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From the Executive From these newsletters, I try to convey all the joie de vivre and all the happiness that exists here. To get a real sense of it, you’ll have to come Barbara Engel to one of the performances listed on page 5. Executive Director Recently, I watched the school’s production

BOARD OF DIRECTORS HONORARY BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Executive Committee Shelly Berger (PA ’56) Barbara Engel (M&A ’72) Peter Bakstansky (M&A ’57) James Burrows (M&A ’58) Executive Director President James Conlon (M&A ’68) Joy Pak Audrey Flack (M&A ’48) Alexis Christoforous (LaG ’88) Director of Advancement Charles Fox (M&A ’58) Vice President Norman Gladney (M&A ’40) Natalia Kurylak (LaG ’06) Alumni Relations Manager Benjamin Flaim (LaG ’96) (MA ’47) Treasurer June Lebell* (M&A ’61) Robindra Deb Van Zebooker (Parent) Hal Linden (M&A ’48) Database & Technology Secretary Melissa Manchester (M&A ’68) Peter Nero (M&A ’51) Gunther Marx (M&A ’45) Members Charles Osgood (Friend) Copy Editor Chris Denham (Parent) Toby Perlman (M&A ’60) Melinda Moore (Parent) Gregg S. Fisher (Friend) Tony Roberts (M&A ’57) Type and Design Peter Frishauf* (M&A ’66) Jerrold Ross (M&A ’51) Gabriel Kosakoff (M&A ’44) Carole Bayer Sager (M&A ’61) Walter Mankoff (M&A ’47) Susan Stamberg (M&A ’55) CONTACT US Suzanne Vega (PA ’77) William Meezan (M&A ’63) Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia Herbert Wachtell (M&A ’48) Christine Scott-Deutsch (M&A ’67) High School Peter Yarrow (M&A ’55) Peter Shankman (LaG ’90) 100 Amsterdam Ave. Rm. 853 , NY 10023-6406 Melissa Spohler (Parent) EMERITUS BOARD Marty Verdrager (M&A ’63) Warren Kass (M&A ’52) (Tel.) 212.595.1301 Betsy Vorce (Friend) Michael Kates (M&A ’57) (Fax) 212.595.0243 Barbara Weitz Pollard [email protected] *Past President (Retired Faculty) www.alumniandfriends.org PRINCIPAL From the

Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

A Letter from the Principal

Today’s society needs artists who advocate Budget cuts over the past several years have for a vibrant, culturally rich community. It compressed some of our offerings and limited is also difficult to remove from the artist our resources. This has curtailed our ability the intellect, passion, and ability to synthe- to offer an education similar to the one you size information that happens through life experienced. experiences and education. I am continually Our success as a school lies in the success of in awe of the synergy that students create as our students and the legacy you have created they improve their craft and their minds. This as alums. The endowments and scholarships truly is the embodiment of our school’s dual which you have bestowed through Alumni & mission. LaGuardia Arts, today, is the proven Friends enable our students and graduates to training ground for the upcoming generation meet the financial challenge of further devel- of artists and leaders who approach society’s oping their craft. On behalf of our students, problems with a creative perspective. This parents and alumni, I thank you. builds upon the work and legacy of the alums of the High School of Music & Art, the High Regardless from which school you graduated, School of Performing Arts, and Fiorello H. you carry the ideals of our mission – preparing LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and students for conservatories and colleges – and Performing Arts. you are a part of our vibrant, culturally rich community. As we enter the spring season of This year marks the 30th anniversary of the performances and exhibits, I warmly invite you remarkable artistic and intellectual adventure to visit us at one of our events and celebrate of LaGuardia High School. As we embark on our anniversary. the next 30 years, it is now time to revitalize our commitment to the student artists of NYC. It is heartwarming to see the ways in which our staff and students admire your accomplish- Part of this commitment is to ensure that ments. I urge you to forge a connection with our school is a state-of-the-art institution LaGuardia High School as we look forward to for arts education. For example, our tech- the next 30 years. Just as you advanced the nical theatre students deserve to learn in a culture of NYC so too will our students in the professional-caliber scene shop rather than upcoming years. LaGuardia Forever! in a performance space which we currently use to build the sets for our productions. We encourage you to support long-term efforts to Dr. Mars, Principal obtain a state-of-the-art facility. LaGuardia Arts

A&F Welcomes Back Natalia Kurylak, LaG ’06!

Natalia worked for A&F from 2006 to 2012 and left to raise her son. She returned at the beginning of March as our new Alumni Relations Manager. We are thrilled Natalia is back and look forward to having you meet her.

3 From the Director of Advancement

Dear Alumni & Friends, A&F’s mission is to continue to enhance the world-class arts education at LaGuardia by Springtime is finally upon providing funds to ensure that all students, us! At LaGuardia this means regardless of family income, can successfully the busy months before the pursue their talents. We do this through awards, school year ends. The more scholarships, funding for master classes, and I learn about the students, grants to the studios for equipment. We ask teachers, administrators, and especially each and every one of our A&F family to partici- you—alumni and friends—the more I realize pate in supporting our future leaders in the arts, that LaGuardia is a truly special and unique business, education and beyond to help our home for young artists. But it is much more. students to achieve their dreams. It is “a place where students can follow their individual pursuits of happiness.” Here’s what Financial needs from families have increased drama senior Hunter Hinden wrote about at an alarmingly rapid rate. This year, A&F happiness in the Rising Stars 2015 program will fund 45% more student awards than in booklet: previous years. Our ultimate goal is to help all students in need. We ask for your continued

From the Director of the Director From “What is happiness? How do we achieve support to help our students grow and happiness? Those are the questions that the flourish, like Chelsea. production team has tried to answer with this year’s Rising Stars. Tonight we present On behalf of the board and staff at A&F, we a snapshot of where we have traveled on thank you for your ongoing generosity to this journey and what we have accom- students to pursue their goals — and happiness. plished. As students, we are so fortunate With gratitude,

ADVANCEMENT to be able to go to a school where we can express ourselves through the arts, which is Joy Pak an integral part of this pursuit…” Director of Advancement

Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts 100 amsterdam ave. rm. # 853 · ny, ny 10023 · tel. 212.595.1301 · fax 212.595.0243 · www.alumniandfriends.org

Yes, I want to support Alumni & Friends! M $100 Can help cover graduation fees for a senior M $250 Can provide a student with lessons M $500 Can send a student to an arts-related summer program M $1000 Can help buy equipment for a studio M $_____ (other)

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PHONE EMAIL Please return to A&F, Attn: Joy Pak at 100 Amsterdam Ave., room #853, NY, NY 10023. You may also make payments online at www.alumniandfriends.org. Contributions to A&F are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Our tax identification number is 13-3166108. For questions, please contact us at 212.595.1301 or send an email to [email protected]. 4 5 A&FLAGUARDIA NEWS NEWS

— A Gala Honoring Without your May 18: June 22: June 5-6: May 29-30: Beginnings Sweet and Chorus Concert Chorus and www.laguardiahs.org For tickets, please go to For tickets, Marilyn & Alan Bergman Marilyn & Graduation Concert Dance & Legacy Lyrics — Chelsea Lovell, Dance Student Lovell, Dance Chelsea —

