / FALL 2007 / 65 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65) FELISSA LASHLEY / managing partner of Nixon rently employed part-time HARDT ’67 / is the CEO of distinguished religion and NUR ’65 / is dean and Peabody LLP in Boston as a parish nurse in Illinois Hanger Orthopedic Group ethics professor emeritus professor at the College after a 37-year tenure at through a grant from the in Bethesda, MD. His at Concordia College in of Nursing at Rutgers the firm. He is currently Deaconess Foundation. daughters recently gradu- Moorhead, MN, where he University in New Jersey. general counsel at the ated from the Steinhardt has been awarded the She has authored Boston Capital Corp. EMIL C. HERKERT / ENG School of Culture, Educa- Alumni Achievement Essentials of Clinical ’67 / is a New Jersey phi- tion, and Human Develop- Award. Genetics in Nursing Prac- NAN BAUER-MAGLIN / lanthropist and engineer ment and the School of tice (Springer Publishing GSAS ’67 / is a professor who has recently joined Social Work at NYU. MARILYN MOFFAT / Co.), the first book of its at the City University of New the board of directors for STEINHARDT '64, '73 /, kind to promote inclusion York, who recently published the children’s charity Kids ROBERT F. SCHLEGEL a professor of physical of genetic content in Cut Loose: (Mostly) Older Peace, an organization JR. / ENG ’67 / is now therapy at NYU, was elect- nursing curricula and Women Talk About the End that helps children over- serving as master of his ed president of the World in individual health-care of (Mostly) Long-term come traumas and the Masonic lodge and is active Confederation for Physical service divisions. Relationships and Women crises of growing up. in many retiree activities. Therapy during the WCPT Confronting Retirement: Congress held last spring BONNE AUGUST / GSAS A Nontraditional Guide (both MAURICE KAUFMAN / ABIGAIL BRENNER / in Vancouver, Canada. ’66, ’78 / has been ap- Rutgers University Press). STEINHARDT ’67 / is the WSC ’68 / is a psychiatrist pointed provost and vice author of The Literacy in private practice in PHYLLIS G. BROCKMYER president for academic VINCENT J. CASTANZA / Tutor’s Handbook: A Guide New York City. She wrote / STEINHARDT ’65, ’67 / affairs at New York City ENG ’67 / is retired and for Planning, Assessment, Women’s Rites of Passage: would like to hear from oth- College of Technology working with retiree groups and Instruction (Christo- How to Embrace Change er art majors who she re- (City Tech) at the City on New York State Legisla- pher-Gordon) and profes- and Celebrate Life (Row- members from her time at University of New York. tion for Teachers. sor of education emeritus man & Littlefield). Washington Square, specifi- at Northeastern University. cally Peggy Linn, Barbara NESTOR M. NICHOLAS / ANNA UNGER GABRIEL / HENRY GRINBERG / Brown, and Linda Sampson. LAW ’66 / retired as co- STEINHARDT ’67 / is cur- IVAN SABEL / STEIN- GSAS ’68 / published his first novel, Variations on the Beast (The Dragon Press), which chronicles Want to Hear More About Alumni the life of a genius orches- tral conductor in Nazi Ger- Activities? Contact Us! many. After 42 years as a college teacher, he is COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCHOOL OF LAW embarking on a new career HEIGHTS COLLEGES ARTS AND SCIENCE 212-998-6400 as a psychoanalyst. 212-998-4639 212-998-4639 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NEAL HIRSCHFELD / SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ARTS ’68 / authored De- COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 212-263-5390 tective: The Inspirational 212-998-9739 212-992-5804 [email protected] Story of the Trailblazing [email protected] [email protected] Woman Cop Who Wouldn’t SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Quit (Scribner), a nonfiction COLLEGE OF NURSING LEONARD N. STERN 212-998-9189 book inspired by his wife. 212-992-9427 SCHOOL OF BUSINESS [email protected] [email protected] 212-998-4040 AMY C. BARKIN / ARTS [email protected] THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL ’69 / received the 2006 COURANT INSTITUTE OF OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, Excellence in Healthcare MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES ROBERT F. WAGNER GRADUATE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Leadership Award and was 212-998-6775 SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE 212-998-6942 selected as the 2006 Social [email protected] 212-998-7537 [email protected] Worker of the Year for her [email protected] “exemplary leadership and GALLATIN SCHOOL OF TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS outstanding accomplish- INDIVIDUALIZED STUDY SCHOOL OF CONTINUING 212-998-6954 ments in improving the 212-992-9825 AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES [email protected] health and well-being of un- [email protected] 212-998-7003 derserved and special pop- [email protected] ulations across the nation.”

66 / FALL 2007 / NYU CLASS CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1970s CLASSES OF 1973 AND 1978!

LEE EDWARD KOPPEL- MARK GESCHWER / Presidential Commission MILTON E. POLSKY / PBS television MAN / WAG ’70 / recently STEINHARDT ’71 / prac- for the University of the STEINHARDT ’73 / is the show, and took part in a State tices law in New Jersey. Philippines Centennial. co-chair of the United Fed- launched her NOTES University of New York at A former NYU basketball She is the president of the eration of Teachers. He au- own brand of Stony Brook symposium player, he recently partici- UPAA New York Chapter. thored several books and cake mix. that examined “Leaders in pated in the annual alumni received the Rod Marriott Government.” golf tournament. ROBERT HOLZBERG / Award for outstanding life- MARY JANE STEINHARDT ’72 / is a time achievement in the- HORTON / WSC ’74 / is SHEILA LUKINS / STEIN- SAMUEL RABINO / happily retired professor ater education. the editor of Plum maga- HARDT ’70 / is a former STERN ’71, ’72, ’78 / is emeritus from Chicago zine. She has written for art teacher and is current- currently a professor of State University. The au- ROSE LEVY BERANBAUM Ms. and Fit Pregnancy, and ly an author and the editor marketing at Northeastern thor of two books on spe- / STEINHARDT ’74 / is most recently contributed of the food column in University in Boston. cial education, he lives the author of numerous to Hometown Pasadena:

