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in psychology and Photo by Keisha-Gaye Anderson education and comparative education from R. Fernández has been elected Vice sociology. the University of Cambridge, she hopes to Chair/Chair-elect of the American The scholarship Cambridge-bound Julia Rafal return to the Bronx and open the borough’s Council on Education (ACE), the seeks to strengthen first all-inclusive charter school. Rafal believes major coordinating body for higher the relationship between the British and this approach to education will give children education in the United States, with American people and their institutions by the chance to really learn from each other by more than 1,800 member institutions. creating opportunities for high-achieving young accepting differences and removing the label Americans to study at British institutions. It is of “special education,” which can be very A member of the ACE Board of Direc- named for George C. Marshall, whose Marshall stigmatizing to young people. tors since 2003, he was elected by Plan helped to rebuild Europe after World War II. “I have ties here now, from working for two acclamation earlier this year during Rafal is pursuing her master’s in childhood years and going to school,” Rafal says. ”I really the organization’s 88th annual meet- education and special education at Lehman identify with this community, and that is why I ing in Los Angeles. Next year, he will through the Teach For America program, while plan to open that charter school—so I can give automatically assume the position of also teaching fifth and sixth grade at PS 246. back to the children and their families.” ◆ Chair, following the term of Syracuse University President and Chancellor Nancy Cantor. Professor Mary Rita Donleavy

Based in Washington, D.C., ACE seeks Doesn’t Stop to Count the Years to provide leadership and a unifying n 1948, shortly after graduating from Hunter College in Manhattan, voice on key higher education issues Mary Rita Donleavy received a card from the College’s Bureau of and influence public policy through IEducational and Vocational Guidance, asking her to come in for a advocacy, research and program ini- job interview. As it turns out, she had been selected from the class for a tiatives. ◆ clerical position, which she took. That began what has become one of the longest periods of service for any CUNY employee. On this jour- ney, she notes, she was “a witness to the University’s response to social, economic and technological change.” After teaching in Bronx public schools and working for a time at Manhattanville College, Professor Donleavy began teaching at Hunter- Mary Rita Donleavy in-the-Bronx in 1956. In 1968, when a new institution, Lehman Col- Lehman College of The City University of New York is located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard lege, was being formed on the campus, she decided to stay in the Bronx. West, Bronx, NY 10468. Anne Johnson, Vice “I made that choice,” she says, “with the hope that new approaches to teacher education President for Institutional Advancement; Bar- could be developed.” Today, at 82, she is still at Lehman, still teaching and able to look back bara Smith, Director of Alumni Relations. on a lifetime of contributions in her field. These include creation of an alternative field-based Lehman Lightning is produced in the Office program in teacher education called “Eureka,” pioneering work in the field of organization of Media Relations and Publications. Editor: Marge Rice. Staff: Keisha-Gaye Anderson, development, and dozens of publications, presentations and teacher-training sessions. Barbara Cardillo, Joseph McElligott, Lisandra Athough Professor Donleavy retired from Lehman in 1991, she continues to teach a graduate Merentis, Yeara Milton, Florian Penev and course that promotes the use of action research, which is being advocated as a method of bring- Phyllis Yip. ing about change in educational settings. She is continuing her own research, too. Particularly interested in the knowledge economy, she plans to write her next paper about the application of the behavioral sciences to working experiences in this new “knowledge world.” ◆

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Brutal Truths.” After the lecture, President Photo by Jason Green said that “landmines don’t recognize Ricardo R. Fernández presented Weiss with the From left: Michael Sallah, President Fernández, peace” even when treaties are signed to College’s Alumni Achievement Award. Mitchell Weiss and his sister, Roslyn Kay (M.A., ‘76) end conflicts. Now working for The Charlotte Observer in admire the award and the beauty of the campus. In a ceremony before the lecture, the North Carolina, Weiss credits Lehman with giv- College awarded her an honorary doc- ing him the foundation to nurture his dream of “The thing that made my Lehman experi- torate, in recognition of her “outstand- becoming a writer. ence so special is that the teachers understood ing leadership on behalf of peace and “As a kid growing up on the streets of the that a lot of the students were commuters like nonviolence, which has saved the lives Bronx,” he said, “that kind of environment me who worked. And that’s what separated of countless non-combatants,” and for made me tough. Whenever I had to conduct an Lehman from other colleges, the fact that her “life of service, integrity and cour- interview, I was never afraid to ask the tough Lehman professors were willing to give me the age, which has helped to teach, heal question, and I think that goes back to my time that I needed to succeed. They were willing and transform our world.” ◆ upbringing. to work with me at unorthodox hours. ” ◆

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Mass Com Major Spreads Veteran Writer Earle Hitchner Entrepreneurial Spirit Thrives in Lehman’s Graduate English Program On Campus ith nearly 30 years of experience as Hitchner went on to write about music for a professional writer and journalist, several publications, including the Irish Echo, While many college students are Wand more than 1,000 published where he writes a weekly column called “Ceol,” struggling to balance school and work, works, Earle Hitchner has much to teach others the Gaelic word for music. In 1995, he also began senior Jasmine Jordan is running about the art of writing. He has chosen Lehman’s writing for the Wall Street Journal and has been a her own magazine, creating her own M.A. program in English literature to help him contributor ever since. His writing has been well non-profit organization and managing on that journey. received by such fans as legendary an Internet radio station, all while “I hope to earn an M.A. and jazz musician Sonny Rollins, who maintaining a 3.5 GPA. Now the Mass a Ph.D. and that, combined with sent him a hand-written note Communication major is helping my experience in journalism and complimenting him on an article her peers to see the value in being an book publishing, would allow me he’d written about a jazz festival entrepreneur by founding Lehman’s to teach journalism, composition that Rollins headlined. “I have first Collegiate Entrepreneurs Club. or literature on a college level,” Sonny’s letter in a frame on my says Hitchner. “I want to convey office wall at home,” says Hitchner. Since she was 12, Jordan has been to students that writing is not only A prolific writer who has running her own magazine, ‘Tools a craft to be learned but also a joy published in Billboard, MTV’s for Living,’ a to be indulged. Words are fun.” Sonicnet and many other media teen lifestyle Hitchner has been successfully outlets, Hitchner is also credited magazine indulging in several facets of Graduate student Earle Hitchner with two dozen children’s books, that covers professional writing, and having several scholarly essays on music, topics such as a great time, since graduating maxima cum laude and liner notes for 60 recordings—one of which, relationships in 1973 from Philadelphia’s LaSalle University. “The Celtic Album,” was nominated for a Grammy and managing Soon after, he won a teaching fellowship for Award in 1999. finances. graduate English studies at the University of In addition, he has consulted for PBS-TV She has been Pennsylvania, which he attended until 1976, but documentaries on Irish music, and last October Jasmine Jordan profiled in a family crisis forced him to leave school to find he helped to organize a concert at Lehman of ‘Seventeen,’ work. traditional Irish music to benefit the CUNY ‘CosmoGIRL’ and ‘Fortune’ for her Since then, he has built an impressive career Institute for Irish-American Studies. He serves as a entrepreneurial accomplishments, and as a journalist, editor, book author, radio host member of the Institute’s Advisory Board. was the youngest person to graduate and writer of album-liner notes. “When I left “The concert feedback was very positive,” from Columbia University Business Philadelphia for New York in 1978, I was shocked says Hitchner. “We explored a two-way bridge of School’s Young Entrepreneurs’ to discover that Irish and other Celtic music amazing music dating back more than two centuries Program. regionally broadcast on radio was largely used as and paid particular attention to the Bronx-Sligo “Through this new club, I hope aural wallpaper for announcements,” he says. connection. So many great traditional musicians to introduce students to different For five years, he hosted a show over Fairleigh from Sligo, a rural county in western Ireland, settled industries, help them do business plans Dickinson University’s WFDU-FM that was in the Bronx and made their mark here.” and have guest speakers,” says Jordan. devoted solely to Celtic traditional music. “I like Hitchner looks forward to teaching college She plans to host an Entrepreneurs’ to think my three-hour show, simply called ‘The students about writing and continuing to make his Day to showcase the work of collegiate Celtic Hour,’ made a difference, and it certainly own professional mark. “I guess you could say I entrepreneurs and provide students fueled my desire to write about Celtic music in want to do and to teach. Why not?” ◆ with networking opportunities and newspapers and magazines.” mentors. Jordan is currently editor of HE MUST BE SMILING. Herbert Lehman would have liked the fact BlackMedina.net, as well as station that the new portrait bust of him that graces College Walk was dedicated manager for WBDNA, the site’s on the nation’s first “Constitution Day” last fall. As Governor and later Internet radio station. She is also as a U.S. Senator, he fought vigorously for the rights guaranteed in that establishing the “Begin Again document. The bust was unveiled in Fall 2004 at the Franklin D. Roos- Foundation” to help people who are evelt Presidential Library and Museum and then graced the Governor’s starting their lives over, such as cancer Reception Area of the State Capitol Building during Spring 2005. Speak- patients or small businesses that are ing at the campus dedication were President Ricardo R. Fernández; Gov. ineligible for loans or credit. ◆ Lehman’s grand-niece June Bingham Birge (Hon., ‘02); Professor Duane Tananbaum (History), a scholar of Gov. Lehman’s life; and John Belardo of the Lehman Art Department, who created the bust. ◆

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Symposium on ‘Russia and China Today’ Carlos Sierra Is First Commemorates Lehman’s U.N. Role Lehman Student to Chair University Student Senate ussian and Chinese diplomats last visited the Lehman campus in 1946, when it be- longed to Hunter College. They were part More than most, Carlos Sierra knows R what it takes to get an education. As of the first delegations represented on the United Nations Security Council, which met on the cam- the first student from Lehman to chair pus from March 25 – August 15, 1946. the University Student Senate (USS), On March 25, 2006, Andrey I. Denisov, the Sierra understands the challenges his Russian Ambassador to the U.N., and Yishan fellow students face. Zhang, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the U.N., helped Emigrating from the Dominican Lehman commemorate this historic event. By Republic at 13, Sierra lived briefly in taking part in “A Dialogue on Russia and China New York City and then moved to Today” that included workshops, a panel of Kansas, where the need to find employ- Ambassadors Zhang (left) and Denisov at the symposium. distinguished scholars and a Library exhibit, they ment ultimately forced him to drop increased public understanding of the changes tak- After lunch, President Ricardo R. Fernández out of high school. ing place in their two nations. and Provost Anthony Garro led the diplomats Unwilling to give up During their addresses, both diplomats referred on a short tour of the campus, pointing out the on his education, at to recent agreements reached between the two plaque on the wall of the Old Gym Building 17 he entered a Job nations. Noting that there is a “high level of trust” that explains the significance of the events that Corps Center where between Russia and China, Ambassador Denisov transpired inside. The group also stopped in the he learned cement said that their relationship provided “examples of Library to visit the exhibit of books, documents masonry and earned his GED in one year. an open international partnership.” and photographs created for the occasion. Work- Carlos Sierra The two countries, Ambassador Zhang agreed, shops were later held in the Library on Russian Eager for opportuni- are enjoying “their best relations in history.” He iconography and Chinese brush painting. ties to take on leadership roles, he was also pointed to both the gains that have been made The event was sponsored by the Office of the elected vice president of the Center’s by his nation in recent years and the pressure that Provost and the Division of Education and cov- student government. exists to keep China’s pace of economic growth in ered by Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Ameri- line with its projected rate of population growth. can press. ◆ Returning to New York City, Sierra enrolled in Bronx Community Col- lege, where he again became involved with student organizations and rose to leadership positions. After earning his associate’s degree, Sierra transferred to Lehman in 2004 and is majoring in art and political science. It wasn’t long before the USS caught his attention. “I wanted to help students on a large scale,” he explains. President Fernández with Ambas- During lunch, College Librarian Yi Symposium Co-Chairs Patricia sador Denisov (center), Ambassa- Shang (left) chats with Ambassador J. Thompson (Women’s Studies) Some of the issues he’s focused on in- dor Zhang and their wives. Zhang. and Gaoyin Qian (Education). clude increasing State funding of higher education, preserving the TAP award and creating a CUNY “311” informa- tion system. As USS chair, he is also the sole student member of the CUNY Board of Trustees.

After graduation, he would like to continue working in politics, possibly as an elected official or as a staff member Ambassador Zhang and his wife At the plaque memorializing the place of the Old Gym within a branch of government. ◆ peruse one of the books that formed Building in world history are, l-r, Ambassador Denisov and part of the exhibit on display in the his wife, Natasha Denisova; Jinrong Zhai, wife of Ambassa- College Library. dor Zhang; President Fernández; and Ambassador Zhang.

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Professor David Gillison Returns to Crater Mountain

nly a limited number of Westerners travel to the interior of the island of New Guinea. A common view of the mountainous region is that it is a perilous place still populated by daunting tribes. To Professor David Gillison of the Lehman Art Department, this is an unjust Ocharacterization. Professor Gillison has been doing research in the Crater Mountain region of Papua New Guinea since 1973 and through repeated visits over the years has formed a warm bond with its people. Last year, he showed some of his early photos of Crater society as it was in 1973-4 at the Watson Place Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The images below are from that exhibition. Professor Gillison is a Conservation Fel- low with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) of New York. In 1980, with funding from WCS, he helped set up the Research and Conservation Society of Papua New Guinea, which now manages the Crater Mountain wilderness along with its landowners. He contributed the narrative that accompanies these photos.