Since her retirement, she has City. Summer Semi-Annual Art Show Orchestra Semi-Annual Senior and Thank York Grant helps students to participate in Joffrey Study Carousel to know can’t begin You Summer

truly wanted.School; something I The Laramie Project May 1: May 16: April 17: April 17: April 24: The disciplines of jazz and contemporary Scholarship. May 15-16: April 23-25: April 23-25: Senior Art Senior Show I am thanking you for And thank you again. Concerto Concert Concerto & Friends Alumni the best dancers and teachers in New much as I intend to work very hard and learn as possible. will add to my dance development. the 2015 receive the notification. My I was to how excited the biggest hug and I saw grandmother gave me the recipient of this tears in her eyes. Becoming to attend the award will allow me Intensive Ballet allows me to train with some of generosity Your you! all my endeavors, but the financial grandmother continues to support me in her. responsibility is the most challenging for trying and move me to keep income, but she encourages had to live on a fixed forward both academically and in dance. My this wonderful opportunity. help, I would not have been able to experience one who sincerely appreciates your support.” able to attend amazing programs. further studies over the summer by being I am your kindness and generosity. So many deserving students appreciate The thank you! start this note off by saying “I  financial award. my grandmother and I appreciate your  Both Spring Drama Festival: Senior Art Senior Show and Concert Choir Senior

Spring Drama Festival: New Music Singers/Symphonic Band Concert Band Singers/Symphonic Music New Upcoming Shows and Performances Upcoming Shows   We received this from a student who was awarded a grant a student who was received this from We program: to attend a summer From a StudentFrom Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts Reunion 2015: JUNE 2015 For Classes That Graduated in Years Ending in O or 5 And all our founding classes from 1940-1949

Multiple events have been planned to celebrate classes from Music & Art, Performing Arts, and LaGuardia High School. The most current information can be found at https://alumniandfriends. org/news/2015-reunion. Here you’ll be able to sign up and pay for the M&A reunions, see current lists of who is coming from your class and get contact information on class leaders.

MUSIC & ART ALUMNI from 1940-49 and classes ending in “5” and “0” On June 6, come join your fellow classmates at “the castle” for a day filled with familiar faces and places. The day will include tours of the school, “mocktails” and hors d’oeuvres on the terrace, a

A&F NEWS gourmet meal in the cafeteria, and a fabulous performance by the senior orchestra and chorus.

PERFORMING ARTS ALUMNI from all years with special honors to those who graduated in years ending in “5” and “0” Bring your families and friends, your yearbooks and your memories, and join us for a weekend of reunion celebrations on Friday, 6 June; Saturday, 7 June; and Sunday, 8 June. A Friday night mixer is planned at Lexington’s on 130 East 39th Street. On Saturday, there will be a photo session at the PA site on W. 46th Street followed by a dinner at Buca di Beppo on 1540 Broadway. The weekend concludes with a Sunday brunch at Duke’s Restaurant on 560 Third Avenue. More details can be found at http://alumniandfriends.org/news/2015-reunion. Ques- tions? Contact Marlene Adler at [email protected]

LaGUARDIA ALUMNI for those who graduated in years ending in “5” and “0” Each LaGuardia class is working separately on its own reunion. Details will be posted on A&F’s website as we receive them.

Honoring Drama Teacher Ruth Provet Koehler

Drama students at Performing Arts circa old and “fully intact.” Her two sons and grand- ‘50s-‘70s will remember Miss Provet. Her children are in close touch with her. She stayed jet black hair pulled back tight in a severe with the school when it moved to Lincoln bun, her exquisite delicate features always Center, where she was wooed by and married outlined precisely with eyeliner, mascara, Acting Principal Dr. Koehler, who passed away and a dramatic red lipstick, trim and clothed a few years ago after 20 years of marriage. A in elegant black simplicity, her speech deep scholarship in her name at A&F supports drama and precise with no hint of any accent (after students with training and other professional all, she was our voice and diction teacher!). A needs. dynamic and talented teacher, always with a You can donate to this fund: alumniandfriends. listening ear and caring advice, she inspired us org/fund/goodman-ellenbogen-provet-drama- to do our best. fund/. The fund was established by Lenore Miss Provet is still with us, living on the East Ellenbogen (Leni Goodman, PA ’54), who also Side. She proudly tells us that she is 90 years wrote this article. 6 L

Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts A GUARDIA NEWS

LaGuardia Students Perform at Broadway’s Imperial Theater The first Shubert Foundation High School The event was hosted by Alex Sharp, acclaimed Theatre Festival for Public young star of the Broadway hit, The Curious Inci- Schools took place on Monday, March 9th, at dent of the Dog in the Night Time. Also attending the Imperial Theater. LaGuardia’s In the Heights were Chancellor Carmen Farina, Philip J. Smith was selected as one of five outstanding high and Robert E. Wankel, Chairman and President, school theater productions. More than 100 respectively, of the Shubert Organization, and talented students from five select New York City Michael I. Sovern, President of the Shubert high schools made their Broadway debuts. Foundation.

Dance Students Perform at the Joyce Theater, NYC

On February 14, twenty LaGuardia dance majors performed Ritual to the Sun from Acts of Light, choreographed by Martha Graham to the Helios Overture, Opus 17, by Carl Nielsen. A&F sponsored this performance and our students did us proud. This showcase of high school and college talent was produced by the Martha Graham Dance Company and included students from Paul Taylor, Graham All-City, Graham 2, University of North Carolina, Adelphi University, and Montclair State University. PHOTO: SCOTT ALLEN SCOTT PHOTO:

LaGuardia Students Support Lincoln Center Education LaGuardia’s show choir performed at the LCE Jason Robert Brown from the musical Thirteen, Gala with on March 11. They Can’t Take That Away From Me by George They opened and closed the show with a Gershwin, and The Impossible Dream from Man repertoire that included: Brand New You by of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh.

