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226 Class April 29, 2017 Memory Book Harvey Abrams Stuart Ammerman Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: President, IISOH Library & Museum Occupation: Network TV audio engineer for CBS News Family: Married & Divorced; two sons Family: Wife Janet, son Zachary, daughters Rachel and Molly Interests: Olympic Games & Sport history, books, medallic arts, Interests: The Walking Dead, military history, and long walks on the poster art, photography beach Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Physical Ed & health Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Career highlights: teacher, freestyle wrestler, coach, 4 time US Olympic trials (1972- Covering every President from Ronald Reagan to President-elect 1984), taught in public schools, S.E. Missouri St. U and Penn St. U, Trump, seeing every major Washington political event, traveling on JFK Schule in West Berlin, Germany (1982-1987); founder Air Force One and in Presidential motorcades, standing face to face Philadelphia Amateur Wrestling Club (PAWC); founder International with foreign leaders, dignitaries, and celebrities, covering thousands Institute for Sport History (IISOH); Married/divorced with two sons; of events at the White House from the Oval Office to the East Room Residing in central Pennsylvania and Vienna, Austria; Owner of to the Rose Garden. Memorable life experiences include being Harvey Abrams-BOOKS, an antiquarian book business since 1979; present for my daughter's graduation from Yale, son's graduation created HLAbrams Consulting (2016) in Vienna. see from UC Santa Barbara, and looking forward to my youngest's www.chs226.org, www.iisoh.org, www.harveyabramsbooks.com, upcoming graduation from Towson. sportlibrary.org Bruce Auerbach Lawrence Axelrod Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Physician-Executive, President and CEO Family: Married with 3 children, 2 married and 3 grandchildren Interests: Hiking, swimming, skiing, travel, spending time w my kids and grandkids Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: After college spent 2 1/2 years in France, studying French and starting medical school. Returned to Philly to complete medical school at Temple Med, married a fellow Temple Med student and went to CA for our respective residencies, mine in emergency medicine residency and hers in Ob-Gyn. Returned to the East after residencies, to Boston, where we have remained. Took a leadership position at a community hospital south of the city where I ultimately became the hospital President and CEO. In the interim, had three children, 2 of whom are married and produced 3 grandchildren for us. Barry Balik Jonathan Barkan Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Information Technology Coordinator/Cnslt Family: Married my college sweetheart for 43 years--2 great sons and daugherters-in-law. Interests: Congregation choir & Men's Club leader. VP Midwest B'nai B'rith, piano, biking. Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Bachelors and Masters degrees and additional post graduate work in Psychology. After working as a Psychology Research Assistant for the State of Illinois I decided to pursue another Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a related computer career. Worked as an Information Technology Service Coordinator for over 30 years for the City of Chicago, including IT coordinator for the Mayor's Office for Mayor R. M. Daley's entire 22-year administration. Retired from City service and now do IT consulting and enjoy my many other interests, family, and friends. Larry Batchelor Neil Behrmann Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Sales Director, T3 Micro, Inc. Occupation: Wine/Liquor Salesrep Family: just me & t....and 2 Nice Neices Interests: Boating, Biking, Writing, Travel Interests: Pop Piano Man Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Published Author: "Miss Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: South Street Business Fannie Mae's Girls" published 2011; Books in Progress: "State of 70's Health Food Business 80's Wine/Liquor Rep. 90's till Now Realty", "Down the Backstairs of My Life", "The Dowager Duchess of Beacon Street" Edward (Eddie) Bell Ronald (Ron) Bell Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Personal Wealth Management Advisor Occupation: Personal Injury Attorney Family: Wife = Myra Family: Married. Interests: Sports Fishing Theatre Interests: Magic tricks, travel, dancing, and live concert entertainment Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: I have managed to stay Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Ron Bell graduated out of prison so far. But if things ever get dicey, they'll never take me from Villanova School of Law in 1974 and moved to Albuquerque, alive. New Mexico. He has been practicing personal injury law for the past 35 years. Ron was a pioneer in legal advertising. His "I sue drunk driver" campaign earned national exposure. Ron is an acomplished speaker and has provided the community with many hours of pro bono work. Melvin Berger Eric (Rick) Berman Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Immunologist Occupation: Counselor/Counselor Educator Family: Married, Two Kids, Two grand kids and 1 on the way Family: Wife: Debora; Son: Nathan; Daughter: Leah Interests: Travel, grand kids, Biographies, Military History Interests: Play drums/vibraphone, hiking, reading, Oregon Coast, lament state of the world Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: I went to Western Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Too much to condense. Reserve in Cleveland for college-ended up staying 9 years and Contact me if you're really interested. getting BA, MD and PhD in Biochemistry. Did residency in peds at Boston Childrens' and then joined the Public Health Service as an Allergy-Immunology fellow at NIH. I got a faculty position at Walter Reed and switched to the Army. Returned to Case Western Reserve as Chief of Allergy-Immunology in '84 and stayed 25 years. in 2008, I became a research director at CSL Behring, a company that purifies proteins from blood for patients with rare diseases. My office is in King of Prussia, but I still live in Cleveland. David Bernstein Bruce Bitcover Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Retired Program Director Occupation: Podiatrist Family: Married 37 years to Marion Goldstein2 children and 2 Family: wife Lydia grandchildren, #3 coming Interests: Singing, volunteering, spinning and spending time with Interests: History-traveling family Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: David Bernstein, MSW recently retired as Director of The Center for Effective Interventions (CEI) at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. David started the office in 2000 with the mission to promote the implementation of evidence-based and promising human services programs throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Prior to that he worked in the public sector for 20 years as a caseworker, supervisor, administrator and director of child welfare and human services programs in several metropolitan counties in the Denver area. Kenneth (Ken) Bluford Kenneth Bogdanoff Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Retired Occupation: Retired Retailer Family: Married twice, divorced once, one daughter. Family: Married to Judy 46 years, 2 Children, Sandy 44, Doug 41. 4 grandkids, 13,6,3,1 Interests: Poetry, jazz, political/social activism--plus ca change. Interests: Golf, Skiing, Yoga, Travel Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Graduated from NYU Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Started 4 retail and Penn, taught English at Kenyon College, Phila. Naval Shipyard operations, live in Cape Cod, after 15 years in Colorado, and 5 and Community College of Phila., served as HR Specialist at IRS years in Connecticut,25 years in Jenkintown and Bala Cynwyd and Dept. of Navy. Author of Climate/Stream (w/Tom Weatherly), Fugitive Pieces, Old Songs/Bad Movies et al. Robert Bomberowitz Steven Bronstein Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: President of Ste-lar Textiles Inc. Family: Married to Arlene and have two children Michael 38 and Lauren 35. Interests: Enjoy family. Blessed with two granddaughters. Travel with Arlene. Enjoy work. Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: After I left Central I graduated from Textile. I worked for an Industrial textile supplier. Three years later I started my own company. I travel all over the U.S. David Brookstein Charles Brown Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Associate Dean of Engineering-Temple U Family: wife(Ellen) 3-Daughters - 7 grandkids Interests: Red Sox baseball Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: Undergrad degree from Georgia Tech and a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. I then started as an Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech. In 1980 I then started working in industrial research in Boston for 14 years (1980- 1994). Came back to Philly as a dean at Philadelphia University (1994-2012). Decided to do something different a and was a dean at Montgomery County Community College (2012-2013) I then tried to retire in 2013 and hated it. Now I am Associate Dean of Engineering at Temple University and love it there and hope to be working there for many many more years Edmund Bulmash Barry Burd Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: College Professor Family: Wife Harriet Ritter; Son Sam Burd; Daughter Jennie Burd Interests: Talking, eating and sleeping Biography / Memorable Life Experiences: 1976: Degree in Math; 1980: Married Harriet and started work at Drew University in Madison, NJ; 1984: Degree in Computer Science; 1985: Son Sam born; 1988: Daughter Jennie born; 1992: First book published; 2016: Still working. Stuart Burd Agostino (Gus) Cammisa Class of '67 [email protected] Class of '67 [email protected] Donald Carter Stephen (Steve) Chesin Class of '67 Class of '67 [email protected] Occupation: Pharmacist (Retired) Family: Married to Nancy 44 years. Son Adam, d-in-law Rita, granddaughters Esme & Clio. Interests: Avid skier for many years.