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The Rochester Effect. For childhood ever better.

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The Rochester Effect. For childhood ever better.

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rr_Summer2019_FCover.indd 1 7/29/19 12:55 PM A genius gift.

“I am a collector of Albert Einstein’s writings. A few years ago, I acquired a manuscript of more than 100 pages of his private working papers that had never been seen by the public before. After considerable thought, I decided to sell these pages and several letters of historical importance. I take comfort knowing that the materials are now in an important archive and available to Einstein scholars.

In part, because of the source of these funds, my wife and I gifted the proceeds to the University of Rochester to fund a flexible deferred charitable gift annuity designated for an endowed professorship in medical education.

This legacy gift is an expression of my gratitude for the life- changing education I benefited from as a medical student at Rochester.”

—GARY BERGER ’69M (MD)

To learn more about income for life from charitable gift annuities and other planned giving methods, visit www.rochester.giftplans.org/income Office of Trusts, Estates & Gift Planning (800) MELIORA (800-635-4672) • [email protected]

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Evolution’s 26 Show Us Your New Era Town: Houston Our tour of Rochester’s Regional What happens to DNA when it’s in Networks turns to Houston, home to the grip of parasites, “selfish genetic nearly 1,200 alumni who say the East elements” that are harmful to the Texas city is welcoming, diverse, and individual and even the species? infused with a “dream it, do it” mind-set. Biologists Jack Werren (above), Daven By Kristine Thompson Presgraves, John Jaenike, Amanda Larracuente, and Tom Eickbush have 30 For a Union made Rochester one of the world’s leading centers for understanding ways ‘Better Than It Was’ in which some genetic elements defy The legacy of Albion Tourgée, the lead expectations, in an evolutionary arms attorney for Homer Plessy in Plessy race that’s not between organisms but v. Ferguson, had been relegated to within them. By Lindsey Valich footnotes for much of the 20th century. But the Rochester alumnus’s ideas about bringing racial equality to the post–Civil ON THE COVER: Albion Tourgée, Class War South are getting a new hearing. of 1862. Courtesy of the North Carolina By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

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In Review their achievements and 18 36 service. 8 ‘I Want to Get to 53 Happy Birthday, George Know the University Eastman! Community’ President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf 56 Graduate Arts, Sciences introduces herself to the & Engineering University community. 57 Eastman School of 10 Board Elects Two Music Alumni as New Trustees 58 School of Medicine and Longtime board members Dentistry are also named life trustees in recognition of 58 School of Nursing their service. 58 Simon Business School 11 Ask the Archivist: 59 Warner School of What’s the weight— Education ceremonial and physical— of the mace? 59 In Memoriam 12 The Eastman School 61 Remember Pioneering That’s for Everyone Art Critic Douglas For nearly a century, the Crimp Eastman Community 64 Tuning in to Sonic Music School has Culture Take out your welcomed all comers. carry momentum into says she “hit the jackpot” earbuds and just listen, 2019–20. in life. 13 Bird by Bird A biologist says musicologist tracks the evolution of 41 In the News Winning the Gabrielle Cornish ’13, ’16E an endangered species of Alumni Gazette “Olympics” of the carillon, (MA). birds. and other news. 36 Connecting the 14 Discover Why can you University Community see your friend waving Rochester’s new head Class Notes in a sea of people at the of Alumni Relations 42 College Arts, Sciences airport? How do nations and Constituent & Engineering escape a colonial past? Engagement wants to strengthen connections, 44 Class of 1969 16 University Notebook opportunities, and What are some Admissions goes test networks. of your favorite optional, Paul Burgett memories of the ’68E, ’76E (PhD) is 38 Toting a Tony A drama University? remembered, and other teacher receives a news from around the top accolade for her 48 Dinner with University. unconventional and the Coach inclusive approach. 18 First Vice President for 50 Alumni Equity and Inclusion 39 What Are You Awards Appointed Mercedes Researching? Research Schools Ramírez Fernández will on disease pathogens earn recognize implement and lead an two alumni membership graduates for institution-wide diversity in the National Academy strategic plan. of Sciences. 19 What’s Ahead for 40 A Lifetime as a Leader A the Yellowjackets? trailblazing pediatrician, a 64 Rochester’s athletic teams Medical Center physician

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A Time of Optimism and Opportunity I look forward to hearing your ideas about how our great University can be ever better.

By Sarah C. Mangelsdorf Campus with Jessica Robbins ’20, a member of the Meridian Society, a group of un- In late August, the Class of 2023 will ar- dergraduates who lead campus tours for rive on campus. They will come from 44 our Undergraduate Admissions Office. states and 77 countries, and they will bring She introduced me to some of the iconic new energy and intellectual curiosity to spaces—tunnels!—and newest additions— our campus, and fresh perspectives that iZone!—to the River Campus. will help us better understand and define I hope to repeat this experience at oth- who we are as a community. I am thrilled er campus locations. I know I have a lot to to join them as a “classmate,” as I too begin learn in the coming months, and I am look- my first year as a member of the Universi- ing forward to every minute of it. ty community. Since I was introduced as Rochester’s I have had many experiences with first 11th president late last year, I have received days of school—as a student myself, as a an outpouring of well wishes from alumni, parent, a professor, and as an administra- faculty, students, staff, and members of the tor; on big campuses and small—and for Rochester community. It is clear that the me, nothing matches the excitement of the University holds a special place in the lives start of a new academic year, especially at of many of those who have been part of its a great research university like Rochester. long and distinguished legacy. My family These beginnings are a time of enormous and I were gratified to receive such a warm optimism and opportunity. and supportive welcome, and I thank you In the coming weeks, I will celebrate for your support and encouragement. many “firsts.” I will help students as they history of the United States. I have long I am honored to have been given the op- move in to their residence halls for the first been aware of the institution’s stature, the portunity to lead the University of Roch- time. I will attend my first Rochester con- strength of its faculty, and the impact of ester, but I am mindful that we are all vocation and participate in my first Wilson its research and scholarship. I have long stewards of this remarkable institution. I and Eastman community service days. I am admired the City of Rochester’s role as a am grateful for the strong foundation laid looking forward to joining the audience at linchpin in the historic struggles for equal- by my predecessors, and I look forward to Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre for my first ity and as the home of companies that in working with all of you to sustain and ex- Gateways Music Festival. many ways laid the groundwork for some pand Rochester’s mission to make our com- I am also looking forward to meeting of today’s most influential industries. munities and our world “ever better”—now alumni, parents, families, and community And I am energized by recent reports and in the future. members during my first Meliora Week- that Rochester is well-situated to become My immediate goal is to listen and learn end in October. In addition to connecting a hub of today’s agile and entrepreneurial from all of you—on campus and around the The University of Rochester is one of the world’s consequential universities, in one of the most consequential cities in the history of the United States. I have long been aware of the institution’s stature, the strength of its faculty, and the impact of its research and scholarship.

with members of the extended University tech economy. Rochester—the University country. You recognize our strengths, and community, I am looking forward to wel- and the City—is truly a remarkable place, you see where we can do better. You know coming former colleagues and represen- with much to contribute to our region, our past and our potential. tatives of our peer academic institutions our nation, and our planet. I use the sin- I want to hear your ideas: together, we who will take part in my inauguration cer- gular word “place,” because I believe that can set a course that is grounded in our sto- emony and celebration during Mel Week- our respective futures are, in many ways, ried history and directed toward our bright end, and showing off my new academic indistinguishable. prospects.r home to them. On my first official day on the job, I went The University of Rochester is one of for a run in Mount Hope Cemetery, where I Contact President Mangelsdorf at sarah. the world’s consequential universities, in said “hello” to Susan B. Anthony and Fred- [email protected]. Follow her on one of the most consequential cities in the erick Douglass. Later, I toured the River Instagram: @urochestermangelsdorf.

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Editor Scott Hauser Associate Editors Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) Kathleen McGarvey 1 2 3 4 5 Contributors Jeanette Colby, Adam Fenster, Emily Gillette, Peter Iglinski ’17 (MA), Sandra Knispel, Jim Mandelaro, Phyllis Mangefrida, Bob Marcotte, Melissa Mead, Sara Miller, Dennis O’Donnell, Jennifer Roach, Scott Sabocheck, Kristine Thompson, Laura Torchia, Lindsey Valich, Jim Ver Steeg ’15W (MS) Business Manager JOIN US Maureen Baisch Editorial Office to welcome Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, 147 Wallis Hall University of Rochester the University’s 11th president. Box 270033, Rochester, NY 14627-0033 VOCAL POINT: Alumnae teamed up to ID members of the 1988 ensemble. (585) 275-4118 Fax: (585) 275-0359 Vocal Proponents Argento ’58E (PhD) (“ ‘Addio’ to a Resonant [email protected] Rochester.edu/pr/Review Several Vocal Point alumnae wrote to Voice in Music”). But your short paragraph ID members of the 1988 roster of the about Thomas contained a rather serious Address Changes 300 East River Road all-women a cappella group that appeared error in referring to Howard Hanson as Box 270032 at the start of Class Notes in the spring is- “Eastman’s founding director.” Hanson was Rochester, NY 14627-0032 sue. The photo marked the ensemble’s 50th the second director at Eastman, arriving in (585) 275-8602; toll free: (866) 673-0181 anniversary this year. 1924 to succeed Alf Klingenberg who re- [email protected] One of the correspondents was Steph- signed in 1923. Rochester.edu/alumni/stay-connected/ anie Smart ’88, who is second from left in Besides, the only founder of the Eastman alumni-update-form the back row of the photo. She teamed up School of Music was George Eastman. No Design with fellow Vocal Point alumna Stephanie director of the school could rightfully claim Steve Boerner Typography & Design Inc. Clader-Rindell ’91, who’s in the front row, that distinction. Published four times a year for alumni, second from right. Also writing was Donna Vincent Lenti students, their parents, and other friends Herforth Walters ’87, ’91M (MD) who, al- Professor of Piano and Historian of the University, Rochester Review is though she isn’t in the photo, was a mem- Eastman School of Music produced by University Communications. ber of the group with many of the women Opinions expressed are those of the pictured. “Proud to be part of Vocal Point,” Department of Corrections authors, the editors, or their subjects Meet President Mangelsdorf and join a conversation about she writes. “Happy 50th anniversary!” In a photo on page 3 of the Spring 2019 and do not necessarily represent official 1 In the front row: Vivica Genaux, issue, we failed to properly identify the positions of the University of Rochester. the University’s future at an upcoming event near you. 2 Jennifer Lee ’90, 3 Lisa Alexander, researchers in the photo. They are derma- ISSN: 0035-7421 4 Stephanie Clader-Rindell ’91, and 5 Me- tology professor Lisa DeLouise and bio- 6 lissa Negron ’89. In the back row: Rocio medical engineering professor Danielle Credits 7 Moromisato Pereira ’89, Stephanie Benoit, who are part of a team trying to Alumni photographs, courtesy of the 10.23.19 | New York, NY 2.6.20 | Houston, TX 3.30.20 | San Diego, CA Smart ’88, 8 Stephanie Jabbs-Maurer ’90 regenerate salivary gland cells to help some subjects. Unless otherwise credited, all ’96N (MS), 9 Heidi Kluck, q Joy Moore, cancer patients. We apologize for the error. others are Rochester Review photos. w Diane Hoffman-Kim ’88, and e Christa 11.14.19 | Boston, MA 2.7.20 | Chapel Hill, NC 4.23.20 | Chicago, IL Madden. Review welcomes letters and will print For more about Vocal Point, visit them as space permits. Letters may be 1.29.20 | Palm Beach, FL 3.13.20 | Washington, DC 5.28.20 | Philadelphia, PA Urvocalpoint.com. edited for brevity and clarity. Unsigned letters cannot be used. Send letters 1.30.20 | Naples, FL 3.29.20 | Los Angeles, CA 6.18.20 | San Francisco, CA Credit to Klingenberg to Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, (and Eastman, of Course) Box 270044, University of Rochester, Many thanks for printing David Evan Rochester, NY 14627-0044; rochrev@ For more details, and to register, please visit Thomas’s wonderful tribute to Dominick rochester.edu. www.uofr.us/welcome

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LISTENING & LEARNING ‘I Want to Get to Know the University Community’ President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf introduces herself to the University community. Rochester’s new president, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, prom- ised she would spend considerable time on a “listening and learning tour” during the first part of her time as the University’s chief executive. She jumped right in on her first day on campus, setting a tone of engagement and visibility that she plans to make a central part of her Rochester leadership. “I want to see the campus, I want to meet people, I want to see people where they work,” Mangelsdorf said during her first public appearance as she took office July 1. Meeting briefly with members of the media before taking a student-led tour of parts of the River Campus, she said, “I don’t want to be closeted away. I want to get to know the University community.” Led by Meridian tour guide Jessica Robbins ’20, a psychology and political science major from the Rochester suburb of Brighton, and Bruce Bashwiner, senior associate vice president for facilities, Mangelsdorf made it a point to reach out to people away from Wallis Hall, an approach that she plans to repeat on other parts of campus. She also has scheduled a series of alumni and University community receptions around the country this year. Most recently the provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Mangelsdorf reiterated that she plans CAMPUS SEEN: Mangelsdorf (center) took a tour of the River Campus with Jessica to spend time learning from members of the University Robbins ’20 (right), a Meridian tour guide, and Bruce Bashwiner, senior associate vice community and then work collaboratively to map out president for facilities, as she introduced herself to the University on her first day as plans for the future. University president. “As someone who has been in higher education a long time, I know the reputation of this place,” she said. “And I think I know some of its strengths and some of its challenges, but I’d like to hear from people for whom this is their home and their alma mater. What are the things that they think are most important? And that will help us figure out the things that we need to work on first.” She also highlighted the notable role that the Roch- ester region has played in the nation’s political, artistic, and social history, particularly in the realms of suffrage and abolition, as well as in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. “Rochester is a famous place in American history,” she said. —Scott Hauser

SOCIAL MEDIA LEADER Follow the President on Instagram President Mangelsdorf has set up an Instagram account as a way for members of the University community to get to know her better and to join her on social media as she explores the University and the Rochester area. TOP HAT: As part of a visit to the University’s power plant, Mangelsdorf was presented Follow her: @urochestermangelsdorf. with her own hard hat by central utilities staff.

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SUSTAINING CONVERSATION: Mangelsdorf talks with student sustainability fellows Ruth Agwaze ’22 (left to right), Reanna Salvador ’21, Christina Krewson ’21, and Ekene Nnadika ’21 during a stop near the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center in Douglass Commons.

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rr_Summer2019_InReview.indd 9 8/6/19 2:07 PM IN REVIEW UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP Board Elects Two Alumni as New Trustees Longtime board members are named life trustees in recognition of their service.

By Sara Miller

Two alumni with extensive experience as corporate leaders were elected to the University’s Board of Trustees this spring, while five longtime members were elected as life trustees in recognition of their service, leadership, and philanthropic support.

New Trustees Naveen Nataraj ’97 is a senior managing director of the corporate advisory business at Evercore, a leading global independent investment advisory firm. The founder of the technology practice at Evercore, he regularly advised technology and telecommu- nications clients in transactions exceeding $500 billion in value. Nataraj and his wife, Courtney, established the Courtney and Naveen Nataraj BOARD MEMBERS: Business leaders Naveen Nataraj ’97 (left) and Kathy Waller ’80, ’83S (MBA) Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Univer- were elected trustees this spring. sity in 2014. Nataraj has actively participated in University reunion committees, the He and his wife, Carolyn ’68N (PNP), Endowed Professorship as well as through New York New Leaders Regional Cabinet, have supported the Dr. Elizabeth R. McA- scholarship and other support. and the Trustees’ Council of the College. narney Professorship in Pediatrics Funded Joel Seligman led the University from Kathy Waller ’80, ’83S (MBA) recently by Roger and Carolyn Friedlander and 2005 to 2018 as president and CEO, G. retired as executive vice president and other areas of Golisano Children’s Hospi- Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor, chief financial officer of the Coca-Cola tal, the Medical Center, the School of Nurs- and professor of business and political sci- Company. She was responsible for the coming, the Eastman School of Music, Rush ence. Under his leadership, the University pany’s global commerce organization and Rhees Library, and other initiatives. launched The Meliora Challenge, which, with representing the company to inves- Ed Hajim ’58, a highly successful invest- when it concluded in 2016, had nearly dou- tors, lenders, and rating agencies. ment manager, has been a board member bled the endowment, created the George Waller previously served on the board since 1988 and served as chair from 2008 to Eastman Circle, and supported more than from 2006 to 2016, when she was named 2016. He is credited with galvanizing sup- two dozen new facilities and infrastruc- a life trustee. Actively involved with the port for The Meliora Challenge, the Univer- ture projects totaling nearly $1 billion. He Simon Business School and the College, sity’s historic campaign that exceeded its championed initiatives in data science, she chaired the Diversity Initiative Cam- goal by raising $1.37 billion. neuroscience, humanities and the per- paign Committee for The Meliora Chal- In addition to serving as the cabinet chair forming arts, and health care, including lenge, as well as the Alumni National for The Meliora Challenge, he served as a the growth of a clinical enterprise that now Council, among many other roles. She has member of leadership boards across the includes a 15-county network and is an- supported undergraduate scholarships, in- University. The Edmund A. Hajim School chored by six hospitals. cluding the Byrd and Eva Waller Scholar- of Engineering & Applied Sciences is Nathaniel (Nat) Wisch ’55, a special- ship that she established at the College in named in recognition of his leadership sup- ist in hematology and medical oncology, honor of her parents. port for the school, one of the largest gift has been a board member since 2002. He commitments in the University’s history. has supported key areas of the University, Life Trustees Michael Rosen ’82, ’83S (MBA), co- including service on the Metro New York Roger Friedlander ’56 joined the board founder, cochairman, and CEO of Context Network Leadership Cabinet, cochair of in 1997 and has served as a member, chair, Capital Management, joined the board in the New York New Leaders Regional Cab- or vice chair of several board committees. 2005. In addition to serving on board com- inet, and as a national campaign volunteer He has served in many leadership roles, in- mittees, he was the San Diego Regional and leader for the College. cluding vice president of the Eastman In- Cabinet founding chair, a Meliora Challenge Wisch and his wife, Helen, established stitute for Oral Health Foundation Board, a Campaign Cabinet chair, and chair for his the Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor- member of the Medical Center Board, and 20th reunion. ship in Biology as well as two endowed chair of the School of Nursing National He and his wife, Marilyn, have provided scholarships, one in Arts, Sciences & En- Council and of The Meliora Challenge Cam- support to the Simon Business School gineering and the other at the Eastman paign Cabinet for Nursing. through the Marilyn and Michael Rosen School of Music.r

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rr_Summer2019.indb 10 8/5/19 10:08 AM IN REVIEW Ask the Archivist: What’s the Weight—Ceremonial and Physical—of the Mace? A question for Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian.

Each May and June, our department guides the University mace through eight separate commencement ceremonies—beginning with the School of Nursing and ending with the Simon School. The faculty selected to carry it in the procession realize it is an honor, but the burden is both ceremonial and physical. What’s its story? Why do we have it? And, frankly, how much does it weigh? — Sarabeth Rogoff ’93, assistant director for events, University Event and Classroom Management

On October 4, the three insignia of the Office of the President—the University charter, seal, and mace—will be symbolically entrusted to President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf during her inauguration in the Eastman Theatre. The mace measures 48 inches in length, weighs 6.4 pounds, and is almost exactly half the age of the Univer- sity. It was created in 1935 to be used in the inauguration ceremonies for our fourth president, Alan Valentine. The event was the responsibility of then University Trustee Edward Miner (1863–1955), who determined MIGHTY MACE: Joan Shelley Rubin, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the that the proceedings should be worthy of the status we Humanities Center, carries the University mace as the platform party that presides attained during the presidency of Rush Rhees. That Valen- over the College commencement ceremony proceeds across the Eastman Quadrangle. tine had been a Rhodes Scholar may also have influenced Miner to look to Oxford and Cambridge for inspiration. The evidence for and that had also designed the original Eastman Theatre and the for this can be found in Miner’s own handwriting on the flyleaf of a first addition to the Memorial Art Gallery. The fabrication company’s book he donated to our collection, Sir Arthur E. Shipley’s Cambridge papers are held at the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Cameos (1924). Library, which also features Caldwell-created decorations. Examined from top to bottom: the head of the mace is in the tra- Merz was given a budget of $780 to cover the costs for executing the ditional form of a cup (some medieval examples could detach and be mace and its smaller counterpart—a baton embellished with dandeli- used for that purpose) and bears the University seal on its top surface. ons and stars, which Merz convinced Miner should also be made—and The sides of the cup are adorned with four dandelions and their familiar to have two medals, each 2.5 inches in diameter, struck showing the serrated leaves. Along the staff of mahogany is a pair of escutcheons— University seal. One medal was used on the mace, and its bronze twin shields with the names of the University leaders from 1850 to 1983 was given to Valentine as the second of the three insignia of office. engraved upon them; at the center is a patterned ring; then another The names of Valentine and his predecessors were pre-engraved pair of escutcheons engraved with names from 1984 to the present; on one of the escutcheons and included three names less familiar to and finally a “foot-knop” adorned with more us in this role: Ira Harris, a trustee who was designated as chancellor Need History? dandelions. All the metalwork is silver. from 1850 to 1853, before Martin Brewer Anderson was hired; and The style of these decorations will be famil- professors Samuel Allan Lattimore and Henry Fairfield Burton, who Do you have a ques- iar to anyone who has walked around the served as interim presidents, having split the four years between the tion about University River Campus. The reasons for this become departure of President David Jayne Hill in 1896 and the arrival of Rush history? Email it to obvious from Miner’s correspondence: Rhees in 1900. President Richard Feldman’s name will be added to rochrev@rochester. architect Philipp Merz, who designed much mark his service as president from 2018 to 2019. edu. Please put “Ask of the original campus, was hired to devise Inauguration, convocation, investiture, and commencement: every the Archivist” in the the mace, following illustrations in Cambridge occasion at which the mace is used is a happy one and an augur of subject line. Cameos, which Miner had loaned to him. ever better things for those attending the event and for the institution Merz submitted his drawings to the firm of it represents. Edwd. F. Caldwell & Co. in New York for fabrication. Caldwell was particularly noted for its lighting fixtures and undertook commissions from To learn more about these emblems of the University, visit McKim, Mead, and White, an architectural firm that Merz had worked https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/blog/ATA-Summer2019.

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rr_Summer2019_InReview.indd 11 8/5/19 10:30 AM IN REVIEW The Eastman School That’s for Everyone For nearly a century, the Eastman Community Music School has welcomed all comers.

Interview by Jim Mandelaro training young musicians to involving the community at any level and any age. That still holds true today. It doesn’t matter what your The Eastman Community Music School opened its doors in 1921, ability is. Music is for anyone and everyone. the same year as the Eastman School of Music. For nearly a century, the school has offered music lessons, en- What’s something the average person might be surprised to sembles, classes, and workshops to students of all ages, back- learn about the school? grounds, and talent levels. It serves around 1,800 students each People are shocked to learn a student can start at four months old, year, ranging in age from four months to 92 years. or that anyone can come here. Somewhere in the Rochester DNA, The school occupies the third and fourth floors of Eastman’s there’s this vision that you don’t come to Eastman unless you’re a Messinger Hall, which last year completed a $2.8 million renova- college student or a world-class musician. But the community mu- tion, the most extensive in its history. The project was funded in sic school is for anybody who loves music. The Eastman School of Music stands for excellence. So does the Eastman Communi- ty Music School, but it has different criteria. A four-year-old student probably isn’t going to be performing in Kilbourn Hall with an orchestra, but everyone deserves an opportunity to study music, and excellence is evident regardless of age.

