QUEENS FALL 2017, VOL. XX, NO. 1 THE MAGAZINE OF QUEENS COLLEGE 8 Learning and Serving Queens College President Adriano Espaillat and Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Cristina Jimenez put their education to good use: He is a legislator and she is an advocate for DREAMers.

Remembering QC Today to Create a Better Tomorrow 13 True of Your School Think you know QC? Here are 80 facts about your alma mater that will make you stand up and say, “Wow!” Queens College was there for you when you needed it— providing a high-quality education at little or no cost. Make sure that Queens College will be there for tomorrow’s 15 Advancing an Institution Three foresighted individuals deserve credit for students by including QC in your will today. Your gift—which creating “a People’s College” that has been changing lives since 1937. you can direct to any department or program—will keep QC’s quality education accessible to students determined to make a better life for themselves. SECTIONS 4 News By remembering Queens College today, you will help prepare 5 Alumni Notes our next generation of leaders, thinkers, and doers, and 10 Giving Back inspire answers to tomorrow’s biggest challenges. 13 Donor Honor Roll 35 Kupferberg Events First class experience Nearly four years and many exams after they matriculated, members of Queens Become a lifelong Jefferson Society member College’s first entering class take pride in their graduation in 1941. by including QC in your estate plan. To learn more, visit qccommunity.qc.cuny.edu/ Cover: Queens College is marking its birthday with a logo that says it all. QueensCollege/PlannedGiving or contact The celebration continues at our anniversary website, www.qc.cuny.edu/80. Emily Hirshbein, Director of Gift Planning, at 718-997-3961 or emily.hirshbein@

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1955: Mimi Kaminsky Aarens A Very Short Introduction, part of a Europe, and the lifetime achievement Barbara Bonner has published published her memoir, Mah & Me: popular series published by Oxford award from the Society for Redox Inspiring Courage (Wisdom Max Kupferberg ’42 Brooklyn Memories (CreateSpace), a University Press. He is a senior Biology and Medicine. He is research Publications), a collection of poetry, It is with great sorrow that we note the passing of Max Kupferberg, the campus the cultural collection of vignettes from research scholar and the Florence professor of gerontology at the quotations, and profiles of a stellar member of the Queens College Class of 1942. epicenter of Queens. childhood through one of the last Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Southern California courageous everyday lives. Formerly Max Kupferberg was among the 400 students present when Max received an midyear QC graduations held in the Yale Law School . . . 1966: Carol and distinguished professor emeritus VP of Bennington College and the Newman Brier has concluded a Queens College first opened its doors in 1937. After graduating honorary degree from makeshift gym building. Mimi has of biochemistry at the University of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, taught memoir writing at Lifelong labor of love that began in 1995, California, Merced . . . 1970: Frank and until recently the board chair at with a degree in physics, Max went to work for the United States Queens College and was Learning Centers around Boston for when she volunteered at the John Lombardi retired from the Port the Barre Center for Buddhist Army on the Manhattan Project, conducting nuclear research in named our Alumnus of 14 years, and has been a marketing Jay Homestead. Among her duties: Authority in 2010 to spend more Studies, she has a consulting practice Los Alamos, New Mexico. the Year. He was also the communications specialist, teacher, transcribing Jay’s papers held at time with his wife, Christine, and that helps nonprofit organizations Building on their experiences as inventors of power equipment recipient of our Q Award, activist, and oil painter . . . Ralph Columbia University, including more their three grandchildren, but he is transform their philanthropic during the war, Max and his three brothers started Kepco, Inc. which goes to those special Kingsley is the suthor of My than 500 of his letters. A retired still teaching at Manhattan College support . . . 1974: Works by This internationally known company has been a mainstay of the people we would most like Spiritual Journey (Word Association paralegal with a BA in history, she and NYU. Frank will be forever Theodora Zavala were shown in Flushing business community ever since 1946. our students to emulate, Publishers), about his life as a reform wrote a research-oriented blog, The remembered for his service in From A to Z, an exhibit of local artists Max was deeply devoted to the people of Queens, generously people who embody our rabbi. Married for 57 years to John Jay Forum, and published some rehabilitating the World Trade held at the Barnes Gallery in Garden donating his time and resources to Flushing Hospital and Medical college’s motto, Discimus ut serviamus: We learn so that we may Brenda Schiffman (’59), Ralph is articles she wrote as trial balloons— Center after the 1993 bombing and City, NY. Thea, a practicing pastelist Center, the YMCA, the Queens Botanical Garden Society, Queens serve. In 2006, in appreciation for his generosity and exemplary rabbi emeritus of Temple Sinai of to see if she could do it. Now she for restoring PATH service after the and photographer, has won County Savings Bank, New York Community Bancorp, and many service to the college, Colden Center was renamed the Selma and North Dade, the North Miami Beach has published her first book, Mr. Jay 9/11 attacks. He received the 2017 numerous awards. She teaches in other organizations. Max Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. congregation he served for 31 years of Bedford: John Jay, the Retirement Moles Award for Outstanding the Queens public system . . . 1975: The Queens College family has long been aware of Max’s Max’s wife, Selma, predeceased him. He is survived by a . . . 1957: William Wildermuth Years, 1801–1829 (Heritage Books) Achievement in Construction Joanne Calcagno (MS ’76) wrote many achievements and generosity. He was a dynamic presence daughter, Rhoda, and a son, Saul, who serves on the Queens writes, “My wife and I are enjoying . . . 1967: Henry Jay Forman . . . 1972: Leslie Leach, a Queens Rewind Fast Forward, a teachers’ on campus, serving for many years as president of the Colden College Foundation Board and chairs the Kupferberg Center for the retirement on the east shore of won two major awards in his field: County Supreme Court Justice, was guide to working with transgender Center Board and as co-chair of the Development Committee of Arts Advisory Board. Schroom Lake in the Adirondack the award lectureship from the appointed to the NYS Commission students . . . 1976: Camille Eskell the Kupferberg Center. His family’s transformational gift was Max’s passion for education and the arts remains an enduring Mountains. I started my own Society for Free Radical Research– on Judicial Conduct . . . 1973: (MFA 1979) exhibited her work in instrumental in revitalizing the arts at Queens College, making inspiration to his Queens College community. insurance agency in 1961 in Garden City, NY, with absolutely nothing. After almost 40 years I sold it, and In Memoriam Through her generosity, QC was know each other until they were my wife and I moved to the able to expand its science and introduced by a mutual friend when Gala Celebrates million students born between 1980 and 1991, to these same students’ Adirondacks.” Bill remembers “many Helen Marshall, 1929–2017 athletics facilities, make numerous Elsi was a freshman and Leon a Extraordinary Alums: income as college-educated adults. The analysis ranks QC in the top nice things” about QC, including the Three-term Queens improvements to the Kupferberg junior. They began dating in 1942 President Félix V. Matos 1% of all colleges in moving students from the bottom fifth of the ease of parking in the 1950s. “The Borough President Center, and fund the special but didn’t marry until 1946, when Rodríguez (left) welcomed income distribution to the top fifth. . . $23 Million Ed Center second thing I enjoyed was how well Helen Marshall collections area of the library, Leon returned from service in the three extraordinary alumni for Armstrong House Museum: A ground-breaking ceremony I learned economics from Prof. devoted her career among other projects. The college Army Signal Corps. In addition to at the college’s annual gala for a 14,000-square-foot education center for the Louis Armstrong Miller, who went on to become to the people and will be working with her family to raising a family of four children, Elsi on May 3 at Guastavino’s in House Museum (LAHM) took place on July 17 across the street Dean Miller. He whetted my institutions of archive her papers in our library, in developed her professional career, Manhattan (l. to r.): Muriel from the museum—the legendary jazz great’s nationally landmarked appetite so much that I had no Queens. Like so many of her future the company of the collections of becoming a fine piano accompanist Sapir Greenblatt ’54 was Queens home in Corona. The new facility will broaden the public’s choice but to continue toward my constituents, Marshall was the child other Queens notables, including who performed throughout the her one-time neighbor in Corona, United States and in Canada and Is- honored for her community understanding of Armstrong’s life and legacy and complement the degree” . . . 1959: Laura Robb of immigrants. She earned a BA Louis Armstrong. An ardent rael, while Leon studied engineering service with the Alumni Award; visitor experience with a state-of-the-art exhibition gallery, 68-seat received the 2016 Richard W. Halle in education through QC’s Adult Collegiate Education program and advocate for all things Queens, and eventually founded the Urban Emmy-nominated actress, jazz club, and museum store. It will also house the materials in the Award of the National Council of spent eight years in the classroom Marshall liked to say, “Visit Queens Foundation/Engineering Company. author, and advocate for cancer Armstrong Archives—currently housed at QC . . . Three Grads Teachers of English, which honors before becoming the first director and see the world.” She meant the Elsi and Leon were passionate awareness Fran Drescher was Receive NSF Fellowships: Three QC graduates—Nohely Cesarina those who promote understanding of the Langston Hughes Library world to Queens College. philanthropists who were recognized with the college’s Lifetime Achievement Award; and Abreu ’16 (Biology), Adolmary Pena ’14 (Anthropology), and Patryk of adolescents’ developmental needs, especially in the language arts. Laura in Corona, which she helped to committed to giving back to their foreign language educator and community revitalization activist Perkowski ’14 (Economics)—have been awarded 2017 National has more than 43 years’ experience found. Then she entered politics, Elsi Levy, 1925–2016 community. A dedicated friend of Evelyn M. Strauch ’60 received the President’s Award. This year’s Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, one of the as a classroom teacher for grades serving for eight years in the New The Queens College the Center for Jewish Studies at Gala raised over $1 million for student scholarships . . . most prestigious and competitive grants in the nation. Each five-year $1 Million 4–8, and is the author of more than York State Assembly and a decade community lost Queens College, Elsi served as a to Help Disadvantaged Students: The college received a fellowship provides a total of $138,000 for tuition and other education- 25 professional books for educators in the New York City Council. the leadership member of the board for nearly a $1 million gift from Give Something Back, a program that helps related expenses . . . Stephen Stepanchev (1915–2017): Professor . . . 1960: Noel Reitmeister’s In 2001 she was the first African- and support of decade. She and Leon supported high school students facing financial and other challenges stick Emeritus of English Stephen Stepanchev, the first poet laureate of the varied achievements have been American and second woman to be distinguished alumna the center, establishing a lecture with their studies and apply to college. The gift will allow 50 borough of Queens (1997–2000), passed away on April 23 at the age laudable: a staff sergeant with the elected Queens Borough president, Elsi Levy ’44 upon series and contributing to the young women and men to attend QC without having to pay for of 102. Stephen taught at QC for 36 years. For QC’s 50th anniversary 197th U.S. Army Intelligence and she assumed her post with a her recent passing. Director’s Discretionary Fund. She tuition, fees, or room and board. The program was created by in 1987, he edited and co-wrote The People’s College on the Hill: Company; a certified financial detailed list of priorities that staff Elsi Levy grew up in Astoria, also encouraged others to give, Give Back founder Robert Owen Carr, who remembered how a Fifty Years of Queens College (see an excerpt from this on page 15; planner with a long professional members dubbed “the Marshall Queens. After attending the High writing in one article, “Please give $250 scholarship to attend college changed his life . . . QC Tops for more on Stephen, see the Spring 2015 issue of Queens Magazine.) career ranging from DuPont to Plan for Queens.” Everyone in the School of Music & Art (now Fiorello as you can, or rather, give as you in Moving Students from Poverty to Prosperity: The . . . Athletes Score Another First: QC finished the 2016-17 Wells Fargo Advisors; a teacher at borough would benefit from her H. LaGuardia High School of Music must.” Elsi and Leon felt it was their results of a recent study by the Equality of Opportunity Project, season ranked in the top 100 of the NCAA Division II Learfield Purdue University Calumet and efforts. She allocated millions of & Art and Performing Arts), she responsibility to give back to society as reported in the New York Times, provide insight into how well Directors’ Cup standings for the first time. Queens came in at No. 99 Indiana University; and being dollars to libraries and parks and came to Queens College where whatever was within their means. Queens College is propelling students up the economic ladder. out of over 300 Division II institutions with 214 total points. “This “married to Elaine Schendelman for recreation. Marshall was also a she met her beloved husband, Through their leadership and generosity, they served as models Using federal Internal Revenue Service data, the study of 2,200 U.S. is the highest ranking ever in the history of the department,” said the past 55 years” . . . 1965: steady supporter of CUNY and, Leon Levy. Although they grew up just two blocks apart, they didn’t of giving. colleges and universities compared parental income for about 30 Assistant VP and Athletics Director China Jude. Eugene Fidell wrote Military Justice: in particular, her alma mater.

4 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 5 concerning Whole Woman’s Health v. 1995: After a ten-year hiatus, writer Tilson Rodriguez-Gonzalez is Award, Shane Hanlon has taught A Family Tradition Cole, an abortion case argued before and director Ben Younger supervisor of physical education and disadvantaged children in India; the U.S. Supreme Court . . . 1986: released his third film, Bleed for This, health for the city school district of joined the Peace Corps and served in 2007; MSEd School Psychology George Marshall was named based on the true story of a boxer New Rochelle . . . 2003: Terence rural Panama; and volunteered for 2010), and Leah (BA Psychology assistant director of campus safety at who made a comeback in the ring Morea (MS) was awarded a PhD in Habitat for Humanity, which 2008). Three Orbach siblings—as Trinity College in Hartford, CT. despite a car crash that left him with American studies by the University awarded him the 2014 “Habby” well as their mother—have been George is a retired technical a broken neck. After making Boiler of Buffalo . . . 2004: Diana Rickard prize. Since 2015 he has worked with members of Phi Beta Kappa. sergeant from the NYS police who Room and Prime, Younger tested published Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Doctors without Borders . . . 2011: Today, Jacob is a dentist has directed campus safety at himself as a pilot, chef, and Social Control (Rutgers University Melissa Bonetti is getting great with an office in Fresh Meadows. Mitchell and Southern Vermont motorcycle racer, then secured Press), an in-depth study of six sex reviews for demanding roles. Most Philip is a computer security Colleges. He teaches at the National Martin Scorsese’s help as producer offenders, their sense of self, and recently she sang the part of expert who now resides in Center for Security and Prepared- of Bleed for This . . . 1996: Michelle challenges to their social reintegra- Mercedes in two productions of Israel after working in the ness at the University at Albany . . . Medina is a senior wild animal tion. Diana is assistant professor of Carmen, one with Opera Columbus U.S. government. Joseph is an 1988: Avrahm Berkowitz is both keeper at the Wildlife Conservation criminal justice at Borough of and the other with Nashville Opera The Orbachs (top: l–r): Jacob, attorney specializing in corporate special assistant to President Donald Society in the Manhattan Community College, (for whom she also covered Philip, and Joseph; bottom: reorganizations and bankruptcies. Trump and an assistant to Jared Bronx. She recently CUNY . . . 2005: Jessica Hoahing Carmen), and played Zerlina in Don Esther, Leah, and Faygie. Esther and Leah work for the Kushner. The two met years ago on studied desert and and Erika Little (’07) received Giovanni (Queen City Opera). In New York City Department of a basketball court and, since then, marine landscapes teacher excellence awards from addition, she had the role of Tyler in When Jacob Orbach (BA History Education: Esther as a school Avrahm has worked for Kushner through ecological Success Academy Charter Schools. Three Way, which premiered in a 1999) enrolled at QC in 1995, psychologist and Leah as an Companies and written for the and social field Jessica teaches first grade at Success collaboration of the Nashville Opera he started a family tradition that occupational therapist. Faygie Kushner-owned paper, the New York methods in Baja, a Academy Bed-Stuy 1, and Erika with American Opera Projects . . . would span over two decades. In is earning a Master of Science Observer. For the presidential course she took in pursuit of a teaches English at Success Academy 2012: Faye Sakellaridis (MFA June 2016, Faygie, the youngest in Speech Language Pathology campaign, he was assistant director master’s degree from Miami Bed-Stuy Middle School . . . 2006: 2015) was awarded a psychedelic of six Orbach siblings, received at Hunter College. All attribute of data analytics and also directed a University’s Global Field Program . . John Wykoff (MA) was commis- feminism grant by Cosmic Sisters, an her degree in communication their professional success to the Facebook Live talk show . . . 1990: . 1998: Yoav Gal (MA) put his sioned to compose two choral award that involves participating in sciences and disorders, the sixth strong liberal arts education they Laura Sherman is in her 13th year talents as composer and artist to works for the inauguration of Donald traditional ayahuasca ceremonies Orbach to graduate from QC. received at Queens College. of performing with the Broadway work in Hanna and the Moonlit Dress, Trump. He arranged the Appalachian with indigenous shamans in the In between Jacob and Faygie are Parents Helen (MS Education show Wicked. She teaches at Hunter an interactive children’s musical folk song “Beautiful Morning” and Peruvian rain forest. The grant Philip (BS Computer Science 1979) and Shlomo look forward College and travels internationally to based on an Israeli folk tale and produced an original composition, supports exploration of human 2000), Joseph (BA Economics to seeing their grandchildren give master classes in harp. She was popular book that premiered at the Now We Belong, with lyrics by poet consciousness under the direction of 2004), Esther (BA Psychology continue this family tradition. recently named interim editor of the 14th Street Y. Yoav has specialized Michael Dennis Browne; the latter trained guides. Faye also received a American Harp Journal . . . 1991: in the relation of music to image; his piece was performed at the event by companion grant to write about the the group multimedia show, years with colorful, nationally Patricia Glunt (MSEd) has had the indie operas, staged in alternative the Missouri State Chorale. John is experience . . . 2013: Karl Valere Women’s Work, at Western syndicated celebrities like Larry King, satisfaction of not only founding, spaces, reach out to new audiences an assistant professor of music graduated from Public Allies New Connecticut State University. Sally Jesse Raphael, and Lou Dobbs, conducting, and serving as artistic through a variety of new media . . . theory and composition at Lee York’s AmeriCorps program in According to her artist’s statement, she has many stories to tell about director of a community orchestra, 1999: Brian Jensen (MA ’04) is University in Cleveland, TN . . . 2014, and is pursuing his master’s in “As the third girl in a turbulent Iraqi talk-show hosts, guests, and herself but also seeing it thrive. Since 2012 assistant principal of Saint Agnes 2007: Chris White (MA) is an urban studies at QC. In the Jewish family from Bombay, I felt (such as the time she mistakenly the Jackson Heights Orchestra has Cathedral School in Rockville assistant professor of music theory meantime, he founded the Elmont compelled to explore the psycholog- booked former Secretary of State given Queens residents an Centre, LI. He had been at Our Lady at the University of Massachusetts Excelsior, a civic-engagement ical legacy that shaped my percep- Madeleine Albright on a shock-jock opportunity to hear live orchestral Help of Christians in Brooklyn and Amherst, where he is working on a initiative in Elmont, LI . . . 2015: tions, identity, and motivations” . . . radio program) . . . 1984: music performed by a diversity of Holy Family in Flushing . . . 2000: book that uses computational Régine Bellinger founded 1980: Jonathan Wolf teaches Rosemarie LeFave Keenan lives local talent. Patricia was formerly an Kristina Wesch was promoted to models to understand musical style, Conkrete Jungle, a performing arts physics at Fairleigh Dickinson in Seattle with her assistant principal at Long Island City counsel at Farrell function, meter, and communication. company that produces showcases, University. He is the author of an husband, Vince. High School as well as president of Fritz. She is a He also contributes to the Huffington classes, and other events . . . 2016: eTextbook, Easy Physics Step-by-Step: Under their pen the Music Educators’ Association of transactional Post . . . 2008: Noah Lederman Ilianna Ayala won the Ashley With 95 Solved Problems (Mc- name of “Renee New York . . . 1992: Caroline attorney focusing on (MSEd) published A World Erased: A Stewart Model Search contest, and Graw-Hill) . . . 1981: Jed Albert Patrick,” they Freudig is the Kauai teacher-induc- restructuring and Grandson’s Search for His Family’s was on the cover of the March 2017 was recognized as a 2016 Leading published their first tion program coordinator; she corporate matters . Holocaust Secrets (Rowman and issue of Plus Model Magazine . . . 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6 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 7 “I want to say congratulations to Congressman Espaillat, mi companero, who was Keeping courageously fighting and advocating for immigrant students like me at a time when the state of New York prohibited people like me from being able to pursue my dream of getting a college education.” the Dream — Cristina Jiménez Alive on immigration policy at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and as an immigrant rights organizer at Make the Road New York. Jiménez cofounded United We Dream in 2008 and serves as By Bob Suter executive director. The largest immigrant youth-led organization in the U.S. with over 300,000 members in 25 states, the group provides scholarships to highly qualified Dreamers. In 2014 Forbes named Jiménez to its list of “30 under 30 in Law and Policy.” Accepting her Distinguished Service Award, Jiménez expressed her many feelings in returning to her “home” at Queens College. “Because it is here,” she continued, “that I really found my voice and grew as a student, as a thinker, as an organizer, and as a community leader.” Referring to her pivotal role in advocating for the DACA (Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals) program enacted by the Obama administration in 2012, Jiménez said, “I would have never Congressman Adriano Espaillat ’78 no doubt had someone much “And of our other honoree, Cristina Jiménez,” noted Matos thought that the knowledge, encouragement, and mentorship I like Cristina Jiménez ’07 in mind when, in 2002, as the first Rodríguez, “what a role model of ‘Si se puede’ [Yes, you can], of received from the faculty and the experiences that I had here at Dominican American member of the New York State legislature, he being able to pursue your dreams.” Queens College were shaping me to have an impact on immigration succeeded in passing a bill that allowed undocumented immigrants policy that will go down in history books.” to attend CUNY and SUNY schools at the same tuition rates She then acknowledged her great debt to her co-honoree: “I afforded to state residents. A Latin from Manhattan want to say congratulations to Congressman Espaillat, mi That’s why there was special significance to the occasion last companero, who was courageously fighting and advocating for May that brought the two QC graduates­­—both of whom had Accepting his award, Espaillat introduced himself as “a Latin from immigrant students like me at a time when the state of New York come to the United States as undocumented immigrants—back to Manhattan,” and recalled his own dream in deciding to come to Cristina Jiménez ‘00 (right), co-founder of the immigrants rights prohibited people like me from being able to pursue my dream of campus to be honored by the Political Science Department: Jiménez Queens College: he wanted to study law at a law school that was organization United We Dream, enjoys a reunion with Political getting a college education. received the Distinguished Service Award, and Espaillat received planned to open on the Flushing campus. “And then the city had its Science professor Judith Kimmerling at the department’s “It was because of your leadership in your time in the assembly,” the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the department’s highest honor. fiscal collapse,” he said, “and it [the law school] couldn’t be done Honors and Awards ceremony at which she was awarded the she continued, “that I was able to come to Queens College. Because Distinguished Service Award. In the decades since graduating, Espaillat has been an energetic because the city had no money for it.” the tuition rate for undocumented students was triple what it was for presence in New York City’s political sphere, distinguishing himself Espaillat then decided to enter the SEEK program to study in-state students, my family had to consider paying $4000 tuition, as a staunch advocate for children, veterans, and immigrants. After political science. (It runs in the family; Espaillat’s great-grandfather That was the prelude to New York State’s DREAM Act, he even though I had grown up here in this state and city that I consider working in various capacities as a community leader in Manhattan’s was Dominican President Ulises Espaillat.) This was pivotal in continued, lamenting that this legislation, which would open my home. . . . And now you have become the first Dreamer to serve Washington Heights neighborhood, Espaillat was elected to the shaping his future as it brought him under the tutelage of two state tuition-assistance programs to undocumented students, has in Congress.” New York State Assembly in 1997, serving until 2010, when he was political science professors: the late George Priestly, who introduced yet to become law, “even with a Democratic governor and a Certainly, Espaillat signaled as much to the millions watching elected to the State Senate. In 2016 he became the first Dominican him to Eduardo Galeano’s controversial study of European Democratic assembly.” the proceedings at last summer’s Democratic National Convention, American elected to the U.S. Congress. colonization, Open Veins of Latin America, and Michael Harrington, when he jubilantly proclaimed from the podium, “When I take my At the award ceremony, President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez a social activist well known for his book on American poverty, The oath of office as your new congressman in January, I will become referred to Espaillat as “mi amigo,” recounting a relationship that Other America. He also credited student groups like the recently Entering the History Books the first Dominican American to ever serve in the U.S. Congress. began when he first came to CUNY in 2002 to run the Center for created NYPIRG (New York Public Interest Research Group) with Perhaps even just as important, I will be the first member of Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College and Espaillat was a shaping his perspective. Realizing that dream has become the raison d’être for Cristina Congress who was once undocumented as an immigrant. You take member of the state assembly. They would subsequently collaborate Alluding to Queens’s reputation as the country’s most ethnically Jiménez. In the decade since graduating cum laude, she has more that, Donald Trump!” on the creation of a Center for Dominican Studies at City College. diverse county (“I guess the No. 7 line is sort of like the United than fulfilled the exceptional promise she demonstrated as a student “For us immigrants,” he went on, “our commitment to this When Matos Rodríguez became president of Hostos Community Nations”), Espaillat spoke of his continued ties to CUNY as he first who, having arrived with her family from Ecuador at age 13, attended country isn’t always found in our documents, in our papers. . . . With College in the Bronx, Espaillat became a “great friend of the assumed political office. Citing his work in the state legislature to high school and Queens College as an undocumented student. every callous on our hands, we build the bridges between our dreams college.” Now as QC president, Matos Rodríguez said he was pass a bill to provide in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants, At Queens Jiménez cofounded the NYS Youth Leadership and our destiny.” delighted to count Espaillat as an alumnus of the college and of the he proudly declared, “We did that with a Republican senate and a Council, an advocacy group for immigrant students. After earning And as Adriano Espaillat, Cristina Jiménez, and every other SEEK program in particular. Republican governor!” a master’s in public administration at Baruch College, she worked Dreamer can tell you, a bridge can be built over a wall.

