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Indeed, Queens College JFK and Pomonok became the jewel in the I look forward to seeing the Pomonok QC Opens Borough’s First crown of the City University Dreams documentary (“A Memorable of New York, proclaimed Project,” Fall 2015 issue). While I never Tech Incubator as Students by so many of its prominent lived in that housing complex, I saw it Get in the Tech Pipeline and famous alumni. This nearly every day during my time as a alumna became a social Queens College student. But one shining With state-of-the-art labs, wireless access, and more computer sci- studies teacher, cofounder of moment stands above all the rest: the day ence majors than any university in the metro area, the college has a Women on the Job in 1980, JFK campaigned at Pomonok. demonstrable commitment to technology. Now, after opening a tech which worked for equality On the Saturday before Election Day incubator on campus and student participation in the Tech Talent in women’s employment, in November 1960, during my junior Pipeline, the college’s influence extends beyond the classroom. activist in the League of year, I was studying in the Paul Klapper “It is a very exciting time to be an entrepreneur in Queens,” noted Women Voters, and author Library when word suddenly spread on President Félix Matos Rodríguez at the September 29 opening of of Searching for Matilda: campus that John F. Kennedy was across the incubator, which is located in a newly renovated building near Portrait of a Forgotten the street on Kissena Blvd. on the final the Student Union. “The incubator will help them build successful Feminist (2013). leg of his presidential race. We all ran technology companies, which will of course promote innovation My friends and alumnae, there and saw him perched in the back of and development here in our borough and expand job opportunities. Members of the Class of 1946 who attended the June 2 who can no longer pay a pickup truck, shaking hands. He was Members of the incubator also will have easy access to the college’s Commencement (clockwise from top left): Leonard Yohay, tribute to our college’s surrounded by a horde of screaming fans excellent faculty, students, and staff, who have the knowledge and QC Tech Incubator member Jean Ndoutoum (center), founder of Estelle Gershman Fruchtman, President Félix Matos greatness, are remembered and local politicians. Kennedy pointed to skills to help tech companies develop and thrive.” the financial firm Numeraxial LLC, celebrates the incubator’s open- Rodríguez, Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro, Betty Senatore on this 70th anniversary the Pomonok homes and said, “This is a Developed with city support and directed by Ted Brown (Com- ing with, from left, Peter Koo and Rory Lancman ’91, City Council Cuccurullo, and Rosemarie Cantor Guercia. of the Class of 1946 with wonderful place to live. If I lose on Tuesday, puter Science), the incubator has rooms with flexible configurations Members representing Queens; City Council Member James Vacca admiration and affection. Jackie and I will move in here.” The crowd that can accommodate 4 to 12 people, for a maximum total of 70. ’01; and President Félix Matos Rodríguez. Remembering the Class of 1946 They were esteemed in their respective roared. I shook his hand and yelled, “Good Shared amenities include a kitchen, conference rooms, a recreation I am forever grateful for the superior and fields: Lore Prausnitz Jarmul, Norma Oboler luck.” He was incredibly handsome and room with a foosball game, dartboard challenge, and an electronic QC’s incubator is designed for entrepreneurs in Queens and Long unique education I received at Queens College. Shaeffer, Florence Jarmul Ross, Estelle remarkably young compared to other drum set, and state-of-the-art servers where members will be able to Island, particularly those from eastern and southeastern Queens, I enrolled at the age of 16, academically Cooper Schneider, Estelle Rapport Friedman. presidents, including our then commander- back up files and run applications. Members will also have access to including immigrant business owners. qualified by an entrance exam, a protected in-chief Dwight Eisenhower. He could have QC faculty and will be able to take advantage of the college’s gym, The college plans to integrate student interns wherever possible only child of Eastern European immigrants, a Charlotte Meyrowitz Shapiro ’46 passed for a grad student. swimming pool, dining areas, and other facilities. in the incubator’s operations, says Jose Orengo, a consultant for this commuter, a young adolescent. It was the first time I saw him in person, “This incubator is part of a city-wide initiative,” says its sponsor, project. “Accounting students can help these start-ups,” he notes. My education was transformative, but not the last. Two years later, as a grad City Council Member and Tech Committee Chairman James Vacca “Pre-law students can do research into intellectual property issues.” nurtured and challenged by a brilliant They Met in the Library student at Northwestern University’s Medill ’01, who represents the Bronx but knows QC well—he earned a To fill the incubator’s seats, Brown and Orengo are casting a wide faculty. President Paul Klapper, an esteemed The news last fall of the deaths of the School of Journalism, I took his picture on master’s in urban studies here. “We want to encourage students net—reaching out to the Queens Chamber of Commerce, the Queens educator, had handpicked his faculty from Afflerbach twins, Janet and Lois, was most a photo class assignment when he came to to use technology to move ahead in their careers. Incubators are Economic Development Corporation, and the Greater Flushing a national roster, tempting each one with saddening to me, having known and enjoyed ’s McCormick Place, an exhibition already running at Lehman College and the College of Staten Island, Chamber of Commerce, working with Asian, Hispanic, and other the offer of a groundbreaking, academically their company for over 70 years. hall near Lake Michigan. He rode up an and we’re going to be expanding to other CUNY campuses. Every ethnic media, and sending an email blast to alumni. One local compa- influential opportunity to mold CUNY’s We met as freshmen working in the escalator with Mayor Richard J. Daley. The college has different uses; Lehman, for example, focuses on women- ny, founded by a team of former and current QC students, is already new addition. The campus, in the “wilds” of library, then occupying the second and third Secret Service let me snap two photos. This and minority-owned businesses.” continued on page 6 suburbia, took root on the grounds of what floors of Jefferson Hall. We were paid the was in October 1962, shortly before the had been a boys’ reformatory. then princely sum of 40 cents per hour. Cuban Missile Crisis erupted. I was struck The faculty who are most memorable Librarian Charles Gosnell was in charge. by how much he had aged since I saw him and who had enormous influence on this When he later became New York State at Pomonok. His hair was flecked with gray impressionable and malleable student Librarian, Morris Gelfand took over. and his face lined with wrinkles. It seemed Gala Raises $1 Million for included John Goheen, philosopher and As time went by, library students in- like his job took a huge toll on him. Thirteen mentor; Kenneth Clark, psychologist, creased in number and in noise, warranting months later, it took the ultimate toll. Student Scholarships whose work became the foundation for the the appointment of library monitors, who Pomonok has changed greatly over the This year’s Queens College Gala was held on Tuesday, May 10, Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board were authorized to eject talkative students. In past 65 years, but that memory stays with in Gotham Hall in . Created to honor alumni whose of Education; Joe Machlis, musician and February 1941 I acquired that lofty position, me forever, one of many lifelong moments careers and dedication to philanthropy and public service serve magician who made music penetrate body and on a certain spring day I expelled an from my QC days. and soul; Hortense Powdermaker, pioneering attractive young lady, Virginia Michels, who as models for students, the Gala this year honored three of the anthropologist; William Ebenstein, whose I thought was talking too much. On April Richard Reif ’62 college’s best: the Alumni Award was presented to Jacqueline book on political philosophers is still in 21, 1951, she and I were married by Queens Willens ’70, managing director, UBS Financial Services, Inc.; the publication; and Sidney Morgenbesser, Hillel Supreme Court Judge Charles Colden, who President’s Award went to Michael P. Weisman ’71, award-winning advisor and rabbinical student, later renowned was the one person most responsible for the television executive and producer; and Sir Arnold C. Franco philosopher at Columbia University, who creation of Queens College. Send your letters to [email protected] or ’43, a decorated WWII veteran and former head of his own assisted many a student’s transition to The Afflerbach ladies were two very Queens: The Magazine of Queens College international insurance brokerage firm, was honored with the adulthood. And there were so many others lovely people, Lois having spent her entire Queens College Lifetime Achievement Award. (An obituary on Sir Arnold appears among Queens College’s faculty who career at QC. They are missed by many. Kiely Hall 811 (L–r) Gala honorees Jacqueline Willens, Michael P. Weisman, on page 11.) transformed their students into knowledgeable 65-30 Kissena Boulevard and Sir Arnold C. Franco. and thoughtful adults. Thomas Dent ’42 Queens, NY 11367–1597

4 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 5 interested in moving in. Foreign entrepreneurs are also eligible to set Most students earned positive evaluations from their employers. up shop on the QC campus, reports Brown. “We’ve got 25 appli- “GPAs didn’t necessarily correspond to performance,” reports QC Banking on a DNA Registry for Genetic Research cants,” he says. “We’ll be choosing a few at the end of November.” Acting Assistant Provost Eva Fernández, who worked with Misshula Developing homegrown talent to diversify the city’s rapidly on TTP @ QC. “Top assessments went to people with outside proj- To anyone who knew Olivier Noel ’11 during his time at growing tech sector was the primary goal of the Tech Talent ects,” such as hackathons—informal, round-the-clock events in which Queens College, it will come as no surprise to learn that Pipeline. In partnership with the Department of groups assemble to develop software. TTP’s results demonstrate the while still engaged in MD/PhD studies at Penn State College Small Business Services, which funded the initiative, Queens value of experiential education. “QC provides a highly structured and of Medicine, he has become the cofounder of a novel biotech/ College and 13 other colleges across the five boroughs agreed to rigorous academic environment,” Fernández says. “How do you make health care company. act as host institutions for the pilot, which provided training aligned that better? Blend in hands-on, real-world experience.” A native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Noel was an with the needs of local employers. “Tech is the second-largest Proof that this combination works: TTP @ QC participants who outstanding student at Queens who regularly made the sector in New York City, after financial services, and is the fastest- graduated have received offers for full-time jobs in the tech field dean’s list and received awards in biology and chemistry, growing one,” says Evan Misshula, project manager for the Tech after the internship and all subsidies ended. Computer science including an American Heart Association Summer Research Talent Pipeline Residency at QC (TTP @ QC). “But 80 percent of major Michael Avnyin ’16, a member of the first cohort, is one Fellowship. A member of the soccer team, he somehow also the people who write code come from out of town. So our specific of the new hires. He interned at Motivate Design, a design shop found time to tutor students in French, Spanish, biology, objective was to get students into jobs writing code, as opposed to devoted to the user experience; his assignments ranged from and chemistry and volunteer at the Queens Hospital Center jobs in tech support, fixing servers.” Skilled coders command good developing the prototype of a mobile application to fixing bugs Emergency Room. starting salaries, lifting their lifetime earning potential. in the company’s website. “It was cool to meet and work with In the summer of 2015 Noel launched DNAsimple, an QC’s program involved two cohorts—25 students in each— designers,” says Avnyin. “I learned the lingo and how things work.” online DNA bank that gives researchers access to DNA chosen through a competitive process open to everyone, with a After his internship was over, he was invited to attend a focus samples from people all over the world. DNAsimple allows preference for computer science students who had completed group run by Interbrand, a firm specializing in brand strategy, donors to contribute to scientific studies and provides upper division courses. All participants got a month of intensive brand analytics, design, and related areas. Later, based on his feed- genetic researchers with the samples they need, for about training led by the New York Code + Design Academy. Students back, Interbrand offered Avnyin a position as a freelance creative half the cost of creating and managing an in-house genomic in the first cohort, which began training in February, then spent technologist, making prototypes and mockups for client websites; sample bank. This eliminates many of the issues of time and three-and-a-half months interning in tech positions, working now he’s a front-end developer, creating user interface toolkits, geography researchers typically encounter when trying to 19 hours a week at $15 an hour. Members of the second group, microsites, protoypes, and mockups, and using technology to assist acquire DNA samples. which underwent training from May 31 to June 24, subsequently the design team. As Noel explains it, research at many genetic institutes interned full-time for nine weeks at the same hourly rate. (Interns’ “I’m very, very grateful for what QC and TTP have done for me,” is often stymied by the need to find individuals able to take Oliver Noel pay was funded by the Tech Talent Pipeline, giving businesses he says. “I learned the core of programming at college and was able the time to travel—sometimes significant distances—to the access to cost-free developers.) to put it together with my training in web development.” research centers and provide DNA samples. When a presenter at a recounts that theirs was one of 32 startup companies selected medical genetics conference at UPenn recounted a similar situation from 6500 worldwide to benefit from Silicon Valley’s inaugural and how it was eventually resolved, Noel realized that the scenario Y Combinator fellowship program. The eight-week program Maintaining a High-Energy Career the speaker described could be replicated and systematized in a way targets companies in the early stages of development. Those that could benefit countless other researchers. selected receive a $12,000 equity-free grant from Y Combinator. In 2008, after 20 years as vice president of human resources for figuring out what measures, large or small, should be implemented “They were studying a rare disease with an even lower inci- In November DNAsimple graduated from the fellowship and set several of Colgate-Palmolive’s global divisions and finally as VP to make the foundation’s workforce happier in their jobs. Based on dence rate in Pennsylvania and the western world,” says Noel. “By up an office in Center City, PA. Y Combinator remains interested in of global workplace initiatives, reporting to the chief executive, a survey he conducted, the answers have ranged from a generous doing a Facebook search they were able to find a support group maintaining a relationship, says Noel. Philip Berry ’73 figured it was time to start his own business: an benefit policy including a 12-week parental leave, a new mothers’ for people with the disease in India, and were able to contact them Recently DNAsimple was one of 25 companies accepted into eponymous consulting firm specializing room and a wellness room, to a summer Friday program allowing and have a DNA sample shipped over.” the Philadelphia-based DreamIt accelerator cycle. Nearly 1000 in leadership development, executive people to leave early on that day—all in place today. DNA can be collected from hair, several parts of the body, and companies from over 40 countries applied for a spot. DreamIt, coaching, and cultural diversity. He Berry, who earned an AA at Borough of Manhattan Community bodily fluids such as blood and saliva. Saliva, explains Noel, is both which works in partnership with Independence Blue Cross and the also wrote a book, Being Better Than College before coming to QC, credits his education with preparing easy to collect and, as it’s not a hazardous substance, easy to ship. University of Pennsylvania Health System, was named one of the You Believe: 8 Steps to Ultimate Success him to address issues in a socially responsible manner. He does his It struck Noel that by directly contacting genetic disease support top 10 business accelerators in the world by Forbes magazine. (Outskirts Press), available on Amazon best to reciprocate. He just completed a 10-year term as a state- groups—as well as reaching out via social media services—potential DNAsimple is closing in on having 5,000 donors in its database, and at iBook, Nook, and Kindle. “I didn’t appointed vice chair of the CUNY Board of Trustees; he is still donors representing various diseases could be found and asked to and already has matched 10% of the database to specific studies. Its retire,” says Berry, whose career had the acting chair of the City University School Construction Fund, join DNAsimple’s registry and ultimately provide saliva samples. success is drawing media attention: Noel was recently interviewed involved assignments all over the world. which is responsible for a number of new construction projects at These would become part of a genomics bank researchers could for Boston Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program, and the Karen and Philip Berry “I rewired.” all of the 24 colleges, including the new residence hall at QC, the contact instead of conducting their own time-consuming searches. company is also the subject of a recent story in the Boston Globe. He refreshed his circuitry once again in 2016 after he got a call renovation of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, the upgrade of Donors are de-identified so that researchers do not see any of Upon learning of Noel’s recent accomplishments, his former from the Clinton Foundation, which focuses on climate change, the science labs, and other work. As vice chair he led the search their personal information and vice versa. Once donors match a QC faculty mentor, Nathalia Holtzman, in whose biology lab he economic development, girls and women, global health, and health committee that brought President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez to QC. specific study requirement, they are mailed saliva collections kits in performed research, remarked, “I am very proud of Olivier and and wellness, and has projects in Africa, Latin America and the Berry also has been a longtime supporter of the scholarship named which to place their samples and return them in the same manner. how far he has come since joining my lab. He has always been a Caribbean, and the . The nonprofit needed a chief in honor of Helen T. Hendricks who, as an assistant to the dean of Each kit includes a buffer that helps stabilize the sample for several hard working and charismatic individual. He is able to balance human resources officer, and thought Berry—who majored in academic affairs at QC, mentored countless minority students. months. While some donors receive compensation for their samples, everything; he even plays sports well. The company Olivier started sociology at QC and holds an MSW (Columbia) and an MBA (Xavier “QC will always be an integral part of my life,” concludes Berry, others forego payment and instead opt to donate it to a charity of is a fabulous idea. He is really filling a niche that will serve as University)—was the ideal candidate. “The global piece attracted the who stays in touch with classmates and enjoys talking to current their choice. a great source for many researchers.” Holtzman recently joined foundation to me and me to the foundation,” he observes. students, one of whom got him involved with Facebook. That’s Noel has two partners in the DNAsimple venture: Tarik DNAsimple’s advisory board. Thus, at an age when many of his peers are refining their golf where members of the QC community will be able to learn about Salameh, a fellow Penn State MD/PhD student who studies True to form, despite all that is going on in his professional life, swings, he puts on a suit and rides the bus from his Upper West Side his next book, on rebranding and leadership, which he expects to bioinformatics, and Jeff Conway, a computer scientist with Noel still plays soccer with a league on Tuesdays and coaches in a apartment to Rockefeller Center. “Bill Clinton’s office is right down complete in 2020. expertise in algorithms and artificial intelligence. He proudly youth league. the hall from mine,” reports Berry, who bears responsibility for