The school has a strong commitment to outreach programs such as Pathways, Horizons, and ROCMusic. How do those programs enrich what the school already has to offer? We have expertise and knowledge, and our goal is to support music in schools, community orchestras, and amateur groups in any way that we can. We’re not an island. Some of our teachers work in public schools or perform in the Rochester YOUNG AGE: Kodzas, a classical guitarist and director of the Eastman Community Music School, says his primary goal is getting more children involved with music even before they begin school. Philharmonic Orchestra, and we need to support their or- large part by Eastman School of Music National Council member chestras. Music always seems to go first when there are budget Karen Rettner and her husband, University Trustee Ronald Rettner. cuts. We need to be public advocates for school programs and the “The feeling of community is what’s really what’s most appar- 40-plus amateur orchestras in our town. ent to me,” says Petar Kodzas ’99E (DMA), associate dean and director of the school. “When I was teaching in this building, others How has the school stood the test of time? were scattered at our other buildings. We knew we belonged to A recent article said Rochester is per capita the second city in the the same institution but never felt it. Now, we are one communi- US for musicians. It’s no surprise. We started a Rochester Music ty. It feels like a different school.” Alliance to bring together local amateur music groups and had 37 Kodzas was named associate dean and director of the Eastman representatives from different groups at the first meeting. We have Community Music School in 2017 after teaching classical guitar choruses, bands, orchestra, fire department bands, ethnic groups, at the school for two decades. and people who just play music at home.

What is the mission of the Eastman Community Music School? What’s your primary goal for the future? For the first 20 years or longer, the school was mainly for people My goal is to inspire the entire community in involving more stu- who were interested in careers in music. It had more demanding dents at an early age, starting from age four all the way through audition requirements and a much smaller enrollment. As society fourth grade, and prepare them to get involved in school orches- realized that music was not just for professional musicians, that tras. If we can get them learning the basics early, it will make mu- it was great for humankind in general, the mission changed from sic fun and as much a part of their life as reading.r

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rr_Summer2019.indb 12 8/5/19 10:08 AM BIRD BIOLOGY: Chen (above) FIELD RESEARCH travels annually to Venus, Florida, home to one of the largest populations of a species Bird by Bird of scrub jays left in the world, for a long-running project to analyze A Rochester biologist helps map the birds’ DNA and the factors the evolutionary forces affecting an affecting their evolution. endangered species of Florida birds. DNA DATA: The project involves By Lindsey Valich extracting DNA samples (below) and tagging the birds in order to Evolutionary biologist and assistant professor of biol- map their family trees. ogy Nancy Chen analyzes how different evolutionary forces contribute to genetic patterns. A current project involves evaluating endangered, wild birds—Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens)—that have been individually marked and studied since 1969. “It’s really important to me to study organisms in their natural environment because selection pressures will be different in the lab versus in the field,” says Chen, who annually travels to the Archbold Biological Station in central Florida to tag the birds and search for new nests. Using 50 years of collected data, Chen creates family trees and develops pedigree simulations to analyze the ways in which the birds’ genetic material is changing due to habitat loss and a decrease in population. Her research also has important implications for understanding human genetics and accurately predicting how public health interventions might affect the long- term genetics of human populations.r

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Seeing What’s Important Imagine you’re driving through lab and now a research associate your neighborhood, with scenery at the University of Washington. of trees, houses, and sidewalks They could mean the difference whizzing by outside your window. between hitting and avoiding Now imagine a squirrel runs the squirrel—or a child or a across the road in front of you. distracted pedestrian. Will you see it in time to attempt The good news is that with to avoid it? some training, older adults can Part of the answer rests with narrow or eliminate the gap how old you are. between them and their younger One reason humans are counterparts. Notably, the older generally good at discerning participants who underwent smaller moving objects in the training didn’t get better at foreground is that the brain seeing the smaller moving object; becomes desensitized to larger instead, they became less sensi- background stimuli. “The human suppress the background, which therefore becoming less sensitive tive to the background motion, brain cannot possibly process all has the effect of enhancing the to smaller foreground objects. just like younger adults. of the information around us,” objects. The latter is “the more (Researchers have observed the “Most of the time when you says Duje Tadin, a professor of efficient option,” Tadin says. same phenomenon in people with train something in the brain, brain and cognitive sciences at “Think about trying to have a schizophrenia and depression.) things get better,” Tadin says. Rochester. “Being less sensitive conversation in a room with high The differences aren’t large. “This is a case where when you to things that are less important background noise. It is more Younger adults in the study took train something in the brain, makes the brain more efficient effective to find a way to turn an average of 20 milliseconds you get better at seeing moving and faster at accomplishing the off the noise than it is to just try to pick out moving foreground objects on a moving background, more important tasks.” speaking more loudly.” objects, while adults aged 65 and but you get worse at seeing the For example, there are two In a study published in the older took about 30 milliseconds. background. This showed us basic ways the brain can distin- journal Nature Communications, But “those extra milliseconds that these two things are really guish such objects from moving Tadin shows that as we age, our could make a big difference,” integrally connected, because backgrounds. It can enhance brains lose some of the ability says Woon Ju Park, a former when we affected one, the other the objects that matter or it can to suppress background motion, postdoctoral associate in Tadin’s one changed.” —Lindsey Valich

Why Some African Nations Struggle with Ethnic Strife, and Others Don’t The continent of Africa, made up sufficiently explained variations with standing armies, such as identities created privileged sub- of 54 nations and thousands of within Africa, according to Paine. the Dahomey in Benin. Central- sets of the population that, when distinct ethnic groups, is fertile Taking a longer-term perspective, ized states often participated independence became imminent ground to examine ethnic con- he found that “fre- in violent activities to promote in the 1950s and 1960s, were flict. In a paper published in the quently, precolo- intergroup inequality, unwilling to forge organizational journal International Organiza- nial political says Paine. ties with other ethnic groups,” tion, Rochester political scientist organiza- During the colonial Paine says. Jack Paine, an expert on compar- tions sowed period, ethnic Common policy recommenda- ative politics and game theory, the seeds of groups orga- tions for ending civil wars may posed a simple question: why are later discord.” nized as states not work without understanding some African nations mired in African countries were elevated these long-term factors, he ethnic conflicts and others not? that include in the colonial warns. For example, promot- Civil wars and insurgencies have ethnic groups that were governance ing inclusive power-sharing occurred in Sudan and Uganda, organized as states prior hierarchy. agreements will likely not stem for example, but not in Kenya. to European colonization Ruling through violence. Deepening democratic Benin has experienced several are at much higher risk for existing local institutions to increase the coups and coups attempts after violence. political hierarchies credibility of power-sharing independence, but Côte d’Ivoire During the precolonial reduced colonial administra- agreements—and the hope that has not. period, Africa featured diverse tive costs. This strategy was most over time the legacies of distinct Previous researchers have forms of political organization, closely associated with British statehood will lessen—provide a looked to the postcolonial era ranging from stateless societies, rule, which favored indirect possible but uncertain path out to explain ethnic conflicts on such as the Maasai in Kenya, to governance. of the coup and civil war trap. the continent—and haven’t hierarchically organized societies As a result, “distinct states and —Sandra Knispel

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rr_Summer2019.indb 14 8/5/19 10:08 AM New College Students Need Time Alone Although new college students may fear loneliness, there’s a distinction between loneliness and time alone—and the latter is especially important for students adjusting to their new lives away from home. That’s according to Thuy-vy Nguyen ’18 (PhD), who studied solitude—time spent alone, and without stimuli from electronic devices—as a doctoral student at Rochester. In a study published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, Nguyen, who will be an assistant professor of psychology at Durham University in England beginning this fall, found that “approaching solitude for its enjoyment and intrinsic values is linked to psychological health, especially for those who don’t feel as if they belong to their social groups”—a feeling that may come and go but is nearly universal to people thrust into a new environment. “These findings highlight the importance of cultivating the ability to enjoy and value solitary time as a meaningful experience rather than trying to disregard it or escape from it.” —Sandra Knispel

A Deeper Look at the ‘Longevity Gene’ As humans and other mammals work in a range of species, only species, they identified five amino species that are even longer lived grow older, their DNA is increas- some of the species have long acids in beaver SIRT6 responsi- than humans,” Seluanov says. ingly prone to breaks, which can lifespans. So what about SIRT6 ble for making it “more active Have such species—like the bow- lead to gene rearrangements and accounts for the difference? in repairing DNA and better at head whale, which can live more mutations—hallmarks of cancer As they describe in the journal enzyme functions” than SIRT6 in than 200 years—evolved even and aging. A gene called sirtuin Cell, Rochester biology professors mice, Gorbunova says. When the more robust SIRT6 genes? 6 (SIRT6) is often called the Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Selua- researchers inserted beaver and The ultimate goal of the work is “longevity gene” because of its nov, and Dirk Bohmann, professor mouse SIRT6 into human cells, to prevent age-related diseases, important role in organizing pro- of biomedical genetics, observed the beaver SIRT6 better reduced Gorbunova says. “If diseases teins and recruiting enzymes that DNA repair in 18 rodent species stress-induced DNA damage happen because of DNA that repair broken DNA. Mice without with lifespans ranging from 3 compared to when researchers becomes disorganized with age, the gene age prematurely, for years (mice) to 32 years (naked inserted the mouse SIRT6. we can use research like this to example, while mice with extra mole rats and beavers). Analyzing Although it appears that target interventions that can copies live longer. the molecular differences among human SIRT6 is already opti- delay cancer and other degenera- But as SIRT6 goes about its the SIRT6 proteins in the various mized to function, “we have other tive diseases.” —Lindsey Valich

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Admissions Drops Standardized Test Requirement Applicants for first-year admis- essays, achievements, community one form of a standardized test the SAT or ACT enrolled, resulting sion to the University will no contributions, recommendations, score—most often Advanced in no change in selectivity, reten- longer be required to submit any and interviews. Placement, International Bacca- tion, and graduation rates. standardized test results to the The move follows a 2011 policy laureate, and national or interna- For students who want to Office of Admissions. initiative that allowed students tional exams—to be considered submit standardized tests scores, The change, which begins to apply on a test-flexible basis, for admission. applicants are welcome to with the students applying in which meant that although In evaluating the 2011 change, include them in their application fall 2020, allows applicants to students weren’t required to the Office of Admissions has materials, and the University will choose to be evaluated only on submit an SAT or ACT score, they found that hundreds of well- continue to consider scores for high school grades, coursework, were required to submit at least qualified students who never took those who submit them.

Start-ups with University Ties Win Top Spots The top two finishers in the world’s largest business development competition for optics, photonics, and imaging technologies are start-up companies with strong ties to the University. Ovitz, a company founded by Felix Kim ’14 to develop individu- alized vision care, took the $1 million top prize in this year’s Luminate competition, a program administered by NextCorps, CIVIC CENTERED: East High School student Lilly Fontan and the other participants in the inaugural session a University affiliate and the of the Humanities Center’s “Experiencing Civic Life” program learned about the Seneca people’s ideas on equality, women’s rights, democratic government, and ecology during a visit to the Seneca Art & Culture region’s only state- and federally Center in Ganondagan, New York. The trip was part of a series of sessions organized by the program. designated business incubator. Kim, who is also the company’s CEO, and engineering director ‘Experiencing Civic Life’ through the Humanities Nick Brown ’15 are graduates of A group of Rochester high school Administered by the Human- take part in an academic enrich- the Institute of Optics. Ovitz’s students explored the history ities Center, the inaugural ment program. It included talks, chief scientist is Geunyoung Yoon, and culture of the region this session of “Experiencing Civic seminars, writing workshops, a professor of ophthalmology and summer in ways designed to help Life” invited students from East field trips to cultural institutions, biomedical engineering. them acquire perspectives and High—a city school that has been and other activities to help the In second place was VPG skills based in the humanities and administered as a partnership students succeed academically Medical, which has developed humanistic social sciences. with the University since 2015—to and as active citizens. cameras that can be embedded in smart devices to monitor cardiac activity. CEO and cofound- University Recognized for Programs to Prevent Sexual Assault er Jean-Phillippe Couderc is an associate professor of medi- Rochester joins Amherst College, by the social impact education That office and many University cine at the University, as is the Centre College, the University of innovator EVERFI. departments and units collabo- company’s chief medical officer, Chicago, and the University of The award recognizes Roches- rate to develop and execute pre- Burr Hall. Guy Arie, the head Delaware in earning recognition ter’s commitment to creating a vention programs throughout the of business development, is an from the 1,500-member Campus safe and healthy college campus year. The units include the Office assistant professor of economics Prevention Network for out- by implementing evidence-based for Residential Life and Housing and management at the Simon standing achievements in sexual practices. Services, the Department of Business School. assault prevention. The University’s sexual assault Public Safety, the Office of the Winners of the competition Rochester received the and misconduct prevention Dean of Students, University commit to establishing opera- Campus Prevention Network efforts are coordinated through Health Service, and the University tions in Rochester for at least the Impact Award, which is presented the University’s Title IX Office. Counseling Center. next 18 months.

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rr_Summer2019_InReview.indd 16 8/6/19 2:00 PM UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOK University to Receive Louise Slaughter Papers The River Campus Libraries will become the home of the congressional papers of Rep. Louise Slaughter, the influential congresswoman who represented the Rochester region for more than three decades in the House of Representatives. Her family made the announcement in May. From 1987 until her death in 2018, Slaughter was the only UNIVERSITY CITIZEN: A faculty microbiologist in Congress and post honors Burgett’s legacy. the first chairwoman of the Rules Committee. Known as a progressive Demo- Dean Paul Burgett crat, she was highly regarded as Remembered with a champion for women’s rights, higher education, the arts and Professorship humanities, federally funded The 50-plus-year University research, economic development, legacy of the late Paul Burgett and health care accessibility. At ’68E, ’76E (PhD) has been rec- HONOREE: In recognition of Slaughter’s leadership on women’s rights, the time of her death, she was ognized with the first endowed education, the arts and humanities, federally funded research, and the dean of New York’s congres- other issues, the University awarded her the Eastman Medal in 2009. distinguished professorship at sional delegation. the Eastman School of Music. In the coming years, the available the materials as the named to the National Women’s An anonymous gift from two Department of Rare Books, Spe- Louise M. Slaughter Congressio- Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, Rochester alumni will establish cial Collections, and Preservation nal Collection. New York, and will be formally the Paul J. Burgett Distinguished will house, archive, and make In March, Slaughter was inducted this fall. Professorship at the Eastman School of Music. Established to honor the PEOPLE & APPOINTMENTS legacy of Burgett, the gift also recognizes his lifelong commitment to music and education during a University career that spanned 54 years, including 20 at Eastman, where he began as a student and eventually became dean of students before taking on University-wide roles. Eastman plans to announce the inaugural recipient of the professorship this fall. Burgett, whose engagement as a teacher, scholar, dean, and vice president over five decades made Dean of School Memorial Art Dean of Graduate him of one of the University’s most recognized citizens, died of Arts & Sciences Gallery Director Education in 2018 at the age of 72 after a Gloria Culver, who has led the Jonathan Binstock has been reap- Melissa Sturge-Apple ’92, most short illness. School of Arts & Sciences since pointed to a five-year term as recently the dean of graduate During his University career, he 2014, has been appointed to a the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark education and postdoctoral served in many key roles: student second term as dean. A nation- Director of the Memorial Art Gal- affairs in Arts, Sciences & body president at Eastman, fac- ally recognized biologist, Culver lery. First appointed as the muse- Engineering and a professor of ulty member in the Department joined the faculty in 2007. um’s seventh director in 2014, psychology, has been named vice of Music, dean of students at Appointed interim dean before Binstock is an expert in art of the provost and University dean of Eastman and for the University, her first full-term appointment in post–WWII era and was curator of graduate education. Sturge-Apple advisor to four University pres- 2015, she has helped launch the contemporary art at the Corcoran succeeds Margaret Kearney, who idents, and as a University vice Humanities Center and has intro- Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, retired at the end of June after president and general secretary duced projects for the performing among other positions, before serving in the role for eight years to the University’s Board of arts and the natural sciences. joining Rochester. and at the University for 14 years. Trustees.

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rr_Summer2019_InReview.indd 17 8/6/19 2:00 PM IN REVIEW INTRODUCING THE CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER First Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Appointed Mercedes Ramírez Fernández will implement and lead an institution-wide diversity strategic plan. By Sara Miller

An educational administrator who has earned recognition for her leadership on issues of diversity and improving the campus climate at several leading universities has been named Rochester’s first vice president for equity and inclusion. Mercedes Ramírez Fernández, most recently the associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity at Virginia Tech, formally began her new role on July 1. She oversees Rochester’s new Office of Equity and Inclusion. There, she holds the title of Richard Feld- man Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, a position named in recognition of Richard Feldman, who served as president from 2018 to 2019 and made improving Rochester’s campus culture a priority during his time in office. As vice president, Ramírez Fernández will work closely with deans and other senior leaders and campus constituencies to create, implement, and lead an institution-wide diversity strategic plan that includes recruitment, training, communication, policy, and met- rics. Working with campus diversity leaders, she’s charged with integrating the strategy with federally mandated antidiscrimination compliance and also with identifying and pursuing opportunities to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment, including promoting the University’s vision, values, and culture of respect. Reporting to the University president, the vice president for equity and inclusion is the chief diversity officer for the institution. At Virginia Tech, Ramírez Fernández was responsible for creating and sustaining programs to increase faculty, staff, and student diversity; ensuring a welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible campus climate; preparing students for service through an understanding of issues of identity and the human condition; and developing and supporting innovative inclusiveness programs and policies across Virginia Tech’s campuses. Ramírez Fernández’s expertise is in diversity in higher education curriculum, institutional models that sup- A UNIVERSITY-WIDE VISION: In her role as vice president, Ramírez Fernández will port student success, strategic enrollment manage- serve as Rochester’s chief diversity officer and will direct the institution’s Office of ment, alumni relations, and assessment. Equity and Inclusion, both of which are new, University-wide roles at Rochester. Before Virginia Tech, she was interim assistant chancellor and assistant provost for student diversity at the Uni- Prior to her roles at Illinois, she directed living-learning com- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, she directed the munities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Illinois Promise Program, supporting first-generation and low- Feldman served as chair of the committee that conducted the income student success. She also has served as assistant dean of search, a process that included members of the University’s Board admissions and director of student advising and learning commu- of Trustees and Rochester’s new president, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf. nities in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and as vice chair Ramírez Fernández holds an EdD in higher education manage- of the chancellor’s and provost’s committee on race and diversity, ment from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in helping advance a successful proposal to have all students take a counseling from the University of Iowa, and a bachelor’s degree course focusing on the lived experiences of US minorities. in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez.r

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By Dennis O’Donnell as a bona fide Division III power. Rochester enters the 2019 season having played in four consecutive NCAA tournaments, reach- The Yellowjacket varsity teams are coming off one of the most ing the national quarterfinals three times. A number of veterans successful years in the history of Rochester’s athletic programs return, including all-league seniors Maya Haigis, Colleen Maille, as they head into the 2019–20 year. and goaltender Kate Kujawa. Six of the top eight scorers are Over the course of last year’s campaigns, 11 sports were repre- back. Kujawa set University records for victories last year (19) sented in national postseason competition—10 in the NCAAs and and shutouts (12). squash in the top level of the College Squash Association championships—for the 10th consecutive season. Rochester students Football More than 50 newcomers, many of them first-years, received All-America honors in field hockey, men’s soccer, men’s will be vying for playing time as Rochester continues to build and basketball, squash, and women’s track and field—both indoors strengthen the program. Rising sophomore Caden Cole and ris- and outdoors. ing junior Adam Baghi earned all–Liberty League honors a year Rochester had six students voted to the Google Cloud Ac- ago. Rising sophomore Noah Shinaman caught 46 passes in ademic All-America Team in the sports of men’s soccer, 2018, four of them for touchdowns. Rising junior place- baseball, softball, women’s indoor track and field, and kicker Dawson Klinger made six of nine field goal at- outdoor track and field. Eighteen student-athletes were tempts and was 13–14 on PATs. elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the international honor society. Men’s soccer Rochester takes the field in 2019 off its most The first home event takes place September 1. successful season ever. The Yellowjackets reached the Here’s a look at what’s ahead this national semifinals of the NCAA Division III play- fall: offs and were 16–3–2 overall. They were ranked No. 3 by the NCAA and No. 4 by the coach- Men’s cross country The early es association at the end of 2018. Seven part of the season will be spent players with starting experience return to rounding out a consistent top the lineup. Six are rising seniors: Aidan five as the bigger events ar- Miller, Josh Cooley, Ulrik Koren, Mitch rive, including the University Volis, Zach Lawlor, and Cristian Baltier. Athletic Association championships and the NCAA Atlan- Women’s soccer The Yellowjackets were rewarded tic regional meet. Look for rising for playing one of the toughest strength of schedules senior Ivan Frantz to lead the way, in the country last fall. They played in the NCAA Di- after finishing 60th at 2018 NCAA regional and vision III tournament. Nine women who started turning in a really strong junior track season in 10 or more games last year are back. Rising soph- the 5,000 meters. Rising senior Ryley Robinson omores Carolyn Richards and Cesca Sheppard should be another top returner to watch, as he was combined for seven goals last year; five were game- the team’s third finisher at the UAAs. Hunter Phin- winning goals. Rising senior Jorie Freitag scored ney ’19 capped his senior season last year with all– two game-winners. Rising sophomore Emma UAA and all-regional honors and an invitation to the Schechter posted a 1.00 goals-against-average last 2018 NCAA championships, where he finished 49th. year and made 60 saves in 16 games.

Women’s cross country Four of the top five runners re- Volleyball Six players who played in 30 or more turn from the squad that finished 21st at the NCAA cham- matches last year return. Rising junior Allie DeRu- pionships last fall. Rising senior Kelly Reese finished second bertis led the team in kills (380), was ranked 64th among Yellowjacket runners at UAAs, regionals, and nationals. in Division III and second in the UAA. Rising se- Rising senior Jordan Hurlbut was Rochester’s third finisher at nior Beth Ghyzel had 1,129 assists, 10th highest in a UAAs and in the top five at regionals and nationals. Rising junior single season at Rochester. She was ranked 31st in Ximena Reyes Torres was the team’s No. 3 runner at the NCAA Division III. Classmate Kate Korslund had 114 kills championships, and rising senior Julia Myers will also be a key and 27 blocks in 2018. Rising junior Tamera Shaw returner after finishing as Rochester’s fourth runner at nationals. contributed 117 kills and 72 blocks. She was top-20 in the UAA in four block categories. Rising senior Field hockey The Yellowjackets have solidified the program Sara Apanavicius posted a team-best 430 digs.r

START IT UP: Jorie Freitag ’20 is one of nine Dennis O’Donnell is director of communications starters returning to the women’s soccer team, for the Department of Athletics and a squad that qualified for the NCAAs last year. Recreation.