More LaGuardia Student Celebrations n The school’s boys varsity gymnastics team championship. Captain Nicolas Cimino comes brought home the championship trophy, from a long line of alumni: his mother, aunt, setting sister, and cousin! a record n A&F supports the school’s Science Olym- scoring piad team with annual grants. This year, 139.6 our students placed highly in the Olym- points and piad on February 7th: two students placed securing second in the Entomology category and its fourth two students placed third in the Compound league Machines Category. 7 8 LAGUARDIA NEWS “The Voice”“The and“American Idol” Young AlumniFare Well on Talks, andpresentations byRobert Hammond, student performances, videosfromother TED the Parents Association. The evening included run bystudentsandsponsored A&F and Community. The event wasconceived and Are Passionate About to Transform Your event: MakinganImpact– Taking What You this asanindependently organized TED talk) presented itsfirst TEDx(the“x”identifies On February 11,LaGuardia High School High SchoolTEDx at LaGuardia ’88. To date, Ann Hampton Callaway, Stephen news correspondent Alexis Christoforous, LaG its first AlumniLeadership Award toesteemed LaGuardia’s 30th Anniversary, A&F willpresent LaGuardia Arts HallofFame. And, inhonorof winners willbethethirdinducteesinto sand, andmore! These two Oscar andEmmy with MarvinHamlisch,“Yentl” forBarbra Strei “The WayWe Were”Sinatra, Frank for Easy” Music Playing?”withMichelLeGrand,“Nice‘n’ for Fred Astaire, to“HowDo You Keep the Great American Songbook, from“ThatFace” career thathasspannedthedecadesof Bergman havewrittenmemorablelyricsina For over50 years,Marilyn(M&A’45)and Alan (M&AMarilyn ’45) Bergman and Alan Celebrating — &Legacy” “Lyrics Qassim isjust 18 yearsold. on American Idol.Hehasalreadymade ittothetop8guys! New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music,madehisdebut Qassim Middleton competition. India wasalsoaPresidential Medal winneratthe YoungArts continues toamazetheaudienceandcoacheseachweek. from allfourcoaches! She iscompetingonteam Christina and Joel’s cally trainedvocalist,madeherdebuton India Carney New York State ofMind (LaG’11),currentlyattending UCLA andaclassi (LaG ’13), currentlystudying voiceat The andearningstandingovations

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Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Where Are We Now?

Seymour Benstock, M&A ’40, has published with a practice in Arizona and New York and Did You Know: A Music Lover’s Guide to sings in The Phoenix Symphony Chorus. He is Nicknames, Titles, and Whimsy. The book is married to Diana, and has two sons and three user-friendly and a handy reference tool. It also grandchildren. makes for enjoyable and informative reading. Marcia Drut-Davis, Risa Hirsch Ehrlich, M&A ‘51, had a solo show MA ‘60, says, “I’m of her ceramic pieces at the Choplet Studios & proud to share my Gallery in Brooklyn March 1-31. Her work was memoir, Confes- also accepted into “Women in the Heights” sions of a Childfree sponsored by the Northern Manhattan Arts Woman.” It is doing Alliance, as well as the New Jersey Small Works well on Amazon. Show and the New York-Tokyo Ceramic Artists com. I have over Show (NYC). You can see Risa’s work at www. 2,800 followers on risaclayart.com. my Facebook page and blog: http://www.childfreereflections.com/ Jonathan Tunick, M&A blog/. Supporting the choice to remain child- ‘54, is an orchestrator, free, without the associated negative stigma, is musical director, and my passion.” composer, and one of only twelve people to Elyce Wakerman, M&A ’65, has published her have won all four major first novel, A Tale of Two Citizens (available on American show business Amazon.com and at local bookstores). This is awards: the , an interfamily saga that spans the 1930s as an Academy Awards, Emmy illegal immigrant and a zealous immigration Awards and Grammy Awards. Special congratu- official come into conflict over love, legalities, lations to Jonathan for his orchestration of Into and what it means to be an American. the Woods. Marcia Annenberg, M&A ‘66, is a political Lee Apt, M&A ‘57, is a Fellow in the Model to artist, addressing key issues through her incisive Monument (M2M) Program, which is a partner- eye. Marcia had a solo show, News/Not News, ship with the Art Students League of New York at the Fairleigh Dickinson University College and the New York City Department of Parks & Art Gallery from January 27-February 27, 2015. Recreation. This is She also participated in a group exhibit, Women an intensive public Only, at the Flomenhaft Gallery in NYC. Visit art seminar under Marcia’s website at: www.mannenberg.com/. master sculptor Greg Wyatt. The Susan Laufer Bee, M&A ’69, received a sculpture will go Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014. up in the Riverside She has had solo painting shows at A.I.R. Drive South Park in Gallery and Accola Griefen Gallery in NYC. June 2015. Susan teaches at Pratt Institute, the , and the University of Pennsylvania. Patricia Wynne, M&A ’57, received the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation. Daniel Schwartzman, M&A ’72, has written Her book, Singing Out and Fighting Back, is in a musical, A Casual Gathering, that has been the Folk Life Archive at the Library of Congress. accepted into the 2015 Thespis Theater The group she is directing, Labor Chorus, Festival Competition and will be performed in recently performed at a retirement residence. August 2015. For performance schedule and In the audience, Patricia discovered her home- times, go to: http://thespisnytheaterfestival. room teacher, Mr. Goldblum, who is now 102 com/. years old and going strong! Patricia currently Nadine Orenstein, M&A ‘79, is the Drue Heinz lives in California. curator in charge of the Department of Draw- Daniel Morson, M&A ’59, has lived in the ings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum Phoenix area for the past 10 years. He is a CPA of Art. She will oversee the work of the depart- 9 10 Where are we NOW? spent over20 yearsasanactress inNew York Lenore (Leni) Goodman Ellenbogen, and earlyEuropeanetchings. and A. HyattMayor, renaissance textile designs, the legacyofdrawingscurators William Ivins on Fragonard,Hercules Seghers, Michelangelo, ment onupcomingexhibitions andinstallations M. Scavello andRosemary M.Brown. She was Specialist forPA State Representatives Mario and Allentown EMS,asa Constituent Outreach Paramedic forNYC EMS,FDNY(9/11rescuer) York City EmergencyMedical Services asa working inthe Public Speaking BureauofNew with the community and community leaders, strong relationship arts.” Lorna hasa to mylove ofthe she is“returning says burg. She in Strouds Theater the Sherman at dent of Operations PA M. O’Farrell, Lorna LaGuardia in2013. Her son, salesperson, workingat The Corcoran Group. Nicole Flender, PA ’75, Transportation for14years andretired in2001. 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IN MEMORIAM

Alumni & Friends of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

In Memoriam

A&F was recently informed about the passing of the following classmates. This list included notifications we received from January 31 through March 31, 2015. We deeply regret the loss of our alumni and friends and send our condolences to the families of those who have passed.

