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Kol Bogrei Rambam Is the Alumni Council’S Monthly E-Newsletter for and About Maimonides School Graduates Kol Bogrei April 2013 ~ Nisan-Iyar-5773 Rambam Page 1 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE Kol Bogrei Rambam is the Alumni Council’s monthly e-newsletter for and about Maimonides School graduates. Each month we share infor- mation on individual graduates’ ventures and accomplishments, as well as general news notes, all reflecting the school’s mission of preparing educated, observant Jews to be contributing members of society. Your ideas and accomplishments will help sustain and strengthen this key communications tool; please forward to [email protected]. Ethiopia a Living Laboratory for Alumna’s Psychology of Games Research Jessica Hammer ’94 teaches people of social resources how to play. “I think pleasure and joy — 20 percent of are critical human resources,” she says. girls report having “They’re important in their own right, no friends at all. but they also give you strength you Many teenage girls can draw from to do other things in are not allowed to life, to open doors to change.” go anywhere unsu- pervised. Yet these Jessica had a unique opportunity to girls are already help put that philosophy into practice making major life over the past six months, creating decisions.” games for teenage girls in Ethiopia. In addition to designing and devel- Working with local oping the games, Jessica and her team partners in Addis visited Ethiopia to test them with Ababa and the over 100 local girls. The project was Amhara region, “our sponsored by The Girl Effect, an inter- goal was to create national agency that works to equip spaces where it Jessica Hammer ‘94 (right) engages teenage girls in an Ethiopian village. adolescent girls and support their would be socially “unique potential” to end poverty. acceptable for girls to get together and play. Play allows American games and expect them to An expert in the psychology of games girls the freedom to develop their mean anything.” and also a game designer, Jessica will own skills, relationships and resources join the faculty of Carnegie Mellon “The more you understand what people to cope with these pressures.” The University in Pittsburgh as an assistant value, what they lack, and what their Rambam’s principle of tzedakah applies, professor this fall. She will be based dreams are, the more you can provide she added: “The greatest gift you can in the school’s HCI Institute, an inter- the opportunities they need,” Jessica give is the skills and resources for these disciplinary program that she said declared. girls to help themselves.” “brings together computer scientists, “We designed team-based games that psychologists, learning scientists, and Jessica put together a team of eight for gave girls the opportunity to develop designers to study how technology the project, including researchers, game life skills in a safe context,” Jessica can support human activities of all designers, and specialists in mobile continued. “Girls got up as part of play kinds.” gaming and international develop- and performed in front of other girls—a ment. Jessica was joined in the field by In Ethiopia, girls are expected to grow big issue there. We created games where Meguey Baker, the team’s lead game up fast, Jessica explained. “At a rela- girls are practicing telling secrets, using designer, and John Stavropolous, the tively young age, they take on all the them to build friendships. Telling secrets project’s creative director and producer. responsibilities of adults. In the region is not uncommon in girl culture across Their research included “getting girls to where we were working, the average the world, but many of these girls are teach us games…we really wanted to age of marriage is 14. Very few girls living so close to the edge that this prac- understand the local culture of play. We finish school, and they don’t have a lot knew we couldn’t just go in with familiar continued on page 3 Visit Maimonides on Facebook Follow our Twitter feed, KolRambam Subscribe to our YouTube channel, MaimoTube Kol Bogrei April 2013 ~ Nisan-Iyar-5773 Rambam Page 2 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE Auditorium Productions Propelled Graduate to the Heights of Stage Lighting The wooden stage that held plays, adequately cover my assets given the presentations and ceremonies is still caliber of my clients. But more impor- packed into the kitchen wall of Saval tantly, I realized that I had lived my Auditorium, a vestige of pre-gymna- dream and it was time to move on.” sium Maimonides. He began a successful second career in For Sam Schneiderman ’69, student real estate, and today Sam is president theatrical productions on that stage and principal broker for his Greater launched a 14-year career path that Boston Home Team. He describes the reached the highest level of the enter- business as a boutique real estate tainment industry. “I became hooked agency serving