1920s 1940s C STANLEY KRIEGEL / RUTH SHAPIRO / STERN an interactive workshop, STERN ’29 / recently cel- ’47, STEINHARDT ’73 / Writing Letters That Land ebrated his 100th birthday was recently interviewed Interviews, for the NYU in his Brooklyn home with on the online radio talk School of Continuing and numerous family members show howigotmyjob.com. Professional Studies. and friends. This past summer she led L 1950s

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN / Developmental Medicine his eighth “Teacher of STERN ’55 / was reap- and Dentistry (AADMD). the Year Award” from the A pointed to his fourth term The AADMD bestowed this third-year residents-in- on the board of trustees of award on Dr. Waldman in training at the Los Ange- the Fashion Institute of recognition of his contri- les County-USC Medical Technology. bution in promoting and Center, where he is an at- advancing oral health care tending psychiatrist in DR. H. BARRY WALDMAN to the Special Needs the clinic. He is also a / WSC ’55, DEN ’58 / Community. Clinical Professor of Psy-

S received the 2010 Lifetime chiatry at the University Achievement Award from WALTER A. CHAMEIDES, of Southern California the American Academy of MD / WSC ’56 / received Medical School.

S 1960s

ELLIOTT BROWN / University of Paris, the ture, has just published an STEINHARDT ’61 / was University of Madrid, Pur- entertaining page-turner, recognized at the Rocky due, and UMass, earning Double Trouble: A Mountain University of PhDs in both French and Ryan/Lehrer Mystery Health Professions 21st Spanish. As a writer, he’s (CreateSpace). Annual Electroneuromyo- published 17 books, includ- graphic Symposium as one ing scholarly works, col- ROBERT LIMA / GSAS NOTES of the physical therapy pi- lections of short stories, ’68 / authored Dark I L L

oneers in electroneu- plays, and a forthcoming Prisms: Occultism in Discover how their U S T R romyography. novel. Hispanic Drama (Universi- crisis, emotional pain, A T I O N

ty Press of Kentucky), and hopelessness turn C O U R

BARNEY POPKIN / WSC STEVEN HOROWITZ / which has been rereleased around. For more informa- T E S Y

’64 / helped provide LAW ’66 / was selected in paperback. tion, and an excerpt N Y U

training to 2,500 Afghan for inclusion in Super from Chapter 1, “Locked A R C H I farmers to improve pest Lawyers 2010. He prac- TOM BARBAGALLO / ENG Up,” visit V E S control, crop export po- tices in business, mergers '69 / co-authored Res- www.YolandaTom.com tential through confor- and acquisitions, estate cued: A True Story of En- mance to Good planning, and estate ad- during Love (Wine Press). JULES OLDER / GSAS Agricultural Practices, ministration. In this compelling true ’69 / created an iPhone Triple Tier Standards, and love story, a New York application called San farm income. JIM LACEY / GSAS ’68 /, City couple struggles Francisco Restaurants. who retired from Eastern through conflict, a drug The app is part of Sufro JAIME E. MARTINEZ- Connecticut State Univer- overdose, and elopement. Media and was selected TOLENTINO / ARTS ’65, sity in 2003 after 45 Next, the bride is arrested as a “Staff Favorite” by GSAS ’66 / studied at the years of teaching litera- after a move to Vermont. Apple. WHERE IT ALL BEGAN 1970s NYU’S INAUGURAL CLASS WAS HELD IN CLINTON HALL ON SEPTEM- THE LATTER PROVED TO BE THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, OFFERING BER 26, 1832. LOCATED IN WHAT IS NOW LOWER DOWNTOWN, AT LIBRARY PRIVILEGES TO THE EARLY SCHOLARS. BUT IT WAS ALL NASSAU AND BEEKMAN STREETS, THE BUILDING ALSO HOUSED BOTH SHORT-LIVED; THE UNIVERSITY MOVED UPTOWN TO THE MORE JERRY MARTY / WSC THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN AND THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY. BUCOLIC WASHINGTON SQUARE IN 1835. ’70 / earned an MBA from the George Washing- authored the book The Fa- RICHARD NOLAN / FRANK TOMASULO / agogical publications, and ton University in 2009 cade Reliefs of Orvieto STEINHARDT ’73 / TSOA ’73 / was selected organizational advance- and was recently desig- Cathedral (Harvey Miller married his partner of to be the first recipient of ment related to teaching. nated a “Top Doc” by Bal- Publications). 55 years, Robert Ping- the University Film and timore magazine in its pank, in June 2009 dur- Video Association’s Teach- GARY LAWSON / LAW ’74 November 2009 issue CHRISTOPHER FITZ- ing their 50th class ing Award. He received the / was honored as a recipi- recognizing physician PATRICK / WSC ’73 / reunion at Trinity College honor for lifetime contribu- ent of the American Air- leaders in 76 specialties. has joined the firm in Hartford, CT. The serv- tions to classroom teach- lines Veterans Initiatives Smith, Gambrell & Russell, ice was the first of its ing, curricular develop- 2009 Community Citizen- ANITA MOSKOWITZ / IFA LLP as counsel. kind in the Trinity College ment, mentoring of col- ship Award.