Parade magazine. with his wife, DR. BETTE cookbooks, has her own (CONTINUED ON PAGE 68) DAVID J. BECKER / HOLZBERG / STEIN- EDWARD MAPP / STEIN- STEINHARDT ’72 / pub- HARDT ’54, ’64 / in HARDT ’70 / was elected lished his illustrated book, Augusta, GA. alumni online chairman of the board of The Phlatts (RoseDog the Friends of Thirteen, Books), about dimensional- CANDACE LEEDS / Inc., a public broadcasting ly challenged stick figures STEINHARDT ’72 / is the VIOLETNET station. He also authored trying to get by in a multi- vice president for public GROWS ONLINE the children’s book dimensional world. For affairs at Loews Corp. and Wednesday at Weeksville more information, visit continues to serve NYU The fast pace of everyday life can make keeping (Airleaf Publishing). www.rosedogbooks.com. as a member of the SCPS in touch a challenge. But with the newly revamped board. VioletNet—NYU’s online alumni community,com- JUDITH UMLAS / ARTS MIGUELINA CUEVAS- plete with a directory of SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS © ALAN KIKUCHI ’70 / together with her POST / ARTS ’72, STEIN- CYNTHIA T. LOWNEY / all graduates—staying fellow alumna MICHELLE HARDT ’74 / is the STEINHARDT ’72 / has connected and involved BLACKLEY / STEIN- principal at Owasco Ele- served as a lawyer, judge, is easier than ever be- HARDT ’02 / has been mentary in Auburn, NY. and federal law clerk fore.Whether you want building a publishing divi- She has three children, (SDNY), as well as an to reach out to old sion at the International the youngest of whom adjunct professor at vari- friends,make new Institute for Learning, Inc. graduated from Wellesley ous local colleges. contacts, or just Blackley also recently College. let people know helped Umlas publish her KARON M. MARCUS / what you’ve been book, The Power of Acknow- DORIAN DODSON / WSC STEINHARDT ’72 / is a up to,VioletNet is your link to other NYU alumni. ledgment (IIL Publishing). ’72 / is currently cabinet licensed real estate sales- Since 2001,VioletNet users have logged on to secretary of the New Mexi- person and a graduate update addresses, share profiles, post résumés, join MARY L. WALSH / WAG co Children, Youth, and gemologist. She is involved networks and clubs across the country, and much ’70 / is director of the Cli- Families Department. in real estate development more. But with the enhanced site, alumni can now mate Change Learning and and deals privately in gems customize their profile information, post personal Information Center. Her JAMES V. FIASCONARO / and fine art. pictures, and keep contact lists of other alumni. publications include Climate GSAS ’72 / works as a Users can also sign up to receive e-mail notifications Change for Local Govern- school administrator in ALAN MENKEN / ARTS when friends update their profiles. “Even if you’ve ments, Sustainable Energy Monmouth County, NJ, and ’72 / has won more Acade- previously registered, come back and try all of the Solutions, Crisis Communi- an adjunct professor at my Awards than any other new features,” says John Calvo (STERN ’91, LAW cations, and Managing Com- Kean University in Union, living composer. The cre- ’95), NYU Alumni Association vice president. munity-Wide Trauma. NJ. He is married with two ator of many of the classic “VioletNet has the latest tools to help your NYU daughters. Disney scores, Menken re- network thrive.” MICHAEL BONDANZA / cently wrote Sister Act, Registration is free and easy:Visit violetnet STEINHARDT ’71 / is CARMENCITA Q. FULGA- the musical, which played .nyu.edu and in a matter of minutes users can search an award-winning jewelry DO / STEINHARDT ’72 / at the Pasadena Play- for old friends and post updates. Now there’s no designer. has been appointed to the house. excuse for being out of touch.

NYU / FALL 2007 / 67 CLASS (CONTINUED FROM president of the Board of nonfiction, Bomb Squad Mommy Years: How to Live Three Decades of Dance PAGE 67) Trustees of the Bowne (Hyperion), a behind-the- Happily Ever After…After Writing (University of Wis- The Insider’s House Historical Society, scenes look at the work of the Kids Leave Home consin Press). She is the Guide which is the oldest house bomb experts, co-written (Springboard Press). Marian Hannah Winter pro- (Prospect in Queens and is presently with Ted Gerstein. A Rubenstein will embark on fessor emerita of theater Park Books). undergoing a major reporter for ABC News, a publicity tour and pre- history and dance studies renovation. Esposito won the George pare a series of parent at the University of NOTES KAREN Polk Award for Television workshops at many East Wisconsin-Madison. QUEALLY / CAROL THOMPSON COLE Reporting in 2005. Coast schools. STEINHARDT / WAG ’75 / was named CARMELO TABONE / ’74 / is the president and CEO of Ven- MICHAEL H. FORMAN / ROCCO SISTO / TSOA ’77 / STEINHARDT ’78 / is the director of musculoskeletal ture Philanthropy Partners LAW ’76 / of Mountain is a two-time Obie director of the Jersey services at Kaiser Perma- in Washington, DC. Lakes, NJ, was named Award–winning actor. City–based Educational nente in San Francisco. by Worth magazine as Arts Team and an adjunct RICHARD ESPOSITO / among the top 100 lawyers PAMELA J. SMITH / WAG faculty member at NYU in ROSEMARY S. VIETOR / WSUC ’75 / has just com- in the U.S. attending to ’77 / is the only African- the Program in Educational STEINHARDT ’74 / is the pleted his second work of affluent families. American woman in At- Theater. lanta who owns her own CAROLE KOENIG / TSOA multimillion-dollar com- ALLEN P. ADAMSON / alumni benefit ’76 / has been a licensed mercial real estate compa- STERN ’79 / is the manag- massage therapist for ny, Smith Real Estate ing director at Landor more than 20 years. Services. Associates in New York SEARCH THE NYU and author of BrandSimple: LIBRARIES—FROM HOME MICHAEL NASH / TSOA CECILE CYRUL SPECTOR How the Best Brands Keep ’76 / was awarded the / STEINHARDT ’77 / is It Simple and Succeed Research has never been Bronze Medal for Investi- the author of Between the (Palgrave Macmillan). easier—now that alum- gation by the U.S. Inspec- Lines: Enhancing Inferenc- ni can peruse online tor General for the ing Skills (Thinking Publi- J. KEITH FELL / LAW ’79 / newspapers, maga- Department of Commerce cations), which, along with was elected the new presi- zines, and journals in Washington, DC, in May her other three books, fo- dent of the board of direc- through the NYU to honor his outstanding cuses on various aspects tors for Little Flower Libraries E-access accomplishments in recent of abstract language. Children and Family Ser- Project. The new fraud investigations. vices of New York. In his last benefit, the legacy JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL / role as chair of the major- gift of the Senior Class ESSIE D. OWENS / STEIN- WSUC ’77 / recently pub- gifts program, he raised of 2006,allows alumni remote access to four databas- HARDT ’77 / has served lished Secrets Can Be Mur- significant funds used to es—the Research Library, ABI/Inform, ProQuest as an educator, community der (Touchstone), which deliver services to children, Health Management, and ProQuest Newspapers. activist, and is now a visual explores how following families, and developmen- The databases cover a wide range of subject areas. artist. In 2006, her art- killers of sensational tally disabled adults. The Research Library is a diverse mix of scholarly work was exhibited on crimes has become a na- journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspa- Roosevelt Island and in tional pastime. She has re- JOHN A. GORMAN / pers.ABI/Inform provides access to management and Florida. ceived numerous awards, STEINHARDT ’79 / has re- business literature, as well as articles from academic, including two Emmys. tired from the County Col- trade, and popular press journals. It also covers more STEWART J. PEARCE / lege of Morris in Randolph, than 60,000 companies and includes executive pro- STEINHARDT ’77 / cele- IRIS WEINSHALL / WAG NJ, where he was chairman files, reports on market conditions, and case studies of brated his 30th anniver- ’77 / left her post as New of the music department. global business trends.The ProQuest Health Manage- sary working at the York City’s transportation He still teaches piano at ment database supplies literature in health administra- Metropolitan Opera this commissioner to become home in Madison, NJ. tion, from insurance and ethics to economics and year. Currently the assis- vice chancellor for facilities public health administration.The ProQuest Newspa- tant manager for opera- planning, construction, and JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY / pers database contains the full text of approximately tions, Stewart interned at management at the City STEINHARDT ’79 / was 27 national, financial, and regional newspapers from the Met while still a stu- University of New York. recently honored at the the past 25 years, including The New York Times, the dent at NYU. regional meeting of Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. SALLY R. BANES / TSOA the College Board with CARIN RUBENSTEIN / ’78, STEINHARDT ’80 / the 2007 Advanced To access these free library resources, log on to GSAS ’77, ’79 / recently recently published Before, Placement Outstanding violetnet.nyu.edu. published Beyond the Between, and Beyond: Teacher Award.