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Her Greatest Gift Lives On Gregory Rabassa, “Molly saw the whole world with unflagging optimism, with hope- fulness, wonder, and curiosity. She had a knack for trusting other 1922–2016 people, and connecting deeply with them.” That’s how retired Fidelity Investments executive David C. Weinstein lovingly recalls Distinguished Professor Emeritus his mother, who taught at Queens College and inspired students Gregory Rabassa (Hispanic Languages & with her love of the interactive learning process. Literatures), one of the giants of 20th- Molly Weinstein ’77 (MA) displayed a for teaching that century translation, passed away on June she transmitted to her son and his portfolio of educational activities 13 at the age of 94. and charitable giving. In 1991 David and his family established the Professor Rabassa received his PhD Molly Weinstein Memorial Prize Endowment Fund at QC. David’s in Portuguese from Columbia University mother, an adjunct instructor of philosophy from 1978 until her in 1954, where he taught until coming death in 1990, filled classrooms in many programs, including Adult Collegiate Education, the Center for Unlimited Enrichment, to Queens in 1969. At that time he was Above: Molly Weinstein teaching an already becoming a well-known translator and Continuing Education. Many of the students she inspired ACE course in the 1980s. Right: David were adults, as she had been while earning her master’s degree. (he won the 1967 National Book Award Gregory Rabassa receives the 2006 National Medal of Arts from Weinstein, who helped establish a QC for Translation for Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch), and in the President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, in a ceremony Even after they graduated, Molly continued the philosophical scholarship in his mother's name. following decades he became the best and best-known held at the White House. conversations over pizza at a Kissena Boulevard shop. translator of Spanish and Portuguese 20th-century literature For recipients of the prize, Weinstein notes, “The traveled to China to facilitate a joint business degree program with into English. He is rightly credited with the globalization of A man of words, written and spoken, he was an elegant, thread is that they all see something about their subject matter a Chinese university. Following a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced the Latin American “Boom” novel, as he translated some 50 witty speaker who attracted students and colleagues with the that they want to teach.” For example, Alexander Kolokotronis Leadership Initiative, Weinstein founded Write the World, a global novels, including One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García quality of his speech and the range of his interests: the WWII ’16 (MA and BA), a PhD candidate in political science at Yale online platform to help students improve their writing and critical Márquez and Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, march through Rome, in which he participated; bits and pieces University, plans “to combine an academic career with a healthy, thinking. The website—www.writetheworld.com—attracts over two authors who later would be awarded the Nobel Prize of the lives and deeds of numerous writers; a long, rich life of active political life.” He was off to a great start at QC, founding 10,000 young writers, ages 13–18, from around the world. for literature. Rabassa’s distinguished career as a translator adventure, work, honors, and ironies—including being invited the Student Organization for Democratic Alternatives. “Queens Remembering how hundreds of students came to QC’s culminated with his being awarded the National Medal of Arts to the White House twice, both times by presidents for whom College offers students a tremendous range of opportunities and celebration of his mother’s life in 1990, Weinstein said “she in 2006. he had not voted. experiences,” Kolokotronis observes, “and the Molly Weinstein found hope, comfort, and meaning in religion and philosophy. She scholarship is an example of that. Weinstein scholarships really do showed students how to love the dynamic process of learning. a lot for students.” Thanks in part to the scholarship, he felt when How to embrace the back and forth—the probing, questioning, and he got to Yale he could “hit the ground running.” confronting—with love and respect for the process of exploration about the fascinating natural history of monarchs and are shown Weinstein, born in Flushing, grew up in Whitestone, and now and reconciliation. That was her greatest gift.” Butterfly Effective how to create monarch way stations as well as collect, rear, and resides in Newton, MA. He graduated from Boston University Weinstein hopes each QC graduate who receives a Molly Over nine months, thousands of miles, and release the butterflies in time for their annual multigenerational and Boston College Law School, where he is a trustee. During his Weinstein Memorial Scholarship will continue her legacy. Since several generations, monarch butterflies migration. Everyone gets books about the butterflies to take home; 24 years at Fidelity, he served as corporate attorney and chief of the fund’s inception 25 years ago, 47 QC graduates have earned complete an annual migration from central additionally, teachers are given guides to help them integrate administration. This September, as a Bryant University trustee, he Weinstein scholarships to pursue teaching careers. to Canada and back. butterfly-related activities into the curriculum. “When a fourth grade Like other travelers, they need to teacher takes on this project, he or she rarely does it alone,” observes rest and refuel on their journey. The Schmidt. “Basically, every fourth grade in the school gets involved.” Sharing a Love of Food and Fashion with Students Metropolitan Monarch Alliance, a federally funded At the end of each session, everyone receives six native milkweed It’s been a year since Jackwyn (Jacki) Nemerov ’73, a highly As a 16-year-old, Jacki Bartman enrolled at QC, unabashedly program launched by QC environmentalist Peter plants, which are well suited to New York City’s climate. Attendees regarded executive in the apparel industry, retired as president admitting it’s because Neal was there. As an art history major Schmidt, is training concerned citizens to establish pit also get a voucher for live caterpillars, redeemable July through and COO of the Ralph Lauren Corporation. She and her husband, fascinated with fashion, “I took a lot of fine arts courses,” she says. stops for the iconic species. September, and a nylon net enclosure, to protect those caterpillars Neal Nemerov ’70, met at a Queens College fraternity party and “I had a great foundation in color and design coming out of Queens “Three years ago, the monarch’s numbers were so low that many while they turn into butterflies. married right after her graduation from QC and his from Columbia College that I was able to utilize throughout my career. I was never a biologists feared the species was facing an extinction event,” says Schmidt’s efforts extend to QC itself. He wants to plant milkweed University (MBA). Sweethearts for five decades, they share a spirit designer—always a merchant—but I have a great color sense.” From Schmidt, associate director of the Consolidated Edison, GLOBE on campus, to make the college more monarch friendly. John Bowne of generosity and a flair for living. Her world was fashion runways; retail to wholesale—Allied Stores, Lane Bryant, Bernard Chaus, NY Metro program, a science education initiative based at QC. The High School may follow suit—its assistant principal, Steve Perry, his business career culminated on the runways of aerospace. Now Gloria Vanderbilt for Murjani—she moved into the executive suite butterflies are endangered by the loss of habitat and their main food is on the board of the Queens County Farm they are able to plan more “us time,” he notes. as president and COO of Jones Apparel Group. She joined Ralph source: milkweed. Now, with the support of a two-year, $100,000 Museum. Schmidt will be delighted to In high school Neal was adept at plumbing, electrical work, and Lauren as executive VP in 2004. environmental education award from the U.S. Environmental see his project take wing. “Amid all transmissions. At QC he switched from engineering to economics. Through QC’s Professionals off Campus, Neal hosted students Protection Agency, QC’s five program partners—Alley Pond the stories of environmental doom “I wasn’t going to be able to design things but I knew how things at the Culinary Institute and Jacki offered fashion industry insights Environmental Center, Bronx River Alliance, Botanic that are seemingly beyond our worked,” he relates. For 20 years he applied his business and at Ralph Lauren. Their Nemerov Charitable Foundation, based in Garden, Queens Botanical Garden, and Queens County Farm capacity to influence, this is financial acumen at Maxwell House, AMF, Harley-Davidson, Greenwich, CT, where they reside, focuses primarily on education. Museum—are leading workshops in monarch care. The workshops a real and concrete positive and Coltec Industries. He retired in 1993 as manager of divisional They value contributing to “where the need is the greatest,” she include enhancements to teach school groups and general public contribution that people accounting at Coltec Industries, which manufactures aerospace, says. Neal adds, “Jacki and I both believe in paying it forward—to visitors about the threats to monarchs, and tips on how to help. can do tomorrow,” he says. automotive, and industrial parts. Then came a flight plan change to take things from our knowledge and experience base and to help Some one-day sessions, which started in June, are open to Visit www.qc.cuny.edu/mma pursue another interest. At age 46 he began commuting 104 miles a people change their lives. If enough people get involved,” he’s elementary school teachers; others are designed for members of the to learn more and register day to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. convinced, “it will change enough lives that it will start to turn this general community. Whichever they attend, all participants learn for workshops. He graduated in 1996. giant ship around.”

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New Trustees for QC Foundation 1946: Lita (Friedman) Star was bridge Art Association (including trained as a chemist, but left the National Prize Shows), and New Sir Arnold C. Franco, wrote a fine, honest book about Accomplished graduates David Chu ’01, Steven Daniels ’92, and field when she and her husband England Sculpture Association, and 1923–2016 his war experiences called Code Professionals started a family. About 25 years ago have been shown at private galleries Charles Swarns ’80 have found their way back to campus—as The Queens to Victory. He later established an she discovered the world of in the Boston area . . . Harriet trustees of the Queens College Foundation. All three trace their College family annual history prize at QC, and nontraditional quilting, and she says (Schwartz) Vogel success to the education they got at QC. on and off campus mourns the discussed the war with students it has become an obsession. Lita recently published a Chu, who majored in accounting and economics, passing of Arnold on both sides of the Atlantic. notes that “It is strange that, so memoir called Sad is chief financial officer of Stamford, CT-based C. Franco, a Queens College recognized often, people trained in the sciences Is Not Bad—It’s How Savile Finance Group, where his command of distinguished Arnold’s many achievements discover art in their later years.” We Grieve After member of the by awarding him an honorary foreign languages has proven almost as useful as his Lita’s quilts have won awards at such We’ve Loved, which class of 1943. Arnold was a very doctorate in 2000. grasp of numbers. Savile structures credits with Latin prestigious shows as the Interna- is based on letters successful businessman, but we made Arnold a American companies specializing in cross-border tional Quilt Festival in Houston, TX; she wrote her husband after his Chu Each year the Office of Robert Skolnick ’73, Former will always honor him for the Chevalier of the French Legion trade and with U.S. borrowers seeking to finance and the AQS QuiltWeek in Paducah, KY; death. It addresses such issues as Institutional Advancement President, Global Client impact he made by sharing his d’Honneur in 2005, a distinction expand activities in Latin America. and the Lancaster Quilt Show in relationships, communication, family, hosts distinguished alumni Industries, Ipsos World War II experiences and that carries with it the right “I’m often involved in Latin American deals conducted in Lancaster, PA. Her work also has friends, gratitude, and mechanisms and friends of the college as Steve Gerard ’67, CEO and commemorating the sacrifice of to be addressed as Sir Arnold. Spanish,” reports Chu, a Caribbean émigré who grew up speaking speakers in a special lecture been featured in various quilting for healing grief. More information Chairman, CBIZ his classmates who never made The next year he donated that language in addition to the Mandarin and Taiwanese dialects series called Professionals on publications. Lita has found that and links to Harriet’s book and blog it home. funds to construct Queens of Chinese. He didn’t speak English, so after moving to Queens in and off Campus. Now experts Jeanne Braun ’78, Executive quilting has given her solace when can be found at harrietvogel.com . . . In 1943, after intensive College’s World War II Memorial 1995, he enrolled in ELI and then progressed to QC. “Becoming in their fields, these speakers Vice President, Department dealing with hardships. When her 1961: Kenneth M. Kapp, who training in German and Plaza and document the QC fluent in a second or third language is difficult,” admits Chu, who is serve as role models for of Hospitals and Special son passed away, she made a quilt in holds a doctorate in math from the cryptanalysis, Arnold was assigned servicemen who lost their lives eager to use his knowledge and experience to increase opportunities today’s students, who hope Programs at Physicians’ his honor and donated it to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to the Third Radio Squadron in that conflict. In addition, he for students. “I can relate to what first- and second-generation, to achieve their own career Reciprocal Insurers, and college where he worked; it now has reinvented himself as an author underwrote the college’s World success. The series also lets Patricia Veneziano ’75, hangs in a research lab named after with the release of two novels. The Mobile, an elite group of code middle-class immigrants go through,” he says. War II Alumni Veterans Project, students interact directly with Loan Officer, Federal Savings him . . . 1955: Joe Brostek, a Slow and Painful Awakening of Herr breakers who helped to crack Like many QC students, Daniels juggled school which collects oral histories from accomplished professionals Bank trustee of the Queens Historical Wilhelm Neimann was published last the German Army’s secret code, and a nearly full-time job: He logged 30 hours a a feat that shortened the war and those who served in the war. week as an expediter/building code consultant. A from a variety of industries Steven Daniels ’92, Partner, Society, is curator of the exhibit Toys year and Lois Looking for Love this and sectors. We would like to saved countless lives. Earlier this year the Stuyvesant High School graduate who majored in po- Skadden, Arps, Slate, and Games from the Attic and Beyond!, year (http://www.kmkbooks.com/). thank the following speakers Meagher & Flom LLP which will run through June 2017 at He is currently finishing a coming- After the war Arnold married college bestowed the Lifetime litical science and philosophy—“my favorite classes for their participation from Beverly Rosenberg, a member of Achievement Award on Arnold Alan Wurtzel ’67, the society’s headquarters. It of-age story set along the Cherokee were with Harvey Burstein (Philosophy), who was Fall 2015 to Spring 2016. the Queens College class of 1946 for his unparalleled service to Daniels includes over 150 items—Legos, Trail of Tears in the style of magical passionate and energetic”—Daniels went to Colum- President, Research & Media who died in 2013. Besides his the college and our country. We Development, NBCUniversal Beanie Babies, Lionel trains, GI Joe, realism. Kenneth lives in Milwaukee, bia Law School with the expectation of later getting a PhD and teach- John Sganga ’83, President Cabbage Patch Kid, Star Wars, Hess WI . . . 1962: Eric Block was insurance firm, Arnold embarked extend our deepest sympathy ing philosophy of law. Instead, after clerking for the chief justice of and CEO, Innovatix, LLC Gerard Passaro ’79, Senior Trucks, Matchbox cars, Victorian named the 2016 recipient of the on a parallel career: documenting to Arnold’s four children, three the Delaware Supreme Court, he gravitated to corporate law. Frank Boccio ’74, Former Vice President of Network toys, Frisbees, antique dolls, POGs, American Chemical Society’s Ernest World War II and promoting grandchildren, and great-grandson. As a partner in the Wilmington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Executive Vice President and Operations, and Jackie etc.—with panels giving the history Guenther Award in the Chemistry historical scholarship. Arnold Meagher and Flom LLP, he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, Chief Administrative Officer, Lyons ’85, Vice President and origins of toys . . . 1956: of Natural Products. The award was of Network Operations, private equity transactions, and securities law matters. “I loved New York Life Insurance Suzanne Benton recently had given for “his seminal, career-span- Stuyvesant and Columbia, but QC was an important transitional Company three of her monoprints accepted ning research on sulfur-containing celebrate the 50th anniversary of his degree from the State University of place for me,” says Daniels. “I’m thrilled to be part of the Gary Garson ’67, Senior Christopher Cavallaro ’76, into exhibits around the country: natural products, especially those graduating class . . . 1963: Paul New York at Buffalo School of foundation’s board.” Vice President, Secretary, Managing Director, ARC Yellow Glow was accepted into the from genus Allium plants, and on the Goldfarb, a longtime oncologic Medicine . . . 1964: Susan J. Dyer Swarns also worked his way through QC. “I was a teller at the and General Counsel, Loews Excess & Surplus, LLC Contemporary Still Life juried show at chemistry of olfaction.” Eric holds a surgeon with Gordon’s latest book is Because of Long Island City branch of Chemical Bank three days a week, and Corporation, and Seymour David Chu ’01, Chief Financial CORE New Art Space in Denver, PhD in chemistry from Harvard, and Scripps Health, has Eva: A Jewish Genealogical Journey attended classes on two days and two evenings,” he recalls. “That Reisman ’56, Partner, Officer, Savile Finance CO; Spiney Buds was accepted into is the Carla Rizzo Delray Distin- been elected to a (Syracuse University Press). Part time was a blur.” Reisman, Peirez, Reisman, LLP Group and Small Business 311 Gallery’s Flowers and Gardens guished Professor of Chemistry at three-year term as memoir and part detective story, it Juried Show in Raleigh, NC; and the University of Albany, SUNY . . . a member of the describes how Susan tried to fill An economics major, Swarns entered the Chase Irene Moshouris ’82, Community Capital Archer was selected for The Fifth After earning a master’s in American College painful gaps in her family’s history, Manhattan Bank’s management development Treasurer, and Fred Ronald Ruden ’67, Primary Annual Juried International Exhibition journalism in 1964 at Northwestern of Surgeons (ACS) especially what happened to her program and eventually oversaw one of the Bratman ’77, Senior Care Physician and of Contemporary Islamic Art at Irving University’s Medill School of Commission on Cancer (CoC). The maternal grandfather, and if it was bank’s Upper Eastside branches; his subsequent Vice President, Corporate Researcher, Yaffe Ruden & Arts Center in Irving, TX . . . 1960: Journalism, Richard Reif joined the CoC is a consortium of cancer care true that “No one in our family was participation in the bank’s global credit training Communications and Investor Associates An exhibit of sculpture by Irene air force as a public affairs officer. professionals who are dedicated to lost in the Holocaust because we program facilitated his move up the ladder. Several Relations, United Rentals Mark Rose ’85, Chief Execu- Fairley was held After this he went to McGraw-Hill’s Swarns titles and bank mergers later, he was promoted to improving the survival and quality of were all safely here, in America” . . . Frederick Warburg Peters tive Officer, Avison Young this summer at the Corporate Communications life for cancer patients. Paul is the Karen and Mark Garbus, who managing director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. As a banker, he and ’79 (MA), President, Lewis Gallery of the Department as a staff writer and medical director of the O’Toole met when they were students at his team advise high-net-worth individuals, families, endowments, Lori Hoberman ’86, Founder, Warburg Realty Hoberman Law Group, and Portland Public editor, retiring in 2003. Richard stays Breast Care Center at Scripps QC, recently celebrated their fiftieth and foundations to help them meet their financial goals. Joseph Grano, CEO and Kenneth Warner ’62, Library in Portland, active as a volunteer tutor at P.S. Mercy Hospital San Diego and is a wedding anniversary with a trip to “As you become more successful, it’s important that you never Chairman, Centurion Warner Partners, P.C. ME. Irene works in 164 in Kew Gardens Hills and as a fellow of the ACS. Earlier in his Oahu and Maui with their two forget to give back to the community,” notes Swarns, who has watercolor, board member and event program- Holdings, LLC Dennis Jacobs ’64, Federal career Paul was a clinical professor children and five grandchildren. . . brought QC undergraduates to his office for a day on Wall Street. printmaking, photography, and mer for Medill’s New York alumni James Orphanides ’73 Judge of the U.S. Court of surgery within the University of At the college’s 2015 Hall of Fame “QC does a lot of great things. One of my goals is to get students sculpture. Her works have been club. He has also retained his ties (MA), President and Partner, of Appeals for the Second system and served on the Dinner last October the inaugural interconnected with each other, for networking and building more Centurion Holdings, LLC Circuit juried into many exhibits at the with QC, delivering a commence- teaching faculty at Balboa Naval Madden Award, which recognizes an QC comradery.” Concord Art Association, Cam- ment speech in May 2012 to Hospital. He earned his medical outstanding former student who

