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2 SPRING 2004 . Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE In April the college renamed a plaza and a building in honor of two extraordinary graduates. The plaza outside Rosenthal Library has become the Edwin M. (’63) and Judith Cooperman Plaza, and B Building now carries the name of 1942 graduate Virginia Frese Palmer. President James Muyskens noted that “A Jefferson Hall makes a statement about what a college aspires to, but a Cooperman Plaza and a Frese Hall boast of a shared achievement: a college that prepared a student, and a student who used that preparation to accomplish remarkable things. We are honored that their names are now a permanent part of Queens College.” Inset: Judith, Edwin, and daughter Dori Cooperman at the dedication ceremony for Cooperman Plaza. Above: Virginia Frese Palmer and President Muyskens on the porch of Virginia Frese Hall. “Queens College turned me from an introvert afraid to speak my mind into an activist, a feminist, and a real believer in helping others. I am so grateful,” Palmer said. Q THE MAGAZINE OF

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THIS ISSUE: A professsor and his students unearth the early history of Queens, while a graduate and his wife record the stories Dear Alumni and Friends, of the borough’s latest settlers. Can turn this into a ? Email allows us to keep you informed about timely issues and announcements without the college incurring prohibitive postal Piecing Together the History of a Great costs. In the near future we hope to periodically email you about American House ...... 4 items such as alumni activities, chapter developments, news high- By John Cassidy lights, and other information I know you will find interesting. I

Traveling the World – assure you that we will not overwhelm you with announcements In Queens ...... 6 or make your email information available to anyone else. By Jacquelyn Southern

QC News ...... 8 To send us your email address, go to www.qc.cuny.edu/QC_ Foundation/ and click on the Register for Email button to the left From Flushing to Hollywood: and complete the form. Jay Wolpert ...... 10 By Jacquelyn Southern While you’re on our Web site, I invite you to look around to see the Alumni Notes ...... 12 wealth of information available there. For a quick snapshot of the college today, go to www.qc.cuny.edu/about/, and then check out Vol. IX, No. 2, Spring 2004 our interactive map—www.qc.cuny.edu/Map/—to see how the col- lege has changed since you graduated. And don’t forget to go to the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Maria Terrone Alumni page where you will find the latest on chapter doings and

EDITOR upcoming events, and have an opportunity to send us the latest John Cassidy information about yourself for use in future issues of Q magazine.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Dyanne Maue

STAFF WRITER Jacquelyn Southern

DESIGNER Georgine Ingber Jim Muyskens President Cover: Professor James Moore at the House in Flushing.

Photos: All photos by Nancy Bareis except p. 4 Susana Bates; p. 5 Adrian Partridge; pp. 6-7 Warren Lehrer; pp. 8, 16 Silhouette (b+w), p. 11 courtesy Jay Wolpert.

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. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 3 (L-r) Student archaeologists Jeffrey Gordon, Erica Manney, Frank Feeley, and Professor James Moore display some of the artifacts found near the foundation of the Bowne House. Piecing Together the History of a Great American House By John Cassidy

he Bowne House in Flushing— archaeological digs at the house in an exhi- change in over the last 350 the oldest house in Queens, and bition at the Flushing Library. Entitled years,” says Moore, an expert on patterns Tperhaps the oldest in the city—is New Perspectives on the Bowne House: of human settlement in Queens from the rich in American history. Its first occupant, Archaeological and Architectural 17th through 19th centuries. He himself John Bowne, is famous for his defense of Research, 1997Ð2003, the show gave the became interested in archaeology when, as religious freedom. Bownes were involved public an opportunity to view maps, histor- an undergraduate at Brown University, he in the founding of the New York Stock ical documents, and research related to the took a course taught by a charismatic pro- Exchange and the Bank of New York. house. Also on exhibit were some of the fessor, James Deetz. After a couple of digs, Walter Bowne was mayor of New York thousands of artifacts the team unearthed: he was hooked. Moore received his PhD from 1829 to 1833, and Robert Bowne was shards of early serving platters, porcelain from the University of Massachusetts at a founder of the Manumission Society. And cups, and a doll; Native American arrow- Amherst and continued to go on digs as two American presidents—Lincoln and heads; Delft tile; and a high-caliber, unfired nearby as Brookhaven and Shelter Island Ford—have Bowne blood in their veins. bullet cartridge from the 1860s that was and as far afield as Sweden and Ireland. This past February Anthropology Chair wisely handed over to the NYPD. Moore’s involvement with Bowne James Moore and his students presented “Bowne House offers a unique opportu- House began in 1997 when borough histo- the results of six years of research and nity to examine issues related to social rian Henry Ludder, a trustee of the Bowne

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 4 House Historical Society, called the college temporaries, owned slaves. It has long been since 1947, is working to reopen the house. and asked if it would be interested in doing known that Bowne had two slaves and an It plans to transfer ownership to the city research. Moore saw a great opportunity: indentured servant. But recently unearthed and is seeking an affiliation with the “For many of our students, a trip out of artifacts lead Moore to believe Bowne may Historic House Trust of New York (HHT). state or overseas to do a dig is just too have owned a number of slaves. By partnering with HHT, the house will expensive. But with Bowne House, they How can he tell? Something as simple had the chance to take part in a historical as a porcelain Chinese cup speaks vol- archaeological dig minutes away from umes. “To own a fine porcelain cup meant campus.” Moore created a field methods you had considerable wealth,” Moore says, course that met at the house each Friday of and that kind of wealth in the 1600s most the fall semester for a full day of digging. likely was produced in part through the The digs have attracted enthusiastic labor of slaves. “These slaves are not just students for seven years. Besides finding helping out in the kitchen,” Moore artifacts, students discovered that the believes. “They are out in the fields, plant- kitchen was a structurally independent addition, not the oldest section of the house as had been believed. They also found an intact capped well that dates from at least the 1830s, and a cobble-paved area that could have been an early greenhouse. Excavation will resume this fall on the south side of the house, says Moore, who expects the work to continue for several years. “Once the south side work is done, then stabilization and reconstruction of the house can proceed,” he explains. “No con- struction work has taken place since the 1930s—and that work did more harm than good by introducing moisture between the walls and the foundation.”