’71, GSAS ’78 / Chapel. leagues and students, ped- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 51)

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A JOHN B. POINDEXTER / STERN ’71, ’76 S S

NOTES The Final Battle

by Sally Lauckner / GSAS ’10

OR RETIRED U.S. ARMY CAPTAIN JOHN ity of their fellow soldiers. became a civilian again on POINDEXTER, MARCH 26, 1970, MARKED HIS A few months later, the flight back from Viet- Poindexter returned to the nam.” It was not until 2003 F TROOP’S MOST CRUCIAL DAY IN THE VIETNAM United States, to NYU, that Poindexter would War. He was stationed in another unit of 100 Ameri- Regiment, on a perilous where he clipped through suddenly find himself South Vietnam, accus- can soldiers with dwindling rescue mission. Fighting an MBA in a year, and be- confronted by a flood of tomed to grueling living ammunition was surround- through dense jungle, A gan a part-time PhD pro- memories from that mo- conditions, relentless heat ed by Vietcong, Poindexter Troop successfully drove gram in 1971. “I took the mentous rescue—and a and humidity, and the bur- made the fateful decision to back the enemy—though uniform off and I never startling realization that den of constant vigilance. lead his troop, part of the outnumbered three to put it back on again,” he would send him off on a After receiving news that 11th Armored Cavalry one—and saved the major- remembers. “I probably new mission, this time for P H O T O S : L E F T © H A R A Z N . G H A N B A R I / A P P H O T O ; R I G H T C O U R T E S Y C A P T . J O H N P O I N D E X T E R

FORTY YEARS AFTER THEIR VIETNAM SERVICE, RETIRED U.S. ARMY CAPTAIN JOHN POINDEXTER AND 86 FELLOW SOLDIERS FROM THE 11TH ARMORED CALVARY REGIMENT WERE FINALLY HONORED IN A CEREMONY WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA IN 2009.