10 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 11 excelled in athletics or contributed independent team days at QC . . . tion, Larry practices law as a partner baby boomers!” . . . Arnold to the professional field of sports, Lawrence A. Mandelker is chair at Kantor Davidoff. He has been Skemer retired from the federal was presented to of the Committee on Character and elected as a fellow of the New York government in 2008. He recently Six Sports Standouts Inducted into QC Hall of Fame Harry Kent. Harry Fitness for the Ninth Judicial State Bar Association, and is the published the fictionJudex-Prolegom - was an exceptional District. A former member of the subject of a biographical sketch in enon (Phrygian Press) and the Six stellar former student- Shaun Bertin ’06 was one of Louis DeBole ’60 was a Shonda Holder ’04 is the student and athlete editorial board of the New York Law Who’s Who in America . . . Ira Spar poetry collection Disequilibrium athletes and coaches were the top performers standout member women’s during the house Journal and former president of the recently published Civil War Hospital (Propaganda Press). The School of inducted into QC’s Athletics for the Knights of the baseball team team’s all-time plans, fraternity, and NYU Law School Alumni Associa- Newspapers: History and Excerpts of Zeno, another poetry collection, is Hall of Fame during the fifth in the mid-2000s, in the late 1950s. leading scorer Nine Union Publications (McFarland & expected in late 2016 . . . 1971: Mi- Annual Hall of Fame Dinner and helping QC claim He won 18 games at the Division II Co.). These newspapers took an chael F. Amezaga (’73) is a Golf Outing on Friday, October the 2005 NYCAC on the hill, the most level, scoring 1,745 honest look at the horrors of war partner and litigation attorney with 14, at Harbor Links Golf Club in Championship and a semifinal victories by a three-year player points; she also ranks second Lilo Leeds and Lilo earned her bachelor’s de- as experienced by soldiers, doctors, a personal injury firm in Boca Raton, Port Washington. The inductees berth in the conference tour- in program history. He was in rebounds with 1,096. An Amy Maiello Hagedorn gree in mathematics from QC and and nurses. Ira, who served as a U.S. FL. He received his law degree from include Shaun Bertin, Anna V. nament the following season. team MVP twice and a two-time All-ECC Second Team honoree her master’s degree from the State Army battalion surgeon during the New York Law School in 1984. Bondarenko, Louis J. DeBole, During his career, Shaun tallied Knickerbocker Conference in 2005, Shonda was a two-time The Queens College community University of New York at Stony Vietnam War, is president of the Michael was quite active in sports at Derek Ellingson, Shonda Holder, 1,402 points, tenth all-time, All-Star. Over his career Louis Daktronics Division II Northeast recently lost two of its most distin- Brook. Both institutions awarded Hartford Medical Society, a board QC, playing on the varsity ice and Ed Wolfarth. and 702 rebounds, fourth best posted a 1.86 ERA, and holds Region First Team selection. guished alumnae: Lilo Leeds ’48 her honorary doctorates, and she member of the Society of Civil War hockey team (1970–71) and varsity “It is exciting that the in program history. He led the the school record for strikeouts After graduation, she spent time and Amy Maiello Hagedorn ’73. was honored at Adelphi and Hofst- Surgeons, and a fellow of the golf team (1968–71), as well as talented student-athletes of NYCAC in field-goal percentage in a season with 85. Louis was as an assistant at Adelphi and Lilo Leeds was ra Universities in May 2006. American Academy of Orthopedic coaching the men’s varsity tennis the 2000s are being recognized twice, finishing in the top 20 one of the first QC baseball LIU C. W. Post. a refugee from Amy Maiello Surgeons . . . 1967: Carol Jantzen team (1977–78). “What I remember this year,” said Assistant Vice nationally in the category each players to become a “major Nazi . In Hagedorn earned (’70 MS), who has won national most about the college,” he notes, President for Athletics China time. Shaun was a First Team league bonus baby,” signing with Ed Wolfarth ’65 was a 1971 she and her an MSEd from recognition in the fields of glass “was the high-quality professors Jude. “Our inductees are now All-Conference honoree in the in 1959. standout member husband, Gerard, Queens College chemistry and the disposal of who taught me, the keen competi- collegiate coaches, law enforce- 2006, and an All-Met Second of the golf team founded CMP in 1973, and spent high-level nuclear waste, recently tion for achieving academic ment officials, and members Team selection in 2005. Derek Ellingson ’98 competed while also playing Media, Inc., which many years teaching received the 2016 South Carolina excellence, and the high-quality of professional business who in water polo and on the basketball became a leading publisher of preschool. Perhaps Governor’s Award for Excellence in education that I was very lucky to are doing good things in their Anna V. Bondarenko ’05 swimming, later team. Twice team business newspapers, magazines, it was her teaching experience that Scientific Research. She is a member get” . . . Jane S. Gabin has retired communities. It goes to show was a two-time becoming head captain, Ed was a four-time and Internet services for high-tech motivated her later to dedicate of the American Standards & Testing from her position as a college the quality of our alumni.” All-American coach of the water All-Conference honoree. He industries such as computers. The her life and wealth to helping Materials organization, which helps counselor at the United Nations At this year’s dinner talent for the polo program. posted a 23–5 individual record company became known for its others, with a special focus on to set standards worldwide for the International School in Manhattan, the Madden Award, which Knights volleyball In 1997 the Knights finished on the links from 1964–65. Ed great products, its fine services, its improving the lives of children, nuclear industry. Carol has received and plans to concentrate on her recognizes an outstanding squad, earning the first at the ECAC, Northern, was a member of the first QC socially responsible policies, and, families, and immigrants. about a dozen patents and published writing while working as an indepen- former student who excelled honor in both 2003 and 2004. and Eastern Championships team to capture the Long Island especially, for its pioneering onsite Amy was not born wealthy, but close to 300 papers . . .1968: Janet dent educational advisor. Since 2006 in athletics or contributed Anna earned All-Conference to advance to the NCAA Intercollegiate Cup, a feat he infant and child day care center, when she married Horace Hage- Garber has had a long career in she has written the “Ask the to the professional field of honors twice, was the New York Championships, where they later accomplished twice as which Lilo established. dorn, the marketing genius behind human resources while moonlighting College Counselor” column for sports, was also presented. It Collegiate Athletic Conference defeated UC Davis in the coach. Ed oversaw the team When their two sons took Miracle-Gro, she decided to use as a freelance journalist, fiction www.insideschools.org and is also went to Emmy Award-winning Player of the Year in 2003, and consolation game, becoming from 1969–77, and established helped the Knights to the the first East Coast school a program that was consistently over the company’s manage- her fortune to make a difference. writer, and poet. Her nonfiction has an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s sportscaster ’77, No. 1 seed in the NCAA to place as high as third in one of the top five teams in ment, Lilo and Gerard focused Since 1995 the fund Horace and appeared in many newspapers and School of Professional Studies. She the lead radio play-by-play Northeast Regional that season. the tournament. Derek was the Met Collegiate Conference. their attention on philanthropy, Amy started at the Long Island magazines, including the Wall Street handcrafts greeting cards which are voice for the Northeast Coach of the Year in He had a record of 36–6 over working to foster social justice, Community Foundation has given Journal’s Vertical Network, New York sold at a bookshop in Chapel Hill, and former broadcaster for the 2001 and Eastern Coach of the his most successful four-year quality education for students in nearly 3,000 grants to more than Times, New York Post, and Jewish Week. NC, and a stationery shop in Paris and New Year in 2006. stretch as team mentor. less-affluent communities, and 500 nonprofit organizations. The She is the author most recently of . . . Céline Keating (MA ’73) wrote York Islanders. the advancement of women in the Hagedorn Foundation, which began the novel Dream Job: Wacky her second novel, Play for Me workplace. They launched the In- in 2005, has given 689 grants to Adventures of an HR Manager (Lulu). (SheWritesPress), the story of a stitute for Student Achievement, over 175 nonprofits whose work You can learn more about Janet and married woman’s midlife romance performing for films with Phillip superlative teaching and exceptional Roberts Wesleyan College in generate a mutually agreeable which partners with low-per- directly benefits Long Island. Amy her work at www.janetgarber.com with a rock guitarist. She has been Glass—Western Wind offers arts commitment to students, as well as Rochester, NY, and was honored resolution to the dispute. Andrew forming school districts to help wanted her gifts to make an impact . . . Ellen Rand is the author of Last published in many literary magazines education through the NYC public professional accomplishments and with a retrospective exhibition of his focuses on the areas of employment, schools, lead workshops for services. Andrea’s research led work as a figurative painter, including commercial, and corporate law, at-risk middle and high school in her lifetime—and they did. Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of and, as a student of classical guitar, is vocalists, and produce radio schools to establish educational paintings, drawings, and prints . . . representing individuals and students. Lilo was a cofounder An inspirational advocate and Late Life Care (Cypress). She has a regular contributor to Acoustic programs distributed by National liaisons, whose role is to communi- 1974: Andrew A. Kimler, partner businesses in federal and state trial and member of the board of the champion of Queens College, Amy been a journalist for more than 40 Guitar and Minor 7th magazines . . . years, and is also a hospice Elliot Levine was feted at a gala Public Radio and Public Radio cate with foster youth. It also helped in the Lake and appellate courts and before Schott Center for Public and Ear- established an endowed professor- volunteer with Holy Name Medical concert in March by the Western International. Elliot retired in August prompt state and federal legislation Success-based arbitration tribunals. He holds the ly Education and the Great Neck/ ship in Urban Studies and funded Center in Teaneck, NJ. She notes Wind, the vocal sextet he after 47 years with the group . . . to support foster youth. She also Vishnick McGovern highest (AV Preeminent™) rating Manhasset Community Child student scholarships and internship that “I started researching the book cofounded in 1969 as a baritone QC 1972: Andrea Zetlin, an educator created the C. Lamar Mayer Milizio LLP, was awarded for legal ability by Care Partnership, and a member opportunities. Her gifts will forever not long after it became clear to me student and then codirected. Titled and dedicated advocate for children Learning Center, a Saturday literacy recently appointed Martindale-Hubbell®. Andrew of the board of the North Shore serve as a legacy of her public that people were entering into We Thank You: A Concert Honoring and families, development program at Cal State to the U. S. District received his Juris Doctor degree Child & Family Guidance. A service, and we are profoundly hospice care very, very late in the Elliot Z. Levine, the program included received the 2015 LA for local children with and Court Eastern from Ohio Northern University, dedicated friend to QC, Lilo grateful for her generosity. course of their illnesses and I selections from his many religious Cal State LA without disabilities. Andrea has District of New York Mediation where he was an associate editor established a number of endowed Both women’s lives were a wondered why. From there, I looked and secular compositions and President’s written many book chapters and Panel. In this role, he assists in for the Ohio Northern University scholarships, offered internships testament to Queens College’s into a variety of interwoven issues arrangements. Besides performing Distinguished articles in refereed journals . . . improving communication across Law Review . . . Painter Marlene through CMP, and supported the mission: We learn so that we may concerning late-life care. A big and recording vocal music ranging Professor Award, 1973: Douglas Giebel (MFA) party lines, identifies areas of Widenbaum had a busy summer, TIME 2000 program. serve. They will be missed. concern for the tsunami of aging from classical to pop—and which recognizes retired as professor of visual art at agreement, and helps parties to with her artwork appearing in three

12 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College shows: Capturing Color: Contemporary Steps to Inner Freedom. She is a teaching at LaGuardia Community from the CUNY Graduate Center Victorian women and silent film John’s University in Queens . . . Pastels, at the Spencertown Academy transpersonal psychotherapist, College, where she taught for in 2001. A published disability comedy . . . 1991: Michele Boy 1997: Paintings by Dean Radi- Gallery in Spencertown, NY; The hypnotherapist, and strategic life and almost 28 years. She is the author of studies scholar, he is a faculty tells her personal story in Chicken novsky (MFA) were featured in two Hudson Valley Luminists, at the Old business coach who helps people a number of books, which can be member in CUNY’s master’s Soup for the Soul: Volunteering and exhibits recently. Pink vs. Green: Courthouse in Newburgh, NY; and uncover the enduring satisfaction in found on her website www. program in disability studies and has Giving, the latest installment in the Paintings by Dean Radinovsky was held Blue, held at the Mark Gruber life beneath their troubles. She is paulinespatafora.com been the co-executive officer of the famous series. The New Yorker at the New Arts Program in Gallery in New Paltz, NY. She was also a national Premier Success . . . 1984: Debra Pinto joined Society for Disability Studies, the moved to Arizona, then Kansas, and Kutztown, PA last fall. Large Paintings also featured on the cover of the Coach for the international woman’s Fenwick Keats, where she specializes international professional associa- most recently County in by Dean Radinovsky appear in the Summer 2016 issue of the journal business organization eWomenNet- in residential real estate, especially tion for Disability Studies Scholars, upstate NY, where she farms, writes lobbies of 45 Broadway and 42 Art Times . . . 1975: Mitch work . . . 1979: Andrew I. Gavil, a coops, on the Upper West Side. A as well as a member of the National mysteries, volunteers in the Broadway in New York City through Levenberg published The Dementia former office director at the Federal native New Yorker, she has a son Board of Directors of the Muscular community, and is a city commis- November 7 . . . Carol Lynn Diaries (Irene Weinberger Books)— Trade Commission and a leading attending Vanderbilt University . . . Dystrophy Association. For his sioner of Syracuse. Michelle and her Townes Richards received a the story, in journal form, of his academic authority on antitrust law, 1986: Acclaimed musical theatre leadership in expanding employment husband, Heath, have adopted a platinum album from Polygram relationship with his mother during has joined the Antitrust Group of actor received yet opportunities for New Yorkers with daughter . . . 1992: Marilyn Records for her performance of her last five months of life. A prolific Crowell and Moring LLP in another Tony nomination—his disabilities, Chris was awarded a Carroll published The Lives I’ve “Believe in the Beat” on the author of fiction and essays, he Washington, D.C. as senior of sixth—this year for his role as Tevye Liberty Medal by the New York Post Touched: My Thirty-Plus Years in the soundtrack for the film Breakin’ II: teaches writing at St. Francis College counsel. Andrew has been a in . . . 1988: in 2012 . . . Richard Behrens is New York City School System Electric Boogaloo! Carol has and lives in Brooklyn with his wife professor of law at the Howard Joseph Parenti writes that after author of a series of books that (CreateSpace), about her career as a performed throughout the country and daughter . . . Rabbi Dennis S. University School of Law since 1989. graduating from QC, “I was ready to reimagines well-known parent killer teacher and guidance counselor in and in Europe, and for a time was Ross is the author of When a Lie Is He has written, lectured, and start my career as a CPA. However, Lizzie Borden as a girl detective. The some of New York’s toughest one of the Raelettes, the group that Not a Sin: The Hebrew Bible’s commented extensively in the U.S. after working in a mid-size CPA firm Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective series schools . . . 1993: Mohale provided backing vocals for Ray Framework for Deciding (Jewish Lights and abroad, and is the co-author of in NYC for only a few weeks, my life of mysteries includes The Agitated Ralebitso was named chief Charles. Carol is also the author of Publishing). More information is several books, including Microsoft was turned upside-down in a few Elocutionist and The Purloined Curio. executive officer of the Black two children’s books, Red on Tuesday available at www.TinyURL.com/ and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: short tumultuous moments when Richard is the host of the Lizzy Business Council in Johannesburg, and Nothing Like Christine (Trafford) . WhenaLie . . . April Zion published Competition Policy for the Twenty-First the car I was driving was broadsided Borden Podcast and a contributor South Africa, guiding a collective of . . 2002: Ed Norris (’06 MSEd), the Office Avenger: Creative Revenge for Century. He earned his JD from by a speeding, stolen car. I suffered a to The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie more than 20 black business and director of the Glen Cove Chorale, the Injustices of Your Job or Job Loss! Northwestern University School of traumatic brain injury and my heart Borden and Victorian Studies and The professional organizations . . . 1996: led his students to Rome last (an e-book available through Law, where he was a member of the stopped three times during the Literary Hatchet. He is also the Christopher Ferraro (MSEd ’01) January, where they sang at a papal Amazon Digital Services), which Law Review . . . David Hathwell ambulance ride to the hospi- co-founder of Nine Muses Books recently received a doctorate in Mass before Pope Francis II. They offers up a collection of tales from recently published tal. Three weeks later I woke up and a regular lecturer on eccentric modern world history from St. also performed at several historic the office . . . Peri Schwartz (MFA), his debut poetry from a coma in a hospital bed and whose primary subject is the collection, Muses realized that I was connected to interior of her studio in New (David Robert three life-support machines, unable Rochelle, NY, showed her work in Books). His poems to eat or speak and the entire left the solo exhibition Constructing from have appeared in side of my body was paralyzed. I Staying in Touch Life at the Page Bond Gallery in more than a dozen struggled to survive three months Richmond, VA last March. Last fall literary magazines and online without being able to eat real food, The members of the Queens College Chapter of she collaborated with Manhattan journals. After earning degrees in four months without a shower, five Phi Epsilon Pi are a close-knit group, Ira Schloss master printer Gregory Burnet on a English from Stanford and Columbia months not being able to walk and ’68 informs us. They still meet most years at a color etching that was based on one (he’s a retired English teacher), seven months stuck in three Chinese restaurant in Manhattan to celebrate of her monotypes. You can see more David completed an MA in music hospitals and unable to go home.” the summer and winter solstices. Ira recently of Peri’s art and watch a video of theory at Queens. He now studies Joseph’s account of the accident and sent us photos, over 30 years apart, showing her collaboration with Burnet at piano at the San Francisco its aftermath are retold in Miracle on some of the members. The top photo, taken c. perischwartz.com . . . 1976: Sharon Conservatory of Music and sings 91st Street: Surviving the Impossible. 1984, is at Larry Kislin’s house in Bearsville, NY, Beverly (MS ’87) is assistant vice bass in the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of He is now a self-employed CPA a house many of his fraternity brothers helped president of student affairs and San Francisco. David notes that “My residing in West Hempstead, NY . . . him to build; the bottom photo shows the executive director of athletics and musical training, as much as any 1989: Christopher Rosa was members at a gathering last December. recreation at the College of New other influence, has shaped the recently appointed interim vice 1984: Top row—Darryl Feldman, Lenny Kislin Jersey, an NCAA DIII powerhouse. character of my poetry” . . . Amy chancellor for student affairs for the (leaning), Mark Druckman, Mike Wagner, Jeff Massey, Sharon played under Lucille Kyvallos Losak joined a group of prominent City University of New York. Prior Norm Katz, Jay Neuschatz, Bob Jacobs, Jeff Cohen, in the legendary 1974 women’s poets—including Queens Poet to this, he was university assistant Neil Zimmerman, Steve Schwarz, Jeff Gingold, Ira basketball match at Madison Square Laureate Maria Lisella ’09—this dean for student affairs. Chris joined Schloss, David Cooper, Jeff Lapatine; bottom row— John Triunfo ’11 and Rina Balestri ’13 met in a political Garden. Before beginning her admin- past April at the Queens Botanical the CUNY Office of Student Affairs Doug Skolnick, Neil Zimmerman’s brother (not a science class at QC and were married on September 17, 2016. istrative career, Sharon received Garden for a poetry reading in in 2004 after 11 years of student member), Peter Horne, Peter Wallach, Lew Reiss, Before the ceremony, they returned to campus to take a few many honors for her professional honor of National Poetry Month. affairs experience at QC, where he Howie Adler, and Ed Fondiller. photos. Rina now works at Viacom, and John is a firefighter in coaching, including induction into Amy read the poems and haikus of was at various times director of Astoria, Queens. “We are so grateful to Queens College for the Fairleigh her late mother, Sydell Rosenberg. services for students with 2015: Top row—Chuck Solomon, Howard Gollub, allowing us to document our special day on campus, where we Dickinson Hall of Amy continues her partnership with disabilities; director of the student Mark Druckman, Darryl Feldman, Howard Benjamin, Mark Sheivachman, Barry Horowitz met and I proposed,” says John. “QC has a special place in our Fame . . . Ellen Arts for All, a nonprofit that brings a support services program; and (leaning), Bob Jacobs, Jeff Lapatine, David Pollack, Jeff Massey, Doug Skolnick; bottom row— hearts! Thank you for a lifelong memory.” Seigel is the variety of arts programming to compliance officer for the Peter Horne, Howie Adler, Ed Fondiller, Ira Schloss, Lenny Kislin, Jay Neuschatz, Dennis Held, author of Be Happy underserved kids . . . 1983: Pauline Americans with Disabilities Act. and Lew Reiss. No Matter What—5 Spatafora is now retired from Chris earned his PhD in sociology

