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S TE NO (iUniverse). the Fifties (Comfort Pub - lishing), a collection of his GEORGE JUNGHANNS / short stories, has been se - GSAS ’57 / published The lected as one of three Phoenix Circa Anno Domi - short-story finalists in the ni (Gauntlet Books) in 2011 Next Generation Indie 2007. The title represents Book Awards. the fact that the Phoenix’s true nature, as Halley’s JOSEPH BRANDES / Comet, was unknown GSAS ’58 / has had his through the ages. book, Immigrants to Free - dom: Jews as Yankee CLARK M. ZLOTCHEW / Farmers! (1880’s to STERN ’57 / wrote Once 1960’s) (Xlibris), enter a Upon a Decade: Tales of second printing. 1960s

CAROL ABAYA / GSAS CEO since 1996. At the ’63 / popularized the term request of Congress, “sandwich generation,” de - Berlowitz is currently scribing people looking af - directing an assessment ter both their children and of humanities and social aging parents. She current - sciences and their role in ly writes a weekly column education. on the subject for www.new jerseynewsroom.com. ALFRED J. SCHIAVETTI JR. / STERN ’69 / re - LESLIE BERLOWITZ / ceived an honorary degree ARTS ’65 / has been from Monmouth University named president of the in May. Schiavetti is presi - American Academy of dent of consultancy at Arts and Sciences. She Navesink Associates and has led the academy as its is a trustee of Monmouth. P H O T O © R

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L REGINA SNOW MANDL / MIGUELINA CUEVAS- Y ARTS ’71 / has been POST / ARTS ’72, in America’s inner cities. STANLEY J. ANTONOFF / June 2011. He was nomi - trustee-at-large of the STEINHARDT ’74 / WSC ’53, DEN ’57 / au - nated by his medical American Inns of Court traveled to Belize to BERNARD GARDNER / thored Bygone Chronicle: school, the New Jersey Foundation in Alexandria, serve as a Peace Corps WSC ’52, MED ’56 / just Once Upon a Time… Medical School. VA. For more than 25 years, volunteer with her published Nuggets-Five (AuthorHouse), a book of she has specialized in fami - husband after retiring Plays (iUniverse). Gardner humorous short stories. ESTELLE BREINES / ly law, estate planning, and as principal of Owasco is professor emeritusof STEINHARDT ’57, ’86 / administration. Mandl also Elementary School in surgery at New Jersey MARINOS A. PETRATOS / published a memoir of serves the NYU Lawyer Auburn, NY. The couple Medical School and has ARTS ’56 / was elected her childhood in Borough Alumni Mentoring Program, met on a 1976 Peace staged four of the plays lo - to membership in Alpha Park, Brooklyn, called designed to mentor under - Corps posting in Jamaic a. cally since 2007. Omega Alpha, the national Brooklyn Roots: A Tale of graduates interested in a

medical honor society, in Pickles and Egg Creams career in law. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 53)

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alumni profile al, where disabled joggers country and has established O T O C

and able-bodied volunteers programs such as the Free - O U R T

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strength and confidence erans, which worked F R I C

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Central Park with about Washington, D.C., and has M ACHILLES HEALS 10 runners and now counts helped nearly 500 wound - some 500 members in New ed soldiers to become by Brian Dalek / GSAS ’10 York City alone, with ad - physically active again. ditional chapters across the Becoming a nonprofit United States and in more leader for the disabled is a UNNING COACH DICK TRAUM’S IDEAL than 70 countries. It has at - long way fromTraum’s ini - TRAINEE IS NOT THE SWIFTEST ATHLETE, tracted the support of for - tial life goal. At age 24, he mer President Bill Clinton had dreamed of starting his R NOR ONE WITH THE MOST ENDURANCE. HE’S and former New York own business and had al - more likely to approach the New York City in 1976, he became the first Governor David Paterson. ready completed a BS and somebody like Donald Marathon?” Arthur, now person ever to run the In 2010, Prince Harry of MBA at NYU. He had fin - Arthur, who received a 66, remembers thinking New York City Marathon Wales, Cindy and Meghan ished all course work and heart transplant in 1995. Traum was crazy. Since on a prosthetic leg. McCain, and Heather Mills taken the written exams Less than a year after sur - then, however, he’s com - Since that first triumph, all joined more than 5,000 for his doctoral dissertation gery, Arthur joined pleted 42 marathons and Traum, 70, has coached participants (able-bodied on industrial psychology Traum’s running club, plans on running one in thousands of athletes with and not) in the 8th Annual when his plans were side - Achilles International, just each U.S. state. It’s no sur - disabilities—runners with Achilles Hope & Possibili - tracked. On May 30, 1965, to power walk around prise to Traum, who be - multiple sclerosis, those ty, a five-mile race in Cen - during a Memorial Day Central Park, but Traum lieves that everyone is paralyzed from car crashes, tral Park. More recently, weekend trip with his new soon posed the same chal - capable of pushing them - and the blind. They have the club has expanded its fiancé, he stopped to get lenge he asks of everyone selves beyond their pre - all found a community presence in 16 other gas on the New Jersey in the group: “Want to run conceived limits. After all, with Achilles Internation - marathons throughout the Turnpike en route to