he Bowne House, at 37-01 Bowne Street, was built around T1661 by John Bowne, who settled in Flushing when New York was under Dutch rule. In 1662 Governor ordered Bowne arrested for Views of the Bowne House as depicted by J. Milbert in 1825 (top) and today. allowing Quakers to hold meetings in his house (Bowne’s wife was a Quaker, and ing, harvesting, and creating wealth.” have access to both the trust’s services and Bowne himself was a convert). Refusing to This interpretation is in line with recent city and state funds. The society plans to pay a fine for his offense, Bowne was scholarship that points to a larger slave raise $700,000 in private donations, at deported to Ireland “as an example to population in Queens than previously which point it could receive matching others.” The English-born Bowne eventu- thought. “Indeed,” Moore says, “from 1690 funds from both the city and the state. ally made his way to Amsterdam and to 1790 about a third of all households in Moore plans to be working at the house pleaded his case to the Dutch West India Flushing had slaves.” with students for the foreseeable future. Company, who were the financial backers “The work we are doing now,” he notes, of the Dutch colony in the New World. owne House was occupied by “is required under federal and state law to Bowne won, and his famous defense of members of the family and their make sure no historical or archaeological religious freedom helped establish princi- Bdescendants up until the 1940s. features are destroyed when a historical site ples that became part of the Bill of Rights. Listed on the National Register of Historic is being restored.” The Bowne House reflects the contra- Places and designated a Although the city will own the house, dictions of American history. It can rightly Landmark, Bowne House is considered one the society will continue to own the collec- be seen as a symbol of liberty thanks not of the best preserved examples of Anglo- tions and be responsible for administering only to Bowne’s defense of religion, but Dutch architecture in the nation. It has, the house’s educational programs. Now a also for later generations of Bownes who however, been closed to the public since member of the board of trustees of the were active in the abolitionist movement. 2000. It is estimated that it will cost about society, Moore hopes to help develop those Today the Bowne House is a stop on the $2 million to restore the house. programs. A major challenge will be bal- Flushing Freedom Mile Historic Trail. The Bowne House Historical Society, ancing the Bowne legacy as slave owners Yet John Bowne, like many of his con- which has operated the house as a museum and abolitionists.

. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 5 I am sitting on a wooden crate on a cargo flight to somewhere, I have“ no idea where. It is very cold in the plane and dark. I am cargo. I am secret. My angel is a Russian pilot named Melanov. The plane lands—where I honestly do not know. ÐIdeda Antosi, on his flight from assassins in Nigeria”

Traveling the World Ð In Queens

By Jacquelyn Southern

A Nepali dancer in the ancient Charya Buddhist tradition whose room is so small that he rehearses by visualization . . . a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who escapes assassination concealed as cargo on a flight to JFK, then seeks political asylum but spends two years in a detention center . . . a traditional Afghan woman found and rescued from a refugee camp by her Westernized daughter in New York . . . a gay couple who flee homophobic death threats in Colombia but find safety here by coming out of the closet . . . two Egyptian brothers who were urban pio- neers in a once desolate stretch of Astoria but now face gen- trification and upheaval.

A new book on Queens is getting rave on that boulevard. A parallel hazardous reviews—as are the companion CD and crossing is that from home country to the exhibition. Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, United States. Then there is Queens itself, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America which Lehrer describes as “a crossroads of (Norton, 2003) represents an innovative the world.” collaboration by Warren Lehrer ’77 and his Lehrer is a writer, photographer, and wife Judith Sloan. Together they have designer, and Sloan is an actress, oral his- elicited the stories of 79 recent immigrants torian, and audio artist who shapes new to Queens, creating striking, often moving compositions from recorded words and collages of words, music, and images. sounds. For over three years they explored The central metaphor for the project is Queens, asking new immigrants how they “crossing.” The boulevard in question, of got here and what they found on arrival. course, is Queens Boulevard, where so Many of their stories, recorded in first-per- many have been struck or killed while try- son narratives, represent spliced-together ing to cross its twelve lanes. Indeed, the fragments that Lehrer and Sloan gathered project features several individuals whose over time, with deepening trust and friend- lives have been changed by injury or death ship. These stories leave indelible impres-

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 6 Ford Foundations plus help from organiza- sions of real individuals, speaking frankly Such prodigious output is hardly new tions like the Lawyers Committee for about life-shaping experiences—war, for Lehrer, the award-winning author of Human Rights, Elders for the Arts, and repression, discrimination, want. eight previous books combining his own Queens Public Library. The book is a tour de force of oral histo- writing, photography, and design. An asso- ries, photographs, graphics, and innovative ciate professor of art at SUNY Purchase, Meanwhile, the book has had an impact page design. The CD, available with the he is also a member of the graduate faculty on the people it features, especially Amy hardcover edition of the book or separately, at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Li, who was exiled from China because of comprises interview-based audio composi- where he teaches in the Designer as Author her involvement in the banned Falung tions, new music composed by Scott program. He describes himself as a book Gong movement. She showed the book to Johnson, and international music per- artist, with special interests in how texts United States Consulate officials, persuad- formed by people in the book. The exhibi- and images are related. “One of the things ing them to allow her daughter into this tion, which was at the Queens Museum of I’ve been developing is the relationship of country. Art from December 14 through March 28, the human voice to the printed word, or The project isn’t over yet. Lehrer and consisted of photographs, text, and sound how to deal graphically with two or three Sloan hope to see the exhibition and kiosk stations, as well as a traveling kiosk where or four different voices, visually as well as travel widely, and are developing a theater visitors could record their own stories. structurally,” he says. “Photography works piece based on the exhibition. “We want to (Selected images and a sound station will its way in with that.” extend the repository of stories,” says be at New York University’s Bronfman Ironically, however, the sympathetic Lehrer. “We learned a lot. It’s become a Center from April 14 through September eye on Queens is new. Lehrer, a native thoroughly transformative experience for 30.) Finally, an interactive Web site, of Whitestone and Bayside, found the bor- us.” www.crossingtheblvd.org, includes selec- ough a dull place in his youth, when And, quite likely, for the many thou- tions from the multimedia project while it was popularly identified with Archie sands who have experienced Lehrer and offering visitors another opportunity to Bunker. As an undergraduate, he says, Sloan’s work. record their personal experiences. “I didn’t really want to be in Queens These efforts have earned “Crossing the anymore,” but was inspired in his art stud- BLVD” important recognition and much ies by the late Professor Louis Finkelstein. media attention. The book won the 2003 “He was a great teacher. He was open to Award for Innovative Use of an Archive my inventiveness and, in a very indescrib- from the Archivists Round Table of able way, he motivated me.” After finish- Metropolitan New York. The award con- ing his BA, Lehrer went on to earn his gratulated Lehrer and Sloan “for exploding MFA at Yale University. the paradigms of oral history and reinter- Now he and Sloan live in Sunnyside, preting them for our multimedia century.” Queens, with immigrants from around the The book also won the Best of the Best world as neighbors. Their project has been Photography Award in the 2004 New York conducted in part through their own non- Book Show, and was selected as a Best profit arts organization, EarSay, dedicated Book of the Year by Publisher’s Weekly to telling the stories of the “uncelebrated.” and the Utne Reader. It also got a boost from the Rockefeller and

One week after the July 1999 crackdown, I was“ arrested for doing my exercises in the park. The police interrogated me, but I didn’t take them seriously. I said to the policeman ‘There are other people in the same park doing Tai Chi exercises. Why don’t you arrest them? With Falung Gong exercise you move your hands up and down. With Tai Chi you move your hands side to side. ‘Is side to side legiti- mate and up and down against the law? Is this a joke?” The policeman wasn’t laughing. He said, ‘Why don’t you learn something else, like aerobics?’ ÐAmy” Li