Actor. When fertility festivals still flourished in Crater Moun- Earth Oven. One of the last tasks tain, guests at the weddings and initiation rites would thank their in preparing a mumu (communal meal hosts by performing short pieces of ritual theater. Crater theater in Tok Pisin) is pouring water through is now actively discour- a narrow opening into a pit of food aged by an American fun- wrapped in fig leaves and laid above a damentalist mission that layer of very hot rocks. As soon as the still operates in the more elders have added the requisite amount settled parts of the Crater of water to the oven, they seal it off; Mountain region; it oc- thus, the lined pit functions like an curs only in conjunction indigenous pressure cooker. with semi-secret wedding rites. Ritual theater was performed at night, and as a rule actors would deco- rate themselves for their performances in the late afternoon by gathering flowers, vines, feathers and colored clay. The actors rehearsed their pieces in se- cret, out of sight of other villagers in a patch of nearby forest. In this shot of Omorido, a much-admired actor, he is wearing a crown of ferns, and is about to join some fellow thespians to rehearse a piece about forest spirits and sorcery.

Pastor Jo Kaledimimo (top) and Enock Kaledimimo. Contained in the “Pastor Jo” image is the “accidental” capture of a small boy, Enock, the pastor’s son. In the photo below, taken 33 years later, that boy appears as he is now, pandanus fruit. When the first European explorers penetrated the mountain cordillera of New a grown man. Enock Guinea, they expected to be traveling through an untrammeled wilderness. Instead, they found whole works in Crater regions populated by societies with their own indigenous agriculture. Apart from locally domesticated Mountain as a con- taro, bamboo and banana, Highlanders had domesticated various forms of wild pandanus. In the Crater servation biologist. Mountain region, a favorite seasonal treat is the fruit of the pandan Marita. Marita trees produce a multi- He is the first person segmented nut. When cooked in a pot or earth oven, it produces a rich oily paste that is served with native from there to gradu- greens and tubers. Here, Bathathamo, a clan Bigman (chief), and his grandchildren snack on Marita with- ate with a univer- out waiting for the accompanying vegetables. sity degree. This September, he will start satarn’s FarewelL. Satarn (here with his wife and children) on his master’s at the was typical of many Crater men, and had fond memories of his University of Missouri, time as a contract laborer down in the lowlands. One day, I learned St. Louis. When he was that he was leaving again for the coast and asked if I could come up a small boy, I often took to his hamlet to record his departure. (That was at least a thousand Enock to his school in feet higher than where I had my house.) When I arrived, he was a distant part of the waiting for me with his family. As soon as I finished, he set off with Eastern Highlands several companions on a two-day walk to the nearest road head. Province. From there, they paid for a ride on a coffee truck to Goroka, the provincial capital, where they were met by a labor recruiter and flown to a rubber plantation on the island of New Britain.

 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • C• •ampu • • • s• N• •ew • •s • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Esteban Ramos (’06) Receives ‘Change-Maker’ Award For Leadership Role in the Community CUNY Teacher Academy Offers New Program steban “Steve” Ramos started out in hopes to enter Lehman’s Master of Social Work For Aspiring Teachers 1999 as an apprentice with Public Allies program after graduation. New York, a leadership development “I always knew what worked,” he said, E The first class of the CUNY Teacher program. His job was to help the director of referring to his efforts to develop leadership skills the Helping Hands Community Center, a food in young people and to Academy at Lehman will begin in the pantry and after-school program. That didn’t serve the community. fall. Lehman is one of several CUNY last very long. “Going to Lehman has colleges hosting the new program, Three months into the apprenticeship, given me a framework which prepares undergraduates for the director resigned, and the organization and taught me why it careers as math and science teachers. considered shutting down its site in upper works.” Lehman’s Associate Dean of Educa- Manhattan. Recognizing the impact the closing Grateful for his tion, Dr. Susan Polirstok, is directing would have on the community, Ramos told the experiences, he says that the Academy at Lehman during its Photo by Keisha-Gaye Anderson initial development. co-directors that he could take over. Esteban ‘Steve’ Ramos “Lehman is definitely And so he has. responsible for helping In fact, his success in managing the program me identify who I want to be, where I want to go, “There is a critical shortage of math for the next seven months led to a permanent and what type of person I want to become. and science teachers at all levels in position. He has since been promoted three “The time that I’ve spent at Lehman, the New York City, New York State and times, most recently to Associate Executive teachers that I’ve met, the classes that I’ve taken, nationally, which must be addressed in Director, and last year, Public Allies recognized have really changed my perspective. Had it not order to prepare our K-12 students for his exceptional service with its 2005 Change- been for Lehman, I really don’t know how far I competitive jobs in a global market- Maker Award. would have gone in this organization.” place,” says Dr. Polirstok. “The CUNY While he was working, Ramos was also To date, Ramos has been responsible for Teacher Academy is a bold initiative to pursuing his studies, first at LaGuardia the distribution of over 25,000 bags of food to address this critical shortage.” Community College and then at Lehman, people in need. He has cultivated a group of where he entered the Adult Degree Program young people to become Youth Leaders and The new program will offer: with a major in social work. “I really appreciate Ambassadors, providing peer-to-peer training • Four years of free tuition and no that Lehman has this program to assist adults and other services. Combined, they have given fees for students who graduate working in the field. It has helped me out in the community more than 7,500 hours of service. and teach at least two years in being able to juggle school, work and family.” Community service, Ramos believes, is at the New York City public schools; A member of the Social Work Advisory core of who we are. “It’s the rent we pay to live on • Paid internships to work with Group and Golden Key Honor Society, Ramos this earth.” ◆ high school or middle school students; • Study with exceptional faculty in Sure Signs of Spring science and mathematics; • Hands-on experience in New York City public middle schools or high schools; • A full-time teaching position in a New York City middle school or high school after successful completion of the program; • Opportunities to do research in math or science with CUNY faculty; and

Photos by Rie Tomita • For a select group of Teacher Academy graduates, support for a master’s degree in their field at a CUNY college.

For more information on the program, This year, the campus started to shed winter contact Dr. Polirstok by email at at the end of March. When trees begin to [email protected] blossom, can softball bats be far behind?

 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •C • ampu• • • •s • N • ew• • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Enrique Orengo (’06) Brings Students the Gift of Music Months Ahead Bring Dance, Music, Film Events hen the eighth graders file into Mr. Orengo’s strings class, he doesn’t need to yell at them to settle down May 21: In Our Blood...A Bronx Dance W or write tasks on the board to hold their atten- Explosion. Four great dance makers tion. Instead, they gather the instruments from from the Bronx perform, with Chuck the closet on their own and, one by one, begin Davis, founder of the Chuck Davis to play “Jingle Bell Rock” until the entire class Dance Company, Dance Africa, Jawole is playing together, rehearsing for their holiday Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Woman, performance. Eddie Torres—the King of Mambo “The music hooks them from the core of Dance, and Crazy Legs, the Break their beings,” says IS 218 music teacher Enrique pioneer. 3 p.m., Lehman Performing Orengo. “Many students come here just for the Arts Center. $25, $15. music program.” May 21: Lehman College Community Orengo, who will soon earn his master’s Band. Professor Alan Hollander directs in music education from Lehman, has been “Music of the Silver Screen,” with works teaching at the Inwood school for six years and by Bach, Korngold, Williams, Mancini, runs the day-time strings program sponsored

E. Bernstein, Miller and others. 6 p.m., by New York City’s Department of Education. Green Jason Photos by Lovinger Theatre. Free. The after-school strings program is funded by Even though the class is large, Orengo still succeeds in June 4: The Unstoppable Debbie the Children’s Aid Society. He often works with giving his students individual attention. Reynolds in Concert. The actress leaves his students from the time they enter the school no stone unturned in right up to graduation. retelling a career that “We’ve been together for four years,” says began at MGM at age 16. student Aury Garcia, as he plays the viola. She uses her dancing skills “Now we appreciate classical music, and we like and stage work, combined playing it.” with film clips and gossip, These daily classes provide an opportunity to present a spectacular for students to receive continuous instrumental show. 3 p.m., Lehman Performing Arts music instruction that might not otherwise be Center. $50, $45, $40, $35. possible. “Music instruction is very expensive,” says Orengo, “and for the many parents who June 4: Lehman College Community can’t afford it, this is a great place for their Summer Band Outdoor Concert. children.” He adds that behavioral problems 4 p.m., Amphitheatre (Lovinger Theatre expressed in other classes usually become more over the United States. He also played with Paul in case of rain.) Free. manageable in his classroom because students Simon in the Broadway play “The Cape Man.” June 16: El Gran Combo. One of the are so excited about learning music. Interacting with fellow musicians in the world’s most popular salsa bands is back For Orengo, the chance to give something music education program at Lehman gave him by popular demand. 8 p.m., Lehman back after working as a professional musician is valuable insights that have helped him as a Performing Arts Center. $45, $40, $35, $30. very rewarding. He has played cello on the clas- teacher and musician. “The program caters to sical and Latin circuits, traveling to countries working musicians, and the professors are really June 25: Lehman Woodwind Quintet like Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, and all in tune with what school kids need,” he says. ◆ Outdoor Concert. 4 p.m., Amphitheatre (Lovinger Theatre in case of rain). Free. ADULTERATION OF BLACK COHOSH: New tions. Consumers should be aware of this situation in July 14–15: The Bronx Independent research by Professor Edward Kennelly, chair of the order to make proper choices for their health care.” Film Festival. The Bronx Stage and Biological Sciences Department, shows that a signifi- Conducting the research with Professor Kennelly Film Company and Lehman Stages cant number of black cohosh products being sold in were Professor Fredi Kronenberg of Columbia Univer- present the Fourth Annual Bronx the U.S. do not contain black cohosh, but rather are sity and Dr. Bei Jiang, a postdoctoral student there. ◆ Independent Film Festival, featuring adulterated with a related Asian Actaea species. Black short and feature-length films from cohosh is the eighth most widely used botanical in CONFERENCE IN HIROSHIMA: Lehman is joining around the world, including many the U.S. and is used to treat menopausal symptoms. with a coalition of international institutions and world premieres. Films are judged by “In the U.S.,” he explains, “botanical dietary supple- organizations to sponsor a global conference in Hiro- industry professionals, including actor ments are regulated as foods, rather than drugs. shima, Japan, from August 31 – September 4, 2006. Ron Livingston, actress Lisa Sheridan, “Manufacturers are required to follow good food The meeting, featuring a series of prominent speak- manufacturing practices,” he continues, “so this ers, is focused on the theme “Building a Just and screenwriter Ed Stone and screenwriter/ misbranding should not occur. Unfortunately, our Sustainable Peace: Improving Education, Health, the playwright Mark Medoff. 8 p.m., study shows that at least in the case of black cohosh, Environment and Social Equity.” For more informa- ◆ Lovinger Theatre. $5. some manufacturers are not following the regula- tion, visit www.lehman.edu/hiroshimaconference. ◆

 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •C • ampu• • • •s •N • ew• • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fall Sports Highlights Swim Team Captures CUNY Championship, Runner Amy Ruston Gets Top National Award

ehman’s athletic teams are on their way to one of their most successful seasons ever, both for individual players and overall team recognition. LIn February, the men’s swim wrestled the CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) championship away from four-time winner CSI (College of Staten Island). Three individual gold-medal wins paved the way to the trophy. The following month, junior Amy Ruston added to the succession of titles and trophies she has garnered for Lehman with her selection by the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association as NCAA Division III Indoor Track Athlete of the Year. Last fall, the team itself won its first CUNYAC Women’s Cross Country Championship, led by Ruston’s gold-medal performance. Team Coach Lesleigh Hogg was named as Coach of the Year, and freshman Ana Ortiz as Rookie of the Correa Tony Photos by Quy Kim Ho springs from the board for an inward Year. Here are other highlights: dive in the pike position.