52 / FALL 2011 / NYU RICHARD TRAUM HAS COMPLETED THE NEW YORK CITY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 51) years with the company. winning Best Musical In MARATHON 20 TIMES, MOST RECENTLY ON A HANDCYCLE. EDNA WELLS HANDY / Rush oversaw the expan - the Heights . She is an an - WSC ’72 / has been award - sion of Baird’s financial nouncer for HBO Sports Philadelphia. As Traum able to run a mile com - ed the Ida B. Wells-Bar - services around the and has worked on-cam - stood behind his car while fortably. nett Justice Award for her world. Before joining the era in dramas, sitcoms, its tank was being filled, That was thousands of work as commissioner company, he spent nine and soaps. the driver of an old miles ago. Like many oth - of the department of years at Fidelity Invest - Chrysler lost control. The ers in the mid-1970s, citywide administrative ments. JOSEPH P. ESPOSITO / man’s foot accidently hit Traum was swept up by services. The award is ad - LAW ’78 / has been se - the accelerator and he the running boom and ministered by the New CATHY E. MINEHAN / lected for membership in rammed into Traum, kept testing his limits. York County Lawyers’ STERN ’77 / has been the International Associa - breaking both of his legs With the support of Association and the Met - named dean of the Sim - tion of Defense Counsel. at the upper thigh. His Roth, YMCA running ropolitan Black Bar Asso - mons College School of He is a partner in the right leg became infected coach Robert Gover, and ciation for distinguished Management, the first Washington office of with gangrene and was then-New York Road service in combating MBA program in the coun - Hunton & Williams LLP, amputated just above the Runners President Fred discrimination and advo - try focused on women. where he practices com - knee. “You lose a leg, it’s a Lebow,Traum ran his first cating human rights. Minehan served 39 years plex civil litigation. big thing, but I guess I NewYork City marathon with the Federal Reserve HOWARD LISCH / System, most recently as DAVID PENNEY / WSUC STERN ’72 / has formed the president and CEO of ’78 / was appointed asso - In 1976, Traum became Lisch & Lisch LLC with his the Boston Bank. ciate director for museum the first person ever daughter, Melissa, to prac - scholarship at the Nation - tice public accounting. BLANCA CAMACHO / al Museum of the Ameri - to run the New York STEINHARDT ’78 / fin - can Indian in Washington, City Marathon on a LEONARD RUSH / ished a three-year stint as D.C. Penney is also an STERN ’74 / has retired a member of the original adjunct professor of art prosthetic leg. as CFO of Baird, a finan - Broadway cast of the history at Wayne State cial-services firm, after 11 2008 Tony Award– University. wasn’t devastated,” Traum in 1976, with a time of recalls. “I was like, ‘Okay, 7:24. He officially became you get an artificial leg the first person with a and just continue.’ ” prosthesis to run the Traum had never been race—or any marathon 198 0s one to worry about his that anybody knew of. health—before or after Traum has now run the GREGORY C. BUFFALOW as two books of poetry, magazine and has also the accident. He had NYC marathon 20 times, / LAW ’80 / has joined The Ordinary Living and penned histories of King wrestled at Horace Mann though he finished his the firm of Satterwhite, Hapax Legomena (both Kong and Close Encoun - School on the UpperWest most recent in 2010 as a Buffalow, Compton, and Mellen). ters of the Third Kind Side and then at NYU, participant in the hand- Tyler LLC, in Mobile, (both Applause Theatre & and so was always fit. But cycle division. (He gave AL. He recently authored MICHAEL L. GROSS / Cinema). in 1975 he grew con - up traditional running an article, “Force Majeure: MED ’83 / co-founded the cerned when someone he when his left knee was re - Recent Cases, Boilerplate Active Center for Health LISA J. BRZEZICKI / knew suddenly died of a placed 11 years ago.) De - and Analysis,” for The & Wellness in Hackensack, STERN ’84 / was ap - heart attack. So Traum spite the rigors of training Journal of Maritime Law NJ, which offers health pointed senior vice presi - plopped down $300 for 300 Achilles Internation - and Commerce . and fitness therapies. dent of bank partner classes at the West Side al team members each Gross is also the orthope - programs by Mazooma, YMCA, where he met year, heading to the start - BARBARA BLOCK dic director of sports an online debit payment Peter Roth, who coached ing line on the day of a ADAMS / GSAS ’81 / , medicine at Hackensack system. him and became a close race remains his greatest professor emerita from University Medical Center. friend. “I told him, ‘You moment of pride and sol - Pace University, published ERIC COMSTOCK / WSUC have to know that in this ace. “There is a tremen - a memoir in 2011, The RAY MORTON / TSOA ’85 / , a jazz/pop pianist class, we run. Everybody dous amount to do before Stone Man and the Poet ’83 / has published Music and singer, completed his has to do that, including the marathon,” he says. (iUniverse). She has also on Film: Amadeus (Hal second consecutive sea - you,’ ” Roth recalls.Traum “When the gun goes off published The Enemy Self: Leonard), a history of the son at the Oak Room Sup - learned how to hop and and I finally start, my re - Poetry & Criticism of Lau - making of the Czechoslo - per Club at New York’s skip on his artificial leg. action is, ‘Okay, now this ra Riding (Univ. of vakian production. Morton Algonquin Hotel last Janu -