14 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 15 churches in Rome. In 2014 the several books, including Art and Kielmanowicz (’07 MFA), was on Michael Barr (MA) joined North Shore–LIJ School of Medicine, Sylvia Spector Lamont ’46 chorale performed for President Aesthetics. His forthcoming works exhibit at the First Street Green Bronxville High School, where he received the Gold Humanism Honor Doris Winslow Leather ’46 Obama . . . Leslie Pieters (MS) has are Kalahari Singing, a memoir about Park in lower Manhattan for six teaches physics, biology, and Program Offers Alums Free Society Award, which recognizes Mario Ligorio ’66 been teaching health and physical his 2012 experience as a volunteer months . . . Rita Catinella Orrell chemistry . . . Jessica Hoahing was Training—and a Guaranteed Job! “individuals who are exemplars of Velma A. Lowe ’47 education since 1998. Last fall she teacher in Namibia, and The Hatred (MFA) has been writing about recognized with a humanistic patient care and who can Thomas C. MacAvoy ’50 was named Dance Teacher of the of Home: A Brief Analysis of Western product design for over 20 years. 2016 Excellence A tuition-free, industry-aligned coding bootcamp—exclusively for serve as role models, mentors, and Jeffery A. Malick ’65 Year by the New York State Oikophobia, which traces the history While products editor at Architectur- Award for her CUNY graduates—began on campus in November, thanks to a leaders in medicine” . . . Last sum- Mary Allen McAden MLS ’83 Association for Health, Physical of oikophobia (hatred or disparage- al Record magazine, she contributed “extraordinary partnership between the City University of New York and Revature, mer Melissa Lorenzana (MSEd), a Joan Stahl Miloradovitch, MSEd ’76 Education, Recreation, and Dance . . . ment of one’s own culture) . . . to a number of award-winning efforts as a a technology talent-development company. During the 12-week teacher at West Prep Academy MS Evelyn Schulman Mindell ’41 Kenneth Ryesky (MLS) has joined Maria Doulis is vice president of issues, including those in 2003 that teacher” at Success program, alumni learn the latest technology skills at absolutely no 421 in Ridgewood, NY, went to Be- Lucille Faraone Monti ’54 & ’72 the Tel Aviv office of Ernst and Young the Citizens Budget Commission. earned it a National Magazine Award Academy Charter cost. Once training is completed, they will be hired by Revature and lize to study that country’s diverse Mario J. Monti ’54 & ’58 as a senior advisor with the U.S. She helps develops CBC’s research for General Excellence. Rita is the Schools. Jessica teaches first grade at receive industry certification and continuing education. The program terrestrial, coastal, and coral reef Casper Morsello ’52 Desk, International Tax Services agenda and directs its communica- author of Objects of Desire: A Success Academy Bed-Stuy. She says hopes to train and hire more than 2,000 CUNY graduates over the communities. This fieldwork was Edmund Neuhaus ’48 team . . . 2003: Benedict S. G. tions efforts, including its growing Showcase of Modern Erotic Products her psychology major at QC helped next five years. The next bootcamp will be held in January at CUNY’s part of a graduate course she took Lynne B. Hochberg Pace ’71 Beckeld earned his PhD in online and social media presence. and the Creative Minds Behind Them guide her through the year. “My School of Professional Studies in Manhattan. For more information in pursuit of her master’s degree Nanette Blumenfield Rainone ’65 philosophy, Greek, She is a recognized expert on New (Schiffer). She curates two design undergraduate degree prepared me and to register, visit www.revature.com/cuny. from Miami University’s Global Field Beth J. Wechsler Rosenbaum ’67 and Latin from the York City economic and fiscal affairs, blogs, designythings.com and to teach by developing my Program . . . At the ACT Conserva- Florence E. Jarmul Ross ’46, MLS ’67 University of and has written extensively on architects-toybox.com. Rita lives in understanding of motivation, tory, Thomas Stagnitta became Margaret T. Sullivan Schoendorf ’47 Heidelberg; he later government budgeting, municipal New Jersey with her husband and personality, and the variety of needs Academy Charter Schools. An University of South Carolina–Chapel the first student to have a leading Lilo J. Schott Leeds ’48 taught those labor relations, the public workforce, two children . . . 2004: If you find that differ from person to person,” English teacher at Success Academy Hill . . . Will Rosinsky has made a role on the company’s mainstage in Kenneth W. Scott ’44 subjects while infrastructure policy, and urban tales of income inequality woeful, Jessica says. “Teaching is a hu- Bed-Stuy Middle School, Erika career as a firefighter in Crown Ah! Wilderness. He was also the re- Kathleen Thompson Senese ’55 working as a competitiveness. Maria has an MPA think again. Welcome to the world man-to-human art form, and majored in history, but decided to Heights, on the one hand, and a cipient of one of the school’s leader- M. Joan Bergmann Sharkey ’44, professor at the American from University of The Assistants (Putnam), a witty, knowledge of human psychology has go into education while at QC. professional prizefighter, on the ship awards . . . 2013: Nia Jagroop MA ’73 University of Paris. Fluent in seven . . . The Space Between Us, a fast-paced first novel byCamille been an essential tool for me” . . . “Having a background in history other—a balancing act that he has been accepted into SUNY Linda Sperber ’69 languages, Benedict is the author of temporary sculpture by Henry Perri (MLS) that has been receiving Edward Ramos, who graduated allows me to provide scholars with describes as “taxing” . . . Costume Upstate Medical School . . . Gael Jean E. Stamm ’63 rave reviews (“Five pages into from the SUNY Downstate College historical context for literature and designer Amanda Shafran’s work Seraphin is an adjunct professor Alma J. Tenzer Sussman ’46 reading The Assistants, you know of Medicine, has begun his residency other content that help to frame was seen last fall in her beautiful in QC’s SEEK Program . . . 2015: Mary Trainor ’74 Perri has a hit on her hands”—New in internal medicine at York Hospital their understanding at the deepest design for Seán Curran Company’s I Ariadne Tzoumas Livaditis (MA) Cindy E. Traub ’79 York Times Book Review). Camille in York, PA . . . Ariadne Tzoumas level,” says Erika. The most gratifying Dream’d a Dream at BAM’s Harvey won a scholarship from the national Norma L. Horn Walton ’49 Baseball Stadium Named After wrote the book while working as Livaditis (MA) recently won the thing about teaching for Erika? Theater . . . 2010: Daniella Adler American Association of Teachers Gisèle Soldinger Warshawsky ’76, Charles Hennekens assistant to the editor-in-chief of national American Association of Seeing a scholar’s “ah-ha” moment recently joined the New York offices of French to study French-language MSEd ’81 Esquire . . . Liza Wax (’07 MSEd) is Teachers of French Scholarship for in the classroom . . . John Yao (MA of Littler, the world’s largest pedagogy in France. Murray Weintraub ’50 an artist as well as a summer training in French-language jazz performance) is a performer on employment and labor law practice Thelma Nadel Wigod ’52 Last October, during visual arts teacher pedagogy in France . . . 2006: Eric the New York City jazz scene, representing management. She IN MEMORIAM Barbara Witkin Zang ’59 Homecoming Weekend, at New Explorers Divito (MA jazz performance) has working as a sideman with Grammy practices labor and employment law. Benjamin A. Angel ’63 Josephine Dippolito Zifchak ’61 QC’s Athletics Program High School for the been leading his own groups and Award–winning groups such as the Daniella received her JD from Rev. Leotis Belk ’55 named its baseball field Performing Arts in performing as a sideman in the NYC Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Harvard Law . . . Vanessa Bontea Prof. Virgil L. P. Blake (Graduate SEND US YOUR NEWS! Hennekens Stadium the Bronx. She area since 2003. He appears at many Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. He also received the Phoenix Award at the School of Library & Information We want to hear from you. after Charles H. writes that “After of NYC’s top jazz clubs and venues, writes music for his band, John Yao HBO reception kickoff to the Urban Studies) Tell us where you are, what you Hennekens ’63, who 9/11 I went to Queens College, including Smalls, the Iridium, the and His 17-Piece Instrument, which Action Showcase Film Festival. This Stephen Block ’73 are doing, what you remember made a generous gift struggling with a divorce, two Kitano, the Garage, and many recently released the album Flip-Flop award recognizes emerging talent in Thomas F. Burke ’77 most about your college years, to the college. Known children, four part-time jobs, a more. Eric has been teaching music (See Tao Recordings). John notes the action/martial arts film genre Prof. Nancy Comley (English) and enclose a photo. as “Flash” during his portfolio, and a desire to return to in the NYC public school system that “My time at Queens College and her continued collaboration Margaret Hanrahan Crowe ’81 Email: [email protected] playing days, Charles was co- school. My goal was to achieve a since 2006, having designed and was instrumental in my development with ASC Troopers Touch Films. Virginia E. Holder Dinzey ’46 Mail: Alumni News captain of the baseball team and teaching degree so that one day I implemented curriculum for both as a trombonist and as a composer. Vanessa and fellow alum Kelly Noll Rebecca Donnelly, MLS ’05 Office of Alumni Relations received the Long Island Press could be proud of my accomplish- elementary and middle school It is a large part of my success, and I ’11 are producing The Vagina Roberta Patane Erdey ’55 Queens College Athlete-Scholar Award as a ments and make a difference in the music. His recordings include Break- can safely say I wouldn’t be where I Monologues for V-Day, in support of Linda Bayer Fihrer ’67 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Phi Beta Kappa graduate. After lives of children. I met Rikki Asher ing the Ice (2012) and The Second am today without my time at QC” the charity Madre . . . Artistic Arnold C. Franco ’43 Queens, NY 11367-1597 he hung up his spikes, Charles who changed my life when she Time Around (2013) . . . William . . . 2008: Mariel Rodney keeps directors Elyse Price and Joel Frank Franklin (SEEK Director) Phone: 718-997-3930 became a world-famous doctor (L–r) President Félix Matos Rodríguez, Charles Hennekens, accepted me into the K-12 Ryan (MSEd) joined Queensbor- busy as assistant professor of Bernard (’11) of Benefit of the Edith S. Morris Frishtick ’66, who is now ranked #81 by Assistant VP of Athletics China curriculum for art, and later on I ough Community College as an literature at SUNY Purchase, where Doubt Theater Company—which MSEd ’71 GO PAPERLESS Science Heroes for “Most Lives Jude, and Baseball Coach Chris went for my master’s degree. Dr. assistant professor of English. He she is pursuing her research was founded on campus and Rella Greenhut Gluckman ’47 Opt out of the printed version Saved in History,” thanks to his Reardon at the ceremony. Asher’s pedagogical theories, her hopes to turn his dissertation on interests in black literary and features a number of QC graduates Prof. Alem Habtu (Sociology) of Queens magazine and help us discovery that aspirin prevents style, knowledge, and multicultural the impact of medical case histories performance cultures in the early —are collaborating with Studio Six Amy Maiello Hagedorn ’73 reduce our paper consumption a first heart attack and can values of getting an excellent approach to teaching are the on early American scientific and twentieth century . . . Danny Vanel of the Moscow Art Theater to bring Geoffrey H. Hartman ’49 and printing costs. Let us know at prevent death when given education—which Queens reasons I feel I am successful and a literary culture into a book . . . has been accepted into the Kaiser Vasily Sigarev’s Phantom Pains to Donald Frederick Harle ’58 https://qccommunity.qc.cuny.edu/ during or after a heart attack. College provided to me—as passionate teacher for the arts. 2007: Erika Little Permanente School of Anesthesiolo- Under St. Marks in December. For Lydia B. Kalaida ’46 QueensCollege/ContactUs. This therapy has saved over well as the importance of giving Now, in my own high school, I received a 2016 gy at California State University . . . more information on their Ruth Levine Kaplan ’46 one million lives. “My amazing, back,” said Charles. “I am encourage my seniors to look into Excellence Award 2009: Donaldson Conserve is an performances, visit http://www. Theodore Cyrus Karp ’47 fabulous, uneducated, working- thrilled, honored, and humbled Queens College for a promising for her “extraordi- assistant professor in the Depart- benefitofthedoubttheatre.com/botd Esther Romm Kaufman ’48, MA ’51 class parents instilled in me the on this occasion.” college experience and for an nary efforts as a ment of Health Promotion . . . 2012: Arline Edmond, who Leon Abraham Kaufman ’42 excellent education” . . . 2005: teacher” at Success Education and Behavior at the is studying medicine at Hofstra Leo R. Kawacki ’48

16 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 17 Remembering Muhammad Ali

(L-r) Muhammad Ali, Richard Rothbard ’74, and Jay Hershenson ’76.

Following the death of Muhammad Ali last June, Jay Hershenson, CUNY’s senior vice chancellor for university relations and board secretary, wrote about his on-campus meeting with The Greatest in a letter that appeared in the New York Daily News.

I am a member of an elite club right fist and playfully motioning which included the late-night like I was throwing a quick jab television show host Johnny towards his swollen jaw. Carson in our membership Before I could get too far, Ali ranks. We were all recipients of snapped his head backwards, an amusing retort by the late one of the numerous reflexes Muhammad Ali. In the spring crucial to his prowess. His of 1971, fellow Queens College eyes widened and the former student Richard Rothbard champ said, “You ain’t as and I were invited to join dumb as you look!” The room other student media leaders shook with laughter. He went in a press conference with Ali, on to talk about what it meant scheduled to subsequently to be “The Greatest.” Right speak at Charles Colden Center after the press conference, Ali within the Flushing, New York, delivered, to a hero’s welcome, campus. It was a short time a serious speech in the 2300 after Ali had lost on March 15 seat auditorium. He read to “Smoking Joe” Frazier in poetry about the kingdoms of Madison Square Garden. His Africa, the horrors of slavery, swollen jaw was evidently and the injustices that are the victim of 15 rounds of one unforgettable part of our hammering. nation’s history. I was News Director of About two weeks later, I WQMC, the college radio was watching “The Tonight station, and Richard was Show” on WNBC-TV. Johnny Assistant News Director. We Carson introduced Ali, with patiently waited our turn as his special brand of humor. the student newspaper editors When Ali sat down on the from the Phoenix and Newsbeat couch for conversation, he said, made their inquiries. While “Johnny, you ain’t as dumb as Richard held the microphone, I you look!” The television show leaned forward and asked him a audience roared. Join the club, question in the form of a poem. I thought. Stung like a bee. And I could not resist cocking my proud of it.

18 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 19 AnEye for the

by Donna Shoemaker World

Equipped with a second-hand, twin-lens Rolleicord, Sonia Handelman Meyer ’41 developed a keen eye for the candid as she photographed postwar New York’s neighborhoods. A waif huddled in a Spanish Harlem doorway. A benchful of moms nestling their frilly- frocked offspring. Grade-schoolers hunkered at play in a Harlem dirt lot. From the first publicity stills of Pete Seeger and the Weavers to bedside moments in Harlem’s Sydenham (the nation’s first integrated hospital), between 1945 and 1950 Meyer captured the history and humanity of daily life. Having turned 96 on February 12 of this year, she finds it “such a happy surprise” that late in her life these b&w photographs are being recognized as art. “Just being able to see with a camera opened up new worlds for me,” recalls Meyer, who took up photography through New York’s Photo League, two years after graduating with 197 classmates in Queens College’s first class. “What I was thinking in my mind came alive when I walked through the streets. I saw a picture and it registered along with my thinking, my feeling—instinctively, intuitively, instantly.” In documenting scenes such as an anti- lynching rally, a Jehovah’s Witness convention, and the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, she framed the feelings about social justice that had been evident as well when she was a student at QC. “Interested in social issues,” the English major became active in the American Student Union. Through the National Youth Administration she held a campus job in the library. “I would have liked to have gone on to study art after college,” Meyer says, “but there was no money.” Returning to campus for the first time, at her 50th reunion in 1991, “was quite a wonderful experience,” says Meyer, who was born in Lakewood,

Above: Children take a seat outside the offices of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, the precursor of HIAS; below: staff at Sydenham Hospital gather around a piano for spontaneous music therapy. Facing page: Sonia Handelman Meyer.

QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 21 Image by Jerry Siegel, 2013. McCarthyism, “had to go out of business,” Meyer laments. “I was very upset by that, and that very much became the reason for my sort of photo isolation.” She married, did medical and publicity Enlisting Support for Student Vets photography, moved to New Jersey, was a crossword and college textbook editor, and raised two children. by Bob Suter For decades, Meyer’s 1940s negatives and prints remained packed away. “Every now and again, I’d take something out” to show to friends, she says. “I never had much confidence in showing my work to other people. It was always very personal.” A few had When QC President Félix Matos Rodríguez asked the many been exhibited at the Photo League, and then not again until 1978, military veterans in the graduating class of 2016 to stand and when several were part of the retrospective exhibit This Was The be recognized at commencement, there was exuberant cheer- Photo League at New York’s International Center of Photography ing from the thousands in attendance. and as part of the companion traveling show. “It was like a breath of fresh air hearing President Matos In 2002 Meyer moved to an independent living facility in acknowledge our student veterans,” says Dennis Torres, QC’s Charlotte, North Carolina, nearer family. The story of how her veterans outreach specialist. “They’ve experienced a lot, and photographs came to grace the walls of galleries and major museums deserve as much recognition as possible.” doesn’t really begin until she was 87. She and her son, architect Joe Torres’ mission is to see that no veteran of the armed Meyer, in an independent bookstore saw an image of the Weavers, services at QC gets left behind while making the difficult tran- credited as “Photographer Unknown.” Not quite: It was Meyer’s, sition back to civilian life. A 10-year veteran of the Marine taken without compensation to help folk-singing friends who later Corps Reserve with two deployments to Iraq, Torres expe- became famous. Together, mother and son began a journey to ensure rienced the life-changing effect that service in a theatre of that the “mission and history of the Photo League be remembered,” combat can have. “I was in Fallujah in 2006 during the height he notes. of the surge,” he recalls. “I was doing foot patrols every other Since then, she has been traveling the country giving talks day: constant fire, very stressful, high impact, high tempo. . .” and attending exhibit openings of her work. Her website When he completed his service, Torres thought he had emerged Helping QC veterans are (l–r) Lorraine Rosenfeld (School Certifying (soniahandelmanmeyer.com) tells of the student who helped her unscathed. However, he soon realized he was exhibiting symptoms Official), Gullit Etienne (VA Work Study), Andrea Toral (VA catalog her collection, the photographer working closely with her to of post-traumatic stress disorder, and sought counseling through the Work Study), Dennis Torres, Janette Ezquivel (QC Veterans Club Secretary; previous VA Work Study), Juan Colon (CERRU Fellow/VA make prints, and the growing recognition. Veterans Administration. “You are going through so many things,” Work Study; previous QC Veterans Club president), James Marone Her 2007 exhibition at Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, he says. “You think it’s just the norm: ‘Marines are tough guys. We (QC Veterans Club president/VA Work Study). Veterans in VA Work Into the Light: Sonia Handelman Meyer: The Photo League Years, can drink ten beers and be fine.’ Yeah, but all these maladaptive Study positions provide student veterans information about VA proved to be “an absolute blockbuster,” Joe Meyer exclaims. behaviors we learn as ways of coping aren’t normal.” benefits and services. In 2012, “She missed the exhibition in San Francisco [at the Being able to share his experiences, Torres believes, makes it Contemporary Jewish Museum] because she was having a heart easier for vets who come to the college’s Office of Veteran Support Veterans Services division of Workforce One, a section of the NYC stent put in, but she went to Columbus, Ohio [Columbus Museum Services (VSS) to accept his recommendation to seek help. “They’re Department of Small Business Services that prepares and connects of Art] by herself. They treated her like a rock star,” he adds. Her not aware of why they can’t concentrate in class, why they’re not candidates to job opportunities. The position proved serendipitous, one-woman show Bearing Witness at Charlotte’s Mint Museum of sleeping, why they’re fighting with their significant others, or aren’t he notes. “I actually found the posting for my job here at Queens Art displayed 50 of her Photo League-era prints and others from able to maintain relationships. I’ve been able to say to them, ‘This is while doing research for another veteran.” Above: Street salesmen deal in calendars and religious fellow Photo League members including Berenice Abbott, Eugene exactly what happened to me when I came back from Iraq.’” After Among those vets Torres worked with is Christian Valencia ’16, images; below: clients linger outside HIAS. Smith, Lewis Hine, and Sid Grossman for six months in 2013-14. speaking with Torres, most veterans agree to seek counseling. a former U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant. Valencia enlisted Her work is now in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan VSS provides other assistance as well, such as helping veterans in 2001 and served 14 years both in active and reserve duty, which Museum of Art, and the Jewish Museum of Art in New York City, find work. For many questions, veterans are directed to Lorraine included two tours in Iraq and travel to over 60 countries. “After the Columbus Museum of Art, the Montgomery Museum of Art, Rosenfeld, QC’s school-certifying official, who helps them with the traveling all over the world—which I loved—I wanted to return and the Mint Museum of Art. And last spring she received a $5,000 paperwork required for obtaining VA educational benefits and certifi- to my roots,” says the Fresh Meadows resident. “College is a Arts and Science Council Honors Award for “exceptionally creative, cation, including in-depth one-on-one analysis. completely different environment, and at first I didn’t know what to New Jersey, and grew up in Astoria. “I was reunited with two innovative, and inquisitive individuals.” Part of Torres’ job is attending “veteran-specific events” where, expect.” Valencia credits Torres with bringing new vitality to VSS women who had been good friends. Because it was a small class, I “One click and walk away”: Joe Meyer marvels at how his he happily notes, he doesn’t have to do much selling since QC has and building a sense of community among veteran students. knew everybody.” mother seldom snapped a second shot in her street photography. such a well-developed program: “Vets will ask me questions about Essential to that sense of community, Torres stresses, is the Meyer first heard of the Photo League while with the U.S. Army “Ninety-nine percent of these people didn’t know their photo was disability, healthcare, education benefits under the GI Bill. We have a veterans lounge in the Student Union. “I want to be sure the vets Signal Corps in Puerto Rico following graduation. Returning to New being taken,” he explains. conversation and they’ll want to move forward and come to QC.” have a place where they can come together and talk about the things York in 1943, she began taking classes in the league’s school and Today, her occasional photos are of her great-grandchildren. She The college’s support of veterans has been applauded by several they’re experiencing,” he notes. QC received grants from the Student using its darkroom—“for 25 cents.” The league was a cooperative downloads the images to her Macbook Air (“I have a little digital publishers concerned with connecting the military and civilian Veterans of America and Home Depot to fix up the lounge, which founded in 1936. Its idealistic documentary photographers advocated camera—I hate it”) and relaxes with watercolor painting (“It’s a worlds. Victoria Media designated QC a 2016 Military-Friendly® now includes new computers and shelving for a textbook exchange. not only for their medium as fine art but also for enlisting it to bring great way to express yourself”). She notes, “I was very lucky to have School, and Military Advanced Education & Transition (MAE&T) Torres also cites the importance of his veteran-themed about social change. As she photographed all over the city, “Mostly a son who cares about my work.” Says the son, “I’m very proud of selected Queens as a “Top School” in its 2016 MAE&T Guide to campus events, such as a salute to veterans sponsored by City nobody noticed me,” she recalls. In 1951 the league, a victim of my mother. I’m happy to share her with the world.” Colleges & Universities. Councilmember Rory Lancman ’91. There also was an appearance Semper fiis in Torres’ DNA as his father and brother also by retired Army Col. Gregory Gadson, a wheelchair-bound double were marines. He grew up in Valley Stream, Long Island, has a amputee who spoke about overcoming the injuries he suffered in master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Iraq when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Adelphi University, as well a bachelor’s in labor studies from “When the vets come to those events and talk to each other, that’s Hofstra University. After leaving the marines, he worked in the when they create important relationships,” says Torres.