WOMEN’S CROSS competition. Lehman’s Raul Sanchez placed fifth COUNTRY: Helping overall, with a time of 31:52, and teammate Bill Lehman win its Agosto also finished in the top ten, crossing the first CUNYAC line in 32:47 to land in 8th place. championship, junior Amy Ruston finished WOMEN’S TENNIS: The team, under in first place overall, second-year coach Frank Rivera, continued setting a Lehman to make strides, advancing to post-season record of 18:01. She play for the second Darnell James won the 800-, 1,500- consecutive season. and 3,000-meter races, The young squad MEN’S SWIMMING: The Lightning scored while also anchoring posted impressive a CUNYAC record of 637 points, with Staten the 4 x 400 relay— wins over City College, Island finishing in second place (363) and successes that earned Amy Ruston races to the Brooklyn College and Baruch in third (292). “We put together a great her the CUNYAC finish line. Polytechnic University. team effort,” said Lehman head coach Peter title of Most Valuable Senior Micaela Tabing Kiernan. “Everybody did his part. The coaching Runner. Teammate Ana Ortiz finished third at and sophomore staff and our own women’s team provided great the competition, with an overall time of 19:49, Christa Grant led moral support.” while twin sisters Olga and Lianne Torres and the charge for the En route to victory, three men won the gold: Joy Browne rounded out the championship Elzbieta Mul Lightning. Darnell James, who set a new meet record in squad. Later in the season, at the NCAA indoor the 100-meter butterfly (53.47); sophomore championships, Ruston finished fourth in both WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL: Kostya Slavashevich, who took the the mile run and the 800-meter run to earn In a season where injuries were a 200-meter freestyle (1:56.63), and NCAA Division III All-American status. contributing factor, the women’s Bud Rivera, who finished first in the volleyball team was able to 50-meter freestyle. James scored a MEN’S CROSS continue to challenge for the team-high of 54 points in the meet COUNTRY: The CUNYAC title. Finishing in fourth and was named the regular-season team continued place overall, the Lightning were Performer of the Year. “We had a its sprint to the defeated in the quarter-finals team meeting,” he said, “that helped upper echelon by host CCNY. Junior Kelloney us turn the corner in terms of of the CUNYAC Thompson and sophomore giving maximum effort. I credit our by capturing Lidabel Moronta shone overall. captain, Walter Lugo, for inspiring second place in Both were selected as Conference us to come together and finally the championship Daniel Gurdak All-Stars. Kelloney Thompson defeat Staten Island.” ◆

 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •D • e•v •e l•opment • • • • • •N • ew• •s • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gala Salutes President’s Fifteenth Anniversary and Planned Giving: College’s Record of Achievement— A LegacyLeaving to Lehman’s a Legacy Students And Raises Significant Scholarship Dollars To Future Lehman Students Many colleges and universities benefit ver 300 alumni and friends, faculty and from the structured gifts of donors. In staff, as well as Chancellor Goldstein recent years, Lehman College has been and many other members of the CUNY the beneficiary of numerous bequests. O family, joined in the festivities at the New York You may want to honor the memory of Botanical Garden to celebrate the achievements a special friend or loved one. This may be done through a memorial gift in of both President Fernández and Lehman College your will, trust, retirement plans, life during his fifteen-year tenure. The anniversary insurance or other long-range plan. made President Fernández the most senior of the There are a number of ways to make current CUNY presidents. a will. When planning your will, Co-chairing the gala were Provost and Senior remember your loved ones first, then Vice President Emerita Rosanne Wille, her hus- Dr. Ruth Westheimer helps to celebrate a joyous evening your financial obligations and then band, Dr. George Jacobs, and “Mr. Bronx” Elias for the President and the College. With her are President perhaps your alma mater or institu- Karmon, who received an honorary degree from Fernández, legendary performer Willie Colón and Chan- tion of your choice. Lehman last June. Serving as Vice Chairs were cellor Goldstein and his wife, Maggi Sedlis. Specific bequests. This is a bequest of Aramina Ferrer (’73) and Dr. Sorosh Roshan. a specific sum of money or property. When bequeathing to Lehman College you can designate a specific property, certain assets of an estate, a specific dollar amount, or particular securities (e.g., stocks, bonds, mutual funds). Percentage bequest. This is a bequest of a percentage of your estate, which provides flexibility. Most people have

no way of knowing exactly how much Green Jason Photos by property they will own at death. In this case, perhaps you may consider be- From left: Dr. George Jacobs, Provost Emerita Rosanne Above: President and Mrs. Fernández and three of their queathing a percentage of your estate Wille and ‘Mr. Bronx’ Elias Karmon. children pause for a portrait. From left are David, Daniel, or a portion of the “rest and residue” who spoke on behalf of the family, and Ricardo, Jr. (what remains after your family and Both are board members of the Lehman College loved ones have received what you Foundation, which sponsored the event. Below: students, faculty, alumni and guests included, l to r, student leader Carlos Sierra, Professor Javier Tejada of the have designated for them). Friends, family and members of local orga- University of Barcelona, pre-med major and student leader nizations and the academic community sup- Contingent bequest. This is a bequest Rhea Natividad, Lehman Distinguished Professor of Phys- that passes to the College if your ported the gala, which raised substantial funds ics Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman alumnus Jaroslav Albert primary beneficiary dies before you. for student scholarships. In addition to greetings (who was a double major in art and physics), and senior Another option is to name Lehman from a variety of well-wishers and remarks by sociology major Monique McPherson, the first recipient of College as a contingent beneficiary in President Fernández, a highlight of the evening the College’s Shirin Ebadi Peace Scholarship. the event an heir should die before you. was a salsa performance by Dr. Martin Muntzel Trusts. A trust in your will can (Biological Sciences) and Iris Montalvo, who provide continuing benefits to family, teaches the dance to Lehman students as part of friends and eventually to an organiza- the College’s Campus Life program. Providing the tion you choose. It is also possible to receive a charitable deduction by gift- lively rhythms throughout the dinner were famed ing ownership of a life insurance policy dance-band leader Peter Duchin and his orchestra. that may no longer be needed. Kicking off the dinner, a video blending interviews Many Lehman alumni also make the with faculty, students and alumni highlighted the College the beneficiary of a life or ac- themes and accomplishments during President Fernán- cidental death insurance policy. dez’s tenure. ◆ Please seek out the professional ad- From left, Aramina vice of your attorney, accountant or Ferrer at the mike, financial advisor when planning your Beverly Bartner (l) will. For more information, contact and Dr. Sorosh Dr. Anne Johnson, Vice President for Roshan, and salsa Institutional Advancement, at (718) courtesy of Dr. Martin 960-8350. ◆ Muntzel and Iris Montalvo.