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would go from QC to a graduate Guth knows the struggles immigrants have and the “enormous program at Harvard Business School sacrifices” students make to attend QC. The citation when she Economics Success Stories [1986 MBA] says a lot about the was awarded QC’s President’s Medal at Baccalaureate on May quality of education at Queens 26 commended “the engaged and creative ways in which you Dina Perry and Celeste Guth bank on the education they got at QC College.” offer others a lifeline and a hand up.” At the ceremony, Guth She honored Michael R. Dohan, observed students’ “sense of doing service for the community,” the faculty member “who had a commitment she demonstrates through supporting medically such an impact,” by setting up an underserved communities, inner city scholarships, international By Donna Shoemaker endowed scholarship. Dohan retired scholars threatened by war and repression, and other charities. A in 2015 after 44 years teaching QC Foundation trustee, Guth is pleased about returning “much more economics at QC. “Even though it’s frequently. I’m amazed at how much the physical aspects of the Majoring in economics and finance, Perry took summer a very affordable college, in many campus have improved.” classes to graduate in fewer than four years. Her first job cases, students have very modest While an undergraduate, Guth worked 30 hours a week in involved macro and industry forecasting for IBM at its Ar- Celeste Guth means,” just as her family had, Guth clothing stores—feeding “a fashion addiction,” she laughs—yet monk, NY, headquarters. The company paid the tuition for observes. “I was not one of these still made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, she spent two years at her QC master’s degree in economics, earned at night. kids who had a portfolio in college. I never had the money.” Buck Consultants, a global HR consulting firm, before earning her From there, Perry’s path led straight to Wall Street. Guth’s sister, Amber A. Guth ’79, is a surgical oncologist and MBA. Hired by Goldman Sachs in pension funds, she applied annual At the small investment firm of Baker Weeks, she did breast cancer specialist at New York University’s Perlmutter Cancer bonuses to paying off those MBA student loans. Twenty-nine years economic forecasting, continuing on that track at Chase Center. Both accelerated at Hunter College High School. Dr. Guth, later, she had risen to vice chairman of Global Financial Institutions Investors Management Group. But she always was attracted a chemistry major at QC and a graduate of New York University Group in the Investment Banking Division. to managing equity portfolios, and Chase gave her the School of Medicine, became one of NYU Hospital’s first female Recruited by Germany’s leading bank in 2015, Guth is opportunity. She started at Capital Group 25 years ago as surgeons. Celeste, a trustee of the center and a cancer survivor, energized by “working in a business that is fast-paced, always an equity investment analyst. “I like managing money,” runs half-marathons and likes to spend time with her husband and changing, very entrepreneurial. That makes it kind of fun.” As she she relates. “It’s challenging. I like to do the research on two children. From her Wall Street office, she can gaze out to Ellis builds her team at Deutsche Bank, she thrives on “getting people in different sectors and companies, particularly the unloved Island. Their mother, an ethnic Armenian trained as a nurse, came disparate parts of the world to work together. It’s still very much a and undervalued.” to the United States from Turkey as an exchange student before high-touch business.” “Queens gave me everything that I have,” Perry ac- marrying and settling in Forest Hills. knowledges. “Had I not had Queens, who knows what I would be doing today. It’s very expensive to go to school. School should be affordable. Helping middle- and low- er-class students is a very important way to make sure that society is not elitist.” Professionals on/off Campus Queens economics courses and swimming were Perry’s main interests. She is still very close to best friends from school, Allen and Fran Krumholz: Allen from the swim Associate Economics Professor Francesc Ortega (l.) and team and Francine from economics classes. President Felix V. Matos Rodriguez flank Dina Perry as she At Cal Poly Pomona Perry funded the renovation of two receives the President’s Award at QC’s 2015 Gala. chemistry labs in memory of her sister, Professor Elisheva “Chevy” Goldstein, PhD. At QC she established a professorship: the Dina en years after leaving Bucharest for Tel Aviv, the Axelrads Axelrad Perry Associate Professor in Economics, held by Francesc Allen Aquilina Barad Barakat H. Bradnock M. Bradnock Collins Costanzo Davidson heard that their quota number had finally come up. The Ortega. He concentrates on international and labor economics and T United States would allow in their family of four. “My father immigration in the workforce. Observes Perry, “Immigrants have to and mother had always wanted to come to the U.S., but we couldn’t acclimate.” For those who do and pursue their education, “This coun- We are proud to recognize the exceptional alumni who participated the opportunity to interact with seasoned professionals from a because the quota from Romania was quite limited,” recalls Dina try gives you many opportunities.” in our special series, Professionals on/off Campus, during the 2016- variety of industries and sectors. Our speakers are experts in their Axelrad Perry ’67, ’71, who was 15 at the time. “I loved Israel,” she 17 academic year. Each semester the Office for Institutional fields, role models for career success, and, most important, they all recalls, “but my parents prevailed.” But in America, the numbers * * * Advancement brings students and distinguished alumni together got their start at Queens College. We are deeply grateful to our have been coming up ever since. through this unique program. Hosted on campus or at an alumni who continue to advise current students and inspire future With four decades of investment expertise, Perry is an equity One and done. A semester at Queens College, then transfer out. Or alumnus’s office off campus, these events provide students with extraordinary careers. portfolio manager in the Washington, D.C., office of Capital Group, so she thought. Instead Celeste A. Guth ’82 became fascinated by which manages the American Funds. economies and numbers, Fortran and finance. That launched her Answorth A. Allen ’84, MD, Attending Orthopedic Surgeon, Howard Bradnock ’83, MD, Holliswood Gastroenterology Perry’s Georgetown office looks out on the Potomac. A water into a high-powered career advising insurance companies and other Hospital for Special Surgery; Team Orthopedist, NY Knicks; view is ideal for this former Queens College swim team leader who financial institutions. “If you want to buy companies and you can’t former Head Team Physician, New York Mets Paulette Mullings Bradnock ’84, Chief Auditor, BNY Mellon is generously funding QC’s locker room and pool renovation. Next finance them, that’s a real problem,” notes Guth. Her position as Robert Aquilina ’72, MBA, Executive Vice President of Global John Collins ’76, CPA, President and CEO, Winthrop University spring the reopened pool will be named in her honor. In 2015, Perry managing director and co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Financial Initiatives, Estee Lauder International Inc. Hospital was fêted at the Queens College Gala. Institutions Group in New York includes travel to Europe and Asia Free tuition made nearby QC an appealing choice. “My parents to advise clients. Jill Barad ’73, Former Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc. John Costanzo ’74, President, Purolator International, Inc. worked all their lives,” Perry notes: Joseph as an accountant and At QC, Guth took on a double major in economics and computer Richard Barakat ’81, MD, MBA, Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Spencer Davidson ’65, MBA, Chairman of the Board of Erika as a teacher. Eventually they moved “from Jamaica, Queens, to science and a minor in mathematics. “I very quickly became Directors, General American Investors Company, Inc. an apartment on 85th and Madison,” she recalls. “They were a real assistant to a professor, grading papers, teaching in the economics Regional Care Network and MSK Cancer Alliance, Memorial success story, by working hard and investing.” lab,” she says. “It was an incredible education, and the fact that I Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

10 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 11 QUEENS 2017 DONOR HONOR ROLL EIGHTY WOW Max and Selma Kupferberg Joan & Norman Bluestone Family Foundation Foundation, Inc. POINTS National Endowment for the Freda Stern Johnson ’68 Queens College is honored to Humanities Ellen Match Kaplan ’69 & acknowledge and thank our New Jersey City University Murray Koppelman QC Facts to New York Presbyterian Ira B. ’69 & Ileene Lampert count on alumni and friends who have led Hospital Landau Family Foundation by example in their commitment Pinkerton Foundation Edgar McManus and brag about Fedida Flomenhaft Friedman Mitty Rossoff Salick Singer Strauch Raphell Sims Lakowitz Michael ’65 & to our students and the future of Memorial Foundation Cheryl Gumora Minikes ’68 public higher education. John T. Rossello James A. Mitarotonda ’77 James H. Simons Natalie Bailey & Herbert J. Michael Fedida ’69, RPh, MS, Owner, J&J Pharmacies Sherri Rossoff ’83, JD, Managing Director, The Rock Creek Group Stephen Stepanchev* Kirschner Foundation 1 Eleanor Flomenhaft ’83, Owner, Flomenhaft Gallery Bernard Salick ’60, MD, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Salick Your gifts have made a difference. Pat Tulchin The New York Community Tulchin Family Foundation Trust Queens College is in Comprehensive Diabetes Centers, Inc. the top 1% of colleges Lawrence J. Friedman ’73, JD, Partner, Friedman & Feiger, LLP With gratitude, we present our Voya Foundation Kenneth E. ’67 & in helping students Mitch Singer ’75, CEO and Founder, PL Developments Donor Honor Roll for fiscal year Chaim Z. Wachsberger ’73 & Michele Newman Harold Mitty ’54, MD, Retired Professor of Radiology and Liz Neumark Gloria T. Petitto ’77 rise from poverty to Urology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Evelyn M. Strauch ’60, Foreign Language and Literature Educator July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017. Lynda Wildman PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP prosperity. Allan S. ’66* & Phyllis L. Pullman ’65 Danielle Wirtzer Queens College Association M. Kenneth ’69 & Queens College Student 2 Erika S. Witover ’70 Services QC students represent NOVEMBER 28, 2017 IS Aldo C. Zucaro ’62 Radian Group over 170 different $1,000,000+ Jane Nisenholc ’82 & Douglas E. ’76 & Amy Ress Michael A. Chwick countries and speak Give Something Back $10,000–$24,999 Mark E. ’85 & Allyson Rose more than 110 languages Foundation Con Edison David B. ’80 & Anonymous and dialects; 32% of our Mary E. O’Connor ’50* Howard Gilman Foundation Penny A. Rosen The Academy of Korean current students were John W. Pereira ’75* S.A. Ibrahim Bernard ’60 & Gloria Salick You can join this global celebration of generosity by supporting Studies born outside the US Dina Axelrad ’67 & Mertz Gilmore Foundation Patricia A. Schwarz Margaret Hayes Adame ’61 students at Queens College. George L. Perry James L. & Dana H. Seidman ’73 & mainland. Avison Young New York Alda M. Muyskens ’88 Magnus Hedenlund Marsha J. Baliff ’65* www.qc.cuny.edu/give Research Foundation for Select Equity Group $250,000–$999,999 Addison Barman & Lorraine Korean Community Foundation 3 Jewish Foundation Marxer-Barman Stephanie Ribera The Shelley & Donald Rubin Close to 90% of our for Education of Women Marlene Bittman Stanley E. Rosenzweig* Foundation, Inc. faculty have a doctorate Susheel Kirpalani ’91 Barry A. Bryer ’69 & Thelma Randby Serenbetz ’45 Susan Steinberg ’62 & or the terminal degree in Max Kupferberg ’42* Meryl E. Wiener Remembering Mary E. O’Connor Social Explorer, Inc. Lawrence I. Sills their field, and 14 have The Kupferberg Foundation Christopher Cestaro & Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Gerald A. ’63 & Allan Z. ’60 & Ashley Goldsmith been designated Distin- “Mary was generous with her knowledge, others enjoy the same benefits. A member of the Jefferson Society, Tortora Sillcox Family Phyllis Katz Solomon ’64 Joan Friedman Loren ’60 Mun-Sang Cho guished Professors, the sharing it freely, and helping other people the recognition organization for those who have included Queens Foundation David ’42 & New York City Department of Anitra S. Christoffel-Pell City University’s highest Beverly Wasserman Peggy Giffen Starr ’42 become the best they could be.” That is how College in their estate plan, she had notified the college of her Finance Community Teachers ranking. Michael P. ’71 & Stephanie Zinn Stiefel ’80 & Patricia Burke described her close friend and inclusion of a bequest in the Mary E. O’Connor Trust. Mary passed New York Community Bank Initiative, Inc. Carol Weisman Robert S. Cohen colleague, Mary E. O’Connor ’50, in the eulogy Lalita D. Palekar ’60* Frances R. Curcio away in October 2016. Marc D. Taub Robert ’82 & Shirley Wann Peter P. ’71 & she gave this past fall. With a gift of more than Thanks to her gift, the Mary E. O’Connor Endowment Fund will $25,000–$49,999 Theodore A. Rapp Foundation 4 Margaret D’Angelo The Chaney-Goodman- $3.5 million for the creation of the Mary E. provide scholarships to juniors and seniors majoring in economics Anonymous United States Holocaust Steven J. Daniels ’92 O’Connor Endowment Fund, Mary’s final act of $100,000–$249,999 Benno & Evelyn Feldmann Museum Schwerner Clock or business administration. Her final act of generosity will help Howard Dessau Russell M. ’68 & Ansbacher ’61* The Vilcek Foundation, Inc. Tower is named for generosity will live in perpetuity. generations of Queens College students have the same opportunity Rose Dessau Alice Feldman Artzt ’68 Norman ’68 & Edmond & Cynthia Villani the three young men Mary E. O’Connor was many things: smart (a member of Phi for the first-rate education that Mary had received. Steven Errera ’69 & Donald ’65 & Carole Schoen Barham ’66 Carol A. Villecco-Howe ’77 who were murdered Edith Korotkin ’70 Beta Kappa), hard-working, and accomplished, rising through the Lisa Tannenbaum Barry M. Blechman ’63 & Peter W. Howe in Mississippi during Lee ’68 & Ann Fensterstock ranks at what is now AXA Equitable during her 41-year career there. Brownstein Robert Bloom ’66 Avonelle S. Walker the summer of 1964, Elena Frangakis-Syrett But above all, she was generous. On May 10, guest artist Lisa Tannenbaum Joel & Julia Greenblatt Harry P. ’71 & Joann Alice C. Weiner including QC student Andrew I. Gavil ’78 & Muriel Sapir ’54 & Braunstein David C. Weinstein & Mary was generous with her time, mentoring colleagues and captivated her audience in LeFrak Concert Judith H. Veis Andrew Goodman. Paul Allan E. Greenblatt Lottie Hirsch ’51 & Clare Villari volunteering with SCORE as a counselor to small business owners. Hall with a recital of works by Grandjany, The Goldsmith and Cestaro Simon ’63 wrote a song Nathan ’71 & Pearl ’72 Henry M. Burger Jacqueline Snitow ’70 & She was generous with her leadership skills, serving twice as Charitable Foundation about him, “He Was My Handel, Spohr, Hasselmans, Rodrigo, and Halegua Family Foundation Celeste A. Guth ’82 & Robert Willens Ellen Saul ’64 & Brother.” president of the Flushing Camera Club and taking on the club Debussy performed with students from Queens College Auxiliary Karl Westman The Winston Foundation, Inc. Arnold A. Gruber positions that were the hardest to fill during her 45 years as a the Aaron Copland School of Music. Enterprise Association Carol Schwartz ’71 & Erwin A. ’57 & Hellenic Advancement of member. She was generous with her financial expertise, offering Paul H. ’78 & Barbara Roux, Richard H. Hochman Margaret A. Zeuschner ’99 The wife of Donald Brownstein ’65, Education & Culture Inc. Roux Associates, Inc. Saul J. Kupferberg & 5 advice and education to many of her friends on financial matters. She Tannenbaum is an accomplished harpist Matthew T. ’98 & University of Shanghai Gail Coleman The English Language was generous with her enthusiasm, always ready with a smile and who has toured throughout Europe and Michele McManus Higgins $5,000–$9,999 Estate of Linda Treppel Institute is the oldest Rochelle Cohen ’66 & Anonymous quick wit, which she shared at the many college events she came to performed at Carnegie Hall. Last fall Lamel ’64* English-language school $50,000–$99,999 David A. Hirsch Richard P. Alvarez & in her later years. she graciously hosted students from the John S. and Yorka C. Linakis in the CUNY system and Anonymous Linora Hoffman ’59 Darrell W. DeVoe Always a loyal supporter, Mary chose to include Queens College Copland School in her Connecticut studio Scholarships the second oldest in the David & Eugenia A. Ames Investors Bank Robert P. ’66 & in her estate plan. She often expressed appreciation for the education Gerald J. ’55 & Gameela United States. for a concert and conversation about Estate of Beverly Baker ’47* The Jerome Robbins Carol J. Antler MacDonald she received—at no cost to her—and felt an obligation to help musical styles ranging from opera to jazz. Estate of Elayne P. Foundation Avalonbay Communities, Inc. Math for America, Inc. Bernstein-Schwartz ’74