8 Calling All QC Doctors

Dr. George Gubernikoff ’77 Bechor ’70 (MA ’75), with doctors who attended QC is a man with a mission. the help of Lauren Seiler but, he says, “That’s not an After reading in the New (Sociology), matched and exhaustive list. It’s just York Times that the $400 endowed the Outstanding scratching the surface.” increase in CUNY tuition Graduating Senior Award in If you would like to help Q was enough to keep some Sociology (which Guberni- shape the new Medical students out of college, he koff won as an undergradu- Alumni Association or add decided to take action. ate), renaming it the Joseph your name to its member- QC News Convinced that many QC Gubernikoff Award in mem- ship, please contact Alumni graduates who are physi- ory of their father. Director Joseph Brostek cians share his concern, he Thus far, Gubernikoff has at 718-997-3930 or Study Abroad approached Development a database of about 1,200 [email protected]. Director Mario DellaPina Program Expands with the idea of starting a Queens College Medical It is often noted that the world Alumni Association. He comes to Queens College as stu- hopes this will become a dents from more than 140 coun- vehicle for giving back to tries attend classes here. Now the college, perhaps thanks to new study abroad agree- through black-tie fundrais- ments, the college will be sending ers. Such efforts could more students out into the world. lead to a scholarship for a Queens has joined the College premed student as early as Consortium for International next spring. Studies, a D.C.–based partnership When his father died of of over 135 public and private col- heart disease during his leges and universities. CCIS negoti- freshman year at Queens, ates study abroad contracts with Gubernikoff set his sights overseas institutions, offering mem- on medical school, graduat- ber schools access to 80 programs ing summa cum laude with in 31 countries. induction into Phi Beta Work with CCIS is being admin- Kappa. He then earned his istered by Joan Migliori, coordinator MD at CUNY’s Mount Sinai of the CUNY/Italy Exchange at the School of Medicine, followed Calandra Institute since 1995. QC Alum to Coach St. John’s Red Storm by prestigious postdoctoral Having been involved in study Looking to restore stability to its troubled basketball program, training and board certifica- abroad programs since 1985, St. John’s University has tapped Queens College graduate Norm tion in anesthesiology, criti- Migliori knows their beneficial Roberts ’84 to lead the Red Storm for the next five years. At the cal care medicine, internal effect. “When the students come time of his hiring, Roberts was associate head coach at the medicine, and cardiovascu- back, they are more focused, more University of Kansas. His only previous experience as a head coach lar disease. A fellow of the mature,” she says. “They have a was at his alma mater from 1991 to 1995. Previously an assistant American College of Cardio- coach at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, and Illinois, Roberts is known as a global resume.” logy and an active lecturer top-notch recruiter. At the press conference announcing his hir- A second development is an and writer, Gubernikoff is ing, Roberts said he understood that rebuilding St. John’s would agreement with King Alfred’s now director of clinical car- be difficult, but promised to run a program in which character College in Winchester, England. mattered and players must succeed in their studies as well as on diac services at Winthrop Students entering this program are the court. University Hospital in advised by Maxine Fisher (English), Mineola, NY. coordinator of the CUNY/Paris Meet Queens College Gubernikoff contributes Exchange Program and director of Student Julio Penagos generously to education Ad Campaign Continues the Study Abroad Office. and, until recently, served Founded in 1840, King Alfred’s Two new ads featuring QC students debuted in the as fellowship program direc- offers a strong liberal arts program Queens Tribune, Queens Chronicle, and other weekly tor for cardiology at North- and small classes held on a beautiful community newspapers in the borough last January. University Medical campus, located in a historic cathe- School. His passion, howev- The ads highlight Julio Penagos, a future math dral city one hour from London. . Future mathematics teacher teacher enrolled in the TIME 2000 program, and er, remains his alma mater. . Member of unique TIME 2000 program “It’s a safe, small academic commu- . Receives full tuition all four years Julio Penagos came to the U.S. from Colombia when he “Queens College is at the was 15 and eventually settled in Corona. In a short time, Elena Malykhina, an aspiring journalist who interned he mastered English and excelled in math at . There, he learned about TIME 2000 a unique nity,” says Fisher. “Our students can math teacher preparation program at Queens College that provides four years of free tuition to students who commit top of the list of what I’m to teach math for at least two years after graduation. at the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels last have the experience of living on I love it here, says Julio, who turned down a soccer scholarship to attend Queens College. We have the best professors, and theyre always available to the students. respectful of and grateful Plus, Ive made friends from so many countries. Julio summer. The ads are a continuation of the student earns extra money through the colleges math tutoring club campus, but live close enough to a and is a volunteer tutor at Flushing High. to,” he says. As proof of Most social problems have their solution in education, says Julio. My education is giving me a new base on ad campaign begun last October. A new bus ad for world capital that they won’t miss which to build a dream. this, Gubernikoff and his the college was also recently launched, featuring the the cultural opportunities. It offers OUEENS COLLEGE

sister Nancy Gubernikoff CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK www.qc.cuny.edu tag line “Global Education. Great Campus. Real the best of both worlds.” For Admissions information, call 718-997-4220 Community.”

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 8 College Appoints Two New Deans Following a national search, Tamara in German and English, and a PhD in Evans (European Languages) was German literature at Ohio State. named dean of the Division of Arts She joined the college in 1980. and Humanities. Having been acting Joanne Miller (Sociology) is now dean since 2001, acting dean of Research and Evans is aware of Graduate Studies. An authority on the challenges workplace diversity, she has been facing the arts active in research and administra- and humanities, tion for over 25 years, with experi- especially the ence in fundraising and building funding crisis that cross-disciplinary cooperation. Evans has hit these dis- Miller, who joined the faculty in ciplines hard. “Values have shifted,” 1985, is a past chair of her depart- she says. “We live in a time when ment and former director of both we have to justify our presence in Summer Session and the MA academia time and again. The criti- Program in Applied Social Research. cal thinking and artistic creativity Miller earned her BA in sociolo- generated in the arts and humani- gy, MS in demog- ties are not easily quantifiable, and raphy, and PhD therefore the pressure is all the in sociology at greater.” Despite such obstacles, the University of Choreographer Yin Mei (Drama, Theatre & Dance), she notes that “We have first-rate whose work has met with critical acclaim since 1995, Wisconsin- has just won a fellowship from the John Simon departments with national reputa- Madison. Before Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “This award is an tions. That’s remarkable for a pub- coming to incredible opportunity and a true honor,” says Yin licly funded commuter college.” Queens she was Miller Mei, one of only 185 North American honorees chosen A native of Bern, Switzerland, a research scientist at the Labor- this year. Her fellowship, with its $38,000 grant, will Evans received her undergraduate subsidize research for the final portion of her theatri- atory of Socio-Environmental cal trilogy Nomad, inspired by her Asian roots. education in French and English at Studies at the National Institute of the University of Bern, with a year Mental Health, and then served as at the University of Exeter, England. director of the sociology program She earned two master’s degrees, at the National Science Foundation. Alumna Funds 15 Math Scholarships