10 • • • • • • • • • • • • •H • onor• • • • R• •o ll• • of• • D• •onor • • • s• • • • • • • • • • • • Contributors to John Duffy The Bernstein Family Irwin S. Scherzer Foundation Lehman College Sponsors Judith C. Duffy Foundation, Inc. Marzie Jafari Margaret T. Aylward ’95 Lehman College Edith & Herbert Lehman The Stanley & Nancy Grossman Jewish Communal Fund Ira Bloom During 2005, 1,445 donors con- Foundation, Inc. Family Foundation Robert B. Judell Stewart E. Bloom ’72 tributed $714,970 to the Lehman Everett Foundation, Inc. The University of Texas Carl Kaffeman ’73* Carole M. Boccumini ’70 College Foundation. We thank our Michael S. Fassler ’74 Thomson Learning William P. Kelly ’68 Eva Bornstein donors. David C. Fletcher United Way of New York City* Lydia Kenin-Pomerance Dympna Bowles Fordham Associates LLC V.I.P. Community Services Kenneth P. Kilroy Bernd Brecher Herbert H. Lehman Victoria J. Friedman ’95 Housing Initiative Anthony Kiser Brendan J. Burke ’75 Leadership Circle Maryann ’80 and Anthony Garro Rosanne Wille and George Jacobs Alan Kluger Cornelius Cadigan ’98 Michael J. Gill and Virginia Wright Bronx Community College Langsam Property Services Corp. Liliana M. Calvet Ann L. Bronfman Foundation Lewis R. Gordon ’84 Michael W. Yackira ’72 Lehman College Art Gallery Barbara P. Cardillo ’92 Robert G. Bartner Marlene Gottlieb Zarathustra Music, Inc. Orin Lehman Susan C. Cote ’76 Ann L. Bronfman Goya Foods, Inc. Patricio Lerzundi Derrin Culp ’75 Robert Denenberg Susan E. Greenberg-Schneider ’73* Lehman College Associates Mechanical Heating Supply, Inc. Catherine G. Curran Ann M. Domidion Ram P. Gupta Joseph A. Middleton Scott F. Dames ’91 Miguel A. Fuentes, Jr. American Conference for Irish Beatrice Hartman ’82 Theodore R. Miro ’82 Frances A. DellaCava Matthew Goldstein/CUNY Studies, Inc. Beryl F. Herdt* Brenda P. Moffitt Gerald Denenberg Elias Karmon Bank Street College of Education Emita B. Hill NBC Harold J. Diamond ’56 LCU Foundation Baruch College Houlihan Parnes/iCap Realty, LLC New York Botanical Garden Michael V. Dicosimo ’75 Arthur L. Loeb Ira S. Behr ’74 Hudson City Savings Bank NorthEastern Technologies Scott Dunn Monroe Lovinger* Harvey Beker Hudson Valley Bank Group, Inc. Dawn Ewing Morgan PepsiCo Foundation Bernhill Fund Hunter College Glen T. Nygreen Magali Figueroa-Sanchez ’85 Susan and Elihu Rose June Bingham Birge and Thomas W. Ihde Park Avenue Building and Roofing Keville Frederickson Foundation, Inc. Robert B. Birge Alicia Georges John L. Loeb Jr. Foundation Supplies, LLC The Wise Family Charitable BRONXNET Nancy G. Gherardi ’69 Anne Johnson Borisse B. Paulin Foundation Frank J. Califano Rosemarie Gift ’83 Josten Fund, Inc. Michael Paull William Rondina, Inc. Jay E. Cantor Marie-Jeanne Gwertzman Irene ’70 and Jacob Judd* Pelham Bay Refrigeration & Air Geraldine Chapey Gerhard J. Haas Abel Kenin Conditioning Service, Inc. President’s Circle Marc J. Chase Annette Hernandez Michael Kenin Charles A. Chiara Frances B. Perry American Society of Composers, Eugene B. Kalin Kingsborough Community College Judith B. Chiara Jane ’69 and Fred D. Phelps Authors & Publishers Martin J. Kelly* Cheryl Kramer Samuel F. Coleman ’74* Frances M. Piscitelli James V. Bruni Edward J. Kennelly Miriam Lahey Billy Collins Martin Plissner Cablevision Diana K. Kent David and Sandra K. Levey Consolidated Edison Company of Susan Polirstok* Kingsbridge Heights Community Community Preservation Brian M. Lobel ’73* NY, Inc. Professional Staff Congress Center Corporation Loeb & Troper Joseph Dauben Progressive Home Health Services John Kochan ’72 Dean Investment Associates John R. Luongo ’71 Faith Deveaux Research Foundation Paul G. Kreuzer E M K Enterprises, Inc. Drew S. Meister Eliot L. Engel ’69 John B. Rice ’69 Lehman College Association for Hostos Community College Louis S. Miano Family Support Systems Richmond Elevator Company, Inc. Campus Activities Ricardo R. Fernández* Arnold Mitchem Unlimited, Inc. Riverdale Mental Health Penelope Lehman Raymond W. Garffer Susan B. Morgenthau Robert Feinerman Association Sandra Lerner F. X. Gonzalez-Goenaga New York City College of Aramina Ferrer ’73 Edgar V. Roberts Eleanor E. Lundeen J.P. Morgan Chase Manhattan Technology Antonio R. Flores Maria Robledo-Montecel Jose Magdaleno, Jr. Bank, N.A. New York Community Trust Henry Fogel Andrea J. Rockower ’73 Herminio Martinez Thomas E. Jensen New York National Bank Forosoco Music, L.L.C. Steven B. Rosenfeld Abigail S. McNamee Lehman Brothers, Inc. Mary A. O’Dowd Frank’s Sport Shop Leslie R. Rosenthal ’68 Reinold G. McNickle ’79 Queensborough Community Elizabeth Peters ’74 Katherine French Schervier Nursing Care Center Rafael Mendez Rubert College Alan Poeppel Bernard H. Friese ’84 Barry S. Solonoz Javiel Mercado Maxene and Eugene Posman Ponce De Leon Federal Bank Michael D. Garffer Tim Sullivan Marilyn R. Miller Anne Rothstein* Thomas K. Minter Myrna M. Rivera ’75 GFS Chemicals, Inc. Thomas Tam Robert Sancho Sheila A. Mulhearn ’76 Salvatore M. Romano GillWright Group Paul N. Tannenbaum ’74 The Rodgers Family James Murtha Isadore Rosenfeld Edgar Gonzalez William Tramontano Foundation, Inc. Ruth T. Nelkin Debra J. Rosenthal Greyhawk North America, L.L.C. Irwin P. Underweiser Windfall Foundation Diane E. Nicosia ’85 Rotary Club of the Bronx Maria I. Herencia* Joaquin Vasques Steven A. Ostrow Joan E. Rue ’69 John Mauk Hilliard* Verizon Foundation Panda House Millennium Club Raymond Sackler Nancy Wallace Hispanic Association of Colleges Patricia Parisi Norma K. Stegmaier* A & A Maintenance and Universities Rosemary E. Pearce ’78 Michael D. Sullivan ’73 Enterprise, Inc. Susan Hoeltzel Irwin H. Polishook* Herbert Teitelbaum William Aguado Russell K. Hotzler Marilyn Portnoy Ara J. Bahadourian Joseph W. Rachlin Deena Bernstein Richard J. Radna ’69 Jose Betancourt Donor Recognition Levels Robert W. Reed ’90 Jeffrey P. Buzen Robert A. Reitman ’76 C. H. Dean & Associates, Inc. Herbert H. Lehman Leadership Circle...... $10,000 Margaret A. Rice Louise M. Callahan ’74 President’s Circle...... 5,000 Riverdale Neighborhood House Warren Rosen Carver Federal Savings Bank Millennium Club...... 1,000 Eugene M. Chudnovsky Renee Rotolo City College of New York Lehman College Associates...... 500 Nick Salvatore ’68 Robert Coakley Lehman College Sponsors ...... 250 Gary S. Schwartz Ernest J. Collazo LeeAnn O. Simmons ’94* John H. Collins, Jr. Century Club...... 100 Barbara A. Smith ’92 D. R. Daniel Recent Graduates (2001 – 2005)...... 50 Christopher N. Sonnesyn Steven L. Davis Howard Stein Friends...... Less than 100 Annette Digby Richard L. Stein Peter Duchin Friends of the Library...... All gift levels Michael W. Stout Jack M. Stryker ’79 *Donors with an asterisk have contributed for five consecutive years or more. 11 • • • • • • • • • • • • •H • onor• • • • R• o• ll• • of• • D• •onor • • • s• • • • • • • • • • • • Esdras Tulier Donald V. Peloso ’69 Joel Abrevaya ’88 Leonard A. Van Lowe, Jr. ’77 Marjorie Perlin Peter M. Accumanno ’71 Derek C. Wheeler Esther R. Phillips Steven M. Ackerman ’73 Eleanore Wurtzel Deborah Pines ’97 Marilyn Aclin Kathleen A. York Debbie Pivnick Zelma Acosta ’98 Vincent Zucchetto ’75 Sheldon E. Presser ’73 Samuel Adler Louise C. Puschel ’75 Alex I. Akhimien ’98 Century Club Kathleen G. Quinn-Miller Patrick N. Akwatu 402 Eighth Avenue Rest. Corp. Rambling House, Inc. Pauline L. Albert ’79 Roberta M. Aaronson ’68 Robert L. Ramos ’77 Jose A. Alexandrino ’96* Gladys M. Aborchie-Idlet ’97* Raymond Rankis ’80 Jose Alfaro ’70 Robin J. Ackerman ’74 Anne P. Rice Richard M. Altschuler ’79 Timothy J. Ahle ’95 William J. Rider, Jr. Stella Americo ’92 Annie C. Alexander ’75 Marilyn J. Ringel ’81 David Andre Virginia M. Anderson Barbara P. Robinson James C. Antisdel Sally J. Andrade Steven P. Rolston ’74 Elliott M. Antokoletz ’68 Yvette Andriola Joanne Rosado Tomas A. Arciniega Nydia Arezza Norma V. Rosenberg Michelle A. Arellano ’90 Felix Aronsky Norman M. Rosner ’80 Gabriele Arents ’71 Dorleas Atherley Debra P. Ross Doreen L. Argenti ’74 Judith Auchincloss Carole S. Rothman ’69* Karen M. Argenti ’78 Joan M. Auclair Sandra L. Santos-Laureano ’95 Richard L. Aronowitz ’73 Clyde C. Aveilhe Pamela Scheinman Dorothy Arthur Wilma A. Bailey ’72* Edward Schwartz ’66 Steven Assifuah Bank of New York Maryann Garro ’80 Anthony LaRuffa William J. Scribner Florence B. Audevard ’92 Carole A. Baraldi ’79 Peter Gartlan ’81 Stephan A. Lee ’91 William Seraile Michael Aurichio ’75 Rita L. Barnes ’90 Linda F. Gesoff ’69 Helen Lerner Barbara G. Shaiman ’68 Patricia A. Avallone ’72 June M. Barrett ’73 Martin R. Gitterman ’70 Galina Letnikova Romie Shapiro Dorothy M. Babcock ’75 Reuben L. Baumgarten* Susan E. Goldy Randy Levine Michael Shapiro Jacqueline A. Bailey ’79* Steven B. Beasley Anne D. Gooding ’75 Stuart Levine Frederick C. Shaw Stanley Bank Reginald Bender ’91 Susan L. Gordon ’81 Monica M. Lewis ’95 Richard M. Sheldon ’68 Daniel R. Barber ’94 Antoinette Blum Graphic Image Jacob Lichy ’65 Calvin Sims ’87 Leah Barkan ’76 Paula A. Braunstein Horace M. Gray Alfred F. Loomis Cheryl D. Smith ’93* Jerold Barnard ’94 Evelyn M. Brillon ’88 Bertrand W. Green Wanda A. Lorenzo ’80 Special Risk Consultants, Inc. Esteen Y. Barnes ’93 Rosemary G. Brooke ’71 Robert T. Gregory ’80 Elisabeth Lorin Jose J. Sprouse, Jr. ’69 Martin J. Barrett ’77 Ira P. Brown ’64 Margaret M. Groarke Barbara D. Luftglass-Morea ’83* Marie R. Standford ’85* Irene A. Barros ’99 Robin H. Brown ’73 Reginetta Haboucha Robert L. Lundberg Sandra Stein Leliane B. Barroso-Maldonado ’98* Susan Broxmeyer ’75 John Hagan-Brown Francis Madiwela ’92 Michael Stifelman Keith Bartfeld Jeff Bucholtz ’76 Lewis R. Hall Vito E. Maggiolo ’75 Beulah L. Stuart ’72 Patricia A. Bauer ’76 Geoffrey Cabat Kathleen P. Halton ’78 Edward J. Mahoney ’81 Irving R. Stuart Naomi R. Baumgarten ’69 Joan N. Caputo ’71 Dona L. Hamilton Michael Mahoney ’77 Harriett Taub Bernard H. Baumrin Ernestine Carmenatti-Robles ’96 Gilbert B. Harris ’77 Richard R. Mandel ’73 Esther R. Taus Victoria J. Bea ’77 Beatrice Castiglia Catullo Barbara N. Haughton ’79 Juliane E. Manko ’80 Blanche Teitelbaum Michael Beck Betty Chlebnikow* Murray Hausknecht* Carl Mann Patricia J. Thompson ’73* Carl J. W. Becker ’92 Sandra Choron ’71 Hugh Hegarty ’00 Eileen Marley Nicholas T. Torrens ’70 Judy P. Beckles-Ross ’99 Leslie A. Cobb ’95 Dolores H. Henchy ’72 Marsh & McLennan Companies Cathleen A. Towey ’77 Grace Belfiore-Nagy ’90 Thomas P. Cocke ’81 Katherine B. Hickey ’92 Debra Martinez ’75 Sonia Tulier Leslie A. Benardo ’75 Dianne F. Coffino ’77 Catherine F. Higgins ’74 Joanna Matos ’00* Urban Office Products, Inc. Robbie C. Benitez Gladys M. Comeau-Morales ’79 Ronald M. Hoffner ’72 MBNA America Milan Valuch ’69 Frieda Bernstein Frank D. Conforti ’70 Susan Howley Linda M. McBride ’68 Lynne Van Voorhis Toni P. Biaggi ’74 Ramón E. Cordiés ’96* Hudson Bay Environments Stephen McCarthy Inez B. Vanable ’72 Elena S. Billing ’70 Dominick A. Corrado ’76 Gloria B. Hughes ’97* Francis McGrail Bari M. Verni Bing Bills Audrey S. Coughlan ’76 Mario Iannitelli ’73 Michael Mella Dora L. Villani ’71 Itina R. Bivens ’96 Ann M. Crawford ’93 IBM International Foundation Henry A. Merkin ’70 Stephen B. Walsh ’82 Black Hawk Productions Limited George Croonquist Elihu Inselbuch Mark E. Meyerhoff ’74 Stanley Walters ’59 Consuela M. Blake ’77 Raymond Cruz ’75 Inter-Ocean Insurance Agency, Inc. Walid Michelen ’73 Barbara E. Warkentine ’82 Walter Blanco Judsen Culberth Barbara C. Ioia ’71 Susan K. Miles ’69 Albert K. Webster James B. Block ’98 Barbara B. Curran ’73 Godfrey Isaacs Harriet J. Miller ’70 Jacqueline L. Weidner ’71 Ruth Block ’83 David Curran Rafael A. Javier ’74 Rosetta Miller Karen D. Weinberg ’76 Blockhouse Glenn E. Davis ’74 James R. Johnson Daniel B. Murphy Joyce F. West Nigel F. Bloomfield ’95 Barbara Delgado Winston L. Joseph ’96 Emily G. Nammacher Sharlene Wiener ’75 Frank K. Boateng Lloyd Denenberg Linda S. Kaufthal ’70 Nations Credit Commercial Esther I. Wilder Miriam J. Bogin ’84 Gerard F. DePaolo Denis P. Kelleher Corporation* Ellen Wilkinson ’97 Gregory F. Bologna ’76 Betty T. Dickerson ’82 William J. Kelleher ’76 Nationwide Foundation Linda C. Williams ’70* Barton J. Bookman ’72 Catherine Donohue ’73 John R. Kennedy ’90 Linda S. Ochser ’69 David M. Wilson ’90 Gezina C. M. Bouma Victor M. Eichorn, Jr. ’78 Edward L. King ’81 Elizabeth H. O’Connell Mariann Winick Ellin Bousel ’73 Aurelio J. Emanuelli Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Van Nora L. O’Donoghue Marianne P. Winick Felice A. Brady ’75 Toy L. Eng ’83 Cortlandt Development Arthur G. Olbert ’69 Mark H. Winnegrad ’71 Lottie V. Bragg ’92 Michele E. Fabrizio Corporation Sheldon Ornstein Muriel Wolland Cosmo Branca ’87 Donal E. Farley Donna Kirchheimer Karen E. Osborne ’77 Lawrence D. Young ’80 Clarence Branch, Jr. Preston M. Faro ’73 Eric Kleinberg Rona L. Ostrow Stephen Zuckerman ’75 Eulogio Brand ’94 Susan Feder Samuel D. Kleinman ’69 Charles T. Owens ’77 Rachel Brookoff ’78 Ailene P. Fields ’73 Kitty Krupat Claire Paccione ’73 Friends of Lehman College Barbara W. Brown ’00* Nicholas L. Firth John J. Lally, Jr. Victor Pan Anonymous (3) Frances L. Brown ’78 Madeline Ford Domenick A. Laperuta Kathleen J. Parreno 809 Realty Corp. Gaby Brown ’98 Paul P. GaNun Benjamin Lapkin Anthony V. Patti ’80 Sheila Abramowitz ’70 Pamela A. Brown ’98