Three months later he was is when I can relax.’ ” Rochester Press), as well is a senior writer at Script (CONTINUED ON PAGE 55)

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54 / FALL 2011 / NYU ther to instruct kids in the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 53) and enter - C city’s public schools. She ary. He will be performing tainment- L completed her master’s in the show, Helluva Town: industry education administration A New York Soundtrack , professionals. A

at NYU while teaching around the country with S swimming full time at his wife, Barbara Fasano. BEV S Bronx Community Col - THOMSON / NOTES lege. Since 1989, she has MARK JACKSON / STEIN - been a professor of health TSOA ’85 / was awarded HARDT ’86 and physical education at the 2010 Distinguished / was nomi - John Jay College of Crim - Achievement Award by nated for the inal Justice, where she nTelos, a networking firm Maxwell Medallion by the teaches aquatic fitness where he has worked for Dog Writers Association and swimming to New four years. Jackson led a of America for The Ruff York City policemen and team to build fiber-optic Times , a 2010 newsletter firefighters. She also networks in previously she published for Saint teaches water therapy poorly connected areas Vincent’s Hospital on be - courses to the elderly and of Alleghany County, VA. half of the donors and to NYU physical therapy volunteers who gave students, and helped cre - MARY JANE VIAGGIO their support and service ate the Kids Aquatic Re- HAYES / STEINHARDT to the patient pet-care Entry (KARE) program ’86 / completed her program. with the New York City book, Emma’s House of Department of Juvenile Sound (St. Augus - JOHN BABCOCK / LAW Justice to share the bene - tine), which is about a ’87 / has again been fits of swimming with deaf child who is bullied, named a North Carolina troubled youth. “It builds and received a grant Super Lawyer, a peer- confidence, and they from the St. Johns Cul - nominated list of top make friends and social - tural Arts Council for the attorneys in the state. ize in a way they might play she wrote. Viaggio Babcock is a partner in not normally,” Katz ex - Hayes is now studying the firm Wall, Esleeck, plains. “The water is dem - screenwriting at the Uni - Babcock LLP, which con - ocratic. It works for versity of North Florida. centrates on numerous everyone and it is the aspects of corporate law. great equalizer.” JOHN MEGA / GSAS ’86 / For Katz, the water can has been promoted to JOSÉ RAMÓN FERNÁN - also console and comfort. the position of assistant DEZ-PEÑA / WAG ’87 / “When my husband vice president of Middle - was honored in June with passed away, that was the sex Savings Bank. Mega a $25,000 Champions of only place where I had re - has worked at the bank Health Professions lief—physically, emotional - for 15 years, previously Diversity Award from the ly, mentally, and as information technolo - California Wellness Foun - spiritually,” she says. It’s gy officer in its systems dation for his ground - that unwavering belief in support division. breaking work the restorative power of directing the Welcome water that drives her to TIMOTHY E. MULLINS / Back Initiative. share her passion with as TSOA ’86 / recently pro - many people as possible. duced three episodes of LUCINE KASBARIAN / AFTER FIVE DECADES AS A COMPETITIVE SWIMMER, 68-YEAR- “When a person floats for Nick Zedd’s The Adven - WSUC ’87 / has pub - OLD JANE KATZ (PICTURED AT TOP IN 1990) HAS BEEN IN - DUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME. the first time, it’s price - tures of Electra Elf , a pub - lished The Greedy Spar - less,” she explains. “They lic-access cable TV show. row: An Armenian Tale it was first recognized as graceful, but you’re nearly shriek with joy and He recently started work (Marshall Cavendish), an an official Olympic event. drowning.” they’re so excited, the as a financial adviser with illustrated children’s “It was hysterical,” she Katz’s talents in the smile just envelops their Edward Jones in Manhat - book based on a tradi - admits. “But while it looks water have always extend - face. They hug and kiss tan and Williamsburg, and tional folk story about easy, you’re working very ed to teaching; even as a you…or they take your specializes in working greed, manipulation, and hard. You have to look child she helped her fa - next class.” with artists, freelancers, judgment.