22 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 23 ever spoken with. He wasn’t my official adviser, but he more than anyone guided me in my career path.” After graduation Blechman went to New York University for a master’s in international relations. His intention was to become a professor, which required a PhD. “They [NYU] weren’t offering Working to any fellowships to me, so I needed to go to work,” says Blechman, who was now married. “So I went to work for the army, moved to Washington, and enrolled part-time at Georgetown.” After two years as an operations research analyst for the army’s Defuse Strategy and Tactics Analysis Group, Blechman took a position with a think tank called the Center for Naval Analyses, where he participated in several major studies of force structure issues and directed two studies on political-military questions. (“It was like the Navy’s equivalent of the Rand Corporation.”) A nine-month the Bomb fellowship provided by CNA allowed him time to complete his dissertation in international relations. In 1971 Blechman received his by Bob Suter PhD from Georgetown and also departed CNA. To his surprise, the teaching jobs he’d hoped for with his PhD weren’t materializing. “By this time I was doing well in the world of think tanks and kind of liked Washington, so I decided to stay in Barry Blechman with fellow founder of the Stimson Center, that world.” Michael Krepon. He soon became a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he became involved with, and then led the first program While welcome at numerous think tanks, in part due to his to do defense budget analyses in the same manner as they were talent for raising money to fund their projects, Blechman decided Barry Blechman’s ’63 interest in nuclear done by the Pentagon—only Brookings’ findings were publicly to pursue his own direction. In 1984 he founded Defense Forecasts disarmament may have taken hold in his available. “It was the antiwar [Vietnam] years, it was the time when serving government agencies, private companies, and financial senior year at Queens College. “I remember “More should be done to educate Nixon’s plumbers attempted to break into Brookings in order to institutions that fund companies whose business might depend on being in the cafeteria reading in the New York the public about the importance of steal the Pentagon Papers, which they thought (rightfully) were kept the defense establishment. “I did all of this for five years out of Times about the Cuban Missile Crisis,” he there. Our program became popular on Capitol Hill and was pretty my house; I had graduate students as research assistants and I was says. “There was a picture of the Pentagon diplomacy.” influential, especially with the Democrats who wanted to cut back writing all the reports.” all lit up at night and the article was about the Pentagon budget.” The work began to grow wearisome. “I remember sitting on a how officials were sleeping in their offices to Blechman took his first steps toward a more direct role in beautiful spring day forcing myself to write one of these reports manage the crisis. I thought, ‘Gee, that sounds particular. The Blechman family supports the Queens College Model government by becoming an adviser to presidential candidate and thinking, ‘This is the ten-thousandth term paper I’ve written in really neat! I’d like to do something like that.’” Then a little more UN program as a small contribution to diplomacy and, by extension, Jimmy Carter. “Whenever he would visit a city, I would prepare a my life.’” seriously he observes, “Avoiding nuclear war seemed like something to world peace.” background paper about the military facilities that might be there or Blechman decided to change to a formula where he could hire worth doing.” Francois Pierre-Louis ’94, the program’s faculty adviser, was a talking points for whatever the day’s crisis might be.” others to do the “term papers” while he developed the business Avoiding war has been the focus of much of Blechman’s career. member of QC’s Model UN Program in the 1980s. The program had Following Carter’s election. Blechman was appointed assistant and ensured the quality of their work. Thus, in 1989, along with In addition to service in the Departments of State and Defense and languished for years until Pierre-Louis joined QC’s faculty in 2001 director of the State Department’s Arms Control and Disarmament Michael Krepon, a former colleague at the State Department and at the Office of Management and Budget, he is a veteran of several and sought to revive it. He credits Blechman’s becoming a sponsor Agency. He participated in negotiations with the Soviet Union, only the Roosevelt Center, Blechman founded the Stimson Center as a think tanks. He also founded one, Defense Forecasts (later DFI in 2005 with its growing into the vibrant program it is today. His to see relations between the two countries completely fall apart with nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that would make all of its research International Inc.), a strategic research and consulting company in sponsorship, says Pierre-Louis, allowed QC students to participate in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. findings available to the public. Washington, DC, and co-founded another, the non-profit Henry important Model UN events in other cities. “I think the students are Following the election of Ronald Reagan, Blechman worked Today, more than a quarter century later, the Stimson Center L. Stimson Center. The latter takes its name from the American inspired by having an alum of his stature taking an interest in them,” briefly at the Carnegie Endowment and then the Roosevelt Center. analyzes global threats and works with governments, multilateral statesman who, having overseen development of the atomic bomb as he notes. He eventually pursued projects for which he had raised funds at organizations, civil society, and private industry to build solutions. In secretary of war under Franklin Roosevelt, dedicated the rest of his Blechman grew up six blocks from QC and remembers playing Carnegie, Brookings, and the Center for Strategic and International 2013 it was recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with its Award life to abolishing nuclear weapons. ball on its campus. When he graduated from high school it Studies, with a particular focus on nuclear disarmament. “Reagan for Creative and Effective Institutions. In September Queens College named a room in the political became his default option for a college education. “My grades had stopped all arms control negotiations, and there was all this Nuclear disarmament remains a passionate concern for Blechman. science department to honor Blechman and his family. It was in weren’t good enough to get a scholarship anywhere, so I needed talk about how we could fight and survive a nuclear war,” he says “I was so disappointed by the Obama Administration’s lack of recognition of his lifetime of achievement and for his contribution to go to a city school. Queens was the closest and it had the best somewhat incredulously. progress on nuclear issues—except for the Iran agreement, which I to the life of QC via his long-term sponsorship of QC’s Model UN reputation,” he says. One project was a group Blechman brought together chaired think is a great accomplishment. Back in March, the president had an Program. “The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of the Enrolled—at his mother’s urging—in courses that could lead by Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn and co-chaired by Republican Sen. op-ed in patting his administration on the back most destructive war ever fought. It was founded with high hopes to a career in medicine, Blechman had a less-than-spectacular first John Warner, the then-chair and ranking member of the Senate for its accomplishments in controlling nuclear weapons,” he says. “I that by providing a global forum for negotiations among nations, few years (“I think I got three Ds and a C in the first semester of Armed Services Committee, to look at practical ways to reduce was furious, sat down, and in 30 minutes wrote an op-ed that said, wars might be avoided in the future,” says Blechman. “More should my junior year”). He then followed his instincts and switched to the risk of nuclear war. “The Republicans on the group saw it as a ‘Give back your prize [Nobel Peace Prize], Mr. President!’ We are be done to educate the public about the importance of diplomacy. political science, where he came under the influence of Prof. Alfonso way of offsetting the freeze movement,” he says, referring to the now embarked on the biggest nuclear modernization program in US The Model United Nations has been an essential means of educating Castagno. “He was great. He was very much into following U.S. massive popular protest movement to freeze the development history. It actually dwarfs what Reagan had in mind—in constant generations of college students in all parts of the globe about the foreign and defense policies,” says Blechman. “He knew the ‘inside and deployment of all armaments. “It was a big deal at the time dollars,” he finishes, expressing his concern in terms one would

Background image: UN General Assembly Hall, Lawrence Jackson/Theimportance White House of diplomacy in general, and the United Nations in baseball’ of how the government worked better than anyone I had and a factor in the 1982 election.” expect from a career policy wonk.

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Anonymous Plotch ’61 Stanley Diller ’61 Margaret Hayes ’61 & PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Laurie Dorf FAME With gratitude, we present our Omar R. Adame Theodore A. Rapp Foundation Zita Zatkin Dresner ’64 Tomb of Tutankhamen John Nici ’74 explores the celebrities Donor Honor Roll for fiscal year Giorgio Armani Red Stone Partners Stephen V. ’61 & Paula Dubin Avison Young New York Douglas E. ’76 & Amy Ress Farrell Fritz, P.C. George* & Beate Axelrad The Parthenon Sculptures of the art world July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016. Maurice S. ’76 & Michael J. ’73 & Joan & Norman Bluestone Joan T. Reznik Regine B. Feuer Foundation, Inc. Jerome Robbins Foundation Arnold C. Franco ’43* The Apollo Belvedere by Leslie Jay Barry A. Bryer ’69 & Mark E. ’85 & Allyson Rose Elena Frangakis-Syrett Meryl E. Wiener David B. ’80 & Lawrence J. ’73 & Christopher Cestaro & Penny A. Rosen Janelle Friedman Nike of Samothrace $250,000+ $50,000–$99,999 Ashley Goldsmith Estate of Joseph P. Scandariato Friends of the Anonymous David & Eugenia A. Ames City University of New York Patricia A. Schwarz John D. Calandra Italian Jerry M. ’73 & Birth of Venus by Botticelli Estate of Constantine Brown Elayne P. Bernstein Fund Thelma Randby Serenbetz ’45 American Institute ohn Nici (Art History) had written three and English and a minor in education. Con Edison Thomas & Jeanne Elmezzi Helayne Citron Cohen ’75 David ’42 & Gary W. ’67 & Jeditions of a Barron’s art history book “I always wanted to be a teacher, and Dave ’72 & Private Foundation Community Studies of New Peggy Giffen Starr ’42 Bernice S. Garson Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci when he decided to explore the iconic status QC was the best fit for me,” he observes. Linda Pugliese Fields ’72 Max Kupferberg ’42 York, Inc. Marc D. Taub Andrew I. Gavil ’78 & Frances R. Curcio of some of the world’s best-known paintings, Unfortunately, due to New York City’s Paula A. ’05 & Saul J. Kupferberg & Raymond ’54 & Judith H. Veis Jeffrey R. Gural Gail Coleman Peter P. ’71 & Margaret Tomiko Taylor Steven L. ’67 & sculpture, photographs, and architecture. financial crisis, Nici entered a tough job Sistine Madonna by Raphael Nathan ’71 & Pearl ’72 Lila Acheson Wallace Fund D’Angelo Pat Tulchin/Tulchin Family Jane Heller Gerard The result, Famous Works of Art and How market. “I didn’t realize that the city was Halegua Family Foundation for the Arts Georgia R. ’94 & Foundation Joseph J. & Kathleen Grano They Got That Way (Rowman & Littlefield), going belly up,” he says. “Thousands of Michael H. de Havenon The Burial of Count Orgaz by El Greco New York City Department Math for America, Inc. UBS Wealth Management Ellen Saul ’64 & is a hit. Since its publication last September, teachers were laid off just as I was coming of Finance Estate of Rene A. Miller Walter H. ’57 & Ruth M. Ding Edmond & Cynthia Villani Arnold A. Gruber Steven Errera ’69 & reviewers ranging from Publishers Weekly into the workforce. I was lucky to find a job Estate of Ruth Wiseman ’43 New York Presbyterian Avonelle S. Walker Richard S. Gunther Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer Hospital Edith Korotkin Walt Disney Company Richard S. & Lois Gunther to college professors have praised the book at a Catholic high school.” David Eyzenberg by Rembrandt $100,000–$249,999 Alexander S. Onassis Public Foundation Family Foundation as both informative and readable, a tall When the city’s public school system Benefit Foundation Michael S. ’84 & Ann Falk Matthew S. Watson Barbara A. Hamkalo ’64 order given that the topics include the Great began hiring again, Nici—who had Russell M. ’68 & Alice Sol Schwartz* Lee ’68 & Ann Fensterstock David C. Weinstein & Herbert S. ’65 & Washington Crossing the Delaware Sphinx, the Mona Lisa, and the Thinker. completed an MSEd in English and an MA Feldman Artzt ’68 James H. Simons Davina Gelber ’70 Clare Villari Marilyn Heflich Beverly Baker ’47* Goldsmith & Cestaro by Emanuel Leutze “The American public is possessed by in art history, also from QC—joined the Stephanie Zinn Stiefel ’80 & H.W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. Raymond L. ’63 & Jay H. & Patty Baker Robert S. Cohen Charitable Foundation Winston Foundation, Inc. Susan Held celebrity,” says Nici, who devoted about eight staff of Forest Hills High School, where he Barry M. Blechman ’63 Muriel Sapir ’54 & years to this project. “These 20 works are the stayed for 21 years. Then he spent another University of Shanghai Erwin A. ’57 & Harry A. Hill Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet Donald ’65 & Lisa Jacqueline Snitow ’70 & Allan E. Greenblatt Margaret A. Zeuschner ’99 Lyn Stiefel Hill ’67 celebrities of the art world.” Of course, fame dozen years teaching in Lawrence, Long Tannenbaum Brownstein Robert Willens Hellenic Advancement of Rochelle Cohen ’66 & is not synonymous with quality. “I picked Island, before retiring in 2013. Meanwhile, Raymond Erickson & Education & Culture Inc. David A. Hirsch The Thinker by Auguste Rodin Carole De Saram Giovanna Scandariato $5,000–$9,999 the ones that had the most interesting story,” Nici had become an adjunct in QC’s art $25,000–$49,999 Investors Bank Nici continues. “I didn’t want to get 20 history program. As it happens, half of the S.A. Ibrahim Kaplan ’79 Anonymous Susan Isaacs ’65 & Jewish Foundation for Evelyn Feldmann ’61 & Harry W. ’64 & Christine Stuart S. Applebaum ’71 sound-alike chapters, so I looked at different chapters in Famous Works of Art are based Elkan Abramowitz Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh Education of Women Benno Ansbacher Kent ’67 Marian Dieterich Bach ’77 Florence Ettenberg ’54 & angles, such as sale price or who owned the on lessons he presented at QC; he dedicated Mertz Gilmore Foundation Keith R. Bennett Raphell Sims Lakowitz Marlene Bittman Evan Janovic piece. Tours and newspapers made a few the book to his former professors Bill Clark, James L. & Neil G. Bennett Memorial Foundation Robert Bloom ’66 The Scream by Edvard Munch JP Morgan Chase of them famous. Admittedly, some are not who is still teaching at QC, and emerita Alda M. Muyskens ’88 Jane Nisenholc ’82 & Ira B. ’69 & Ileene Lampert Frank M. ’74 & Eileen Boccio Rachel & Drew Katz great works of art—I don’t think Washington Carol Lewine. New York Community Bank Michael A. Chwick Elsi Kovacs Levy Jeanne Hershkowitz/Pores Foundation, Inc. American Gothic by Grant Wood Crossing the Delaware is ever studied in a “When I was a student, half the Dina Axelrad ’67 & Gary Comorau The Levy Family Foundation Braun ’78 & Fred Fogel George L. Perry Carol Schwartz ’71 & college classroom.” buildings that are on the QC campus now Carroll & Milton Petrie Richard H. Hochman Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange Nici’s background and experience weren’t here,” Nici recalls. “There were Foundation Freda Stern ’68 & uniquely equipped him to produce Famous many more students in a smaller institution. Estate of J. Chester Johnson Bernice Saperstein ’49 Korea Foundation Places and Faces Guernica by Pablo Picasso Works of Art. A Queens native, he graduated There was no room to eat in the cafeteria; from QC in 1974 with majors in art history you prayed for good weather so you could Robert ’82 & Shirley Wann Mark & Ina Kupferberg Ever wonder how Powdermaker Hall, Michael P. ’71 & John S. & Yorka C. Linakis eat outside. But going to Queens was very the Campbell Dome, and other places on Carol Weisman Scholarships Campbell’s Soup by Andy Warhol beneficial, both for my education and campus got their names? Throughout this At left: List of artworks covered in Nici’s Allan Z. ’60 & Joan section we link campus places with some my employment. I had world-renowned Freidman Loren ’60 book. Above right: The gold mask of King famous (and not-so-famous) faces. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Tutankhamen. The discovery of his tomb professors—excellent teachers. It’s still a Mary Anna Marangos Trust by Maya Lin turned the short-lived pharaoh into a great place to go to school.” Kenneth E. ’67 & media phenomenon. Michele Newman