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rr_Summer2019.indb 19 8/5/19 10:08 AM By Lindsey Valich

EVOLVING STRENGTHS: Together, the research programs led by biologists (left to right) Jack Werren, Daven Presgraves, John Jaenike, Amanda Larracuente, and Tom Eickbush have established Rochester as one of the world’s leading centers for understanding the ways in which some genetic elements seem to defy the expectations of evolutionary biology.

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rr_Summer2019.indb 21 8/5/19 10:08 AM e like to think of a healthy organism as a In 1988, Werren and his Rochester colleagues Uzi Nur and Chung-I smoothly running machine. A whole made Wu brought the diverse discoveries together, formally defining DNA up of intricately related parts. Right down to parasites and junk DNA as “selfish genetic elements” (SGEs), an the cellular level—and inside each cell itself— umbrella term for elements that share a common feature: they seek every element with its role; every function only to enhance their transmission to the next generation and are contributing to the good of the whole. either harmful or neutral to an organism. But if you look deeply enough into living The concept of a selfish genetic element was controversial. It cells, you’re likely to find a whole lot of chaos. wasn’t just the notion that genes, rather than organisms, competed That chaos is something Rochester biol- for survival. That idea wasn’t new. In the 1970s, Richard Dawkins ogist Jack Werren observed firsthand in the had popularized much of the science of the so-called gene-centric 1980s. While studying entomology at the Wal- view of evolution in the book The Selfish Gene. But Dawkins’s selfish ter Reed Institute of Research, he and a col- genes, infighting for their own survival, also helped perpetuate the league discovered a bacteria that altered the individuals carrying them. In that schema, every gene in an organ- sex ratios of insects by killing a large portion of ism was a selfish gene. the male offspring, leaving mostly females. Most GENERATIONS OF GENES: The labs What Werren and his colleagues were describ- surprising, they found, was that the bacteria was of Rochester researchers use wasps ing was something else: genetic elements whose transmitted from mothers’ cells to their daughters. or fruit flies (above) to track specific successful propagation was often harmful to an “There is a whole class of inherited elements genetic elements because the insects individual and could lead to a species’ end. that alter the reproduction of insects in ways that procreate rapidly, allowing biologists “Many biologists had a hard time wrapping their are beneficial only to the element itself, mostly by to observe many generations head around the idea that there could be parasites altering sex ratios,” says Werren, the Nathaniel in short periods of time. in the DNA,” he says. “If there was something and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology. there, it had to be good for the organism.” Scientists had observed something similar before. In the 1920s, Today Werren is one of a group of researchers in the University’s the Russian biologist Sergey Gershenson first observed a sex-ratio biology department studying SGEs and their impact on evolution. abnormality in a type of fruit fly—an aberration so striking it seemed “The University of Rochester has one of the highest concentrations capable of driving the species to extinction. Barbara McClintock’s of researchers working on selfish genetic elements in North Amer- seminal work in the 1940s and 1950s had also revealed a world of ica, if not the world,” says Arvid Agren, the Wenner-Gren Fellow in “jumping genes,” although their “function” in organisms was unclear. the department of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard At the time, the implications of McClintock’s research were met University. “For many years members of the department have shaped with skepticism, but she was later awarded the Nobel Prize. Other the field, and they continue to do so.” mid-century advances led to more puzzling findings. In the early Rochester biologists have been instrumental, for example, in dis- 1980s, right about the time Werren began his Army post, researchers covering just how significant the elements really are. Organisms from reported that some genes might not have specific purposes, introduc- corn to fruit flies to humans are littered with them, affecting a range ing the idea that simple organisms—like onions, which have 15 times of biological processes, including speciation, aging, diseases, gene more DNA than humans—can have complex genomes, full of repeated regulation, and even sex itself. DNA. Two influential papers in the journal Nature proposed the idea “Something very dramatic has shifted,” says Daven Presgraves, a that repetitive DNA could be parasitic or “junk” DNA. Dean’s Professor in the Department of Biology at Rochester, who

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rr_Summer2019.indb 22 8/5/19 10:08 AM studies the role of SGEs in speciation. SGEs “aren’t just these one copies of mobile elements,” says Tom Eickbush, a Mercer Brugler offs that you can find here and there. Selfish genetic elements are Distinguished Teaching Professor at Rochester. everywhere. And they’re affecting every generation, all the time.” Transposable elements are found in all species of plants and ani- mals. Working with fruit flies, Eickbush has studied the mechanisms A Closer Look at Selfish Genes by which transposable elements replicate themselves. Their presence Each of the cells in your body shares the same sequences of DNA, “can play a significant role in altering the size, structure, and expres- collectively called your genome. Each of the genes that make up the sion of a cell’s genome,” Eickbush says. Transposable elements can DNA, however, is coded to activate different sequences of proteins, introduce genetic mutations resulting in predispositions to cancer giving cells various functions and genetic disorders like hemophilia, for example. It turns out, however, that a good portion of your DNA is not even Meiotic drive elements are another major grouping of SGEs. Mei- “yours.” That is, it doesn’t code for anything that makes you, you. otic drive elements are chromosomes that gain a transmission advan- Before DNA sequencing, it was difficult for researchers to grasp tage by getting passed on to more than their “fair” share of offspring. that a genome is not always a cohesive unit working to optimize an In the regular course of reproduction, parents contribute DNA to

organism’s fitness. When Charles Darwin first articulated the theory their offspring by packaging one copy of each chromosome into gam- of natural selection, he had no notion of genes and DNA or the role etes (eggs for females; sperm for males) during a cell-division process they play in inheritance. called meiosis. The production of gametes ensures that each copy of In the mid-20th century, researchers began recognizing that DNA a chromosome makes it into 50 percent of the gametes. Each gene, held the genes that were passed on from parent to offspring. The era then, should have the same chance as any other of transmitting itself. of molecular genetics had arrived and with it, the realization that But there are “cheater” genes that skew the ratio. Richard Lewon- genes were the vehicles of evolution. tin, who was an associate professor of biology at Rochester in the late Scientists now know that SGEs can be grouped into several dif- 1950s and early 1960s, developed one of the first models for SGEs, ferent categories. So-called transposable elements, which make up working with the meiotic drive element t-allele, in mice. Lewontin at least 50 percent of the genes in the human genome, are one major conducted simulations showing that t-alleles—so named because group. Also called jumping genes or mobile elements, they gain a the laboratory mice strain with the cheating allele was tailless—kill replication advantage by making extra copies of themselves and gametes carrying the opposite allele and can ultimately drive mice inserting themselves into random parts of the genome. In so doing, populations to extinction. transposable elements are akin to viruses. But unlike viruses, they Even skewing the ratio a little bit can therefore make a huge cannot leave the cell; instead, they infect a cell’s DNA. difference, says John Jaenike, a professor of biology at Rochester. “You can basically say that most of the human genome is just old “Any gene that can cheat during meiosis instead of having a 50/50

Summer 2019 ROCHESTER REVIEW 23 A Microscopic Survival of the Fittest Selfish genetic elements were dismissed as anomalies when they were first described nearly a century ago. Now, scientists understand that they are more pervasive than originally thought. Rochester researchers are exploring the roles the elements play in inheritance, aging, speciation, and evolution. Rochester biologist Jack Werren, who along with colleagues Uzi Nur and Chung-I Wu coined the term in 1988, describes four types of selfish genetic elements.

Meiotic Drive Fair Meiosis Meiotic Drive Chromosomes Meiotic Meiosis is the process Most cells in the body contain Drive by which gametes two sets of chromosomes— Element (sperm or eggs) are one set from each parent created. Usually it is “fair,” meaning there To create gametes (sperm and eggs) is a 50/50 chance that cells in the testes and ovaries each chromosome first divide into two cells will be passed to a gamete and therefore to offspring. Meiotic drive elements skew the ratio and increase Then they split again into four the rate at which they gametes, each of which contains just one set of chromosomes get passed on to the next generation.

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Transposable Heritable Microbes Elements These elements, which occur in 40–70 percent Also known as of insect species, distort sexual reproduction by transposons or favoring the sex that transmits them—typically “jumping genes,” by enhancing the chance that a mother will the elements make produce female offspring. extra copies of themselves and insert Female Male them into random parts of the genome. Transposable Microbes elements make up at least 50 percent of the human genome. Transposable element jumps into more than one place

Postsegregation Distorters Postsegregation Killer plasmid distorters “kill” cells that don’t inherit Chromosome them. For example, killer plasmids carry the recipe for both a toxin and its antidote. Because the toxin persists longer than the antidote, cells that don’t inherit the plasmid die. Males can inherit microbe, but microbe is Cell with plasmid survives Cell without plasmid dies passed on only through female line

24 ROCHESTER REVIEW Summer 2019 STEVE BOERNER ratio would be difficult to detect. It could be that a lot of genes spread words, while SGEs are operating only to propagate themselves, they and we don’t even notice it.” don’t “realize” that by doing so, they may be on a path that could Jaenike studies a destructive inheritable bacteria called Wolbachia, eventually take their host species—and themselves—to extinction. which is widespread in insects, inherently found in 40-70 percent But genomes do fight back. Within the genomes of every organ- of all insect species. Wolbachia is an example of a third type of SGEs ism there is a microscopic evolutionary arms race taking place: SGEs called heritable microbes, which distort sexual reproduction by favor- present themselves in the genome, and the rest of the genome evolves ing the sex that transmits them. For instance, males can be infected suppressors to quell them. The SGE then evolves to overcome the with Wolbachia, but do not transmit it. Wolbachia therefore distorts suppressor, and the suppressor has to evolve to keep pace. reproduction to enhance the chance that a mother will produce While researchers previously focused on discovering the different female offspring that will then pass on the bacteria. types of SGEs and their means of propagation, the field has turned In his early years at Rochester, Werren observed a fourth type of toward understanding this evolutionary arms race. SGE that takes selfishness to excess: postsegregation distorters. Post- “Now we are in the genomic sphere,” Eickbush says. With segregation distorters have been detected in worms, insects, yeast, enhanced sequencing technology and new genome assembly meth- and bacteria and act after fertilization to either kill the genome or ods, “people are looking at total genomes and characterizing the the offspring that don’t carry them. Werren observed a type of post- millions of elements that might be there. There’s a great interest in segregation distorter called paternal sex ratio (PSR) in the parasitic finding out how these elements have given rise to steps in evolution wasp species Nasonia vitripennis that completely obliterates a male’s and how they are being coopted for other purposes.” genome, destroying all other genes except its own from the wasp’s As a result, biologists in a wide range of subfields have begun con- sperm after the sperm fertilizes an egg. tending with SGEs. “This is the ultimate selfish gene,” Werren says. “You can’t get Rochester biology professor Vera Gorbunova, for example—whose much more selfish than totally destroying your host genome and research is focused on cancer and aging—recently discovered a getting transmitted yourself.” defense mechanism against SGEs that may trigger inflammation, hastening the aging process in humans. How “Selfish” Is the Human Genome? Larracuente has found that some of the genetic elements may It’s difficult to directly determine just how much of the human have both selfish and beneficial purposes. Using genome sequenc- genome is selfish. When researchers map the human genome, they ing to map the genome of the fruit flyDr osophila melanogaster, she can directly see transposable elements—they are simply pieces of the discovered transposable elements that came and “sat down” next genomic puzzle that don’t fit. But when it comes to meiotic drive ele- to genes, and the genome repurposed the transposable elements to ments, researchers often look for indirect evidence of the cheaters. build essential chromosomal regions. Gregor Mendel’s laws of inheritance dictate that a set of parents SGE research is also being applied to synthetic drive systems that should produce offspring at a ratio of 50 percent male and 50 per- could be used to suppress pest populations. Wolbachia, for example, cent female. One way to infer the presence of SGEs like meiotic drive spreads through insect populations by altering reproduction and,

elements, which involve the X and Y sex chromosomes, is to observe as such, is one of the most “successful” SGEs. But it also suppresses generations of an organism and see if their sex ratios are highly dis- some viruses: if a mosquito carries certain strains of Wolbachia, it torted: does a set of parents have a lot more male offspring than won’t transmit dengue fever and malaria. Injecting mosquitoes in females and vice versa? specific regions with Wolbachia and allowing it to spread through This question can be difficult to answer in organisms like humans a population can therefore help reduce the spread of disease from that do not produce many offspring. “You can think off the top of your mosquitoes to humans. head of families that have five or more girls, and that can happen ran- These methods of using SGE mechanisms to create synthetic domly,” says Amanda Larracuente, an assistant professor of biology drive systems are studied under controlled circumstances—in sealed at Rochester, who studies Y chromosomes and blocks of repetitive buildings, for instance—so scientists can test and predict how gene DNA called satellite DNA. drives might affect ecosystems. Researchers can then develop strat- On the other hand, “if you have a family pedigree that for gener- egies to minimize risks, including preventing the elimination of an ations had individuals that consistently produced only female off- entire species. spring, one possibility is that there is a driver on the X chromosome “This is reviewed really well in terms of people thinking about how that kills Y-bearing sperm,” she adds. This phenomenon is well stud- to do this responsibly,” says Larracuente, who regularly discusses her ied in some fruit fly species. research with synthetic biologists. A successful driver that occurs on the sex chromosomes can be By better understanding the different types of SGEs, the ways “really harmful for a population,” Larracuente says. A successful driv- SGEs spread, and how they give rise to steps in evolution, synthetic er on the Y chromosome would produce a population of all males, biologists are better able to weigh the risks and benefits of creating just as a successful driver on the X chromosome would produce all engineered systems. females. “A population like that will collapse and go extinct.” But, while SGEs are now almost universally accepted as drivers of evolution, there is still more work to be done. “We’re Really Only Beginning” “We’re really only beginning to dig in to understand selfish genetic While the proliferation of SGEs is apparent, where they first originat- elements as a phenomenon,” Presgraves says. “We now assume that ed is still a mystery. What is clear, however, is that they do not have a at any point in transmission, there’s a selfish genetic element looking master plan to take over an organism—genes aren’t forward looking. for a way to exploit the transmission. That’s how pervasive selfish “Evolution doesn’t know where it’s going,” Jaenike says. In other genetic elements are.”r

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rr_Summer2019.indb 25 8/5/19 10:08 AM Longtime Texan J. J. Gonzalez ’11 is a real estate lawyer whose family has taken part in livestock shows throughout Texas, including Houston’s iconic rodeo.

Show Us Your Town

Home to nearly 1,200 alumni and friends, Houston is one of the country’s friendliest and most diverse cities, say members of the University community who live and work in the East Texas city.

By Kristine Thompson

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rr_Summer2019_Houston.indd 26 8/5/19 11:40 AM Music Maven A sixth-generation Texan and Houston native, arts manager Todd Frazier ’92E knows the secret Family Favorites hot spots for music in the city. Houston Home Corporate finance manager On her “second rodeo” in the Ebon Robinson ’01S (MBA) and city, executive leader Barbara his family seek out Houston’s Burger ’83 says she’s found a many parks and museums. home in Houston.

WELCOME WAGON: Members of Houston’s growing network of alumni and friends in Houston, Gonzalez, Frazier, Burger, and Robinson meet for a photo in Buffalo Bayou Park, a 160-acre green space that stretches along a 10-mile waterway in the heart of the city. Opened to the public in 2015, the park is one of the country’s great urban green spaces, says Robinson.

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rr_Summer2019_Houston.indd 28 8/5/19 11:57 AM which chronicles the life of the pioneering “We rent out a skybox and celebrate our heart surgeon; the Wallace D. Wilson Mu- Houston and Rochester connections,” he Bryan seum at the Texas Heart Institute, which says. “We have a lot of fun.” College Station presents a collection of art and other materials related to the institute’s cardiovas- Houston History Beaumont cular technology, discovery, and care; and a Various locations new interactive digital wall at TMC’s Walter For Texas history, Gonzalez recommends the Houston Tower, which traces 100 years of the histo- Sam Houston Memorial Museum to learn ry of Houston Methodist, one of the center’s about the man who led Texas to its indepen- Pasadena main hospitals. dence from Mexico in 1836 and was a key political figure in the state. Galveston J. J. Gonzalez ’11 Ebon Robinson ’01S (MBA) Gonzalez grew up in McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley, just a few miles from the Mex- Like Burger, Robinson is on his second tour Houston Regional ican border and five hours south of Hous- of Houston, having arrived last year after Network ton. He moved to Houston to expand his law spending four years in Brazil with Chevron, practice in 2017. where he’s business finance manager. “The people of Houston are what make it Houston has the kinds of opportunities in Houston Regional Network such a great city,” says Gonzalez. energy and finance that Robinson was look- Houston is home to one of the University’s A scholarship student who served as 2011’s ing for when he enrolled at the Simon Busi- regional networks, which offer alumni, stu- class president, Gonzalez was active on cam- ness School. dents, parents, and friends opportunities for pus in fraternity life and LGBTQ initiatives. “Simon didn’t offer this as a concentra- networking and volunteering. He spent a semester in Ecuador and did a tion, but they saw potential in it, gave me Providing ways to engage with other Take 5 program in which he studied Islam. a scholarship, and believed in me,” he says. members of the University community, the “Rochester changed my life,” says Gonza- “I’m forever grateful.” He also knew of Roch- networks organize social events and outings, lez, who practices real estate law. “A lot of the ester through his grandfather, Harry Bray help welcome new alumni to an area, things I love about Rochester, I love about ’38, one of the University’s earliest African interview and mentor students, and serve as Houston. Both are filled with exceptional, American graduates. social media ambassadors. inspiring people.” When Robinson isn’t spending time` at For more information on activities an home, he and his family can be found at their programs in Houston, visit Facebook.com/ g Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo favorite Houston locales. groups/URHouston/. NRG Stadium “Houston pride comes alive during the ro- i Houston Zoo 856 alumni deo,” he says. “This is when everyone gets 6200 Hermann Park Dr. 105 current parents out their cowboy hats, boots, and western Robinson recommends taking the zoo’s night 116 students wear.” Founded in 1932 as a way to promote tour, when the temperatures are much cooler. agriculture and showcase cowboy heritage, Consider signing up for an Animal Encoun- 43 volunteers the rodeo now draws more than 1 million vis- ter, too, and interact with sloths, reptiles, and Alumni by School itors a year during its annual monthlong run big cats or take a zookeeper-guided walk with in February and March. In addition to tradi- a dingo or cheetah. 322 School of Arts & Sciences tional rodeo competitions and agricultural 149 Hajim School of Engineering demonstrations, the event offers arena-filling j Buffalo Bayou Park & Applied Sciences musical performers and the World’s Cham- 105 Sabine St. 135 School of Medicine and Dentistry pionship Bar-B-Que Contest. Plan your visit with an eye on the weather, 114 Eastman School of Music Gonzalez’s grandfather owned a feed and says Robinson, but for him and many others, seed shop that had a regular booth at the ro- Buffalo Bayou Park—a 160-acre urban green 101 Simon Business School deo, and since he was a little boy, Gonzalez space—is an ideal place to get back to nature. 29 School of Nursing has attended nearly every year. In the photo The park offers trails for walking, running, 18 Warner School of Education on page 26, Gonzalez is wearing a belt buckle and cycling as well as public art spaces and 11 Eastman Institute for Oral Health his granddad made in the 1960s. places to picnic and play.

h Houston Baseball and Sports NASA Regional Networks and You Minute Maid Park, 501 Crawford St., NASA Pkwy. Based in metropolitan and geographic areas and other locations Serving as the training base for astronauts across the United States and internationally, Gonzalez loves sports, especially the Hous- like Josh Cassada ’00 (PhD), NASA’s Lyn- the University’s regional networks organize ton Astros. “Everyone rallies at a ball game,” don B. Johnson Space Center is a hub for hu- social events, networking opportunities, he says. “People find common ground over a man spaceflight. and community service projects for alumni, beer, a hot dog, and fireworks.” It’s what hap- The public can visit Space Center Hous- parents, students, and friends close to home. pens, he says, at any sporting event in town, ton, NASA’s official visitor center and a For more information, visit Rochester.edu/ be it baseball, football, or basketball. Gonza- Smithsonian affiliate. A space buff himself, alumni/regional-network. lez has sponsored a Sugarland Skeeters mi- Robinson regularly wears an Omega Speed- nor league ball game for University alumni master Moonwatch—the same model that and friends for the last few years. has been a part of six lunar missions.r

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Long forgotten, Albion Tourgée, Class of 1862, is attracting renewed attention for his work for racial equality in the post-Civil War South.

By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD)

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rr_Summer2019_Tourgee.indd 31 8/6/19 2:05 PM Albion Tourgée: Life and Times 1838 Albion Tourgée is born in Williamsfield, Ohio, part of the Western Reserve and a center of abolitionist sentiment. 1856 Tourgée enrolls in Kingsville Academy. He meets Emma Kilbourne, a fellow student, whom he later marries. 1859 Tourgée moves to Rochester and begins his studies at the University. 1860 With the presidential campaign under way, Emma writes to Albion that she has become “a committed Lincoln girl” and has come to support the Wide Awakes, a movement of young Radical Republicans advocating racial equality and a thorough remaking of Southern society. Tourgée, having eschewed politics until this point, organizes the University of Rochester Wide Awakes, over the objections of President Martin Anderson. Abraham Lincoln is elected president in November. In the next three months, seven Southern states secede from the United States. 1861 The Confederate States of America are established, with Jefferson Davis as president; Lincoln is inaugurated president of the BETTER UNION: Troubled by the racism he saw while serving in Union regiments, after the war Tourgée (left) United States; Confederates fire on returned to the South, where he advocated for racial equality as a business owner, writer, attorney, and judge. a federal garrison at Fort Sumter, launching the Civil War. n the summer of 1905, a group of black in- Tourgée migrated south after the war as part of Following the attack on Fort Sumter, tellectuals led by W. E. B. Du Bois gathered a larger movement of northerners who sought President Anderson delivers in Niagara Falls, Ontario, with the inten- both economic opportunities and a chance to help an impassioned address at the tion of launching a movement for racial transform the region from a slaveholding to a “free First Baptist Church, with Tourgée equality in the United States. Near the labor” society. As a North Carolina attorney and present, calling upon students to splendor of the Canadian falls, where the judge allied with the self-described Radical Re- support the Union cause. Tourgée group found lodging, they made plans for publicans, he worked to forge political alliances decides to enlist and joins the 27th New York Volunteers. In July, he the “mighty current” of protest ahead. On between blacks and poor whites and became a fre- sustains a back injury at the First Thanksgiving Day that same year, they quent target of a new and rapidly expanding white Battle of Bull Run, from which he sponsored nationwide memorial services supremacist organization called the Ku Klux Klan. never fully recovers. A month later, for three “friends of freedom”: William Lloyd Gar- When the Radical Republican vision for Recon- declared unfit for duty, he returns to rison, Frederick Douglass, and Albion Tourgée. struction failed in the late 1870s, he turned to writ- Kingsville, Ohio. Garrison holds a secure place in American histo- ing. His 1879 novel A Fool’s Errand, which featured 1862 ry as a pioneering white abolitionist. Douglass, as an graphic depictions of Klan violence, sold an esti- Tourgée is granted a bachelor’s escaped slave who rose to international fame as an mated 200,000 copies—making it a bestseller at degree from Rochester, as abolitionist leader, writer, and orator, enjoys much the time—and invited widespread comparisons customary for students who left the greater renown. But who was Albion Tourgée? to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. By University to serve in the military. Tourgée, who died in early 1905, was “one of that time a household name, Tourgée found sup- He begins to study law in Ashtabula, the most colorful of Rochester alumni,” University port among black journalists and political leaders Ohio, and simultaneously recruits historian Arthur May once wrote. A Civil War vet- who recruited him to help draft the nation’s first for an Ohio volunteer regiment. In August, he joins the 105th Ohio eran who fought at the First Battle of Bull Run, antilynching law. Then, at the tail end of his career, Volunteers and returns to war. During their march to Kentucky, the CLASS CORRESPONDENT: In letters (preceding pages) to the University’s first president, Martin Anderson, Tourgée unit is joined and assisted by African recounted the often harrowing challenges he and others faced in advocating for equality after the Civil War.