Ezra Laderman, M&A taught at Brooklyn College for nearly three ‘41S, was an American decades, serving as music chairperson from composer who became 1971 to 1989. After her retirement, Dorothy widely known for his moved to Seattle, Washington, where in 1997 1993 opera, Marilyn, she became a co-founder of the Academy which chronicled the of Music Northwest. The Conservatory of waning days of Marilyn Music at Brooklyn College has established Monroe. He died on the Dorothy Hill Klotzman Scholarship in her March 1, 2015 at age memory. 90, at his home in New Haven. He was named Bevans Bradford, M&A ‘58 Dean at the Yale School John Gampert, M&A ’58, an artist, illustrator, of Music in 1989 and served in that position and beloved teacher, passed away after to 1995; he was also winner of the gradua- a valiant fight against multiple myeloma. tion award for music at M&A. His obituary is Besides his wife, Joan, and his family, his great at: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/arts/ loves in life were painting, traveling, jazz music/ezra-laderman-90-weaver-of-eclectic- music, playing the trombone, and gardening. marilyn-opera.html?ref=obituaries Hubert Berberich, M&A ‘64 Robert Goldstein Gardiner, M&A ‘47W James Daughtry, M&A ‘64 Joan Gray, M&A ‘51S Bonnie F. Polansky Lance-Farnsworth, Paul Reisch, M&A ‘52S, was a beloved and M&A ‘64 influential English teacher at Performing Arts, Music & Art, and LaGuardia, and later a guid- Rose Lieberman, M&A ‘64 ance counselor. He passed away in February Polly Mcgraw, M&A ‘64 2015. To read Dr. Reisch’s memorial page, please go to: http://www.riversidememorial- Lynn Ossa, M&A ‘64 chapel.com/guestbook/show/2091?PHPSESSI D=4351a5333ebb9fddf96af43cf039e4ff Blossom Werblood Ungar, M&A ‘64 Louis Cicardo, M&A ‘53S, passed away Robert DeGaetano, PA ‘64 January, 29, 2015. He was a respected and well-known artist in Cary, North Carolina. Louis is survived by Vincent Montilli, his spouse of 41 years, daughters Luann, Cindy, Laura, and his six grandchildren. To see his artwork, visit: http://fineartamerica.com/ profiles/lou-cicardo.html. Emanuel Fineberg, M&A 54S, a regular attendee at most of the reunions. Manny cherished his classmates and his time at M&A. He went on to become a championship fencer and an inductee to the CCNY Athletic Hall of Fame as both fencer & coach (2009). Manny’s passion led him to become a school Ph.D. psychologist in NYC for 32 years. His legacy lives on through his son & family. Dorothy Hill Klotzman, M&A ‘54S, passed away December 6, 2014. After studying music at M&A, she received a B.S. and M.S. in composition from The Juilliard School. She 11 Contributions received from September 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015.

A&F is grateful to all its donors.

Leadership Stephen Pearson, Friend Harvey Weiss, M&A ‘47 Margaret Fulton, Friend Byron Dobell, M&A ‘44 Colin Eisler, M&A ‘48 Ellen Gray, Friend Circle Gloria Fishbein Katz, M&A ‘44 Marcia Udoff Presser, M&A ‘51 Susan Greenstein, Friend $10,000+ Gunther Marx, M&A ‘45 Ann Silverman Aviles, M&A ‘52 Jean Greenwald, Friend Donald Duet, Friend Joann Bernstein Temkin, Arlene Prince Rouse, M&A ‘53 Jerald Grobman, Friend Eric Friedheim Foundation, Inc., M&A ‘45 Mardelle Schwartz Berman, Shirley Homes, Friend Friend Naomi Sternberg Felsenfeld, M&A ‘54 Constance Jameson, Friend Rita Silverman, Friend M&A ‘46 Ravelle Silberman Brickman, Elihu Kover, Friend Melissa Spohler, Friend Jerrold Ross, M&A ‘51 Betty Green Ajces, M&A ‘47 M&A ‘54 Ina Norrito, Friend Renee Miller Alberts, M&A ‘47 Madeline Ritter Davids, M&A ‘54 Lydia Perez, Friend Edith Bernstein Schatz, M&A ‘48 Marjorie Ellenbogen, M&A ‘54 Jon Pohlmann, Friend Warren Kass, M&A ‘52 Donna Irony Regenstreif, Betsy Rayner, Friend Society Circle Howard Mager, M&A ‘53 M&A ‘55 Beth Rubin, Friend THANK YOU… $2,500-$9,999 Linda Burg Macklowe, M&A ‘54 Peter Yarrow, M&A ‘55 Betsy Vorce, Friend Ann and Gordon Getty Richard Seiden, M&A ‘55 Joshua Gendel, M&A ‘57 Richard Klein, Retired Faculty Foundation, Friend Beverly McIntosh Green, Nora Fox Goldschlager, M&A ‘57 Anthony Abeson, Retired Walter Mankoff, M&A ‘47 M&A ‘56 Elliot Lebowitz, M&A ‘58 Faculty Peter Bakstansky, M&A ‘57 Julie Werner Stern, M&A ‘57 Richard Levin, M&A ‘58 George Gill, M&A ‘41 Mady Chalk, M&A ‘57 Allan Vogel, M&A ‘61 Ellen Romoff Witkin, M&A ‘58 Elsi Kovacs Levy, M&A ‘42 Peter Frishauf, M&A ‘66 Alexis Christoforous, LaG ‘88 Gary Koesten, M&A ‘62 Julie Aaron Baraz, M&A ‘59 Vera Finn Deutsch, M&A ‘43 Keith Nobbs, LaG ‘97 Judith Landsman Slishman, James Cohen, M&A ‘59 Marvin Kalisch, M&A ‘43 M&A ‘62 Jacqueline Sideman Guttman, Pauline Alexander Mayer, William Meezan, M&A ‘63 M&A ‘59 M&A ‘43 Benefactor Rachel Heyman Resnikoff, Frank Proto, PA ‘59 Shulamis Levin Friedman, $1,000-$2,499 M&A ‘63 Barbara Hendrickson, M&A ‘61 M&A ‘44 Arthur Shaw, M&A ‘63 Elliot Cohen, M&A ‘63 Judith Abraham Weber, M&A ‘44 Jeff and Judy Harris Fund, Friend David Israel, Friend Florence Gorsky Banikiotes, Marcus Diamond, M&A ‘63 Rita Rappoport Greenstein, Marcia Neukrug Weiss, M&A ‘42 M&A ‘64 Carol Spector Goldin, M&A ‘63 M&A ‘45 Zanwil Sperber, M&A ‘43 Elinora Mantovani, M&A ‘64 Sigmund Gould, M&A ‘63 Barbara Kahn Schwartz, Seymour Ikenson, M&A ‘44 Lida Orzeck, M&A ‘64 Paul Gussman, M&A ‘63 M&A ‘45 Gabriel Kosakoff, M&A ‘44 Marya Kraus Wintroub, M&A ‘64 Martin Verdrager, M&A ‘63 Roslyn Potisman Swire, M&A ‘45 The Arthur & Patricia Price Fdn., Lewis Kwit, M&A ‘65 Joshua Feldman, M&A ‘66 Martin Barr, M&A ‘46 M&A ‘45 Steven Deutsch, M&A ‘66 Barbara Epstein Wieder, Rima Beller Blau, M&A ‘46 Corrinne Zuckerman Greenberg, Roslyn Jhunever Barak, M&A ‘67 M&A ‘66 Betty Lipstein Bodian, M&A ‘46 M&A ‘45 Joanna Knobler, M&A ‘68 Sharon Karmon Landsberg, Carl Gscheidle, M&A ‘46 Phoebe Freeman Cohen, M&A ‘48 Virginia Sapiro, M&A ‘68 M&A ‘67 Irwin Karassik, M&A ‘46 Herbert Wachtell, M&A ‘48 Ramona Azulay, M&A ‘70 Betty Ann Bloom Millman, Eva Klempner Liebmann, Saul Sternberg, M&A ‘50 Heather Barkley Craige, PA ‘72 M&A ‘67 M&A ‘46 Mike Mage, M&A ‘51 Laurie Nelson, M&A ‘73 Linda Rosenstock, M&A ‘67 Cynthia Ulick Berliner, M&A ‘47 Evelyn Sheftman Reiser, M&A Joshua Dachs, M&A ‘74 Deborah Feldman Szabo, Roberta Vlock Gottlieb, M&A ‘47 ‘51 Rosa Campa Hearne, M&A ‘74 M&A ‘67 Barbara Kelsky Gunther, M&A ‘47 Nina Mennerich Frankenheim, Gilbert Hoover, M&A ‘75 Lucien Kraner, M&A ‘68 Stuart Phillips, M&A ‘47 M&A ‘53 Helaine Katoria Worrell, PA ‘84 Amy Hass, PA ‘68 Betty Hirschberg Rosenblum, Stanley Fishman, M&A ‘54 Rollie Greenberg Abkowitz, Jennifer Kohl, LaG ‘87 Jillian Barron, M&A ‘69 M&A ‘47 M&A ‘55 Billy Ching, LaG ‘96 George Reiss, M&A ‘73 Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren, Paul Blake, M&A ‘58 Cherissia Williams, LaG ‘09 Bela Fleck, M&A ‘76 M&A ‘47 James Burrows, M&A ‘58 Matthew Neco, M&A ‘79 Alice Rinenberg Brickner, Joan Luskin-Crouch, M&A ‘59 Mathieu Chamberlain, LaG ‘86 M&A ‘48 June LeBell Alley, M&A ‘61 Sponsor Christopher Phillipps, LaG ‘91 Cecile Censor Brunswick, Judy Francis Zankel, M&A ‘63 Joseph Beshenkovsky, LaG ‘94 M&A ‘48 Adrien Brody, LaG ‘91 $250-$499 David and Nancy Faul, Friend Ann Goldman Kendall, M&A ‘48 Stanley Liebowitz, Friend Naomi Loeb Lipman, M&A ‘48 Friend Lewis Lockwood, M&A ‘48 Patron Gary Mazart, Friend National Wildlife Federation, $100-$249 Reynold Ruffins, M&A ‘48 $500-$999 Thelma Shapiro, M&A ‘48 Friend Mitra Behroozi, Friend Benjamin Asher, Friend Grace Burza Soloway, M&A ‘48 Evan Zebooker, Friend Juanita Bing Newton, Friend Leonard Carr, Friend Martin Sosnoff, M&A ‘48 Bunny Dell, Faculty Gwen Brachman, Friend Tara Hansen, Friend Carole Hershcopf Wallace, Jay Brieloff, M&A ‘44 Michael Carrano, Friend Donald King, Friend M&A ‘48 Susan Leshner, Friend Ivan Majdrakoff, M&A ‘46 Christy Flaim, Friend