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my mouth waters when I smell dumplings cooking.” For Rickshaw, Lao lured NOTES Anita Lo, a chef whose work at Annisa earned her a Michelin star, to help create six kinds of dumplings, ranging from the classic pork and Chi- nese chive—what he calls “the vanilla ice cream of dumplings”—to a locally raised Hudson Valley duck and scallion version. The most popular is chicken and Thai basil, and all dumplings can be rounded into a full meal with a sal- ad or noodle soup. To complement this updated alumni profile fare, the bars’ styles are clean and spare with Jasper Morrison Air KENNY LAO / STERN ’04 Chairs, creating Asian symmetry with a modern twist. Critics have taken Not Your note, from New York magazine to Martha Stewart, who featured Lao on her Grandfather’s cooking show. Even MTV followed him around for a

PHOTO © LUCY SCHAEFFER year, chronicling the life Shumai of a start-up restaurateur. Rickshaw’s boom earned him a spot on by Sarah Portlock / CAS ’07 both Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40” fter work- full-fledged entrepreneur, Chelsea. “I realized I loved back to childhood memo- list in 2007 and Inc. mag- ing for a Lao enrolled in the MBA food, but I had never ries of “dumpling days,” azine’s “30 Under 30” year in program at the Leonard N. thought about it as a po- when his parents would list in 2006. But to the finance in Stern School of Business, tential career,” explains invite over neighbors businessman in Lao, true A Boston, where he placed second in Lao, who recently opened in Pasadena, California, success is still to come as Kenny Lao quit to devote a business plan competi- his second location on to partake in their prepa- he plans to open five himself to his true passion: tion for his idea to open Eighth Street near cam- ration, a tradition he more locations in two food. He moved to New a casual, high-design pus. “It’s hard to make continued in college. years, with possible ex- York, got a job with Myriad dumpling (shumai) bar— that step, but then I was “I remember very specific pansions to Philadelphia Restaurant Group, and in offering creative, yet that guy dumb enough to things—the fresh chive and Washington, D.C. “I four years, went from quickly prepared food. take the risk.” smell of the filling, the feel like I’m on the path,” pouring wine at Montra- He had investors lined up Less risky was his feeling of flour on the he says, though he’s not chet to opening restau- before graduation and, in choice to work with wrappers,” Lao says. “The patting himself on the rants for them nationwide. February 2004, launched dumplings: They’re his fa- smell of them cooking back yet. “Success is still To make his next leap, as a Rickshaw Dumpling Bar in vorite food, and hearken was very powerful—still, coming.”

70 / FALL 2007 / NYU CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1980s CLASSES OF 1983 AND 1988!