the entire range of resi- on theatre and stage lighting when I dential property throughout Greater did my first show at Maimonides, and Boston, from the purchase or sale of became the person that Rabbi (M.J.) starter condos to luxury homes. (Sam Cohn called on when he needed help said he helped former Celtics star Ray with the auditorium’s small lighting Allen buy his home.) system,” he said, recalling the princi- Sam Schneiderman ‘69 “I love the negotiations and feeling pal’s direct involvement with student success for my real estate clients as drama. lighting throughout the U.S. and Canada much as I enjoyed the afterglow of for an array of performers, ranging from As a Maimonides student, “I moon- a good performance,” he declared, Aerosmith, Journey and the J. Geils Band lighted in a couple of Boston theatres adding that he enjoys being able to give to Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte. “We doing lighting, set design and stage back to the industry by serving as presi- also did outdoor festival productions dent of the Massachusetts Association like Jazz at Newport and the Sunfest in of Buyer Agents. He has been quoted “My prototype of an elec- Florida with 150,000 people.” in The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, tronic dimming console was “I was primarily in Boston, managing Bloomberg News, NPR and other media. the business and designing the hard- built at Maimonides for a “A few years ago,” he reflected, “I real- ware for the systems,” he recounted. ized that studying Talmud taught me production of Blythe Spirit “Back in those days we had to design to approach things from several view- and build our own equipment. My using wall dimmers and a points at the same time. I value being prototype of an electronic dimming able to do that, whether designing a broken desk.” console was built at Maimonides for a theatrical lighting system or solving production of Blythe Spirit using wall people-problems to put a real estate management,” he continued. After dimmers and a broken desk.” transaction together.” graduation, Sam studied theatrical “The feeling of the first lighting effect directing and design at Emerson He hasn’t made a complete separation at Maimo — a moonlit stage that got a College. from the theatrical world. Sam’s wife reaction from the audience when the Kristin is rosh drama at Camp Yavneh, “That led to doing ‘projection light- curtain opened — is the same feeling and Sam provides some technical shows,’ and later evolved into creating that a concert lighting designer gets support for productions. Last summer a concert lighting company that from a great lighting cue or effect in a he installed a high-tech theatrical designed, built and marketed concert theatre, or a large facility like Madison lighting system for Yavneh’s new multi- lighting systems and services,” Sam said. Square Garden,” Sam asserted. use building. “I am interested in getting “I did a show with (Bruce) Springsteen Sam made a clean break from the back into theatrical production design when no one knew who he was and the concert lighting business in 1984. “I if the right situation presents itself,” he gymnasium at Dean Junior College was began to have challenges hiring good acknowledged. “Meanwhile, my real half-empty, and with Billy Joel in the people, and the industry started going estate business is all-consuming.” The cafeteria of a college in Worcester.” in a direction with which I was uncom- Schneidermans have two adult children, At its peak, his business assigned as fortable. I was also told that I couldn’t Sara and Jesse. many as five crews to handle stage buy enough insurance coverage to Kol Bogrei April 2013 ~ Nisan-Iyar-5773 Rambam Page 3 of 4 CONNECTING MAIMONIDES ALUMNI WORLDWIDE Maimonides Alumni Here and There… Josh Yarmush ’09, a Rutgers University helps with the design of a system that junior, has received a prestigious Barry would allow researchers to test hundreds Goldwater Scholarship, awarded for excel- of thousands of chemical compounds lence in academics and research. relatively quickly to identify any substances that could accomplish this The scholarship program honoring the goal. Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate fosters and encour- Josh said he was first exposed to ages students to pursue careers in the research at Shriners Hospital in Boston fields of mathematics, the natural sciences during his summers in high school. and engineering. “When I first went into a lab, I was amazed by the boundless capacity for Josh, a biomedical engineering major, is innovation and discovery,” he said. He investigating ways to make more donor plans to pursue a doctorate in biomed- livers suitable for transplantation in ical engineering. people who suffer advanced liver disease. He told The Rutgers Daily Targum that Joseph Itkis’06, a second-year student because of high fat content, about 2,000 at the Columbia University School of livers are discarded each year.
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