QC Ranks #13 for Wireless Access Lilo Leeds ’48 and her husband, Gerry, recently gave An Intel survey at www.intel.com/ $240,000 to TIME 2000, the college’s innovative mathe- ranking the top products/mobiletechnology/ matics teacher preparation program. Their gift will fund 100 schools for unwiredcolleges.htm. four-year scholarships for 15 undergraduate students wireless comput- President Muyskens has preparing to become math teachers. “Mrs. Leeds feels that ing access places empasized upgrading technolo- math and science are the two areas that most need excep- Queens College gy since assuming the presiden- tional teachers,” says Mario Della Pina, executive director Leeds thirteenth-- cy in July 2002. As Senior Vice of the Queens College Foundation. “TIME 2000 not only ahead of Tulane Chancellor for Academic Affairs offers motivated students free tuition but also gives them the tools and (17), Cornell for the University System of support they will need to succeed. She thinks that is very important.” (65), and all Georgia, he directed the univer- other CUNY and sity’s investigation into instruc- Refugees from Nazi Germany, Lilo and Gerry Leeds have generously SUNY campuses. In fact, QC is tional technology and distance supported a number of educational causes and are the cofounders of several the second most wireless college learning and created the organizations, including the Institute for Student Achievement and the in New York state. Gwinnett University Center, Schott Foundation, that are active on issues concerning women and children. The survey reveals a growing sometimes referred to as the Before retiring from business, the Leeds were well known for following number of schools where stu- “bricks and clicks” campus. socially responsible policies at the publishing company they started, CMP dents have the freedom to One of Muyskens’ first techno- Media; it was, for instance, the first employer on Long Island to offer on-site wirelessly access the Internet logical improvements on the child care. In 1998, Lilo Leeds was awarded an honorary doctorate from on notebook PCs—without a Queens campus was the cre- her alma mater. traditional wired connection— ation of Bits & Bytes, an indoor “She’s interested in improving mathematics education, a subject she and stay connected whether wireless café connected to the knows a great deal about since she received a BA in math from the college,” they’re in the dorm or on the library. Students may check out campus quad. The survey, spon- laptop computers from the says Alice Artzt, director of TIME 2000. “She’s an extraordinary woman sored by Intel and conducted library for use in this soaring, who is using the benefits of her own accomplishments to provide opportuni- by Bert Sperling, can be found light-filled space. ties to others in their study of mathematics.”

. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 9 From Flushing to Hollywood Jay Wolpert By Jacquelyn Southern

Above: Jay Wolpert addressing QC students. Right: Drama Professor Charles Repole (l) was instrumental in bringing Wolpert back to the campus.

oie de vivre has played a large part in With his knack for quirky ideas and witty Jay Wolpert’s life. A self-described productions, he has enjoyed a long career “child of the projects,” he grew up as an innovative and, J Wolpert proved a natural at show business. across the street from the college in the more recently, screenwriter. His TV credits Pomonok Houses. He was a political sci- include such household staples as “The While still in college, he got his start as ence major working his way through col- Price Is Right,” and among his film credits errand boy for “Window Shopping,” a TV lege when, he says, he “wandered into the are The Count of Monte Cristo and Pirates game show based in New York. The job wrong building” and came across the of the Caribbean. was a revelation to him: “People were at Drama Department, complete with cool Early in his career Wolpert earned a work, and they were having a good time!” people in black. “Everyone was so sensi- place in TV history as the probable cause Soon he persuaded them to give him cre- tive they couldn’t eat their cornflakes in behind the famous “lost episodes” of the ative tasks, too. After college came military the morning because it reminded them of “Honeymooners.” It’s quite likely he lost service and marriage, with a brief stint dead leaves,” he remembers. He changed them. For two summers in the early 1960s writing for Canadian TV. majors, acquired his own black turtleneck, he was a junior assistant to Jackie Gleason, Before he ever became a network pro- and also met the classmate who became who put him to work cataloguing old ducer, Wolpert was a fan of game shows. his wife, Roslyn Granowitter ’65. episodes of the show. “I’m disorganized,” When he caught the popular “Jeopardy” in Since then, there have been numerous Wolpert says ruefully. “I would catalogue a mistake, he called up on-screen sightings of Wolpert in film and with a no. 7 pencil, on a Scripto pad, and Productions to object. “If you’re so smart, television but, to entertainment insiders, he frisbee the film reels into an old carton.” why don’t you come down here and try is best known as a force behind the scenes. Whatever his clerical shortcomings, out?” they answered. He did, appeared as a

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 10 contestant five times running, and won the Wolpert produced idiosyncratic and, in owever, Wolpert’s greatest writing Jeopardy Tournament of Champions. some cases, famously short-lived shows; success has come not in the famil- Wolpert’s career took off when he land- long gone from the air, they live on in fan Hiar world of television but in film, ed a job in Los Angeles as talent coordina- clubs, Web sites, and game show history. where he has been free to indulge his love tor for “The Movie Game.” Soon he was With their improbable scenarios, wacky of swashbuckling epics and witty ripostes. hired away as head of development for challenges, and cultural references from His star has been riding high since he Chuck Barris Productions, where he was the sublime to the ridiculous, they revealed wrote the script for the 2002 adaptation of responsible for coming up with ideas for the independent Wolpert to be the Ernie The Count of Monte Cristo. He followed it shows. Barris was instrumental in chang- Kovacs of game shows. “I created a differ- up by cowriting the screen story for Pirates ing game shows from genteel contests of ent kind of material,” he says. “All my of the Caribbean, for which he contributed knowledge to no-holds-barred extravagan- shows had a very strong comic element.” story lines and characters, notably Captain zas and tell-alls, beginning with shows like In the nineties, Wolpert was enjoying a Jack, whose portrayal earned Johnny Depp “The Newlywed Game.” corned beef sandwich in a deli when he an Oscar nomination as Best Actor. After six months Wolpert was asked to looked up to see Nancy Meyers standing These days Wolpert is busy writing new join the creative team at Goodson Todman over him. Now the highest grossing scripts, often with historical themes. Productions. From 1972 until 1978 he was woman director ever—with such hits as Recently he helped rewrite a script for part of a “brain trust” who worked closely Playtone, Tom Hanks’s production compa- with , another television leg- ny. It is based on the true story of the dra- end. There Wolpert helped create such matic escape in 1864 of 109 Union soldiers shows as “,” “,” and from Libby Prison in Virginia. “,” notably by infusing theatri- After years in Hollywood, Wolpert is cality into knowledge- and logic-based still warm and unaffected, a puckish racon- games. Some 20 years later he returned as teur with a marked Queens accent. He an executive producer, asked to rehab remains devoted to his wife and their two another older property, “The .” grown daughters, and is an active member of QC’s alumni chapter in southern olpert’s most notable TV tri- California. Last year President Muyskens umph may be “The Price Is attended one of their picnics and, when WRight,” a show he updated and Wolpert offered to do something for the produced for six years after CBS acquired college, he was invited to speak to students. it in 1972. “We totally went down to the Alumni Affairs Director Joe Brostek and metal and redid it,” he recalls. He intro- Charles Repole of the Drama, Theatre & duced thematic showcases and a satiric ele- Dance Department organized a lecture and, ment, using the prizes “like props in a nar- voila, students received an expert tutorial on rative.” In the Star Wars showcase, for screenwriting and show business. instance, a Corvette assumed the role of “I love filling kids’ minds. I was very Luke’s X-wing fighter while R2D2 was lucky as a young man,” Wolpert says, played by a trash compactor. “Mark because he benefited from the help of sev- Goodson let me do what I wanted,” says eral mentors. The list includes professors Wolpert, “and creatively, I had a wonderful Wolpert as president of Tau Epsilon Phi. who had a lifelong impact, especially time on ‘.’” Some of his first writing was done for a Raymond Gasper (Drama), “a wonderfully skits competition among fraternities. Still, after a few years he felt ready to Wolpert found himself up against Paul innovative and extraordinarily skilled direc- move on. “I didn’t want to just do one thing Simon ’63, who was writing for Alpha tor and teacher.” Solomon Lutnick over and over,” he recalls. “I had to find Epsilon Pi. He admits losing to Simon (History) also receives the praise of history every time. out if I could lead.” Wolpert left Goodson buff Wolpert: “He was very unorthodox, Todman to start his own company. What Women Want and Something’s Gotta but he made the history come alive. History Since its founding in the late seventies, Give—Meyers had been hired right out of is really a collection of stories, great stories Jay Wolpert Productions has been known college by Wolpert two decades earlier. if you seek them out. He understood that.” for innovation. Its shows have been picked She confronted him for not pursuing writ- Wolpert remains grateful for classes in up by all three networks, and many have ing and cajoled out of him a coming-of- music, music appreciation, and art apprecia- aired internationally. They include a wide age story he had written and tucked away. tion. “I knew nothing, and they have had variety of creative properties, from a devel- Based on an incident in his own life, resonance in my life,” he says. oped but never aired science fiction series The Year of the Brat was soon sold to Wolpert is proud of what he took from and period soap opera to ABC’s talk show MGM, launching a career change. Wolpert his studies. “If it hadn’t been for Queens— “Into the Night with Rick Dees.” began taking on assignments as a writer, where I paid not a dime and got a first-rate But to many fans, Wolpert Productions beginning with TNT’s Western cult hit education—I’d be a different person will always be synonymous with game “The Lazarus Man” and AMC’s “The Lot,” today,” he told the students at his lecture. shows, like “Whew!” and “Hit Man.” a soap opera about a Hollywood studio. “You’ll never have to show your diploma, but you show your education every day.”

. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 11 Alumni Stars in 1997. Ethel and camp. Bira and her husband, Edward has written several Jim invite old friends to get in Joseph, a retired concert violinist, volumes of poetry, the most recent touch with them at 407-302-2870; live in Goldens Bridge, NY. They being Child in the House (Canios 179 Tim Tam Ct., Lake Mary, FL have two children . . . 1960: Editions, 2001) . . . 1964: 32746 . . . 1948: Marshall Aline Euler (MS ’77), the educa- Dudley Delany earned an MA in Sweetbaum is an appellate lawyer tion director of Alley Pond Envi- psychology from the New School in Nassau County, where he has ronmental Center for 25 years, for Social Research (’67) and a had an active practice for 52 years received the Douglas MacKay doctorate in chiropractic from the . . . 1949: Al Ligotti was Friend of the Environment Award Columbia Institute of Chiropractic Q recently honored by the Athens last November. She is also a com- (’73). He is also qualified in Symphony Orchestra in Athens, missioner on the Northeast Nature massage therapy and nursing. He GA, which commissioned a bust of and Historic Preserve Commission writes: “I developed multiple him on the occasion of his twenty- and a member of the board of the sclerosis in 1991 and, over a two- Alumni Notes fifth year of conducting the orches- New York City Audubon Society. year period, gradually overcame it tra. Al is a retired associate Aline, who holds a PhD from St. using an alternative treatment professor at the University of John’s University, lives in Bayside, suggested by Edgar Cayce, a man 1941: Irwin Stein was featured Georgia School of Music, where he NY . . . Eleanor Ware is secretary many regard as the father of last fall in a segment of “The taught for 27 years after an 11-year to the Board of Trustees of Syra- modern holistic medicine. It Visionaries,” a public television stint playing with the New York cuse University, where she is senior involved diet, massage, keeping a series. He is founding executive Philharmonic under Leonard Bern- vice president for human services positive mental attitude, maintain- director of Family Services of stein. Still writing and publishing and government relations and a ing a high spiritual ideal, and Westchester, a nonprofit mental music, Al is a past recipient of the member of the Chancellor’s consistent use of an imperceptible health and social services agency. Distinguished Alumni Award from Cabinet and the University Senate. mode of electrotherapy (vibratory When it opened its doors in 1954, QC. He and his wife, Arlene, have Before going to Syracuse in 1976, medicine). I do not claim to be Irwin was the sole social worker on two daughters . . . 1952: she was a state-certified teacher cured, however, but rather in long- staff; today it employs 300 profes- Leonard Sloane is a public specializing in childhood education term remission, a remission sionals in seven locations and helps member of the New York State in New York City. Eleanor, who dependent on continued adherence 16,000 people a year . . . 1942: Board for Mental Health Practition- graduated magna cum laude and to the Cayce regimen. I wrote an Ben Wiener was honored this past ers. He lives in Forest Hills, NY was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, illustrated book about my experi- March for being an “industry . . . 1953: Fred Shapiro was obtained her MBA from Syracuse; ence, The Edgar Cayce Way of founder” by the Generic Pharma- recently inducted into the Flexo- she also has done postgraduate Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis: ceutical Industry Association. He graphic Technical Association Hall work at Harvard’s Institute for Vibratory Medicine” . . . 1966: was the founder and CEO of Zenith of Fame. He has spent most of his Educational Management . . . Dorothy Litt (MLS ’70) is the Laboratories, one of the nation’s career in the printing industry, 1961: Roslyn Muraskin is a author most recently of Names in first generic drug companies. where he is well known for his professor of criminal justice at the English Renaissance Literature “Today people don’t think twice work on safety and environmental C. W. Post branch of Long Island (Mellen Press, 2003). She teaches about generic drugs,” Ben notes. issues. Fred received a Hammer University. She is a trustee of the Shakespeare to senior citizens in “But we suffered tremendous, Award from Vice President Al Gore northeast region for the Academy Newton and Wellesley, MA. knockdown, drag-out battles with for his support of the National of Criminal Justice Sciences, and is Dorothy lives in Newton Centre, the big drug companies for our very Partnership for Reinventing Gov- also the editor of the Women’s MA . . . Edward Ray was existence. The fact that we stuck to ernment. He is the coauthor of Series for Prentice Hall. The fourth appointed presi- it and built an industry has not only recent editions of Flexography edition of her textbook, Visions for dent of Oregon saved consumers billions of dollars, Principles and Practices, and Change: Crime and Justice in the State University it has saved countless lives.” taught courses on flexography at Twenty-First Century (Prentice last June. Previ- During World War II Ben worked Baruch College and SUNY Farm- Hall), will be published later this ously he was on the Manhattan Project in Oak ingdale. Fred and his wife, Made- year. Roslyn holds an MA from executive vice Ridge, TN. After the war he entered line, live in Levittown, NY. They New York University and a doctor- president and the pharmaceutical industry. He and have three grown children . . . ate in criminal justice from the provost at Ohio his wife, Linda, live in Vancouver, 1955: Jay Bushinsky is the CUNY Graduate Center . . . State University, where he had been WA. They have two children . . Mideast bureau chief for KYW 1962: Vincent Dunn, a 43-year a member of the Economics 1943: Jim and Ethel (Clancey) Radio in Philadelphia. He has been veteran of the New York Fire Department for 30 years. Edward Doyle recently moved to Florida reporting from the Mideast for four Department, currently serves as received his MA and PhD from after 47 years on Long Island. They decades. He began his journalism division commander for midtown Stanford University . . . Doris note that “We have always been career in 1964 with the Miami Manhattan. He lectures nationwide Siegel-Cohen proud of our education at the hands Herald, and two years later joined on fire safety and is the author of (MS) has been the of some great faculty: Fritz the Chicago Daily News, and the text and video series Collapse cantor of Temple Morstein Marx, Phillips Bradley, started reporting on Israel. Report- of Burning Buildings. His most Emanu-El of John Meng, James Kreutzer, ing for KYW Newsradio for over recent book is Command and Canarsie, Brook- William Ball, Emory Holloway, 30 years, Jay lives in Israel with his Control of Fires and Emergencies lyn, for 20 years. Helen Viljoen, Charles Haywood, wife, Dvora . . . Bira Rabushka is . . . 1963: Edward Butscher’s She has lectured Oscar Shaftel, and Joe Machlis.” first violinist for the New York City book Sylvia Plath: Method and widely on Jewish The Doyles have five children. Jim Ballet Orchestra, which she joined Madness, the first about music and performed numerous writes a column for Catholic New in 1964. She is also the founder the poet, was recently reprinted by concerts of classical, operatic, and York and has published two books: and executive and artistic director Schaffner Press. He also wrote the Jewish music in the United States Two Voices (with son Brian) and of the Northern Westchester Center first biography of Conrad Aiken and Canada. Doris was president of Tales from a Real Life. He was for the Arts, which serves thou- (University of Georgia Press), a the Women Cantors’ Network and named a Distinguished Alumnus in sands of students in the tristate area work that received an award from served on the Commission for 1984 and one of the college’s 100 with arts events and a summer the Poetry Society of America. Women’s Equality of the American