JOANNE ABBOT GREEN recently appointed direc- biz with her twin sister ROSEMARY ROTONDI / JULIANNE M. CROTTY- / STEINHARDT ’80 / is tor of executive communi- and fellow alumna, YVON- TSOA ’86 / is currently GUILE / GAL ’87 / loves the executive director of cations for IMS Health NA FARROW / GAL ’83. conducting research on a her job teaching piano and the CMJ Music Festival. Inc., in Norwalk, CT. documentary on the Berri- voice lessons at Notewor- She provided 500 passes MARCUS ROME / SSW gan brothers titled Ameri- thy Music in Omaha, NE. for Steinhardt students to PAMELA L. MALVEAUX / ’84 / is a distinguished ca Is Hard to Find, and attend the 2006 festival TSOA ’82 / is the author psychoanalyst in New a documentary on Grove MADONNA DE ANNE for free. of Souls of My Sisters and York City. He has pub- Press publisher, Fightin’ GRIMES / STEINHARDT Peanut Butter and Bologna lished five volumes of Words: The Barney Rosset ’87 / was recently hon- STATON A. RABIN / Sandwiches (both Lindsey poetry, the most recent Story. Her Web site is ored with the Best Chore- TSOA ’80 / wrote The Publishing, Inc). She is titled Confessions of a http://www.archivalfilm ographer award from the Curse of the Romanovs also a TV producer at the Rational Lunatic (Birch research.com. NAACP Theatre Awards. (Margaret K. McElderry). cable network BET. Brook Press). She is the owner of a As reported in Variety, his MARIA R. BURGIO / dance studio in Hollywood. previous novel, Betsy and DAVID S. WEINSTOCK / RABBI DENNIS S. ROSS STEINHARDT ’87 / has the Emperor (Margaret K. LAW ’82 / was recently / SSW ’84 / is the direc- completed her first nonfic- GEORGE KAZACOFF / McElderry), is being devel- promoted to director, tor of Concerned Clergy tion book, Is My Child Nor- TSOA ’87 / joined his oped into a film starring senior regulatory counsel for Choice, a project of mal? When Behavior is OK, 2007 Reunion Committee. Al Pacino and directed by for Boehringer Ingelheim the Education Fund of When It’s Not, How to Tell Patrice Chéreau. pharmaceuticals, a human Family Planning Advo- the Difference and What to DAVID YIN / STERN ’87 / and veterinary prescrip- cates of New York State. Do Next. Her next book starred as Duke of Mantua AMY L. VICKERS / WSUC tion and over-the-counter The project has released will be a study of children in Champagne and Candle- ’80 / has been appointed pharmaceutical manufac- the educational manual who kill. light, Opera di Camera’s to the charter board of turer/distributor. Wein- Stem Cell Research: production of Verdi’s Rigo- directors of the Alliance stock was also elected as A Study and Advocacy PATRICIA A. CHOLEWKA letto, performed at the for Water Efficiency in chairperson of the New Toolkit for Clergy. / WAG ’87 / was granted a Brooklyn Heights Public Chicago. An engineer, she York State Bar Association Fulbright Award to Lithua- Library in June. wrote the award-winning Food, Drug, and Cosmetic EMILY PRESSMAN / nia. She is the president of Handbook of Water Use Law Section. STEINHARDT ’85 / is the health-care consulting DANILO H. FIGUEREDO / and Conservation: Homes, currently a music teacher firm MAP Associates and GSAS ’89 / is the director Landscapes, Businesses, LORRAINE CORTES- at Trinity School on the assistant professor of of the Bloomfield College Industries, Farms (Water- VAZQUEZ / WAG ’83 / Upper West Side of nursing at the City Univer- Library and the author of Plow Press). was appointed Secretary Manhattan. sity of New York. Latino Chronology (Green- of State of New York, serv- wood Press), which is KEVIN BULGER / SSW ing in the cabinet of Gov- HUMAYAN J. CHAUDHRY ROSE MARY A. COL- aimed at Latino students ’81 / was honored with ernor Eliot Spitzer. / WSUC ’86, GSAS ’89 / ORAFI / STEINHARDT who want to know about the Sloan Public Service has been nominated to be ’87 / received her New their heritage and the role Award, the highest inde- YVETTE HEYLIGER / Suffolk’s commissioner of York state license as a their ancestors have pendent honor for New GAL ’83, ’87 / owns the the Department of Health mental-health counselor played in shaping Ameri- York City employees. As production company Twin- Services. in 2006. can society. director of the NYC Em- ployee Assistance Pro- gram, Bulger consolidated 43 different agencies We want to hear from you! Let us know what is into one centralized and responsive office. happening in your career and life. Submit your

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NOTES

EDITH SHAIN (ABOVE), NOW 89, WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY WORLD WAR II ENDED—OR THE SURPRISE KISS FROM AN UNKNOWN SAILOR IMMORTALIZED ON A LIFE MAGAZINE COVER (LEFT).

WHAT WAS TIMES SQUARE they were very excited and LIKE THAT DAY? very pleased because It was mad, just crazy. Eisenstaedt had been won- Everybody was hugging and dering who I was. jumping for joy and scream- ing and laughing because it WHAT’S IT LIKE BEING was a marvelous thing— PART OF SUCH AN that the end of the war had HISTORIC IMAGE? come. The sailors were out It feels miraculous because kissing everybody because people react to it and it alumni q&a they were so happy to be makes them remember. home and they wouldn’t Many people have that pho-

Q&A have to go back. So [the tograph and they don’t crowd celebrating V-J Day kiss] didn’t seem strange know what it represents, to identify the couple, and because of the circum- aside from being a roman- A Kiss for there is still uncertainty stances. tic picture. It was the be- about the sailor. ginning of a new life. It was But Shain revealed her HOW DID YOU REACT the end of fighting and won- the Ages identity in 1980—to the WHEN YOU FIRST SAW dering if your loved one surprise of her three sons, THE LIFE MAGAZINE would come home. dith Shain Times Square, where, in who never knew that their COVER? (STEIN- the flash of a camera now 89-year-old mother I was embarrassed. I didn’t IF YOU HAD IT ALL TO HARDT ’47) bulb on the afternoon of was the woman so widely tell anybody about it be- DO OVER AGAIN, WOULD was working August 14, 1945, Shain associated with romantic cause even though every- YOU CHANGE ANYTHING? E as a nurse at was unexpectedly cap- spontaneity. The former body was hugging and Well, I guess I’d take a look Doctors Hospital in New tured in one of history’s elementary school kissing, I didn’t want people at the guy [laughs]. I never York City when she heard most iconographic teacher, who moved to to know that a stranger had looked at him—you know on the radio that the images. California after graduating kissed me. I didn’t contact you close your eyes when Japanese had surren- Photographer Alfred from NYU, has been con- the magazine until 1980 you get kissed, at least I dered and World War II Eisenstaedt, who snapped tacted through the years because at that time I felt I did—and then I turned was officially over. After the famous kiss (above) by a couple dozen men, all was old enough that I around and walked away. her shift, she and a friend for Life magazine, was too claiming to be her mys- wouldn’t be embarrassed And I guess he went on to hopped on the subway to overwhelmed by the tery sailor. —Renée Alfuso by it. When I wrote to them, kiss more girls.