26 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 27 Tom & Judy Flesh Michael Kowal ’53 Kenneth Shirreffs Liliane Frank Akyali ’61 Allen W. Hausman ’64 & John S. Isby ’81 John Lewis & Toinette Brian Kroll ’82 Diana Kellman Silberman ’67 Valiere Alcena ’70 Sandra Feingold Jeico Fashion, Inc. Charles Colden (1885–1960), Queens County judge who was Fontrier-Lewis Allan ’66 & Francine Herzog Alfred M. ’62 & Carol R. Sils Jeanne M. Altenau Eizenman ’65 Johnson & Johnson Family instrumental in the establishment of Queens College Clara Camacho ’83 & Krumholz ’67 John L. Silverman Michael F. Amezaga ’71 Lorelei Kampf ’64 & Companies Brian H. Franke Ira B. ’71 & Sanford & Jill Sirulnick Artemis Anninos Robert S. Ennis Kenneth H. Jones ’67 Frank S.* & Gail Marcovitz Lamster ’71 Maida Zlochower Snapper ’68 Anonymous Marcia Edelman ’56 & Carol Schor Joseph ’65 Colden Auditorium Dorothy G. Franklin Lehman College Franklyn & Rosalyn Snitow Joseph Auld Claudio Fabbro Paul Kamke Eileen C. Frey ’53 Daniel M. Levine Gary Snitow Robert S. ’61 & Donal E. Farley Emanuel G. ’56 & Thousands of events have taken place in the auditorium and Diane Frimmel Kenneth Levy ’79 Roberta Johnson Spencer ’43 Genevieve Babaian Robert M. ’85 & Marina G. Katsoulis theatre of Colden Center since it opened its doors in 1960. Its Carol A. Fugosich ’75 & HeeJin Lim Jonathan S. Steinberg ’76 & Bruce M. ’71 & Kristina Feingold Barry W. ’75 & honoree formed a committee in 1936 to support the creation of Gerald Deieso Amy Reichstein ’94 & Alice Cohen Nancy Barone David F. ’75 & Marilyn Citrynell Katz ’76 Queens Free College and subsequently convinced Mayor Fiorello Faith Gay Andrew A. Mack Judith Klein Steinman ’61 Jennifer Barrett Nancy S. Fenster Laura Kim La Guardia to establish QC. Gertrude Guzik ’68 & Eric ’83 & Paulette Mann Martin Sticht ’58 William V. Bassakyros ’98 Matthew L. ’82 & Yunmi ’06 & Heesuk Kim William Gazsy Kristine Marames ’72 Mary C. ’95 & Christ Stratakis BBCN Bank Meta Wagner Ferm Bruce M. ’76 & Jacquelyn Schillinger ’50 & Linda A. Markeloff ’75 Peter Suedfeld ’60 & Susan L. Beberfall ’77 Leslie B. ’65 & Patricia D’Errico Kimmel John Geissman George J. ’72 & Phyllis J. Johnson Bechtel Group Foundation Rochelle I. Flaum John W. Kinder ’41 George R. Gerardi Trudy Morgan Mazin ’74 Harris C. ’61 & Harvey E. ’61 & Stephanie Evelyn Albert Flory ’56 Kenneth L. ’77 & Mark Gerson Paul T. ’57 & Diana Kahn Taylor ’62 Talmud Benjamin David Fong Miriam Diamond Kobliner Michael S. Goldstein ’65 & Blaise C. ’57 & Elaine Krieger ’73 & Emilie W. McSloy Temple Beth Shalom Allen I. ’67 & Arthur P. Freierman ’77 Donald F. ’67 & Judith Stern ’60 & Sinai Chapels, Inc. Judith Siegel Judith Priestley Bookis ’58 Bruce E. 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Michel ’69 Vincenzo Sciacchitano Irwin Arluk ’59 Veronica Basulto David Hardcastle Ann Wagner Brooke Mary Anne Cariello ’62 Frank A. & Hallie A. Cirino Frank Cregan Egle Banys ’60 & Nicholas David M. & Basya Segal Alan M. ’61 & William ’74 & Carol Weinstein Paul F. Bateman ’59 Mary L. Black ’00 George A. Brooks ’66 Louis J. Carino ’77 Marguerite McCartin John Cregan A. Monfredo Seoul National Unversity Selma L. Aaronson Aronoff ’76 Ronald G. ’68 & Don ’56 & Hannah L. Brooks ’79 & Lawrence V. ’77 & Linda Clark ’76 Peggy Rogers Crichton ’68 Richard D. ’56 & Foundation, Inc. Abbott Laboratories Fund Mary Ellen Arrington Queta Bauer Diane Dudzinski Blauweiss Robert Rabin D’andrea Caronia ’74 Chris P. Clemens ’81 Lori Crimaudo ’07 Ruth Johnson Mumma ’55 Derek Shaffer Jay M. ’69 & Lynn S. Abrahams Silvia B. Ash Sondra Cooperman Baxt ’53 William Bleyer ’76 Brooks Group & Associates, Sally Bennett ’57 & Rose Lopez ’73 & Grace C. Crocitto ’84 Lee M. Nadler ’69 Frederick M. ’53 & Gail Abramowitz ’73 Betty L. Atlas ’81 & Dana Baxter Eddie Spillett & Jessie Bliss Inc. Richard Carp Gary E. Clemente John H. ’62 & Anne Croghan Paul I. Nadler ’71 & Madeline Shapiro Suzanne Abruzzo ’73 Owen M. Rumelt Mildred J. Baynes ’56 David ’60 & Barbara Bloch Stephen Broome Ellis B. & Joy H. Carr Anita Matiotti ’66 & Donna J. Crouch ’85 Debra L. Wood Joseph M. ’66 & Jane Aburndale Sushi Corp. Clare Russo ’80 & Edward J. Bayone ’75 & Dennis S. ’70 & Janet Block Steve Brostoff Paul J. Carr ’05 Stephen A. Cocheo Michele F. Crown ’65 Gloria Davidson ’97 & Cavalieri Sharnoff ’69 Joann Fazzi ’95 & Seth J. Atlas Lillian Kahn-Bayone Faith Brofman-Goldberg ’60 Brian ’75 & Ruth A. Carr ’68 Andrew M. Cohen ’76 Jay ’59 & Harriet Cudrin Kurt Nash Jonathan C. Shen ’91 Vincent Acquista Iris Ort Auerbacher ’55 Elizabeth Papazian ’53 & & Bernard Block Barbara Block Brown ’76 Frederick R. Carraher ’99 Arthur ’50 & Bob & NBC Sports Group Edward L. ’71 & Thomas R. ’71 & Lorraine Joseph C. & Maria M. Auld Albert V. Bazarian Sheila MacAvoy ’52 & Stanley M. ’64 & Irmgard E. ’76 & Marion Pagel Cohen Maureen Kane Cummings Steven Nicokiris ’81 & Kathy Sigall Budzick Adams ’72 Sharon Ringelheim Austin ’66 Scott E. Beaumont Robert Block Pamela Barsam Brown Robert Carras Caren Askenas ’85 & Richard J. ’53 & Erna Ann G. Schaumberger Joel M. ’67 & Renee Rzesniowiecki Authors Registry, Inc. Ronald D. ’63 & Doris Racenstein ’51 & Susan E. Brown ’73 Wendy Willoughby ’79 & Gary Cohen Stoppelman Cunningham ’55 Leticia Nunez ’15 Sheila Berman Simon ’68 Addario ’67 Ellen K. ’78 & Linda Devins Bechky ’64 Perry Bloom Willis N. Brown Anthony P. Carter Gerard S. Cohen ’54 & Catherine Sinagra ’62 & Obaltan Inc. Joel K. ’45 & Sal M. Addotta ’74 Jeffrey A. Axelrod Harriet Poserow ’60 & Michael & Brenda Bloom Clare E. Browne ’79 Lillian Kaufman Maria Homer Julius J. D’Agostino Bridget Oleszek DiAntonio Barbara V. Smith Thomas A. Afflerbach ’80 Ann E. Azzollini ’96 Eugene Becker Jeanette Pine ’53 & Ruth C. Browne Cartwright ’54 Irwin L. Cohen ’68 Adele W. Dahlberg Mark Ostroff Richard S. Sobel ’65 Barbara Barrow ’87 & Shirley Rosenberg Bach ’53 Robert Becker ’65 Seymour Blum Scott M. Browne ’74 Thomas Cascio Kayla Scheer ’58 & Diane Kimmel-Bramson ’62 Charles D. & Gari B. Palmer Peter M. Sommerhauser John P. Ahern Burton L. Backner ’54 Jeffrey M. Behar ’77 Carol Blumenthal Beryl Brownman ’61 Bruce A. Cassidy ’66 & Sheldon S. Cohen & John P. Dalsimer Pan Icarian Brotherhood of Thomas C. ’72 & Meredith Lukin ’04 & Patricia Giolitto Cinquemani Susan J. Behrens ’80 Robert & June D. Bobb Francisco R. Bryan Eda Hochgelerent Lawrence G. & Patricia Cohen David R. D’Amico ’09 New York Inc. Judith Herman Spavins ’70 David Akerman ’59 & Francis Backus Charles Beiter Amy F. Boblas ’84 Roberto E. & Amelia J. Bryan Michael J. ’69 & Leonard Cohen John D’Angelo ’04 Pella Publishing Company, David B. & Virginia H. Spencer Glenda Pines Albert ’55 Werner Baer ’53 Betty Berneck Belina ’65 Isabella Frankel ’55 & Harvey ’64 & Joan Bucholtz Andrea Wirtzer Cassidy ’71 Nicholas F. Cohen Carolynn Daniels ’88 Inc. Stephen Steinberg Carl A. Alcindor ’77 Walter Baigelman ’68 Sandra Belitza-Vazquez ’67 Herman Boblas Ernest J. Buckley ’99 Paul F. Cassilo ’79 Sandra Edelman Cohen ’56 Mathew P. P. ’64 & Perkins School for the Blind Lynn M. Stekas ’71 & Vincent ’57 & Anne Algeri Carolyn Schraut ’64 & & Mario Vazquez Joseph H. ’73 & Joel E. Budnetz ’68 Steven ’74 & Amy Castar Saul B. & Miriam F. Cohen Elizabeth R. Daniels Elena Peters-Spencer ’87 John P. Daley Mollie ’77 & Jack J. Alkana John C. Baker Renee A. Bellamy ’94 Nancy Bochner Francis P. ’68 & Ruth Chin Catanese ’64 Michael Colfin ’88 Gloria Robbins ’54 & Jonathan Pickhardt Ricki A. Stern ’00 Lewis E. ’58 & Lynn Baker Yvette Davis Benjamin ’50 Patricia E. Boiko ’76 Kathleen A. Burke Vicky Yepez ’10 & Cynthia Mays-Kelley Philip Darvin Anne Pine Victor A. Stronski ’54 Diane Ferguson Allen Jerome M. Balsam ’78 Fredric B. ’70 & Edward B. ’78 & Irene Woods Burkner ’57 Abraham Cedeño Collins ’64 Patricia ’84 & Paul A. ’68 & Susan Podrid Syllogos Nomou Magnisias Shameena Alli-Khan ’94 Dennis A. Baltuch ’77 & Sheree Starrett Bennett Barbara Bokhour Glen A. Burnett ’73 Geoffrey Cestaro John Comegno Anthony J. D’Auria Pontian Society of Argonaytes LTD. Jean Hillman Almirall ’55 Michele Pruskin Helen T. Bennett ’71 Matthew P. Born ’84 Elaine Chapline Burns Lydia L. Cham ’96 Robert E. Comer ’75 Marc ’67 & Sheila Davis Komninoi, Inc. Stephen ’63 & Marsha June Hoffer ’77 & Jadwiga Siwiak ’76 & George W. Benoit ’58 Richard Bory Kristine Burrows April I. ’06 & Calvin W. Chan Sol Comerchero Mark S. ’74 & Amilcar M. Priestley Sherman Temlock ’65 Mark C. Alpert Quirino Balzano Melvin M. ’71 & Joan-Ann Slade ’64 & George J. Burton ’89 Kang-Ray Chan ’08 Paul ’63 & Carol Morgenstern Tammi D. Davis Peter A. ’63 & Nesita Purpura Jerome E. Tuttle ’71 Richard P. Alvarez Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Barbara Berger Ernest Bostic George J. ’57 & Tzai-tze Chan ’80 Conn ’64 Karen Normandia ’90 & Nigel Pyne Patricia M. Veneziano ’75 Steven Amato Paul M. Bannett ’61 Kenneth Bergin Judy Bozarth ’67 Lillian R. Burton Steve & Hannah Chang Ernest O. ’58 & Charles Davy Pearl Nonin Radcliffe ’49 Ronald Ventola ’74 Barbara Schaffer ’70 & Francine Hartstein ’74 & Doris Bergman ’60 BP Exploration & Oil Inc. Joel L. ’59 & Elaine B. Burzin Philip ’72 & Mona Chapoulie Adrienne W. Conroy Guillermo O. ’97 & Herbert J. Amdur Mark Barabell Gary M. Bergman ’73 Eileen M. Bramswig ’83 Alan ’63 & Robert J. ’65 & Maria Contel Carmen Daza Karen Ampudia Chasan Howard J. ’80 & Emily Schwartz ’63 & Ida Brancato ’58 Barbara Rich Bushell ’65 Aurora Charnoff Daniel ’03 & Anne Cooney Richard S. De Bear ’53 Carol A. Anastasio ’88 Jung Baranker Barry Berkov David A. & Sheryl V. Butler ’80 Charlotte ’66 & David Chasan William E. ’72 & Antoinette Badamo ’56 & Franklyn & Gloria Berkowitz Cynthia M. Brandy Lawrence Butti ’81 Elaine ’78 & Bob Chelton Louise Cooper John P. De Guardi Andrew S. ’79 & Norma ’91 & Donald Branson Rebeca Cabrera ’11 Phil ’89 & Hsiu-Chuan Lu Chen Bruce N. Cooperstein ’70 George V. ’78 & Lisa B. Berman Lilyan Govendo ’76 & Sahirah Caby Linda W. Cheng ’90 April ’02 & William Indawati De Lucca David Berman Louis Braver Charles E. & Helen S. Cairns Robert D. ’69 & Cornachio Jeanne De Ycaza ’00 & Samuel LeFrak (1918–2003) real estate developer, and Elaine Ginsbourger George A. Breeds ’82 Rob R. ’87 & Nancy Calamunci Debra E. Cherofsky George S. ’65 & Manuel Ycaza his wife Ethel (d. 2013), philanthropist. Berman ’53 Barbara Becker ’64 & Paul J. Cameron ’69 Edith Mayer Cherovsky ’57 Eileen L. Cornell John Deak Jay M. ’73 & Nancy R. Berman Allen B. Breslow Asimina Caminis ’68 & Sandy M. Cheuk ’89 Gregory Corsini ’84 Louis J. DeBole ’60 LeFrak Concert Hall Paul I. ’51 & Iris M. Berman Stephen N. ’68 & Robin Henri Bretaudeau Nicholas Z. Chiarelli ’14 Michael N. ’93 & Mary Ellen Linda Strier/Rosenberg ’61 Eric A. ’56 & Sandra Bermann Beth Ehrlich Brett Thomas J. & Roberta Candalino Hyun Kyung Cho DeCiutiis Cosenza ’81 & James Deemer Part of QC’s Music Building, a modernist landmark Jemina Bernard Allen S. ’55 & Genevieve Myrna Pine ’60 & Jane C. Cho Francoise M. Costa ’48 Adelaide DeFalco ’87 completed in 1991, LeFrak Concert Hall is famed for its Bernard ’57 & Roberta Blane Chinn Brings Maurice K. Canter Sora Choi ’04 Joseph S. Costa Jim Defebaugh outstanding acoustics and its magnificent pipe organ, which Bernhardt ’59 Muriel Rooff ’47 & Robin J. Cantor-Cooke ’73 & Jeffrey H. ’78 & E. Richard & Angela M. Covert Olga Del Giorno Defilippis Bill Cooke Nina M. Chow Nancy Viganti ’75 & Janice Nelson Degennaro ’94 was overhauled in 2006. Leonard Bernikov Edward M. Broad Judith Edelson ’55 & Robert L. ’76 & Theresa Capen Eileen Chu ’80 James H. Cowles Lisa Delange ’04 Stanley Broadwin Kelly P. Chu ’07

30 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 31 Vinson J. ’70 & Judith M. Glassman ’66 Patricia Grant ’52 Jerome S. ’53 & Catherine C. ’04 & Rhoda Springer Honigberg ’45 Judith Zucker Friedman ’75 Loren I. ’67 & Carla Driansky Len J. ’67 & Cynthia Graziano Penny Axelrod Haller Robert Hensel Donald H. ’66 & Marcia Horn Lois Czeh Fries ’61 Glassman ’68 Greater Jamaica Miriam Feigenbaum ’56 & Reiner ’61 & Renate Herink Marc S. ’70 & Hortense Powdermaker (1901–1970), anthropology professor Estelle Gershman Janie B. Glatt ’72 & Development Corporation Eugene Halpert John D. ’61 & Susan Herman Dennis Horowitz Fruchtman ’46 Terry Siman Marguerite Green ’65 George N. ’83 & Julio L. Hernandez–Delgado ’75 Leonard ’42 & June Horwitz Powdermaker Hall Robert ’74 & GlaxoSmithKline Bernice Silberman ’64 & Marion Halvatzis Ronald J. ’69 & Deborah Ching-Hua Hsiung ’93 & Donna Sands Fryd Carol Price ’64 & Mishel Greenberg Han Mi Realty Strauss Herschaft ’72 Shouchun Zheng Upon its completion in 1962, this hall was known as the Social Thomas Fulk Eugene Glazer Martin M. ’52 & Jeanne Thomas Handschuh ’49 William Hersh Ming-Huei Huang ’90 & Science Building or Academic I. Fifteen years later it was Doris Duggins ’72 & Jonathan B. Glazer ’89 Deanna Greenberg James J. ’65 & James L. ’64 & Ingyu Chiou renamed for Powdermaker, one of the college’s original faculty Waldo A. Fuller Martha Glicklich ’55 William M. ’68 & Geraldine Murawski Hanson Shirley A. Hershey Ludwig A. ’55 & members, who chaired the anthropology department. John S. Furnari ’01 Patricia A. Glunt ’91 Wendy F. Greenberg Richard Harrigan ’64 Muriel Tucker Hertan ’53 Margaret Huck Daniel S. ’42 & Helen Fuss Paul ’71 & Susan Goddard Sandra Vasquez ’71 & Alaric A. ’86 & Carol Besen ’65 & Yu Jin ’03 & James Hwang Constantine ’59 & Bruce A. Gold Richard Greene Jodi Schapker Harris Elliot Hertz Stephen I. Hyman ’62 & Helga Gajdjis Carl J. Gold ’77 & Zandra Weiss ’57 & Michael A. Harris ’92 Gale Messinger ’71 & Estelle Gottesman Stanley Gale Kathie A. Kneff Barry Greene Geoffrey H. ’49* & Stanley M. Hertz Rapoport ’67 Victor Gallis ’67 Charlie Goldberg Lisa B. Greenfield ’76 & Renee G. Hartman Marc A. ’75 & Elaine Hertz Samuel S. ’63 & Paul Fardy Dominick ’03 & John R. Gallub ’76 Irving Goldberg ’70 Frank E. Nothaft Rhona Cohen Hartman ’60 Carolyn Strauss ’57 & Harriet Hymowitz Margaret M. Farley ’73 Anna Florentino Alice Klein ’65 & Judith Schwam ’59 & Norma Justman Shirley Liftin ’46 & Carl P. Hetzel Elizabeth M. Ingram ’05 Carol Buhr ’61 & Richard ’77 & Linda Glick Faver ’68 Marilyn Casey ’73 & Michael H. Ganz Arthur I. Goldberg Greenfield ’64 Mike Hartman Shena Hickman Camelia ’01 & Frank Delany Susan K. Dubroff Ellen M. ’95 & Craig D. Fee Charles Flynn Joseph M. Garcia & Rita M. Goldberg ’54 Murray H. ’48 & Phyllis Fred P. & Leda K. Hill ’95 Andres Irizarry Norman H. & Doris L. Debbie Dusel ’86 Mary Markunas ’81 & Rosemary ’63 & Ed Foehl Lisa Spena-Garcia Robert T. ’52 & Phyllis White Yacknin Greenspan ’47 Margaret Pruser Hauck ’59 Hillcrest Jewish Center, Inc. Helen Rakoszynski ’67 & Delman Tommy ’65 & Jeffrey Feick Rebecca Fogler Zulma C. Garcia ’73 Goldberg ’56 Lawrence F. Gries John E. ’59 & William R. ’69 & Iris Richard Isaacson Art H. Demas & Ana Nunez Ellen Wagner Ebe ’65 Ronald L. Feinman ’66 Anne Mindermann ’58 & Dorothy Neugold ’59 & Robin Goldenback ’79 Jane Munkenbeck ’88 & Dorothy E. Haupert Hippner Lee Pancerman ’67 Edward A. ’61 & Margaret Edward Edelstein Donna Feinsmith Evin A. Foley Lawrence R. Gardner I. Jay ’55 & Arlene Goldfarb Dominik Griffin Geraldine Kukenis ’67 & Andrea S. Hirsch ’78 George M. ’65 & Mitchell Dempsey ’61 Howard S. Edelstein ’71 Stanley & Haya Feld Edward J. Fondiller ’69 Thomas F. Gassert ’79 Susan Morrison Goldfine ’78 Mary E. Griffin ’99 Gerard Havasy Jay Hirschfield ’71 Judith Isserles Sheila Fils ’56 & Howard J. ’68 & Oscar Feldenkreis William J. Foote ’68 Ann Gastrich ’69 Michael ’69 & Elizabeth Frey Grodsky ’67 Bill Havdoglous Kwong E. ’94 & Suyan Ho Ann Dibella ’73 & Martin D. Dermer Susan G. Edenberg Caryl Fried ’55 & Berthe Hanover Ford ’67 & Francisca Luzuriaga Iline Goldfischer Gregory Gromling Havens Interiors LTD. Wayne Hochberg Kenneth T. Jablon Susan M. DeSanti ’78 Ellen Mandell ’73 & Joseph Feldmann John Gilmore Gavilanes ’83 Elisabeth Paris ’64 & May-Lis Pihu ’68 & Lauraine Fleischman/Cleet Herbert W. ’52 & Andrew P. Jackson ’96 Dennis C. Desposito ’01 Jim Edmundson Faith Bruno Felix ’53 Yvonne Lantelme Forrest Victoria Vicital Gawiak ’65 Alvin L. Goldman Jay Gronlund ’67 & Robert A. Hawkins Lucille S. Hoell Howard A. ’65 & Frank ’63 & Barbara Ann Stephen ’48 & Eleanor Rifas Feller ’49 Ilene Botvinikoff Fort ’75 Alan K. ’53 & Mary Gaynor Joyce Schulman Goldman ’63 Peggy Grosser Joan Galkowski ’93 & Linda Weiss ’59 & Ellen F. Jackson DeStefano Florence Josiah Eich ’45 George J. Felos ’73 Joseph P. Fotos ’66 Liya Gebrehiwot ’99 Josephine Vaccaro Goldstein Joel B. ’57 & Paul Hayes Robert G. Hoffman Helene Nathan ’72 & Roberta Knight Detmers ’95 Ruth Eichacker ’73 Eugene J. & Tanya Fenster Four Seasons NY Joel R. ’73 & Phyllis ’69 & Steven Golsdstein Mary H. Grossman Robert P. ’75 & Linora Hoffman ’59 Howard Jacob Roberto & Myrna Diaz Peter & Joan Eilbott Carole L. Fenton ’99 Elaine Fox Friedman Gecht ’75 Joy Honen ’69 & Penny Fox ’61 & Lucy H. Hayes Maland ’58 & Barbara Morgan Marc L. Jacobs ’81 DiBenedetto Family Erik H. Eitel ’95 Thomas ’59 & Barbara Ferbel Eleanor C. Fox ’69 Mary Gegelys ’58 Paul Goldstein Philip Grossman Andree M. Hayum ’59 Hoffmann ’59 Esta ’00 & Norman Jacobskind Foundation Eli Lilly & Company Lionel ’55 & Sandra Fox-Simkins ’65 & Marilyn G. Gelber ’67 Matthew H. Goldstein ’11 Ruth Grossman Judith Spina ’49 & Estelle Levy ’69 & Betty Weiss Jacobson ’58 Loretta SmimmoDiCamillo ’72 Foundation Rosewita Fernandez Alan Fox Edie Gelber-Beechler ’76 Merle Goldstein ’68 Vivian R. Gruder Harold J. Healy Steven Hofstetter Stuart L. ’76 & Sandra Deborah Dickson ’82 Lisa M. Elliott ’10 Leona Schloss Fernbach ’51 Vicky Fragias ’84 Maxine Regelman ’62 & Seth D. ’83 & Marjy Goldstein Madeleine Grunberg Donald W. ’67 & Theresa F. ’82 & Morgenstern Jacobson ’78 Barbara Marschman ’96 & David Elsberg Anne Moehle ’63 & L. Francis Martin Gelfand Arthur ’68 & Marilyn Simon Kenneth ’65 & Carol Rudin Hegeman ’66 Edward J. Hogan Charles Jaffe ’97 & Stephen A. Diehl Howard ’69 & Ralph N. Ferrara Masie Preddie ’85 & Florence Feinberg Goldwert ’72 Lynda B. Gubin Heinz A. ’69 & Cynthia L. ’89 & Gayle S. Stone ’77 John P. ’52 & Dorothy Robin Sosis Elson ’71 Francis M. ’74 & Desmond L. Francis Gellman ’55 Katherine Benitt ’60 & Richard R. ’66 & Evelyn Hegmann Rex A. Holden Hilde Wolf Jaffe Zimmerman Dietzel ’52 James ’68 & Mary C. Ferrara Barbara A. ’73 & Veronica Baleisis Genco ’71 Ferrokh Golesorkhi Geraldine Guevara Marie Law ’58 & Marta Garcia ’00 & John L. Jance ’79 Michael D. ’62 & Kathleen Lynne Katz Ende ’68 Ina Goldstein Ferrara ’73 Flavio Franco Donna Murphy Genova ’69 Rose Saffan ’68 & James ’98 & Aliceann Guida Robert J. Heilen Terrance R. Holliday Gul Jannat ’15 Burlon DiGiovanna ’64 Norman ’70 & Georgina Eng Jack P. ’50 & John E. ’65 & Marie I. George ’00 Jean-Pierre Gombay Lawrence C. ’82 & Herbert ’60 & Babette S. Hollister Thomas Jarnich ’81 Daniel Diner Nancy Engdahl ’73 Maureen Anne Ferraro Anastasia Frangos ’72 Neil ’68 & Joan Rosenfeld Rodney ’83 & Theresa Annette M. Gulino Elke Deichmann Hekler ’65 Eugene L. Holt ’57 Lawrence R. Jean ’65 Disney-ABC Television Margaret Murray English ’74 Elena Ferrera ’83 Robert A. Frank ’65 Gerard ’68 Capogna Gomes ’85 Philip Guterman ’71 George Held ’04 Mark Holtzer ’72 Maryanne T. Jecewicz Group Entergy Corporation Lana Shocket ’64 & Vincent M. Fratto ’14 Dorothy E. ’77 & Kenneth ’58 & Harold E. Guttenplan ’48 Edward Helfeld ’49 Alfred J. Holzman ’62 Joel Jeker Leonard N. Divittorio ’93 Michael Erdil ’73 & Martin Fetner Albert & Phyllis Freberge Homer Gerken Patricia Goodman H Mart, Inc. Ann Scherel ’60 & Paul Heller Marian Schwartz ’67 & Michael ’80 & Maggie Jerchau Janina Dagys ’68 & Elizabeth E. Glackin John J. Ficalora ’75 Mitchell Freiband ’72 Susan B. Getting ’96 James E. ’69 & Timonthy & Janice Haahs Nancy Hemmes Richard Holzman Herbert ’58 & Judith Jernow Casimir P. Dobkowski Ericsson Employee FICO Stephen Freiband ’68 Joseph P. Giacopelli ’80 Veronica Goodwin William A. ’85 & Shari Haas George R. & Betsy Hendrey Arnold ’48 & Dorothy Honig Hahn G. Jo Stephen Donnelly ’96 Engagement Fund Craig B. ’86 & Michael W. ’73 & Salvatore J. ’80 & Jeffrey M. ’73 & Gloria Afshin & Elsia Hakak Helen T. Hendricks ’78 Dave Honig Barbara Kestenbaum ’65 & Charles J. ’68 & Kimiko Takeda Fields Virginia Frenkel Lillian Giampapa Goldberg Gordon ’77 Merritt D. ’63 & Edith Hertz Henley ’55 Gary R. Donshik Abby T. Erreger Rhoda Siegel ’49 & Lawrence S. Freund ’61 Michael R. Giancarlo ’05 Nicholas K. ’61 & Monica Halem Marite E. Hennessey ’80 Ze-Li Dou ’87 Brenda Eskenazi ’71 & Arthur Finer & Gloria L. Berkenstat Joseph A. ’72 & Aviva Ellen W. Gordon Christine A. Hall ’70 Mario C. Henry ’69 Thomas F. ’73 & Eric Lipsitt Barbara Fried ’53 & Freund ’62 Giannotti Lawrence M. ’76 & Jane Murray Hall ’64 Royston G. Henry Regina C. Dougherty Bruce ’65 & Paula Esposito Stanley Finkel Nancy Wiedelich Frey ’63 Diana Craft ’78 & Len Gilbert Nancy E. Gorkin Claire C. Dowd ’77 Jacqueline Levine ’93 & Bradley S. ’80 & Ann Dorfman ’51 & Rachel B. Gilbert ’98 Terence Goss ’12 Linda Jones ’65 & Milton Esterow Sandra Finkelstein Benard J. Fried Robert ’64 & Anita S. Gillary Andrew Gottesman ’67 Thomas Downes Tamara S. Evans Meris Bloom ’74 & Edward G. ’67 & Helen Willey ’65 & & Renee G. - Sharon Fine Draisin ’66 Nellie Biller ’70 & David M. First Patricia G. Friedhoff John P. Gillmor Gottesman ’70 Margaret Kiely (1894–1978), the college’s first dean of faculty Edith Zucker Dressler ’80 Janius G. Eyerman Charles A. ’91 & Carol Grosser ’67 & Peter Ginnegar ’80 Anita N. Gottlieb ’74 Joel C. ’70 & Benjamin Fabrizi Cherie Fischer Steven Friedling Robert Ginsberg ’62 Jeffrey ’64 & Marian Gottlieb Ellen Golden Dressner ’75 Brian Fadde ’03 Robert ’70 & Theresa Carole Holland Friedman ’72 Norma Giorgetti ’64 Leo & Joan Hemley Gottlieb Kiely Hall Neil P. ’63 & Lois G. Dreyer Irene Rosensweig Fairley ’60 Grundorfer Fischer ’71 David ’65 & Roberta Hirsch Paul E. ’70 & Susan Lombardi Inge Vollweiler ’58 & Janice Grabowski ’66 & Carol R. Falcetti ’61 Kurt Fisher ’09 Friedman ’67 Giovinco ’73 D. Robert Gould This building was known as Academic II in 1968, when it was Timothy J. Driscoll Judith De Mori Falci ’89 Jennie Moller Fleck ’61 Marcia Kinstler Friedman ’47 Joseph A. ’75 & Jack ’64 & Caren Gould completed. After 15 years it was dedicated to Kiely, who in David ’79 & Domenick J. ’75 & Elliot ’53 & Roslyn Marcovitz ’63 & Margarette Girgenti Christine A. Gralton ’89 addition to her first title served a decade as QC’s dean of Sharon Stern Drucker ’78 Helene Falcone Renee A. Fleischer Edward Friedman M. Emily Sobenko ’56 & Dorothy Salzberg Grand ’55 students and two years as its acting president. Today the hall is Al & Eileen Stricker Drutz ’47* Deborah Falik ’72 Jeanne London ’51 & Susan Loeserman ’55 & Alexander Giris Paula G. Grande ’70 & the college’s main administrative building. Louise Fischer DuBois ’72 David S. Fankushen ’57 Herb Flink Stanley D. Friedman Evangelos & Frances Gizis Edward Streeter John Faranda