12 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 13 EIGHTY WOW Richard R. ’81 & M. Joel & Ellen Mandelbaum POINTS Catherine D’Agostino Mathis Pfohl Foundation Barakat Félix V. Matos Rodríguez & Gary ’72 & Ayala H. Barnett Liliana M. Arabía Susan Leviten Bergtraum ’68 Maurice J. Cotter & 6 Frank M. ’74 & Muriel J. Sheahan QC has more computer Eileen M. Boccio Charitable Foundation science students than any Jeanne Hershkowitz/Pores Sara Silverman Mayes ’80 The Birth other university in NYC, Braun ’78 & Fred Fogel Brendan McGovern has graduated more Sandra Maidman ’71 & Mark G. & Mary C. Miksic teachers, counselors, W. Stewart Cahn Harold A. Mitty ’54 Chartwells Dining Service Carole Gurin ’64 & and principals than Gail Marquis any other college in Matthew J. Conti Harold Moskowitz of a College the metropolitan area, Michael ’75 & Neal G. ’70 & Sara Craig-Scheckman Jackwyn Bartman Nemerov WOW! and has the third most Crystal Window & ’73 #45 accounting and business The creation of Queens College was the work of three remarkable Door Systems, LTD. New York Presbyterian/ students in New York but dissimilar men who were united in a desire to bring a free city Georgia R. ’94 & Queens college to Queens, the only borough in New York City that had no State. Michael H. De Havenon Joan Friedman ’61 & Marc A. ’64 & Richard A. Newmark institution of higher learning in the late 1930s. Carole Salz Dichter ’64 Stephen S. Orphanos ’62 The prime mover was Charles S. Colden, a public-spirited man 7 Walter H. ’57 & Wilhelmina Hall Parris ’74 of distinguished ancestry: he was descended from Cadwallader In the last four years 13 Ruth M. Ding Pearl Noywitz Pavane ’80 Frances Conti Philip Barenfeld Colden, the last lieutenant governor of New York under the British Glen & Rochelle S. Cummings Kirk J. ’87 & Kara Bauer QC students have been Stephen V. ’61 & Paula Dubin Queens Chamber of Commerce crown (1760–1775), and John Fell, a member of the Continental Mark F. ’67 & Queensborough Community Rose Danzig Barbara Baum Hulnick named Fulbright scholars; Congress. three recent QC JoAnn Golding Engel ’68 College Carol A. Fugosich ’75 & Rosalie Schulberg ’60 & Modest educator with ambitious goals Gerald Deieso Lawrence Berman But Charles S. Colden was born on a farm in Whitestone in graduates won National Extell Development Company Harold P. ’57 & Farrell Fritz, P.C. Nathan Billig ’62 Science Foundation Michael J. ’69 & Susan Reichwald 1885, and his father was in the hay, grain, and feed business. He The third figure of importance was Paul Klapper, the first president, Ellen Fedida Maurice S. ’76 & Federation of Hellenic William A. ’80 & studied at New York University Law School and was admitted to who sought to establish a “People’s College” in Queens. He had grants in 2017. Societies of Greater New Eileen Blancato Michael J. ’73 & Joan T. Reznik the bar in l913. He was appointed district attorney for Queens York, Inc. Barbara Bodine been on the faculty of City College for 30 years; in 1937 he was Regine B. Feuer Richard S. & Lois Gunther in 1933 and county judge in 1935. It was then that he became the dean of the School of Education. He had written widely on Frederic & Agnes Maloof Family Foundation Susan Friess Goldman ’66 Ernest Bogen 8 Foundation, Inc. Larry J. ’62 & David M. ’63 & Sharyn Blaise C. ’57 & interested in starting up Queens College, for which a location was educational theory and practice. He opposed the lecture method of Queens College was the Gary W. ’67 & Elaine Rothenberg Brooks Katzman ’76 Judith Priestley Bookis ’58 already available: the buildings of the New York Parental School, teaching and emphasized faculty-student interaction in small classes. first public college in Bernice S. Garson Sally Schuckman Jane Rosen ’45 & Michael Boro ’64 which were being used as a temporary children’s hospital. He and the College Curriculum Committee set up a liberal arts New York State Genting New York LLC Kathleen P. Schuler ’85 & Robert M. Levy Martin I. & Shirley B. Bresler He enlisted the support of most civic organizations in Queens, program that included two years of basic courses and two years of to receive a Richard & Ronay Menschel Barbara B. Brizzi Wynne ’80 Steven L. ’67 & Jonathan I. Blackman many religious leaders, and the public at large. A poll taken in concentration in a specialized field of study, with some emphasis on $1 million gift from Jane Heller Gerard SCORE Association Milton and Sally Avery Arts & William Wynne August 1935 showed that 98% of the people of Queens wanted the electives. There were comprehensive exams in the social sciences, Give Something Back, a Michael ’65 & Daniel H. Sigg & Foundation Laura Congelosi Brody ’96 foundation established Joan B. Gottlieb ’72 Ellen Stafford-Sigg Youngho Pae ’86 Glen B. Brunman ’70 college. Only the Jamaica Lions’ Club was opposed, fearing that the the arts, and the student’s major, in line with the curriculum at by philanthropist Robert Susan Grace ’96 Sinai Chapels, Inc. Lilly Pappas James R. ’91 & college would become a “hotbed of radicalism.” Columbia University and the University of Chicago. The essence of Carr. The gift will allow Patricia A. ’02 & Howard M. ’83 & Frederick W. Peters ’79 Kimberly C. Burton his philosophy was expressed in a statement he made in 1939: “The Pfizer Inc. Raoul F. ’52 & 50 students to attend Robert J. Gunther Rhonda Borgen Sipzner ’84 most successful teacher is he who makes himself superfluous by Joyce Redvanly ’58 Amy Platt Camus ’62 QC without having to Richard S. Gunther Bernard & Laurie Wasserman Hizzoner joins the cause developing in his students the ability to educate themselves.” Raziel S. ’67 & Spear ’64 Mark & Kay Rosenblum Richard Caputo pay for tuition, fees, or Kenneth Shirreffs Susan Maizel ’67 & Klapper was born in Jassy, Romania, in 1885, of Jewish room and board. Frances T. Hakim Barbara Schmidt Steiner ’67 Barbara A. Hamkalo ’64 Bruce J. Sternemann ’79 & Maida Zlochower Snapper ’68 Robert J. Chambre Colden also persuaded Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to join in the parentage. His father, a manufacturer of mirrors, moved to Egypt The Harkness Foundation For Mary E. Halston Martin Sticht ’58 Daniel Chang effort. The mayor was the right person to ask, for he was a man of and then to the United States. The boy was 7 years old at the time. Dance, Inc. Diane Bishop Stone ’67 SunTrust Foundation Lung Fong & Joanne Y. Chen immigrant background who understood the aspirations of the poor He was educated in New York City, earning a PhD in Education 9 Stanley J. Talbi ’74 George M. Chuzi ’66 & Herbert S. ’65 & Theodore W. ’61 & for higher education and a place in the sun. He was born in lower Townsend Harris High Loucas & Penelope Tsilas Antonia Ianniello at New York University. Affable and humble, Klapper encouraged Marilyn Heflich Susan Forman Tashlik ’64 Manhattan to Achilles LaGuardia, a bandmaster for the Eleventh faculty and students to come to his office and talk to him. School, once one of the Raymond L. ’63 & Raymond ’54 & Turkish Philanthropy Funds Citigroup city’s most prestigious Susan Held Tomiko Taylor Verizon Irma Coster-Lynch ’03 & Infantry, and Irene Coen Luzzatti, who was of Sephardic Jewish His first tasks were to select a faculty and recruit a student institutions but forced to Lyn Stiefel Hill ’67 Tides Foundation Matthew S. Watson Juan Lynch background and came from Venice. His liberal stance on many issues body. He was assisted by Margaret Kiely, the first dean of faculty. close in 1942, reopened Susan Isaacs ’65 & Alan L. Van Capelle ’97 & Marshall L. Weintraub ’61 Lorraine Coyle ’72 & G. was clear from his record in Congress, where he was a La Follette Out of 3,600 applications, he chose 26 professors. Some of them on the QC campus in Elkan Abramowitz Matthew Morningstar Jed Weisman Oliver Koppell progressive during his second term. In 1933 he was elected mayor of came from Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and Wisconsin. They were Marvin & Celina Zborowski Kenneth R. ’96 & 1984. It is consistently Kenneth S. Kasman ’75* David I. ’76 & New York City. Short, stocky, with a high-pitched voice, he won the drawn by the prospect of good pay, a chance for advancement, and ranked among the Harry W. ’64 & Laurie L. Weiner Suzanne David Andrea Shapiro Davis ’81 & affection of the “common man” of his time. the challenge of building a new college, where new ideas could be nation’s 100 best high Christine Kent ’67 Frank E. Witt ’59 $1,000–$2,499 David Nocenti According to the Brooklyn Eagle of March 11, 1936, LaGuardia tried. Four hundred students, 95% of them from Queens County, schools with a 100% Hyojeong Kim Horatio W. ’73 & Anonymous Karen Krasilnick ’65 & Shirley L. Klein Miriam Leong Yeung ’73 Joshua L. Aaronson ’81 & was at first cool to the idea of a college in Queens (perhaps were chosen for the first freshman class. Half of the students were graduation rate. Daniel N. Davis Paul D. Kligfield ’66 & Leonard ’46 & June Yohay Lori Resnick-Aaronson for fiscal reasons), but by December he was strongly for it. On women. Classes began on October 11, 1937. Stephen Davis ’57 Pam Abrams Renée Kroll ’54 & Mark J. ’66 & Christmas Day, 1936, he picked up his phone and called Charles Louis J. DeBole ’60 Korean Consulate General Michael S. Zarin Roberta Aaronson Aaron Dignan Colden: “Charley,” he said, “you’ve got a Christmas present.” The From The People’s College on the Hill: Fifty Years at Queens College, Michael Kowal ’53 Lenore Abramowitz- Dime Savings Bank of NY present was Queens College. 1937–1987, edited and co-written by Stephen Stepanchev. William Lee ’78 $2,500–$4,999 Lowenthal ’57 & Casmira Wojciechowski Leo Thomas E. Dorsey ’63 Harvey Alter ’52 Jack Lowenthal ’58 Zita Zatkin Dresner ’64 Stuart S. Applebaum ’71 Michael F. Amezaga ’71 Madeleine J. Long ’60 Michael C. Dyce ’92 Cindy E. Baez ’15 Barbara Quintana ’58 & Rachel Ringel Lukoff Derek P. Ellingson ’01 Christine Bernardo ’70 Ethan Aronoff

14 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College Eighty Years of Building Futures

1937

On April 6 the Board of Higher Education creates at the ceremony, advising the assembled crowd to “Keep Queens College, “a college of liberal arts and sciences,” with your buildings low . . . and your ideals high. And keep away 16 departments. On May 25 the board elects Paul Klapper, from politicians.” A testimonial dinner for Klapper is held dean of the School of Education at City College, president of on October 30 in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor. Queens College. Delayed by a painters’ strike, classes begin Governor Herbert H. Lehman and LaGuardia are featured on October 11 with 400 full-time students consisting about speakers at the event, attended by more than 1000 equally of men and women, mostly from Queens County, guests. At Klapper’s request, on a 52-acre site in Flushing with nine buildings. A teaching proceeds raised for his portrait and administrative staff of 40 men and women is selected. are instead used to start a Dedication Day on October 26 includes a procession of student aid fund at the the entire student body around the administration building college. (the future Jefferson Hall). Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia speaks

16 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 17 25th anniversary; enrollment now 14,075 students with 454 full- most prestigious institutions but forced to close in 1942 due to as a public museum. ’05: Journalist Jerry Mitchell and Leroy 1940s 1960s time faculty. ’64: Students demonstrate for civil rights at New 1980s budget restraints, reopens at and affiliates with QC. ’85: Shirley 2000s Clemons of the Philadelphia Coalition receive President’s York’s World’s Fair. The nation is stunned in June by news of the Strum Kenny named college’s seventh president. Renowned Medals at June 2 Commencement, honoring work that led to ’40: College introduces a summer session, an evening Victory Lecture. In August the Army Specialized Training ’60: Dress code imposed on women students: no shorts, slacks, murders of QC student Andrew Goodman and fellow civil rights ’80: New York State assumes full responsibility for the musician Jimmy Heath is named head of QC’s jazz program. ’86 ’00: Russell Hotzler appointed interim president. ’01: indictment of former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen for program, and radio classes. On April 26 Roger Baldwin, Program (ASTP) establishes a unit on campus to study or “similar attire.” (It will be rescinded in 1967.) Smoking no workers James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi. budgets of QC and other CUNY senior colleges. Luciano Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation gives Satchmo’s house in CUNY Honors College opens with QC one of five schools the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks at a engineering and foreign languages. (A Victory Fleet tanker longer permitted in classrooms. ’61: Dedicatory concert for ’65: Joseph P. McMurray becomes college’s fourth president. Pavarotti sings at a special concert celebrating Colden Center’s Corona to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and participating in an innovative program for top students. and Schwerner. Goodman’s mother, Carolyn, also is honored. Peace Day Rally on campus. Class of ’44 starts “a scant three is later named Queens Victory in appreciation of the college’s Colden Center performed by the New York Philhamonic. The Martin Luther King, Jr. is first speaker in the John F. Kennedy twentieth anniversary season. ’81: School of Education is arranges for QC to administer the house and its contents under College is named a GLOBE partner, under a federal program ’06: World War II Veterans Memorial Plaza is dedicated months after the fall of France” (’44 Silhouette yearbook). role in the ASTP.) ’46: QC Orchestral Society formed. ’48: City University of New York is founded. ’62: College celebrates Memorial Lecture Series. Robert F. Kennedy is commencement established. Godwin-Ternbach Museum opens. Aaron Copland a long-term license agreement. Science Building is dedicated. ’87: to train K–12 teachers in environmental science. ’02: James on the quad, commemorating over 1,000 students, faculty, In October the first Queens College Scholars are named, The college’s graduate division opens. ’49: John J. Theobald speaker. Team of QC students competes on TV’s “College School of Music is founded; Copland is awarded an honorary College celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a convocation at L. Muyskens becomes college’s ninth president. At Ground and staff who served in the war. Selma and Max Kupferberg the college’s highest graduation honor. ’41: Queens College becomes college’s second president. College graduates win Bowl.” ’66: SEEK Program begins. ’69: The spring semester sees degree at Commencement. Environmentalist Barry Commoner which honorary degrees are conferred on medical researcher Zero, QC’s Center for the Biology of Natural Systems takes Center for the Visual and Performing Arts is dedicated. is fully accredited by the New York State Department of Fulbright Awards for the first time. several student demonstrations on campus over issues related moves his Center for the Biology of Natural Systems to QC. John J. Burns ’42, CEO of Dow Jones & Company Warren H. a leading role in monitoring and advocating for the health of Distinguished Professor Gregory L. Rabassa, one of the Education. On June 16 the first Commencement is held in the to the Vietnam War and campus ’82: Raymond Paretzky becomes the first CUNY student to Phillips ’47, and award-winnng musician Marvin Hamlisch ’68. ’89: 9/11 workers responsible for the cleanup. ’03: Following a world’s leading translators, is awarded the National Medal of rain in a tent on the quadrangle. Queens is known by then administration policy. On April 1, receive a Rhodes Scholarship. ’84: Townsend Harris High QC becomes a member of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate $1.6 million restoration, the Louis Armstrong House opens Arts. ’09: College opens the Summit, its first residence hall. as “The People’s College.” On December 8 students gather 39 are arrested for holding a sit-in. School, once one of the city’s Fellowship (today Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship) A Civil Rights Archive is established at Rosenthal Library, around radios in the auditorium and elsewhere to hear FDR in the Social Sciences Building. program created to encourage more minority students to pursue documenting the significant record of work by QC students. declare war. The next day a false air-raid alarm interrupts a Jailed faculty member and students PhDs with the ultimate objective of becoming tenured college and teachers. QC named one of “The 25 Hottest Schools civilian defense rally on campus and everyone is sent home. serve 15 days on Rikers Island. A faculty members. To date, in America” by the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get into More than 1,100 male and 22 female students will serve in Counter-Commencement is held 23 QC Mellon fellows have College Guide. the armed forces during the war. ’42: Students hold War with Dr. Benjamin Spock as speaker. received their PhDs. Bond drives, collect over a ton of scrap metal, use their own Found in translation: paper for exams, and observe Meatless Tuesdays. ’43: First Laura and George W. Bush flank Gregory Rabassa. Lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears on campus at the first Spring