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rr_Summer2019_Tourgee.indd 32 8/6/19 3:06 PM a black civic organization in New Orleans sought Like many young men en route to higher edu- Americans who are later rounded up him out as the lead attorney for Homer Plessy— cation, Tourgée emerged from his teens with his as suspected fugitives. Working and the mixed-race shoemaker who became one of the sights set on the nation’s oldest and most estab- living alongside African Americans, most famous plaintiffs in Supreme Court history lished institution, Harvard. To attend, he needed and witnessing the institution of slavery, Tourgée is radicalized. when the court ruled against him in the 1896 case familial support. From his father, with whom he Plessy v. Ferguson, enshrining the infamous “sepa- had a contentious relationship, he didn’t receive it. 1863 rate but equal” doctrine in American law. In the fall of 1859, he enrolled instead at the Uni- On January 1, Lincoln signs the Tourgée is an obscure figure in American history, versity of Rochester. Emancipation Proclamation, considering the breadth of his work and his fame in The University was founded in 1850 during a declaring that all slaves in Confederate states shall be, from his prime. College students were once introduced surge in higher education. It was the first higher then forward, “forever free.” to Tourgée through A Fool’s Errand. Larry Hudson, education institution to grace a city that had been Later that month, Tourgée writes a professor of history at Rochester who specializ- growing and thriving since the Erie Canal’s com- in a letter to his brothers in Psi es in African American history and teaches on the pletion in 1825 established it as the nation’s first Upsilon, “I don’t care a rag for ‘the Civil War and Reconstruction, says “back in the boomtown. The City of Rochester was already an Union as it was.’ I want and fight for early 1980s, [the book] was a really big deal. But intellectual center, with Douglass, who published the Union ‘better than it was.’” At a the turn to black studies, and the search for black his newspaper downtown, part of a nexus of abo- time when many northerners still sources, was gathering steam.” Writings by people litionists and supporters of women’s rights who saw the war as a fight to restore the like Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, or Charlotte frequented the city and drew large crowds to their Union, Tourgée places himself firmly with the Radical Republicans. Forten Grimké, a free-black activist who taught in lectures at the majestic Corinthean Hall. Located During a brief break in his military the South, began to take center stage in what Hud- in the United States Hotel building on Buffalo service, Albion and Emma marry. son calls “a crammed ‘must-read’ list.” Street (now West Main), just around the corner Tourgée was also on the losing side of almost ev- from the hall, the University was at the epicenter 1864 ery major battle he waged. History’s losers are of- of the city’s vibrant intellectual life. Tourgée completes his legal training and is admitted to the Ohio bar. ten forgotten, and for a long time, that was true in Tourgée dove into his new college life, joining Tourgée’s case. But more recently, his losses seem the fraternity Psi Upsilon and the chess club. Faced 1865 only to have enhanced his reputation. with the choice of two popular literary so- The Confederacy surrenders Since roughly the early 2000s, cieties—the Delphic (serving “Wisdom in April; five days later, Lincoln Tourgée’s ideas have been parsed and Reason”) and the Pithonian So- is assassinated. In December, the Thirteenth Amendment, in books and dissected at con- ciety (serving “The Beautiful and abolishing slavery, is ratified. ferences. One biographer has the Good”)—he chose the lat- credited him with forging a ter. In his role as class poet, Albion and Emma move to doctrine of color-blind law. he demonstrated the talents Greensboro, North Carolina, a Another has pointed to the for writing and oratory that Quaker stronghold and center of loyalist sentiment throughout the unusual depth of his commit- would propel him forward in war. Tourgée and two Rochester ment as a white ally to Afri- his civic and literary career. classmates invest in a nursery and can Americans. Early on, he attracted the hire local black workers. Albion and As Americans continue notice of President Martin Emma hold lessons for the workers, to grapple with race and its Anderson. When Tourgée making the business double as implications, Tourgée’s argu- aced the Greek portion of his a school. Meanwhile, Tourgée ments in Plessy seem especially entrance exam, Anderson, an establishes a legal practice. forward-looking. Pointing to his adamant proponent of the Clas- 1866 fair-skinned client, he under- sical curriculum, granted him Tourgée is elected by an interracial scored the indeterminacy of race. sophomore status. But Anderson gathering of Radical Republicans In explaining the function of racial was less pleased when Tourgée found- to become a delegate to the segregation, he seemed to antic- ed the University of Rochester Radical Republican–sponsored FREEDOM’S FRIEND: In 1905, black ipate 21st-century descriptions of Wide Awakes in the fall of 1860. Southern Loyalist Convention intellectuals led by W. E. B. Du Bois in Philadelphia. The convention, white privilege. The Wide Awake movement, (above) memorialized Tourgée as a which draws Frederick Douglass Those closer to his boyhood “friend of freedom.” which began earlier that year, at- among other well-known activists, hometown of Kingsville, Ohio, tracted young and militant vot- is designed to rally opposition to have also taken note. In 2015, residents and stu- ers through its signature torchlit marches for the Reconstruction proposals that dents and faculty at Kent State University- cause of abolition, the Republican Party, and Abra- would restore power to former Ashtabula secured a historical marker outside ham Lincoln’s candidacy. Chapters spread in towns Confederate leaders. Tourgée Tourgée’s boyhood home to honor the local hero throughout the Northeast and in places like Ohio, addresses the convention and who risked his life working to write civil rights into where Tourgée’s fiancée, Emma Kilbourne, greet- earns renown for his powerful convictions and oratory. Delegates law in the post–Civil War South. Before the group ed the Wide Awakes with enthusiasm. Tourgée choose him to pursue a speaking began the effort, few people in the town had ever had shown little interest in politics up until that tour of the North to rouse heard Tourgée’s name. point, but was likely influenced by Kilbourne, as public support. well as Anderson’s recent decision to ban politi- orn in 1838 in Williamsville, Ohio, Albion cal clubs from the University. In an early indica- 1867 Congress passes the Winegar Tourgée grew up in an area that tion of the principled contrarianism that would Reconstruction Act over President was a center of abolitionist thought and ag- help define his career, Tourgée responded to the Andrew Johnson’s veto, placing the itation. But his own political awakening be- ban by founding a University chapter of the Wide former Confederate states under gan in Rochester, during the heated election season Awakes and recruiting some 70 members. After military occupation until they meet of 1860, and later, as a Union soldier in the South. Anderson brought a police officer to confront the conditions for readmittance. Among

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rr_Summer2019_Tourgee.indd 33 8/6/19 3:06 PM the conditions is ratification of the group, Tourgée and the other members agreed to in which Albion and two Rochester classmates, Fourteenth Amendment to the drop the University of Rochester from their name. Seneca Kuhn, Class of 1861, and Reuben Pettengill, Constitution. Anderson wasn’t unusual among antislavery Class of 1862, had invested. While the three men 1868 northerners in his wariness toward the showy purchased the nursery as a business venture, the In January, Tourgée travels to young activists. He was primarily a nationalist Tourgées’ primary interest was turning the nursery Raleigh to attend the North whose interest in preserving the Union outweighed into an instrument of black uplift and a model of Carolina State Constitutional his moral objection to slavery. When Confeder- their shared vision of labor relations. The Tourgées, Convention as a delegate—at age ate gunmen fired on federal troops at Fort Sum- who hired and taught black workers, found them- 29, the gathering’s youngest. He ter in April 1861, those disagreements faded into selves at odds with Kuhn and Pettengill over the holds the floor for more than an the background. Anderson made an impassioned workers’ conditions of employment. hour, declaring “there is no color before the law.” Elected for a six- speech to students in support of the Union cause. The business was not doing well. It suffered from year term as Superior Court judge Tourgée was among the students who enlisted. its association with Tourgée, who was reviled for for North Carolina’s 7th District, The beginning of Tourgée’s military service his political work outside the Radical Republican Tourgée becomes a target of the Ku marked the end of his time at Rochester, though his circles in which he ran. Klux Klan. relationships with Anderson and with his brothers A Wilmington, North Carolina, newspaper de- In July, the Fourteenth in Psi Upsilon would continue through most of his scription of him was typical: “This Tourgée is the Amendment is ratified, granting life. Like other students who interrupted their ed- meanest looking man it has ever been our misfor- “equal protection of the laws” to all ucation to join the war effort, he was granted a de- tune to meet. The pirate; the cutthroat; the despi- citizens, and prohibiting states from gree in absentia, in his case in the spring of 1862. cable, mean, cowardly, crawling, sneaking villain infringing on citizenship rights. Tourgée served two tours of duty, the second af- have been portrayed by nature, with a master hand, 1869 ter he had been severely injured. Barely a month in every lineament of his countenance. The mark The Tourgées adopt Adaline after he joined the 27th New York Volunteers, he of infamy is stamped indelibly on his brow in the Patillo, a 13-year-old former slave. suffered a serious spinal wound during the Union shape of a large protuberance that strikes the be- The following year, Emma gives retreat from the First Battle of Bull Run. Partially holder with ineffable disgust.” Barely a year after birth to a daughter, Aimee. paralyzed, he was ruled unfit for continued mili- the nursery venture began, it dissolved. tary service and returned to Ohio, where he began 1870 to study law and served as a Union Army recruiter. ourgée was a frequent target of the Ku Klux Two years into his term as Superior Court judge, Tourgée writes to When he regained his mobility, he was permitted Klan, which was founded in Tennessee at the Anderson, “You have no idea, you to re-enlist as a first lieutenant in the 105th Ohio end of the Civil War and spread rapidly can have none, of the wholesale Volunteer Infantry. throughout the South. The group was espe- demoralization of our society.” He There he was deeply influenced by the Western cially active in areas with the strongest alliances describes “12 murders, 9 rapes, 11 Reserve abolitionists who made up most of the between blacks and whites. Threats on his and Em- arsons, 6 men castrated,” among group. His allegiance to abolition—at first abstract ma’s lives weighed heavily on the household which other crimes attributed to the KKK. and intellectual—became concrete and visceral by 1870 included their newborn baby girl, Aimee, “No one has ever been convicted for once he began interacting with African Ameri- and a 13-year-old former slave named Adaline Pa- any of these offenses, and probably never will be.” cans for the first time. The infantry was stationed tillo, whom the couple had adopted. Tourgée wrote in Kentucky, where Tourgée witnessed not only often to Anderson, expressing his fears and 1876 slavery, but also the racism that tightly constrict- frustrations. In a close presidential election ed the lives of free blacks. In a January 1863 let- “You have no idea, you can have none, of the held amidst economic depression ter to his Psi Upsilon brothers back at Rochester, wholesale demoralization of our society,” he wrote and Democratic resurgence, Republican Rutherford Hayes Tourgée showed that he had undergone an almost to Anderson in the spring of 1870. “In my district— and Democrat Samuel Tilden both complete transformation in his understanding of comprising eight counties—the following crimes declare victory. Hayes is declared the war’s aims. have been committed by armed ruffians in dis- the winner after Republicans agree “I don’t care a rag for ‘the Union as it was,’ ” he guise—masked and shrouded—during the past 10 to abandon efforts to oppose wrote. “I want and fight for the Union ‘better than months: 12 murders, 9 rapes, 11 arsons, 6 men cas- segregation and withdraw all federal it was.’ ” Calling for “a thorough and complete rev- trated—and any number of houses broken open troops from the South. olution and renovation,” he argued in favor of a so- and men and women dragged from their beds and 1879 ciety free not only from slavery, but also from any beaten or otherwise cruelly outraged. No one has After several years of conservative laws that subjugated black Americans. ever been convicted for any of these offenses, and resurgence, Tourgée turns to Tourgée would be a significant participant in that probably never will be.” writing, publishing A Fool’s Errand. revolution during the Reconstruction period. After Tourgée complained bitterly as he witnessed the The novel is a barely disguised discharge from the military at the end of the war, North’s retreat from the vision of racial equality autobiographical account of his he returned to Ohio, obtained a license to practice codified into federal law with the ratification of the experiences in the post–Civil law, and moved with Emma, whom he married in Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Con- War South and includes graphic depictions of violence by the KKK. A 1863, to Greensboro, North Carolina, an area with stitution. His darkest predictions came to pass in bestseller and a subject of national a Quaker population and notable loyalist sentiment 1877, when the Republican party agreed to withdraw discussion, the book is compared to before the war. federal troops from the South and officially end its Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel With his moral passion, intellect, and consid- commitment to enforcing racial equality there. De- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, widely credited erable oratorical skills, he rose rapidly in state feated and demoralized, Tourgée stepped back from with awakening Northern sentiment politics. Once elected to the North Carolina con- political and civic life, and turned to writing. against slavery. stitutional convention, he became an influential Between 1879, when he published A Fool’s Er- 1880 delegate and later, a superior court judge. rand, and the end of the 1880s, Tourgée wrote more The University recognizes Tourgée He and Emma also worked to found freedmen’s than 10 works of fiction and nonfiction. The Uni- with an honorary degree. schools. One of them operated on a nursery farm versity recognized him with an honorary degree in

34 ROCHESTER REVIEW Summer 2019 1880. Yet the most significant chapter of his civic nineteen-twentieths of the property of the coun- 1881 career was still to come. try is owned by white people,” and “ninety-nine Tourgée leaves the South for good. The publication of A Fool’s Errand led to an offer hundredths of the business opportunities are in He and Emma relocate to a home in to write a column in the Republican party newspa- the control of white people,” he wrote in his brief Mayville, New York, overlooking Chautauqua Lake. per the Chicago Inter Ocean. In the column, called before the Court, it simply wasn’t convincing to “A Bystander’s Notes,” Tourgée railed over the tac- maintain that the law was equally intended to serve 1888 tics of violence and intimidation used by Southern black customers. Instead, Tourgée argued, the law Tourgée begins a regular column white leaders to suppress black political participa- codified racial hierarchy. in the Republican newspaper tion. The column was distributed widely in the Af- Tourgée devoted great attention to Plessy’s the Chicago Inter-Ocean called “A Bystander’s Notes.” The rican American press, where its readers included mixed heritage—seven-eighths European and column is picked up by the African the pioneering journalist and antilynching activist one-eighth African, the plaintiff reported—and its American press, earning Tourgée a Ida B. Wells. implications for efforts to assign people to racial national reputation among blacks Lynching was on the rise in the 1880s, and in- categories. By custom, whites considered Plessy for his work toward racial equality. creasingly took place in broad daylight. In the early black. But how could any railway operator know 1890 1890s, Wells and Harry Smith, editor of the Cleve- for sure? “Is not the question of race, scientifically Mississippi passes the first law land Gazette and a member of the Ohio state legisla- considered, very often impossible of determina- codifying racial segregation, ture, sought Tourgée’s help to draft an antilynching tion? Is not the question of race, legally considered, ushering in a series of so-called law. Smith shepherded the bill through the Ohio one impossible to be determined, in the absence of Jim Crow laws passed in Southern legislature. Signed into law in 1896, it became a statutory definition?” he asked the Court. “Justice states in the 1890s. model for similar laws in nine other states and for is pictured blind and her daughter, the Law, ought 1891 the NAACP in the national antilynching campaign at least to be color-blind,” he wrote. In response to Louisiana’s passage it launched early in the next century. In the end, only one justice ruled in Plessy’s favor. of the segregationist Separate Car “A Bystander’s Notes” led to another fortuitous Act, a group of black men in New collaboration. When the governor of Louisiana he Plessy case was Tourgée’s most spectac- Orleans organize a legal challenge signed into law “An Act to promote the comfort of ular defeat. Later he and his allies would to the law and retain Tourgée as passengers”—mandating “equal but separate ac- face criticism for an overly ambitious gam- their lead attorney. commodations” in railroad cars—a group of men ble that set progress back immeasurably by 1895 of color in New Orleans came together to form enabling the highest court to place its stamp of ap- In December, Tourgée delivers a the Citizens’ Committee to Test the Constitution- proval on segregation. two-hour eulogy for Frederick ality of the Separate Car Law. “We know we have Tourgée had been well aware of the risks. After Douglass, who died the previous a friend in you and we know your ability is beyond he began working with the Citizens’ Committee, winter, at Boston’s Faneuil Hall. question,” they wrote to Tourgée, asking him to be- he helped set up a national organization to doc- 1896 come their lead attorney. ument the spread of Jim Crow laws in the South. An antilynching law drafted by Tourgée and two other attorneys for the com- The hope was that the association, with the help of Tourgée and introduced by Harry mittee forged a plan of civil disobedience to set the a sympathetic northern press, would sway public Smith, an African American legal test in motion. Tourgée argued forcefully that opinion sufficiently to influence just enough -jus legislator from Cleveland, is signed the ideal plaintiff would be racially ambiguous in tices for a majority. into law in Ohio. The most stringent law of its kind in the nation, it appearance. His colleagues concurred, after which As it turned out, it would take another half becomes a model for other states. they secured the agreement of Homer Plessy—a century for the court to declare Jim Crow laws un- mixed-race shoemaker so fair skinned as to easi- constitutional. In 1954, a decades-long legal cam- One month later, the Supreme ly “pass” for white—to purchase a ticket for intra- paign against segregation waged by the NAACP Court decides against Tourgée’s client, Homer Plessy, in Plessy state travel and seat himself in a white-designated culminated in the Brown v. Board of Education de- v. Ferguson. The decision gives car. Events unfolded as planned. With a quiet hand cision. The unanimous decision, in declaring segre- constitutional sanction to racial from the railway, which had no desire to enforce gation laws unconstitutional, laid waste to Plessy’s segregation for the next half the new law, Plessy was arrested and charged with “separate but equal” doctrine. century. The lone dissenter, Justice violating the state’s Separate Car Act. Having viewed the Supreme Court of his day as John Marshall Harlan, borrows from In just a few years, the case reached the US Su- an obstacle to liberty and equality, Tourgée would Tourgée in a now famous dissent, preme Court, where Tourgée challenged the law as have been heartened by the decision. But having declaring “Our Constitution is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s guar- seen the power of the resistance against racial color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” antee of equal protection. It was a potential land- equality, he would likely have been unsurprised mark case, because the Fourteenth Amendment, that Brown did not, by itself, end segregation or 1897 ratified in 1868, was intended to nationalize the bring about racial equality under law. President William McKinley appoints Bill of Rights, which until then had prohibited only The most far-reaching progress toward racial Tourgée US Consul to France. the federal government from violating basic citi- equality came about only after a mass movement. 1905 zenship rights. Forged by African Americans, inspired by the Radi- Tourgée dies near Bordeaux, The law had been drafted to ward off constitu- cal Republican vision of Reconstruction, and joined France. In November, black leaders tional challenges by requiring railway companies by white allies who were willing as well to risk under W. E. B. DuBois meet at to provide equivalent accommodations in its black their lives for racial equality, the civil rights move- Niagara Falls, Ontario, and forge and white cars. The law’s defenders contended ment of the 1960s could claim concrete steps to- what would later become the NAACP. In one of their first actions that racial separation was designed to enhance the ward “a Union better than it was.” at the Niagara meeting, the group comfort of black as well as white passengers. In ar- But as the country continues to struggle with holds a memorial service for three guments before the Court, Tourgée focused on the its legacy of racial inequality, the "thorough and “Friends of Freedom”: abolitionist broader social context of the law. In a society in complete revolution" that Tourgée longed for still William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick which “six-sevenths of the population are white, awaits.r Douglass, and Tourgée.

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KAREN CHANCE MERCURIUS Connecting the University Community Rochester’s new head of Alumni Relations and Constituent Engagement wants to strengthen connections, opportunities, and networks. Interview by Kristine Thompson and focus on Meliora. That concept of “ever better” aligns with me personally and professionally. Defining moments happened early in the life ofKaren I was also drawn to the vision of the Advancement Chance Mercurius. She grew up in Brooklyn, New office here.Tom Farrell ’88, ’90W (MS), his leadership York, the child of parents who immigrated to the US team, and the Advancement staff overall have devel- from Grenada in the 1970s. oped and are executing the Rochester Model, which As a teenager, she witnessed the 1991 Crown Heights focuses on building a culture of philanthropy and en- riot. As a young woman, she attended her mother’s nat- gagement to advance the great work of the University. uralization ceremony. Alumni and constituent engagement go hand in Such experiences helped open her eyes to culture, hand in this regard. When all of our constituents feel difference, and community. She is bringing a keen fo- engaged, the University benefits, as do the people, pro- cus on inclusivity and belonging to her new role at the grams, and research that make up this stellar institu- University, where she is the associate vice president tion. To me, this is noble work. for Alumni and Constituent Relations. Joining Roch- ester in March, she has spent the last few months on Grounded and Grateful an extensive listening tour with alumni, parents, com- I’m particularly grateful for my Caribbean-American munity members, and friends, as well as with faculty, heritage and the strong values my parents instilled in students, and staff. me. They underscored the importance of education It’s a natural step for Chance Mercurius, who has early on. I attended, and thrived, in New York City been steeped in higher education for nearly 20 years. public schools, and I went on to earn several advanced She received both a bachelor of arts in international degrees as a first-generation college student. I feel as relations and Africana studies and a master of science though my personal and professional journey and ac- in organizational dynamics from the University of cess to opportunity and education speak to the reali- Pennsylvania. From Fielding Graduate University in zation of the American dream. Santa Barbara, California, she earned a master of arts in human development and a doctoral degree in orga- Impressive First Impressions nizational development and change. Her most recent I’ve heard so many people talk about what the Uni- position was director of alumni relations at Harvard versity means to them—and how ties here run deep. Law School. For example, at commencement, I met Julianne A dedicated alumna and volunteer, Chance Mer- Kapner ’19, who was graduating with a degree in lin- curius has served for almost two decades as the gift guistics. Her family proudly includes eight (now nine) cochair at the Penn Fund for her class reunion. She Rochester alumni, and five of them came to commence- is also a member of the Trustees Council for Penn ment to celebrate this young woman’s graduation. Women, the James Brister Society at the University At an event on the West Coast, I witnessed anoth- of Pennsylvania, and the CASE Minority Advance- er connection when Dr. Sydne Weiner ’65, a radiolo- ment Institute. gist, was talking with Dr. Caesar Luo ’01, ’06M (MD), an ophthalmologist, about a friend with macular de- Aligning with Ever Better generation. That friend lived in a retirement commu- This is an amazing institution. When I was doing my nity with others who also needed vision care. Sydne research on the University, I learned about its mission asked Caesar if he’d be willing to make a connection with her friend. Not only did that happen, but the two of them ended up creating a vision support group in READING LIST that retirement community. That’s a powerful alum- Creating a Culture of Communication ni connection. At the top of Chance Mercurius’s reading list this These kinds of stories are more than heartwarming. summer is Radical Candor by Kim Scott, a former They tell me we have such an important role in shap- manager at Google and Apple. “The book illustrates ing people’s lives, and doing so in a mission-led way.r a new management philosophy, one that I believe in very strongly. The first chapter focuses on how to build ENGAGING PEOPLE: When alumni and friends feel engaged, radically candid relationships, create a culture of open “the University benefits, as do the people, programs, communication, understand what motivates your team and research that make up this stellar institution,” says members, and drive results collaboratively.” Chance Mercurius.