32 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 33 Peter A. ’74 & Constance Lubin Katz ’59 & David K. Kleinberg ’62 & Neil F. ’69 & Andrea Alfred E. & Marlaine Lavine Edith Lasky ’56 & Stavroula Joannidis James M. Levin Ellen Shilling Law Schwartz Kreinik ’68 Law Offices of Youngsoo Harold Lilie Virginia Frese Palmer ’42 (1922–2009), speech therapist Frederick M. & Gloria Fishbein Katz ’48 Dorothea J. Kleinhammer ’67 Richard & Andrea Kringstein Choi, P.C. Mary J. Lilly ’78 and philanthropist Shirley M. John Laura Cherkis/Lipitz ’66 & Ralph ’80 & Lisa Kleinman Steven A. ’73 & Laurie Kritz Gregory M. Lawson ’10 Evelyn Yonkus ’55 & Jeanne A. Johnson ’74 John Katz Robert J. ’73 & Carol Szatinski Krok ’66 Allan M. ’66 & Richard R. Link Jerry Johnson ’88 & Beth Glaubman Kaufman ’75 Doris C. Kleinman Bernice Muldorf Krol ’58 Maxine Lazarus Vic Liotta Frese Hall Millicent Palmer-Johnson Edith Ceisler ’51 & Kenneth J. Kleinrock ’75 & Linda Kronfeld Wayne R. Le Blanc ’72 Jack Lippmann ’90 John & Barbara L. Jordan Norman L. Kaufman Bruce E. Lloyd Rachel Kalter ’58 & Joanne DeMauriac ’67 & William M. Lipsky ’65 Formerly known as B Building, Frese Hall is one of the Edwin R. ’62 & Harvey P. ’66 & Maria Milito Klesin Zave Kubersky Carl W. Leaman Vincenzo Lo Verme ’03 original campus buildings. When it was renamed for her in Phyllis Joscelyn Judith T. Kaufman Alan ’68 & Malvina Edward J. ’49 & Vivian Nathan ’72 & Robert Loigman 2004, Virginia said, “Queens College turned me from an Mark E. ’68 & Phillip ’67 & Ronnie Lerman Apfelbaum Kluger ’70 Ann Kuchinskas Mark J. Leber Francis J. ’70 & introvert afraid to speak my mind into an activist, a feminist, Joyce W. Joseph Kaufman ’67 Michael C. ’73 & Mary Catharine Wenhold ’50 & Allen Leboff Christine Lombardi and a real believer in helping others. I am so grateful.” Rosemary Joyce Judith Soloway ’61 & Ellen O’Kelly Kober ’81 Donald L. Kuhnsman Yolanda Lebron ’98 Erwin London ’74 Harriet Bauch Juli ’69 Chester J. Kay Cathleen Koenig Edith Mapes (Evans) Marie Bruno ’53 & Long Island Cardiovascular Robin Heller ’74 & Diane M. Kelder ’55 Gerald & Karen Koeppl Kuhnsman ’71 Joseph Lechleider Imaging Consultants, P.C. Allan B. Kachel Judith Keller ’68 Elissa Berliner ’60 & Betty S. Kung ’71 Bettye Smalls Lee ’82 Michael ’69 & Ann Loobman Judith Kanner Kadoory ’60 William Keller & Lynn Raymond S. Koff Celia Kuperszmid-Lehrman John ’76 & Stacey-Ann A. Lorick ’12 Rita Berliner ’65 & Lillian Kagan ’61 & Steinberg Behnam ’86 & Catherine ’79 & Robert E. Lehrman Nadine Gordon Lee ’77 Leslie M. ’64 & Geoffrey ’63 & Kathleen Bjorn J. Matz Joseph Arleo Althea D. ’82 & Baravarian Kohanim ’02 Rosalie Golub Kuras ’72 Stuart M. Lee ’83 & Mary Anne Lothstein Zerrener Maloney ’63 Joanne Heintz ’75 & Robert ’64 & Gail A. Kagan David M. Kelley Robert L. ’65 & Ira B. & Linda Kurtzberg Frances Fenster Loudis Family Fund Robert T. ’52 & Gerard J. Maughan Bette Davidson Kalash ’64 Robert Kenler Enid Kohl ’67 Kenneth Kustin ’55 Sun G. Lee Georgios Loukisas Graces S. Maloney Barbara Mavro ’71 Alma R. Mercado ’88 Chester L. ’80 & Shirley Fraier ’59 & Maureen E. Kennedy Daniel ’79 & Linda Pitilon John A. ’80 & Sydney Ann A. Lefkoe Eve J. Lowenstein ’88 Dean ’75 & Rose Malouta Bruce ’60 & Mara Mayor Carol Ann Golding Merkel ’70 Marion Mitchell Paul J. Kalina John F. ’59 & Kohn ’79 Christine La Rossa Harold & Marilyn Lefkowitz Glenn R. Lowenstein ’83 Isabel Bierman ’58 & M. Ray E. McAlonan ’70 & Suzanne Weidenbaum ’52 & David C. ’67 & Stephen A. & Willys Cynthia G. Kennison Michael J. Kolesar ’67 Barbara Burke La Valle ’57 Martin M. ’75 & Albert R. Lubarsky ’61 Milo Mandel Mary Anne MacLean- Lawrence Merzon Mercedes Mitchell Schneider Kals John Kenny Yelena Konanova Veronica Labrador ’01 Barbara Lehman Marilyn Lustig ’67 & Lucille Hershfeld Mandel ’54 McAlonan Audrey Scharfer ’59 & Linda J. Mitchell ’72 Estelle Eskenazi Kamler ’67 Allan Kensky ’67 Athena Varidakis ’00 & Judith Lacher Fleisher ’48 Anne Lubliner ’75 & Aaron Lubin Mark J. ’68 & Margaret McAuliffe Maurice Mesulam Terry Mizrahi Francisca Verdoner Kan ’58 William L. ’70 & James Konstantatos Robert W. Ladden ’53 Michael H. Lehmann Arlene Berger ’68 & Robin Moss Mandell ’68 Stan McBarnette Myriam Rosenberg Met ’66 Joseph W. ’75 & Martin ’75 & Laura J. Kane Victoria Keogan Rosaria Puccio ’56 & Petra Bueller ’79 & Carol Rader Leib Jay Lubinsky Marianne Doennecke ’61 & Ernie & Gerry McCooey Sandra Mew ’06 Rosalie Mizzi Steven ’73 & Marcia Davis ’67 & Anatole Konstantin Lee C. LaFrese Steven K. ’77 & Lisa Leibel Marsha J. Lubow ’66 Robert Mangels Eugene F. ’77 & Janelle R. Meyer ’96 & William ’80 & Cassandra Joanne Wible Kant Robert M. Kerchner Jean Stein ’64 & Vivian Lai Chin ’83 Alan B. ’71 & Thomas J. ’71 & Kathleen A. Mangiapanello ’99 Marna M. McDermott Patrick J. McPartland Campbell Modeste ’70 Demetrios Kaouris Tecla M. Kern ’43 William T. Konzal Florence Applbaum ’62 & Ivy Suna Leibowitz ’74 Valerie Telleria Lucas ’71 Claude J. Mangum ’66 Valerie Vogini ’68 & Susan M. Meyer William E. ’69 & Robert S. ’60 & Jeanne Caffrey Ketley ’62 Frank & Gwyndolyn Korahais Ephraim Laifer Rochelle Leibowitz ’71 & Helen Clancy Luciano ’61 Leslie A. Mann ’69 James F. McDermott Helene Chassy Meyers ’54 Beverly Moehle Barbara Kaplan Akhtar P. Khan ’89 Jean Koran ’65 Brian T. ’76 & Irene F. Lally Walter Potaznick Elaine K. ’67 & Allan Ludman Priscilla Smith ’47 & Virginia P. ’71 & William Joel H. ’61 & Eugene P. ’68 & Laurie A. Kaplis-Hohwald Fahmida H. Khan ’08 Manfred Korman ’53 Bob Lamm Elizabeth Kramer Leighton Linda Horn ’72 & Jerold Mann McDermott Sandra J. Meyers Christine Moehring ’75 & Robert S. Hohwald Karen L. Kietzman ’81 Gerald Korngold Judith Lederman ’61 & William M. ’66 & Arnold Ludwig Alfreda Raye ’76 & Audrey B. McFadden-Ste- Roberta S. Meyerson ’74 Jeffrey R. Mollin ’87 Kriti ’01 & Prawal Kapoor Incha Y. Kim ’88 Bryan J. ’74 & Debra Kornreich Stuart A. Landau Catherine Lemmey Dorothy Ogostalick Nathan Manning phenson ’89 David P. Michaelson ’62 Joseph Moloney David Karen ’75 Joseph B. & Rebecca Kim Alan ’55 & Gail Koss William D. ’71 & Madeline T. Leno ’09 Lukaszuk ’60 Rita G. Manning ’89 Stephen McFarland Ruth Hudes ’61 & James Mongiello Sudhangshu B. ’85 & Sung J. Kim ’97 Debby Capones ’79 & Gail B. Landau Joyce Leong ’81 Liane Winrow Lunden ’52 Salvatore Mannuzza ’72 Edward P. ’94 & Charles Michaelson Toni Barlutta Monier ’00 Ratna Karmakar ’79 Alfred A. & Petros S. Kouris Sora Eisenberg ’54 & Richard P. ’61 & Fang Luo ’97 Richard J. Mansfield Gina McGovern Peter A. ’86 & Joan Michelli Joseph ’67 & Janet Tarulli Helene Rennert ’70 & Michelle Davis King Vance R. ’68 & Aaron Landes Julie A. Lerner Jeffry ’66 & Trish Luria Jill Witkin Mante William F. ’77 & Barbara Corinne Anthony ’63 & Montalto ’68 Albert Karo Dennis J. Kinneary ’76 Katherine Koven Alton J. ’75 & Mae Bonin ’81 & Allan J. ’54 & Leah Rosenthal ’69 & Hedgis McGovern ’77 Harold T. Michels Dolores Teichmann Olga Zaferatos Karras ’70 Donald B. ’55 & Mitchell P. Koza ’73 Patricia Tinto Landsman James Letsch Roberta Grower Lynch Lawrence P. Marenstein Elaine Robinson ’77 & Middle Village Roller Montella ’53 Marcia Wiesenberg ’58 & Jacqueline Kinsler Pauline Kornicki ’90 & Brenda Keough ’61 & David A. ’61 & Gerald J. ’55 & Patricia Margand ’92 John McHale Hockey Inc. Gregory P. Monti Sol Karsch Susan Feig Kittelsen ’80 Leo Kra George Lane Natalie Brodie Levene ’64 Gameela MacDonald Jerome ’53 & Barbara Jennifer McIntosh Renzo G. Mieles ’85 Mario J. ’54* & Lucille Cary S. ’68 & Doris M. Kart Lawrence I. ’64 & Phyllis James Kramer ’69 Linda Agin Lang ’63 Phyllis Heller ’66 & Richard J. Mace ’91 Margolin Ron McKay George & Haeda Mihaltses Faraone Monti ’54* Richard B. ’80 & Greenfield Kivel ’66 Paul Surovell ’68 & Lisa Langhart Robert Levin Carmen D. Macias ’90 Judith Mollin ’62 & John V. ’74 & Kathy McKerlie Shiela Woda ’64 & Gary T. ’74 & Rita Tall Kashdan ’71 Elaine Cohen ’63 & Judith T. Kramer ’67 Paul ’68 & Charissa Lansing Andrea Scharff ’64 & Roy E. ’57 & Seymour Margolis William McLean Peter Milch Judith A. Moomjian Janet Pulin Kasimis ’67 Robert Klein Alison Kramer-Kuhn Paul ’66 & Hannah Lansky Martin P. Levine Barbara Crosby Mackie ’57 Lynn G. Mark ’77 Neddy Dricks McMills ’74 Jeffrey D. ’67 & Irene Miller Ju-han Moon Barbara G. Kass Mark ’76 & Laurie Lloyd J. ’70 & Sylvia Krapin Marilyn Lantz ’67 Dianne Sholinsky ’66 & Bernard ’56 & Jeannie Mackler Irving L. & Ruth Markovitz Harriet Porcello Lillian Black Miller ’01 Frederick I. ’59 & Joan Borowick ’63 & Schulsinger Klein ’92 Lester J. Krasnogor ’59 & Edward ’73 & Edith Lapal Gary M. Levine Verna Mack-Medley ’10 Erica L. Markowitz ’03 McNamara ’64 Renee H. Miller ’69 & Judie H. Mopsik Melvyn M. Kassenoff Victor R. ’76 & Joan Stern Mazza ’63 Dorothy Schamel Laser ’46 Mark Levine ’82 Henry G. & Elaine MacLellan Alan B. ’74 & Mary P. Marks Paula Chanley ’70 & Stuart B. Kaplan Victoria Dominianni ’89 & Yusef Kassim Sharon M. Klein Florence Reiss ’60 & Peter J. Bonet ’71 & Risa Frishtick ’70 & John E. ’59 & Gail Madden Florence Zimmerman ’53 & Andrew D. McNitt Steven ’75 & Karyn Perlmutter Vincent W. Moran Allen Kraut Jean Backel Lavelle ’01 Jay M. Levine Robert Madden ’66 Sidney Marks Paul J. ’98 & Miller ’82 Linda Crosby ’79 & Stephen B. Levine ’69 Cetti Castelli Madonna ’93 Richard B. Marks ’66 & Christine M. Medordi Allen D. ’68 & Penelope Charles Morant Stewart B. ’76 & Madeline Maffetore ’60 Michael C. Ford Linda Meeth ’89 Meade Mincho ’71 Emily Gray ’54 & Elisabeth Levine John R. Magel ’62 Carlos A. ’77 & Fern R. Mehler ’76 & Joseph L. & Evelyn Schul- Paul Moreno Martin R. ’62 & Howard C. Mahler ’72 Beth Shindler Marques ’84 Jay Brick man Mindell ’41* Mel B. Morgenbesser ’68 Nicole Payet Levinson John E. & Jane H. Mahon Elizabeth Healy ’91 & Diane Meier Richard & Natalie Mines Andrew S. & Celine Keating ’71 & Ronnie S. Maibaum ’64 Vasco Marques Christopher Melbourne Sonya Sky ’69 & Deborah S. Morris Ira Remsen (1846–1927), prominent chemist Mark L. Levy Richard Maier Rosendo J. & Alice Marques Donna S. Melli-Stryczek ’85 Martin Minkoff John C. ’78 & Barbara Greene Lewin ’69 Nancy Rizzo ’55 & Barbara Sobotka ’02 & David A. ’63 & Philip M. ’71 & Laura Bernard Morris Wendy Lewis Dennis Maika Richard E. Marsh Susan Charles Melman ’66 Dale Kaplowitz Mintz ’74 Norman J. ’65 & Remsen Hall LexisNexis Cares Tsahay Marshall Ellen Mendel ’57 Aleksey Mishail ’00 Sydney Morris Qian Hui Li ’03 Charities Inc. Jerome S. ’66 & Constructed in 1950, Remsen Hall was the first major Julius G. Mendel ’52 Mark J. Mishler ’72 Eileen Morrison-Darren Tian Long Li ’14 Santa Schimmenti Frances Marton new campus building. Its namesake, scion of a wealthy Ellen Fennell Mendonca ’05 Vincent A. Misiano ’72 & Anita Morrissey ’81 Judith Libow Malatestinic ’56 Joanne C. ’05 & Alan Mason College Point family, invented saccharin and started the Margaret Sparkman ’80 & Lynne Reitman Jane Geibel ’70 & Christopher ’84 & Joan G. Malewitz ’68 Phoebe Carillo Massimino ’81 David C. Menninger Maria Puszkydra & Charles A. Morton nation’s first doctoral program for chemistry. Pamela Liccardo Jeffery A. ’65* & Lawrence W. Mattis ’87 & Mary White ’66 & Steven Miss Erika M. Lieber ’80 Susan M. Malick Frances S. Kamien ’87 Franklin Mento Louis A. ’72 & Starr Lifson Peter H. & Leila O. Mattson