Constructive growth: Remsen Hall, the first of the permanent new buildings erected on campus, is named for a chemist who served as president of Johns Hopkins University. Sax educator: Jimmy Heath Graduation honors: Jerry Mtichell (l) and Leroy Clemons are recognized for work that led to an indictment in the murders Addressing issues: Robert Kennedy of Chaney, Goodman, and (far r.), New York State’s new junior Banding together: In photo Schwerner. senator, speaks at Commencement 1965. at left, Senator Chuck Schumer (2nd from l.) and First Lady Hillary 1950s Man of his words: Clinton (far r.) back efforts to Stephen Stepanchev preserve the archives and home of Sense of site: Steven Markowitz, cirector ’50: Ira Remsen Hall, the first major new Louis Armstrong (above). of the Barry Commoner Center, studies the environment and work-related illnesses. building on campus, opens. Sigma Chapter 2010s of Phi Beta Kappa is installed at the college. (as they were then known) make it to the finals. Student 1990s Martin Lorin ’51 writes “Blue and Silver,” 1970s enrollment peaks at 31,413. ’75: Enrollment begins reflecting ’10: College’s Civil Rights Archive acquires the library of rose from copy editor at the Wall Street Journal to chairman which becomes the official college song. demographic changes with rise in Korean, Chinese, Latin ’94: The Louis Armstrong Archives opens in Rosenthal Library, off a year of celebrations for its sixtieth anniversary. ’98 First activist James Forman. The QC Psychological Center opens and CEO of its corporate parent, donates his archives to Eleanor Roosevelt comes to campus to talk ’70: Students react to the killings at Kent State with a American, and African American populations. QC experiences providing a repository for the musician’s papers, private tape Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visits campus in support of QC in Razran Hall, offering low-cost and free services to the QC. ’15: The Barry Commoner Center for Health and about the importance of education in the demonstration that stops traffic on the Long Island Expressway. effects of New York City fiscal crisis with cutbacks in several recordings, musical manuscripts, photographs, trumpets, and preservation efforts for the Armstrong House and Archives. community. ’11: The American Museum of Natural History the Environment is awarded $40.5 million from the U.S. modern world. Vera Shlakman (Economics), CUNY institutes open admissions policy. Joseph S. Murphy programs and loss of staff and adjunct faculty positions. ’76: In more. It attracts scholars from around world. ’95: Townsend Groundwater-monitoring wells and a rooftop weather station agrees to acquire the college’s 5,000-piece mineral collection. Department of Energy to monitor nuclear-weapons workers is fired for not testifying if she were ever named college’s fifth president. ’71: College holds Feminist May the fiscal crisis closes CUNY for two weeks. Undergraduate Harris High School students, faculty, and staff march from their are installed on campus, to be operated for research and teaching ’12: QC turns 75. Campus serves as a shelter for hundreds to detect work-related illnesses early so that these workers part of the Communist Party. Same will happen to Oscar Movement Conference with Betty Friedan as keynote speaker. tuition charged for first time in the fall semester. ’78: Saul B. temporary quarters to their new, permanent home on campus. jointly by the School of Earth and Environmental Studies and of people following Hurricane Sandy. College establishes an can receive treatment. Seven graduating students receive Shaftel (English)the next year. (In 1982 a number of these of all Communist teachers. ’55: Paul Klapper Library opens. Commencement speaker Rev. Jesse Jackson sees nation in midst Cohen named sixth president of college. ’79: Graduate School Allan Lee Sessoms appointed college’s eighth president. ’96 In the U.S. Geological Survey. ’99: Weekend College opens. A Athletics Hall of Fame. ’13: A memorial concert celebrates Fulbright grants to study abroad. Maria Lisella ’09 appointed blacklisted professors would receive pension restitution.) ’53: ’57: Art Collection begins, which will evolve into the Godwin- of a “civilization crisis.” ’72: Gloria Steinem and Graced Paley of Library and Information Studies is established. President honor of Women’s History Month, the Aaron Copland School formal opening ceremony is held for the Queens College School the music of Marvin Hamlisch ’68. College holds conference Poet Laureate of Queens, the first Italian American and Ford Foundation finds Queens College second in the nation Ternbach Museum. ’58: Harold W. Stoke named third are Commencement speakers.Open Door Program is instituted Jimmy Carter holds a Town Hall Meeting at Colden Center. of Music offered its first concert of compositions by women, for Math, Science, and Technology, which will serve grades on Quintessential Queens: Celebrating America’s Fourth Largest second woman to be so honored. ’16 College opens a Tech in preparing students in the humanities and tenth in the social president. Maurice FitzGerald Gymnasium opens, named for to recruit minority students. ’73: Students demonstrate for and The college begins affiliation with Louis Armstrong Intermediate including music not heard for over 400 years. ’97: Stephen pre-K through 8. Former Senator George Mitchell, who held an City. ’14: Félix V. Matos Rodríguez named ninth president. The Incubator for entrepreneurs, first such one in the borough sciences. On TV, President Theobald argues for the expulsion late borough president who strongly supported it. against having military recruiters on campus. QC hosts Women’s School, which later receives National Excellence Award from U.S. Stepanchev, Professor Emeritus of English, is named the first appointment at QC’s Harrington Center, led a conference on first annual Louis Armstrong International Music Festival takes of Queens. ’17: A new study shows that QC ranks among National Basketball Association Tournament, and the Knightees Department of Education. poet laureate of the borough of Queens. The college kicks Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland. place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center the top 1% of all U.S. college in helping students move from in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Warren Phillips ’47, who poverty to prosperity. Queens College turns 80 October 11. EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Eparhia Kynourias, Inc. JOH Foundation Selma Karttunen ’56 & Robert A. ’48 & Karen Simon ’78 & Anne Michelle Pascual POINTS Alfred Erdmann ’93 KAAGNY Lawrence Peters Freida Wallstein David J. Krieger Pella Publishing Company, POINTS Ernst & Young LLP Demetris & Nomiki Kastanas Cheryl Petrigliano Frank A. & Joyce Warren Lucille Kyvallos Inc. Aline Euler ’60 David & Rachelle Katz Phipps Houses Services, Inc. Alan W. Weber ’78 & Marvin M. ’75 & John S. ’53 & Barbara Perry ExxonMobil Foundation Hattie Heineman Kaufman ’59 Robert A. Picken Robin W. Jacoby-Weber Pamela Chin Lager Bertha Kaufman ’52 & 10 Federation of Chians Cultural William Keller & Anne Pine Harvey E. ’66 & Diane Weiner Jeffrey A. Lamia Philip Person 16 In September 2016 the Education Fund Inc. Lynn Steinberg Peter A. ’63 & Nesita Purpura Jacqueline A. Weiss-Thau ’80 David M. Landau ’74 Eric M. Peterson ’05 The Reverend Dr. Martin college launched the Robert M. ’85 & Lita ’64 & Nigel Pyne Alfred G. ’61 & David E. Lapin ’72 Kenneth A. ’61 & Luther King, Jr. was first Tech Incubator in Kristina Feingold Emanuel Kelmenson Queens College Hillel Gayle Williams Law Offices of Youngsoo Sandra L. Pickar the first speaker in the the borough of Queens C. Rutherford Fischer Yunmi ’06 & Heesuk Kim Queens College Student Union Audrey Kevy ’60 & Choi, P.C. Paul A. ’68 & Susan Podrid college’s John F. Kennedy with support from the Leslie B. ’65 & Ronald ’75 & Queens County Savings Bank Alfred Wilner Joyce Block ’67 & Mark ’67 & Ayalah Podwal Memorial Lecture Series. New York City Council Rochelle I. Flaum Kimberly A. Klausner Quest Diagnostics Amy Winter Charles Hennekens Carl Lazarus Patricia Sisterson ’82 & Committee on Technology, Elyse Schwartz Fleming ’48 Janice F. Klein Ann R. ’61 & John N. Raia Edward ’65 & Vicki Wolfarth WOW! Wayne R. Le Blanc ’72 Gerald A. Pollack chaired by Council James Flint James B. Klutznick Diane Ledbetter ’71 & Wright Montgomery Mei Lee Lynn Pollan 17 John Lewis & John A. ’78 & Sara Knight Alfred Rankins Charitable Fund #31 Robert ’63 & Pontian Society of Komninoi, Member James Vacca ’01. A Civil Rights Archive Toinette Fontrier-Lewis Korean Educational Institute Seymour J. ’56 & Xerox Corporation Ruth Zwickler Lesser ’63 Inc. established at the Alan T. ’83 & Lynn Frankel Korean Language Association Julia Reisman Young Equipment Sales, Inc. Linda Kopell Levine ’59 Clifford M. Pratt ’87 Rosenthal Library Dorothy G. Franklin Inc. Renee Weaver ’90 & Paul S. Zalon ’59 Andrew S. ’74 & Amilcar M. Priestley 11 Frenkel & Company Allan ’66 & Francine Herzog Patrick Requena Morton Zivan Carol M. Lipton QC Financial Aid Office documents the significant Victoria Media designated Eileen C. Frey ’53 Krumholz ’67 Research Foundation of David C. & Carol A. Locke Queens College Louis record of activism by QC a Military-Friendly® John P. ’52 & Hellenic Society of Queens College students Jenna Friedman Mee Kyung Shin CUNY $500–$999 Marsha J. Lubow ’66 Armstrong House & Archives School, and Military Robert Friedman Kristen Lamb Retirement Club of Astoria, Dorothy Zimmerman Dietzel Constantinople, Inc. Judith Trachter Ludwig Levine Rahal Foods, Inc. and teachers; it also Anonymous Advanced Education & Elliot ’77 & Sheryl K. Ganz Ira B. ’71 & Gail Marcovitz Inc. ’52 Helen T. Hendricks ’78 ’56 & Arthur L. Levine Donald T. Rave ’50 includes the library Donald J. ’64 & Transition (MAE&T) Adrienne Almasy Gatto ’60 Lamster ’71 Steven B. ’70 & Lynn Rich David A. ’52 & The Henry Luce Foundation, Joan Luskin-Crouch ’63 & James ’59 & Kass Riesenfeld collection of activist Dena Lowenkron Abrams selected Queens as a Gertrude Guzik ’68 & Robert V. Levine ’78 David Y. & Betty Rosenstock Nancy L. Dinneen Inc Edmund A. Crouch Adam L. Rockman James R. Forman. ’65 William Gazsy Michael R. Lobel ’64 & Jeffrey Rosenstock Thomas F. ’73 & Vicki Holleman Ralph A. Mahler Monica Roman ’16 “Top School” in its Aesculapian Thessalian The Gerry Red Wilson Shirley Baccus-Lobel Royal Waste Services Inc. Regina C. Dougherty Lynn J. Horn ’86 Stephen Maitland-Lewis & Allen Rosenbaum ’58 MAE&T Guide to Colleges & Brotherhood, Inc. Foundation Robert Keilbach & Clare Arlene Brooks ’65 & Allen W. Hausman ’64 & Hostos Community College Joni Berry Edward F. ’66 & Universities. AIG Corporation 18 Peter Giacometti Conte Lovett-Keilbach ’90 Edward H. Ruff Sandra Feingold Eizenman Auxiliary Services Corp. Mark J. ’68 & Debora G. Rosenfeld Ilse Thode Albers ’53 In 1979 President Jimmy Christopher T. Gilroy ’05 Elaine K. ’67 & Donald Saff ’65 Doris Mulacek Hubschman Robin Moss Mandell ’68 Joseph E. Rosenman ’79 Valiere Alcena ’70 Carter became the first Peter Ginnegar ’80 Allan Ludman Wendy Weintraub ’70 & Raymond Erickson & ’53 Rose Marie Manger ’76 Jonathan Rozenberg ’14 12 Jeanne M. Altenau president to visit Queens Samuel R. Gische ’75 Amy Reichstein ’94 & Philip Schaefer Carole De Saram Mark R. ’69 & Gail Imowitz Christa Brinskelle ’81 & William J. ’67 & Kiplinger Personal Finance Amnet Travel Agency College, holding a Town Ralph J. ’50 & Andrew A. Mack Molly Byron Schoen ’48 Dan Etheridge John S. Isby ’81 Richard A. Mannion Shirley S. Ruby lists QC as a “best value Robert S. ’61 & Hall Meeting at Colden Ursula Ward Godfrey Sayashmini Madhow ’15 Marcia Schorr Donal E. Farley Anne Jacobosky ’61 Irving L. & Ruth Markovitz Joseph M. ’71 & Genevieve Babaian college,” and Money mag- Andrew Goffman Kristine Marames ’72 Ruth Seigle David F. ’75 & Rita D. Jacobs ’67 & Steven Markowitz Jeanne Samet Center. Myra Sukornick ’57 & azine ranked us in the top Matthew & Maggie Goldstein Linda A. Markeloff ’75 The Setton Foundation Nancy S. Fenster James W. Wetzler Erica Ress Martini ’14 Helen W. Samuels ’64 & Alvin Bachman 5% of all U.S. colleges. Michael S. Goldstein ’65 & George J. ’72 & Charlotte Meyrowitz ’46 & Eva M. Fernandez Klaus Jepsen Alice Eisenberg ’62 & Greg Anderson Melissa A. Badlu ’00 & Judith Siegel Trudy Morgan Mazin ’74 Marvin R. Shapiro Nellie Wiesenthal ’52 & Johnson & Johnson Family Edward L. Mattison Sholom Sanders 19 Christopher Christophorou Irwin Gorman ’55 Paul T. ’57 & Lois P. Sheinfeld ’61 & Sheldon Fink Companies Steven ’75 & Susan L. Scherr The college’s first Bank of Hope 13 Dorothy Salzberg Grand ’55 Emilie W. McSloy Anthony G. Amsterdam Mary E. Florin-McBride ’76 Kenneth H. Jones ’67 Debra Kesner Mayo Robert Scheuing ’12 residence hall, the Paul M. Bannett ’61 Queens College offers Louis C. Grassi ’77 Martin ’52 & Martha Meisel Jay Sherwood Claire Deutsch Friedlander Francisca Verdoner Kan ’58 McVicker and Higginbotham, George A. ’71 & Summit Apartments, Dennis Barnes & Diane incoming students QC Barry & Adrienne Gray Julius G. Mendel ’52 Alfred M. ’62 & ’57 David A. ’73 & Inc. Ellen R. Schieren has a long waiting list of Walker Nadler ’81* Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Julius B. Mercado ’01 & Carol R. Sils Neil Friedman ’64 & Mary Ellen Kantor Carole Axelrad ’58 & Lowell E. ’66 & in 4—the only program of Harvey E. ’61 & students hoping to get in. of America Allison Pastor Marilyn Mandel ’48 & Ellen Bogolub Robert E. & Susan Kapsis Sid Meltzner Hester Hill Schnipper its kind in New York City Stephanie Talmud Benjamin Ronald Grosser ’71 Martin E. Messinger Ralph L. Silverman Harold N. & Barry W. ’75 & Marilyn Annie Meisel ’85 & B. Charlotte Schreiber that guarantees students Judith Caferri Bilello ’73 Samuel Grunkorn ’58 John Miceli ’61 Ira L. Spar ’64 Patricia A. Gabow Citrynell Katz ’76 Robert M. Mendelson Fred ’64 & Ellen Koskowitz that they will graduate in Harold ’50 & 20 The Guardian Life Insurance Henry Minkoff Margaret L. & Gachot Inc Gloria Fishbein Katz ’48 Myriam Rosenberg Met ’66 Schreiber ’64 four years. Gilda Levine Bluestone ’67 The Godwin-Ternbach Company Wodajo Mogues David H. Speidel Anthony ’64 & Harvey P. ’66 & Michelle Miller Daniel R. ’70 & Jeffrey ’73 & Museum has the only David M. ’69 & Norman Mollov Jonathan S. Steinberg ’76 & Athena Georges Galitsis ’64 Judith T. Kaufman Alina Montes ’92 Susan Silver Schwarzwalder Joanne Klein Blye comprehensive collection Harriet G. Guskin Morgan Stanley Smith Alice Cohen Davina Gelber ’70 Sun-Ae Kay John Monti ’73 Richard B. ’56 & of art and artifacts in the 14 Kathryn Leaman ’66 & Barney Richard ’82 & Faith Steinberg Gellert Global Group/ Ira Kazlow ’76 Lee J. Morakis Joan Waidelich ’62 & Renate Seger Brandt ’53 To honor QC for hosting Erik Hanson Richard D. ’56 & SunTrust Bank Atalanta Corp/JF Braun/ Diane M. Kelder ’55 Morgan Stanley & Co. John E. Secor borough, housing nearly Glen A. Burnett ’73 the Army Specialized Monica Deutsch ’65 & Ruth Johnson Mumma ’55 Judith Matzdorf Sussholtz ’59 Camerican Int’l. Gerald & Louise Kerner Lee M. Nadler ’69 Stephen & Sharon Seiden 6,000 works that date Peter C. Chabora Training Program during Robert L. Hartman MungSuBe Enterprise, Inc. Sylvan Learning Center of Janie B. Glatt ’72 & Won Kil Yoon Paul I. Nadler ’71 & Seoul National University from ancient to modern Jean S. Chin World War II, a cargo ship John E. ’59 & Joseph A. ’61 & Queens and Brooklyn Terry Siman Seung T. Kim Debra L. Wood Foundation, Inc. times. Robert Chrampanis ’68 was named Queens Victory. Dorothy E. Haupert Isabel D. Nardi Taiwanese American Arts Jonathan B. Glazer ’89 Young Hwan Kim Gloria Davidson ’97 & Michael S. ’56 & Andrew M. Cohen ’76 Ira Haupt Charles Neidich Council Corp. Barbara Garfinkel Goldlust Bruce M. ’76* & Kurt Nash Betty Shaffet Brian Cohen The Haupt Foundation, Inc. Obaltan Inc. Harris C. Taylor ’61 ’61 Patricia D’Errico Kimmel Neuberger Berman LLC Daniel Shapiro Sheila Savitz ’59 & 21 Eileen Luisi Hayward ’51 Jilma E. Orantes ’11 The Ready Joyce Schulman Goldman ’63 Kenneth L. ’77 & Nomura America Foundation Frederick M. ’53 & 15 Paul S. Cohen Queens College Nancy L. Hayward James H. & Mary H. Ottaway Steven I. Tintweiss ’75 Joy Honen ’69 & Miriam Diamond Kobliner Michael A. ’69 & Dale Madeline Shapiro The World War II Veterans Alida Coppi administers the Louis George R. & Andrea L. Pack ’61 Dalia Bose Tole ’99 Paul Goldstein Donald F. ’67 & Borows Nussbaum ’71 Paul Shapiro Memorial Plaza on the Cypreco Industries, Inc. Armstrong House Elizabeth Hendrey Panchiaki Korais Society, Inc. Turkish Cultural Foundation Robin Goldstein Senetta Koch Edward ’61 & Joseph M. ’66 & quad—a gift from Arnold George V. ’78 & Museum and Archives, Shonda Holder ’05 Raymond P. Paretzky ’83 & Virginia Maurer ’51 & Greek News, Inc. Susan Tscherne ’78 & Duck Hee O’Donnell Jane Cavalieri Sharnoff ’69 Franco ’43, who served in Indawati De Lucca which is a National Mark A. Holtzer ’72 Karen Zacharia James Vallar Lisa B. Greenfield ’76 & Fred Kolar Evelyn Johnston O’Keeffe ’48 Helen Weigman Shaw ’57 & the war as a code break- Marilyn Huneken ’67 & Historic Landmark Heidemarie Hoover Gerard J. Passaro ’79 & John D. Vogelsang Frank E. Nothaft Korean Community Services Stephen O’Mara Herbert Snyder er—is dedicated to the Kevin G. DeMarrais and a New York City Katherine Lao ’01 & Susan Lang Audrey Friedman ’55 & Joanne Grotheer ’82 of Metropolitan NY, Inc. Pan Icarian Brotherhood of Shipco Transport Inc Joanne S. Dempster-Murray over 1,100 faculty, students, Rodney Hu Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company Ralph B. Wagner Timonthy & Janice Haahs Maria Kovacs ’66 New York Inc. Marvin Shotkin Landmark. ’92 and staff who served in IBM Corporation of New York, Inc. Martin S. ’58 & Jane Harrison Victor & Sarah Kovner Pankerkyraikos Association Edward L. ’71 & Eli J. Dicker ’82 & World War II. Imagine Ralph A. & Kelley Perrella Mary E. Wagner Elaine Klein Hauptman ’55 George M. Kramer ’51 of America, Inc. Kathy Sigall Helain J. Landy Frank Isik ’81 Joel H. Heitman ’12 Gertrud V. Parker Diana Kellman Silberman ’67