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For more than 40 years, South Carolinian artist LEO TWIGGS (STEINHARDT ’64) has harnessed the an- cient, labor-intensive method of batik to interpret both the sorrowful and empowering stories of African-American history. Twiggs, who has had more than 75 one-man shows and has exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the American Craft Museum, likens batik, in which the artist applies layers of wax and dye on fabric, to jazz because of its improvisational, unpredictable character. “Wax runs,” he explains, and can create multiple glowing shades and an “overall crackle effect” where the dye seeps through. “You can’t control the medium completely. You have to let the spirit lead you.” An early interest in art led Twiggs to study at the Art In- stitute of Chicago and then to New York during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. At NYU, he met celebrated painter Hale Aspacio Woodruff, under whose guidance he started a lifelong search for visual symbols of the African- American experience. In his continuing series on the Con- federate flag, Twiggs, at turns, transforms this icon of Southern white pride into a ragged, blood-soaked bandage, or drains it almost entirely of color. “[W]ith gentle but unswerving irony, [he] takes the flag and claims it as part of his Southern heritage,” notes William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, in the catalog for the 2004 show “Myths and Metaphors: The Art of Leo Twiggs.” In 2001, the artist was commissioned to create a six- and-a-half-inch-wide ornament for the White House Christ- mas tree. His piece, a miniature replica of the boyhood home of Benjamin E. Mays, Martin Luther King Jr.’s mentor, brought attention to the “dilapidated shack,” as Twiggs described it, which has since been restored and moved to a heritage complex in Greenwood, South Carolina.

TOP: EVENING OF THE ROOSTER, BATIK ON COTTON (2007). BOTTOM: ANCESTRAL FLAG, BATIK ON COTTON (2004), IS PART OF A SERIES BY THE ARTIST DEPICTING THE CONFEDERATE FLAG. To view his work, visit http://leotwiggs.com.

74 / FALL 2007 / NYU CLASS CELEBRATE THE REUNION 1990s CLASSES OF 1993 AND 1998!

TINA AXELRAD / WAG ’91 Schwartz and Cohn LLP was awarded a second Edwards Angell Palmer & zation that / is a principal at Clarion as a partner in the firm’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Dodge LLP. helps Ameri- Associates, a national land- corporate and securities University Award for his cans living NOTES use planning and policy law department. ABC News coverage of NICK / TSOA ’94 / and abroad regis- consulting firm in Denver. the death of Pope John ALEX / TSOA ’94 / ter to vote. ANDREA DAMITA MARIA Paul II. KARVOUNIS, owners of KRISTIN CARNEY / ARNOLD / STEINHARDT Showmark Entertainment JENNIFER TSOA ’91 / skates under ’92 / graduated from the PETER TRIPPI / STEIN- Group, a booking agency KOLINSKI MILLIS / the name Ana Bollocks Institute of Children’s Lit- HARDT ’92 / has been specializing in variety TSOA ’95 / was an acting with Gotham Girls Roller erature in 2005 and is appointed editor of Fine acts, recently performed major while at NYU. Millis Derby and recently re- now writing for children Art Connoisseur maga- on The Tonight Show With has joined the law firm of tired as their bout pro- and teenagers. She has zine, in New York City. Jay Leno. Nick and Alex Peek, Cobb & Edwards, PA duction director after loved the switch from just finished a two-and-a- in Jacksonville, FL. more than two years of teaching adults to teach- CAPTAIN VLADIMIR half-year run in Jubilee!, service. ing kindergartners. VIZNER / WSUC ’92 / the classic Las Vegas SOFIA MURASHKOVSKY recently released the first spectacular. They also / TSOA ’95, ’97 / has CLAUDIA HOWARD IVAN BORODIN / TSOA official album with his publish the Vegas Report been writing poetry since QUEEN / TSOA ’91 / was ’92 / recently published band Beer Vampire. “Live Newswire and own graduation and is current- selected for a Fulbright the critically acclaimed Free or Die” has become www.VegasAuditions.com, ly working on dramatic Senior Specialists proj- play, Play Rough, which is the theme song to the a Las Vegas casting writing for theater. ect in Taiwan at Taipei available at www.Bakers weekly Libertarian TV service. National University of Plays.com. show Hardfire. For DAWN SCIBILIA / TSOA the Arts, where she will more information, visit LISA SHER / WSUC ’94 / ’95 / produced and provide music for dance CHRISTOPHER DESAN- www.BeerVampire.com. has been elected partner directed Home, which classes and conduct TIS / GAL ’92, GSAS ’95 at the national law firm chronicles the journey of seminars. / has published Clocks of CHRISTOPHER J. Drinker Biddle & Reath an Irish immigrant as he New York: An Illustrated SPATARO / WSUC ’93 / LLP. She is a member of finds his way through New WHITNEY ROSENBERG / History (McFarland & Co.), was one of nine associate the Berwyn, PA, firm’s York City. The film was STEINHARDT ’91 / spent a comprehensive work attorneys elected partner real estate practice screened at BAMciné- 15 years at Sotheby’s and that chronicles the at Baker & Daniels LLP in group. matek last spring. is now running the mem- history of public clocks Indiana. bership program at the in New York City. CELIA STEWART / RICARDO SOLANO / Bruce Museum in Green- LOUIS VLAHOS / LAW STEINHARDT ’94 / is the CAS ’95 / has joined the wich, CT. She recently had CHRISTINE L. DRAYER / ’93 / is a partner in the chair of the Department New York metropolitan her second child, a boy. TSOA ’92 / joined her tax department at the of Speech-Language area–based Gibbons law NYU Reunion Committee firm Farrell Fritz, PC and Pathology and Audiology firm in its criminal de- GERARDO SANTIAGO / and looks forward to any serves on the board of at NYU’s Steinhardt fense department as a DEN ’91 / was recently opportunity to reconnect directors of the Queens School of Culture, Educa- director in the Newark recognized by N Media with fellow alumni. Chamber of Commerce, tion, and Human Develop- office. A former federal Group for his volunteer the Long Island City ment. She is doing prosecutor, Solano han- efforts and was chosen as WILLIAM F. FELICE / YMCA, and Queens The- research on the effects dled several high-profile the 2007 N Good Hearted GSAS ’92 / was named atre in the Park. Vlahos of weight loss on Hunting- cases, including the pros- Man. He has provided the 2006 Florida Profes- has extensive experience ton’s disease. ecution of former New specialty dental treat- sor of the Year by the in corporate, individual, Jersey State Senator ment to approximately Carnegie Foundation for and partnership income JODI EKELCHIK / WAG John A. Lynch. 3,000 underserved and the Advancement of taxation, and in estate ’95 / lives in London and disadvantaged children of Teaching and was honored and gift taxation. is currently contracting CYNTHIA YOUNG COLE / Collier County in Florida. in Washington, DC. He is with the University of STEINHARDT ’96 / lives a professor of political sci- BENJAMIN FERRUCCI / Oxford as a business and in Adawehi, a community RONALD E. WHITNEY / ence at Eckerd College. LAW ’94 / has been IT systems consultant. in western North Carolina LAW ’91 / has joined the named a partner in the She also serves as a vol- dedicated to alternative Detroit-based law firm CHRISTOPHER A. business law department unteer on the executive healing. Cole teaches