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M&A ‘64 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘62 Barbara Kate Linick, M&A ‘64 Barbara Kate Linick, Borman Mann, M&A ‘64 Lorraine M&A ‘64 Elizabeth Miller, Rubinstein, Morawetz Pegeen Shapiro, M&A ‘64 Hirsch Judith Walton, M&A ‘64 Joan ‘64 PA Carr, Loeb Frances ‘64 PA Torres, José M&A ‘65 Gutstein, Joyce Fredda Katz Cassidy, M&A ‘63 Cassidy, Katz Fredda M&A ‘63 Fay-Bergman, Louise M&A ‘63 Harold Friedman, M&A ‘63 Michael Friedmann, Greenberg, Warren Linda Hartman Maestro,Laura M&A ‘63 Maier, Susan M&A ‘63 Dash Moore, Deborah M&A ‘63 Noble, Kernkraut Ruth M&A ‘63 Orlansky, Michael Ortiz, M&A ‘63 Miguel Rena Ellman Schklowsky, M&A ‘63 Schrag, Goodwin Jean Shamitz, Robin Eskenazi Slotkin, M&A ‘63 Carol M&A ‘63 Steckler, Charles M&A ‘63 Stein, Jeanette M&A ‘63 Tannenbaum, Michael M&A ‘63 Weintraub, Annette M&A ‘63 Wertheimer, Ronald Amy Namowitz Worthen, M&A ‘63 Zirkuli, Bernadette ‘63 PA Marian Heller, ‘63 PA Heller, Mueller Joyce Aks, M&A ‘64 Catherine Alan Binstock, M&A ‘64 M&A ‘64 Gruenberg, Kenneth M&A ‘64 Kort, Ellen Leinwand Burton Atkins, M&A ‘62 Burton M&A ‘62 Bryant, Ernest M&A ‘62 Diner, Steven M&A ‘62 Eigenberg, Robert M&A ‘62 Glazer, Richard Grigorian, M&A ‘62 Myrna Russ M&A ‘62 Lambert, Steven M&A ‘62 Lester, Joel Winifred Hoshino Marasco, M&A ‘62 Pergola, Joseph M&A ‘62 Skurnick, Francine M&A ‘62 Taussig, Ellen M&A ‘62 Thaler, Fred M&A ‘62 Vogel, Michael Birdsall, M&A ‘63 Berry Burger

M&A ‘61 ‘61 PA M&A ‘59 M&A ‘59 M&A ‘59 ‘59 PA M&A ‘60 M&A ‘60 M&A ‘60 M&A ‘61 M&A ‘58 M&A ‘58 M&A ‘58 M&A ‘58 M&A ‘58 M&A ‘59 Susan Hirsch, M&A ‘61 Susan Krieger, Rosenberg Linda M&A ‘61 Enid Rubenstein, Sloane, M&A ‘61 Abigail Tish, M&A ‘61 Andrea M&A ‘61 Verlen, Silver Deborah Zuckerman, Sol and Evelyn ‘61 Thomas, PA Vickie Rosalind Ellison Bloom, M&A ‘59 Rosalind Hudson Baron,Johnson Caryl ‘59 M&A Stan Kusnetz, Manber, Margery Brussel Marshak, M&A ‘59 Les Martin, M&A ‘59 Gilbert M&A ‘59 Feiner May, Judith Norman Mintz, M&A ‘59 Amdur Morris, M&A ‘59 Joan Towbin, Goldstein Linda Zazula, M&A ‘59 Elise Hoch Gourdine, Campbell Patricia M&A ‘60 Astor, Adrian Coderre, Pauline Kleiman Marjorie Schwartz Copaken, W Ellwood, M&A ‘60 John M&A ‘60 Michael Ewer, Charles Hirsch, M&A ‘60 Kraus, M&A ‘60 Lucy Starkman Mager, Reeva Margaret Mandel, M&A ‘60 M&A ‘60 Paul B. Rubin, Scordato, M&A ‘60 Nicholas Sherman, M&A ‘60 Edward Bernstein, Russo Katherine Gail Hirschmann Becker, Gail Hirschmann Becker, Hershkowitz, Russ Rosalyn Schwarz Harriet Holtzman, Ormandy Klein, Roberta M&A ‘58 Littman, Lynne M&A ‘58 Scheller, Stanley Siegel-Wolarsky, Rosalie ‘58 Skurnick, M&A Eugene M&A ‘59 Bates, Jonathan Birenbaum,Caroline Fleisher