34 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 35 Gregory L. ’54* & Marina Rivas-Carter ’11 Dolores Birgeles Ryan ’51 Harvey D. ’64 & John ’76 & Romney Shelepak Clementine C. Rabassa Laureen J. ’91 & Judith Karish Rycar ’94 Happy Scherer Carolyn Lemke Scorcia ’76 Zeev ’96 & Dalith S. Shenkar Robert J. Rabinoff ’71 Raymond Rivera Peter Sacks ’68 & Robert J. ’83 & Allison W. Scott ’97 Barbara M. Sher ’71 Benjamin Rosenthal (1923–1983), long-term Queens congressman George J. ’62 & Ellen Raff RiverWoods Christine Kelly Kathy L. Schick Aletta Goodwin Seales ’72 Jonathan S. Sherman ’89 Elois Bryant ’64 & Joyce Thaler Robbins ’54 Jerome E. Sag ’68 Joel Schiffenbauer ’74 Barbara Smith ’51 & Paul T. ’69 & Rosenthal Library Louis Raiford Marie Michaud Roberts ’65 Julia Sagevich ’41 David A. Schimmel ’81 David B. Seeman Linda Rogosin Sherman Peter A. ’71 & Joan Raiti Bettye L. Robinson ’99 Anna L. ’99 & Marvin J. ’50 & Pat Schissel Kathleen Borg Seeto ’83 Walter M. ’62 & Barbara QC’s state-of-the art library was dedicated in 1988 to a legislator Mary Salaices ’50 & Michael B. ’71 & Robert Salomon Dorothy F. Schleimer ’78 Dewey A. ’50??? Lieberman Sherwood ’62 whose support for higher education earned him the nickname “the James A. Ralph Kathleen A. Roche Harold M. ’77 & Evelyn Cachia ’67 & Betty Day ’52 & Stephen R. ’66 & Susan education congressman”; his papers are housed here. The library’s Darshanand H. Ramdass ’04 Shulamit Kuflik ’69 & Caryl L. Salters Harris Schlesinger Herbert Seidel Kottler Shestakofsky clock tower is named in honor of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Vedi R. Ramdhanie ’10 Alan Rockoff Arthur & Betty Salz Helene Jaffe ’52 & Harry ’50 & Mary C. Seidell Myrna-Sue Kaplan Luciano Ramprashad Leonard Rodberg Jacqueline A. Salzer ’72 & Stanley Schlesinger Ronald L. Seifer ’64 Shimberg ’60 and Mickey Schwerner, civil rights workers who were murdered in Phyllis Rappeport ’50 Valerie Roddy Lawrence Lynn James H. Schloemer Elaine Chimel ’71 & Maria Shindler Mississippi in 1964. At the time, Goodman was a QC student. Ralph F. Rashbaum ’64 Eve Rodsky Rhonda Goldmintz ’76 & Jack A. ’79 & Debra Oliveira Nicholas J. Sekreta Diane Kesler ’62 & Alan M. ’64 & Martin ’48 & Rachel Roeder Steven B. Samuel Schmetterling Barbara V. Sellers Adam L. Shrier Elaine B. Rashes Barbara Guzik Roehrig ’72 Carmen E. Sanchez ’12 Roger H. ’69 & Sempra Energy Foundation Lucille Gang ’55 & Julia Casa ’42 & Elizabeth A. Roistacher Fredric M. ’61 & Barbara V. Schmid Diane Votsis ’80 & Alvin Shulklapper Nandal Rashti John P. Rooney ’91 Susan Wolfe/Samanowitz Janet A. Schneller ’75 Robert C. Sepe Diane Shults ’07 Harriet Pakula-Teweles ’59 Judith Schaefer ’64 & Arthur & Harriet Rath Willard L. ’65 & Betty Rose Sanders ’61 Lowell E. ’66 & Stanley ’84 & Gina O’Dea- Dorothy Herman ’56 & John G. ’74 & Jacques Pessah Patricia H. Raynor ’67 David A. ’62 & Iris Rosen Robert M. ’48 & Hester Hill Schnipper Sochacki Serafin ’87 Leon Siedler Cliff V. ’77 & Warren J. Nimetz ’76 Rita E. Palaszczuk Mark S. Peters ’78 Lillian Zavoli ’63 & Laurence S. ’66 & Ingrid V. Sanders Mona ’79 & Bryan F. ’97 & Karen L. ’65 & Mary Cipollone Mosco ’72 Elaine Block ’75 & Susan J. Palazzoto- Christine Peterson ’06 David Rea Janice Rosen Scott ’80 & Jennifer Sanders Jonathan Schnitzler Joyce W. Serra Grant H. Siegel Daniel G. Moshief ’81 Jerome S. Nisselbaum D’Andrilli ’74 Eric M. Peterson ’05 Anne Erickson ’87 & Norman H. ’56 & Marc & Samantha Sandman David J. Schober Dimas ’99 & Patricia Ruth L. Siegmann ’72 Irene Moshouris ’82 Rachel Blum ’85 & John L. ’64 & Rae G. Paltiel Jon A. & Mary Leslie H. Read Joan H. Rosen Raymond ’02 & Ruth Schorsch Serrano Rita ’91 & Gary Sila Andrea Harrow Jonathan Nissenblatt James M. Palumbo ’93 Jane Eaker Peterson Jean Beasley ’83 & Ira J. ’62 & Roberta Blumen- Myrta Santiago Fred ’64 & Ellen Koskowitz Anne M. Servillo ’90 Lawrence ’41 & Ida Silver Moskowitz ’70 Rosalind Berkowitz ’60 & Kiran B. Pandey ’99 Vivian Pfeiffer Donald Read feld Rosenbaum ’64 Maria C. ’60 & Schreiber ’64 Eileen Steingart ’58 & Warren Silver ’59 Ellen Eagle ’71 & Sam Nissim Richard A. Paolino ’70 Barbara D. Phillips ’79 Realty Advisors Inc. Bella H. Rosenberg ’71 Jack Sanz-Segura Marie H. Schreiber ’61 Stanley S. Shaffran Arthur R. & Meralee Wallach David J. Moskowitz Albert Nitzburg Paraiso High School Class Karen G. Phillips ’04 & C. Felicia Reciniello ’97 Carole Dick Rosenberg ’71 Eric S. Sarner ’84 Marcia Friedman Schreier ’56 Jacob Shafran ’07 Silverman ’70 Carolyn Moss ’66 Laura A. Noble of 1962 Frank Stearns George H. ’56 & Shoshana Gabriel ’44 & Hilda Abrahams ’50 & William H. Schuck ’01 Maaren Shah Lynn Silverstein ’67 Dorothy Teitelbaum Moss ’46 Michael & George Paralemos ’98 Marcia M. Phillips Phyllis Redlich ’61 Jerome L. Rosenberg Richard Satran George E. ’68 & Paul ’69 & Carol Wachen- Phyllis Drucker Silvestri ’51 Antonio J. Muñoz ’07 Julie Williams Noulas ’80 Carolyn Sica Parise ’46 Lai Sau Chow Phung ’96 Barbara Newborn ’63 & Edward F. ’66 & Anita Rapp Saunders ’60 Felice Schulman heimer Shaman ’69 Donna Shanok Simon ’69 Anand N. Munsif ’78 Joel Novack ’65 Diana ’00 & Joel J. Parisy Arthur S. ’70 & Terrance Rees Debora G. Rosenfeld Marcia Colish Saunders ’45 Leonard J. ’68 & Allen & Roberta Shane William E. Simon Foundation Ellen Heilbraun ’74 & Herbert A. ’48 & Jean Nuber Jessica K. Park ’11 Carrell N. Pickoff Francine Reff ’64 Inbal Rosenthal ’03 Bruce S. Saylor & Barbara Rogers Schultz Joanne Shane Plummer ’66 Dorothy Rau ’57 & David Murachver Bruce I. ’79 & Irene Wojciechowski ’56 & Barbara Rosefelt Pierce ’64 Thomas ’63 & James E. ’70 & Constance E. Beavon Leon Schulzinger Allan ’60 & Carol J. Shapiro Walter Sinclair Sebastian B. Murolo ’79 Harriet Schenfeld Nuzie ’79 James A. Parker Victoria Mossa ’79 & Patricia Okulski Regan ’63 Roseanne Kelly Rosenthal JoAnne S. Sblendorio-Levy Barbara E. Schur ’54 Jeffrey B. ’73 & Premjit ’88 & Amritjit Singh Samuel M. Murray ’74 Kingsley U. Nwoke ’04 Christine Foerth ’71 & Eric Pilotti Matthew Reilly Mark S. ’71 & ’76 & Stuart E. Levy Ellen Mathie- Helenann Shapiro George J. ’58 & Albert ’65 & Debra Musaffi Dale Houser Oakes ’57 Dorn A. Parks David J. Piscia ’94 Joan Reinhardt-Reiss ’58 & Karen Harlow Rosentraub Marie Mastromarino Scala ’69 Zipperlen Schutt ’73 Gerald H. Share ’61 & Carole Meyer Singhel ’61 Eugene ’59 & Robert A. ’65 & Maureen Conroy ’71 & John E. ’77 & Janet Andrews Mark D. Reiss Marcia Brooks ’60 & Fred Gilbert R. Scalone ’62 Arnold M. ’67 & Patricia Spranger Morton ’56 & Joan Sitver Ilene Trager Nadel ’61 Sheila Weiss Oberstein ’69 William Parsley Piwowarski ’70 Steven R. Reininger ’72 Rosenzweig Rita Wunderlick ’89 & Susan H. Schwartz Edward M. & M. Joan Beatrice DiPaolo Skala ’62 Diane Walker Nadler ’81 Anne Marie Bruno Gerard J. Passaro ’79 & Susan Cooper ’73 & Noel ’60 & Elaine Reitmeister Robert ’79 & Debbie Rosman Dominick Scaringella Geraldine Marcus Bergmann Sharkey ’44* Eric T. ’76 & Lynne Skolnick Rie Marubashi ’90 & O’Connor-Welby ’56 & Susan Lang Stephen Plambeck Thomas E. ’72 & Phyllis Harrison Ross Bette Gerber ’66 & Schwartz ’47 Dovelet Shashou ’77 Phyllis Yanowitz ’54 & Kyohei Nagami Patrick Welby Robert B. ’80 & Carole Burns ’62 & Kathryn L. Remmele Tamara E. Ross ’00 Jonathan Scarlet Leila ’76 & Edgar Schwartz Joel L. ’64 & Ilana Shatzky Peter P. Skomorowsky George Nagelberg Edward ’61 & Duck Hee Kathleen Passaro Joseph Plate James G. ’62 & Laura Rossman Marc A. ’74 & Lee Schaeffer Barry S. Goldstein ’75 & Helene Schindelheim Barrett ’57 & Elliott Naishtat ’65 O’Donnell Louis J. ’71 & Betsy Pastorini Rita Weingarten ’91 & Carolyn D. Renfro Richard F. ’74 & Catherine Susan Scharf-Glick ’75 & Marian G. Schwartz ’75 Shavin ’70 Marlyn Gross Slavin ’61 Anna M. Napoli ’65 Teresa O’Donnell Edythe Wheeler ’62 & Herbert Plush Lawrence I. ’63 & Loeb Rothbard ’76 Harvey R. Glick Roberta Krebs ’86 & Frederick & Barbara Shaw Edward M. ’78 & Karen Joseph M. ’73 & Patricia Watt ’59 & G. Richard Patterson Patricia Sisterson ’82 & Patty Rennert Paul G. ’76 & Graham R. ’54 & Barry M. Schwartz Harrison H. ’55 & Ajamian Smaldone ’78 Terri G. Nappi William Oettinger Mary Paul ’70 Gerald A. Pollack Leo F. Rerek ’72 Marcia B. Rothberg Susan L. Schatz Harold B. ’52 & Lois Marjorie Sheld Gerard A. & Lynne Smaldone National Association for Nina O’Connell ’53 & Luc-Philippe Paulemon ’03 Fred Pomerantz ’57 Research Foundation of Maxine Rothenberg ’73 Deborah Schaub Schwartzapfel Korean Schools Northeast Robert C. Ohlmann Barbara A. ’91 & Steven C. ’68 & Karen Port CUNY Rosalie Rothenberg ’91 Harris M. ’67 & Anna Bryan ’60 & Chapter Evelyn Johnston O’Keeffe ’48 Edward J. Paulinski Ellen Glantz/Reiss ’58 & Joel D. Resnick ’80 Lewis R. ’42 & Michele H. Schechtman Sandor Schweiger ’59 Jose R. Nebro ’95 & Adekunle Omotade ’99 Richard F. Payne ’07 Hyman Portnoy Barbara Millman ’66 & Eva Lynn Rothstein Richard L. Schechtman ’80 Howard M. ’51 & Karen R. Bardash ’82 Alexander ’66 & Linda Becker ’63 & Janet Koch ’64 & Martin Resnick Stacey Rowland Joan K. Schefler Eleanor Schweitzer John Needham ’50 Linda B. Orbach Philip Peller Joseph Potenza Mary Iverson Reuder Uldis & Stephanie Roze John A. ’98 & Laura E. Oren ’66 Jeffrey ’68 & Gail Peltzer William B. & Janet V. Potter Lenore Rey ’72 Eva Rubenstein ’97 Renee Cole Nelson Arbie Orenstein ’61 Edward S. ’50 & Robert D. Poulos ’81 Samuel ’63 & Alan M. ’69 & Frank P. Nervo ’83 Janet Jacobson Orloff ’74 Reine B. Penzer Marilyn Mintz Press ’62 Hiroko Yajima Rhodes Rebecca B. Rubin Nancy Parodi ’69 & Sharon Orlowski Robert J. ’81 & Deborah Yvonne Lutz Price ’64 Guy J. ’41 & Eleanor P. Riccio Harvey H. Rubin ’67 Patrick Neubert Joan Ehrlich ’49 & Berendt Penzer ’81 Tyson Prickett Marie Ciancio ’76 & Marshall B. Rubin ’79 Persia Campbell (1898–1970), economics professor Elizabeth Fondal ’48 & Donald Orner Rosemary Catena ’75 & Sandy Rubinfeld Siegel Gennaro J. Riccitelli Paul ’65 & Benjamin S. Neufeld Ralph H. ’52 & Ghita P. Orth Antonio S. Pepe Prinz ’54 Arva R. Rice Elizabeth Smith Rubinfeld Edmund C. ’48* & Laura Nuzzi ’66 & Thomas Frank J. Peranio ’11 Joseph A. ’78 & Laudelina Shirley Fleming ’56 & Louis I. Rubins ’56 Campbell Dome Olga Nunns Neuhaus ’47 E. O’Shaughnessy John ’59 & Margaret Perciballi Fernandez Prinzivalli ’78 Luc Richard John E. ’82 & Polly A. Ruehl Powdermaker Hall’s special architectural feature was built P. Catherine ’02 & Richard J. ’68 & Joseph A. & Nina M. Peri Dat H. Quach ’85 & Eleanor Hanson Rieder ’50 Larry & Doreen Rush in 1962. Its namesake served as economics chair at QC and Gunter H. Neumann Nancy M. Osikowicz Barry S. ’66 & Joan Perlman Lang Ngo Eva Buschke ’58 & A. David ’58 & was also a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New York Life Foundation Claire ’97 & Gina A. Perna David P. ’66 & Arthur Rifkin Ina B. Russakoff Irene Bloch ’51 & Richard J. Paccione John S. ’53 & Barbara Perry Gloria Carini Quay ’68 William ’88 & Beth Rifkin Sandra Jennings ’79 & brain trust. Like the rest of Powdermaker, Campbell Dome Richard Nicholas AnnMarie Pagano Gustav J. ’69 & Paul D. ’71 & Barbara Quay Virgil J. ’79 & Mark B. Russell was renovated in 1999. Richard A. Nicholas ’69 Louis V. ’67 & Lorraine C. Person Sean & Pauline Quinn Susan Rinaldini John Russo ’88 Nancy Nicoll Martha M. Pagliuca Rose A. Pesce-Rodriguez ’83 Susan Margiolas Quinn ’70 Jonathan A. Ritzenberg ’93 Justine Becker Rutan ’51 & Libaniel Rodriguez Carolyn S. Ryan ’94

36 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 37 Stephen P. & Joan L. Smaldone Lita Friedman ’46 & Sunny’s Center Inc. Jarrad Urbinder ’01 Constance Heyl ’51 & William Smaldone & Irving Star Thomas T. Surprenant Janet Jaffe & Andrew Ursino Elmer E. Waters Jennifer Jopp Joel Stark Diane Griggs ’76 & Karen A. Valko ’87 Ama S. Wattley ’92 Gail A. Marquis ’80 & Lola Legg ’58 & John C. Swann Joan Conti ’87 & Lilyan Rosenberg Waxman- ANGEL INVESTORS CLASS OF 2016 Audrey Smaltz Jeffrey A. Stark Stephanie Powers Sweeney ’99 Ronald R. Vanchieri Levine ’52 & SMH Administrative Services Donald M. ’68 & Rolf H. Swensen Didier Vanderperre Sidney Levine Karen P. Smith Judith A. Stavis Frank ’56 & Loraine Tabakin Constantinos Vangelatos Stella Apuzzi & Tony Wayne We salute our ANGEL INVESTORS who have led by example in generosity, spirit, and commitment to Rebecca W. Smith ’01 Victor ’90 & Gayle Steele Ira M. ’82 & Joanna Talbi John Vardakis Paul C. Webster the mission of Queens College. Your investment in our future is the finest gift we could receive. Stacy Smith Alan H. ’68 & Marie Trentadue Tangredi ’53 Robert C. Vaream ’88 Nathaniel T. Weiner ’94 Robert ’56 & Harriet L. Snyder Marsha Polonsky Stein ’69 Stelios & Despina N. Tatsis Isabel N. ’95 & Rhonda L. ’79 & Yevgeniy Sokolovskiy ’04 Barbara Laine Stein ’65 Lonna Dorsett Taylor ’87 Gerard Varlotta Steven E. Weiner Adenuga Solaru Louis Stein ’54 Techno Ply, Ltd. Harriette Vedder ’63 Alexander E. ’76 & Meryl Margaret Adame, Theodore Michael J. Feuer, PhD Dr. Judith Stern Katz & Joan Friedman Newmark Rita F. Tancredi Rosaria Stincone Solazzo ’77 Carol Blumenstock ’62 & Cecile Woehling ’67 & Carlo A. & Maria Velcich Ann Lashinsky Weingarten Rapp Foundation Sir Arnold Franco Mr. Sheldon Katz Stephen S. 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Williams ’04 Sheila Wiener ’63 & Phyllis Conan ’60 & to democracy and universal education. A bust of this founding father, Cynthia Lacher Singer ’64 Adelia Williams Lubitz ’81 William D. Wolfson Stephen Zeligson given to QC on October 30, 1939, by the chairman of New York Steinway & Sons Dana Willis Randall Wolin ’78 Deng Q. Zhang ’08 City’s Board of Higher Education (now the CUNY Board of Trustees), Jack Zevin https://www.cunytuesday.org/ Susan Kuhl ’84 & Arelene Eyerman ’55 & Wenzheng Zhang ’00 organizations/queens-college is displayed in the building lobby. Arnold Wilson Thad Wolinski Kungang Zhou ’01 Robert M. Windwer ’71 Michael A. Wood ’00 Samuel M. Ziegel ’71 *Deceased

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Ushering in a New Year on Campus

The college held a memorable Welcome Day on August 24, when—to mark the opening of QC’s Year of Korea—Korean Farmers and Royal Guards Dancers led administrators Left: Musicians drum up enthusiasm for a new school and incoming students in a procession from the Quad to year and the Year of Korea; inset: President Félix Matos Kissena Boulevard and back. (Launched in 2010, each “Year” Rodríguez and a juggler on stilts welcome students. explores the history and culture of a single country through multidisciplinary programming. To learn more about the Year of Korea, visit korea.qc.cuny.edu.) Events took a playful turn on the Quad with an interactive game to help students get to know each other, followed by live musical performances.