Honigman Miller GIANETTI / TSOA ’92 / of the Boston law firm committee of an organi- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 76)

NYU / FALL 2007 / 75 CLASS (CONTINUED FROM recently accepted a creatively through food Screenplays, which deliv- ness studio in Manhattan. PAGE 75) position as the senior and field trips. ers insight into the craft For more information, photography, prospect research ana- of screenwriting. visit www.kinespirit.com. Web design, lyst in the Office of ERIC MARIN / CAS ’97 / graphic de- Advancement at East was a sports reporter for SAIMIR KADIU / WAG SUSAN DROMSKY-REED sign, semi- Stroudsburg University the New York Daily News, ’98 / works in the Min- / LAW ’99 / has recently otics, and of Pennsylvania. then spent nearly four istry of Health of Albania, authored a chapter on in- NOTES visual culture years as a sales coordina- where he is the director heritance and estate tax at Presbyter- ESTHER DAVIES / GSP tor for Fox Cable Net- of the economic depart- for the 2007 edition of ian College ’97, GAL ’99 / received works. He is currently a ment and the implemen- the New Jersey Tax Hand- and is a her MFA from Brooklyn copywriter for the New tation director of a World book (American Lawyer photo-based artist. College in 2002. She has Jersey Devils hockey Bank project. Media). Concentrating her been working as a grant team. practice in estate plan- NELLIE GUENCHEVA writer for a New York MICHELLE MADISON / ning, she is a partner in GIPSON / STEINHARDT City–based nonprofit MICHAEL C. MAZUR / CAS ’98 / has been WolfBlock’s Private Client ’96 / has generously organization for the TSOA ’97 / is a professor named the publicity and Services Group. given a scholarship to past three years. of musical theater at Cali- marketing manager at enable a foreign student fornia State University, Inkwater Press in Port- PAULA RESSLER / to study visual-arts ad- RENE SNUGGS FRANCIS Chico. land, OR. She and her STEINHARDT ’99 / is ministration at the Stein- / GSP ’97 / has started husband, Sean, are the 2007 recipient of the hardt School of Culture, Ramp Up, Inc., a corpora- MATIA S. NIKOLOVIENIS raising a family of cats David Strand Diversity Education, and Human tion dedicated to retro- / STERN ’97 / was ad- near Portland. Achievement Award at Development. fitting real estate to mitted to the New York ISU. Ressler is a profes- accommodate wheel- Bar in 2000. She was MOTO OSADA / STEIN- sor of English education MATTHEW SAPOLIN / chairs. married in Greece in HARDT ’98 / is a com- at Illinois State Universi- WAG ’96 / was profiled 2002 and gave birth to poser who was a 2006 ty and the author of Dra- last fall on NY1’s One on 1 WENDYBETH “WENS- her first child earlier S&R Washington Award matic Changes: Talking With Budd Mishkin. He is DAY” GREENBAUM / this year. recipient. He has written About Sexual Orientation New York City’s first ever TSOA ’97 / has an- works for full orchestra, and Gender Identity With commissioner of the May- nounced the release DAVE RIFKIN / LAW ’97 as well as chamber and High School Students or’s Office for People with of her first full-length / has been appointed an solo works. Through Drama (Heine- Disabilities. CD Torch Rock (Desert adjunct professor of law mann Drama). Dreams), produced and at Georgetown University CALAYA M. REID / CAS MICHAEL TYRELL / CAS co-written by legendary Law Center in Washing- ’98 / published her MICHAEL RICHTER / ’96 / edited the poetry guitarist and songwriter ton, DC. first novel, Take Her Man STEINHARDT ’99 / just anthology Broken Land: Dick Wagner. For more (Kensington Books), a received his MBA from Poems of Brooklyn (NYU information, visit MARC S. SHAW / SSW contemporary story about Baruch College and is cur- Press) with fellow NYU www.wensdaymusic.com. ’97 / is grateful to his in- love, loss, and finding out rently living in New York alumnus JULIA SPICHER structors and colleagues what truly matters in life. City as a Web site manag- KASDORF / WSUC ’85, NATALIE HOLDER- in the School of Social er for Microsoft Corp. GSAS ’89, STEINHARDT WINFIELD / STEIN- Work for helping him to ROBIN REYNOLDS / ’97 /. Tyrell’s poems have HARDT ’97 / is a lawyer see the world. WAG ’98 / is the assis- KEN SCHNECK / CAS appeared in many maga- with a nonprofit that tant vice provost at Santa ’99, STEINHARDT ’01 / zines, including The Paris teaches people about JAMES COOKE / STERN Clara University. She was accepted the position of Review and The Yale Re- workplace discrimination ’98 / married Amy E. recently certified as a dean of students at Marl- view. A recipient of the and diversity training. For Noble in 2006 at the senior professional in boro College in Vermont James Merrill Writer’s more information, visit Episcopal Church of the human resources by the in August 2007. Fellowship, he teaches www.qeinitiatives.org/ Holy Trinity in Manhattan. Society for Human Re- in the Expository Writing index.html. The couple now lives in source Management. PAUL A. SPAGNOLETTI Program at NYU. Mineola, NY. / SCPS ’99 / is president ELLYN A. LEM / GSAS JENNIFER MCCASLAND for the northeast division STEPHANIE J. ADAMS / ’97 / was named an JASON GREIFF / TSOA DALY / STEINHARDT of DynaServ, where his STERN ’97 / received her Arthur M. Kaplan Fellow ’98 / contributed to ’99, ’00 / who performed responsibilities include MS in library science by the University of Wis- Gotham Writers’ Work- and taught dance in the business development, from the University of consin. Lem, an assistant shop’s book Writing New York City community bidding analysis, expan- North Carolina at Chapel professor of English, stim- Movies: The Practical for years, just opened her sion of service lines, and Hill last December and ulates students’ interest Guide to Creating Stellar own Gyrotonic and well- customer relations.