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58 / FALL 2011 / NYU 1990s PATRICIA MOYNAGH / PAUL LEMPA / WSUC ’92 service agency. KEVIN HUFFMAN / LAW tion as executive director GSAS ’90, ’95 / , a mem - / had his painting of Hall of ’98 / has been appointed for the Miss America Pro - ber of the faculty in the de - Fame pitcher Satchel Paige THOMAS ASHFORTH / education commissioner of gram in Puerto Rico, which partment of government shown at the National Art SCPS ’96 / has been Tennessee. Huffman was is participating in the Miss and politics at Wagner Col - Museum of Sport in sum - named principal of previously head of public America pageant after an lege, was granted tenure mer 2011 as one of the win - Transwestern Commercial affairs at Teach for Ameri - almost 50-year absence. and promoted to the rank ners of the national Negro Services’ northeast region’s ca, and he is its first alum - of associate professor in League Conference Art agency leasing and tenant nus to be appointed as JENNIFER M CCASLAND May. She was the co-editor Contest. advisory services groups head of a state education DALY / STEINHARDT ’99, of and a contributor to Si - based in New York City. department. ’00 / and CHRISTOPHER mone de Beauvoir’s Politi - YASMINE BEVERLY RANA DALY / TSOA ’06 / were cal Thinking (University of / TSOA ’93, ’94 / has had TARA HANDRON / TSOA FRANCIS M. HULT / CAS married in February 2006. Illinois Press), and is cur - her book, The War Zone Is ’96 / has been appointed ’98, STEINHARDT ’01 / They opened Kinespirit, a rently working on a book My Bed and Other Plays , regional vice president for has published Directions gyrotonic and Pilates about freedom and the published by Seagull Books’ Caron Treatment Centers in and Prospects for Educa - personal-training studio, challenges of coexistence. In Performance series and Washington, D.C., and the tional Linguistics the same year and expand - the University of Chicago greater D.C. region. Caron (Springer), a collection of ed to its second Manhattan SPIROS G. FRANGOS / Press. is a leading nonprofit work by 14 scholars in the location in 2008. They also WSUC ’91 / was promoted provider of addiction treat - field. It covers the use of welcomed their first child, to associate professor of LYNN BODNAR KELLY / ment for individuals and eye trackers in second Everett Cash, in September surgery at NYU School of WSUC ’94, WAG ’98 / has families. language acquisition re - 2010. Medicine in the section of been named CEO and presi - search, computer gaming, trauma, critical care, and dent of Staten Island’s Snug AMY WU / CAS ’96 / has and the bilingual education LISA REYES / STEIN - surgical emergencies. Addi - Harbor Cultural Center and accepted a full-time lectur - of deaf students. HARDT ’99 / won a New tionally, he has published his Botanical Garden. er position at Shue Yan York Emmy Award in April first novel, Reflections in the University in Hong Kong. FOTINI LIVANOS / CAS 2011 in the category of Stream (Frangos). ELIZABETH WOLFSON / She previously worked on ’98 / started her own line Sports Series Coverage for SSSW ’95 / has been ap - various projects for the of handbags after leaving her work covering the PETER GLAVAS / WSUC pointed chair of the mas - University of Hong Kong’s the real estate industry. World Series in Philadel - ’92, DEN ’97 / has been ter’s in clinical psychology Journalism and Media The bags are carried in phia. Reyes is currently a named program director program at Antioch Univer - Studies Centre. Bloomingdale’s and in reporter and fill-in anchor of the General Practice sity, Santa Barbara. Wolfson specialty shops around the at News 12 Westchester. Dental Residency at Staten joined Antioch as full-time ANGELA NITZSCHE / world. Island University Hospital. faculty in August 2010 af - SSSW ’97 / married Francis KEN SCHNECK / CAS ’99, He maintains a private ter serving as an instructor Michael Gibbons on June 19, GIANCARLA SAMBO / STEINHARDT ’01 / was practice specializing in in the program for nearly a 2010. She has worked for GSAS ’98 / , attorney at elected to Selectboard in prosthodontics in Great decade, while also serving the Zucker Hillside Hospital law, has been appointed by Brattleboro, VT, for a three- Neck, NY. as director of a family for the past four years. the Miss America Organiza - year term.