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 12 Jewish Congress . . . 1967: Sackheim has become a partner in Steven Gerard was named one of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. ALUMNI NEWS Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most He practices corporate/securities Influential People for his work in law in the New York office of the the dramatic turnaround of Century firm . . . 1970: Michael J. Start Packing Homecoming 2004 Business Services, of which he is Senken is a first vice president for Italy Mark your calendars for chairman and CEO. Steve is a past within the controller’s department Alumni Homecoming 2004, which chair of the Queens College Foun- at New York Life Insurance. He has Affairs is will be held on Saturday, dation . . . Rosalie Marshall notes been with the company since 1972, sponsoring October 2. All are invited, that “My four where his duties have included a trip to and the classes of 1944 and years at QC are establishing accounting and com- Tuscany, 1954 will be specially honored. among the best of puter system controls and imple- September Registration forms will be my life: a time I menting numerous computer 5–13. AHI included in the next issue focused on my systems. Michael,who holds an International, of Q, which will comes out passion for foreign MBA from Adelphi University, which servic- in August. languages (French, lives in Massapequa Park, NY, with es over 300 his wife, Patricia . . . 1971: Italian, and colleges, universities, and Q Magazine Updates Spanish) and on travels abroad.” Dennis Conway was named Pro- Q is now more than just a fessional of the Year by the Long alumni groups, is producing Since graduating she has lived and print magazine. Be sure to Beach Chamber of Commerce for this tour. Many thanks to taught in New York, Los Angeles, check the college’s Web site and San Francisco. Currently she is the “compassion, dedication, and Washington, D.C. chapter for web-only updates of Q a broker in real estate investments commitment he brings” to his work chair David Guskin ’69 for (“I enjoy the challenge of the ‘art of as an administrator for Long Term coordinating the trip. The magazine. negotiation’ ”) and teaches conver- Care of Long Beach Medical Alumni Affairs Web site will Missing Alumni sation classes at a junior college. Center, where he has been since have more details in the Rosalie lives in Piedmont, CA . . . 1992. Dennis is also involved in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, We have lost touch with Marc Redlich recently celebrated professional endeavors of the if you wish to get a head start, approximately 20,000 of our the twentieth anniversary of his American College of Health Care contact Alumni Affairs @ over 100,000 alumni. In most Boston law firm. He writes that the Administrators, the Greater New Queens College, Office of cases they did not let us know firm has been enjoying success in York Hospital Association, the New Alumni Affairs, 65- 30 Kissena when they moved. Addresses several areas, including employ- York Society for Health Planning, Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367; can be updated online by going ment, business, and commercial and other groups. He lives with his 718-997-3930; or to www.qc.cuny.edu/ law. In addition, Marc, who has wife, Grace, and two daughters in [email protected]. QC_Foundation. If you know practiced law for 32 years, is active Floral Park, NY . . .1973: alumni who do not hear from in the American Council on Marilyn Honigman (MFA ’77) QC Oral History the college, please let us know. Germany and in Friends of Switzer- had an exhibition of her paintings The QC Oral History Pilot land. He is also chair of the on display at the Blue Mountain Project collects video and Send Us Your News! We want to hear more from college’s Boston alumni chapter . . . Gallery in Manhattan this winter. audio oral histories in the graduates—especially our 1969: Martin Baumann is Her work has also been exhibited at hopes of preserving the histo- the Polish Consulate, the Cathedral recent graduates. Tell us executive vice president for finance ry of the college, from the of St. John the Divine, and the where you are and what you at Freddie Mac. Previously he was major occurrences to the a partner and deputy chairman of Corcoran Gallery. Marilyn, who are doing, and enclose a everyday events that made World Financial Services Practice, teaches at the Fordham Preparatory photo. Be sure to let us know attending Queens College spe- and global banking leader for School, lives in Richmond Hill, when you move. Mail to: PricewaterhouseCoopers. A CPA Queens . . . Vicki (Andrews) cial. Members of the Class of 1954 have received an invita- who holds an MBA from Baruch MacKenzie is an accent-reduction Alumni News tion to attend the June 2004 College, Marty is a member of the specialist with her own company, Office of Alumni Affairs Commencement, along with Queens College Foundation . . . Accent on Communication of Stam- Queens College an information sheet about Peter Horne has ford (www.accentfairchester.com). 65-30 Kissena Boulevard volunteering to be interviewed been coordinator of “Accents can be very charming,” Flushing, NY 11367 the criminal justice she notes. “My goal is not to elimi- for the Oral History Project. nate the accent but to improve Please volunteer and become a program at Mercer Phone: 718-997-3930 County (NJ) Com- communication.” Vicki believes she permanent part of Queens Fax: 718-997-3924 munity College for is one of only 40 or 50 accent- College history. 23 years. He is also reduction specialists in the United Email: [email protected] president of the States . . . .1974: Charlene Wanted: Class New Jersey Association of Criminal Edwards (MA ’75) is the author of Correspondents Look for us on the Web. We Justice Educators, which represents Voices from Vietnam (Journeys, Can’t get enough of “Alumni are always adding information 38 programs in colleges and univer- 2002), an account of Americans and Notes”? Then volunteer to be about news at the college and sities . . . John O’Donnell became Vietnamese who survived the war a class correspondent. You will upcoming events. president of Stark State College in in Vietnam. Her husband, Michael collect and pass along news of Alumni Affairs Web site: Canton, OH in January. Previously Pergola, is a Vietnam vet whose your classmates for our print he was commissioner of New story is included in the book. Char- www.qc.cuny.edu/ and online versions of Q. It’s a alumni_affairs Hampshire Community Technical lene’s work as a photojournalist has great way to get in touch with taken her to seven continents. In College. John received his doctor- old friends. Contact the their travels, Charlene and Michael ate in psychology from Boston Alumni Office for more details. College. He and his wife, Ellen, have brought medical and school have three children . . . Michael supplies, toys, and clothing to many

. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 13 at Queens, Paul earned a master’s gain a competitive edge in their MEET MR. MURDER ’74 in health services administration fields. Besides degrees in English from the University of Michigan and computer science from QC, regory Lasak ’74 has ty, Lasak entered Queens Graduate School of Public Health Mark holds a master’s degree in moved to the other side College with a law career in . . . 1977: Patrick Hardish is a engineering/computer science from Gof the bench, ending a 25- mind. He graduated cum laude senior librarian at the New York Columbia . . . 1986: Michael year stint with the Queens dis- in economics and history, Public Library, as well as a member Wildes, the mayor of Englewood, trict attorney’s office. Known to attended New York Law of the editorial staff of New Music NJ, is a partner with the immigra- police and lawyers as “Mr. School, and joined the district Connoisseur. He is tion law firm of Wildes, Weinberg, Murder,” he supervised the attorney’s office in 1978, quickly also the cofounder Grunblatt & Wildes. A former and codirector of federal prosecutor with the U. S. investigation of 3,000 homicides, rising to supervise investigations the Composers Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn yet also is known for helping and the prosecution of cases. Concordance New (1989-1993), Michael has testified wrongfully convicted citizens get Some of the high-profile Music Now on Capitol Hill in connection with released from prison. Last cases on which he worked concert series, anti-terrorism legislation. He is December his reputation for a include the 1986 Howard Beach which is celebrat- frequently a legal commentator/ dogged commitment to justice attack and the 2000 Wendy’s ing its twentieth analyst on network television. was recognized when he was killings in Flushing. Among the season. Patrick’s music has been Michael is married with four chil- sworn in as State Supreme cases he prosecuted himself receiving a great deal of attention dren . . . 1988: Andrew J. Court Justice in Kew Gardens. were the 1981 police shooting internationally with recent perform- Lauer is a member of the law firm “It’s been a very smooth transi- by members of the Black ances in Russia, the Czech Repub- of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder tion,” he says with characteristic Liberation Army, where he lic, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. A & Steiner LLP as counsel in their pragmatism. “I’m just assuming a faced prominent defense attor- new work, Sonorities VII, will be labor and employment law practice different seat in the courtroom.” neys William Kunstler and premiered on May 27 at the NYU in New York City. Prior to joining Lasak is a native son of Randolph Scott-McLaughlin; and Frederick Lowe Theater . . . Lon Brown Raysman, Andrew was Queens – a Polish American the 1995 drug-related killings in Kaufman is dean of the honors senior employment counsel in the from Woodside who has lived College Point, the largest mass college and vice provost for under- office of general counsel of Price- his entire life in the borough. murder in Queens history. graduate affairs at the University of waterhouseCoopers Consulting He even vacations in Breezy Lasak won convictions in all the Illinois at Chicago. Lon has been at (PwC Consulting). Andrew earned Point, which he has watched felony trials he personally prose- UIC since 1985 when he joined his JD degree at Brooklyn Law change from an Irish community cuted, including more than 20 their Department of Biological School and his LLM in labor and of small bungalows to a gated murder cases. Sciences. Among other honors, he employment law from New York was named the Richard G. and University School of Law. He lives community of lot-filling great At the same time, he took Carole J. Cline University Scholar on Long Island with his wife and houses. “When I was running on the unpopular and risky in 1994. Lon lives in Oak Park, IL four children . . . 1993: homicides, I had to stay close,” work of overturning wrongful- . . . 1979: Henry L. Fernandez William DiScipio is the president he explains. He also enjoyed the convictions, and succeeded in is the executive director of scholar- of the New York State Psychologi- freedom of taking his children getting about 20 innocent peo ships, outreach, and philanthropy at cal Association’s Division of Psy- where they could play safely ple released. (Appropriately, USA Funds. Previously he was the chologists in the Public Sector. He outside at all hours. Lasak still one case involved a man who program director for Lumina Foun- serves as a representative for psy- chooses to go to what he con- confessed to murder only dation for Education and director of chologists who work primarily with siders one of the safest places in because a drug gang threatened the Peace Corps Fellows Program. underprivileged patients. William the country. him.) As defense attorney Barry Henry received his doctorate in received his doctorate from Mauds- Much of Lasak’s career has Scheck, founder of the education, as well as three master’s ley Hospital at the University of played out against the backdrop Innocence Project, told degrees, from Teachers College . . . London and is affiliated with the of the drug traffic that emerged Newsday, “if he thought there 1980: Joseph Albert Einstein College of Medi- in the sixties and peaked with was a wrongful conviction, he Herskovic (MA) cine. He lives in Amagansett, NY the crack cocaine epidemic of personally investigated it, and is vice president . . . 1994: Brett Bekritsky is the eighties and nineties. he got it right.” and general director of marketing at Dominican Determined to fight back manager of College in Orangeburg, NY. Brett against this threat to public safe- Product Dynam- holds a master’s degree from New ics, a service York University . . . 1998: poverty-stricken villages. “We Pacific State Bank. She has over 25 provider to the Matthew Higgins collect from doctors’ offices and years of community banking expe- food, beverage, personal care, and is now playing for anyone else who wants to help” . . . rience . . . 1976: Paul Mullings consumer product industries. Previ- the New York Jets Alfred Teo arrived in America in is chief operating ously he worked for Seagram, as vice president 1968 with $70 in his pocket. After officer of Good Uncle Ben’s, and Frito-Lay, and for strategic earning a degree in accounting, he Samaritan Re- taught at the UCLA School of planning. He will founded a number of companies, gional Medical Medicine. Joseph holds a PhD in be leading the mainly in the plastics business, Center in neuropsychology from the CUNY Jets’ campaign to naming them after letters in the Phoenix, AZ. Graduate Center and lives in Tinley have a new Greek alphabet. Recently Sigma Recently he was Park, IL . . . 1982: Mark stadium built on the west side of Plastics in Lyndhurst, NJ, the heart elected to the Huppert is vice president of NEC Manhattan. Before this, Matthew of his industrial empire, had sales board of Triple R Behavioral Solutions’ Open Mission Critical was the COO and director of com- of $700 million . . . 1975: Health Inc., which provides serv- Solutions division, which has its munications for the Lower Manhat- Carmela Johnson is executive vice ices for the severely mentally ill headquarters in Sacramento, CA. tan Development Corporation, and president, chief operating officer, and others with behavioral health The company helps clients use the served for a time as press secretary and chief financial officer of the disabilities. After finishing his BA latest advances in technology to to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE . SPRING 2004 14 WE REMEMBER