50 / FALL 2010 / NYU recognition. dier’s Medal, among oth- one,” Poindexter says. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 49) writes a column for the While reading Keith er honors. Ever determined, he HARRY G. MELKONIAN Huffington Post that can William Nolan’s Into Cam- Poindexter immediate- instead decided to seek a / LAW ’74 / received a be found at www.huffington bodia (Presidio), Poindex- ly resolved to procure mil- prestigious Presidential PhD in law from Macquar- post.com/kimberly-butler. ter came across a summary itary decorations for all the Unit Citation that would ie University in Sydney. of a battle that, although deserving men. As the sole recognize all of the men. WILLIAM LASHER / unnamed, was unmistak- owner of J.B. Poindexter The centerpiece of the ap- SOL FISCHLER / TSOA LAW ’78 / joined Nixon ably the one he and his & Co., a Texas-based plication was a manuscript ’77 / was nominated for a Peabody, LLP as senior troops had fought. The manufacturing company he had written three New York Emmy Award in counsel and as a member book mentioned that the and the largest producer of decades earlier, which the category of Editor: of both the Corporate medals Poindexter had re- commercial trucks in the contained a detailed de- Short Form. Trust and Securitization & scription of the combat. Structure finance teams. (He’d originally submit- NATALIE ROBINSON In 2003, a startling ted it to the military jour- GARFIELD / STEIN- DEE MERIAN / STEIN- realization sent nal Armor, but it had been HARDT ’77 / wrote The HARDT ’78 / released a rejected due to length.) Sense Connection: Dis- new book, The Best Years Poindexter off on a After updating it with covering How Your Five of Flying: A Memoir of new mission, this time photographs and recollec- Senses Determine Your Howard Hughes & TWA tions from some A Troop Effectiveness as a Per- (Headline). for recognition. veterans, Poindexter self- son, Partner, and Parent published the book, titled (iUniverse). DAVID A. THURM / LAW quested for his men back United States, Poindexter The Anonymous Battle, in ’78 / became the chief in 1970 had been rejected was able to foot the bill for 2004. That same year, he SHALOM GOLDMAN / operating officer for the due to a bureaucratic er- all the research necessary submitted the required STEINHARDT ’77, ’86 / Art Institute of Chicago ror. The vast majority of for such a huge undertak- documentation for the ci- authored Zeal for Zion: after spending 27 years A Troop had gone with- ing. He set about tracking tation, including the Christians, Jews, and the at The New York Times. out recognition for more down A Troop and com- book. Poindexter esti- Idea of the Promised than three decades. “I was piling their accounts of the mates that he spent more Land (UNC Press). ANN BURKHARDT / mortified,” Poindexter battle. Unfortunately, he than $100,000 in printing STEINHARDT ’79 / was says. “I failed in my duty discovered that a signifi- and travel expenses for A ROBERT PENN / WSC awarded the New York to men whom I owed so cant number of the men Troop. ’77, STERN ’79 / found- State Occupational Ther- much.” Adding to his em- were either deceased or After an agonizing four- ed Robert Penn Produc- apy Association’s first- barrassment was the fact unable to clearly recollect year wait, the Secretary of tions in 2003 and has ever President’s Award. that he had been heavily their actions, while others the Army approved the worked on projects in She is currently serving decorated for his tour, re- lacked witnesses to sub- troop’s citation in 2008. Dankawali, Sierra Leone as director of the online ceiving two Purple stantiate their claims. “We And, finally, Poindexter and Newark, NJ. master’s degree in occu- Hearts, a Silver Star, two recognized it would be im- and 86 fellow soldiers were pational therapy at Quin- Bronze Stars, and a Sol- possible to honor every- honored in an emotional KIMBERLY SARA K. nipiac University in ceremony at the White BUTLER / TSOA ’78 / Hamden, CT. House Rose Garden last year. President Obama gave an “inspired speech,” Poindexter says, and sever- al men told him it was the 1980s most important day of their lives. “I saw them all MARK LEONARD / IFA ment lawyers by Human dressed up smartly and in ’80 / has retired as sen- Resource Executive formation,” he recalls. “I ior paintings conservator magazine. felt overwhelming pride.” of the J. Paul Getty Muse- He also felt that the day um in Los Angeles. STATON RABIN / TSOA was bigger than the sol- ’80 / launched Jump diers present. As he notes, STEPHEN LINDO / LAW Cut Script Analysis “[These men were] repre- ’80 / joined the firm Vir- (www.statonrabin.com), a senting an entire generation tual Law Partners, LLP as service for screenwriters of Vietnam veterans who partner. Lindo was re- that combines practical,

IN 1970, POINDEXTER LED A HEROIC, THOUGH QUICKLY had not been honored for cently named one of the no-nonsense screenplay FORGOTTEN, RESCUE MISSION IN SOUTH VIETNAM. their service.” nation’s top 50 employ- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 55)

NYU / FALL 2010 / 51 KELLNER (LEFT), REPRESEN- C TATIVE OF THE UPPER EAST

L SIDE AND ROOSEVELT ISLAND IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY,