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TONY LAING / WAG ’00 TSOA ’00 / is the tion-Year Fellowship to mation, visit www.post rently working on “Gar- / is a diversity and pro- vice president of the continue his work study- partum.net. den in Transit,” a large- gram-exchanges adviser Stuyvesant Fuel Service ing the history of South- scale public-art therapy for the Massachusetts Corp. and was recently ern filmmaking from the ANNE COFONE / SSW project in New York City College of Art. He coun- presented with the Emma silent era to World War II. ’02 / is beginning her in which thousands of sels students on study- Lazarus award by the second year in Adelphi children in hospitals, abroad programs and Associated Builders and VIKKI KARAN / SCPS University’s PhD program schools, and community scholarships, serves as Owners of Greater New ’01 / has been promoted in social work. institutions paint vibrant an academic adviser, and York. to client services and flowers to be applied to plans and executes diver- contract administrator DEBORAH G. DAMAST / thousands of New York sity programming for stu- ROBERT A. JACKSON / in the Endeavor Talent STEINHARDT ’02 / is a City taxis. For more infor- dents, faculty, and staff. GSAS ’01 / received a Agency’s business de- faculty member in the mation and sponsorship University of Virginia partment. Karan joined Dance Education Program opportunities, visit CRAIG M. ROSENMAN / Faculty Senate Disserta- the talent agency in at NYU. www.portraitsofhope.org/ 2003 while still a student git/index.php. at Pepperdine University REED DAVIS / CAS ’02, School of Law. LAW ’05 / was named an JAY LEE ELLIS / GSAS alumni mentors associate in the national ’03 / has completed his LARIENA D. (BELL) law firm of Baker & latest publication, No PASS THE TORCH MATTHEWS / SCPS ’01 / Hostetler LLP in its New Place for Home: Spatial has been appointed lead- York office. Davis served Constraint and Character Your most fulfilling donation to your alma mater ership fund-raising offi- as articles and notes Flight in the Novels of could be your time—as a mentor to current stu- cer for the American Red editor for the Journal of Cormac McCarthy (Rout- dents. The Wasserman Center for Career Develop- Cross headquartered in International Law and ledge). The University of ment’s Mentor Network Program is looking for Washington, DC. In Octo- Politics. Tennessee asked Ellis to alumni to assist students with career decision-mak- ber 2006, she married R. give the keynote address ing, improving interviewing and observational skills, Chuck Matthews, a soft- REBECCA FICHTER at its 2007 conference and learning the art of networking. ware engineer for Booz HALE / STEINHARDT on McCarthy. No matter what your occupation,there are NYU Allen Hamilton. ’02 / published The Soul students hungry for the professional guidance of of the City: Le Petit JAMIE PATTERSON an alum. Mentors choose the BRIAN H. SEIDMAN / Théâtre Du Vieux Carré HERNANDEZ / GSAS level of involvement most CAS ’01 / has had a of New Orleans (Rock ’03, STEINHARDT ’06 / comfortable for them, from short story accepted for Press), about one of started a Web business inviting a student to shadow publication in the fiction America’s oldest commu- with her husband called them for a day on the anthology Star Trek: nity theaters. www.EducationRegistry job to holding an in- Strange New Worlds 10 .com—a wedding and baby formational meeting (Pocket Books). His Web SINEM VAROGLU / registry site for student to explain a profession. site is www.brian STEINHARDT ’02 / was loans and future educa- Mentors may meet just seidman.com. the 2006 grand prize tional savings. once with a student—for 20 minutes to an hour— winner for her song or may develop a long-term mentoring relationship, SUSAN DOWD STONE / “Boom Sheke Nana” in DARRYL JORDAN / depending on the student’s needs and the mentor’s SSW ’01 / has published the world-music category STEINHARDT ’03 / availability. several articles and con- of the international John teaches and directs mu- Mentors can also reach out to whole clubs,organ- tributed chapters to a Lennon Songwriting Con- sic at the Gilman School izations, and majors through the NYU Alumni As- graduate textbook on test. She is currently in Baltimore. A music sociation Links Program, which invites alumni to treatment of perinatal recording her debut al- minister at New Song interact with more than 400 campus groups or con- mood disorders. She has bum with French produc- Community Church, he nects them with programs tailored to graduates of a also been appointed er Henri Scars-Struck. directs a gospel hip-hop particular school or college. president of Postpartum Her Web site is teen choir under New Support International, www.sinem.net. Song Arts and Ministry. For more information about the wide array of mentoring the world’s largest organ- Jordan also performs opportunities at NYU, visit the alumni Web site at ization for resources on MARISA ZELDOW / GSP with the Brooklyn Arts http://alumni.nyu.edu/groups/mentor.shtml. this topic. For more infor- ’02, CAS ’04 / is cur- Ensemble and is complet-