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rr_Summer2019_Gazette.indd 36 8/5/19 10:53 AM ALUMNI GAZETTE Formulating Early Goals In my first two months, I’ve participated in more than 200 meetings and events. I’ve attended a number of regional programs; talked with alumni, students, and friends; and participated in alumni and affinity group councils and board meetings. It’s clear that we have opportunities to build upon our excellent programs, and to help foster new and improved connections. All of this has helped me formulate some early goals.

I want to enhance and build new I also want to look at how to lever- programs that align with milestone age the academic resources here to moments in people’s lives—going offer compelling intellectual content to college, sending a child to college, for our communities. This means having a family, retiring, and other reimagining our Lifelong Learning momentous celebrations. We have so program. For example, every summer much we can offer our alumni, friends, we offer the Rochester Forum, which is and community as they move through guided by a great advisory council. This important life stages. year, our goal was to make the event more accessible to more people, so we It’s important to renew our focus on offered it as a live simulcast—making class and affinity-based engagement that rich intellectual content avail- and strengthen our approach to able to a much broader, even global, diversity and inclusion, too. We’ve community. During this fall’s Meliora heard from a few communities who Weekend, we will offer a shorter Roch- want this, including black, Latinx, and ester Forum with a faculty member, a LGBTQI alumni, as well as those with clinician, and a student musician talking ties to groups like WRUR, athletics, fra- about the new performing arts in ternities and sororities, and numerous medicine program, which is a partner- others. ship between the academic and clinical programs of the Medical Center and the Creating programming specific Eastman School of Music. My team and to certain groups helps to foster I are talking about even more oppor- and build trust. Our Alumni Board, tunities for our constituents to engage Diversity Advisory Council, and other with our faculty. Our growing Meliora volunteer groups are helping us with Collective is a good example of how we this. Building inclusive programming can better connect the University com- helps inform ideas and perspectives munity, grow networks, and support that likely wouldn’t evolve in a homoge- professional exploration, which are neous environment. important for students, young alumni, For example, at a dinner in New York and, really, all of us. City recently, a few black alumni told me about some of their experiences We hope to grow our travel club, as at Rochester and noted ones where well. Anyone with a connection to the they felt different and not included. University can engage in these transfor- They felt comfortable sharing those mational learning opportunities. Think experiences with each other and with Tanzanian migration safari with an me. That’s important and can help us alumni conservation expert. Or about be better. adventuring in Spain with a faculty art and history expert. There’s an additional opportunity to look at historic milestones and build We want to build on the successful programming around them, such as programs for our volunteers, too. the anniversary of the ratification of the That includes more volunteer lead- 19th Amendment in 2020 and the right ership training and empowering our to vote. volunteer leaders as ambassadors. What did that mean for our country? In order to develop the best pro- For the Rochester region, which played grams, we need to know more about such an important role in the suffrage our alumni—because every person and movement? For women? For women of voice counts. We’ll be sending out an color who still didn’t have the right to alumni census this fall, which will help vote? We want to have these kinds of inform our plans. conversations with our constituents. —Karen Chance Mercurius

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rr_Summer2019_Gazette.indd 37 8/5/19 10:54 AM ALUMNI GAZETTE MADELINE TOPKINS MICHEL ’77 Toting a Tony A drama teacher receives a top accolade for her unconventional and inclusive approach.

By Kathleen McGarvey But she’s ardent about inclusive theater. A drama program should reflect the makeup of a school’s student body, but that’s When Madeline Topkins Michel ’77 took the stage at the Tony not what often happens, she says. “If you have a group of kids Awards ceremony in June to receive the 2019 Excellence in The- who represent the entire school, then what you get on stage is atre Education Award, she quickly asserted that the award wasn’t an energy that’s completely different from what you find at most hers alone—it also belonged to her diverse group of drama stu- schools. Everybody’s got a backstory—an interesting backstory— dents at Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. and then everybody learns from everyone else.” “This award is for all of the students who have found their voice As a teacher, she prefers the wings to the spotlight. “I like the kids and who speak for themselves, their families, and their commu- to take control,” she says. She helps them stage, choreograph, and nity through theater and playwriting,” she told the audience at direct works that speak to them. And they craft new plays, too. This Radio City Music Hall. summer, Michel was working with two groups, each writing a play Michel heads Monticello’s drama department, but she came to that they were aiming to have in production this August. theater through a side door. An English major at Rochester, she In the wake of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, the Monticello drama program staged student Josh St. Hill’s one-act, rap-narrative play, A King’s Story, which ex- amines a community’s response to violence. Student Courtney Grooms wrote the play Nec- essary Trouble in 2016, about responses to a high school student attending history class dressed in a shirt printed with the Confederate flag. Last fall, the program performed student Kayla Scott’s play #WhileBlack, about gentrification and the racial profiling she experienced in her hometown. Monticello brought home awards for the production from the Virginia Theatre Association. “When my kids do a show that really has an effect on an audience, people come up af- terwards to hug the actors and the playwright,” says Michel. NO DRAMA, PLEASE: Michel says she prefers the wings to the spotlight when it comes to her role as a drama teacher at Monticello High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. “I like the kids to take control.” “These were issues they were thinking about and were dis- later earned her teaching certification in math and English and turbed by, but they hadn’t seen them dramatized.” as a reading specialist. The key to creating an inclusive theater program is patience, She took a job with the Baltimore school district and discov- she says. In her classroom, “all that’s expected of you is to do what ered that the classroom is an inherently theatrical place. When you’re comfortable with. And sometimes it takes a while for peo- faced with skeptical or unmotivated students, she made her class ple to get comfortable. I have to be willing to let somebody sit in dramatically compelling. “Really early on, I realized the value of my class and observe for as long as they feel necessary.” theater in teaching,” she says. Michel says that taking part in drama builds students’ confi- She also coached National History Day teams after joining the dence and presentation skills, something they can carry with them staff at Monticello. Students compete by carrying out historical in any endeavor. But it’s not skill building that really motivates research and presenting their conclusions in the format of their Michel or her students. choice. Michel’s teams opted for play performance—and when they “It’s that sense of meeting people who are different and building brought home national gold medals two years in a row, Monticel- community,” she says. “Ninth graders are there with 12th graders, lo’s principal decided it was high time that Michel taught drama. and I don’t distinguish you by your experience or your reading Michel is modest and wry about where her career has taken level or the classes you’ve had before, or anything like that.” her. “I’m really not a theater person—despite the Tony Award,” The stage is somewhere everyone belongs, Michel says. In her she laughs. drama department, “there’s no gatekeeping.”r

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rr_Summer2019.indb 38 8/5/19 10:08 AM ALUMNI GAZETTE PAUL TURNER ’88 AND HARMIT MALIK ’99 (PHD) What Are You Researching? Research on disease pathogens earns two graduates membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Interviews by Lindsey Valich

Two of Rochester’s newest members of the National Academy of Sciences are Paul Turner ’88, the Elihu Professor of Ecol- ogy and Evolutionary Biology at Yale Uni- versity, and Harmit Malik ’99 (PhD), an investigator at the Howard Hughes Med- ical Institute and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. They were inducted this year in recognition of their separate work to understand the complex biology of bacteria, viruses, and the genetic arms race within organisms and between organisms and pathogens.

What are you currently working on? Turner: My group’s current research broadly concerns the evolutionary biology of microbes, especially bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—and BETTER BIOLOGY: Malik (above) and Turner (below) each run research programs to better mosquito-borne viruses that can infect understand the biology of bacteria and viruses and how the pathogens affect organisms. humans. I am fascinated by the potential of virus- What did you study at Rochester? es to overcome environmental challenges, Turner: I entered the University in 1984 with the ex- including their ability to “emerge” by adap- pectation of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biomed- tively shifting from their original host spe- ical engineering. However, I took courses in other cies onto a novel host, such as humans. It disciplines, and by the time I entered my junior year I remains challenging to accurately predict became convinced I should focus my studies on biology, when and where virus emergence will oc- which was my favorite subject since childhood. In par- cur next, and a main goal of our work is to ticular, I was intrigued by courses in biodiversity, ecol- refine the predictive power of evolution- ogy, and evolutionary biology offered by the terrifically ary biology. inspiring professors in the biological sciences. Malik: I study conflicts that occur in our Malik: I trained previously as a chemical engineer genomes as different genetic entities try to but became interested in selfish DNA. During my PhD maximize their evolutionary success. My studies in Tom Eickbush’s lab, I studied both the mo- team and I use Drosophila (fruit flies) as lecular biology and evolution of retrotransposons a model organism to study centromeres, (“jumping genes”). One of the best things about doing which are crucial for chromosomal stability during cell division; PhD studies in a relatively small department was the very close mobile genetic elements, a type of selfish genetic elements (see relationships formed with many professors. story on page 21), which can impact host fitness and genome organization; and proteins that evolve rapidly due to their involve- What are some future directions for your work? ment in host-parasite interactions. Turner: My research increasingly focuses on the rise of antibiotic resistance, where it is evident that these drugs are often no longer What interested you in this career path? capable of usefully controlling bacterial diseases. One possibility is Turner: I greatly benefited from Rochester’s requirement that to turn our attention to an old idea called “phage therapy,” where undergrad majors in biology should meet regularly with faculty bacteriophages are utilized alone or in combination with chemi- in the discipline. I was able to express my interest and enthusiasm cal antibiotics to target and kill bacteria. for the subjects of ecology and evolutionary biology, in discussions Malik: I am fascinated by how pervasive genetic conflicts are with my mentors Andrew Dobson and John Jaenike. and how they have shaped and continue to shape fundamental Malik: I first became interested in this concept by reading Rich- aspects of our biology. My lab is currently captivated by the (still ard Dawkins’s book The Selfish Gene.Having the benefit of com- unproven) concept that we can use past history of adaptation to plete ignorance in biology, I decided that this concept was worthy design novel genes that might give us a leg up over our most in- of a lifetime of study. sidious pathogens.r

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rr_Summer2019.indb 39 8/5/19 10:08 AM ALUMNI GAZETTE RUTH LAWRENCE ’49M (MD) A Lifetime as a Leader A trailblazing pediatrician, a Medical Center physician says she “hit the jackpot” in life.

Ruth Lawrence ’49M (MD) is a pediatrician, clinical toxicologist, I researched medications and conducted some of the earliest ex- neonatologist, and mother of nine. At 95 years old, she can be still periments on antihistamines. found in her Medical Center office three days a week, clad in one of her many white coats and conducting research, advising staff, My acceptance to medical school or preparing for her next classroom lecture. During my final semester at Antioch, I applied to 10 medical Lawrence has had a formidable career, shattering her share of schools. Many didn’t want women back then. Rochester was the glass ceilings along the way. She holds the titles of Alumna Profes- first one to respond. I got a letter that said, “You must come for sor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics/Gynecology and the Northumber- an interview. Time and money should be no object.” It was hand- land Trust Professorship in Pediatrics. She was also the medical written by George Whipple, the first dean of the medical school. director of the Ruth A. Lawrence Poison and Drug Information You couldn’t get into Rochester unless Dean Whipple said so. Center, which she founded in 1958, the second poison center in the country and the first to answer calls from the public. An international authority on breastfeeding, she serves as the director of the Breastfeed- ing and Human Lactation Study Center, which she founded in 1985. Additionally, she helped create Rochester’s first Neo- natal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. Originally published in 1980, her textbook, Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, has become the gold-standard reference for the scientific understanding of human lactation and clinical breastfeeding practices. She and her son Rob ’73, also a pediatrician, are working on the ninth edition of the book.

My childhood I grew up during the Depres- sion, one of four kids. My father died when we were young, and my mother raised us by her- NEWBORN WISDOM: An internationally recognized pediatrician, Lawrence is widely considered a leading self. We lived in Westchester authority on the benefits of breastfeeding and other nutritional issues for newborns. County, in a rented house with a thatched roof. I didn’t go to school until I was seven years old. My residency That’s about the time my mom got a job as a tennis coach at Scar- My fiancé,Bob ’49M (MD)—whom I’d met at medical school— borough Prep, a private high school in town. I ended up going and I were waiting to hear where our residency applications had there for my junior and seniors years, on scholarship. been accepted. I had several offers, but Bob’s paperwork got all messed up. One day, while we were still to see what our oppor- My college days tunities were, Dean Whipple marched me into his office. He said I was offered scholarships to Radcliffe and Smith. The dean at that the head of Yale University Hospital in New Haven was on Scarborough wanted me to go to Antioch College in Ohio, though. the phone and wanted to know why I hadn’t responded to its of- No one from Scarborough had gone there yet. Horace Mann, an fer. The man from Yale said to me, very pointedly, “We have giv- education reformer, founded the college, which was among the en you a job and we’d like your answer now.” Of course, I said yes. first to welcome women. Bob ended up staying in Rochester for his residency. Every semester, you took classes and you got a job. At Chrysler in Detroit, I did secret government research on the oils and greas- My early career es used in our planes that were bombing Berlin. Later, I worked Bob and I had plans to marry on July 8, 1950. We even had our wed- for Ciba, a pharmaceutical house in Summit, New Jersey, where ding bands engraved with that date. But then the Army called and

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rr_Summer2019.indb 40 8/5/19 10:08 AM ALUMNI GAZETTE ordered him to California for training on July 5. So, we had to change everything very quickly and got married on July 4 instead. Following the wedding, I went back to my residency at Yale, and Bob went to Ko- rea. With so many men being shipped off to war, they offered me a good job. I was pregnant at the time, and I would have my first child by myself in New Haven. In those days, being married and having a baby and a job was an entirely new concept. I ended up working in New Haven in the rooming-in unit for mothers and their newborns. This was where I learned all about taking care of babies. I breastfed my baby, Rob, too, and I realized how important it was. That’s when I started helping other mothers. Around that time, Dr. Bill Bradford, the CAPTURING THE CARILLON: Alex Johnson ’19—shown here on a practice keyboard at chair of pediatrics and an associate dean, Rochester—won a top international competition this spring. asked me to run the well-baby and the IN THE NEWS preemie nursery at the hospital. It was unusual for a woman to have a job like this, Graduate Wins the ‘Olympics’ but I had the experience. We took care of a lot of sick babies back then. One time, of the Carillon with the help of my husband who was an Alex Johnson ’19 has gone from being a complete novice at the carillon to winning anesthesiologist, we saved a baby’s life by one of the instrument’s top competitions—a journey that began with taking a tour of putting him on a ventilator. It was the first the River Campus as a high school student just a few years ago. time this was ever done. Johnson, who graduated in May, took the top prize this summer at the international Queen Fabiola Carillon Competition, an event held every five years at the Royal Caril- My children lon School in Mechlin, Belgium. My first and second children are about five Doris Aman, Johnson’s former mentor and coordinator of the University’s Carillon years apart and the rest are separated by Society, describes the competition as the equivalent of top global competitions in vio- about 18 months to two years. They are Rob lin or piano, or the Olympics in athletics. ’73, Barbara ’81M (MD), Tim, Kathleen, One of 16 candidates—from Australia to Russia and the United States—who regis- David, Mary Alice, Joan, John, and Ste- tered for the competition, Johnson is studying at the Royal Carillon School this year phen. They’ve pursued lives in medicine, on a Belgian-American Educational Foundation fellowship. business, academics, and more. We lost our While at Rochester, the Coppell, Texas, native and physics major mentored and played number eight child, John, to cancer when in the Carillon Society, was a member of ensembles with the Department of Music and he was in his 40s. He was a brilliant writer. the Eastman School of Music, and won the University’s 2019 Charles Zettek Carillon Sometimes people ask me how I did it, Composition Award. raising nine kids. I breastfed them all, too. I tell them “If you’re going to cook dinner, Presidential People you might as well cook a lot of it.” Julie White ’13W (PhD), most recently a senior vice president at Onondaga Commu- nity College in Syracuse, has been named president of Pierce College Fort Steilacoom My life now in Lakewood, Washington. With about 16,000 students, Pierce College operates two As I work on the ninth edition of Breastfeed- campuses at Fort Steilacoom and at Puyallup, along with a teaching center and a cam- ing: A Guide for the Medical Profession, my pus at an area high school. Pierce College Fort Steilacoom was recently named one of dining room table is chock full of research the Top 10 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute. White began her and stacks of papers. I can’t even use the appointment this summer. . . In other presidential news, Daan Braveman ’69 has an- table anymore and so I eat in the kitchen. nounced that he will step down as the chief executive at Nazareth College in Pittsford, If I’m not writing or at the office, I do like New York, in June 2020. He’s finishing his 15th year as president, the longest serving to garden, but it’s not as easy as it used to president in Nazareth’s history. be. I have a little cart that has big wheels on it. You can just ride on it and pull up ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Lands in New York the weeds. A Broadway-style musical that has starred Andrew Polec ’12 since its first production two years ago roars into New York City late this summer. Developed by Jim Steinman, My proudest moment who wrote the music and lyrics for Meat Loaf’s late-1970s album, Bat Out of Hell, the Marrying my husband. We were married 59 stage production of Bat Out of Hell: The Musical was scheduled to run through Sep- years before he passed away. I hit the jack- tember 8 at New York City Center. Playing the role of Strat, the leader of a gang trying pot there—no question about it.r to survive in a postapocalyptic world, Polec has been with the production since its first —As told to Kristine Thompson performances in Great Britain in 2017.r

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HOMECOMING DANCE: Members of Radiance Dance Theatre perform in Wilson Commons during homecoming weekend in 1994. That year, the weekend doubled as the inauguration of Thomas H. Jackson as University president. Rochester’s new president, Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, will be formally invested as president on October 4 during Meliora Weekend. Recognize anyone in the photo? Send us a note at [email protected].

1952 Tyrone Martin, retired name ‘Chuck’ were mentioned—that former adjunct professor in the biol- College from the Navy, has been award- is how classmates knew them.” In ogy department at the University of ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING ed the Commodore Dudley W. Knox addition to Jonathan, she is survived Miami, Florida, is a speaker, present- Medal for Lifetime Achievement in by five children, includingThomas er, lecturer, journalist, and published 1945 Evelyn (Evvie) Meyers Naval History by the Naval Historical Hess ’82. author. Currie ’46E died in June, her daugh- Foundation in Washington, DC. The ter, Meg Currie, writes. After gradu- author of six books and about 200 1958 John Rathbone writes, “It is 1961 Lynn Selke ’65 (PhD) and ation, Evvie married Robert Currie articles to date, he is the creator with a heavy and devastated heart Sharon Whipple Selke ’64, ’64N Jr., taught vocal music, and was a of the website The Captain’s Clerk, that I am reporting the passing of celebrated their 56th wedding anni- choral director at all levels from kin- which has been selected for inclu- dear friend and classmate Char versary this summer. Lynn retired dergarten through college during 30 sion in the permanent electronic Drotning.” Char Dorwald Drotning from Kodak in 1991, and Sharon years of teaching. An active volun- archive of the Library of Congress. died in Ohio in April. She and John retired from part-time nursing. They teer for the University, Evvie received He was also technical advisor and Drotning, who died in 2009, had live in Fairport, near Rochester, and the Reunion Volunteer Service Award on-screen interviewee for the four children. Char enjoyed sailing, have two children and two grand- in 2005, having served as chair of award-winning, 35-part History fly fishing, birding, travel, church, children. Lynn still plays regularly the Class of 1945 Reunions every Channel series The Great Ships. bridge, and volunteering. in the University’s wind symphony five years since her graduation. She He holds the title of Distinguished and brass choir. He writes that he chaired the 70th reunion when she Overseer of the USS Constitution MEDALLION REUNION was 91. Evvie also volunteered in her Museum, where his research is cited OCTOBER 3–6 local community. A longtime member as foundational to the facility’s Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1959 Abbreviations of the American Association of mission. 1959 Daniel Botkin was select- E Eastman School of Music University Women, she was for two ed as top environmental scien- M School of Medicine years president of the Schenectady 1954 Leona (Frosty) Frost Hess tist of the year for 2019 by the and Dentistry Branch and for two years the asso- ’55N died in May in Arkansas, writes International Association of Top N School of Nursing ciation’s New York State president. her son Jonathan. She was mar- Professionals for his outstanding S Simon Business School She was also a volunteer usher at the ried to Carroll (Chuck) Hess ’56M leadership, dedication, and contribu- W Warner School of Education Saratoga Performing Arts Center for (MD), who died in 2002. Jonathan tions to environmental conservation. Mas Master’s degree 30 years and a member of the Board writes that Frosty and Chuck met at Daniel, a professor emeritus of the RC River Campus of Directors of the National Women’s Rochester, and that Frosty “wanted Department of Ecology, Evolution Res Medical Center residency Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New me to make sure that her nick- and Marine Biology at the University Flw Postdoctoral fellowship York. name ‘Frosty’ and my dad’s nick- of California, Santa Barbara, and a Pdc Postdoctoral certificate