A RAN FOR OFFICE AS AN OPEN- LY BISEXUAL CANDIDATE. S

S the backing of the local Democratic establishment NOTES and an endorsement from then-Senator Hillary Clin- ton, he won with nearly 65 percent of the vote. As a legislator, he has shined a light on disabili- alumni profile ty rights. “[Those with disabilities] are invisible to MICAH KELLNER / TSOA ’01 a lot of people,” Kellner notes. “Until a disability affects you or your family, you think of it as some- P H

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D confident that he can E Z make it law one day. “In N 2007, THE CAMPAIGN OF MICAH KELLNER troller Bill Thompson, this city and state, it’s hard FOR THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE HAD- among others. Almost enough to get around if overnight, the film student you’re an able-bodied I N’T EVEN STARTED AND YET HE WAS ALREADY turned politico. person,” he says. holding a critical message York history, representing capped accessible and sup- His innate political acu- Kellner has also staked meeting on a surprisingly a swath of the Upper East ported the fight for gay men impressed Brice Peyre, out a position within the convoluted issue. Was Kell- Side and Roosevelt Island. marriage. But his focus is at deputy chief of staff for U.S. LGBT movement and ner gay, straight, or bisexu- However, his biography is least as broad as his district’s Congresswoman Carolyn pushed to legalize gay mar- al? One friend in the field all the more exceptional concerns, and the junior Maloney, who represents riage in New York. “I was said, “You should just be when one considers his rel- legislator has been praised Kellner’s district and is an- a member of the legisla- straight.” That would be ative youth—he’s a mere by The New York Times for other former boss. “He’s an ture for 14 days when I weird, Kellner replied, be- 31—and how he came into his work on transparency unusually good listener,” got to vote for marriage cause he’d been with men politics, as an activist for in government. Peyre says. “He’s able to take equality,” he remembers. in the past. Okay, you’ll be disability rights and LGBT Kellner characterizes his the pulse of his district or a Despite the bill’s failure in gay, another friend suggest- rights. At a young age, the foray into politics a decade room of people. It allows the New York State Sen- ed. Also weird because Warren, New Jersey, na- ago as “a happy accident.” him to figure out what’s re- ate, Kellner is steadfast that Kellner was then living with tive was diagnosed with As a BFA candidate in film ally concerning them.” one day it will be a cele- a woman. Someone else ad- cerebral palsy and under- and television, he was While on Maloney’s brated accomplishment. vised him to state: “While went years of physical working as boom operator staff as the community liai- “Every civil-rights move- I’ve had sex with men, I therapy and numerous sur- and sound technician on son, the Assembly seat on ment has had their set- don’t identify as being gay,” geries. He now walks with student films, including the Upper East Side backs, and when they’ve Kellner recalls, adding, a very slight hitch, but one that was eventually ex- opened up when Alexan- had those setbacks, they’ve “Which is like saying ‘I’m without prior knowledge panded to become the in- der “Pete” Grannis was ap- come out stronger for it,” openly in the closet.’ ” In an observer would never die feature Raising Victor pointed to Eliot Spitzer’s he says. “This is coming.” the end, he decided to run guess his illness. His per- Vargas. Uninspired by in- administration. “We have If Kellner sounds like a campaign as one of the sonal life—his sexuality and ternships in the entertain- a tradition in this neigh- an activist, that’s because very few bisexual candi- disability—has become a ment industry, Kellner borhood of electing peo- he still believes he is: dates in the country. And major part of his profile in looked for a job with an ple at a younger age,” says “Running for office is an he won. Albany. In three short years elected official. He in- Kellner, who was encour- extension of being an ac- Micah Kellner is now in office, he’s pushed legis- terned in Senator Charles aged by Peyre and others tivist. Now I have a title the first and only openly lation to make all New Schumer’s office and to run. “It didn’t seem in- on a letterhead and can de- bisexual legislator in New York City taxis handi- worked for NYC Comp- conceivable to me.” With mand a place at the table.”