78 / FALL 2007 / NYU ing his Masters of Divinity on her PhD in American worked with UNICEF in 25 entrepreneurs under film industry. CLASS degree at Reformed The- studies at the University Azerbaijan, where he was 25 by BusinessWeek. ological Seminary. at Buffalo while serving responsible for nation- AMMARA as an associate minister wide HIV/AIDS and immu- NATASHA L.O. BANNAN KHALID / MELISSA MENDEZ- in Niagara Falls, NY. She nization programs. / WAG ’06 / is the man- CAS ’06 / GARCIA / WAG ’03 / was has also published her ager of multicultural is pursuing a appointed by New York City first collection of poetry, PATRICKS MBALA / initiatives for Girl Scouts doctorate NOTES Mayor Michael Bloomberg titled Crying Out Loud. WAG ’05 / is the manag- of the USA. In this role, from the Illi- to the City’s Commission Her Web site is www.erika er of the University Cen- Bannan works at the na- nois School of on Women’s Issues, where haygoodpoetry.com. tral Consultancy Bureau tional office and manages Professional she will work to ensure that at the University of the organization’s His- Psychology at New York women can fulfill JIMMY WONG / WAG ’04 Namibia, where he is re- panic initiative. Argosy University in personal and professional / works with the United sponsible for coordinat- Chicago. aspirations. Nations Assistance Mis- ing both consultancy CHRISTY CAREW / sion in Afghanistan as a projects and short train- STEINHARDT ’06 / is ELLEN LICHTENSTEIN / ANITA GILL / GSP ’04, human rights officer un- ing programs. approaching the first an- STEINHARDT ’06 / is CAS ’06 / has been work- der the auspices of the niversary of living in Los working in Miami as an ing in the editorial depart- UN Department of Peace- TOM PATTERSON / Angeles and working as associate producer for ment of Nature Publishing keeping Operations and TSOA ’05 / recently a film music composer. the TLC reality show Group, the science publish- Office of the High Com- joined Actors’ Equity and Open House, a film she Miami Ink. ing company that produces missioner of Human is currently working on recently scored, won the Nature magazine. She is Rights. the national tour of The Best of Fest Award for JOSHUA J. SHAYNE / currently pursuing a mas- Color of Justice for the student division in the TSOA ’06 / directed ter’s degree in literature FARID AGHAMALIYEV / TheatreworksUSA. Reel Women International Le Voyeur, a short at American University. WAG ’05 / is now a Film Festival. She is inter- film that was shown health policy officer with MICHAEL SIMMONS / ested in connecting with on IFC as part of the ERIKA HAYGOOD / GAL ABT Associates in Baku, STERN ’05 / was named other NYU alumni in LA presentation Media ’04 / is currently working Azerbaijan. He previously one of the country’s top who are working in the Shorts Uploaded. Obituaries New York University mourns the recent passing of our alumni, staff and friends, including:

ABRAHAM D. MOLLIN / DEN ’23 WALTER L. MEJO / STERN ’54 ROBERTA NACMIAS / WSC ’66 ALBERT M. SCHWARTZ / ARTS ’28, MED ’31 AVIS J. PITMAN / NUR ’54 RAFAEL BUENAVENTURA / STERN ’67 HELEN SCHULZE WEBB / LAW ’33 EUGENE W. SCHULTE / STERN ’55 MANNY FINK / ARTS ’67 ALLAN N. ARVINS / DEN ’36 MARINO BEVILACQUA / STEINHARDT ’57 BETTY BERRY / STEINHARDT ’68 GERALD CANTOR / STERN ’38 YOLAN HARSANYI / STEINHARDT ’57 HELEN SHERWOOD BIRD / WSC ’72, STELLA CHESS / MED ’39 RUTH MCKENZIE / STERN ’57 STEINHARDT ’73 MARSHALL NEVIN / ARTS ’39, MED ’43 WILLIAM STOREY / ENG ’58 RESTITUTO RUIZ / DEN ’74 EDWARD J. SCHEIDER / STERN ’39, ’41 EDWIN BOLZ / WAG ’59 TATEKI YAMAMOTO / STERN ’74 ARTHUR GOLOMB / STEINHARDT ’42, ’50, ’62 SATISHCHANDRA BALWANTRAI PAREKH / WILLIAM SCHMIDT / STEINHARDT ’76 EDWARD IANELLI / ENG ’42 GSAS ’59, ’63 CLAIRE E. WUESTER / NUR ’78 ALBERT RABINOWE / WSC ’42, LAW ’50 ARNOLD ANDERSON / STERN ’60, ’68 JOSE COLON / MED ’80 LILLIAN MEADE GLASER / NUR ’43 EDWARD BLACK / STERN ’60 JOSEPH LIPP / STEINHARDT ’84 ELEANOR SANTANGELO / STEINHARDT ’43 LISTER CHATMAN / STERN ’61 GEORGE A. RAPANOS / GSAS ’90 WYONA RODRIGUEZ / NUR ’44 MICHAEL SCHRADER / WSC ’61, GSAS ’63 NARISSA S. ALI / CAS ’00 EDITH WALDEMAR / STEINHARDT ’46 BARBARA MEDINA / GSAS ’63 JACKIE PILLICIOTTI / SCPS ’00 THEODORE BOUTIS / STERN ’47, ’54 RICHARD TURER / STEINHARDT ’63 ALVIN CHEUNG / STERN ’04 RICHARD WARREN COHEN / ARTS ’47 RINA CHAGY / ARTS ’65 ERIC NG / CAS ’06 GLENFORD TETLEY, JR. / WSC ’48 FREDERIC CHIN / ARTS ’65 YEVGENIY “EUGENE” MARSHALIK / CAS ’09 HARRY DUNBAR / STEINHARDT ’49, ’51, ’61 FRED HAVENICK / ARTS ’65 BROOKE ASTOR / NYU TRUSTEE SYLVAN J. HERSHEY / MED ’49 BONNIE MONCHER / WSC ’65, STEINHARDT ’68 MALCOLM HARRISON / CIMS FACULTY ABRAHAM KRASNOFF / STERN ’50 VIVIAN AUFHAUSER / WSC ’66 ABRAHAM SUNSHINE / MED FACULTY OTTO STROBINO / STEINHARDT ’52 ELIZABETH R. ISBISTER / SSW ’66 PHYLLIS CERF WAGNER / NYU TRUSTEE

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WHEN MOVE-IN DAY

WHERE THIRD NORTH RESIDENCE HALL

WHAT’S HAPPENING AS FRESHMEN ARRIVED AT THEIR NEW HOME AWAY FROM HOME ON A STEAMY DAY IN LATE AUGUST, INSIDE IT WAS ALL SMILES, SAYS PHOTOGRAPHER JOY MEE KEH (GSAS ’08), WHO SNAPPED THIS SHOT OF TWO SISTERS FROM LOS ANGELES. “THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY HANGERS,” SAYS KEH, “SO THEY WERE JUST THROWING THESE BEAUTIFUL PATTERNED DRESSES ALL OVER THE PLACE.”

—Renée Alfuso

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