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AYALA SELLA ’S / CAS THEO THIMOU / GSAS ’00 the official website of na - name of her business this Kissinger Associates, ’00 / first book, a collec - / is co-author of Clark tionally syndicated radio year to Legacy Connec - a strategy consultancy. tion of poetry titled Solilo - Howard’s Living Large in and TV host Clark Howard. tions Films. quies of a Crosswalker , Lean Times (Avery), a New RON GRABOV-NARDINI / has just been released York Times No. 1 bestseller ARIELLE NOBILE / TSOA JOSHUA COOPER RAMO / LAW ’02 / was made part - by Wasteland Press. (paperback how-to, advice, ’01 / had a daughter, Maia GSAS ’01 / was appointed ner at the international law She currently lives in and misc. list). He works as Lucia, on August 26, 2010, to the board of directors of firm Akin Gump Strauss Brooklyn. director of content for with her husband, Starbucks. Ramo is also Hauer & Feld LLP. He is a

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NYU / FALL 2011 / 59 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 59) CAS ’03 / and HEBA VICTORIA PARIS SACKS / in D.C. She now goes by Europe. Camacho is mar - member of the firm’s tax NASSEF GORE / CAS ’02 / CAS ’04 / won the first Jennifer Smith-Parker. keting the script and work - practice and his clients in - welcomed their baby girl, place Montgomery Watson ing as a part-time English clude hedge funds and pri - Amina Khurram Gore, into Harza Consulting Engi - CHERYL TEXIERA / TSOA professor in Texas. vate equity funds. the world on February 15, neers/AEESP Master’s The - ’04 / was cast as Tina, a se - 2011 in Philadelphia. Amina sis Award for contributing to ductive barfly, in Showtime’s CRISTI HEGRANES / GSAS ALI WEISELBERG / CAS is the niece of KIRAN GORE the advancement of envi - Shameless . She has also ap - ’05 / won the Society of ’02, DEN ’06 / has been se - / GAL ’06 / , YOMNA ronmental science and engi - peared in Parks and Recre - Professional Journalists’ In - lected as one of the Best 50 NASSEF / CAS ’08 / , and neering. She earned an MS ation on NBC and is novation Prize for her work Women in Business in New TARA GORE / GAL ’14 . from University of Rhode Is - currently working on new with the Press Institute. She Jersey by business journal land’s Graduate School of comedies, including ABC’s founded the group to train NJBIZ . The award was EVITA NANCY S. TORRE / Oceanography in 2010. Happy Endings . women in developing coun - judged on the basis of dedi - CAS ’03 / is practicing as tries to become journalists. cation to business growth, an adoption attorney in New RACHEL SHER / STEIN - JENNIFER ZAHRT / GAL professional and personal York City. She works with HARDT ’04 / has joined ’04 / was hired last spring DAN