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A Legacy That Makes a Difference

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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51) SUSAN CROWN / GSAS MARK MARCANTANO / pointed managing director MARY ANN LYNCH / evaluation with an action ’83 / was appointed vice STERN ’84 / has been and general counsel-Amer- TSOA ’87 / is featured in plan for getting the star chair on the USC Shoah named executive vice icas for Barclays Capital in Big Island Journey: An Il- or director of their choice. Foundation Institute’s president and chief oper- New York. He was previ- lustrated Narrative of the board of councillors. ating officer of Women & ously managing director Island of Hawai’i (Mutual BANTA WHITNER / SSSW Infants Hospital of Rhode and global general counsel Publishing). ’80 / wrote This Congru- VINCENT N. SCHIRALDI / Island. for Barclays Global In- ent Life: A Spiritual Ecolo- SSSW ’83 / was appointed vestors in San Francisco. TRYSH TRAVIS / GAL ’87 gy Practice (Outskirts commissioner of the de- MARGARET VAN / authored The Language Press). partment of probation by HOUTEN / LAW ’84 / has LOIS H. GOODMAN / LAW of the Heart: A Cultural Mayor Michael Bloomberg. been recognized by Best ’86 / was appointed as a History of the Recovery DIANE SCARANGELLA / Lawyers in America 2010 U.S. magistrate judge for Movement From Alcoholics STEINHARDT ’81 / has MICHAEL LAMPERT / in tax law, employee bene- the District of New Jersey Anonymous to Oprah Win- earned a nationally recog- LAW ’84 / was elected fits, and trust and estates. in March 2009. frey (UNC Press). nized credential in the Fellow of the American She was also named Best grants field. Conferred by College of Tax Counsel. Lawyers’ Des Moines ROSEMARY ANN COLLEEN DUFFY / LAW the Grant Professionals Trusts and Estates Lawyer ROTONDI / TSOA ’86 / ’89 / was unanimously Certification Institute, Inc., DAVID LEFKOWITZ / of the Year. has been an archival film confirmed by the NY State the credential recognizes TSOA ’84, ’86 / moved to and photo researcher/ net- Senate as a justice of the tenure in the profession, Northern Colorado and is SHARON ELIZABETH work news researcher for NY State Supreme Court education, achievement, co-publishing the Perform- SARKISIAN / STERN ’85 documentary filmmakers, in the Ninth Judicial Dis- and a commitment to both ing Arts Insider theater / released Étonné and artists, and writers since trict of New York. public and private philan- journal, editing Total Eclatée: Cari Chesterfield 1986 (www.archivalfilm thropy. Theater.com, writing a and the Pirate, Book II, research.com). TERRI JO GINSBERG / monthly art column in the a sequel to her first book: GAL ’89, TSOA ’97 / pub- THOMAS SIPOS / TSOA Long Island Pulse, and Tender Trysting: Cari JEFF HERTZBERG / MED lished her third book, an ’82 / authored Horror Film teaching playwriting at the Chesterfield and the Coat ’87 / released his second encyclopedic volume titled Aesthetics: Creating the University of Northern Col- of Arms, Book I (both Xu- bread cookbook, Healthy Historical Dictionary of Visual Language of Fear orado. He also has a come- lon Press). Bread in Five Minutes a Middle Eastern Cinema (McFarland). dy/talk program, Dave’s Day (Thomas Dunne (Scarecrow Press). Gone By, now on the Web MICHAEL L. CROWL / Books). at davesgoneby.org. LAW ’86 / has been ap-

NYU / FALL 2010 / 55 CLARK HAS SPENT MORE C THAN SIX DECADES DIVING WITH SHARKS AND L TROPICAL FISH. A

S cal fishes, she’s received nu- merous awards, including S the Explorers Club Medal NOTES for her extraordinary life- time contributions in ex- ploration and scientific research. She’s discovered more than a dozen new species of fish, written three books and more than 170 articles, and taught for 32 years at the University of Maryland, College Park. Although officially retired since 1992, Clark hasn’t slowed down. She travels frequently for lectures, conferences, and expedi- tions—and nothing can keep her out of the water. In fact, at 88, it’s easier for Clark to dive than it is to walk; the water’s buoy- ancy frees her of her hip problems and the cane she uses. This past summer, she went cage diving in South Africa with Great Whites, which she calls “white sharks”—as though they’re not the man-eating mon- alumni profile sters from Jaws. “I don’t feel you even need cages if EUGENIE CLARK / GSAS ’46, ’50 you know how to handle the sharks,” Clark says. C O