1942: Robert Higgins, a member who, with his wife, Laura scholar in ancient Latin and Greek, Hunter Colwin, helped uncover the ALAN DUGAN ’45 died May 1. Bob met his wife, process that occurs when a sperm Annette Buonora ’46, at a cell and an egg cell merge to form a lan Dugan, one of the rehearsal of the Queens College fertilized egg, died on November 1 at nation’s most honored Choral Society, with whom she his home in Key Biscayne, FL. He poets, died in Mass- often sang solo soprano. He is A was 92. Colwin received his BS and achusetts on September 3 at survived by Annette, two sons and PhD in biology from McGill Univer- the age of 80. He was born in a daughter, one grandson and four sity in Montreal. He joined the Brooklyn in 1923, the son of a granddaughters, and one great- college in 1940, retiring in 1973. salesman whose fluctuating grandson . . . 1945: Rue Colwin Hall was named for the income meant that the family Witten Sandler recently passed Colwins in 1993 . . . Professor was constantly moving between away. Her husband, Parke Preston Emeritus Joseph Hershenov passed Brooklyn (in bad times) and Sandler ’43, wrote of her years at away on January 19. He earned a Queens (in good times). “I Queens that she was active in John PhD in mathematics from MIT in don’t think it was an easy child- Castellini’s A Cappella Choir, was 1961 and came to Queens College in hood or youth,” says his wife, captain of the cheerleading squad, 1962, chairing the Mathematics artist Judith Shahn. chaired a political science intercol- Department from 1969 through Despite such obstacles, legiate conference, wrote a column 1980. His NSF grant lead to the Dugan attended Jamaica High for the newspaper, and received a establishment of the Mathematics School and, in 1941, enrolled at fellowship for graduate work . . . laboratory, which is dedicated in his Queens College. He published 1948: Robert D. Parylak name . . . Stanley Hirshson his first poems in the college’s Photo: Gillian Drake. Courtesy of Provincetown Arts Press passed away in October 2003. A (History) passed literary magazine, winning the Cape Cod, where Dugan often librarian who retired 17 years ago away on December Queens College Poetry Prize in taught at the Truro Center for from the Texaco Company, he was 26 after a brief 1943. Shortly thereafter he was the Arts. They maintained close treasurer of the Texaco Retirement illness. A member drafted into the Army—willingly, ties with New York City as Club for 15 years. Robert was an of the faculty since according to Shahn. “His eyes well, where they had a rent- active musician who played with a 1963, he was an were so bad they could have controlled apartment in Green- number of groups in Queens and authority on 19th- deferred him, but he memo- wich Village until 1996. Dugan Nassau . . . 1963: Marjorie century U.S. rized the eye chart because he traveled widely and held numer- Krenta, MA (’66), taught school on history and military biography, so badly wanted to be ous teaching positions, includ- Staten Island for 25 years. She had including the highly acclaimed involved.” Nonetheless, he had ing at Sarah Lawrence, been living in Montville Township, General Patton: A Soldier’s Life already found important Connecticut College, and the NJ, for the past 30 years . . . (HarperCollins, 2002) An October encouragement at Queens University of Colorado. 1969: Isabelle Getoff died in 2002 profile of Hirshson in from a professor “who con- On Cape Cod Dugan culti- April 2003. She was a retired Newsday reported that, “He is that vinced him that writing poetry vated many friendships. psychotherapist . . . 1974: rare resident of the Ivory Tower— was not a sissy thing to do,” Because he was phobic about Anne Panepinot Ciccone died an academic whose writing can also Shahn notes. typing, for instance, it was the January 2003. Her book Creating be appreciated by popular audi- After the war, Dugan Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Bridges: The Art of Utilizing Cre- ences” . . . Leonard Slatkes, an attended Olivet College (which Mary Oliver who offered to ative Skills in Day to Day Living expert on Dutch he and fellow student Shahn left help Shahn type his longhand was published December 2002. painting and a following a student strike) and, poems. Among Dugan’s most distinguished with the help of G.I. benefits, important projects was the Fine FACULTY professor in the eventually earned a degree Arts Work Center in Province- Arthur Carin, a member of the Art Department, from Mexico City College. In town, which provides fellow- Department of Elementary and died on August 1960 he won a Yale Series of ships to emerging writers and Early Childhood Education from 22 at the age of Younger Poets Award, leading artists; he was a founding 1958 to 1991, died on September 73. Slatkes, who to publication in 1961 of his member who contributed 14 at the age of 74. After serving in started at the college in 1966 and first book, Poems, for which he many hours of his time. At his the army as a medic in Japan at the became a full professor in 1982, won the Pulitzer and a National memorial service, remembers end of World War II, Carin enrolled held a BFA from Syracuse Univer- Book Award. Six more his brother-in-law Ezra Shahn, a at SUNY Oswego and later earned sity, an MA in art history from volumes of poetry followed as biology professor at Hunter a master’s degree at Queens and a Oberlin, and a PhD from the Uni- did numerous awards and College, people reflected on doctorate at the University of Utah. versity of Utrecht. The recipient of honors, including a Prix de Dugan’s legacy as a poet, but He returned to Queens in 1958 as a number of Fulbright Fellowships Rome, Guggenheim and Rocke- many also “spoke of their debt an instructor and later became and grants, Slatkes published exten- feller Fellowships, a Lannan to him as a teacher.” associate dean of teacher education. sively on Caravaggio and his Dutch Foundation Award, and, for his Dugan’s most recent book, He was the author of a widely used and Flemish followers and was the final book in 2001, a second Poems Seven: New and Complete textbook for elementary teachers, author of a number of books, National Book Award. Poetry, was published to much Teaching Science Through Discov- including Rembrandt and Persia, Dugan and Shahn lived on acclaim in 2001. ery . . . Arthur L. Colwin Vermeer and His Contemporaries, (Biology), a longtime faculty and The Netherlandish Artists.

. SPRING 2004 Q THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 15 The 1973-74 Lady Knights, led by head coach Lucille Kyvallos (far left), celebrate a victory. The great Lady Knight teams of 1968-81 held a reunion on campus this January. Among those attending were (inset l-r) Sharon (Manning) Beverly, Olympic silver medalist Gail Marquis, and Debbie Mason. Gail is currently working to have the 1972-73 team – the only women's basketball team in New York to play for the national championship – inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. For more about these pioneering athletes, see the three-page article in the Sunday, April 4 issue of Newsday.

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