22 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 23 EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Joel M. ’67 & Joann Fazzi ’95 & Ellen K. ’78 & Sondra Cooperman Baxt ’53 Jeffry A. ’67 & Suzanne Notar Brenner ’81 Wendy Willoughby ’79 & Paul J. Cohen ’68 & POINTS Sheila Berman Simon ’68 Vincent Acquista Jeffrey A. Axelrod Mildred J. Baynes ’56 Diane Bernstein Linda Seltzer ’66 & Anthony P. Carter Robert B. Gutterman POINTS Suzanna Simor Jeanette Adams Jimmy C. Babb ’83 Edward J. Bayone ’75 & Joe Bertolino Stephen Breskin Susan Horowitz ’62 & Rosalind E. Cohen ’68 Phyllis Yanowitz ’54 & Theodore F. Adams ’84 Marian Dieterich Bach ’77 Lillian Kahn-Bayone Anna R. Bertorelli ’04 Barbara Becker ’64 & Joel Cartun Jack ’66 & Peter P. Skomorowsky Thomas R. ’71 & Shirley Rosenberg Bach ’53 Flora Beberfall ’72 Andrew A. & Allen B. Breslow Lillian Kaufman Cartwright Sandra Ettinger Cohen ’71 22 Edward M. ’78 & Karen Lorraine Budzick Adams ’72 Burton L. Backner ’54* Ronald D. ’63 & Fredrica Rudell Beveridge Juanita Bright ’06 ’54 Sandra Edelman Cohen ’56 27 The Kupferberg Center Ajamian Smaldone ’78 Renee Rzesniowiecki Addario Doris ’98 & Lewis A. Baglione Linda Devins Bechky ’64 Niala ’06 & Paul Bhagirath Bristol-Myers Squibb Michael J. ’69 & Saul B. & Miriam F. Cohen Ken ’41 and Max ’42 for the Arts, the largest Joel K. ’45 & ’67 Bonnie L. Bailer ’75 & Bechtel Group Foundation Teris W. ’85 & Foundation Andrea Wirtzer Cassidy ’71 Stanley N. ’70 & Karen Cohen Kupferberg both worked multidisciplinary arts Barbara V. Smith Sal M. Addotta ’74 Philmore Glover Ina Kutz Sarin ’49 & Frederick M. Binder Pamela Chase ’75 & Bruce A. Cassidy ’66 & Uriel & Stacey Cohen on the Manhattan Project complex in Queens, has Richard S. Sobel ’65 Fred M. Adell ’81 William H. ’75 & Leon Beck Thomas E. & Patrick Brock Eda Hochgelerent Robert & Myrna Coiro during World War II. presented Yo-Yo Ma, the The Society for the Scientific Thomas A. Afflerbach ’80 Joan E. Bailey Robert Becker ’65 Mary Lynne Bird Robert B. ’78 & John E. & Kathleen T. Cassidy Michael Colfin ’88 New York Philharmonic, Study of Sexuality Barbara Barrow ’87 & Yao Fu Bailey Ruth G. Becker ’56 A. Robert & Blair T. Birmelin Ruth J. Brodrick ’76 Steven ’74 & Amy Castar Colgate-Palmolive Company the New York City Lawrence M. ’49 & John P. Ahern Carolyn Schraut ’64 & Stanley P. ’70 & Andrea Josepovits ’77 & Kenneth A. Bronston ’68 & Marion Casteleiro ’67 Cynthia Mays-Kelley Collins 28 Ballet, Jerry Seinfeld, Evelyn Soifer Meredith Lukin ’04 & John C. Baker Michele Simon Beckerman Gary Birnbaum Mary Moody Ruth Chin Catanese ’64 ’64 Marie Maynard Daly ’42 Michael R. Sonberg ’68 & David Akerman Lynn Baker ’71 Edward L. ’61 & Madeline Jeffrey R. Brook ’70 Sophia Catsambis Gary J. Colter ’81 Aziz Ansari, Trevor was the first African Andrew Austin Liliane Frank Akyali ’61 Sorell Shnitman/Berger Sheri R. Beckerman-Weisz Geller Birnbaum ’64 Peter M. ’67 & CBS Foundation Inc. John Comegno Noah, Tony Bennett, Ray American woman in the Bob W. Stegmaier ’66 Carol Hill Albert Balaban ’54 & ’08 Sheldon E. ’52 & Robin Lee Ann Wagner Brooke Steven R. Cerf ’66 Robert E. Comer ’75 Charles, and Billy Joel. nation to earn a PhD in Stephen Steinberg Glenda Pines Albert ’57 Susan R. Berger John W. ’54 & Strongin Birnhak ’58 George A. Brooks ’66 Anthony J. Cerone Congregation Or Zarua Lynn M. Stekas ’71 & Vincent ’57 & Anne Algeri Helen Coshonis ’78 & Dori Bach Beckhard ’55 Eleanor I. Bischoff ’64 Gerard Brostek Donald J. & Janice L. Cesare Ernest O. ’58 & chemistry. John P. Daley Mollie ’77 & Jack J. Alkana James Ballerano Michael Beer ’57 Cynthia D. Bisman ’65 & Brian ’75 & Leo M. ’66 & Tanya Chalupa Adrienne W. Conroy 23 Ricki A. Stern ’00 Andrew Alloy Jerome M. Balsam ’78 Jeffrey M. Behar ’77 David Hardcastle Barbara Block Brown ’76 April I. ’06 & Calvin W. Chan Peter V. ’65 & The Queens College Victor A. Stronski ’54 Allstate Insurance Company Jessica Baltazar Sandra Belitza-Vazquez ’67 Dolores Howell Bittel ’91 Russell Brown Nelly Tsang ’97 & Beverly Kruk Conroy ’67 29 Evening Readings series Peter Suedfeld ’60 & June Hoffer ’77 & Dennis A. Baltuch ’77 & & Mario Vazquez Mary L. Black ’00 Stanley M. ’64 & Charlie Chan Irina Constantin ’01 Doris L. Wethers ’48, a has presented over a Phyllis J. Johnson Mark C. Alpert Michele Pruskin Byron & Susan Bell Mark S. Blaifeder ’77 & Pamela Barsam Brown Linda Glick Chandross ’68 Linda Zeman ’70 & well-known researcher dozen Nobel laureates. Stephen A. ’67 & Isaac ’66 & Lea Alteras Jadwiga Siwiak ’76 & Quirino Bell Atlantic Reba Bumble ’78 Clare E. Browne ’79 Eugenia ’99 & Kenneth Chang Paul Cooper on sickle cell disease, Marcia Sutter Joyce Moskowitz ’77 & Balzano Leslie S. Bender ’70 Lotte Blaustein Scott M. Browne ’74 Lin F. Chang ’95 Patricia Cooper became the first black Dana Swimmer Billy Altman Bank of America Yvette Davis Benjamin ’50 David ’60 & Barbara Bloch Jeffrey S. ’68 & Kathy Broyde Philip ’72 & Mona Chapoulie Robert A. ’67 & Pam Cooper attending physician at 24 Syllogos Nomou Magnisias Altria Group, Inc. Francine Hartstein ’74 & Fredric B. ’70 & Dennis S. ’70 & Janet Block Bonnie Fox ’77 & Vivian D. Charlop Bruce N. Cooperstein ’70 Saint Luke’s Hospital in The Louis Armstrong Argonaytes LTD. Miguel A. Alvarez Mark Barabell Sheree Starrett Bennett Doris Racenstein ’51 & David Brunner Anna Charrette ’95 Raymond A. ’80 & 1958. Archives in Rosenthal Edward ’71 & Barbara Schaffer ’70 & Howard J. ’80 & Helen T. Bennett ’71 Perry Bloom Valerie L. Bryant ’74 Charlotte ’66 & David Chasan Cornelia Copell Library provides a Claudie Tanenbaum Herbert J. Amdur Jung Baranker Theresa Benson Amy F. Boblas ’84 Harvey ’64 & Joan Bucholtz Julianne M. Chase ’76 Daniel M. ’77 & Michael M. ’76 & Amoco Foundation, Inc. Paul Bardach ’75 Kenneth Bergin Mildred Bobrovich ’56 Joel E. Budnetz ’68 The Chase Manhattan Bank Susan Davis Corbett ’72 repository for Satchmo’s 30 Kathy Spieler Toner ’75 B. Amore Phyllis Kreutzberger Barell Doris Bergman ’60 Joseph H. ’73 & Francis P. ’68 & Foundation April ’02 & papers, private tape Albert Kapikian ’52 is Mollie Horowitz ’64 & Scott D. ’81 & ’57 & Jerome Zeiff Gary M. Bergman ’73 Nancy Bochner Kathleen A. Burke Elaine ’78 & Bob Chelton William Cornachio known as the father of recordings, musical Kenneth Traub Irene Adamo Amoros ’82 Rodney ’71 & Dolores Emily Schwartz ’63 & Martin Schwartz ’72 & Patricia A. Burke ’62 Linda ’78 & Roy Chen George S. ’65 & manuscripts, scrapbooks, Roger H. & Carol A. Anastasio ’88 Battelli Barfield Barry Berkov Susan Boiko ’74 Irene Woods Burkner ’57 Ming M. Chen ’89 & Chao Su Eileen L. Cornell human gastroenteritis photographs, gold Gail Schreier Tulcin Elva Layden ’65 & Richard A. Barkey ’08 & Ronald M. Berkowitz ’06 Edward B. ’78 & Elaine Chapline Burns Phil ’89 & Gregory Corsini ’84 virus research for his records, trumpets, and Charles F. Turner Theodore S. Andersen Susan Gaber-Barkey Elaine Ginsbourger Berman Barbara Bokhour George J. Burton ’89 Hsiu-Chuan Lu Chen Anthony J. ’71 & work developing the first more. First Lady Hillary UBS Warburg LLC Andersen Foundation Elaine Radoff ’54 & ’53 Burton S. ’75 & Eva Bollag George J. ’57 & Linda W. Cheng ’90 Miriam L. Cortese licensed vaccine against Rodham Clinton visited Ronald Ventola ’74 Diane Quarfordt ’66 & George J. Barkin Jay M. ’73 & Arthur ’64 & D Lillian R. Burton Bart Chernow Michael N. ’93 & rotavirus, a breakthrough the campus in 1998 to David ’67 & Virginia Vogel Harry F. Anderson Margaret O’Kelly ’60 & Nancy R. Berman orothy M. Boodaghian Joel L. ’59 & Elaine B. Burzin Edith Mayer Cherovsky ’57 Mary Ellen DeCiutiis for which he received the support the preservation Harriet Schwartz Vogel ’60 Iris Willim Anderson ’74 & Kenneth Barrett Paul I. ’51 & Iris M. Berman Thomas T. & Alan ’63 & Karen A. Chesley Cosenza ’81 Sabin Gold Medal. efforts for the Armstrong Herbert Waldren ’79 Lynn P. Thomas Harvey ’67 & Eric A. ’56 & Sandra Bermann Patricia A. Boody Barbara Rich Bushell ’65 Sandy M. Cheuk ’89 E. Richard & House and Archives. Marc A. Wallman ’63 & Yenny Nunez ’96 & Rita Shapiro Barrison ’71 H. R. & Carole Bernard Susan Borgos Sheryl V. Butler ’80 Jia L. Chin ’06 Angela M. Covert Cynthia Carr Michael W. Anderson Jean C. Bartelt ’60 Leonard ’56 & Toby Bernikow Matthew P. Born ’84 Lawrence Butti ’81 Paul & Jane Cho Nancy Viganti ’75 & 31 Katherine Kuhn ’52 & Joan DeFilippis Andon ’62 Seth A. ’66 & Marian Baskin Barton J. Bernstein ’57 & John B. Borrs Caroline Caccavallo ’59 Christopher Chow James H. Cowles Charles Hennekens ’63 25 Ed Wendel Marvis E. Andrews ’74 Norma Roselli Bass ’63 Pamela S. Herr Anna Lukas Borut ’62 Charles E. & Helen S. Cairns Sau Wai Chow ’01 Ruth Crane ’07 discovered that by taking Mark S. ’68 & Rosemary Iuliucci ’83 & Kitty Bateman Irwin L. ’56 & Alice Bernstein Richard Bory Maria Calabro ’07 Nicoletta Sava Chryssochoos Helen Athos ’57 & The Queens College aspirin every day, people Fredda Wintner Jonathan E. Ansbacher Ronald G. ’68 & Queta Bauer Joan-Ann Slade ’64 & Joanne O’Reilly ’75 & ’61 Nicholas Criares Speech-Language-Hear- could reduce their risk of Eric B. ’76 & Joseph F. Anselme ’91 & Ernest Bostic Manuel Calcagno Eileen Chu ’80 Lori Crimaudo ’07 having a heart attack. ing Center has served Marlene Woldenberg Marie Schesly Judi Axelrod ’68 & Margaret W. ’01 & Kelly P. ’07 & Leong-Wa Chu Grace C. Crocitto ’84 children and adults in the Jack Zevin Carol M. Anshien ’66 Jay L. Bosworth Vincent D. Callagy Richard Chupkowksi John H. ’62 & Anne Croghan Queens community since Joseph J. ’81 & Neva Martin Anton ’84 Camille Dowtin/Harris ’89 & Carmine Calzonetti Josephine Segatto Chyatte ’50 Kathleen Hanig ’04 & 1942; the QC Psycholog- Susan C. Zitolo Yvonne Aponte-Schellenberg Alfred Boyd Asimina Caminis ’68 & Eleanor Cicerchi Thomas F. Cronin 32 ical Center offers free/ Apostolos Zoupaniotis ’01 & Greg Schellenberg BP Exploration & Oil Inc. Henri Bretaudeau Marc D. Citrin ’77 Ruth G. Crosland Stanley Milgram ’55 was low-cost services to the Steven Appel Brigette Burger Brady ’71 Thomas R. & Jodi Cangemi Cummin M. & Steven E. ’76 & Gwen Cross a social psychologist community. $100–$499 Suzanne M. Aridas ’00 Dorothea D. Braginsky ’59 Robin J. Cantor-Cooke ’73 & Maureen Clancy Donna J. Crouch ’85 best known for Ed Arnold ’81 Robert ’57 & Bill Cooke Marguerite McCartin Clark ’76 Michele F. Crown ’65 his controversial Anonymous Zenay R. Arnold ’95 Barbara Belz Braine ’57 Richard A. ’68 & Rose Lopez ’73 & Sergio A. ’98 & Ana J. Cruz Joan Klarberg ’59 & experiments on Marian DiFiglia & Eileen M. Bramswig ’83 Delores Caproni Gary E. Clemente Jay ’59 & Harriet Cudrin 26 Jack Abbey obedience and his Neil Aronin Joseph T. ’86 & Liberato ’59 & Florence Arthur ’50 & Thomas Cullen QC’s Costume Col- Abbott Laboratories Fund concept of Six Degrees Arthur Bell CPAs Bobbee Malkin Brancaccio Salimeno Carbone ’58 Marion Pagel Cohen Lawrence S. ’68 & lection contains over Ahmed A. Abdelhalim ’09 of Separation. Roberta Asher ’82 Mary Anne Cariello ’62 Barry J. ’78 & Desiree Barnwell 2,000 items, shoes, and Yusuf Abdul-Wali ’13 Jeannie Ashford Ida Brancato ’58 Louis J. Carino ’77 Beth Fishman Cohen ’80 Cumberbatch ’68 accessories that date Murray Abeles Astoria Federal Savings Norma ’91 & Donald Branson Lawrence V. ’77 & Eileen Weber ’65 & CUNY CIS Department as far back as the 18th Josef ’67 & Eleanor Abelow Clare Russo ’80 & Leslianne Adkins ’81 & Linda D’andrea Caronia ’74 Elliot Cohen Maureen Mason ’90 & Shirley Abraham century. Seth J. Atlas Lidia Bastianich Richard Braunstein Ruth A. Carr ’68 Irwin L. Cohen ’68 Matthew Cuschieri Jay M. ’69 & Auburndale Sushi Corp. Lilyan Govendo ’76 & Frederick R. Carraher ’99 Kayla Scheer ’58 & Frederick N. Cushmore ’52 Lynn S. Abrahams WOW! Iris Ort Auerbacher ’55 Louis Braver Irmgard E. ’76 & Robert Carras Sheldon S. Cohen Catherine Sinagra ’62 & Gail Abramowitz ’73 Helen ’87 & Raymond Aviles #64 Louise Harkavy Bredhoff ’49 Leonard Cohen Julius J. D’Agostino

24 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 25 EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Adele W. Dahlberg Norman Dishotsky ’62 Judith Brout ’61 & Susan B. Getting ’96 Catherine Gooseman William A. ’85 & Shari Haas POINTS Mathew P. ’64 & Sandra Kleinberger ’80 & Sandor A. Friedman Deborah Goldsmith Gewertz Denise L. Gordon ’77 Gary Haber ’56 POINTS Elizabeth R. Daniels Danny Dobres Marcia Kinstler Friedman ’47 ’69 & Fred Errington Dolores Gordon Judith Lennon Halbert ’65 Danielle S. Darty George V. ’74 & Roslyn Marcovitz ’63 & Joseph P. Giacopelli ’80 Elaine Kellerman ’55 & Alvin Merritt D. ’63 & Gloria Robbins ’54 & Francine Doerrbecker Edward Friedman Salvatore J. ’80 & A. Gordon Monica Halem 33 Philip Darvin Wendy F. Donenfeld ’74 Steven G. ’76 & Lillian Giampapa Jeffrey M. ’73 & Gloria Christine A. Hall ’70 39 Since 1981 Queens Kenneth N. ’86 & Barbara Kestenbaum ’65 & Heidi Friedman Michael R. Giancarlo ’05 Goldberg Gordon ’77 George M. ’54 & Teams of QC students College has been the Susan Darvin Gary R. Donshik Susan Loeserman ’55 & Joseph A. ’72 & Nina G. Gordon ’66 Loretta Wohlfart Hall ’53 finished first and second home of environmentalist Krishna Dass Laurie Dorf Stanley D. Friedman Aviva Giannotti Michael R. ’62 & Jerome S. ’53 & in the statewide coding Barry Commoner’s Patricia ’84 & Rochelle ’84 & Alvin Dorfman Vinson J. ’70 & Judith Zucker Elisa Giglio-Siudzinski ’77 & Toby L. Gorelick Penny Axelrod Haller contest, “Making Center for the Biology of Anthony J. D’Auria Aaron Dorr Friedman ’75 Martin Siudzinski Lawrence M. ’76 & Karen Rothenberg ’88 & College Possible Coding Natural Systems, which Marilyn Bauer David-Brous Anita Dossantos Jerry Seinfeld Lois Czeh Fries ’61 Lynn Gilbert Nancy E. Gorkin Mitchell Halper Challenge,” to promote was renamed in his honor; ’56 Ze-Li Dou ’87 Dan & Am Froehlich Rachel B. Gilbert ’98 Margaret D. Gorman Jeffrey M. & the new Excelsior the center received a Cecile Cooper Davis ’50 Claire C. Dowd ’77 WOW! Jerry Froimowitz ’74 Robert ’64 & Anita S. Gillary Rosalind Stiftel ’59 & Robin A. Halperin Scholarships; a team Marc ’67 & Sheila Davis Linda Jones ’65 & Doris Duggins ’72 & Helen Willey ’65 & Jud Gostin Miriam Feigenbaum ’56 & $40.5 million grant from #80 of QC faculty and Karen Normandia ’90 & Thomas Downes Waldo A. Fuller John P. Gillmor Andrew Gottesman ’67 Eugene Halpert the Department of Energy students won the 2017 Charles Davy Neil P. ’63 & Lois G. Dreyer Dan & Maria Zippi Fumano Robert Ginsberg ’62 & Renee G. Poland- Paul G. Halvatzis ’79 to screen the health of Guillermo O. ’97 & F. Paul Driscoll John S. Furnari ’01 Norma Giorgetti ’64 Gottesman ’70 Warren D. ’56 & CUNY Sustainability nuclear weapons workers. Carmen Daza Janice Grabowski ’66 & Daniel S. ’42 & Helen Fuss Paul E. ’70 & Susan Frances Gottfried ’67 Avis Hamilton Competition; and QC Richard S. De Bear ’53 Timothy J. Driscoll Marcia Edelman ’56 & Lana Shocket ’64 & David R. ’57 & Lombardi Giovinco ’73 Anita N. Gottlieb ’74 Jeanne Thomas Handschuh student teams finished Antoinette Badamo ’56 & David ’79 & Claudio Fabbro Martin Fetner Marie Louise Gabbe Joseph A. ’75 & Jeffrey ’64 & Marian Gottlieb ’49 first, second, and third 34 John P. De Guardi Sharon Stern Drucker ’78 Brian Fadde ’03 Craig B. ’86 & Kimiko Fields Jane S. Gabin ’71 & Margarette Girgenti Jack ’64 & Caren Gould John B. & Diane Haney in the City University’s QC scientist Stephen Jeanne De Ycaza ’00 & Louise Fischer DuBois ’72 Brittany L. Faherty ’10 Dave ’72 & Gerald J. Galgan M. Emily Sobenko ’56 & Aaron & Helene Graff Gerard V. ’74 & Hack-a-Thon. Pekar ’86 was part of the Manuel Ycaza Rich ’77 & Susan K. Dubroff Irene Rosensweig Fairley ’60 Linda Pugliese Fields ’72 Socorro Gago Alexander Giris Christine A. Gralton ’89 Anne M. Hannon first major expedition to Adelaide DeFalco ’87 William I. ’54 & Carol R. Falcetti ’61 Harriet Pinson Fink ’52 Steve & Patricia Galiotos Evangelos & Frances Gizis Harvey Gram Michael A. Harris ’92 explore the lost continent Olga Del Giorno Defilippis Roberta Silverberg Dunaief Judith De Mori Falci ’89 Barbara Fried Finkel ’53 & Brian J. Gallagher ’81 Caroline Spiegel ’61 & Daniel Paula G. Grande ’70 & Andrea Hart 40 of Zealandia (near Janice Nelson Degennaro ’94 ’55 Domenick J. ’75 & Stanley Finkel Eileen Copeland Gallagher ’53 Glass Edward Streeter Rhona Cohen Hartman ’60 Geneticist Elizabeth Helene Falcone Bradley S. ’80 & Australia). Carol Caggiano ’68 & Marc Duneier John F. ’80 & Loren I. ’67 & Carol Sharaga Gray ’58 Shirley Liftin ’46 & Neufeld ’48 received the Deborah Falik ’72 Sandra Finkelstein Stephen M. Degnen Mose ’61 & Onni Durst Beatrice Gallagher Carla Driansky Glassman ’68 Christina Graybard Mike Hartman National Medal of Science Charles ’69 & Julia Famoso Meris Bloom ’74 & Carol Buhr ’61 & Deborah J. Dusel ’86 Victor Gallis ’67 GlaxoSmithKline Frieda Tenenbaum Grayzel ’55 Jack B. Hartog for her research on the Frank Delany Tommy ’65 & David S. Fankushen ’57 David M. First John R. Gallub ’76 Carol Price ’64 & Len J. ’67 & Cynthia Graziano Ina Kominsky ’81 & 35 genetic basis of metabolic David S. Delbaum ’69 Ellen Wagner Ebe ’65 Paul Fardy Jennie Moller Fleck ’61 Raymond A. Gamble ’71 Eugene Glazer Marc B. Greenbaum ’79 Craig Hasday Dennis Liotta ’70 is the disease in humans. Mirta C. Delgado ’89 Sharon B. Eckstein ’83 & Evelyn Shaw ’78 & Elliot ’53 & Alice Klein ’65 & Patricia A. Glunt ’91 Ann Adler ’60 & Lauraine Fleischman/Cleet co-discoverer of Emtricit- Michael P. ’77 & Lawrence R. Indik Roy A. Farquharson Renee A. Fleischer Michael H. Ganz Barbara Golden ’63 & Frank S. Greenberg ’67 & Robert A. Hawkins abine, a drug used by 94% Denise Dellacorte Barbara Landesman ’54 & Patricia A. Farrell ’76 Dominick ’03 & Mariana H. Garay William Goebel William M. ’68 & Joan Galkowski ’93 & of HIV-positive patients in John M. ’68 & Mary Alice Bernard Edelstein Morton & Ruth Feder Anna Florentino Zulma C. Garcia ’73 William K. ’68 & Wendy F. Greenberg Paul Hayes 41 the United States. Dellicarpini Howard S. Edelstein ’71 Cecile DeJesus Feeley ’99 Rita Tavel ’95 & Fred & Susan Gardaphe Constance Albertelli Goerich Raymond S. ’67 & André M. Hayum ’59 Queens College offers Alexandra DeLuise Howard J. ’68 & Mary Markunas ’81 & Jeffrey John A. Fogelman Rhonda Boatright Garner ’83 ’68 Marsha Kass Greenberger Patricia R. Hazell-Strother ’73 the only master of science Brian ’82 & Jeanne Bauman Susan G. Edenberg Feick Anne Mindermann ’58 & Stephen A. ’61 & Carl J. Gold ’77 & ’68 Yimei He education degree in 36 DeMasters ’80 Wendie Eigen-Weinstein ’79 Dora Levenkron ’64 & Evin A. Foley Joan Freinberg Garnock ’63 Kathie A. Kneff Sandra Vasquez ’71 & Judith Spina ’49 & New York State for Biology Professor John Edward A. ’61 & Margaret & Stephen Weinstein William Feigin Diana Fong Aldo Gasperin ’70 Emily Messing Goldberg ’58 Richard Greene Harold J. Healy teaching both math and Waldman is the author Mitchell Dempsey ’61 Peter & Joan Eilbott Florence Diamond Feinberg William J. Foote ’68 Thomas F. Gassert ’79 June Omura Goldberg ’55 Zandra Weiss ’57 & Marie Law ’58 & computer science. of 100 Weird Ways to Louise A. Derevlany- Harold ’80 & Lisa Eisenstein ’69 & Benjamin Geizhals Ellen Banigan ’73 & Victoria Vicital Gawiak ’65 Marilyn P. Goldberg ’57 Barry Greene Robert J. Heilen Catch Fish. Sanantonio ’81 & ELF Atochem North America Jeffrey ’66 & Marsha Feinberg William B. Fornaro Alan K. ’58 & Mary Gaynor Rita M. Goldberg ’54 Norma Justman Greenfield ’64 Douglas M. Heimowitz ’83 Mark Sanantonio Foundation Ronald L. Feinman ’66 Yvonne Lantelme Forrest Joel R. ’73 & Robin Goldenback ’79 GreenPoint Bank Herbert ’60 & Elke 42 Sheila Fils ’56 & Eli Lilly & Company Jerrold S. ’76 & Gail Zierman ’68 & Phyllis Friedman Gecht ’75 Susan Morrison Goldfine ’78 Levi Greenspan ’94 Deichmann Hekler ’65 Jane Breskin Zalben ’71 37 Martin D. Dermer Foundation Ilene Levine Feit ’79 Charles H. Forsberg Mary Gegelys ’58 Michael ’69 & Iline Goldfischer Murray H. ’48 & George Held ’04 wrote over 50 children’s Dennis C. Desposito ’01 Renate Vogel Elias ’53 Stanley & Haya Feld Joseph P. Fotos ’66 Jacquelyn Schillinger ’50 & Richard ’00 & Phyllis Yacknin Greenspan Edward Helfeld ’49 books; Else Holemund Charles Wang ’67 and Louis & Kathleen Fox ’93 Franklin T. Desposito ’53 Howard ’69 & John Geissman Bridgit Pilchman Goldman ’47 Ann Scherel ’60 & Paul Heller Minarik ’42 was the Russell Artzt ’68 are the Helen Baranker Felder ’86 Judith Rosenblum Fox-Miller Frank ’63 & Robin Sosis Elson ’71 Craig B. Geist ’97 & ’98 Erica Grodin ’70 Sanford B. Helman ’59 author of the popular cofounders of Computer Barbara Ann DeStefano Norman ’70 & Georgina Eng Irwin M. ’57 & Rita Feldman ’84 Christine Vignola-Geist Eli S. ’95 & Riva Goldschmiedt Elizabeth Frey Grodsky ’67 Sue E. Henderson children’s book series Associates (now known Roberta Knight Detmers ’95 Jeffrey M. ’88 & Joy M. Engel Marvin R. Feldman ’71 Sandra Fox-Simkins ’65 & Steven K. ’74 & Corinne Gelb Anita Wolis ’63 & Allen R. ’65 & Karen E. Gross Edith Hertz Henley ’55 Little Bear, which was as CA), one of the largest Maria Deutscher Ann Kissane Engelhart ’82 Linda M. Feldman-Nabokov Alan Fox Marilyn G. Gelber ’67 Eugene Goldstein Edward E. Gross ’48 Mario C. Henry ’69 illustrated by Maurice independent software Sanjeev Dheer ’90 Janice Gangi ’77 & ’72 Vicky Fragias ’84 Edie Gelber-Beechler ’76 Jonah L. ’56 & Joel B. ’57 & Ronald A. ’65 & corporations in the world. Joseph ’77 & John G. English Faith Bruno Felix ’53 John E. ’65 & Eric R. Gelfand ’78 Carrie Goldstein Mary H. Grossman Sylvia B. Henry Sendak; David A. Adler Concetta R. Di Lorenzo Entergy Corporation Eleanor Rifas Feller ’49 Anastasia Frangos ’72 Maxine Regelman ’62 & Josephine Vaccaro Goldstein Penny Fox ’61 & Catherine C. ’04 & ’68 has written close to Odalys Diaz-Pineiro Loretta Perettine Epifania ’49 George J. Felos ’73 Robert A. Frank ’65 Martin Gelfand ’69 & Steven Goldstein Philip Grossman Robert Hensel 200 books for children 38 The DiBenedetto Family Michael Erdil ’73 & Elizabeth Carole L. Fenton ’99 Barbara Weiss Franklin ’54 Adam Gellender ’13 Merle Goldstein ’68 Ruth Grossman Julio L. Hernandez-Delgado and young adults, Forbes named Olivier Foundation E. Glackin Thomas ’59 & Barbara Ferbel Albert & Phyllis Freberge Florence Feinberg Gellman ’55 Seth D. ’83 & Marjy Goldstein Pamela Antell Gruenhut ’74 ’75 including the popular Cam Noel ’11 to its annual Barbara Marschman ’96 & Charles J. ’68 & Steven B. Feren ’74 The Freddie Mac Foundation Robert L. ’65 & Arthur ’68 & Kenneth ’65 & Lynda B. Gubin Patricia L. Herron ’90 Jensen series. “30 Under 30” list Stephen A. Diehl Abby T. Erreger Lionel ’55 & Mitchell Freiband ’72 Elise A. Geltzer Marilyn Simon Goldwert ’72 Rosemarie Cantor ’46 & James L. ’64 & Rosewita Fernandez Arlene Freidman of outstanding young Domenica ’61 & Brenda Eskenazi ’71 & Veronica Baleisis Genco ’71 Helmut ’66 & Dorothy A. Golz Anthony T. Guercia Shirley A. Hershey Leona Schloss Fernbach ’51 Lawrence S. Freund ’61 & entrepreneurs in the Angelo DiFilippi Eric Lipsitt Sharon M. Gentles ’01 Jin T. Gong ’99 & Richard R. ’66 & Muriel Tucker Hertan ’53 Donna M. DiGioia ’71 & Bruce ’65 & Paula Esposito Anne Moehle ’63 & Gloria L. Berkenstat Freund Marie I. George ’00 Ling Jiang ’96 Geraldine Guevara Carol Besen ’65 & sciences. Olivier founded Anthony D. Cortese Jacqueline Levine ’93 & Ralph N. Ferrara ’62 Nesta George Marianne Gonzalez ’88 Harold E. Guttenplan ’48 Elliot Hertz DNAsimple, which banks Michael D. ’62 & Kathleen Milton Esterow Francis M. ’74 & Carol Grosser ’67 & Neil ’68 & Kenneth ’57 & Paul Guttleibe Gale Messinger ’71 & Stanley DNA samples from Burlon DiGiovanna ’64 Tamara S. Evans Mary C. Ferrara Steven Friedling Joan Rosenfeld Gerard ’68 Patricia Goodman H M Investment & M. Hertz people all over the world Jing Ding ’13 Nellie Biller ’70 & Jack P. ’50 & Carole Holland Friedman ’72 George R. Gerardi Philip M. Goodman ’80 Development Inc. Marc A. ’75 & Elaine Hertz for use by researchers. Kathleen Pilkington ’63 & Janius G. Eyerman Maureen Anne Ferraro David ’65 & Roberta Hirsch Dorothy E. ’77 & James E. ’69 & Dara Uretsky ’05 & Nina Sklar Hertzberg ’64 Joseph D’Introno Alan F. ’52 & Rella Eysen Friedman ’67 Homer Gerken Veronica Goodwin Richard Haas