*Donors with an asterisk have contributed for five consecutive years or more. 12 • • • • • • • • • • • •H • onor• • • • R• •o ll• • of• • D• •onor • • • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • Willy Brujan ’00 Anne L. Davis ’70 Monica V. Gayle ’90* Margaret K. Bunzick ’91 Jack Davis ’92 Liam Geary Josephine Burgess ’92 Andrea M. De George-Garbarini ’84 Mary Geary Almeida Burgos ’95 Edith DeChiara Carol K. Gee Jorge P. Burgos ’85 Anne M. Defino ’76 Margaret K. Geehern Cynthia Burke ’00 Linda Del Greco ’75 Richard M. Genova ’76 Eileen Burke ’80 Barbara A. DeLucia ’77 Carlene M. Gentilesco ’68 Maureen Burke Josephine DePace ’95 Robert N. Georgalas ’72 Stan J. Cafaro ’69 Donald J. Devaney ’85* Richard A. Gerber Jeanette M. Calciano ’80 Francis J. Di Gesu ’69 Mark D. Gersten ’72 Left: Michael Bacon ’95 (l) and Distinguished Professor of Music Dominick F. Cali ’74 Joseph N. DiMaria ’86 Palma T. Gervasi ’75 Eugenia C. Cameron ’86* Marie J. DiMaria ’96 Selwyn G. Gibson ’97 John Corigliano at a reception to raise funds for the John Kerry A. Campbell-Jones ’87 Maria G. Dipaolo-Sarolli Andres B. Gil ’89 Corigliano Music Scholarships at Lehman College. Right: Kevin (l) Louis S. Campisi Mario N. DiStefano ’89 Irwin F. Giles ’71 and Michael Bacon perform at the event. Nellie A. Canales-Salaam ’87 Trudi T. Diubaldo ’76 Bernice S. Gillian ’96 Gregory J. Cannata, Jr. ’74 Priscilla Dolan ’74 Olga E. Gioulis ’72 Aaron M. Holness ’93 Edward Krupnik John R. Capasso ’69 Lydia Domanico ’70 Peter J. Girvan ’97 Patrick H. Holness ’91 Yoo Kyun-Ran Carol K. Capizzi Mary R. Donleavy Frances B. Giuffre ’74 Edward J. Houston ’97 Rita J. La Bar ’89 Debra R. Caraccio ’75 William Doonan Ezra B. Glaser ’98 Mona Huff ’68 Thomas P. La Perche ’73 Peter R. Carelli ’86 Charles M. Dougherty Claudia A. Gleason ’75 Gilton O. Huggett ’00 Rita Labar ’89 Rosalind Carey James B. Dougherty Nadeen Glover ’00 Anne Humpherys Julian D. Laderman Dominick D. Carnicelli Jane Dowling Sol E. Goichman ’90 Veronica C. Humphreys ’93 Marion Lahn Lynn J. Caron ’88 Marilynn D. Duchin ’73 Elise M. Gold ’76 Lydia Hunter Hazel R. Lammers ’77 Eleanor Carr Deborah I. Dunkley Gamalier G. Gomez ’99 Dene T. T. Hurley Susan D. LaMonica ’79 Magaly D. Carro ’80 Thomas J. Durkin ’88 Robin R. Gomez ’99 Patricia A. Hyman ’76 Henrietta R. Landauer ’71 John J. Cassidy Daroud O. Dye ’86 Frank González ’70* IBM Richard L. Lane ’87 Mary Cassidy ’74 Charles Edusei ’98 Dalma G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez ’76 IBM International Foundation James C. Lau ’75 Sonia S. Castellanos ’85 Latoya L. Edwards ’97 Joseph S. Gordon Lucia Imparato ’97 Preston and Josephine Law Juan R. Castillo ’93 Maria Z. Eichorn ’78 Christiane T. Gorycki Ing Foundation Barbara M. Lazarus ’76 Elizabeth Castro ’74 Sharif L. Elhakem ’99 Christine J. Gotis ’87 Kaitlyn M. Jackson ’00 Toby W. Lebenson ’86 Wanda I. Castro ’89* Beverly P. Ellman ’70 Denise L. Gourdine ’84 Paulette C. Jackson ’79* Elizabeth N. Lee ’77 Stephen A. Cavallo Gloria I. Encarnacion ’99 Michael J. Greco ’96 Hinda Jacobs ’84 Joanne R. Lehrer ’70 Michael J. Cea ’78 Harvey J. Eng ’80 Ronald Greenwald ’73 Barbara Jacobson Sabrina Levine Annmarie Cefoli ’76 Michael A. Esposito ’92 Michael A. Greer Irene Jacobson ’91 Jane E. Levitt Philippa G. Centini ’68 Wesley C. Evans ’91* Gabriel L. Griego Stephen E. James ’87 Helena A. Lewis ’88 Loraine Centrilla ’94 Dhalia S. Ezra ’78 Malvin N. Groce ’89* Valorie Janice ’73 Susan G. Lilien ’93 Yvette Ceresa ’99 John W. Fahey Cissy Grossman ’71 Paul Jaquith Maria D. Lima-Isaac ’92 Miguel Cervantes-Cervantes Paul A. Fallon ’76 Mark I. Grossman ’72 Cormal Jennings Joan T. Litsky ’58 Beverly J. Chabinsky Richard Fanelli ’63 Natasha K. Gruels-Smoot ’00 Frank T. Jennings Francine Lobel Wei F. Chang ’81 Theresa M. Farello-Palladino ’88 Guardian Life Insurance Company Patricia M. Jennings John Locke Sarah X. Y. Cheng ’89 Barbara C. Feigenbaum ’69 of America James A. Jervis Joseph A. Lomascolo ’79 Perla M. Cherubini ’76 Albert Feliciano ’95 Leslie Gueno Karlene A. Johnson ’82 Marie I. Londrigan ’76 Joyce K. Cherwin ’74 Guido Feliz, Jr. ’94 Marisa Gumbs ’85 Mabel E. Johnson ’73 Nicolas Lopez ’99 Sal Chiariello ’68 Cedric C. Fergus ’83 Francine A. Gurtler ’85 Katheine M. Jordan Anthony J. Lopiano ’98 Alan F. Chibnik ’68 Alan Z. Feuer Kwang H. Ha Hilary O. Jordan Wilson ’85 Anne M. Loscalzo ’86 Anna K. Chielli ’77 Concetta Filiti-Neset ’98 Iris A. Haburay ’73 Nathan Joseph Vicki N. Lowery ’76 Ijeoma Chigbundu ’00 Mary H. Finnerty ’93 Annie Hamlett-Barreto ’98 Loretta M. Judge ’89 Ralph Lucena ’98* Donna M. Chioke ’96 Sultana Firstman ’93 Sonya F. Hammer ’75 Robert Jugger Eliot S. Lugo, Jr. ’85 Helaine N. Chmielnicki ’69 John J. Fischer ’00 Nora M. Hamond-Gallardo ’79* Margaret Kane Jack Lugo ’99 Roman W. Chornodolsky ’71 Maura E. Fitton ’86* Irwin C. Handburger ’70 Margaret O. Kane ’68 Sonia Lugo-D’Andrea ’97 Jill B. Clarke ’77 Mary T. Fitzgerald ’84 Richard E. Handel ’97 Meredith T. Kanner ’73 Anna Lukaj ’00 Marisol Clements-Rivera ’99 Matthew P. Fitzgerald Mary Harrington Janet E. Kaplan ’79 Irmgard H. Lukmann ’85 Edward M. Clinton Agnes T. Fitzpatrick ’88 Adrienne C. Harris ’84 Philip L. Kaplan Rosemary T. Lunstead ’75 Mavis A. Coalmon ’92 Karen L. Fleming-Sherman ’81 Brenda J. Hart ’80 Ruth R. Kaplan ’73 Margarita Luque Faye M. Cohen ’84 Josette Fleurant ’79 Edwin Hastings ’89 Darlene M. Katsch ’71 Shirley L. Mack ’84 Joseph S. Cohen ’99’ Godfrey A. Fokuo ’00 Tomohisa Hattori Mary C. Keane ’91 Martha L. Mackey Forrest Colburn Eileen M. Forbes-Watkins ’69 Myra Hauben John D. Kelly Annelen C. Madigan ’95 Steven R. Colman Sonia P. Francis ’78 Mary F. Hayes ’00* Nadine F. Kelly Mahammed S. Mahammed ’99 Commodore Barry Club of Margery B. Franklin Violet L. Hayes ’76 Stella T. Kelly ’68 Aravind Mallipudi ’98* Brooklyn, Inc. Sharon Freedberg Linda W. Heaney ’76 Viola M. Kelly ’89 Frida L. Malpica ’74 Silverio V. Conte ’78 Philip I. Freedman* Cecelia M. Hedley ’93 Kathleen M. Kelton ’89 Lillie Manjarrez ’79 Allen S. Cooper ’79* Janet E. Freelain ’83 Marsha S. Heiman ’66 Eileen R. Kent ’84 Brendan J. Manning ’77 Tanya V. Corker Barry C. Fried ’74 Jane M. Heisel ’79 Brendan J. Kilcawley ’84* Tanya Marcial Esmeralda C. Coronado ’78 Charles D. Friedman ’78 Ronald A. Henry, Jr. ’91 David Kilgannon ’97 Frances R. Marcus ’71 Jose Corporan Michael J. Friedman ’82* Clarence I. Henson, Jr. ’85 Steven A. Kimmel ’77 Marie C. Marianetti Donna M. Correale ’83 Susanne H. Fruchter ’94 Gloria R. Herman ’70 Paul H. Klein ’73 Helen C. Marini ’93 Carol A. Coscia ’74* Linda C. Frum ’95 Jessica R. Hernandez ’00* John E. Klonowski Sylvia Markowitz Teresa Cotterall-Lagana ’91 Karen Fung ’91 Raphael Hernandez ’70 Bruce G. Klonsky ’71 Yvonne Marley Bernice D. Craft ’75 Jack Funt ’90 Steve Herskovits ’74 Kim M. Knight ’91 Gisela Marrero ’00* Clarence Cunningham ’00 Joseph D. Fusco ’98 Mercy L. Hidalgo Linda Kofa ’94 Darlene P. Marsh ’76 Mary B. Curtis Albert W. Gaddy Arleen E. Hochberg ’83 Sandra E. Kolodny ’77 Patricia M. Marthouse ’79 Robin E. Curtis Charles J. Gaffner ’69 Robert A. Hodash ’80 Hana Kosar ’80 Norman Martin Mariana T. D’Alessandro ’98 Thomas E. Gallagher ’74 Alrita Hodge ’79 Caryn R. Kovacs ’76 Benilde A. Martinez ’00 Rexford E. Daley ’87* Ann Ganeles ’75 William M. Hoffman Minnie Krakowsky ’76 Audrey D. Marutollo ’75 Marcus V. Daugherty Noreen M. Garry ’70 Paul V. Hogan ’85 Barry A. Krissoff ’72 Gwendolyn M. Mason ’91 Maria Davila ’97 Rosalyn Gass ’80 Carrin V. Holborn ’75 Jayne Krissoff ’72 Dom Masters ’72 Lorene R. Gatson ’82 Virginia M. Holek ’74 *Donors with an asterisk have contributed for five consecutive years or more. 13 • • • • • • • • • • • • •H • onor• • • • R• o• ll• • of• • D• •onor • • • s• • • • • • • • • • • • Ijnanya Shipman-Weaver Odella N. Washington ’74 Maryann Siano ’88 Valerie M. Washington Carol M. Sicherman William Waters Diana S. Siegel ’71 Malvina Watson ’77 Petra A. Silva Laura L. Weill ’75 Beverly Silverman ’81 Leon S. Weinberg ’75 Ellen Simms Jessica H. Weiss ’78 Sonia Simon ’72 Laura G. Weiss ’74 Lottie M. Singh ’94* Arthur S. Welch ’93 Nalinie D. Singh ’93 Jim West Barbara J. Singleton-McKay ’84 Stuart E. Wexler ’76 Alberta L. Sisenwine ’73 Heather Williams Left: At Lehman’s scholarship recognition event are Susan Greenberg-Schneider ’73 (l), co-founder of the Sisters of Charity Charlynn A. Willis ’97 Charles Greenberg Endowed Scholarship, and Cheryl Kramer, wife of late Coach Edwin Kramer and Cheryl Smith Gabig Osmond E. Wilson ’96 co-founder of the Edwin Kramer Scholarship. Right: Music student and scholarship recipient Motheo Janet T. Smith ’83* Carol Wolfgram Eric V. Wright ’00 Matala (l) meets with Dr. Lewis R. Gordon ’84, a donor and founder of the Patricia Salomon Scholarship. Myrtle L. Smith ’76 Thomas Smithwick ’96 Leslie Wuest ’87 Michelle A. Smyth ’76 Eli B. Yamin ’00 Barbara S. Masur ’88 Ellen M. Newman ’80 Jean A. Roccanova ’81 Beverly P. Soares ’94 Joseph A. Yarina ’79 Jose Mateo Lucille H. Newman ’82 Alfano M. Rodriguez ’92 John Soares, III ’98 Anita M. Yessian ’81 Rebecca A. Mattos ’96 Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum Martha Rodríguez ’91 Luisa Soler-Gonzalez ’92 Kathereen E. Young ’84 Leslie D. May ’00* Valentine Ngufor* Irwin I. Rofman* Joanne C. Spera ’87 Lisa H. Zeitoun ’78 Julie Maybee Elizabeth A. Nicastro ’94 Ida M. Rogers ’80 Benjamin A. Spero ’86* Ruth Zerner Mary D. Mazzarano-Hagenbuch ’74 NMC Speech Services Jo Ann E. Roman ’98 Donald J. Spiegelman ’76 Yolanda L. M. Zick ’86 Marie M. McBride ’92 Gloria G. North ’67 Sally Romanello Gerald I. Spielholtz Denise C. Zinna ’73 Carolyn McCarthy Francis C. Nugent, Jr. ’74 Arcides Rondon Edward Spingarn John S. Zolfo ’68 Edward D. McCarthy ’76 Maribel C. Nunez ’94 Joanne M. Rooney ’80 Kenneth P. Stein ’93 Marc A. Zuckerman ’73 Justin M. McCarthy ’85 Nancy O’Brien Brown Evelyn Rosa ’99 Hazel R. Sterling ’86 Veronica A. McCartney ’92 Donald Ojo Sonia Rosado ’00 Arlene R. Stern ’70* Recent Graduates (2001-2005) Naomi McCooe Yaw B. Opoku Arelis Rosario ’91 Ernest Strom Jonas H. Abramson ’04 Mary P. McCullough ’78 Ingeborg J. Oppenheimer ’70 Ingrid Rosario Paulette P. Sudano ’79 Katherine Abreu ’04 Caroline McDonagh ’00 David S. Orenstein ’76 Rose K. Rose* Edward F. Sullivan ’76 Haydee Acevedo ’02 Patricia A. McGivern Christine M. O’Rourke ’76 Norma K. Rosenberg ’73 Elizabeth E. Surcouf ’76 Juan L. Acosta ’02 Isabelle McGuire ’80 Ramon Ortiz ’95 Steven Rosenberg ’63 Linda Sussman ’90 Emmanuel Addy ’03 Isabel McIntyre Kathleen D. O’Toole ’75 Christopher J. Rowan ’81* Mark H. Swartz Seth K. Agyiri ’01 Robert G. McKay ’79* Manuel E. Padilla ’85 Catherine M. Ryall ’99 G. Wylie Sypher Hudu Ahmed ’01 Keith A. McLaurin ’97 Salvatore Paese ’81* Eva H. Rynjah ’85 Carmine J. Tabacco ’81 Grant Akalonu ’01 Mary E. McLoughlin ’82 Louise A. Paluzzi ’78 Alice R. Saberski Stanley F. Taback Elizabeth C. Akong ’04 Eileen M. McNamee ’93 Michele A. Panossian ’79 Enrique Salgado ’80* Duane A. Tananbaum* Md Habibul Alam ’05 Harold E. McNulty ’90 Antonios Pappantoniou ’74 Jacqueline J. Saltzman ’76 Oskar S. Tanasijczuk ’69 Jason J. Almonte ’04 Adriane D. McPhaul ’87 Katherine Pappantoniou ’95 Louise F. Saltzman ’72 Mark L. Taub ’00 Jo L. Alston ’04 Barbara R. Meara ’91 Carole E. Parkey ’97 Cortney F. Salvatore Josefina Tavarez ’00 Samantha Amiker ’04 Mary T. Medek ’96 Verdi Patterson ’78 Le Andre Sampson ’97 Kim R. Taylor ’00 Melissa Anderson ’03 Howard B. Medow ’74 Barry C. Pearce ’70 Rayda Sanchez-Munoz ’95 Shirley Thaler ’81 Juliet J. Annan ’02 Patricia A. Meehan ’97 Tomo Pepdonovic ’98 Fidelina Santana ’87 Ana Ligia Thompson ’75 Mario J. Arambolis ’04 Linda Meher ’92 Celia I. Perez ’96 Anthony Santiago ’94 Anne E. Thompson ’90 Lynette Arroyo ’03 Richard K. Mendelson ’96 Bob Perkins James N. Santiago ’86 Joan T. Thompson ’00 Zoila R. Baez Ira M. Merritt ’77 Raymond H. Perlman ’71 María L. Santiago ’97* Maureen A. Thompson ’97 Donovan C. Bailey ’04 Philip D. Merwin Robert H. Perlman, ’79 Felice M. Saracco ’74 Arthur R. Tobiason ’73 Mohamed A. Bali ’05 Linda R. Meyer ’74* Manfred Philipp Lucie W. Saunders Teresa M. Tobin Michael P. Barakat ’05 Heather A. Meyerend ’80 Lee P. Pian ’76 Mary Scanlon Alexander Torres ’96 Olanta N. Barton ’03 Maria Michelsson ’85 Eltee F. Pierre ’83 Bernard M. Schiff ’82 Maria E. Torres-Guzman Josiane R. Bauke ’04 Brenda E. Miller ’85 Joan M. Piscitello ’77 Vivian S. Schiffman ’70 Phillip J. Travers ’80* Carlos J. Benitez ’03 Eric Miller ’99 Barbara A. Pivarnik ’69 Michael A. Schneider ’75 Steven J. Trimboli ’74 Tasha V. Beras ’03 Marjorie L. Miller ’85 Dawn Powers ’99 Paul F. Schneider ’84 Jim D. Tsiamtsiouris Antoinette A. Black ’02 Stephen J. Miotto ’80 Norma I. Prado ’69 Richard J. Schneider ’72 Thomasina A. Tucker ’91 Suzette D. Blount ’03 Philip Misliore Ghillean T. Prance Frank M. Schonfeld ’90 Evmorfia Tzanis ’78 Wendy J. Blount ’05 Gilda I. Mitrakos ’96 Martha J. Press ’72 Larry Schonfeld ’71 Nuenna Uoloye Belkis Bonilla ’03 Jose A. Mojica ’89* Joseph C. Prince ’88 Carol Schreebaum Constance C. Usera ’96 Bernice A. Borow ’05 Carlos Montalvo ’76 Lauren Pueraro Yolanda C. Schumann ’77 Jack G. Valdovinos Gail A. Brandt ’03 Madeline H. Moran Sandra Ramos-Alamo ’93 Claire G. Schwartz Linda J. Van Valkenburg ’73* Lisa A. Britt ’04 Kirsy Morban Virginia-Holly Rango ’66 Judith K. Schwarz ’92 Patricia L. Vanderwerff ’96 Tammie F. Brodie ’04 Lawrence Morgan ’87* Aubyn M. Reid ’89 Virginia R. Scott John J. Vasquez ’85 Michelle J. Bruce-Miller ’04 Mary E. Morrow ’84 Marilyn E. Reiter ’75 Lucia M. Scull-Ennassef ’72 Dean K. Vazquez ’99 Linda Buckingham ’05 Julie M. Moslow ’77 John L. Richards Patricia B. Sealey ’99 Mildred X. Vazquez ’94 William E. Burnicke ’01 George Movesian Loren A. Richardson ’99 Madeleine Secunda ’80 Anna L. Vazquez-Howard ’99 Darian D. Burrus ’02 Michael Muldoon Virginia Riklin ’78 Malinda Selby ’98 Ralph Vega, Jr. ’76 Paul L. Cadichon ’05 Patrick Mulholland Dennis Riley ’99* Jacqueline C. Seltzer ’73 Elena Villa Shaunte T. Cannon ’03 Jairo Munoz ’86 Joseph Rill ’71 Nydia R. Senquiz ’98 Plinio O. Villablanca ’85 Kenseener O. Carpenter ’04 Alice P. Munzo ’70 Ronald Rimi ’77 Charles Seplowin Anna E. Viruet ’85 Marline Chavez ’01 Brian P. Murphy ’86 Jose Rios ’90 Susan L. Serrano ’69 Betsey Von Burg ’97 Miran Chung ’05 Robin E. Nachman ’77 Rolando Rivera ’00 Maharanie Sewbhajan ’97 Harriet E. Wagner ’76 Magalys O. Ciccosanti ’03 Nancy K. Nardozzi ’72 Ann S. Roberts ’87 Phyllis Shanley Janet C. Walker ’67 Lavonne A. Clarke ’05 Bruce J. Nathan ’76 Gail L. Robinson ’77 Wayne C. Shapiro ’81 Mary R. Walter ’88 Joseph Classpeters-William ’01 Susan J. Netburn ’91 Michael G. Robinson ’98 Gerald M. Sherman ’73 Nazlin B. Warner Aileen Claudio ’05 The Class of 2005 had the greatest number of donors. The Class of 1973 contributed the highest total in dollars.