Contributions received from September 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015. March 31, through 1, 2014 September from received Contributions M&A ‘56 M&A ‘57 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘55 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 PA ‘54 PA Jerome Witkin, M&A ‘57 Jerome M&A ‘57 Yager, Joel Lawrence Schwartz, M&A ‘56 Lawrence M&A ‘56 Sheinkopf, Harold N. Stehlik, Jaffin Jacqueline M&A ‘56 Weiss, Solomon Ila Aaron, M&A ‘57 Michael Messite Bell, M&A ‘57 Linda Brody-Lederman,Stephanie Cohen, M&A ‘57 Miriam Katz Cohen, M&A ‘57 Raskin Isabel M&A ‘57 Martin Kornguth, M&A ‘57 Alan Lazarescu, M&A ‘57 Epstein Paseltiner, Judi M&A ‘57 Plested, Robert M&A ‘57 Weinberg, Maryellen Martin Diner, M&A ‘56 Martin Diner, Miriam Eisenstein, M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 Grace Feldman, Filby, Doertler Jeannette Gabriele, Maria Passarelli Richard Hammerschlag, M&A ‘56 Benjamin Lanzarone, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Sandra Kazahn Masur, M&A ‘56 Mauer, Robert Zuchman Avivah Pinski, Sandra Gordon Jackman, Gordon Sandra ‘55 M&A Klipper, Zeldner Miriam M&A ‘55 Michael Melcher, Shor Nedlin, M&A ‘55 Radie Smaltz, M&A ‘55 Audrey M&A ‘55 Spasser, Karmiohl Jill Wieting, M&A ‘55 William M&A ‘55 Wilkes, Sprung Barbara Bernard Bacharach, M&A ‘56 Hoffman Bardfeld,Andrea Beth Bergman, M&A ‘56 Berkowitz, Greenwald Rosanne Cook, M&A ‘56 Handel Shelley Susan Steiger, M&A ‘54 Steiger, Susan Claudette Weintraub Nevins, ‘55 M&A Adler, Spiegler Judith Asch, M&A ‘55 Zindler Rita M&A ‘55 Waldman Bell, Roberta M&A ‘55 Goldstein, Alan M&A ‘55 Claudia Hurst,

M&A ‘54 M&A ‘54 M&A ‘54 M&A ‘54 M&A ‘53 ‘53 PA M&A ‘53 M&A ‘53 M&A ‘53 M&A ‘52 M&A ‘52 M&A ‘51 M&A ‘50 Mazart, PA ‘49 Mazart, PA Sally Bakstansky Rosoff, Sally Bakstansky Rosoff, Ostrow Rothman, Carole Carol Feldman Newman,Carol Feldman Panken, Goldner Beverly Carol Fineberg-Wilson, M&A ‘54 Carol Fineberg-Wilson, Gatti, M&A ‘54 Richard M&A ‘54 Laska, Eugene M&A ‘54 Losada, Robert Judith Borodovko Walzer, Judith Walzer, Borodovko (Daisy) Kennedy, Sosa Dana Emilie Baumritter Klagsbrun, Baumritter Emilie Harriet Brown Saperstein, Anthony LaMarca, PA ‘52 PA Anthony LaMarca, Bloom,Ann Katzenstein Jo Graham, M&A ‘53 Criley Beverly Gene Pontrelli, M&A ‘52 Pontrelli, Gene Stephen Richards, M&A ‘52 Weinstein, Goldsmith Alice M&A ‘52 Wohl, Jack Alan Kessler, M&A ‘52 Alan Kessler, M&A ‘52 Sondra Kagan Kramer, M&A ‘52 Gingold Liebert, Esther Robert E. Rachlis, M&A ‘51 Robert M&A ‘51 Singer, Riefs Carole M&A ‘52 Alvin Friedman-Klein, Anne Holland Hohenemser, Esther Meshberg Newman, M&A ‘51 Piaker, Jarecky Maida M&A ‘51 Gusten Pundyk, Marcia Ellen Sharcoff Jaffe, M&A ‘50 Jaffe, M&A Sharcoff Ellen M&A ‘50 Letwin, Zurav Alita M&A ‘50 Saperstein, William M&A ‘50 Schiff, Raymond Howard Coron, M&A ‘50 Howard M&A ‘50 Drooker, Nina Doerfler Gissing, M&A ‘50 Aldort Edythe Sidney Myers, M&A ‘49 Myers, Sidney Mazaritsky Norman and Ruth Berkson, Raphael Suzanne Edward Craig, M&A ‘49 Edward Galison, M&A ‘49 Kalmus Joan Goldsmith, M&A ‘49 David Brown Hertz, M&A ‘49 Suzanne Gershon Berkson, M&A ‘49 Berkson, Gershon Blum, M&A ‘49 Teller Frieda 14 THANK YOU… Nardo Poy, M&A‘65 Jill Pliskin,M&A‘65 Laurane Geary Mendelsohn, Contributions receivedfrom September 1,2014 throughMarch31,2015. Crescenda Ramble Lewis, PA ‘79 Elaine DeBari,M&A ‘79 Nanette Schwersenz Abuhoff, Su Yon PakPak,M&A‘78 Bruce Wilson, M&A‘77 Whitfield Lovell, M&A‘77 Alison Gaynor, M&A‘77 Andrew Feuerstein, M&A‘76 Deborah ElkindRosenthal, Alice Ross Leon, M&A‘75 Michael Keller, M&A‘74 Andrew Gottehrer, M&A‘74 Melanie BorosHooven, M&A‘73 Carol IsaacsonBriselli, M&A ‘73 Selma Moss-Ward, PA ‘72 Irene Landaw, M&A‘72 Daphne Kis,M&A‘72 Lyle Banks,M&A‘72 Charlene Weisler-Schwarzkopf, William Stone, M&A‘70 Lynne Cohen Reik, M&A‘70 Janet Marcus,M&A‘70 David Blaiwas,M&A‘70 Isobel Abzug, M&A‘70 Phyllis Schreiber Beige, PA ‘69 Katharine FlandersMukherji, Daniel Kravetz, M&A‘69 Lorinda Klein,M&A‘69 Ruth Bauman,M&A‘69 Matthew Diamond,PA ‘68 Paul Vitello, M&A‘68 Sylvia andPaul Shoenfeld, Jan Roth Hauptman,M&A‘68 Judith Katz,PA ‘67 Fenichel Theodos, Martha Joel Smirnoff, M&A‘67 Brenda Blocker Duncan, Marion Danis,M&A‘67 Laura Breitman,M&A‘67 Linda Fogelman Harth,PA ‘66 Harry Taub, M&A‘66 Janet Sibarium, M&A‘66 Robert Hoffman,M&A‘66 Clifford Gelb, M&A‘66 Erica Frouman-Smith, M&A‘66 Sandra Raffes Alpern,M&A‘66 Lynn Leveridge, PA ‘65 Rosely Traube, M&A‘65 Susan Rosenstock, M&A‘65 M&A ‘65 M&A ‘79 M&A ‘75 M&A ‘71 M&A ‘69 M&A ‘68 M&A ‘67 M&A ‘67