26 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 27 EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Carolyn Strauss ’57 & Patricia G. Jackson ’64 Marian Smith Kasdan ’47 Martin E. ’76 & Lisa J. Kooper ’93 Brenda Keough ’61 & Lynn Linderman Priscilla Smith ’47 & POINTS Carl P. Hetzel Ronald & Carol Jacobi Richard B. ’80 & Shaynee J. Kessler Arthur H. Kopelman ’75 George Lane Alison C. Lindsay-Beltzer ’80 Jerold Mann POINTS Higginbotham House Dennis G. ’64 & Judith Jacobs Rita Tall Kashdan ’71 Jack I. Kestenbaum Frank & Gwyndolyn Korahais Linda Agin Lang ’63 & Howard S. Beltzer Gwendolyn D. Manning-Hiers Museum/Enterprises Jerome L. ’52 & Janet Pulin Kasimis ’67 Jeanne Caffrey Ketley ’62 Korean American Association Gudrun E. Lange ’91 Evelyn Yonkus ’55 & Richard ’85 Leda K. Hill ’95 Francine Kaufman Jacobs Joan Borowick ’63 & Karen L. Kietzman ’81 of Queens New York Marvin R. Lange ’68 & R. Link Salvatore Mannuzza ’72 43 Hillcrest Jewish Center, Inc. ’57 Melvyn M. Kassenoff Incha Y. Kim ’88 Manfred Korman ’53 Ellen Metzger Mark Lipira Richard J. Mansfield Jill 48 Carol Fredericks Jantzen Andrea S. Hirsch ’78 Esta ’00 & Norman Jacobskind Albert R. ’71 & Aria Kasuga Sung A. ’89 & Chang W. Kim Bryan J. ’74 & Marilyn Lantz ’67 Jack Lippmann ’90 Witkin Mante In 1975 QC’s women’s ’67, ’70 has won national Gregg P. Hirsch ’81 Allan S. ’66 & Constance Lubin Katz ’59 & Andrew A. Kimler ’74 & Debra Kornreich Edward ’73 & Edith Lapal William M. Lipsky ’65 Marianne Marames ’75 basketball team played recognition in the fields Timothy Hirten Denise Brouillette Jacobson James M. Levin Cheryl P. Waller Alan ’55 & Gail Koss Cheryle Roberts ’68 & Cheryl Littman Anne Kulis ’42 & in the first women’s of glass chemistry and the Lu Jing Ho ’89 Betty Weiss Jacobson ’58 Laura Cherkis/Lipitz ’66 & Jim & Linda Kinderknecht Anna M. Kostro ’01 Verdell Lawton Lockheed Martin Corporation Benjamin G. Marcin basketball game held in safe disposal of high-level Seymour A. Hodge ’72 David Y. ’67 & John Katz Alfred A. & Vance R. ’68 & Allan M. ’66 & Francis J. ’70 & Catherine Murray ’55 & Madison Square Garden. nuclear waste. Herbert W. ’52 & Shelley A. Jacobson ’67 Lewis R. ’59 & Jan K. Katz Michelle Davis King Katherine Koven Maxine Lazarus Christine Lombardi Albert Marcinak The college’s basketball Lucille S. Hoell Stuart L. ’76 & Stanley N. & Adria H. Katz Donald B. ’55 & Mitchell P. Koza ’73 Joanne DeMauriac ’67 & Erwin London ’74 Leah Rosenthal ’69 & court has been named the Mark D. Hoffer ’73 & Sandra Morgenstern Betty Cherry ’68 & Jacqueline Kinsler Arthur ’50 & Elizabeth Kraft Carl W. Leaman Michael ’69 & Ann Loobman Lawrence P. Marenstein Lucille Kyvallos Court in 44 Ann Wax ’75 Jacobson ’78 Robert E. Kaufman Susan Feig Kittelsen ’80 James Kramer ’69 Daniel J. Leavitt ’88 Loudis Family Fund Patricia Margand ’92 honor of the legendary Dolores Poltorak ’56 & Charles Jaffe ’97 & Chet ’76 & Mark ’76 & Laurie Paul Surovell ’68 & Allen Leboff Eve J. Lowenstein ’88 Jerome ’53 & Researchers in the QC coach and pioneer in Robert Hoffman Gayle S. Stone ’77 Carol Hayes Kaufman Schulsinger Klein ’92 Judith T. Kramer ’67 Maria Bruno ’53 & Judith Sasonkin ’59 & Barbara Margolin School of Earth and women’s basketball. Roslyn Braverman Hoffman Hilde Wolf Jaffe Edith Ceisler ’51 & Richard S. ’62 & Lori Kranczer Joseph Lechleider Mark G. Lowenstein Judith Mollin ’62 & Environmental Sciences ’52 John L. Jance ’79 Norman L. Kaufman Caryn Klein Lloyd J. ’70 & Sylvia Krapin Frances H. Lee ’57 Albert R. Lubarsky ’61 Seymour Margolis have conducted projects Estelle Levy ’69 & JC Penney Elinor Rennik ’55 & Victor R. ’76 & Lester J. Krasnogor ’59 & Hyun J. Lee Marilyn Lustig ’67 & Lynn G. Mark ’77 on all seven continents Steven Hofstetter Lawrence R. Jean ’65 David Kaufman Sharon M. Klein Joan Stern Mazza ’63 John ’76 & Aaron Lubin Erica L. Markowitz ’03 49 and all five oceans; no Marta Garcia ’00 & Linda Jean-Baptiste ’03 Paramjit Kaur David K. Kleinberg ’62 & Irene C. Krauland ’78 Nadine Gordon Lee ’77 Pascale Lubin Alan B. ’74 & Mary P. Marks QC President Félix V. wonder QC has more Terrance R. Holliday Victor W. ’81 & Arthur D. ’74 & Betty H. Kay Ellen Shilling Law Florence Reiss ’60 & Stuart M. Lee ’83 & Adelia Williams Lubitz ’81 Richard B. Marks ’66 & Matos Rodríguez is one of earth and environmental Babette S. Hollister Violet D. Jeffrey Judith Soloway ’61 & Chester Gary Kleiner Allen Kraut Frances Fenster Tom J. ’71 & Michael C. Ford the few presidents in the science majors than any Joy M. Holz ’54 Hilde Jenssen J. Kay Dorothea J. Kleinhammer ’67 Eleanor Driscoll ’56 & Yunhee W. Lee Valerie Telleria Lucas ’71 Anthony & Maria Marotta country to have led both other CUNY college. Alan ’72 & Benita Holzer Karen Asch ’53 & Noah Kay ’13 Ralph ’80 & Lisa Kleinman John F. Krebs Sydney A. Lefkoe Lucent Technologies Carlos A. ’77 & a community college and a Marian Schwartz ’67 & Walter K. Joelson Kenneth N. ’85 & Robert J. ’73 & Neil F. ’69 & Andrea Martin M. ’75 & Foundation Beth Shindler Marques ’84 four-year college. Richard Holzman Diane Foss Johnson ’75 Rhonda Kaye Doris C. Kleinman Schwartz Kreinik ’68 Barbara Lehman Helen Clancy Luciano ’61 Elizabeth Healy ’91 & 45 Franklin W. ’60 & Jacqueline Olumuyiwa A. ’01 & Judith Keller ’68 Philip ’56 & Stephen ’67 & Laura Anne Lubliner ’75 & Michael David B. ’71 & Vasco Marques Gail Marquis ’73 won a Karger Hooper ’57 Kristan Jolaoso Althea D. ’82 & Barbara Jane Klubes Hershman Kreitzer ’68 H. Lehmann Susan Lukaske Barbara Sobotka ’02 & 50 silver medal as part of Dorett Merk Hope ’62 Edwin R. ’62 & David M. Kelley Seongyeon Ko Elin Krhoun ’64 Steven K. ’77 & Lisa Leibel Raisa Luma Richard E. Marsh Among the many Donald H. ’66 & Marcia Horn Phyllis Joscelyn Inas Rashad ’00 & Gerald W. & Karen Koeppl Steven A. ’73 & Laurie Kritz Alan B. ’71 & Liane Winrow Lunden ’52 Stephanie P. & Robert Marshall the U.S. women’s 1976 notable speakers to Peter P. ’69 & Carol Schor Joseph ’65 Donald Kelly Elissa Berliner ’60 & Edith Mapes (Evans) Ivy Suna Leibowitz ’74 Jeffry ’66 & Trish Luria Dominic ’69 & basketball team; Marjorie have appeared at the Anne Silberman Horne ’69 Dennis Joseph & Yana Stotland Robert Kenler Raymond S. Koff Kuhnsman ’71 Rochelle Leibowitz ’71 & Roberta Kramer ’75 & Robert Kathy Marsicovetere college are Muhammad Larney ’64 competed in Alan F. ’70 & Barbara Mark E. ’68 & Maureen E. Kennedy Ben ’86 & Catherine Bara- Anita Hollander ’65 & Walter Potaznick R. Luttrell Mira S. Martincich ’75 Ali, Eleanor Roosevelt, the javelin at the 1952 and Dresner Horton ’73 Joyce W. Joseph John Kenny varian Kohanim ’02 Kenneth Kulman Elizabeth Kramer Leighton Allen J. ’54 & Jerome S. ’66 & Malcolm X, and Marshall 1956 Olympics; Robert Sheila Epstein ’65 & Linda Bantel ’61 & Allan Kensky ’67 Robert L. ’65 & Betty S. Kung ’71 Paul Lempert ’08 Roberta Grower Lynch Frances Marton Koehler ‘56, founder of A. Victor Horvitz Daniel Juers Susan D. Kensky-Goldman Enid Kohl ’67 Robert T. ’64 & Allison Leong Susan Kronowitz ’61 & Regina B. Mascia ’86 McLuhan. QC’s water polo team, Leonard Horwitz ’42 Harriet Bauch Juli ’69 ’74 & Samuel Goldman Michael J. Kolesar ’67 Diana M. Kung Joyce Leong ’81 Leonard J. Lyon Michele Masliah ’75 & went to the Olympics in Michael J. ’60 & Justgive William L. ’70 & Roberta Rosenblum ’60 & Celia Kuperszmid-Lehrman Richard P. ’61 & Carmen D. Macias ’90 Mark Goldstein 1956 . Mary Houlihan Joel Kabak ’72 & Victoria Keogan Howard Kolodny ’79 & Robert E. Lehrman Julie A. Lerner Roy E. ’57 & Debra Licht ’66 & 51 Wade A. ’64 & Judith R. Jaeger Marcia Davis ’67 & Athena Varidakis ’00 & Joseph H. Kupfer ’67 Daniel Lesser Barbara Crosby Mackie ’57 Robert H. Masnik ’70 Jill Barad ’73 was one of Adonija Zilvinskis Hoyt ’64 Robin Heller ’74 & Robert M. Kerchner James Konstantatos Audrey Samuels ’60 & Debra R. Lesser ’76 Bernard ’56 & Jeannie Mackler Phoebe Carillo Massimino ’81 the first women to head 46 Amy Hsin Allan B. Kachel Tecla M. Kern ’43 Rosaria Puccio ’56 & Anatole Stephen J. Kurtz Mae Bonin ’81 & James Letsch Mack-Medley ’10 Marilyn E. ’74 & a Fortune 500 company According to the Learfield Ching-Hua Hsiung ’93 & Judith Kanner Kadoory ’60 Paul E. Kerson & Konstantin Linda Rosenbaum ’92 & Stuart G. ’70 & Lisa Leventhal Macy’s Foundation Charles Matis (Mattel). Directors’ Cup ranking Shouchun Zheng Robert ’64 & Gail A. Kagan Marleen Kassel-Kerson Jean Stein ’64 & Allen Kurtz Albert Levin ’42 John E. ’59 & Gail Madden Robert A. ’65 & of Division II teams, QC Yu Jin ’03 & James Hwang Shirley Fraier ’59 & Karen Kessler William T. Konzal Peggy Kurtz Dorothy Heilveil Levin ’58 Robert Madden ’66 Michele Matlin William J. ’51 & Norma Hyder Paul J. Kalina Robert S. & Lorraine Kurz Martin R. ’69 & Madeline Maffetore ’60 Donald E. ’78 & ranks among the nation’s 52 Stephen I. Hyman ’62 & Dorothy Davis Kalson ’52 Verna R. Kushel Linda Rubin Levine ’72 John R. Magel ’62 Susan Matthews top 100 Collegiate Donna Orender ’78 Estelle Gottesman Rapoport Estelle Eskenazi Kamler ’67 Lois A. Kuster ’77 Risa Frishtick ’70 & Daniel A. & Amy L. Mahler Lawrence W. Mattis ’87 & was commissioner of Athletics programs. ’67 Thomas E. ’72 & Kenneth Kustin ’55 Jay M. Levine Howard C. Mahler ’72 Frances S. Kamien ’87 the Women’s National Tina Steinberg ’64 & Esther Kamm ’85 John A. ’80 & Stephen B. Levine ’69 Umair Mahmood ’15 Paul & Judy Mattsson Donna Orender Basketball Association. Bruce Hyman Martin ’75 & Laura J. Kane Christine La Rossa Stewart B. ’76 & Allan W. Mahood ’71 Rita Berliner ’65 & 47 Samuel S. ’63 & Tobias M. Kane ’78 WOW! Barbara Burke La Valle ’57 Elisabeth Levine Ronnie S. Maibaum ’64 Bjorn J. Matz The 2017 women’s Harriet Hymowitz Edgar Kann ’52 #52 Elyse B. Lacher ’67 Jeffrey M. Levinson & Dennis Maika Barbara Mavro ’71 basketball team brought Georgine Ingber Steven ’73 & Joanne Kant Judith Lacher Fleisher ’48 Loren M. Horn Levinson Vivian Treacy Majeski ’47 Richard Maxwell 53 home QC’s first NCAA Intel Joyce Katz Kantor ’73 Andrew C. Lacoff ’95 Mitchel & Gloria Levitas Santa Schimmenti Malatestinic Bruce ’60 & Mara Mayor Juliet Papa ’78 (1010 Division II East Regional The Interpublic Group of Demetrios Kaouris Dimitrios Ladas Mitchell A. Levitt ’56 Diane Wilson ’69 & WINS Radio) received Championship. Team Companies Michael M. ’66 & Robert W. Ladden ’53 Qian Hui Li ’03 Dean ’75 & Rose Malouta John J. Mazzella the national Gracie Award star Madison Rowland is Camelia ’01 & Andres Irizarry Barbara Feldman Kaplan ’68 Emilie Bilotta Lafergola ’60 Judith Libow Margaret Lazounik ’72 & John McAward ’62 as Outstanding Reporter/ the first NCAA player Lee Pancerman Israel ’67 Lawrence ’55 & Monica Friedlich ’75 & Susan P. Liebell ’86 & Edward J. Mancuso Robert T. ’70 & Correspondent; Mary to record career totals Enid S. Israelson ’66 Carol Pasternak Kaplan ’59 Ezra C. Lagnado Paul McLean Lucille Hershfeld Mandel ’54 Gloria J. McCahill Murphy ’81 has won of 2,000 points, 1,000 George M. Isserles ’65 Robert S. ’60 & Vivian Lai Chin ’83 Erika M. Lieber ’80 Marianne Doennecke ’61 & Sara Miller McCune ’61 Emmys for her reporting Ruth A. Isserles Barbara Kaplan Florence Applbaum ’62 & Beth Weinstein ’68 & Robert Mangels Brian A. McDermott ’89 rebounds, 400 steals, 400 on WCBS Channel 2 Ann Dibella ’73 & Laurie A. Kaplis-Hohwald Ephraim Laifer Carl M. Lieberman Kathleen A. Mangiapanello ’99 Eugene F. ’77 & assists, and 100 blocks. News and WPIX News. Kenneth T. Jablon ’75 & Robert S. Hohwald Maurice M. Landazuri ’90 Gloria Schrier ’60 & Josephine La Puma ’60 & Marna M. McDermott Andrew P. Jackson ’96 David Karen ’75 Sora Eisenberg ’54 & Melvin Lieberstein John A. Manicone Valerie Vogini ’68 & Catherine Y. Jackson Olga Zaferatos Karras ’70 Aaron Landes Syd L. Lifshin ’75 & Justin Mann James F. McDermott Howard A. ’65 & Alia Haider Karrazzi Alton J. ’75 & Elizabeth Lawless Leslie A. Mann ’69 Virginia P. ’71 & Ellen F. Jackson Cary S. ’68 & Doris M. Kart Patricia Tinto Landsman Mary J. Lilly ’78 William McDermott