14 • • • • • • • • • • • • •H • onor• • • • R• •o ll• • of• • D• •onor • • • s• • • • • • • • • • • • Joseph Colagene ’05 Mahmoud A. Kallon ’05 Carmen I. Rosario ’05 Shana Collingwoode-Williams ’04 Nyree L. Keith ’02 Francine D. Ross-Roden ’04 Lehman Community Scholarship Pauline Copeland ’05 Zinoviy Khodik ’05 Helena A. Sackey ’04 Each year, the awarded scholarship or scholarships will Walter Corleto ’03 Chin W. Kim ’04 Joseph Samuels ’01 be named in honor of one or more individuals who Donald R. Coy ’04 Elizabeth D. Kotey ’05 Vivia A. Saunders ’02 have made a significant contribution through service or Andrew V. Craig ’05 Kwanghwi Kwon ’05 Jeffrey A. Shaw ’02 participation to Lehman College. Esilla Crick ’04 Regina S. Laurato ’04 Marilyn L. Shaw ’03 Ruben D. Cuevas ’04 Fernando Leyton ’02 Xavian T. Shaw ’03 Donors to the fund as well as those honored and Horace E. Cunningham ’02 Eugene Li ’02 Ijnanya Shipman-Weaver ’03 memorialized throuh the fund are listed below. Gary A. Delmonte ’03 David Lieb ’01 Joanna Sikolas ’05 The individual for whom an awarded scholarship Marie F. Des Rosiers ’04 Lavern E. Lindsay ’03 Ricky L. Smalls ’01 or scholarships is named on an annual basis will be Ronan Y. Desaque ’02 Crispino Lopez ’01 Christopher Smith ’01 recognized in correspondence with students and at an Elizabeth Diaz ’03 Leonardo Lucenti ’01 Eileen J. Smith ’05 annual scholarship recognition event. Richard L. Dicosmo ’03 Lisa M. Lucid ’02 Margaret Smith ’02 Vidour Dihal ’03 Gustavo J. Lucin ’03 Vivette A. Smitherman ’02 Lehman College Community Scholarship Tributes Sheila R. Dinkins ’04 Jack Lugo ’99 David Sosa ’01 Jerold Barnard ’94 Susan B. Morgenthau Kathleen A. Doherty ’04 Elizabeth Luna ’05 W. R. Taylor ’05 Elizabeth Cuttino Beverly Nygreen Cheryl Drechsel-Orlandi ’04 Rosalina Luongo ’05 Denise D. Thorne ’04 Migdio A. Dominguez ’98 Glen T. Nygreen Estelle M. Dutchin ’04 Deborah Manzano ’05 Gabriel F. Tirado ’02 Robert Johnson Jane ’69 and Fred D. Phelps Eric F. Eigen ’02 Nadiuska Maria ’05 Emanuel J. Torres ’03 Irene ’70 and Jacob Judd Rosemarie and Leonard Rockower Elizabeth Ellington ’01 Dorina Martinez ’03 Shajuana A. Townsend-Asse ’01 James Kearns Anji Sun Celia M. Eslampour ’01 Evelyn I. Martinez ’03 Vivian B. Tran ’05 James R. Kreuzer Duane A. Tananbaum Nicholas M. Esposito ’05 Pedro Martinez ’04 Paul J. Trapani ’01 Paul G. Kreuzer Millie Wheeler Kathleen E. Estes-Milano ’05 Gennsily Matias ’05 Jean Joseph E. Ulcena ’05 Joseph M. Magdaleno, Sr. Serena R. Eteng ’04 Andrea V. McDonald ’04 Shobi Varghese ’02 Tarshica J. Evans ’05 Joseph B. McElligott ’04 Gregorio A. Velez ’02 Godwin C. Eze ’01 Denise McLarty-Fox ’04 Fa Wang ’05 Victor M. Fabal ’03 Angelique C. McMichael ’05 Kenneth Whitter ’01 Dene T. T. Hurley William Seraile Celia V. Fagan ’01 Bertram Meade ’04 Suzan B. Williams ’03 Thomas W. Ihde Ijnanya Shipman-Weaver Yvonne R. Feliciano ’02 Antonia Melton ’05 Nicholas Wilson ’05 Nathan Joseph Carol M. Sicherman Aida G. Feliz ’04 Teeka K. Minott ’02 Irene ’70 and Jacob Judd* Petra A. Silva Kashae Ferguson ’01 Glenda Miranda ’02 Friends of the Library Donors Elias Karmon Ellen Simms Charity G. Ferris ’04 Maria D. S. Molina ’03 Gladys M. Aborchie-Idlet ’97 John D. Kelly Kenneth P. Stein ’93 Nazriet Fesehaye ’02 Shanel C. Monroe ’04 David Andre Martin J. Kelly Ernest Strom Barbara D. Flam ’05 Roxana Montanez-Smith ’05 Charles A. Casale ’74 Donna Kirchheimer B. Lorraine Stuart ’72 Marvin N. Fleming ’03 Janina M. Morones ’05 Steven Assifuah Yoo Kyun-Ran Irving R. Stuart Reuben L. Flowers ’01 Darmy E. Mota ’03 Ara J. Bahadourian Julian D. Laderman Stanley F. Taback Ainsworth J. Foster ’02 Judith Murphy ’01 Bank of New York John J. Lally, Jr. Duane A. Tananbaum Althea Fuller ’05 Leonore B. Murray ’05 Keith Bartfeld Lehman College Association for Patricia J. Thompson ’73 Alshams A. Gallion ’03 Lois M. Murray ’01 Carl J. W. Becker ’87 Campus Activities Constance C. Usera ’96 Charles B. Gallo ’01 Nicole N. Nesbeth ’04 Robbie C. Benitez Galina Letnikova Barbara E. Warkentine ’82 Laura A. Gandia ’01 Cristyan D. Nevers ’04 Antoinette Blum Ralph Lucena ’98 Nazlin B. Warner Susan J. Garber ’01 Sharon M. Newby ’03 Frank K. Boateng Robert L. Lundberg William Waters Alberto F. Garces ’02 Kelly M. Nicholas ’03 Gaby Brown ’98 Margarita Luque Sara B. and Albert K. Webster Francena Garcia ’01 Elaine Norford ’01 Geoffrey Cabat Annelen C. Madigan ’95 Esther I. Wilder Jemmiel A. Gardner ’01 Jose A. Nunez ’01 Jose Corporan Tanya Marcial Charlynn A. Willis ’97 Yoseph T. Gemta ’02 Evelyn Nwabuzo ’05 CUNY Research Foundation Jose Mateo Mariann Pezzella Winick Robert Gerardi ’02 Caritas Nzeyimana ’05 Marcus V. Daugherty Joseph A. Middleton Marianne P. Winick Hector L. Gonzalez, Jr. ’05 Lydia C. Obasi ’04 Frances A. DellaCava Philip Misliore Sandra D. Green ’02 Ann P. O’Connor ’05 Gerard F. DePaolo Valentine Ngufor Gifts have been made honoring: Patricia Griffin ’01 William Ortiz ’03 Harold J. Diamond Christine M. O’Rourke ’76 James V. Bruni Clement B. Grose ’04 Harry Pakiakis ’01 Deborah I. Dunkley Donald Ojo Billy Collins Efigenia Guevara ’04 Jaime Pena ’02 Ricardo R. Fernández Steven A. Ostrow John Corigliano George L. Guzman ’03 Jannice E. Penalba ’05 Madeline Ford Kathleen J. Parreno Ricardo R. Fernández Larry R. Hall, Jr. ’05 Wendy A. Perez ’03 Philip I. Freedman Anthony V. Patti ’80 John K. Hilliard Sandra A. Hall ’04 Jacqueline G. Philibert ’05 Paul P. GaNun Barry C. Pearce ’70 Elias Karmon Corrie Hazel ’05 Marlene Pichardo ’05 Jemmiel A. Gardner ’01 Bob Perkins Leonard Lief Lauren E. Henriquez ’04 Diana R. Pico ’05 Anthony Garro Esther R. Phillips Glen T. Nygreen Ivel O. Henry ’05 Kristin M. Picone ’05 Carol Kachuen Gee Deborah Pines ’97 Sorosh Roshan Edward Hernandez ’02 Roseanne Pinto ’02 Joseph Gordon Susan Polirstok Anne Rothstein Ann Marie S. Hing ’02 Tony B. Plata ’03 Marlene Gottlieb Irwin H. Polishook The Rothstein Family Victoria F. Holmberg ’03 Nelson L. Proano ’03 Michael A. Greer Dawn Powers ’99 Rosanne Wille Daniel J. Hughes ’04 Celso Quinones ’03 Margaret M. Groarke Kathleen G. Quinn-Miller Nelson Igie ’02 Tunde-Sadat Ra El ’01 Leslie Gueno Joseph W. Rachlin Gifts have been made in memory of: Brenda Irizarry ’03 Carlos M. Ramos ’03 Kwang H. Ha William J. Rider, Jr. Frederick L. Callahan Tracy L. Jackson ’04 George Ribadeneyra ’04 Dona L. Hamilton Martha Rodríguez ’91 Ann E. Chlebnikow Jonathan M. James ’05 Savel M. Richards ’04 Murray Hausknecht Irwin I. Rofman Michael J. Duffy Tameka S. Jarrett ’04 Jeffery D. Rieck ’03 Marsha S. Heiman ’66 Salvatore M. Romano José L. Fernández Marchese Andrea Johnson ’05 Nadeen E. Robinson ’02 Beryl F. Herdt Arcides Rondon Charles Greenberg Ethel Johnson ’01 Peter A. Rock ’04 Maria Herencia Joanne Rosado Edwin Kramer Jeffrey W. Johnson ’03 Joselina Rodriguez ’02 Katherine B. Hickey ’92 Sonia Rosado ’00 Herbert H. Lehman Morning H. Johnson ’04 Norma C. Rodriguez ’05 Mercy L. Hidalgo Enrique Sagaldo Ruth Ann Lief Sonia V. Jordan ’05 Vicky S. Rodriguez ’04 John Mauk Hilliard Pamela Scheinman Rose M. Moehring Gina Joseph ’02 Christopher R. Romaine ’02 Anne Humpherys Frank M. Schonfeld ’90 Rosemarie Rockower Silvia Juarez ’04 Rafael Rosado, Jr. ’03 Lydia Hunter Nydia R. Senquiz ’98 Eugene A. Spatola