Renata Urbach Rainer,Renata Urbach Deborah (Debby) Cohen Klein, Bella Tabak Feldman, M&A‘46 Ellen Bower Feingold, M&A‘46 Ruth Feiner Feigl, M&A‘46 Sally Sarner Weiss, M&A‘45 Donald Mintz,M&A‘45 Joseph Liebling, M&A‘45 Franklin Feldman,M&A‘45 Lotte HeilbrunnBlaustein, Jones Thompson, Patricia Max Kupsinel Robbins, M&A‘44 Harriet Fourems Levy, M&A‘44 Leonard Chaifetz, M&A‘44 Hy Abe Bershad,M&A‘43 Terry Wachtell Ledley, M&A‘42 Daniel Brown,M&A‘40 William Nash,Retired Faculty Harvey Friedman,Retired Joan Adler, Retired Faculty TobyFriend Sitnick, Beth Flusser, Friend Sofia Taylor, Friend Randy Polumbo, Friend Hedda Orkin, Friend Tim McConville,Friend Long IslandMusicEngraving Angela Gross, Friend GlaxoSmithKline, Friend Ellen Freilich, Friend Ken DeLuca, Friend Friend Judith Cook, Friend Daniel Chusid, $50-$99 Individual Eli Salamon Abrams, LaG ‘12 Sabrina Nacmias,LaG ‘11 Jacob Bloomfield, LaG ‘08 Rebecca Zahler, LaG ‘02 Elizabeth Schwartz, LaG ‘02 Carolyn Appel, LaG ‘97 Amanda Miller, LaG ‘96 Shani Ankori, LaG ‘95 Alan (Ron) Susser, LaG ‘90 Judy Wong, LaG ‘89 Marlene HirshfieldHakakha, Keith Mishkin,PA ‘84 Susan Pollack, M&A‘82 Jill Lanier, M&A‘81 Nathalie Gabrielli Rawat,PA ‘80 Edwin Hernandez,M&A‘80 M&A ‘46 M&A ‘46 M&A ‘45 M&A ‘44 Faculty Services, Friend LaG ‘88

Sherrin Bernstein Hersch, Sherrin BernsteinHersch, Stanley Friedman,M&A‘48 Lorraine Buch,M&A‘48 Florence Alter Stern, M&A‘47 Lucy Freeman Sandler, M&A‘47 Honora BurgerRubenstein, Marvin Macnow, M&A‘47 Loretta Varon Lewis, M&A‘47 Henderson, Evelyn Jones Jane HarmonHein,M&A‘47 Richard Berjian, M&A‘47 Richard Silver, M&A‘46 Frank Rupp, M&A‘46 Ruth Prager Cogen, M&A ‘53 Florman Sirowitz, Myrna Barbara BacklarReis, M&A‘52 Dolph Prince, M&A‘52 Niela Miller, M&A‘52 Amy Loeserman, M&A‘52 Evan Hersh,M&A‘52 Francine BarbanDiPalma, Edward Cogen, M&A‘52 PosenCynthia Anderson, Bernstein Wertheimer,Barbara Nina Schultz Raskin,M&A‘51 Harriet Griss Mann,M&A‘51 Jean IsaacsonMandelbaum, Louise Greber Londin, M&A‘51 Susan Loeserman Friedman, Risa HirschEhrlich,M&A‘51 Chester Berschling,M&A‘51 Arlene Silberstein Skolnick, Rosenblat, Stern Sue Ann Louise DereneKatz,M&A‘50 Cecilia Gomez Kanelba, Irwin Kahn,M&A‘50 Joyce Kent Helman, M&A ‘50 Dorothy Miller Gutenkauf, Starkman Argintar,Celia Lida Traum Keltz, M&A‘49 Horowitz, Brenda Stone June Polinger Farber, M&A‘49 Morton Roggen, M&A‘48 Beatrice EslofskyPrentice, M&A ‘48 M&A ‘47 M&A ‘47 M&A ‘52 M&A ‘52 M&A ‘52 M&A ‘51 M&A ‘51 M&A ‘51 M&A ‘50 M&A ‘50 M&A ‘50 M&A ‘50 M&A ‘50 M&A ‘49 M&A ‘48

Diana Rosenberg Engel, William Arnold, M&A‘54 Sternberg Weitzman, Sima Sandra Schenker Weitz, M&A‘53 Larry Walker, M&A‘53 Bernstein Sparber-Sandra Frances DonnRichard,M&A‘53 Milton Ohring, M&A‘53 Anoush Miridjanian,M&A‘53 Mae Fleischhacker Maltin, James Kurtz, M&A‘53 Claire Schwad Gladstein, Joan Giuner Bovarnick,M&A‘57 Delores Lefkowitz Bernstein, Judy KannerKadoory, PA ‘56 Joyce Ship Zaritsky, M&A‘56 Jill Weber, M&A‘56 Robert Ubell, M&A‘56 Yvette Namanworth Schwartz, Renee FlorsheimRayel,M&A‘56 Judith Zuckerman Medoff, Carmen McKenna, M&A‘56 Sy andEdi Wellner Mayerson, Robert Marshall,M&A‘56 Cora Gordon, M&A‘56 Zipporah Weiss Collins, M&A‘56 Yvonne Othon Wilder, PA ‘55 Jack Linder, PA ‘55 ‘55 M&A Carol StolbachScott, ‘55 M&A Carolyn Silvers Salevitz, Jacqueline Vogel Roth, M&A‘55 Betsy Cantwell Pusey, M&A‘55 Emily Wortis Leider, M&A‘55 Judith Kent Green, M&A‘55 Martin Finkelstein, M&A‘55 Warren Falberg, M&A‘55 Sophie Koch Cook, M&A‘55 Merle Lovinger Brenner, Falikman Attiyeh, Jessica Kenneth Seeman, M&A‘54 Miki Gold Rosen, M&A‘54 Arbie Orenstein, M&A‘54 (Cookie)Henriet Azenberg Julius Miller, M&A‘54 Judith L. Cohen Meisels, Joseph Kocinsky, M&A‘54 Sue Thebner Hochberg,M&A‘54 M&A ‘53 Friedman, M&A‘53 M&A ‘53 M&A ‘53 M&A ‘57 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘56 M&A ‘55 M&A ‘55 Miller, M&A‘54 M&A ‘54 M&A ‘54

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Contributions received from September 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015.