42 ROCHESTER REVIEW Summer 2019 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND PRESERVATION CLASS NOTES and Sharon have fond memories of to say that his grandson, Miller time spent at the Theta Delta Chi Hickman ’22, from Summit, New house. They send a photo taken in Jersey, “made dean’s list in 2018– May 1961 after the military review 19, his freshman year, far exceed- in Fauver Stadium, at which Lynn ing his grandfather’s achievements commanded the winning NROTC at U of R.” . . . Ed Wetschler company. . . . Bill Anderson ’57 received the 2019 Marcia Vickery- writes that Garrett Smith died last Wallace Memorial Award for excel- February in Connecticut. After grad- lence in travel journalism at a uation, Garrett earned two mas- June ceremony in New York City ter’s degrees, one from Harvard and for his reviews and reporting on one from Columbia, and served in trends in the Caribbean. “I don’t the Air Force, specializing in linguis- know how much longer I can keep tics. Among other career positions, this pace up,” he writes, “but I’m Garrett worked at Citibank in the happy to ride this wave as far as Foreign Service office in Japan, was I can.” Ed, who has twice won the a professor at Barnard College, and Caribbean Tourism Organization’s was the first county recycling coordi- Inner Circle King award, is a con- nator in the US. tributing editor for the travel publication Recommend magazine and 1962 Roger Nelson published 1961 Selke has written for various other travel Connected: The Emergence of media outlets. Ed sends a photo- Global Consciousness (ICRL Press) graph from the ceremony in which in 2019 and, with Georg Kindel, Donovan White (right), director of Der Welt-Geist: Wie wir alle mitein- the Jamaica Tourist Board, presents ander verbunden sind (The World him the award. Spirit: How We Are All Connected) in 2018. The books describe the Global 50TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 Consciousness Project, a 20-year Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1969 research program, and other 1969 As part of their milestone recent scientific work on human 50th reunion, members of the Class consciousness. of 1969 have been working on a “Memory Book” that will be distrib- 1963 Bob Sylvester (see ’68 uted during reunion activities at Warner). Meliora Weekend. For a sample of the kinds of memories the book will MEDALLION REUNION include, see pages 50 and 51. . . . OCTOBER 3–6 Daan Braveman will retire as pres- Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1964 ident of Nazareth College in June 1964 Phyllis Lyons published 1968 Wetschler 2020. Before joining Nazareth, he an English translation of the novel was with Syracuse University, first In Black and White (Columbia Barry is chairman and CEO of posium on band history and rep- as a faculty member in the College University Press), by one of Japan’s Sustained Nano Systems. ertoire called the East Coast Band of Law. He was then appointed asso- leading modern writers, Tanizaki Conference. I started the symposium ciate dean for academic affairs in Junichiro. In 2018 she was awarded 1966 Harrington (Kit) Crissey in 2010 and still have a hand in man- 1989 and associate dean for admin- the Order of the Rising Sun by the Jr. writes: “I had an article enti- aging it.” istration in 1992 before becoming Japanese government for her con- tled ‘A Concert to Remember’ in the dean in 1994. He stepped down from tributions to developing Japanese February 2019 issue of the Journal 1967 Mariana Marcovici the dean’s position in 2002 to return studies and promoting knowledge of the Association of Concert Bands. Grinblat writes: “I was written to teaching. In 2005, he was named of Japanese culture during her 38 It was about hearing the Eastman about in the University of Toronto, Nazareth College’s ninth president. years at Northwestern University, Wind Ensemble under Frederick Canada, alumni magazine for engi- . . . Clyde (Louis) Putallaz (see ’75 where she is professor emerita of Fennell ’37E, ’39E (MS) give a per- neers. This was an unexpected Graduate). Japanese language and literature. formance in my hometown of Troy, honor, though I am an active alum- . . . Judith Lehman Ruderman New York, in April 1959, when I was a nus. I was president of the Ontario 1970 Nancy Heller Cohen ’70N ’66W (MA) writes that she published high school freshman. That concert Industrial Hygiene Association. My writes: “I was thrilled to attend her fifth book, Passing Fancies in not only made me a devotee of wind late husband was quite ill and we Malice Domestic in May and receive Jewish American Literature and music in general and band music in had young children when I went back a certificate as an Agatha Award Culture (Indiana University Press), in particular—it filled me with a strong to school at age 38 to get my second nominee for Writing the Cozy January. She is a visiting scholar of desire to be part of the University of master’s degree. I am now happily Mystery: Expanded Second Edition English at Duke University and the Rochester scene. One of the trumpet retired with six grandkids and enjoy- (Orange Grove Press). I also par- winner of the 2017 Harry T. Moore players that day was John Landis ing life very much in Toronto.” . . . ticipated in the Florida Library Award for lifelong contributions to ’62E. At my invitation, he jour- Leslie Dean Kucerak died in May. Association conference along with D. H. Lawrence studies. . . . Sharon neyed to Laureldale, Pennsylvania, a Her daughter, Michele Kucerak members of the Florida Chapter of Whipple Selke ’64N (see ’61). suburb of Reading, in March of this Stolberg ’91,’97W (MS) writes that Mystery Writers of America.” . . . year to give a presentation on what her mother was a “proud member of James DeTar (see ’00). . . . Angela 1965 Barry Libin published his it was like to be part of the wind the Class of 1967.” Longo has published Dr. Angela second novel, The Vatican’s Vault ensemble under Fennell’s direction. Longo’s Quantum Wave Living (Milford House Press), in February. The presentation was part of a sym- 1968 Louis-Jack Pozner writes CONTINUED ON PAGE 46

Summer 2019 ROCHESTER REVIEW 43 CLASS NOTES CLASS OF 1969 What are some of your favorite memories of the University? In preparation for each fall’s 50th reunion, members of the Mozart’s Magic Flute with milestone class are asked to submit updates and recall campus the Philharmonic Orchestra memories for an annual Memory Book that’s shared with at the Eastman School of members of the class. Music, and meeting and Here’s a small selection of some memories from the Class of working as conference 1969. To find out more, you’ll have to attend reunion this fall, coordinator for some of the Ruth Balser which takes place during Meliora Weekend, October 3–6. most notable physicists in For more information, visit Rochester.edu/melioraweekend. the world, including Edward Teller and Richard Feynman, Ruth Balser to try new musical approaches for the 1968 Rochester Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and to think on my feet, International Conference “. . . I spent much of my four valuable tools in my career.” on High Energy Physics. I years marching for civil remember James Dormer rights and peace in Vietnam. I Paul Boehm ’68, an upperclassman in my remember the student strike. Concord, Massachusetts NROTC unit, for his engaging I remember sitting in against “. . . many sweet and lasting personality as well as his Dow Chemical. I remember memories—five feet of deep notable fame as New York standing with a microphone in snow, getting stranded on the state diving champion. He front of the library, speaking Thruway and overnighting was a Bronze Star recipient Phyllis Jo Baunach out against the war. And I in Canajoharie police station, as a Navy pilot in the Vietnam remember being brought to a the great Northeast blackout War and was pursuing student trial for my political of ’65, music at Hylie Morris’s a successful career as a activities. In between all that, Alley, Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity flight engineer with Pacific I remember loving most of with amazing friendships, Southwest Airlines, when in my classes, admiring most of and, of course, I met my wife September 1978 his Boeing my professors, and making of 48 years, Ellen Balzer 747 collided with a small wonderful friends.” Boehm ’72, when she was a aircraft while landing at San freshman and I was a senior. Diego International Airport, Phyllis Jo Baunach Had great roommates along killing all parties aboard both Alexandria, Virginia the way—Bob Lunn, Ron planes. Soon thereafter, even “. . . I cannot forget the endless Lepes, John Lloyd, Sonny though the technology had Paul Boehm hours studying, researching, Wood. . . . As a five-year existed for quite some time, and learning amid the musty chemical engineering major, the FAA finally demanded that “I cannot forget the endless hours studying, researching, and learning amid the musty books in the stacks. We did everything by hand!”

books in the stacks. We did I had one elective to spare, all commercial aircraft install everything by hand! But the and Ellen said, ‘How about collision warning radars to joys of ideas coming to life oceanography?’ So, I enrolled prevent such disasters. I find and understanding thorny in oceanography with Dr. Taro it ironic and frustrating that William Eckert concepts are priceless. Takahashi (the famous climate Jim survived horrific risks in Additionally, I cannot forget scientist), which awakened the skies over Vietnam, only the joyful hours of Co-Kast my environmental juices, to fall prey to the negligence rehearsals for student-written made me feel like Jacques and politics of air safety in the and -directed plays, and the Cousteau, and changed my relatively friendly skies over thrill of audiences responsive professional direction.” the US.” to our efforts. Nor will I ever forget taking voice lessons at William Eckert Marion Kristal Goldberg the Eastman School of Music San Diego Chevy Chase, Maryland and the hours of practicing “. . . . singing with the “. . . two months after scales and arias. This YellowJackets, performing graduation, I married my UR discipline gave me confidence as a chorus member in boyfriend, Dan (then Danny) Marion Kristal Goldberg

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rr_Summer2019_Notes.indd 44 8/6/19 2:02 PM CLASS NOTES Goldberg ’68. So 2019 is a women’s trio, the Tritones, did not help my GPA. Great double 50-year celebration in the fall of 1965. Also times were had with my for us . . . some of my best represented the U of R in the sisters in Theta Eta and I memories: meeting Dan in 1966 Miss Rochester Pageant; was fortunate to have great the Welles-Brown Room on a made the Top Ten. Not so fond roommates all four years. study break; living in Towers memories of 8 a.m. bio labs in Other memories include suites with Enid Moses mid-winter. So grateful for the the University sponsored Kozlov (sadly Enid died in tunnels! Also remembering “beer blasts,” the Susan B. 2009), Mady Fuchs Holzer, the great blackout in the fall of Anthony banquet, sliding Ranny Cooper, Joan Ross 1965. What an adventure!” down the hill in the snow on Sorkin, and Lynne Spichiger; a cafeteria tray, and sleeping hours at the vending machines Lawrence (Larry) Lipman in the comfy chairs in the Steven Goldberg in the Hill basement and in Wellington, Florida library. There were also those our Towers suites, immersed “. . . Ronnee Press Lipman wonderful parties, pizza at in discussions with Enid and ’70 and I were married after the Bungalow, concerts at my other suite mates; trips to a four-year courtship at the Eastman, hearing Chuck Uncle John’s pancake house U of R. We often tell the story Mangione ’63E play the and Jay’s Diner; the original of our first meeting at a U flugelhorn in his early days Wegmans; many discussions of R dinner in September of and having Harry Belafonte about the Vietnam War 1966, where I was the server perform on campus. I was “Not so fond memories of 8 a.m. bio labs in mid-winter. So grateful for the tunnels! Also remembering the great blackout in the fall of 1965.” Elaine Schueler Horton

and the draft. When I read for Ronnee’s table during her also privileged to be selected articles denigrating a liberal first week on campus. I was as a student representative arts education, I think of my wearing new penny loafers on the design team for the classes in Spanish, French, without socks, as was then new Wilson Commons. history, political science, art the style, and had developed I. M. Pei, the famous architect history, and literature that heel blisters. So, I removed who designed the Louvre have enriched my life and the shoes and served the meal Pyramid in Paris and many shaped my perspective for barefoot while joking about other famous buildings, was more than 50 years. And I am it the entire time. Ronnee the architect for Wilson forever grateful for all of it.” was so impressed with this Commons. We even visited his Lawrence (Larry) Lipman witty barefoot waiter that she offices in New York to see the Steven Goldberg decided that evening that she ‘master’ at work.” Hastings-on-Hudson, would marry me and phoned New York her mother to tell her so. Joan Ross Sorkin “. . . experiencing the first This June we celebrated our Scarsdale, New York women’s dorm, being editor- 49th wedding anniversary, so “. . . first week of freshman in-chief of Interpres, traying things have generally worked year we met with our down the Hill, the 1968 out with us.” advisory group of 10 with picketing as a result of the the late great Professor Dow Chemical recruitment, Farel Vella McClure Kaufmann, who introduced having some truly amazing ’70W (Mas) us to intellectual history. professors, and working Bellevue, Washington Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and with the University Planning “. . . I truly loved my four Schopenhauer would become Farel Vella McClure ’70W (Mas) Committee as one of three undergraduate years at the part of our vocabulary and students who advised U of R. In fact, I loved it so psyche. And then there were I. M. Pei’s architectural much I stayed an extra year those late-night happenings firm on the construction of to get a master’s degree! I was with N. O. Brown, sledding Wilson Commons as the new very fortunate to have been on trays behind Rush Rhees, student union.” totally immersed in student and that unforgettable lecture life on campus. My memories by Andy Warhol at Strong Elaine Schueler Horton include campaigning and Auditorium, where the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida winning a seat on the student audience booed, claiming the “. . . as a freshman, I was government my freshman speaker wasn’t Warhol at all. honored to be selected by the year. This was a fantastic Never really knew if he was an YellowJackets for their new experience, but unfortunately impostor or not!”r Joan Ross Sorkin

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 43 Theatre Education Award present- Workbook: Tools for Discovering and ed by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Living My Eternalself (Balboa Press). Mellon University in June. The award The self-help workbook aims to recognizes a K–12 theater educator guide readers to “an understanding in the US who “embodies the high- of how a quantum worldview can be est standards of the profession and used to structure a successful life.” demonstrates a positive impact on She has a PhD in biochemistry from the lives of students, advancement the University of California, Berkeley, of the theater profession, and a com- and taught holistic health and inter- mitment to excellence.” Madeline is disciplinary science at San Francisco the theater director for Monticello State University, after which she High School in Charlottesville, founded the Traditional Chinese Virginia. Medical College of Hawaii. 1978 Jane Dubin ’79 (MS) writes 1972 Kathie Phillips King ’72N that she’s a coproducer of a new (see ’68 Warner). . . . Linda Horvitz Broadway musical comedy, The Post had a solo exhibition of large- Prom, which has been nominat- scale oil paintings, titled The Willing ed for seven Tony Awards: Best Suspension of Disbelief, in April Musical, Best Score, Best Book, and and May at R. Michelson Gallery in Best Director plus three Best Acting Discovering new points of view Northampton, Massachusetts. She is awards. “I am so excited for the the founding director of the Paradise cast, creative team, and my fellow City Arts Festivals. coproducers. The show is about big Broadway stars, a small town, For perspectives ever better. 45TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 and a love that unites them all,” Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1974 she writes, adding that a group of 1974 Cory Amron sends a pair of alumni joined her at the show last then-and-now photos. For more than November. four decades, former suite mates Cory, Jacqueline Tema Miller, 1974 Amron 40TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 This four-day extravaganza encompasses reunions—family and alumni weekends—and this October, Debbie Gephart Worbis, Janice Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1979 will include an extraordinary celebration for the inauguration of the University’s 11th president, Rowe Blinder ’75, Joanne Harap 1979 As the Class of 1979 Kovener, and Helen O’Connell- approaches its 40th reunion, we SARAH C. MANGELSDORF. Short, have been getting together asked Sakhile Ntshangase ’21, a annually to stay connected and cele- student employee in University brate their friendship. “It’s amazing Communications, to catch up with to be able to share life’s experiences members of the class, including with people who have known you reunion committee members Brian FEATURING: for so long,” writes Cory. Pictured Bennett, Sharon Lear, and Jane from left to right are Janice, Joanne, Smith Tuttle ’84N (MS). Here’s his Jackie, Debbie, and Helen at one report: of their first reunions in the 1970s, “Brian fondly remembers his and Jackie, Joanne, Cory, Janice, and Rochester experiences as an optics Helen at another get-together about major, as an NROTC midshipman, 40 years later. . . . As the Class of and as a member of an Eastman 1974 approaches its 45th reunion, School of Music jazz ensemble. As a we asked Sakhile Ntshangase ’21, junior, Brian also met first-year stu- a student employee in University dent Debbie Stonitsch, and they Communications, to catch up with 1978 Dubin have been together ever since. ‘My reunion committee member William college sweetheart is now my wife Samuels. Here’s his report: been Key West, San Antonio, Hawaii, younger sister, Diane ’11, works of 39 years,’ Brian says, ‘. . . and we “As an undergraduate, some of and the Texas Hill Country).’ After as a cybersecurity analyst. Other just celebrated the birth of our first Bill’s most memorable experienc- graduating, he pursued a PhD and U of R family connections include grandbaby, born on my birthday!’ es were living on the Hill in Morgan got his first job at the US Geological my brother, Louis ’83, and his wife, At the Institute of Optics, Brian had 3, spending a semester at the West Survey. His memorable professors Fania Leiderman Samuels ’83.’ Bill the privilege to learn from legends Indies Laboratory in St. Croix on include David Raup, Bob Sutton, and has also participated in many proj- in the optics field, including Brian the US Virgin Islands, and graduat- Zedie Bowen from geology and Wolf ects and conferences around the Thompson, Rudolf Kingslake, and ing with a BS in biology-geology. ‘I Vishniac and Tom Bannister from world. ‘On a recent trip, we visited Duncan Moore, and his NROTC expe- Acclaimed musician and Renowned author and Emmy-nominated comedian, made some very close friends during biology. For the last 35 years, he Iceland, which has some spectacular rience propelled a 30-year career in late-night band leader literacy champion actress, and SNL alumna that time and we remain friends has worked at Science Applications scenery.’ ” the Navy. Brian was a naval aviator to this day,’ he writes. In his junior International Corporation and and made a total of 10 deployments, JON BATISTE ANN PATCHETT VANESSA BAYER year, he met Bernice Marcus, and Leidos. ‘We live in Potomac, 1975 Janice Rowe Blinder (see including tours as a squadron and they married three years later. ‘On Maryland. Bernice does biomedical ’74). . . . Thomas Krissel (see ’68 wing commander. He flew missions some milestone birthdays, Bernice research at the National Institutes Warner). over Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan and I get together with my freshman of Health. We have two children. and still works with the Navy in Pearl REGISTER TODAY AT ROCHESTER.EDU/MELIORAWEEKEND hall friends (and their spouses) for The oldest, Emily, is married and 1977 Madeline Topkins Michel Harbor as the US Pacific Fleet’s liai- a long weekend or more (so far it’s works as a software engineer. Her received the 2019 Excellence in son to Congress. Rochester also URALUMNIRELATIONS UOFRALUMNI UOFR 46 ROCHESTER REVIEW Summer 2019 #URMW19

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YELLOWJACKET ALUMNI Celebration Marks Coach Pat Stark’s 50 Years at Rochester FOOTBALL FORMATION: A record 65 former Yel- Kneeling: Bob Kulpinski ’71, Ron Haynes Second Row: Leo Fusilli ’80, Kevin Eldridge lowjacket football players gathered for their 14th ’72, Frank Perillo ’73, Bill Hammond ’86, Roger Watts ’72, Bob Quirk ’72, Paul annual spring “Dinner with the Coach,” a celebration ’73, Mike Roulan ’71, Tony Daniele ’71, Macielak ’72, Jim Dunnigan ’73, Jim Juraska to honor iconic Rochester coach, Pat Stark, and to Joe Hymes ’75, ’77M (MS), Jerry Atwell ’73, Paul Caputo ’73, Tyrone Southerland reconnect with one another at Perlo’s restaurant in ’75, Rick Magere ’72, Brian Heagney ’77, ’84, John Loiacono ’84, Mike Recny ’79, East Rochester in April. A Rochester and a Syracuse Ralph Gebhardt ’76, Mark McAnaney ’75, Steve Sloan ’78, Jim Mazur ’78, Herm Nied Hall of Famer, Stark is credited with elevating the Erv Chambliss ’76, Kevin Maier ’78, Bill ’76, Chris O’Connor ’79, Phil Newman ’79. stature of the football program during his coaching Falandays ’74. Third Row: Bob Ford ’84, Rene Piccarreto tenure at Rochester from 1969 to 1983, including a Standing First Row: Jim Wesp ’74, ’76M ’71, Kurt Peterson ’74, Rick Basehore ’72, No. 1 NCAA Division III ranking in the East. (MS), ’78S (MBA), Brian Miga ’71, Dave Don Barber ’79, John Kowba ’79, Mark This year’s dinner also marked 50 years since Cidale ’71, Ron Spadafora ’77, Bill Monroe Kirsch ’80, Jim Vazzana ’87. Stark arrived on campus to head the football pro- ’78. ’89S (MBA), Phil Chrys ’75, Pat Stark, Back Row: DJ Pritchard ’87, Bill Tretter ’86, gram. A member of each of his teams traveled from Rick Stark ’79, Tony Cipolla ’81, Sam Guer- Joe Novek ’73, Dave McNelis ’74, Rich King throughout New York, New England, Pennsylvania, rieri ’87, Sam Shatkin ’79, Andy Fornarola ’78, John Badowski ’77, Quentin Call ’76, Ed Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Delaware, Washington, DC, ’79, Mike Geer ’79, Mike Garritano ’76, Heffernan ’76, Denny Hennigan ’75, Gary Virginia, and Georgia to join the celebration: Brian Pasley ’76, Loren Piccarreto ’73. Miller ’84, Len Champion ’73.

inspired his love of music while and I had recently taught the dean ‘Having a liberal arts background Français de Chicago, a bilingual studying trombone at Eastman. ‘My and his wife how to dance!’ ” is one of the best secret weap- school. She currently works for Harris first date with Debbie included one “Thanks to her father’s knowl- ons because it trains you to think, Made, which makes bespoke recog- Rediscover what you love most about Our online system makes registration of my concerts. I also took the trom- edge of the University and its rep- write, and evaluate situations at a nition and stewardship gifts for uni- bone with me on my first deploy- utation; a ‘fantastic’ interview with great scale. It was the greatest asset versities, nonprofit organizations, Rochester at your Reunion. See who’s easier than ever. View the full weekend ment, but that did not sit too well Professor Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; of my career.’ Some of her favor- corporations, and cultural institu- with my seven roommates.’ Debbie and learning about the relatively ite moments included taking piano tions. Sharon’s advice to any stu- registered, connect with your classmates, schedule, hotel recommendations, Reunion and Brian were also dance partners small student population, Sharon classes at Eastman, studying abroad, dent: ‘Don’t be threatened by people during the disco heyday. ‘We won knew that Rochester was the right and conducting an archaeological saying “what are you gonna do with and track class giving progress at perks, and learn everything you’ll need to the U of R Genesee Cream Ale Dance place for her. Her experiences at search in England with Professor that major?”’ Looking back on her competition in ‘79. The trophy was the University included majoring David Walsh. Other notable profes- own career path, she knows there are ROCHESTER.EDU/REUNION. know before heading back to campus. a beer can, of course . . . still have in English with an art history con- sors included Russell Peck, George lots of opportunities after college.” it.’ Forty years on, Brian and Debbie centration, being a news editor of Grella, and Anthony Hecht, all of “After graduation, Jane earned still dance. One of his favorite rec- the Campus Times, and serving as whom she praises for good teach- a master’s degree in 1984 as a REGISTER TODAY at ollections is when Dr. Thompson social chair of Delta Zeta sorority. ing and mentorship. After gradu- family nurse practitioner from the offered him an opportunity to work ‘It was a great experience. I got to ation, she worked at McGraw-Hill School of Nursing and later com- ROCHESTER.EDU/MELIORAWEEKEND. with Corning Glass on their new do a lot of things that I would not Publications; Advertising Age mag- pleted a PhD in family studies at the ‘fiber optics’ product. ‘I thought at have been able to do at a larger azine; Northwestern Memorial University of Connecticut in 1992. the time that he was recognizing school.’ Reflecting on her college Foundation, raising money to build During this time, she taught at Yale my optics achievements, but in ret- years, she’s proud of the strong cur- Prentice Women’s Hospital; and as for eight years before returning to rospect it was only because Debbie riculum that the University offers. chief development officer for Lycée the School of Nursing as a faculty URALUMNIRELATIONS UOFRALUMNI UOFR 48 ROCHESTER REVIEW Summer 2019 RIA TAFANI FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER #URMW19

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rr_Summer2019.indb 49 8/5/19 10:08 AM CLASS NOTES HONORS & ACCOLADES Alumni Awards At ceremonies this spring and summer, Rochester’s academic units recognized alumni for their achievements and service.