28 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 29 EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Daniel F. ’75 & Corinne Anthony ’63 & Mel B. Morgenbesser ’68 Michael & Nikki S. Reiss Shoshana Gabriel ’44 & POINTS Martha D. McDonald Harold T. Michels Mirele Morgenthal Julie Williams Noulas ’80 James G. ’62 & Jerome L. Rosenberg POINTS Thomas J. ’56 & Marianne Microsoft Robert C. ’72 & Joel Novack ’65 Carolyn D. Renfro Edward Rosengarten ’13 McDonough George & Haeda Mihaltses Ann Marie Moriggia Novartis Pharmaceuticals Co. Lawrence I. ’63 & Steven L. ’75 & Audrey B. McFadden- Shiela Woda ’64 & Vincenzo & Christine E. Morra Herbert A. ’48* & Patty Rennert Ruth Kluger Rosenhaus ’76 54 Stephenson ’89 Peter Milch Deborah A. ’74 & Jean Nuber William F. Renz ’12 Inbal Rosenthal ’03 59 QC has had more Kyle M. & Sophia McGee Renee H. Miller ’69 & Andrew S. Morris Emilia Nuccio-MacFarlane Leo F. Rerek ’72 James E. ’70 & While studying at QC graduates serve in Jeanne Lukasick ’80 & Robert Stuart B. Kaplan John C. ’78 & ’77 & Robert MacFarlane Joel D. Resnick ’80 Roseanne Kelly Rosenthal to be a teacher, Carole the U.S. House of E. McGough Ricki I. Miller ’70 Laura Bernard Morris Henry R. ’42 & Barbara Millman ’66 & Stephen E. ’66 & King met her future Representatives than any William F. ’77 & Barbara Steven ’75 & Karyn Jules J. Morris ’74 & Lillian A. Nychka Martin Resnick Hope F. Rosenthal husband and songwriting other CUNY college: Hedgis McGovern ’77 Perlmutter Miller ’82 Leticia H. Aquino-Morris Dale Houser Oakes ’57 Mary Iverson Reuder Mark S. ’71 & partner Gerry Goffin. McGraw-Hill Foundation William M. ’72 & Howard ’55 & Eugene W. ’73 & Lenore Rey ’72 Karen Harlow Rosentraub Joseph Crowley (14th Fran Drescher (John Lennon said in District), Adriano Elaine Robinson ’77 & Maryanne Miller Marcella Morrison Gail Garbowski Obermuller Bronia Bronia Gerstl Reyman Robert ’79 & Debbie Rosman 1963 that he wanted Paul Espaillat (13th District), John McHale Frantz Nazaire ’02 & Roger J. Morrissey ’75 WOW! ’48 Marilyn A. Ross ’67 McCartney and himself to John V. ’74 & Kathy McKerlie Kellee D. Miller-Nazaire ’00 Susanne M. Morrow Robert A. ’65 & Guy J. ’41* & Tamara E. Ross ’00 and Gary Ackerman ’65 become “the Goffin-King Sharlene E. McKoy ’04 Anthie P. Milonas ’89 Jane Geibel ’70 & Sheila Weiss Oberstein ’69 #69 Eleanor P. Riccio Frances Pepper ’51 & (5th District, retired). of England.”) Carole William J. ’01 & Pyong G. Min Charles A. Morton Patricia Watt ’59 & Marie Ciancio ’76 & Gennaro Irwin Roth received the Library of Donna McLernon Allen D. ’68 & Cliff V. ’77 & Mary Cipollone William Oettinger J. Riccitelli Richard F. ’74 & Harriet Porcello McNamara Penelope Meade Mincho ’71 Mosco ’72 Nina O’Connell ’54 & Robert Thalia Rich Catherine Loeb Rothbard Congress’ Gershwin 55 ’64 Sonya Sky ’69 & Daniel G. Moshief ’81 C. Ohlmann Frances J. ’77 & ’76 Award for Popular Music Helen Marshall ’70, ’73 Paula Chanley ’70 & Martin Minkoff Andrea Harrow Moskowitz Jessica Siegler Olefson ’71 Malcolm Richard Paul G. ’76 & in 2012. was Queens borough Andrew D. McNitt Philip M. ’71 & ’70 Karen Yelverton ’91 & Nikunj K. Patel ’97 Leslie Gross ’68 & Shirley Fleming ’56 & Marcia B. Rothberg president from 2002 Ellen Henry McQuade ’72 Dale Kaplowitz Mintz ’74 Ellen Eagle ’71 & Anthony J. Olszewski Edythe Wheeler ’62 & Merrill B. Portney Luc Richard Maxine Rothenberg ’73 to 2013. Before that, Linda Grillo ’94 & Aleksey Mishail ’00 David J. Moskowitz Joseph S. ’74 & G. Richard Patterson Robert L. & Amy G. Poster Susan Morgan ’62 & Robert M. ’58 & Barbara 60 she served eight years Craig T. McQuillan Mark J. Mishler ’72 Danial Mostafa ’06 & Elizabeth Olwell Mary Paul ’70 Janet Koch ’64 & Robert J. Richardson Partnow Rothenberg ’58 Actor Danny Burstein in the New York State Joan Sharples ’66 & Vincent A. Misiano ’72 & Denise Y. Toro ’07 Adekunle Omotade ’99 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Joseph Potenza Wade Richmond ’81 Ronald I. Rothenberg ’86—whose father Assembly and ten in the Roy McTyre Lynne Reitman Sanford K. Mozes ’76 OnlyPromDresses.com & Garrison LLP Robert D. Poulos ’81 Richard ’51 & Joan Richter Barry ’71 & Harvey is a long-time New York City Council. John C. Meaney ’77 Maria Puszkydra & Patrick Mullen Optima Fund Management Barbara A. ’91 & Praxair Kenneth L. & Rita Temple Rothfeld ’73 member of the college’s Linda Meeth ’89 Steven Miss John ’86 & Dina Muratori LLC. Edward J. Paulinski Marilyn Mintz Press ’62 Jacqueline Rickman Bert A. ’73 & Philosophy Department— Fern R. Mehler ’76 & David C. ’67 & Samuel M. Murray ’74 Donald ’74 & Jane Paznik-Bondarin ’66 Charles J. Prestigiacomo ’87 Eleanor Hanson Rieder ’50 Vicci Buchman Rothman has won two Drama Jay Brick Mercedes Mitchell Albert ’65 & Debra Musaffi Wendy Weine Oral Eva Buschke ’58 & Melvyn M. & 56 Eileen G. Peers ’75 Yvonne Lutz Price ’64 Desk Awards and three Renee C. Meiselman ’75 Linda J. Mitchell ’72 Eugene ’59 & Arlen Oransky Arthur Rifkin E. Barbara Rothman Sociology Professor Robert J. ’81 & Dore J. ’98 & Jennifer Provda Outer Critics Circle Donna S. Melli ’85 Sierra Mitchell Ilene Trager Nadel ’61 Alexander ’66 & Jared L. & Nancy Rifkin Sheldon P. ’72 & Andrew Beveridge, a Deborah Berendt Penzer ’81 Vicente P. Puig Awards, and has been Lori Damm ’84 & Joseph W. ’75 & Elliott Naishtat ’65 Linda B. Orbach Karina Peraffan Susan Margiolas Quinn ’70 Virgil J. ’79 & Susan Rinaldini Kathleen E. Rothman ’85 consultant to the New Robert W. Mellina Rosalie Mizzi Usha Narasimhan ’81 Juan P. Orjuela ’07 & Jed Ringel ’75 & Cindy Epstein Warren ’65 & nominated for six Tony York Times since 1993, is Frank J. Peranio ’11 Robert J. Rabinoff ’71 Awards. James T. & Allyson T. Mellone Mobil Foundation, Inc. Harriet Nathel Jessica Nieto Robert & Joy Perla Pearl Nonin Radcliffe ’49 Jonathan A. Ritzenberg ’93 Nicoline P. Rothman the president and CEO David A. ’63 & Phyllis Karon ’47 & Haq Nawaz ’11 Janet Jacobson Orloff ’74 Barry S. ’66 & Joan Perlman George J. ’62 & Ellen Raff Roxana C. Rivas-Carvalho Lewis R. ’42 & of Social Explorer, which Susan Charles Melman ’66 Stanley Model Barbara Armstrong ’57 & Daniel Orr Theresa Perolini Grace Ragonese ’86 & Carlos Carvalho Eva Lynn Rothstein received a Webby Award Les A. Melnyk ’88 & Eugene P. ’68 & Robert Nebeling Orsid Realty Corporation Joseph A. Peros ’04 Abdul Rahman ’15 Marie Michaud Roberts ’65 Anna Rousakis 61 for Best Law Website. Stephanie D. Scott-Melnyk Christine Moehring Jose R. Nebro ’95 & Ralph H. ’56 & Ghita P. Orth Gustav J. ’69 & Peter A. ’71 & Joan Raiti Bettye L. Robinson ’99 Stacey Rowland Distinguished Professor Ellen Mendel ’57 Marion Weill ’68 & Karen R. Bardash ’82 Barbara Williams Osborne- Lorraine C. Person Amy Ralph Brenda Stokes ’89 & Uldis & Stephanie Roze of English Kimiko Hahn is Ellen Fennell Mendonca ’05 Murray Mohl Barbara Laulicht ’76 & Harris ’83 Anne Sheahan Perzeszty ’75 Parmeshwar & Earl Robinson David ’91 & Ximena Rua president of the Poetry 57 Margaret Sparkman ’80 & Mary Kiely ’92 & Lawrence Nelson Laura Nuzzi ’66 & Rose A. Pesce-Rodriguez ’83 Naudia J. Ramkarran Gerald N. ’64 & Barboza Rua-Merkin ’91 Society of America; her Joel Benenson ’79 was David C. Menninger Stephen Mola John A. ’98 & Thomas E. O’Shaughnessy & Libaniel Rodriguez Pilar Ramon Alvarez Joyce Robinson Alan M. ’69 & collection of poems, the lead pollster and Mary White ’66 & Jeffrey R. Mollin ’87 Renee Cole Nelson Laura M. O’Shaughnessy ’96 Jon A. & Howard Randall ’60 Irwin & Joan Robinson Rebecca B. Rubin The Unbearable Heart, Banys senior strategist for Franklin Mento Egle ’60 & Ruth A. Nelson ’60 Richard J. ’68 & Mary Jane Eaker Peterson Julia Casa ’42 & Michael B. ’71 & Harvey H. Rubin ’67 received an American Merck Company Foundation Nicholas A. Monfredo Howard A. Nenner ’56 & Nancy M. Osikowicz Kathleen A. Roche Helen Kessler ’48 & Barack Obama’s historic Elena Peters-Spencer ’87 Nandal Rashti Book Award. Michael B. Merolla ’77 Joseph ’67 & Janet Tarulli Pamela White Barbara Grosso ’66 & Shuli Kuflik ’69 & Herbert Rubin race for president in Charles J. Petkanas ’06 Patricia H. Raynor ’67 Merrill Lynch & Company, Montalto ’68 Frank P. Nervo ’83 Steve Owens Alan Rockoff Judith Moskowitz Rubin ’57 2008; he was also a Judith Stadlen ’63 & Lillian Zavoli ’63 & Inc. Dolores Teichmann Montella Elizabeth Fondal ’48 & Richard V. ’78 & Olga Paese Marilyn Giraci ’73 & Thomas Marshall B. Rubin ’79 senior strategist for Philip Pfeffer David Rea Barbara Roseff ’55 & ’53 Benjamin S. Neufeld Louis V. ’67 & Barbara D. Phillips ’79 Anne Erickson ’87 & G. Rodahan Paul ’65 & 62 Hillary Clinton’s 2016 In the last 40 years Milton Meshirer Gregory P. Monti Olga Nunns Neuhaus ’47 Martha M. Pagliuca Lai Sau Chow Phung ’96 Leslie H. Read Joanne Rodes Elizabeth Smith Rubinfeld campaign. Queens College faculty Audrey Scharfer ’59 & Paul Monti P. Catherine ’02 & Harriet Pakula-Teweles ’59 Jinshi Piao Jean Beasley ’83 & Linda Kirschner Rodney ’64 Eugene E. Rudman ’67 Maurice Mesulam Christine A. Montierde ’09 Gunter H. Neumann Susan J. Palazzoto-D’Andrilli Arthur S. ’70 & Donald Read Barbara Guzik Roehrig ’72 John E. ’82 & Polly A. Ruehl and alumni have been Sandra Mew ’06 Gary T. ’74 & New York Life Foundation ’74 Carrell N. Pickoff C. Felicia Reciniello ’97 Marguerite J. Rollock ’04 Mark Ruff ’00 & nominated for or won 58 Irene D. Meyer ’00 Judith A. Moomjian New York Stock Exchange Don & Maxine Paley Donald P. ’76 & Elizabeth Reddy Paola V. Ronquillo ’98 Mary Beth Marini Ruff over 100 Grammy Raymond Paretzky Janelle R. Meyer ’96 & Barbara J. Moore Foundation, Inc. John L. ’64 & Rae G. Paltiel Martha A. Pirone George H. ’56 & John P. Rooney ’91 Norma Pepi ’61 & Awards. ’83 is the first CUNY Patrick J. McPartland John M. Moore ’88 James M. Newman ’66 James M. Palumbo ’93 Dorothy Greene ’49 & Phyllis Redlich ’61 Jacqueline Rosenwaig Rosay Robert Rung student to receive a Richard B. ’68 & Frederick I. ’59 & Warren J. Nimetz ’76 Kiran B. Pandey ’99 Edward G. Pita Holly E. Reed ’60 A. David ’58 & Rhodes Scholarship. He is Judith Drogicher Meyer ’79 Judie H. Mopsik Elaine Block ’75 & Muaz Z. Paracha ’14 Susan Cooper ’73 & Barbara Newborn ’63 & Willard L. ’65 & Betty Rose Ina B. Russakoff 63 currently a partner in the Roberta Brooks ’68 & Linda Morales Jerome S. Nisselbaum Carolyn Sica Parise ’46 Stephen Plambeck Terrance Rees David A. ’62 & Iris Rosen Joe & Laura Russo Music Professor Joseph James Meyer John Moran Steven M. ’71 & Diana ’00 & Joel J. Parisy Norman H. ’56 & John Russo ’88 law firm of McDermott, Carole Burns ’62 & Francine Reff ’64 Machlis’s textbook, The Susan M. Meyer Josephine Moran Betty Nissenfeld Irene Wojciechowski ’56 & Joan H. Rosen Dolores Birgeles Ryan ’51 Will & Emery. Joseph Plate Martin ’50 & Marcia Reff Enjoyment of Music, is Joel H. ’61 & Sandra J. Meyers Victoria Dominianni ’89 & Rosalind Berkowitz ’60 & James A. Parker Walter ’57 & Thomas ’63 & Steven E. ’67 & Ellie Rosen Mitchell E. Ryan ’83 & Roberta S. Meyerson ’74 Vincent W. Moran Sam Nissim Maureen Conroy ’71 & Ira J. ’62 & Sharon Rembi-Ryan one of the most popular Yvette Lambert Plotch ’61 Patricia Okulski Regan ’63 music appreciation books Greg & Carol Michaels Linda Crosby ’79 & Albert Nitzburg William Parsley Johanne Gorey Polhill ’89 Carole Nerenberg ’62 & Roberta Blumenfeld Judith Karish Rycar ’94 published in English, David P. Michaelson ’62 Charles Morant Samuel J. ’03 & Persia Noel Olena Paslawsky Richard D. Pollack ’63 George Reidlich Rosenbaum ’64 Girolamo M. ’74 & having sold over two Ruth Hudes ’61 & Emily Gray ’54 & Paul Moreno The Northrop Grumman Robert B. ’80 & Fred Pomerantz ’57 Joan Reinhardt-Reiss ’58 & Bella H. Rosenberg ’71 Dianne Miller Saccone ’74 million copies. Charles Michaelson Richard J. ’82 & Patricia Litton Foundation Kathleen Passaro Lara Porter Mark D. Reiss Carole Dick Rosenberg ’71 Peter S. ’69 & Maria R. Sachs Morgana Louis J. ’71 & Betsy Pastorini Steven R. Reininger ’72 Cathy E. Sacks ’76