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Y reached out to brace it.) She’s always been too in- HE TALE OF HOW EUGENIE CLARK FELL IN More than 5,000 dives trigued by sharks to be LOVE WITH THE OCEAN READS LIKE THE later, Clark, known as “the scared of them, so rather Shark Lady,” is a world- than fleeing from 50-foot T LITTLE MERMAID IN REVERSE. ONCE UPON A renowned ichthyologist whale sharks, for example, time, a then 9-year-old er worked at a cigar and put my nose as close to the who was inducted into the she rode on their backs at Clark spent each Saturday newspaper stand in the glass as possible and pre- International Scuba Div- three knots. “People have watching the fish and tiger lobby of the nearby Down- tend that I was under the ing Hall of Fame earlier big dogs with giant teeth, sharks at the aquarium in town Athletic Club. Clark sea with them,” she says. this year. Throughout her but they’re not afraid be- New York’s Battery Park, longed to be part of the “I thought, ‘Someday I’d 60-year career studying cause they understand while her widowed moth- sharks’ world. “I used to like to dive with them.’ ” deep-sea sharks and tropi- them,” she explains. “But

56 / FALL 2010 / NYU people don’t understand search scientist. sharks. They’re like any This journey is chron- 1990s other animal; it’s just that icled in her 1969 book, some of them are so big The Lady and the Sharks they can be dangerous.” (Peppertree Press), up- CONSUELO HERNÁNDEZ member of the senior VITALEM ALRICHE / In the late 1950s and dated and rereleased this / GSAS ’90, ’91 / management team. STEINHARDT ’96 / is early ’60s, Clark per- year with a foreword by authored Voces Y Per- teaching music in Montre- formed groundbreaking famed oceanographer spectivas En La Poesía THYAHARAJ MANOHA- al and traveled to Haiti lab experiments in which Sylvia Earle, who notes Latinoamericana Del Siglo RAN / TSOA ’94 / earned during the summer she conditioned lemon that Clark was one of XX (Visor Libros). an MA in media and pro- months as a volunteer. and nurse sharks to press a only two female students fessional communications target to obtain food. Her at Scripps Institution of DIANA ESTIGARRIBIA’s from Fairleigh Dickinson EVELYN FURSE / LAW beloved sharks proved Oceanography “at a time / TSOA ’91 / play Help University in Hackensack, ’96 / was honored with that they’re not “dumb when science was hardly Wanted was a short-listed NJ, in 2010. the Dorothy Merrill Broth- eating machines” or considered an appropri- finalist for the BBC Inter- ers Award for the Ad- “mindless creatures that ate career choice for a national Radio Playwriting ANNE FITZPATRICK vancement of Women in couldn’t think things woman.” Among Clark’s Competition in 2009. DONAHUE / STERN ’95 / the Legal Profession. out.” They were even able many aquatic adventures has been named senior to discriminate between regaled in the book is the GERARDO SANTIAGO / vice president and wealth CLARK WILLIAMS / targets of different shapes time she was nearly car- DEN ’91 / and his prac- management adviser at SSSW ’97 / was selected tice, Children’s Dentistry the Private Client Reserve as the 2010 Social Worker of Naples, were awarded at U.S. Bank. of the Year for Santa the Southwest Florida Clara County, California. Parent and Child People’s KENNETH JEDDING / P H O

T Choice Award. STEINHARDT ’95, SSSW SARAH BROKAW / SSSW O ©

D ’10 / authored Higher Ed- ’98 / released her first A V I D EILEEN MULLOY / ucation: On Life, Landing book, Forty-tude: Five D O U

B STEINHARDT ’92 / was a Job, and Everything Else Defining Values for Your I L E T

/ hired as senior vice presi- They Didn’t Teach You in Next Decades (Voice). N A T I O dent of sales and market- College (Rodale). N A L