HAJIM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCES Distinguished Alumnus Award Daniel Sabbah ’74, ’78 (MS), ’82 (PhD) Sabbah is the former chief technology officer and general manager of the Next Generation Daniel Sabbah Julia Bullock Albert Salama Platform at IBM Corporation. Beginning his IBM career in build and sail wooden boats and 1974, he retired in 2015 and now restore urban waterways. consults on and writes about technology and societal changes. Alumni Service Award The namesake for the Sabbah Sheffali Welch ’02S (MBA) Endowed Fund for Data Science, Welch is the former managing he is a member of the George director and COO of Wealth Man- Eastman Circle, the University’s agement Americas at Deutsche leadership annual giving society. Bank. She previously served as David Khani Sheffali Welch He is also a member of the Arts, the COO and head of regional Sciences & Engineering National strategy for the Global Transac- Council and the Hajim Dean’s tion Bank in the Americas and in Advisory Committee. leadership roles for the Institu- tional Clients Group. EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC A member of the George East- Distinguished Alumna Award man Circle, Welch helped lead the Julia Bullock ’09E creation of the Simon Women’s Bullock is a widely acclaimed Alliance, a group that provides vocalist who has earned recogni- education and support to alum- Prashant Kamath Vivian Palladoro tion as an innovative programmer nae and the broader community. and curator. A founding member in commercial banking with Man- in research-focused roles with She also serves as the vice chair of the American Modern Opera ufacturers Hanover Corporation. FBR Capital Markets & Co., Bear of the group’s board. Company, she has also held artist A longtime supporter of sev- Stearns, Prudential Securities, residencies with the San Francisco eral international aid nonprofit and Lehman Brothers. WARNER SCHOOL Symphony and New York’s Metro- organizations, he has received A member of the George OF EDUCATION politan Museum of Art. the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for Eastman Circle, he serves on the Dean’s Medal Bullock’s performances include his career achievements and for Simon Advisory Council, mentors Vivian Palladoro ’76W (MS), key roles with national and his service to the United States Simon students, and sponsors an ’97W (EdD) international opera companies as while maintaining the traditions on-campus chartered financial Palladoro is a former admin- well as recitals with symphonies of his heritage. A member of the analyst program. istrator of the pathology and and orchestras around the world. George Eastman Circle, he is a laboratory medicine department She has earned praise for her member of the Simon Advisory Alumni Service Award at the Medical Center. Before her work to organize programs and Council and National Council. Prashant Kamath ’06S (MBA) retirement in 2002, she served as performances that explore ideas Kamath leads the investment an adjunct faculty member at the of identity and history. John N. Wilder Award banking company Houlihan Rochester Institute of Technology David Khani ’93S (MBA) Lokey’s real estate advisory and was an author on the topic of SIMON BUSINESS SCHOOL Khani is the executive vice presi- practice in New York. health care quality improvement. Distinguished Alumnus Award dent and CFO of CONSOL Energy, A member of the George As a member of the George Albert Salama ’73, ’74S (MBA) which he helped establish from Eastman Circle, Kamath serves Eastman Circle, she partici- Salama is the CEO and sole CNX Resources in 2017. He also on the Simon Alumni Board. He pates on the group’s Rochester owner of Sabert Corporation, serves as a director and CFO of also works with Rocking the Boat, Philanthropy Council Committee. a food packaging company CONSOL Coal Resources, a master an organization that helps young She also serves on the Lifelong that has facilities in the United limited partnership controlled people from the South Bronx Learning Advisory Council and is States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to by CONSOL Energy. He spent develop self-confidence and life a member of the Warner School creating Sabert, Salama worked nearly 20 years on Wall Street skills by working together to of Education National Council.

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rr_Summer2019.indb 50 8/5/19 10:08 AM CLASS NOTES member in 1993. ‘I love the U of R. and his family—but he is looking for- The School of Nursing is the best ward to attending the 30th reunion place to get your nursing education.’ this fall.” Reflecting on graduation, she recalls Dr. Elaine Hubbard encouraging her 1985 Vince Amodeo sends a to continue her education, which has photo and an update: “Just let- laid the foundation for her whole ting you know that after almost 31 career. While serving as president of years of federal government ser- the Connecticut Nurse Practitioner vice with the Department of the Group, she recalls reaching out to Navy and the Consumer Product Dr. Loretta Ford, the founding dean Safety Commission, I will be retiring of the school of nursing and also the to enjoy life traveling and relaxing cofounder of the nurse practitioner with my wife, Renee, and our dogs role to invite her to keynote at a con- and cats.” ference that was being planned. She was delighted to hear back from Dr. 1987 Donald Graff writes that he Ford directly and to continue con- published his first novel, The Last nections with her over the years. Offering (BookLocker), this year. A special memory is attending Dr. Ford’s induction into the Women’s 1985 Amodeo 1988 Paul Turner was named a Hall of Fame. Jane joined the Eleanor fellow of the American Academy of Hall Society shortly after the passing Arts and Sciences in April and was of Ms. Hall, another key leader in the elected to the National Academy School of Nursing. Jane is married of Sciences in May. He is the Elihu to Doug Blue III and has a son and Professor in the Department of a 12-year-old granddaughter who Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at is a gymnast and plays piano. She Yale University. also has two grown stepchildren and two other younger grandchildren. 30TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 She retired in 2017, and continues Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1989 to teach part time at the School of 1989 Cumiskey 1989 Larry Abrams gave a pre- Nursing and participate actively with sentation on BookSmiles, a non- the state and regional nurse practi- 35TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 profit foundation he started almost tioner organizations. She volunteers Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1984 two years ago, at the iZone in Rush at Equicenter, a therapeutic horse- 1984 As the Class of 1984 Rhees Library during the last Meliora back riding program and is actively approaches its 35th reunion, we Weekend. BookSmiles has sourced, involved as a member of the Lifelong asked Piffanie Rosario ’20, a stu- sorted, and distributed more than Learning Advisory Council, which 1989 Abrams dent employee in University 135,000 gently used books to under- organizes the Alumni Forum during Communications, to catch up with served babies and children. Larry Meliora Weekend.” am pleased to share that my first reunion committee member Bob will pursue BookSmiles full time novel, Billionaire’s Paradise: Ecstasy Ford. Here’s her report: when he retires from teaching high 1982 Peter Antonucci writes: “I at Sea (Willow Street Press), was “As an undergraduate studying school English. . . . As the Class of released on Amazon.” The book history, Bob knew he wanted to go 1989 approaches its 30th reunion, is a “fictional tale of the scandal- into sales and marketing after grad- we asked Sakhile Ntshangase ’21, Send Your News! ous lives of socialites in Manhattan uation. Unsure of where to start, a student employee in University If you have an announcement and the Hamptons—who purchase he began at a career fair at the Communications, to catch up with you’d like to share with your fellow and live on a mega yacht.” It was University, where he was offered his Marianne Seidman Cohen, the alumni, please send or e-mail your named Book of the Month by Boat first job. He had several executive cochair of the class reunion commit- personal and professional news to International Magazine and “is the positions in consumer health compa- tee. Here’s his report: Rochester Review. first in a series of four books, with nies but now works for Olly, a health “Marianne’s connections to the E-mail your news and digital the second set to launch later in the and nutrition startup best known University are undiminished, 30 photos to [email protected]. year.” . . . Thomas Hess (see ’54). for its gummy vitamins and supple- years after graduating. ‘I keep in Mail news and photos to Rochester . . . Ian Koenig published Principle ments. Bob says he’s excited to work touch with many people from school. Review, 22 Wallis Hall, University of Based Enterprise Architecture: A for a company that puts ‘well-being I’ve been to every reunion except for Rochester, Box 270044, Rochester, Systematic Guide to Enterprise of others’ in its mission. When asked one,’ she says. ‘So when they asked NY 14627-0044. Architecture and Governance about differences between graduat- me to cochair the reunion com- Please do not edit, crop, or (Technics Publications). Ian spent ing in 2019 compared to 1984, Bob mittee I couldn’t say no.’ Some of resize your digital images; send more than 35 years in various tech- marvels at the speed of technolog- Cohen’s most memorable education- the original, full-size file down- nology roles, most recently as chief ical innovation. Apple, for example, al experiences at Rochester include loaded from your camera or architect of LexisNexis. He was the was just launching when he was an majoring in psychology and getting smartphone. chief architect for Thomson Financial undergraduate student. Bob remains a certificate in marketing, taking To ensure timely publication of prior to that, and for Reuters before interested in athletics. He played a class on dinosaurs, and doing a your information, keep in mind the that. He built his Principle Based football at Rochester and says he senior research study on smoking following deadlines: Enterprise Architecture (PBEA) continues to be involved by volun- cessation. A member of Phi Sigma method from the experience he teering to promote interest in ath- Sigma, she volunteered for over 25 Issue Deadline gained as the chief architect of those letics within the reunion committee. years, including being a member of Fall 2019 Sept. 15, 2019 large corporations covering multiple He doesn’t have much free time with the Phi Sigma Sigma Foundation’s Winter 2020 December 15, 2019 industries. Olly’s growth, his volunteer work, board of directors—a philanthrop-

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rr_Summer2019_Notes.indd 51 8/5/19 11:01 AM CLASS NOTES ic arm of the organization with a As the Class of 1994 approaches goal of raising money for scholar- its 25th reunion, we asked Piffanie ships and grants for undergraduate Rosario ’20, a student employee in and alumni sisters. She also advised University Communications, to catch a Phi Sigma Sigma chapter in up with reunion committee member Massachusetts for almost 20 years. Jono Rosen. Here’s her report: ‘My closest friends are Phi Sigma “After graduation, Jono joined Sigma sisters. And because I was the U of R’s archaeological dig at also involved nationally as an advi- Yodefat in Israel, enjoying his time sor and director, I have Phi Sigma before law school started. He felt Sigma sister friends all over the well prepared after graduating from world.’ On campus, she was presi- Rochester and has nothing but great dent of D’Lions and a member of the things to say about his undergradu- pep band. Reflecting on her college ate experience pursuing a degree in experience, she says, ‘I would abso- religion. ‘It was a very special time lutely do it again in a heartbeat. U of with wonderful professors, includ- R was wonderful.’ After graduating, ing Douglas Brooks, Emil Homerin, she worked for a bank in Boston and and Bill Green, who were all highly then the USS Constitution Museum engaged with the students,’ he says, for almost 20 years. ‘It was an amaz- explaining how he became interesting experience; one of my favorite 1990 Sotomayor ed in the field. The religion depart- jobs.’ She also worked as the exec- ment allowed Jono to travel to Israel utive director for the Wakefield poems and sketches for children. and study abroad in India. The Lynnfield Chamber of Commerce Michael and his 10-year-old daugh- department’s emphasis on ‘learning in Massachusetts. She current- ter, Jessica, illustrated the book. . . . how to learn’ has been critical to his ly works at Mannersmith Etiquette Jodi Rubtchinsky Smith (see ’89). career. After graduating from NYU Consulting, an etiquette consulting . . . John Sotomayor writes: “The School of Law and Tufts University’s firm founded by Jodi Rubtchinsky Associated Church Press awarded Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Smith ’90, one of her Phi Sigma my magazines, Elevate and Elevar, he joined an investment firm in Los Sigma sisters, as well as for the in their national competition Best of Angeles, where he met his wife, a Malden Chamber of Commerce. ‘I Church Press six awards in writing, screenwriter. He currently lives in really feel like U of R prepared me design, and photography, includ- Boston and is a partner at Applied for being in the working world.’ Her ing Best in Class for Digital Edition/ Invention, a multidisciplinary inno- advice to any student: ‘Enjoy every Mobile Publication during the press’s vation company that partners with day; it goes by very, very fast. Get convention in Chicago in April. These corporations to design and build new to know people that you wouldn’t are the first national awards won by technologies to help them grow as otherwise get to know. And try new my start-up publications, which won well as cofound and incubate start- things because you are at the time several state-level awards in 2018, ups. He doesn’t get to visit Rochester in your life where you can. There is including first- and second-place 2000 Lalley often but is excited to attend his so much to offer at the University, Best Digital Magazine in Florida.” 25th reunion and see the son of embrace it.’”. . . Sotomayor is publisher and exec- 1993 Kelly Fitzsimmons classmate and fellow religion major Kara Smith Cumiskey had a mini utive editor of both magazines, has published a book, Lost in Brad Schwab, who is starting as a reunion in Middletown, Delaware, which are owned by his company, Startuplandia: Wayfinding for the freshman this fall.” with Regla Pérez Pino ’89W (MS) Sotomayor Media Creations. Weary Entrepreneur (Lioncrest and Annika Kaye Vitolo, thanks to Publishing). Describing the book as 1995 Stephen Faraci was rec- the St. Andrews Regatta, where Kara 1991 Michele Kucerak Stolberg “a field guide,” she writes, “I draw ognized as a 2019 Virginia Super and Regla also reunited last year. ’97W (MS) (see ’67). on my own trials and triumphs, as Lawyer in General Litigation. He is Pictured (see page 51) from left to well as those of other entrepreneurs, a partner in the Richmond office of right are Kara, Regla, and Annika. 1992 Valery Perry is editor to share our most valuable les- Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, repre- . . . Regla Pérez Pino ’89W (MS) of Extremism and Violent sons for surviving start-up failure.” senting clients in various business also sends a personal update: “I’m Extremism in Serbia: 21st-Centu- She is cofounder of Custom Reality segments, including construction, pursuing an Educational Leadership ry Manifestations of an Historical Services, a virtual reality (VR) pro- real estate, coal and natural gas, and endorsement at James Madison Challenge (ibidem Press/Columbia duction company whose first two pharmaceutical industries. University through my school divi- University Press). Following a year projects premiered at the Sundance sion. My first class was taught by and a half in Belgrade, Serbia, Film Festival. . . . Jeremy Glick’s 1997 Rob Sudakow writes, “I have an elementary school principal, with the Organization for Security legacy was celebrated in June when launched my own consulting com- former ROTC, and U of R alumnus!” and Cooperation in Europe, she he was inducted posthumously into pany, RevUp Revenue Management . . . Linda Smith was promoted to has returned to Sarajevo, Bosnia the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Consulting, and in June I rode in fellow of SPIE for her achievements and Herzegovina, where she Fame, with his father, Lloyd Glick, my sixth AIDS LifeCycle ride, biking in entrepreneurship. She is found- is a researcher and consultant accepting the honor in memory of 545 miles from San Francisco to Los er, president, and CEO of Ceres and a senior associate with the his son. Jeremy was one of several Angeles.” Technology Advisors and serves on Democratization Policy Council. . . . passengers aboard United Airlines SPIE’s Financial Advisory Committee. Michelle Proia Roe writes, “I’m Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, 1998 Stacey Trein was named serving as vice president, general who counterattacked the hijackers. partner at the law firm Leclair 1990 Michael Lee wrote and pub- counsel, and corporate secretary Korona Cole. She joined the lished Not Gonna Write Poems: A of Mettler-Toledo International Inc., 25TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 Rochester firm in 2015 and concen- Poetry Book for All the Non Poets a NYSE-listed company in the S&P Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1994 trates on commercial litigation, con- (Lulu), a collection of whimsical 500.” 1994 Renee Lalley (see ’00). . . . tract disputes, insurance coverage,

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CHICAGO: Offering a toast to Eastman at the Chicago event were guest BOSTON: Victor Montano ’16, Zenobia Smith ‘16, and Parth Trivedi ’16 Marissa Sinai (left), along with Jake Greenberg ’17, Angela Remus ’16, were among the Boston-area alumni who hopped on the Lexington, a Natalie Chait ’18, Dylan Gaeta ’16, and Brian Kee ’18. 75-foot paddle boat, for a cruise around Boston Harbor.

AND MANY MORE . . . Happy Birthday, George Eastman! University community celebrates the life and legacy of one of Rochester’s most influential benefactors.

Members of the University community celebrated pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman and his commitment to the University at “birthday parties” this summer organized by Alumni Relations. At receptions from New York City to Shanghai, hundreds of alumni and friends gathered to raise a glass to mark what WASHINGTON, DC: Andrew Dominic ’19, TOKYO: Yohay Wakabayashi ’10, ’11S (MS) (left), the would have been Eastman’s Nicholas Foti ’19, and Rachel Ellison ’18 University’s Japan Network Leader who coordinated the 165th birthday on July 12. gathered with other DC–area alumni for a Tokyo reception, was joined by Shigenobu Kawata ’85S —Alyssa Davis celebration at Wunder Garden. (MBA) and Shupu Jiang ’11S (MBA).

and employment law matters. She and also have something that you national center for clinical and trans- zone.’ For her, ‘going to college was is a Daily Record Excellence in Law could belong to after you graduate. lational science institutions. She a leap. I was going away from home, recipient (2017) and was given the That was the one thing that really earned a master’s degree in edu- and I was the first graduate. I had President’s Award from the Greater spoke to me.’ A public health and cation and is pursuing her MBA at no one to tell me “here are some Rochester Association for Women society and premed major, Raquel the Simon Business School. Her big- stories.” That’s really how my adult Attorneys in 2018. is the associate director for the gest life lesson is summed up in the life has been shaped. Be ready for Center for Leading Innovation and words of Neil Donald Walsh: ‘Life change and be ready to take some 20TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 Collaboration, a University-based begins at the end of your comfort risks.’ She continues to immerse Rochester.edu/alumni/class/1999 herself in the University communi- 1999 As the Class of 1999 ty. In addition to helping plan the approaches its 20th reunion, we reunion, she serves as a member of asked Sakhile Ntshangase ’21, a the University’s alumni board. Her student employee in University message to any first-generation stu- Communications, to catch up with dents: ‘Find someone to mentor you Raquel Ruiz, the gift chair for the through the process. It’s very diffi- 20th reunion. Here’s his report: cult to figure out your path by your- “Reflecting on her years at the self. Know that there are people who University, what stands out the have been there. Find those people, most for Raquel was her person- the ones who will serve not just as al growth, community building, and a mentor but also as an advocate being a role model for her family. A for you and help you figure out your first-generation Latina student, she path. You’re not alone; a mentor can helped found the University’s first give you ideas on how to navigate Latina sorority, Lambda Pi Chi, an both successful and difficult times.’” organization that she hopes will be a legacy for Latina students. ‘You want 2000 David Lalley writes that his to feel like you belong to something 2002 Seid son Nico, nephew of Renee Lalley

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2001 Michael Goldstein, vice president and head of sponsor- ships, North America at MasterCard, has been named to Sports Business Journal’s 40 under 40 list for 2019. His clients include the British Open, PGA Tour, and four marquee Major League Baseball teams—the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs. 2006 Thottathil While a student, Michael was sports editor for the Campus Times.

2002 Christina Seid writes that she and Simon Chiew continue to work together in their Chinatown and Lower East Side communities in New York City. Christina has expanded her business, the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, into two new locations: Flushing Ice Cream Factory and Lower East Side Ice Cream Factory. Simon has become the chief strategy officer for the Chinese- American Planning Council.

2003 Samuel Howard writes, “In May, I received an MA in theol- ogy, summa cum laude, from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.” 2010 Maloney 15TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 Rochester.edu/alumni/class/2004 ’09M (PhD), live in Newburyport, reality, all of these aspects are small Patel ’10M (MD), Laura Fornarola 2004 Chloe Corcoran writes that Massachusetts, with their two pieces that need to be put togeth- ’14M (PhD), ’16M (MD), Nidhi she was one of 10 people across daughters, Flinn and Oliana. Chris er like a jigsaw puzzle. Wing Walker GeeVarghese, Danielle Nguyen the country named as a Victory recently started his own business, does that and takes it to the next Dahle ’10M (MD), Ruth Baciewicz Empowerment Fellow. The Victory Wing Walker Marketing, which focus- level and helps companies be cre- Schneider ’10M (MD), ’18M (Pdc), Institute is a national organiza- es on helping small-to-midsize ative and stand out.’ And, he says, Mohammed Faraz Khan ’04, and tion dedicated to elevating openly businesses enhance customer rela- it can be a lot of fun, highlighting a George Varghese ’04. LGBTQ leaders who go on to careers tionships. The new company is part project in which he worked with a in politics, government, business, of a career in marketing that he says local winery and an alpaca farm.” 10TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 and advocacy. Chloe is the assis- the University prepared him well for. Rochester.edu/alumni/class/2009 tant director of alumni engage- He majored in health and society as 2006 Princy Thottathil ’10M 2009 Melissa Schoenberger ment at the University of California, an undergraduate, and some of his (MD) and Emmanuel Illical were published her first scholarly book, Davis. She adds, “I was also a fea- favorite classes were in sociology married in Long Island, New York, in Cultivating Peace: The Virgilian tured panelist for the University of and psychology, courses that he con- June 2018. Princy writes, “We were Georgic in English, 1650–1750 California system’s panel, LGBTQ @ tinues to find relevant to his work. lucky to be surrounded by family (Bucknell University Press). Melissa Work, despite not being an alumna.” He says his goal with his new compa- and friends from college, medical is an assistant professor of English, . . . As the Class of 2004 approach- ny is to show that marketing can be school, and residency from both the specializing in Restoration and es its 15th reunion, we asked Piffanie a tool for elevating customers’ expe- USA and Canada.” Pictured are (left 18th-century poetry, at the College Rosario ’20, a student employee in riences. ‘In my professional experi- to right) Kelly Townsend Jennings, of the Holy Cross in Worcester, University Communications, to catch ences I’ve noticed that companies Arielle Freshman Hall, Tess Massachusetts. . . . Emily Stone up with reunion committee member think of marketing in different silos. Troha-Thompson, Jessica Mayer, (see ’10). . . . Charity Wallace Chris Johnston ’06S (MBA). Here’s “This is what we do online.” “This is Julie Stoltman, Jessica William writes: “Since graduating in 2009, her report: what we do offline.” “This is what Cummings, Princy, Emmanuel, Tim I obtained my first master of sci- “Chris and his wife, Grace we do for consumer experience.” In DeGrave ’04, ’11S (MBA), Shivani ence degree, in pharmaceutical

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sciences, from the University of China together for a 10-day vacation. Maryland–Baltimore and worked We visited Shanghai and Beijing, in biotechnology as an associate including hiking the Mutianyu sec- scientist at both MedImmune and tion of the Great Wall of China. Le BioReliance in Montgomery County, and I were both members of the Maryland. As of January, I am a YellowJackets a cappella group on senior quality control analyst at campus. It’s fun to see where friend- AstraZeneca Manufacturing Facility ships made at Rochester will take based in Frederick, Maryland, with you in the world!” The photograph the goal to pursue a career in vali- shows Christopher, left, wearing a dation of analytical chemistry meth- Spirit R hat, and Le in front of the ods. In May I received my second Great Wall. Christopher adds that he master of science degree, in bio- lives in Richmond, Virginia. technology, from Johns Hopkins 2012 Campi University, and in the near future I 2012 Andrea Morrell Campi plan to start a nonprofit for women writes: “I am excited to note that and minorities in the STEM field I have completed my PhD in bio- based in Frederick, Maryland.” medical engineering from Columbia University. I defended my thesis in 2010 Le Doan (see ’11). . . . May and participated in Columbia Kathleen Maloney writes, “I have Engineering’s Class Day exercis- an exciting professional update: the es.” At Class Day, Andrea received biotech company Emily Stone ’09 a Graduate Student Life Award, and I work for, Entasis Therapeutics, presented to her by Vice Provost rang the NASDAQ closing bell in and Senior Vice Dean Soulaymane March. I have included a photo Kachani (see photo). The award from this very exciting day!” Katie “honors students whose participa- is a clinical project manager at tion and involvement at Columbia Entasis, which is based in Waltham, has enhanced the spirit of graduate Massachusetts. life on campus, creating a more pur- poseful, caring, and celebrative com- 2011 Alyssa Epstein sends a munity.” Andrea adds, “Beginning photo from her wedding and writes, this summer, I will be working as an 2012 Spielmann “I got married in April to Chris associate with Prescient Healthcare McDermott. I was fortunate to meet Group, a biopharma consulting com- some of my best friends at the pany in Jersey City, New Jersey. University of Rochester. Whether we I’m grateful for my Rochester BME formed bonds through shared dorm education and mentorship from rooms or sorority sisterhood, no the David T. Kearns Center that matter how these people came into brought me to this milestone.” . . . my life, they have each played a spe- Annamarie Spielmann writes that cial part. Our wedding wouldn’t have she married Joshua Yerkes last been the same without my Rochester December, surrounded by her clos- crew. Meliora!” Pictured from left to est Rochester friends and family, in right are Tiffany Chanthasensak, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Pictured Cristin Monahan, Alyssa and Chris, with Annamarie and Joshua are Susanna Virgilio ’12, Anna Richlin Robert Valdovinos, Lucas Piazza, Millstein ’12, and Michael Millstein. Katherine McLean DeVisser, . . . Christopher Young writes: “In Trevor Baisden, Chris Cummings, March, Le Doan ’10, who lives in Alissa Brill, Laura Sharkey Atlanta, Georgia, and I traveled to Takach ’11, Alyssa Shoup ’10, ’11W 2013 DiBartolomeo