*Donors with an asterisk have contributed for five consecutive years or more. 15 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A• l•umni • • • •N • ew• • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A Man of Vision, Steve Sloan (’81) Sees with His Heart Alumni Notes 1969 Dr. Michael Klausner, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pitt–Brad- ford has been inducted into the Pitt-Bradford Athletic Hall of Fame. Dr. Klausner, a sociol- ogy and psychology major at Lehman, earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and began teaching at Pitt-Bradford in 1976. Throughout his career, he has been involved with the intellectual and academic develop- ment of student athletes and has incorpo- rated athletics into his lessons. A confirmed Yankees fan from his days growing up in the Bronx, he auditioned as a young player at an “open tryout” for the Philadelphia Phillies. That experience led him to appreciate the complexity and sacrifice made by athletes in professional sports and the skills they need to succeed.

1972 Bill Grossman, who earned both his bach- elor’s and master’s degrees in art from Leh- man, has retired from teaching and moved Steve Sloan (r) and Tony Danza, surrounded by a sea of smiling faces in the gym at PS 102. with his wife, Helene, to Chesterfield, Va., where he continues his pastime of making s Steve Sloan (’81) sprints across the lot about leadership and how we work together collectible fishing lures. His work, which PS 102 gymnasium among his fifth- and shape ourselves up. Even though he can’t has won several awards, begins with hard- Agraders, it’s almost impossible to see, I think of him as a very artistic person. He woods like mahogany, maple or walnut and believe he is completely blind. But Sloan has can picture us even though he can’t see.” incorporates a range of materials, from an- never let that fact become an obstacle. He has Early on, Sloan wanted to help people tique glass to guitar picks. Experts say his spent over 20 years teaching physical education with special needs. He came to Lehman as lures capture both folk art and the creative experience. As Grossman told the Richmond and was recently chosen to carry the Olympic a SEEK student and majored in therapeutic Times-Dispatch, however, the real test of his Torch in Italy. recreation—one of only three blind students on art form occurs in the water. “I pride myself “I like what I’m doing because of the campus at the time. on the fact that my fishing lures really catch children,” says Sloan. “I’m able to mold them He went on to earn his master’s in adapted fish,” he says. and develop them from pre-K on up to the physical education and physical education in Barbara M. (Sardinas) Roberts teaches in a sixth grade. It’s like a family.” sports and is also thinking about pursuing a small elementary school in New Jersey. She Raised in various group homes and Ph.D. in education or psychology. “I am always has taught all grades, from pre-kindergarten to high school English and was also a writer orphanages, Sloan didn’t have a conventional in tune with how the mind works,” he says. and editor for several publishers. She’s at- family, but this fact did not stop him from Recently, Sloan appeared on “The Tony tending nursing school at night because “I aggressively pursuing his goals. After turning Danza Show” after his school was chosen for a guess I’m just a professional academic at 18, he moved into Associated Blind Housing in gym makeover. PS 102 received a rock-climbing heart.” About the public acclaim for her for- Manhattan but soon decided to leave because wall and money for new equipment, as well as mer teacher, Distinguished Professor of Eng- lish Billy Collins, she writes that she always the atmosphere was “too handicapped” for 500 sneakers for its students. knew he would “rock the literary world.” him. He eventually settled in Parkchester That appearance opened the door for Sloan and never looked back. “I like being with to travel to Italy to carry the Olympic Torch, a 1974 everybody. I like to party, and I like to mingle.” trip sponsored by Samsung. “That was a very Charles Celauro, who earned his master’s With his students, Sloan is stern and successful trip,” Sloan recalls. “It gave me a in elementary education from Lehman, is demanding. But his booming voice has a gentle sense of power and happiness.” ◆ the new principal of Sacred Heart School in Yonkers. Celauro initially taught in the pa- edge, and the students know he is genuinely rochial school system before moving into concerned about their welfare. Mark your calendars for Lehman’s next the public schools, where he rose to the po- “We really wouldn’t come to the gym if he Family Day event on Saturday, October sition of principal at PS 9 in the Bronx, as wasn’t here,” says one 11-year-old, whom Sloan 7, 2006. That’s when alumni and their well as later in Highland Falls, N.Y., and at calls “sweet chocolate.” (Sloan gives playful MS/PS 111 in Queens. Retiring from public kids can enjoy a day of special activities school education, he began a new career in nicknames to each one of his students.) “He’s on campus. As the date gets closer, check the Catholic schools, first as principal at St. fun, but if you don’t listen to him, he becomes the website for more information (www. John the Evangelist School in White Plains strict,” the girl adds. lehman.edu) or call Barbara Smith at and now at Sacred Heart. Her 12-year-old friend, whom Sloan calls 718-960-8975. “macaroni and cheese,” says, “He teaches us a

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Annual ‘Climbathon’ Honors Alumni Notes Hero John D’Allara (’78) 1974 ore than 500 Cub Scouts and Boy Joseph Zeolla, who owns a hardware store in Ardsley, N.Y., always loved the theatre when Scouts found a special way to salute he was a student at Lehman and has been Mthe memory of New York City Police pursuing that interest in community pro- Department rescue specialist John D’Allara ductions. Among the roles he’s successfully (’78), who died on 9/11 rescuing victims from taken on at the Irvington Town Hall Theatre the burning second tower of the World Trade is the part of Bellamy, one of the fathers in “The Fantasticks,” and that of Nathan De- Center. The Scouts took part in the second troit in “Guys and Dolls.” annual John D’Allara Climbathon at the Mount Allamuchy (N.J.) Scout Reservation, organized 1975 by D’Allara’s Lehman classmate Dean Hoffman, Harry Jakubowitz (B.S., accounting) has head of a Cub Scout pack in nearby Montville. been elected Treasurer of Curtiss-Wright Hoffman told The New Jersey Herald that Corporation in Roseland, N.J. Besides man- aging the company’s worldwide tax func- D’Allara “attributed most of his success to his tion, he oversees its treasury and risk man- career in scouting.” In his job with the city’s elite agement functions. Jakubowitz joined the Emergency Service Unit, D’Allara made many firm in 2002 as Director of Taxes and has rescues rappelling down bridges and tunnels. been instrumental in structuring numerous Carol D’Allara—who met her husband acquisitions and reducing the firm’s effec- tive tax rate. Before that, he was Vice Presi- while she, too, was studying at Lehman—said dent of Taxes and Treasurer and Assistant the Scouts were “the foundation of his service Secretary of General Semiconductor, Inc., to others.” At the first climbathon, she made and had earlier been Director of Taxes and

it to the top of the 30-foot rock-climbing wall. Photos courtesy of The New Jersey Herald/Kelly Hill. Copyright, NJH, 2005. Used with permission. Assistant Treasurer of General Instrument Her son, Nick, did as well—three times, in Corporation, a multinational cable equip- fact. Other family present included John’s twin ment manufacturer. He earned an M.B.A. in tax from St. John’s University. brother, Daniel, and the couple’s older son, John, 11. 1977 All proceeds from the events are being used Patricia (Rogers) Alelov (B.A., psychology) to help pay for a new climbing wall that meets Mom, Carol D’Allara, records the moment as has been promoted from Coordinator of new Boy Scouts’ standards. The current wall her son, Nick, 7, works his way to the top in Non-Credit Programs to Assistant Director of Continuing Education at the West Essex must be replaced by 2010, at a cost of $60,000. ◆ honor of his father. campus of Essex County College in New Jer- sey. She is working toward a master’s degree in administrative science at Fairleigh Dick- inson University.

In Memoriam 1978 Michael F. Nocito has been elected Vice Alumni ate students, including science teachers, he served for President of Administration and Planning 1987 many years as the College’s pre-medical and pre-den- of the Newsprint Division of Bowater Incor- Firoozeh Khazrai (B.A., music), who taught Persian tal advisor, helping numerous Lehman students attain porated, a leading producer of newsprint, at Princeton University, died last July after a two-year admission into professional programs and embark on coated mechanical and specialty papers. Pre- battle with brain cancer. She was devoted to her stu- successful careers in these fields. He joined the Lehman viously, he was Vice President–Controller of dents and continued to teach throughout her illness. faculty in 1968 and retired in 1995, returning as an ad- the company, headquartered in Greenville, Khazrai, who grew up in a politically tumultuous Iran, junct until 1996. S.C. He holds an M.B.A. from the University saw her brother imprisoned for political opposition to Dr. Matthew Kerner, Assistant Professor of Health Sci- of Connecticut. the Shah and sought refuge in the arts, especially mu- ences, died on March 18, 2006. An expert in exercise sic. She was studying music when Iran’s fundamentalist physiology and childhood obesity, he joined the faculty 1979 Islamic government shut down all universities in 1980. in 2002 and established the College’s human perfor- Shain Bard (M.F.A.) won first place for Although the universities later reopened, the music de- mance laboratory. He also designed a new degree pro- her “Sunset Series #1” in the 30th Annual partments did not. Khazrai changed her major to Eng- gram in exercise science. Juried Fine Arts Exhibition and sale at the lish language and literature, one of eight languages she Mills Pond House Gallery in Saint James, eventually learned. In 1986, she and her husband came Dr. Richard L. Larson, Professor of English Emeritus N.Y. The show was sponsored by the Smith- to the United States. Besides her degree from Lehman, and former Associate Dean of Education and Dean of town Township Arts Gallery. Bard, who Khazrai earned an M.A. in musicology from City Col- Professional Studies, died on Jan. 20, 2006. As Dean, lives, paints and teaches in Westbury, N.Y., lege and enrolled in Princeton in 1990 as a doctoral stu- he helped to guide the College through the difficult has received numerous “Best in Show” and dent in that field. financial period that began in 1975 and enabled it to awards of excellence for her landscapes. Her move forward afterwards. His early research analyzed work has been included in many gallery ex- Faculty discourse structure at the sentence and paragraph lev- hibitions, as well as in corporate and private Dr. Julius Golubow, Associate Professor Emeritus and els. His later work focused on writing curricula and as- collections. former Chair of Biological Sciences, died on Nov. 1, sessment. He began teaching at Lehman in 1973 and Continued on page 18 2005. Besides teaching both undergraduate and gradu- retired in 2003. ◆