Judith Stulberg Crystal, M&A ‘57 Arlene Kohnop Tunney, M&A ‘62 Jonathan Bloom, M&A ‘68 Nicholas Miller, LaG ‘04 Anthony Drago, M&A ‘57 Sharon Leichman Waks, PA ‘62 Jeri E. Feig de Souza, M&A ‘68 Lori Djivre, LaG ‘07 Judith Bergman Feig, M&A ‘57 June Meyer Blume, M&A ‘63 Barbara Hess Kafka, M&A ‘68 Sarah Mandell, LaG ‘09 Barbara Breslau Frink, M&A ‘57 Leon Botstein, M&A ‘63 Leonard Kamen, M&A ‘68 Sarah Tembeckjian, LaG ‘10 Rona Goldman Green, M&A ‘57 Martin Bresnick, M&A ‘63 Susan Rosenthal, M&A ‘68 Marvin Richman, M&A ‘57 Alice Stellman Dvoskin, M&A ‘63 James Bednarz, M&A ‘69 Judith Cohen Simon, M&A ‘57 Vivian Gallo, M&A ‘63 Jessica Price Byrne, M&A ‘69 Bonnie Stein Crosby, PA ‘57 Ned Heltzer, M&A ‘63 Linda Gordon Goodman, Barbara Brick Cammarano, Warren J. Hopson, M&A ‘63 M&A ‘69 M&A ‘58 Susan Bliss Levinson, M&A ‘63 Theresa Montalto Guglielmo, Joyce Klein Gelb, M&A ‘58 Susan Abramson Mayer, M&A ‘69 Roberta Sirico Hurley, M&A ‘58 M&A ‘63 Jill Rothman, M&A ‘69 Jon Konheim, M&A ‘58 Carol Lynn Rosenthal Nelson, Jane Schore, PA ‘69 Jin Lau, M&A ‘58 M&A ‘63 Joshua Frank, M&A ‘70 Susan Tannenbaum Manspeizer, Kathleen Radano Pollak, Sarah S. Schwartzberg Gelberd, M&A ‘58 M&A ‘63 M&A ‘70 Audrey Barr Naarden, M&A ‘58 Stephanie Solomonoff Reich, Beatrice Mathias Katz, M&A ‘70 Amy Steinberg Pollack, M&A ‘58 M&A ‘63 Sonja Williams, M&A ‘70 John Radosta, M&A ‘58 Babette Bleifeld Zacks, M&A ‘63 Joanna Davis Berkowitz, Samuel Rhodes, M&A ‘58 Irene Nathan Zipper, M&A ‘63 M&A ‘71 Sara Samuels Seiden, M&A ‘58 Francine Berman Corley, Helene Guttenberg-Menco, Helene Kalisch Singer, M&A ‘58 M&A ‘64 M&A ‘71 Peter Maxwell Cohen, M&A ‘59 Susan Rothpearl Epstein, Regina Kurrasch, M&A ‘71 Elly Ebner Dworkin, M&A ‘59 M&A ‘64 Fern Schneider Wilensky, Cecelia Resnick Feld, M&A ‘59 Allan Gabel, M&A ‘64 M&A ‘71 Sandra Smolofsky Feldman, Madeleine Schwartz Lepolstat, Linell Hunter, M&A ‘72 M&A ‘59 M&A ‘64 Phyllis Lerner, M&A ‘72 John Fulop, M&A ‘59 Ronnie Lesser, M&A ‘64 Lisa Loren, M&A ‘72 Laura Harris, M&A ‘59 Linda Lefkow McBride, M&A ‘64 Elaine Wertheim Auerbach, Rose Lau Hunter, M&A ‘59 Andrew E Mishkin, M&A ‘64 M&A ‘73 Diana Brody Jacobson, M&A ‘59 Mary Ann Nichols-Kallus, Stewart Rose, M&A ‘73 Raina Lapidus Lefkowitz, M&A ‘59 M&A ‘64 Adele Dinerstein, M&A ‘74 Michael Wachtell, M&A ‘59 Jacquelynne Heine Pilo, M&A ‘64 Howard Kruskol, PA ‘75 Barbara Stevens Sullivan, PA ‘59 Naomi Kaplan Pomper, M&A ‘64 Robert Kruskol, PA ‘75 Daniel Beagle, M&A ‘60 Jonathan Schwartz, M&A ‘64 Keeley Curtis Mitchell, M&A ‘76 Carol Bloom, M&A ‘60 Jane Warsaw, M&A ‘64 Julie Miller, M&A ‘77 Robert Forte, M&A ‘60 Martha Traub Baker, M&A ‘65 Teri Schick, M&A ‘77 Arlette (Debbie) Jassel Gary Friedman, M&A ‘65 Debra Katz Strell, M&A ‘78 Goldstein, M&A ‘60 Victoria Mallon Gleicher, Maria Delgado Schwab, PA ‘78 Faith Epstein Lifshen, M&A ‘60 M&A ‘65 Jill Bachmann-Cheriff, M&A ‘79 Gabriella Perkins Loetterle, Kathleen A. Jurow, M&A ‘65 Veronika Herman Bromberg, M&A ‘60 Kenneth Maltz, M&A ‘65 M&A ‘79 Barrett Stoll, M&A ‘60 Laura Sheiner Sheiner-Elliott, Nadine Orenstein, M&A ‘79 Gerald Trevor, M&A ‘60 M&A ‘65 Maia Spilman, M&A ‘79 Cora Baron-Heler, M&A ‘61 Robert Shotland, M&A ‘65 Delores Graham, M&A ‘83 Julie Diamond, M&A ‘61 William Tarr, M&A ‘65 Melissa Canepa Murphy, LaG ‘88 Correction from previous Margaret Ross Griffel, M&A ‘61 Leslie Brin Andrews, M&A ‘66 Barry Buchman, LaG ‘90 newsletter: The incorrect Paul Lansky, M&A ‘61 Ellen Eisenberg, M&A ‘66 Emily Machleder Sandow, year was used for the Leslie Liebesman, M&A ‘61 Karen Smith Hawthorne, LaG ‘90 following post: for members Pyllis Stern, M&A ‘61 M&A ‘66 Suzanne Zelman, LaG ‘90 of the class of ’58, please Steven Stipelman, M&A ‘61 Stephanie Block Miele, PA ‘66 Anna Russakoff, LaG ‘91 Sandra Zagarell, M&A ‘61 Susan Wiegan DiMotta, M&A ‘67 Abigail Levine, LaG ‘95 let Alison know if you did Robert Einenkel, PA ‘61 Marc Eichen, M&A ‘67 Aimie Wong, LaG ‘97 not receive the winter Susan Keane Avery, M&A ‘62 Joan Finkelstein, M&A ‘67 Qing Liao, LaG ‘99 newsletter (alisonlgoodwin_ Karen Raiman Gant, M&A ‘62 Ruth Lansner, M&A ‘67 Aisha Richard Lewis-McCoy, [email protected]). Also, Sally Ann Roth, M&A ‘62 Meryl Sacks, M&A ‘67 LaG ‘00 please check for missing Toby Goldstein Schlein, M&A ‘62 Joan Seecof, M&A ‘67 David D Wong, LaG ‘00 names on our website and David Schreiber, M&A ‘62 Susan Finley Weiser, M&A ‘67 Elizabeth Miller, LaG ‘01 Marelen Kutner Small, M&A ‘62 Judy Braun Zegas, M&A ‘67 Alla Poberesky, LaG ‘01 post this information on Janet Sullivan, M&A ‘62 Joan Balter, M&A ‘68 Lang Bertin, LaG ‘03 your FB page. 15

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