30 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 31 EIGHTY EIGHTY WOW WOW Peter Sacks ’68 & Helene Jaffe ’52 & Allen & Roberta Shane Barrett ’57 & Penny M. Stern ’77 & Ethel Cantor Teisch ’67 Howard S. Veisz Cynthia Cudrin Weisbard ’52 POINTS Christine Kelly Stanley Schlesinger Joanne Shane Plummer ’66 Marlyn Gross Slavin ’61 Paul Zarowin Marilyn Streem Teleky ’71 Frank R. ’71 & Susan Vellucci Erwin Weisberg ’51 POINTS Alan R. Sadovnik ’75 & Judith Rubin ’56 & Allan ’60 & Carol J. Shapiro Jerome ’67 & Charlene Sloane Richard E. ’85 & Shari Stern Citistars Tennis Stewart M. ’66 & Elaine Greene Weisburg ’45 Susan Semel Stuart F. Schlossman Andrew E. ’79 & Leonard Sloane ’52 Rise Kleppel ’68 & Terence ’90 & Corinne Venit Andrew G. ’83 & Jerome E. Sag ’68 Jack A. ’79 & Ilene S. Shapiro Gail A. Marquis ’80 & Alan M. Stern Veronica M. Tenny Anthony M. Ventimiglia ’68 Melissa Weiss 64 Jeffrey Sakaguchi Debra Oliveira Schmetterling Gerald H. Share ’61 & Audrey Smaltz Beth A. Stevens ’73 Ferrer Terranera ’58 Ruth Granick ’69 & Franklin R. ’52 & 69 Jon Favreau, who left QC Sandra Altarescu Salat ’55 Donald E. Schmid ’62 Patricia Spranger Francine Smilen ’69 Richard K. ’65 & Leonore Konin ’60 & Joel M. Verbit Paulette Weiss Alums Fran Drescher, a few credits short of a Stanley ’56 & Ellen Salles Audrey ’92 & Dovelet Shashou ’77 Sheryl J. Smiloff Elaine Kasten Stewart ’73 Andrew G. Tescher Martin ’66 & Mary Vernick Herbert D. ’51 & Arlyne Weiss Ray Romano, and Jerry degree, is an actor, the di- Anna L. ’99 & Laurence A. Schneider Susan K. Shaughnessy Erica Mittelman Smith ’75 Jane Sperling Stiefel ’72 Rita Weinberg ’61 & Leslie P. Verter ’64 Jonathan D. Weiss ’66 Seinfeld ’76 all starred in rector of the popular Iron Robert Salomon Ilene Liebman Schneider ’65 Helene Schindelheim Shavin Esther Grossman ’80 & Stuart Kenneth L. Stoler ’69 Aaron S. Tesler Christopher Vickery Larry H. Weiss ’69 hit comedy series that ran Man movies, and recipient Harold M. ’77 & Edward ’66 & ’70 D. Smolar Natalie Stoller ’67 TFP2, Inc. Angelo A. Vigorito ’10 & Peter Weiss for years. Carol Leifer ’78 of the Harold Lloyd Caryl L. Salters Ronnie Yablon Schneiderman Frederick & Barbara Shaw Anne Smolen Joel R. Stone ’66 & William J. ’53 & Marleen A. Wiercx ’98 Howard S. ’67 & won four Emmy Awards Award for Filmmaking. Arthur & Betty Salz ’69 Jane A. Shaw Richard A. & Judith L. Smooke Diane Balliet-Stone Mary R. Theuer Elizabeth Casalini ’63 & Suzanne McGrath Weitzman for her scripts for Seinfeld. Also a few credits short Sanford ’57 & Deanne R. Salz Janet A. Schneller ’75 Harrison H. ’55 & Philip ’64 & Marion Radgiff Stone ’42 Hadassah Neulander Thursz Frank P. Viola Jeri Wellman ’68 Shamena Sami Mona ’79 & Marjorie Sheld Barbara Quinn Smukler ’64 Robert L. Stone ’58 ’51 Steven M. ’75 & Wells Fargo Bank of a degree is Lidia Basti- Rhonda Goldmintz ’76 & Jonathan Schnitzler Jonathan C. Shen ’91 Margaret M. Smyth Shepard B. ’73 & Mary-Ellen Gehentges ’56 & Laurie Berger Visner ’75 Eric Werkmann ’89 anich, the award-winning Steven B. Samuel Paul Schnur ’65 Zeev ’96 & Dalith S. Shenkar SNUAA USA Marlene Stone James J. Tietjen Donna M. Vitale ’92 & Robert L. ’70 & 70 Fran Capo ’81 was Italian cookbook author Jessica D. Sanchez ’10 David J. Schober Barbara M. Sher ’71 Aileen Marcus Solomon ’63 Carol Pototzki ’74 & Cecile Levine ’49 & Jerry Savoretti Eleanor Nelson Wernick proclaimed the World’s and TV host. Fredric M. ’61 & Susan Ellen G. Schonfeld ’68 Sara Jane Tifford ’58 & Nor- Lonnie Haber Solomon ’61 John R. Strahler Jerome Tiger Peter P. Vitaliano ’69 Sheldon ’01 & Adele Wertheim Wolfe/Samanowitz Sanders Ruth Schorsch man Sherman Marilyn Novogroder ’68 & Daniel M. ’92 & Roberto E. Tillman ’88 Nolda Zentella Vivo ’69 Bernice Katcher Wesley ’52 Fastest Talking Female by ’61 Marie H. Schreiber ’61 Walter M. ’62 & Barbara Neil M. Solomon Ching Yue Strandberg Time Warner Inc. William H. Voges ’67 E. Gordon & Mary M. Whatley the Guinness Book of World 65 Scott ’80 & Jennifer Sanders Bonita Blitz ’65 & Lieberman Sherwood ’62 Michael D. ’66 & Thor G. ’86 & The Times Mirror Foundation Harriet Avner ’68 & Mary Wefer ’66 & Records. Poet and long-time Lucy Freeman ’51 & Carl R. Schulkin Stephen R. ’66 & Ruthann Kantor Solomon Marlene Stratton Nelson ’85 & Elizabeth Gerald Waanders David L. White English Professor Stephen Irving Sandler George E. ’68 & Susan Kottler Shestakofsky Ronald M. ’68 & Ira L. ’67 & Susan E. Strauber MacEwen Timken ’86 Arline Pollack ’63 & Joseph F. ’63 & Stepanchev (1915–2017) Maria Santalesa ’79 Felice Schulman Steven C. ’69 & Rose Solomon Sylvia Schwartz Strauss- Demetra Bezas Tolis ’63 Peter Wachs Gabrielle Wicklow 71 was named the first poet Maria C. ’60 & Leonard J. ’68 & Julie W. Shifreen Jeanne Messing ’66 & Robert Eisner ’58 & Eugene Eisner Elaine Sablis ’57 & Paul & Claire Wachtel Rosalyn Telsey ’55 & Luciano Pavarotti sang laureate of the borough of Jack Sanz-Segura Barbara Rogers Schultz Heesun Shin A. Sommer Thomas & Fara Strekas Robert T. Tolle Rochelle Gelfond ’80 & Sol A. Wieselthier at a special concert Queens; Maria Lisella ’79 Eric S. Sarner ’84 Barbara E. Schur ’54 Diane Kesler ’62 & Margrit Deichmann ’62 & Diane Stringer Rosa Pilato ’82 & Steven C. Wachtel Robert A. ’77 & celebrating Colden was named poet laureate Taylor Sarsfield ’14 Ellen Mathie-Zipperlen Schutt Adam L. Shrier Karl K. Sonntag Yuri Strzhemechny Blaise E. Toneatto Kevin M. Wadalavage ’77 Jacqueline Held Wiggins ’72 Center’s twentieth in 2015. Kenneth C. Sassower ’74 ’73 Ellen A. Shugrue ’83 Soodo Girls’ High School StubHub, Inc. Eric H. Tong ’81 Renee Meyer ’66 & Marvin E. ’57 & anniversary season. QC Hilda Abrahams ’50 & Geraldine Marcus Schwartz Lucille Gang ’55 & Alumni Association Marcia Suarez Olga C. Torres ’91 George Wagenberg Gertrud Wildfeuer of course has produced Richard Satran ’47 Alvin Shulklapper Mark J. & Joyce A. Sorbella Teresa Scotti ’62 & James Torrey Blanche Rothberg ’42 & Patricia Doyle ’55 & its own opera stars, Anita Rapp Saunders ’60 Margaret Schwartz Dr Karen L L. ’65 & Ronald Spalter Thomas Sullivan Vita M. Toscano ’72 Stanley S. Wager Arthur Wilen including Reri Grist ’54, 66 Marcia Colish Saunders ’45 Barry S. Goldstein ’75 & Grant H. Siegel Joel G. Spector ’67 The Sun Microsystems Teresa Williams Toulon ’72 Irving ’51 & William Penn Life Insurance Three QC graduates Michael Saunders Marian G. Schwartz ’75 Barbara Schwartz Siegell ’60 Robert A. Spiegel ’74 & Foundation Cara Selinger ’76 & Vida Silverstone Wagner ’52 Co. of N.Y. Frank Lopardo, and Erika have won Pulitzer Prizes: Dean B. Savage & Harold B. ’52 & Ruth L. Siegmann ’72 Gar Young Wei-Nee E. Sung ’84 Michael Trager Stephen J. Wagner ’70 Carole McKeon ’58 & Sunnergardh ’99. Dorothy Rabinowitz ’56 Nadja Tesich-Savage Lois Schwartzapfel Rita ’91 & Gary Sila Steven ’75 & Laurie C. Spiegel Sunny’s Center Inc. Katherine G. Trakas ’76 Doris DeBella ’61 & Jonathan E. Williams (2001, for Commentary), Marie Mastromarino Scala ’69 Howard M. ’51 & Deborah G. Silberberg ’77 Warren Spielberg Frank A. ’79 & Gilbert Traub ’69 Adolf K. Waizecker Eva Stern Williams ’53 Lloyd Schwartz ’62 Gilbert R. Scalone ’62 Eleanor Schweitzer Warren Silver ’59 Kathleen Spinelli Catherine Spierer Supovitz Eric S. ’72 & Jessica Friedman Waldman Julia E. Williams ’81 72 (1994, for Criticism), and Rita Wunderlick ’89 & John ’76 & Robert M. & Denise Silverberg Suzanne Spizz ’82 Ruth Kaplan Treiber ’64 Mark ’61 & Sheila P. Willner Legendary musician Jimmy Marvin Hamlisch ’68 (for Dominick Scaringella Carolyn Lemke Scorcia ’76 Sylvia Shulman ’51 & Jerome Barbara Kobus ’72 & Thomas T. Surprenant Roslyn ’82 & Burton Tropp Audrey Walen Susan Kuhl ’84 & Heath was the first head A Chorus Line). A fourth Bette Gerber ’66 & Joseph Scorcia ’71 & Silverberg Salvatore Spizzirri Diane G. Swann ’76 Joseph ’80 & Carla Trotti Cornelia Brady Wallace ’90 Arnold Wilson of QC’s jazz program. graduate, Richard Ofshe Jonathan Scarlet Tami Coyne Arthur R. & Gary W. Spokes ’82 Troy & Caryn Swantek Peter G. & Rosalinda Troy Helen Kaplan Wallach ’65 Elizabeth Winans Rossman ’63, contributed articles Marc A. ’74 & Lee Schaeffer Old Scout Meralee Wallach Silverman Sprint Foundation Rita A. Sweeney ’86 John N. Tsigakos ’80 Howard Wallick Robert M. Windwer ’71 to a series exposing the Paul & Elizabeth A. Schaffer Barbara Smith ’51 & ’70 Antonina Trapani ’78 & Alan Rolf H. Swensen Nicholas S. Tsounis ’75 Andrew A. Wallman ’57 Andrea Pelosi ’71 & 73 Synanon movement, for Michael S. ’56 & Phyllis David B. Seeman Michael H. ’71 & Squitieri Carolyn Szabo Rosette Winger/Teitel Tucker Hermann P. Walz ’88 Richard K. Winslow Distinguished Professor Solomon Schafrank ’58 Alvan Segal ’80 Stephanie Silvers Janet M. Stahl ’99 & Monika Szegda ’14 ’61 Josephine Chang Wang ’66 Thomas G. ’67 & which the newspaper the of Hispanic Languages Susan Scharf-Glick ’75 & Andre Segotti Lynn Silverstein ’67 David Herz Szilvia E. Szmuk-Tanenbaum Jerome E. Tuttle ’71 Steven M. Warshauer ’67 Janis Bruehl Winter ’68 Point Reyes Light received Gregory Rabassa, the Harvey R. Glick Dewey A. Sehring ’50 Phyllis Drucker Silvestri ’51 Lita Friedman ’46 & ’68 Marian Scheu ’53 & Marian Wassner ’66 Lynn Kay Winters a Pulitzer Prize for Public Graham R. ’54 & Betty Day ’52 & Madeline P. Simcik ’82 Irving Star Frank ’56 & Loraine Tabakin Arthur H. Ulrich Constance Heyl ’51 & Marshall M. Wise ’69 translator of Gabriel Service in 1979. Susan L. Schatz Herbert Seidel Barbara Simerka & Joel Stark Carole Tain Soskin ’59 Frances DiGilio ’65 & Elmer E. Waters Margaret Minnis ’48 & Stan- Garcia Marquez’s One Steven ’80 & Naomi Schechter Miriam Altholz Seidman ’43 Steve Smith Lola Legg ’58 & Ira M. ’82 & Joanna Talbi Ralph Undreiner Ama S. Wattley ’92 ley Wisniewski Hundred Years of Solitude, Harris M. ’67 & John C. ’49 & Eze H. Seiferth Gary V. Simonetti ’89 Jeffrey A. Stark Diana L. ’06 & Joseph Tancer United Health Group Stella Apuzzi & Tony Wayne Richard G. Witkin was awarded the National 67 Michele H. Schechtman Lauren & Patti W. Seiler Loralyn N. Simons ’04 Rita R. Starr ’72 & Ivor Rose Susan J. Tanenbaum ’92 Jarrad Urbinder ’01 Barbara J. Webb Catherine F. Woesthoff ’69 Medal of Arts, the nation’s Paul Simon ’63 received Robert S. ’68 & Steven L. Selss ’71 Dorothy Rau ’57 & Donald M. ’68 & Marie Trentadue Tangredi ’53 Constantinos Vagelatos Noelle Roswell Webb ’85 Joanne Poucher Wojtusiak ’66 highest honor for artistic a Grammy Award for his Judith Scheinberg Mary Selvinazian ’52 Walter Sinclair Judith A. Stavis Burcu Tansu Roberta L. Valente ’77 Anne Wharton/Davis Weidler Joel P. ’66 & excellence. album Graceland (one Harvey D. ’64 & Sempra Energy Foundation Leslie Klein ’66 & Elaine ’96 & Emanuel Steier Sandra Tarnowski Karen A. Valko ’87 ’69 Rhonda Turner Wolf ’71 of 12 Grammys he has Happy Scherer Harry O. ’68 & Michael D. Singer Alan H. ’68 & Lonna Dorsett Taylor ’87 Joan Conti ’87 & Dana Weinberg Stephanie Neufeld Spivey won). He is also the first Arlene Savage ’54 & Becky Senekjian Lila Braunstein ’52 & Marsha Polonsky Stein ’69 Cecile Woehling ’67 & Ronald R. Vanchieri Gary R. ’72 & Wolf ’72 & Tony Love 74 recipient of the Library John P. Schertzer Diane Votsis ’80 & Max Singer Cynthia Leifert ’66 & Patrick Tedesco Isabel N. ’95 & Gerard Sheryl Socol Weine ’76 Robert J. ’50 & Brothers Vincent ’72 and of Congress’ Gershwin Robert J. ’83 & Robert C. Sepe Poonam Singh ’85 Paul S. Stein Nicholas H. Teetelli ’81 Varlotta Eileen Odasz ’55 & Theresa Holzman Wolff ’54 Chris ’76 Misiano have Award for Popular Music. Kathy L. Schick Batya Septimus ’12 Premjit ’88 & Amritjit Singh Linda Stein ’65 Kevin ’92 & Leontine Tehrani Harriette Vedder ’63 Richard Weinstein Sheila Wiener ’63 & directed hundreds of TV Joel Schiffenbauer ’74 Anne M. Servillo ’90 Ramneet Singh Louis Stein ’54 William D. Wolfson shows, including ER, West Gilda Miller Schiff-Zirinsky Diane Daprocida ’91 & George J. ’58 & Robin Mayer ’74 & Arlene Eyerman ’55 & LEADERSHIP GIVING • Become a member! Wing, Law & Order, Ally 68 ’68 & Daniel Zirinsky Antonio Sesin Carole Meyer Singhel ’61 Richard M. Stein Thad Wolinski McBeal, The Blacklist, and Charles ’74 & Gerard T. Severynse ’58 Betty E. Sinowitz ’62 Walter ’59 & Rhoda F. Stein The President’s Leadership Society recognizes donors who provide Barry Wollner Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Novels by Susan Isaacs ’65 Debra Goldman Schleien ’75 Yarah Shabana Morton ’56 & Joan Sitver Carol Blumenstock ’62 & Dierdre Wolownick ’73 have been translated into Dorothy F. Schleimer ’78 Paul ’69 & Beatrice DiPaolo Skala ’62 Mark Steingard greatest need support of $1000 + within a single fiscal year. Helen Wong 30 different languages. Evelyn Cachia ’67 & Carol Wachenheimer Shaman Eric T. ’76 & Lynne Skolnick The Stephen D. Haymes Rev. qccommunity.qc.cuny.edu/LeadershipSociety Michael A. Wood ’00 Harris Schlesinger ’69 Jeri R. Slater ’83 Trust

32 QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College QUEENS: The Magazine of Queens College 33 EIGHTY WOW Julius Wool ’80 & Veronica M. Yurick ’76 Barry ’72 & Gifts-in-Kind POINTS Andrea R. Newmark ’80 Mesrob H. ’70 & Andrea Goldberg Zetlin ’72 David Bernstein Carol Webster Wootan ’60 Leslie Zadoian Deng Q. Zhang ’08 Jerome D. ’69 & Guo W. Yang ’95 & Beverly Zagofsky ’71 & Min Zhang Marilyn F. Blaine ’70 Hai Yan Wu ’05 Larry Weinstein Mindy Zhang Rose Choron 75 Hong Wu Etta Kobrin ’71 & Yan Zhang ’07 Ricardo L. ’72 & The Moog synthesizer, Dino J. Xenos ’14 Vladimir D. Zajic Kungang Zhou ’01 Harriet Cortez one of the first widely Daniel Yakubov Steven ’69 & Samuel M. Ziegel ’71 Eleanor Wolfe Flomenhaft ’83 used electronic instru- Lori H. Yamato Jane Breskin Zalben ’71 Abigail Ziegler Gary W. ’67 & ments, was created by Xiyong Yan ’09 Margaret Paparillo Zaller ’48 Mary Silverman ’47 & Bernice S. Garson two-time Grammy Award John R. Yetman Amy Beckerman Zarndt ’81 Bernard Zinober JetBlue winner Robert Moog ’57. Cora Yim George ’87 & Scott Zipper ’78 Adham Kandalaft Marilyn Mills Young ’51 Joanne Thanasoulis Zbravos Elliot ’68 & Carolyn S. Zisser Leslie Digital Imaging Elizabeth Crystal ’61 & ’89 Philip A. Zuchman ’65 & Barbara Schmidt Steiner ’67 76 John Yovino Susan Haness Zeelander ’63 Deborah Gross-Zuchman Joy Behar ’64 is the Emmy Dajiang Yu Isabel E. Zeff ’85 Sharon Silverman ’74 & *Deceased Award-winning cohost of Marlene T. Yu Anne Lyman ’64 & Jeffrey Zwerin Mengyun Yu ’04 Andrew E. Zeger The View. Nam H. Yu Edward R. Zeiger ’62 77 Michael Weisman ’71, who influenced how sports are presented on TV, has won ANGEL INVESTORS CLASS OF 2017 24 Emmys for his work at We salute our ANGEL INVESTORS who have led by example in generosity, spirit, and commitment NBC and FOX. to the mission of Queens College. Your investment in our future is the finest gift we could receive. 78 Margaret Adame, Theodore JoAnn Golding Engel & Dr. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Phyllis & Gerry Solomon Howie Rose ’77, the radio Rapp Foundation Mark Engel & Dr. Liliana Arabía Peggy & David Starr voice of the New York Richard P. Alvarez & Lee & Ann Fensterstock Sara L. Mayes Barbara Steiner Mets, has won two Emmy Darrell W. DeVoe Michael J. Feuer, PhD Cheryl & Michael Minikes Bruce Sternemann & Awards for excellence in Anonymous† Bernice S. & Gary W. Garson James A. Mitarotonda Mary Halston broadcasting. Robert P. Antler Professor Andrew I. Gavil & Harold A. Mitty, MD Stephanie J. Stiefel & Alice & Russ Artzt Dr. Judith H. Veis Carole Gurin Moskowitz Robert Stephan Cohen 79 Richard Barakat, MD Steven Gerard Jacki & Neal Nemerov Diane Bishop Stone Norman & Carole A. Barham Dr. Michael & Kenneth E. Newman & Charles Swarns Marvin Hamlisch ’68 was Mr. Gary Barnett Mrs. Joan Gottlieb Michele Newman Susan & Ted Tashlik only the second person to Mrs. Susan L. Bergtraum Dr. Susan Grace Joan Friedman Newmark Raymond & Tomiko Taylor win an Emmy, Grammy, Frank M. Boccio Muriel & Allan Greenblatt Stephen S. Orphanos Alan van Capelle & Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer Jeanne Braun Ellen & Arnold Gruber Wilhelmina Parris Matthew E. Morningstar Prize (Richard Rodgers Barry A. Bryer & Patricia & Robert Gunther Pearl Pavane Mrs. Carol Villecco-Howe & was the first). Meryl E. Wiener Pearl & Nathan Halegua Dina Axelrad Perry Mr. Peter Howe Mrs. Sandra Cahn Dr. Barbara A. Hamkalo John & Gloria T. Petitto Chaim Wachsberger & Michael & Jane Chwick Herbert Heflich Phyllis L. Pullman Liz Neumark 80 Ricardo L. Cortez & Rochelle Cohen Hirsch Mr. Harold P. Reichwald Robert & Shirley Wann Jerry Seinfeld ’76, who Harriet A. Howard Carol J. & Richard Hochman Amy & Doug Ress David I. Weiner wore a QC T-shirt on Michael Craig-Scheckman & Susan Isaacs & Allyson & Mark Rose Jacqueline & Robert Willens his hit show, claims that Sara Craig-Scheckman Elkan Abramowitz David & Penny Rosen Horatio & Miriam Yeung the only time he found a Steven J. Daniels, Esq. & Freda S. Johnson Larry & Elaine Rothenberg Leonard & June Yohay parking spot in Queens Ms. Lisa M. Clementi Ellen & Murray Koppelman Dr. Bernard & Michael & Renée Zarin was when he returned to Drs. Marc A. & The Kupferberg Foundation Mrs. Gloria Salick Margaret & Erwin Zeuschner Carole R. Dichter campus in 1994 to receive Laurence M. Leive Kathy Schuler Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ding an honorary degree. Allan & Joan Loren Thelma R. Serenbetz Stephen V. Dubin, Esq. Howard & Rhonda Sipzner †Four anonymous donors

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