17 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A• •l umni• • • • N• ew• • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Love Found at Lehman Alumni Notes Comforts Military Family in Wartime 1980 James Curcio (M.S., recreation education), hen Steven and Janet Rivera met at who directs physical education and athlet- Lehman in 1990, they had an instant ics at Franklin K. Lane School in Brooklyn, rapport. Now married with three is also the varsity boys’ basketball coach at W children, they have forged an unshakable bond the Wheatley School in Mineola, N.Y. He recently achieved a significant coaching over the years that milestone: his 200th career varsity basket- has helped them cope ball victory. The win came on January 30 in with Steven’s recent Wheatley’s overtime defeat of Locust Val- deployments in Iraq. ley. His first win was during the 1985-86 They met on season when he was coaching varsity bas- the first day of ketball at Transit Tech High School in New York City. class, as Janet was familiarizing herself 1997 with the campus. Henry Vázquez (B.A.), a writer and pro- “It was love at first ducer for WCAU/NBC in Philadelphia, won sight,” she says. They an Emmy last year for “Individual Achieve- spent many happy Above: ‘Love at first sight’ ment in Writing in Promotions.” Vázquez, at Lehman. Right: Steven who majored in mass communication at times in the Student on tour in Iraq with PFC Lehman, started his career at WB11 in New Life Center, the gym Maynard (l), who’s from York City and attributes his success to the and taking classes Wisconsin, and, below, collaborative environment at WCAU. He together. Even when is married to fellow Lehman alum Joanna reunited with his children. Janet transferred to Deleón. They met when both were officers in CASA (the Campus Association for Stu- another college after her first year, the two South dent Activities). Bronx natives continued their relationship and eventually married. 2000 In 1994, the couple moved to Puerto Rico so Fatima R. Vásquez, along with more than she could be closer to her family. While there, government center. Although he was fortunate 470 Navy reservists, was mobilized from not to have confronted insurgents, on one the Naval Expeditionary Logistics Support Steven joined the National Guard and shortly Force Charlie, based in Williamsburg, Va., afterwards went on active duty in the Army. occasion he was dangerously close to a suicide and deployed to Iraq and Kuwait. Her unit Although he was sent to Kuwait in 1996 and car bomber, and also lost one of his friends in is working directly for the Army to provide Iraq in 2003, Steven’s most recent tour of duty in combat. He returned to his Columbus, Ga., home a combat service support mission, relieving Iraq was the most difficult for both him and his this January—just in time to celebrate his 34th Army personnel as part of a scheduled force family. “I got depressed a couple of times,” says birthday with his family, who threw him a party. rotation. Their primary mission is cargo handling, including vessel on- and off-load- Steven, who was stationed in Bacuba for one year While Steven was deployed, Janet did her best ing, as well as yard operations. starting January 2005. “I would find any means to protect their children from the horrors of war to call home. Once I called, it made my day.” and assuage their fears that their father would not Eli Yamin (M.A.T.) is the Director, Piano, “At the time he left, we were all devastated and return. “I tried not to watch the news as much, at the Middle School Jazz Academy, which scared,” says Janet, whose father fought in World especially around the kids,” she says. “Our relief is the first formal instrumental instruc- was hearing his voice and chatting with him on tion program of “Jazz at Lincoln Center.” War II, “but we hoped and prayed for the best.” Thirteen New York City students from Steven prepared for the reality that he might not the computer.” fifth through eighth grades were chosen to return by buying a house, preparing his will and As a military family, the Riveras always have be part of the tuition-free Academy. They life insurance, and making a videotape of his to be prepared for the possibility of Steven’s work with a faculty composed of acclaimed goodbyes for Janet and their children, ages 13, deployment, which he says will be more than professional jazz musicians who are equally 9 and 4. “People questioned why he would go likely in the near future. Janet admits the qualified as educators. Yamin, an alumnus of the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, was Musi- to such extremes,” Janet adds, “but being in the uncertainty of military life is difficult to handle, cal Director for the tenth anniversary tour Army, you never know what can happen.” but so far they have weathered the challenges by of Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Ladies.” Steven says this last tour was something he facing them together. A long-time teaching artist with the Lincoln had to do. As part of the Third Brigade, Third “It’s like people say, the Army will either break Center Institute for the Arts in Education, Infantry Division, he spent most of his time on you or make you,” she says, “and so far, it has he is a jazz pianist, composer, educator and made us stronger.” ◆ broadcaster. He co-founded the New York- patrol and monitoring the Iraqi police in the based Jazz Drama Program and created and continues to perform “The Magic and Me- Weddings chanics of Jazz,” an interactive jazz educa- Andrea Selena Eder (M.A., health education and promotion, ’02) was married on July 17, 2005, to Leonard Steven tion program initially presented by Young Salis. She is an instructor in health education at Queensborough Community College, an independent fitness Audiences New York. instructor and a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her husband is an associate at a midtown law firm. They met on the Long Island Rail Road, and their first conversation, she told The New York Times, “was more like catching up with an old friend than meeting someone for the first time.”

18 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A• •l umni• • • • N• •ew • s• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Abdel Salaam, One of Lehman’s First Dance Majors, Alumni Notes Becomes a Creative Force in His Field 2001 ust two days before Abdel Salaam Rafael Jiménez (B.A., anthropology) has was scheduled to report for active taught history in the New York City public school system and also used music to teach duty in Vietnam, he received his J ESL (English as a Second Language) through acceptance letter from Lehman College. a program called “Los Cumbancheros,” Not only did his enrollment at Lehman which began at MS 391 in Region One of the save him from the draft, it also helped Bronx. He is the first director of the program Salaam find his true calling, ultimately at PS/MS 15 and also dean of the elementary propelling him into a career as a dancer, school there. In 2004, he published a book of poetry, Captured Thoughts. choreographer and co-founder of his Ana Rodríguez is a Business Specialist at own dance troupe. Bank of America. At Lehman, she majored in “I had no intention of being a accounting and interned at both the Bronx dancer,” says Salaam, who graduated Small Business Development Center and the The company performs “Express Way” (2005). from the High School Metropolitan Transportation Authority. At of Music and Art and the SBDC, she says she received “the best entered Lehman as He has served as a choreographer for professional and personal support anyone could ever receive from their employer and television programs like “Expressions in a SEEK student. “I coworkers.” She met with small business wanted to be a jazz Black: Story of a People” (WABC), “The owners at every stage of their development, saxophonist. I wanted Caribbean Music Awards” (BET) and “Great from start-up to maturity, and was promoted to be Coltrane.” He Performances” (PBS/WNET). In the 1990s, he to the position of business counselor, which gave up on the idea received two Choreographer’s Fellowships from gave her the opportunity to meet with vari- ous New York bankers who represented dif- after being told he the National Endowment for the Arts and also Abdel Salaam ferent nationalities and cultures. Those pro- would have to play a became a movement specialist for the NEA, a fessional connections later helped her in her more orchestral instrument, like viola, in order lifetime appointment. job search. Most importantly, she adds, her to specialize in music at his high school. In 1981, Salaam, together with his education at Lehman and her involvement He spent his freshman year at Lehman professional partner, Olabamidele Husbands, with the SBDC “empowered me to move on searching for a discipline that really excited and his wife, Dyane Harvey, founded Forces of to bigger and better experiences in life.” him. Then, while jogging along the reservoir for Nature Dance Theater. The company, which 2004 physical education class, he met Professor and has performed in Europe, Africa and all over Patrick Scanlon is the facility manager and choreographer Joan Miller, who asked him if the United States, celebrates its 25th anniversary “ice engineer” at the E.J. Murray Memorial he’d ever thought about being a dancer. this year. Skating Center in Yonkers. He uses his ex- “She told me she was starting a dance “A strong part of the repertoire is about perience from playing and coaching hockey program at Lehman and asked if I would ecology and the environment,” says Salaam. to help maintain a perfectly clean sheet of consider dancing professionally,” says Salaam. “We stress the importance of living in harmony ice—despite the outdoor temperatures—at the semi-enclosed rink. He was skeptical at first but then decided to with nature and using dance as a vehicle for consider her offer. It didn’t take much for him social reform. The arts are one of the greatest 2005 to get hooked and he went on to become one tools of social enhancement and human reform Harold Harris (B.S., music) has remained of the College’s first dance majors in the new that we have.” The company also uses dance to busy as a musician and educator. He toured Bachelor of Fine Arts program. explore the history and cultures of peoples of the West Coast over Christmas, teaching a master class at the University of California at After just two years of training, Salaam the African Diaspora. San Diego, and recently finished a week at the was offered a spot with the Alvin Ailey Dance Salaam credits much of what he has learned Iridium Club with Mose Allison. This spring, Company but chose to remain in school and about his craft to Lehman’s Joan Miller, whom he will be taking part in the Jazz Month Cel- follow his own artistic vision. In 1973, he left he calls his “dance mother.” He adds that the ebration in Monterrey, Mexico, at the invita- Lehman to take a position as a member of the curriculum at Lehman covered such a broad tion of the American Consulate there. Harris Chuck Davis Dance Company and as Davis’s range of dance, from ballet to West African, was born in Indianapolis (not San Francisco), as previously reported in Lehman Lightning that it provided him and fellow students with a assistant in the National Artist in the Schools (Summer/Fall 2006), and has taught music Program, a program funded by the National very rounded, philosophical view of the field. at New York University and Mannes College Endowment for the Arts (NEA). “Lehman was just an amazing experience for (not Rutgers). During his career, he has held a string of me,” says Salaam, who entered college during Ann Layvey (B.A., biology) has been accept- impressive jobs in professional dance, including both the civil rights movement and the black ed to the University of Pennsylvania School principal dancer with the Joan Miller Chamber power movement. “I was a young character of Dental Medicine and awarded the Dean’s Arts/Dance Players; associate artistic director being impacted by all of these things, and Scholarship. This award—given to a very small number of highly qualified and talented dance and the arts became the through line for of the Chuck Davis Dance Company; guest individuals—provides a grant equal to one- artist with the American Contemporary me. I don’t think I would have had the same half of the annual tuition for all four years of Ballet Company; and guest artist with the experience anywhere else.” ◆ dental school. ◆ Contemporary Chamber Dance Theater.

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he Lehman College Art Gallery this tives organized by the Arts for Transit program spring is presenting “Bronx Bound,” an through a competitive process. The exhibition Texhibition featuring 27 new MTA pub- includes drawings, studies, installation photo- lic art projects planned for train stations along graphs and related materials and runs through the 2, 4 and 5 lines in the Bronx. May 16. After that, the works will be included These permanent, site-specific projects are as part of the gallery’s website, “Public Art in being commissioned as part of the MTA’s capi- the Bronx,” which features over 100 public “Reaching Out for Each Other” by Juan Sánchez. tal program to rehabilitate stations in the tran- projects. Included in the exhibit were works 176th Street Station, #4 line. sit network. Artists are selected by a panel of by Lehman alumni Lisa Amowitz and George arts professionals and community representa- Crespo. ◆

LISA AMOWITZ (M.F.A., ’98) chairs the Art and Music programs at Bronx Com- munity College. In her work as an artist, she often uses images drawn from nature to make statements about herself and the human condition. With a background in graphic design, she says she never really considered herself a “fine artist” until she studied at Lehman, even though she had “A Trip Up the Bronx River, 2004” by Daniel Del taken numerous figure-drawing classes. Valle. 174th Street Station, #2 and #5 lines. “Lehman helped me connect with my ar- tistic voice,” she says, “and helped define me as a fine artist.” The work she undertook for the MTA came out of the events of 9/11 and focuses on “rebuilding, renewal and hope.” Conveying her belief that “nothing can really destroy the human spirit,” it is entitled “What We Build Is Not Permanent; We Are Not What We Build.” Above: The artist, who was pregnant while she was studying at Leh- man, visited the exhibition and showed her new work to her daughter, Rebecca, who’s now 9.

GEORGE CRESPO (M.F.A., ’01) loves the fact that he is teaching sixth-grade art in the middle school he at- tended as a child. “I feel that I’m giving back to my La- “Homage, 2006” by Joseph D’Alesandro. 219th Street tino community,” he says. In fact, because he is also an Station, #2 and #5 lines. author and illustrator of children’s books, some of his work is even in his students’ textbooks. Children’s lit- Because of an increase in printing and mailing erature from different parts of Latin America inspires costs, only one copy of Lehman Lightning is being mailed to alumni households. If you his art, including his project for the MTA. Left: The would like to receive an individual copy, please artist and his work, “Latin American Stories,” soon to email [email protected] be displayed at the Freeman station on the #2 line.

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