G ing for Hollywood.com. RUSSEL FRANCISCO / E O G

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C LAW ’93 / received the chief product officer for group of Wolff & Samson K American Library Associ- House Party, a leading PC. IN THE EARLY 1970S, CLARK STUDIED “SLEEPING SHARKS” IN THE CAVES OF ISLA MUJERES, OFF MEXICO’S YUCATÁN ation’s James Madison consumer and experien- PENINSULA. THE RESEARCH LANDED HER ON THE COVER Award, which honors indi- tial marketing company. SHANNON O’BOYE / OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE. viduals or groups who CAS ’98 / joined the com- and colors. No one had ried away by a giant have championed, pro- KIRSTEN REED / GAL mercial litigation group of tested the intelligence of crab—13 feet across—af- tected, and promoted ’95 / authored The Ice Quarles & Brady, LLP in large sharks before, so the ter he wrapped his legs public access to govern- Age (Picador), which was its Chicago office. Office of Naval Research around her at a depth of ment information and the short-listed for the Com- awarded Clark a series of 140 feet. But she says that public’s “right to know” monwealth Writers’ Prize LOUIS R. PIZANTE / grants, which helped to her most thrilling under- on the national level. and the NSW Premier’s LAW ’98, STERN ’04 / develop the one-room sea encounter was when Literary Award, 2010. successfully executed the lab she started in a wood- she dove to 12,000 feet VANESSA CAHN sale of his company, en shack on the west coast in a submersible craft and GORELKIN / STEIN- MICHAEL WILEY / GSAS Mavent, Inc. to Ellie Mae, of Florida. What began spotted a deep-sea hood- HARDT ’94 / has been ap- ’95 / recently published a a diversified mortgage with just a boat, a Jeep, ed octopus dancing out- pointed to the position of new mystery, The Bad Kitty technology and services and a fisherman at her side the window. “Now Senior Vice President, Op- Lounge (Minotaur), a story company, in his role as disposal, grew over the it’s more practical to send erations. At Planned Par- of murder and corruption chief executive officer. years into a major re- down robot cameras,” enthood Hudson Peconic, in Chicago. His book The search center now known she says. “But there’s just Gorelkin oversees all Last Striptease (Minotaur) ALICE BELISLE EATON / as the Mote Marine Lab- nothing like being eye- health-center operations won the Private Eye Writ- LAW ’99 / was named oratory, where Clark still ball-to-eyeball with the related to patient services, ers of America “Best First” partner at Paul, Weiss, serves as founding direc- fish at these great including the agency’s call Award and was a Shamus Rifkind, Wharton & Garri- tor, trustee, and senior re- depths.” center, while serving as a Award nominee. son, LLP.

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JOANNA DOLGOFF / sor at Seton Hall Universi- CONSTANTINE SAMRAS RACHEL STERNE / CAS Reputation In- S MED ’00 / wrote Red ty School of Law since / WAG ’04 / completed a ’05 / was selected to be a stitute. In her S Light, Green Light, Eat 2007. In 2009, Goldberg postdoctoral fellowship member of the 2010 fel- free time, she NOTES Right: The Food Solution received the inaugural with the Climate Decision lowship class of the Ameri- curates and That Lets Kids Be Kids ACLU of New Jersey Legal Making Center at Carnegie can Democracy Institute’s manages a (Rodale). Leadership Award. Mellon University and is Women’s Leadership blog on prod- now an energy policy re- Program. uct displace- ALBERTO GABRIELE / DONYSHA SMITH / TSOA searcher with RAND Corp. ment (product GSAS ’00, ’06 / authored ’01 / wrote and directed JONATHAN RABIN / LAW displacement Reading Popular Culture in All About Love, a modern ROBERT ATCHESON / ’06 / joined Sherin and .tumblr.com), which has Victorian Print: Belgravia multimedia experience SCPS ’05 / was recently Lodgen, LLP as a litigation been featured in Adweek, and Sensationalism (Pal- that combines live theater, elected president of the associate. Wired UK, and PSFK. grave Macmillan). film, music, dance and newly created national more into a single narra- peak representative body TAMMY ROBINSON / JEFFREY YIP / WAG ’08 JOHN OLESKE / LAW ’00 tive piece about love in all for international students SSSW ’07 / has been pro- / and YEOUCHING HSU / / was appointed counsel in its fabulously unpre- in Australia called the moted to treatment team CAS ’00 / were married the litigation department dictable forms. Council of International leader for the residential on April 25, 2009. Their of Herrick, Feinstein, LLP. Students Australia. He is program at Presbyterian wedding was held in Man- JASON STONE / LAW ’01 currently completing his Children’s Village. hattan’s Chinatown. MATTHEW PITT / GSAS / was recognized by Best Juris Doctor degree at the ’00 / authored a collection Lawyers in America 2010 Australian National LISA M. VALLETUTTI / DINA GOLD / GAL ’09 / of short stories ti- in tax law. He is a share- University. CAS ’07 / and JASON completed her Gallatin BA tled Attention Please Now holder of the Davis Brown CHARLES AQUINO / with a colloquium topic on (Autumn House Press). Law Firm in Des Moines in KRISTIN HALPIN / TSOA ’08 / were engaged the cultural impact of the business law division. STEINHARDT ’05 / has on December 24, 2009. technology on creativity. JESSE E. STECCATO / joined the engineering The two will be married on She is currently working in TSOA ’00 / is starring in DAVID WILKES / SCPS firm O’Brien & Gere as a November 4, 2011 on Long account management at the film Brotherhood, ’02 / has been elected communications specialist. Island. Facebook and recently which made its world pre- chairman of the Appraisal joined the Young Profes- miere at the 2010 SXSW Foundation, based in LAURA HYNES / SSSW GLADYS SANTIAGO / sionals Steering Commit- Film Festival last March. Washington, D.C. ’05 / is a contributor to STEINHARDT ’08 / is cur- tee with the Advertising Cutting-Edge Therapies for rently an analyst at the Club of NY as well as EMILY GOLDBERG / LAW JORDAN KAYE / LAW ’03 Autism 2010-11 (Skyhorse). Nielsen Company and con- NYU’s Young Alumni ’01 / has joined the firm of / co-wrote How to Booze: ducts freelance media Leadership Circle. McCarter & English, LLP Exquisite Cocktails and analysis work for the as pro bono director. She Unsound Advice (Harper). had been a visiting profes-

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

LORRAINE AMMERMAN SAN ANTONIO / WSC ’32 HYMAN BOGEN / WSC ’51 BARBARA BACCI MIRQUE / STERN ’82

DOROTHY I. HEIGHT / STEINHARDT ’33 ORA COHEN / STEINHARDT ’54 LISA P. FOSTER-DEBLOIS / WSUC ’83 ELIZABETH SCHMIDT TALKE / STERN ’37 DONALD E. PAGE / WSC ’66 MARCY FARKAS SHARKEY / CAS ’94 DOROTHY BOVE / STEINHARDT ’41 PAUL GLENN JR. / STEINHARDT ’69 LEE JENNINGS / TSOA ’02 HELEN CHINOY / WSC ’43, GSAS ’45 ISRAEL HICKS / TSOA ’69 ALEJANDRO BULAEVSKY / NONGRAD ’05 RONA RAPHAN SCHPEISER / WSC ’44 JAY STEINBERG / DEN ’72, ’84 BRIAN CHRISTOPHER HALL / TSOA ’05 RENEE R. STONE / ENG ’46 ELAINE LESTER / NUR ’73 FRANCIS LUI / FRIEND EDITH SHAIN / STEINHARDT ’47 FREDRIC WOODBRIDGE WILSON / GSAS ’78 ROBERT T. MORRISON / FACULTY

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WHY PHOTOGRAPHER SAHAIYA ABUDU (TSOA ’11) SNAPPED THIS SHOT THE FIRST WEEK OF FALL CLASSES AS STUDENTS BUSTLED IN AND OUT OF THE BRAND-NEW NEARLY 24,000-SQUARE-FOOT BOOKSTORE, WHICH FEATURES A THINK COFFEE AND BLEACHERS FOR BOOK READINGS. “WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN, GETTING MY BOOKS WAS EXTREMELY OVERWHELMING,” THE SENIOR REMEMBERS. “BUT THE NEW STORE IS DEFINITELY A LOT MORE ORGANIZED AND EFFICIENT, SO IT’S ONE LESS THING TO BE OVERWHELMED ABOUT.”

—Renée Alfuso

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