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(MS), Matthew Spielmann ’09, 1967 John Webster (PhD) Megan Battin, Sthuthi David ’17M received a US patent for a new sleep (MD), Meredith Boyd, and Kurt apnea therapy device designed for Spielmann ’08. greater comfort. Unlike continu- ous positive airway pressure (CPAP) 2013 John DiBartolomeo ’13 machines, John’s device uses no helped lead Israeli basketball club added pressure. He also received Maccabi Tel-Aviv to an unprecedent- the 2019 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. ed 53rd Israeli Basketball Premier Education Medal “for excellence in League championship in June, scor- classroom teaching as well as the ing a team-high 15 points in an production of numerous reference 89–75 title game win over Maccabi texts that have fostered the develop- Rishon (see photo, page 55). He was ment of biomedical engineering as a the league’s Most Valuable Player discipline.” John is professor emeri- in 2016–17 and averaged 11.3 points tus of biomedical engineering at the this past season. The former All- University of Wisconsin–Madison. American point guard and Division 1975G Stulberg III National Player of the Year from 1969 Gershen Kaufman (PhD) Westport, Connecticut, finished his has published revised editions of Rochester career with 1,779 points, two books he coauthored: Stick Up third most in program history. for Yourself! Every Kid’s Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self- 5TH REUNION • OCTOBER 3–6 Esteem (Free Spirit) and A Teacher’s Rochester.edu/alumni/class/2014 Guide to Stick Up for Yourself! An 2014 As the Class of 2014 11-Session Course in Self-Esteem approaches its fifth reunion, we and Assertiveness for Kids (Free asked Piffanie Rosario ’20, a stu- Spirit). Greshen is a professor emer- dent employee in University itus of psychology at Michigan State Communications, to catch up with University. two members of the class—reunion committee member Kathryn 1973 Robert Greenhouse Flaschner ’17S (MBA) and Sara (PhD), after a 33-year career in Leung ’17S (MBA), the gift chair for the pharmaceutical industry at the reunion class. Here’s her report: 1983G Kiss Syntex/Roche, is serving on the “Now working in San Francisco as Spark Advisory Board at Stanford a senior manager at Walmart eCom- ager. She says, ‘I work at Walmart, I her. Now living in New York, she’s University School of Medicine. He’s merce, Kathryn says she expect- study acting, and I teach yoga. And part of the company’s bank support also an adjunct professor in the oto- ed her stay to be relatively short. that’s just kind of my story right now. team in sales but continues to have laryngology department, working But she has grown to love the West And I want to start my own com- close ties with the Rochester com- with researchers to build a safer ver- Coast. She describes her career as pany. They all fit together for me. munity. Thinking about the ways that sion of a commonly used class of having been influenced by many And that’s what Rochester showed life as a U of R student has changed antibiotic that can cause deafness. different industries, and she con- me.’ She’s excited to embrace new and the difference between grad- The Spark translational research nects part of that to the experi- opportunities and looks forward uating in 2014 as opposed to 2019, program recruits industry experts ences she gained at the University. to attending her fifth reunion after Leung believes students have more whose real-world experience can Initially studying political science spending so much time on the West opportunity to ‘take action and be used to complement discoveries and media studies as an undergrad- Coast.”. . . “Reflecting on postgrad- make a change’ as the University by Stanford scientists and students uate, she says, ‘I always joked that I uate life, Sara, a vice president at grows in resources and as soci- who are interested in drug discovery was dabbling in college,’ because of First American Equipment Finance in ety changes. She keeps up with the and development but lack the practi- the extent of her learning experienc- New York City, says the path to her University and says she admires the cal experience to develop them into es. But she says that the experience career was not always very clear. As students who are working to pro- products. The projects often focus benefited her in the end because of an undergraduate, she pursued a mote change in areas they’re pas- on orphan diseases and diseases of the influence it has had on the way BS in math and a BA in economics. sionate about. As the Class of 2014 underdeveloped countries. she sees the world. As an undergrad- She laughs, saying, ‘If you met me gift chair, she is looking forward to uate, she was a member of the field my freshman year, I still had no idea traveling to Rochester for her fifth 1975 Jim Sorensen, a professor hockey team, which was a huge part what I wanted to do, and for a while reunion.” of psychiatry at the University of of her education, eventually lead- I think I wanted to study music.’ California, San Francisco, was award- ing her to pursue collegiate coaching She eventually changed her mind 2017 Daniel Kannen (see ’85 ed a Fulbright Canada Research right after graduation. She earned and decided to pursue business. Eastman). Chair in Child and Youth Mental her MBA from the Simon Business Through the help of a career fair at Health at the University of Calgary School and claims that it opened her Rochester, she contacted the compa- for the 2018–19 academic year. His up to everything she could take on ny she currently works for and was Graduate project was titled “Linking Addiction beyond the athletic world, leading hired as an intern during her senior ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING Treatments and Research: Focus on her to technology consulting in San year. She slowly worked her way up Ethics.” He has been on the facul- Francisco. At Walmart, she says her in Rochester from sales intern to 1952 Joseph Weinstock (PhD) ty at UCSF since 1978 as a research goal is ‘building meaningful brands.’ operations intern to project manag- (see ’75). psychologist and then assistant, Flaschner makes clear, however, er—and eventually, to vice president associate, and full professor; in that her passions and interests go in New York City. She is grateful for 1965 Lynn Selke (PhD) (see ’61 2012 he received the George Sarlo beyond her position as a senior man- the company and all it has done for College). Prize for Excellence in Teaching. . . .

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rr_Summer2019.indb 56 8/5/19 10:08 AM CLASS NOTES Joseph (Josh) Stulberg (PhD) sends ence officer at GeoMed Analytical, time to time. She was a professor of Texas at Austin and the University of a photograph from a minireunion and several faculty appointments, music at the University of Arkansas Minnesota. he and his wife, Midge, hosted in at the University of Massachusetts at Fayetteville for 30 years. Sarasota, Florida. Pictured from left Boston, where she was found- 1977 Marie Rolf (PhD) translat- to right are Clyde (Louis) Putallaz ing dean of the School for the 1958 Dominick Argento (PhD) ed into English Claude Debussy: A ’69; Josh; Midge; Christine Thurber Environment, and at Arkansas State was honored posthumously in June Critical Biography by François Lesure Ervin ’74N, ’76W (MA); Hanni University. with a memorial concert at the (Boydell & Brewer), which was pub- Weinstock; and Joseph Weinstock University of Minnesota’s School of lished in June as part of the Eastman ’52 (PhD). 1998 Brock Clarke (PhD) had a Music. The program, curated and Studies in Music series. Marie is short story, “One Goes Where One conducted by Dominick’s longtime senior associate dean of graduate 1979 Jane Dubin (MS) (see ’78 Is Needed,” published in the Spring collaborator Philip Brunelle, cel- studies and a professor of music College). issue of the print literary journal ebrated the musical legacy of the theory at Eastman. Her translation is Ploughshares. Pulitzer Prize–winning composer. the first of what is widely recognized 1983 Elinda Kornblith Kiss Dominick joined the Minnesota fac- by scholars as the most comprehen- (PhD) was the 2019 recipient of the 2004 Betsy Huang (PhD) has ulty in 1958 and taught there until sive and reliable biography of Claude Allen J. Krowe Award for Teaching been named associate provost and 1997, when he was made professor Debussy. Excellence at the Robert H. Smith dean of Clark University in Wooster, emeritus. He died last February. School of Business of the University Massachusetts. She has been at 1978 Thomas Crawford conduct- of Maryland. She is an associate clin- Clark for 16 years, starting as an 1962 John Landis (see ’66 ed the American Classical Orchestra ical professor and Banking Fellows assistant professor of English. She College). when it concluded its season in Alice faculty champion in the Department was tenured and promoted to asso- Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in May of Finance. Elinda is pictured with ciate professor in 2010 and holds 1966 Joan Strait Applegate with Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Dean Alex Triantis and Associate the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein (PhD) (see ’47). “Eroica,” and Coriolan Overture Dean Debra Shapiro. Distinguished Professorship. She performed on period instruments. served as Clark’s first chief officer 1969 Max Stern writes that Max Thomas is the orchestra’s artistic 1992 Louis Roper (PhD) was of diversity and inclusion from 2013 Stern: Retrospective, a compila- director and founder. inducted into the State University of to 2016 and now serves as director tion of his biblical compositions, New York’s Distinguished Academy of the Center for Gender, Race and has been issued by the Israel Music 1981 Madeleine Mitchell (MM) as a Distinguished Professor at a Area Studies. Institute and Ministry of Culture of released a CD with her London June ceremony in Albany, New York. the State of Israel. Max is profes- Chamber Ensemble of world pre- Appointment to the Distinguished sor emeritus of Ariel University. . . . miere recordings by Welsh composer Faculty constitutes a promotion to Eastman School Andrea Podraskie Tolmich (see ’68 Grace Williams, Grace Williams: SUNY’s highest academic rank and is of Music Warner). Chamber Music (Naxos), in March. conferred by the State University of It was selected as the Guardian’s CD New York Board of Trustees. Louis is 1946 Evelyn (Evvie) Meyers 1970 Arthur Michaels has of the week. Madeleine has been a a professor of history at SUNY New Currie (see ’45 College). recently published several scores: violin professor at the Royal College Paltz, which he joined in 1995. “Mythical Royals and Their Heroic of Music in London since 1994. 1947 Joan Strait Applegate ’66 Defenders” (Bell Music) and 1993 JeeLoo Liu (PhD) writes (PhD) died in May, writes her daugh- “Euphotrombotonia” (Bell Music), 1985 Maria Lambros sends that she has been named a 2019 ter, Celia Applegate, formerly a both concert band pieces; as well as an update. She recorded the two Andrew Carnegie Fellow and will be professor of history at Rochester. “Dance Suite” (Gusthold Music) and Brahms viola quintets with the New able to devote two years to her pro- Joan spent most of her adult life “Sara’s Suite” (Gusthold Music), both Zealand Quartet for Naxos Records. posed project, “Confucian Robotic in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. three-movement works for string Helene Pohl is the quartet’s first Ethics,” which explores the possi- “She was professor emeritus at orchestra. His composition “St. violinist. Maria, a faculty member at bility of implementing Confucian Shippensburg State University and Thomas Excursion,” a movement in the Peabody Conservatory of Music, ethical codes into artificial moral spent her entire professional life “Dance Suite,” was premiered by the launched Our Joyful Noise Baltimore, agents (AMAs). The project “aims to teaching and performing music Symphoria Youth String Orchestra of a nonprofit organization that pres- promote ethical awareness among in one form or another. She was Syracuse, New York. ents a series of concerts featuring AI designers to construct artificial devoted to the Eastman School professional musicians in a veter- intelligence that will aid in human and always very proud to have 1973 Michael Sanders retired ans’ shelter, a women’s prison, and a flourishing rather than posing fore- her degrees from the University of after 27 years as principal tuba of cancer treatment residence as well seeable threats to human existence.” Rochester.” Joan’s husband, Jim, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. as for people living with autism in The author of Neo-Confucianism: whom she met while he was a lectur- Before joining the orchestra, the Baltimore community. Maria’s Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality er in English on the River Campus, Michael was principal tuba of the son, Daniel Kannen ’17, is an audio (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), she is chair died in 1997. In addition to Celia, San Antonio Symphony from 1973 engineer at Dolby Laboratories in and professor of philosophy at Joan is survived by three other to 1991 and also served as inter- San Francisco. California State University, Fullerton, children. im principal tuba with the Utah and the executive director of the Symphony during the 1987–88 and 1992 Gaelen McCormick was International Society for Chinese 1952 Barbara Garvey Jackson 1989–90 seasons. He was a featured named executive director of the Philosophy for the 2017–22 term. (MM) sends an update. She trans- soloist with each of the orchestras. Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival. ferred ownership of her music pub- Michael has given master classes in She is the program manager for 1997 Robyn Hannigan (PhD) lishing business, ClarNan Editions, to tuba performance at the Manhattan Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, is the new provost of Clarkson Classical Vocal Reprints, where it is School of Music, the University of teaches bass at the Eastman University, with its main campus now a division. She founded ClarNan, Michigan, the University of Missouri, Community Music School, and is a located in Potsdam, New York. Her which is devoted to publishing his- and the University of North Texas former member of the Rochester previous positions include pro- toric music by women composers, and was a featured performer at Philharmonic Orchestra. gram officer at the National Science in 1982. Barbara adds that she will the International Tuba Euphonium Foundation, cofounder and chief sci- continue to edit new volumes from Conferences at the University of 1996 Helen Pridmore (DMA)

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2009 Grace Vangeison Johnston writes that she created and pre- (PhD) (see ’04 College). miered a concert-length struc- tured improvisation for solo voice, 2010 Princy Thottathil (MD) “Sor Juana and the Silences.” The (see ’06 College). first performance was in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and more recent performances have taken School of Nursing place in Mexico City, with a Canada- wide tour in the works. 1955 Leona (Frosty) Frost Hess (see ’54 College). 2000 Nicole Kenley Miller received her DMA in vocal perfor- 1964 Sharon Whipple Selke mance and opera directing last (see ’61 College). December from the University of Houston upon the defense of her 1970 Nancy Heller Cohen dissertation, “Voicing Virginia: (see ’70 College). Adaptation of Woolf’s Words to 2011S John Music.” She has accepted the posi- 1972 Kathie Phillips King tion of production manager for the (see ’68 Warner). Moores Opera Center at her new alma mater. . . . Jassen Todorov 1974 Christine Thurber Ervin (MM) writes that he won the ’76W (MA) (see ’75 Graduate). American Experience category in the Smithsonian’s 2018 photo con- 1984 Beth Quinn Jameson test with his aerial photograph The received the 2019 Lester Z. Painful Aftermath. His image Unreal Lieberman Humanism in Healthcare was a finalist in the same category; Award. The award is sponsored by and Rochester Review published it the Healthcare Foundation of New in the Winter 2019 issue. Jassen is a Jersey and honors nursing students, professor of violin at San Francisco nursing faculty, and health care State University. employees in its Newark metro service area for demonstrating 2009 Nick Finzer (see ’14). outstanding compassion in caring for patients and their families. Beth is 2014 David Baskeyfield (DMA), 2015S Finch and Alcazaren an assistant professor at the College released his second CD, Dupré: of Nursing at Seton Hall University The American Experience (Acis and public health researcher, James Disease and Sickle Cell Trait (Hilton in South Orange, New Jersey. . . . Productions), featuring the music continues to conduct research as a Publishing). Jane Smith Tuttle (MS) (see ’79 of Paris Conservatoire professor of consultant. College). organ Marcel Dupré (1886–1971). 2002 Heather Gold (PhD) writes David is the music director at Christ 1980 Robert Smith (Flw) coau- that she was “promoted to full pro- Episcopal Church in Pittsford, New thored Essentials of Psychiatry in fessor at NYU Langone Health in the Simon Business York, near Rochester. . . . Alexa Primary Care: Behavioral Health in Departments of Population Health School Tarantino has released a debut the Medical Setting (McGraw-Hill). and Orthopedic Surgery in fall 2018. solo recording as a leader, Winds An earlier book, Smith’s Patient- I also was elected and am serv- 1979 George Holloway (MBA) of Change (Posi-Tone), with her Centered Interviewing: An Evidence- ing as the president of the Society coauthored Medical Obituaries: quartet, including trombonist Nick Based Method (McGraw-Hill), for Medical Decision Making.” . . . American Physicians’ Biographical Finzer ’09. A CD release celebration was released in a fourth edition. Kelli Harding (MD) has published Notices in Selected Medical Journals took place at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Robert is a University Distinguished The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Before 1907 (Volume 8) (Routledge). Dizzy’s Club in May. Professor and a professor of med- Happier, and Healthier with the Originally published in 1981 and then icine and psychiatry at Michigan Groundbreaking Science of Kindness again in 1995, Medical Obituaries State University. (Atria Books). The book explores is an extensive index of American School of how the social dimensions of health physicians and surgeons from the 1985 Mark Eisenberg pub- affect the body. Kelli is an assistant 18th and 19th centuries, before Medicine and lished an e-book, Case Studies in professor of psychiatry at Columbia the American Medical Association Dentistry Interventional Cardiology (McGraw- University Medical Center and is began publishing journals. The book Hill Education), which includes more board certified in psychiatry and also includes a list of graduating 1956 Carroll (Chuck) Hess (MD) than 300 videos, 165 multiple-choice neurology and the subspecialty psy- classes at American medical colleges (see ’54 College). questions, and 250 self-review ques- chosomatic medicine. before 1907. . . . Paul Thornton tions. Mark is a professor of med- (MBA) published The Joy of Cruising: 1977 James Mold (Res) writes icine and the director of the MD/ 2004 Roger Di Pietro (Pdc) Passionate Cruisers, Fascinating that after having written many jour- PhD program at McGill University in published Decoding Persistent Stories (BookBaby), a book of nal articles and book chapters, Montreal. Depression: Book Two—Mind and “anecdotes, stories, and profiles of he wrote his first complete book, Body Mysteries (Lulu), the second cruisers who have some unique or Achieving Your Person Health Goals: 1988 Lewis Hsu (MD/PhD) coau- book in a series investigating long- interesting perspective.” A univer- A Patient’s Guide (Full Court Press). thored the newly revised, fifth edi- term depression. Roger is a clinical sity administrator, Paul lives in Fort A retired primary care physician tion of Guidebook for Sickle Cell psychologist in private practice. Myers, Florida.

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1985 Jose Piazza (MBA), a char- sions and orientation at George ter trustee of Rutgers University, will Washington University. . . . Julie serve a second term as co–vice chair White (PhD) was named president of the board of trustees through of Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in 2023. He is a vice president of busi- Lakewood, Washington. Previously ness excellence finance at Verizon Julie was senior vice president of Communications. student engagement and learning support at Onondaga Community 1997 Julie Schultheiss Buehler College in Syracuse, New York. (MBA) was named vice president for finance and administration at SUNY 2014 Kevin McDonald (EdD) was Geneseo. Before her appointment, named vice president for diver- she was an executive consultant sity, equity, and inclusion at the at Mitrano and Associates, a con- University of Virginia. He previously sulting firm that advises nonprofit served as vice chancellor for inclu- and higher education institutions, sion, diversity, and equity at the and prior to that, vice chancellor University of Missouri–Columbia and for information services and strat- as chief diversity, equity, and inclu- egy and chief information officer sion officer for the University of at the University of Massachusetts, Missouri System. Amherst. Julie served in various roles, including deputy chief information officer, at the University of In Memoriam Rochester for 24 years before join- ALUMNI ing UMass. Angelina Boella ’42, April 2019 2006 Chris Johnston (MBA) Cathleen Beyer Robinson ’42E (see ’04 College). (MM), May 2019 Jean McCune Andrews ’4 3 , 2011 Serah John (MBA) writes: June 2019 “I recently won an award for Severn P. Brown ’4 3 , Excellence in Music Education at the May 2019 Times Power Women 2019 hosted 2018S Seroski Marie Zimmerman Costich ’44, by the Times of India, Bangalore.” ’45N, April 2019 Serah is the founder and CEO of Patrick J. DeCillis ’44, BlueTimbre Music in Bangalore. June 2019 Doris Woehr Fitze ’44, 2015 Adrian Finch (MBA) got May 2019 engaged to Mike Alcazaren, an MBA Nora Sigerist Beeson ’45, candidate at Simon. Mike writes, June 2019 “We got engaged in Norway this Evelyn Meyers Currie ’45, ’46E, spring. While chasing the northern June 2019 lights, we stopped off at a frozen Alfred Feinman ’45, lake in northern Norway, where I January 2019 popped the question. We’re planning Madeline Bramer Ingram ’45E, to get married next year at a small February 2018 ceremony in New England followed Marguerite Mollott Limansky ’45, by a large reception in Rochester for April 2019 friends and family. We’ll be moving Joyce Measor Rude ’45N, ’52, to Seattle this summer for my post- May 2019 MBA job at Amazon. We’re very Dorothy Purdy Amarandos ’46E, excited to start this next phase of ’47E (MM), our life together!” 1968W Van Slyke June 2019 Priscilla Gilbertson Eitel ’46E, 2018 Joseph Seroski (MBA) ’72N organized a luncheon get-to- 1976 Christine Thurber Ervin June 2019 and Diana Seroski welcomed gether in New Bern, North Carolina. (MA) (see ’75 Graduate). Evelyn Cumming Garvey ’46E (MA), their second child, Noa Teagan, in Bud and his wife, Marilyn, are seated March 2019 February. in the photograph; standing, left to 1989 Regla Pérez Pino (MS) Eleanore Hunt Vail ’46E, ’47E (MM), right, are Linda Golden, widow of (see ’89 College). January 2019 Warner School the late Robert Golden ’72 (PhD), Mildred Northrop Wiseman ’46E, Andrea Podraskie Tolmich ’69E, 1997 Michele Kucerak Stolberg May 2019 of Education Bob Sylvester ’63, Kathie, Doug (MS) (see ’67 College). Joan Strait Applegate ’47E, ’66E King, and Thomas Krissel ’75. (PhD), 1966 Judith Lehman Ruderman 2013 Solomou Costas (EdD) May 2019 (MA) (see ’64 College). 1970 Richard Kellog (EdD) pub- was named vice president for Arthur R. Frackenpohl ’47, ’49E lished the sixth volume of his chil- enrollment management at SUNY (MA), June 2019 1968 Irving (Bud) Van Slyke dren’s series, Barry Baskerville and Geneseo. He most recently served Robert S. Olcott ’4 7, (EdM) and Kathie Phillips King ’72, the Buried Treasure (Airship 27). as dean of undergraduate admis- May 2019

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Dickinson ’49M (MD), James F. Kahler ’55, Fred S. Ottley ’60, Carolyn Male ’68M (PhD), June 2019 April 2019 June 2018 June 2019 John F. Hanrahan ’4 9, Nancy Bauman Templeman ’55, ’62 Leonard A. Sauer ’60M (MD), Harry Trost ’68, March 2019 (MA), April 2019 April 2019 August 2017 Edward C. Atwater ’50, Sally Graves Wright ’55N, Henry I. Schick ’60W (Mas), Michael I. Berger ’69 (MA), April 2019 May 2019 March 2019 June 2019 Edward S. Brown ’50, Vivian Horn Wright ’55, Christopher S. Hyde ’61 (MA), Judith Ungrodt Evenson ’69E May 2019 April 2019 June 2019 (PhD), April 2019 Doris Geier Finegan ’50, Edward W. Barkley ’56, ’62 (MA), S. John Ingram ’61E, James W. Hudson ’69E (DMA), June 2019 April 2019 March 2018 June 2019 William E. Lambert ’50, John C. Citrolo ’56, Nicholas F. Nichols ’61W (Mas), Joseph R. Nunn ’69S (MBA), April 2019 March 2019 June 2019 May 2019 Mary Renick Nickles ’50, ’73W Erwin Delano ’56 (MS), ’66 (PhD), Barbara Tremaine Sanford ’61N, Ronald L. Schlitzer ’69M (MS), (MA), May 2019 June 2019 April 2019 March 2019 L. Louise Skakuj Rozwell ’50W Dolores Miller Dewhirst ’56N, Frances Wustrack Smith ’61, ’62N, Joan Lipscomb Solomon ’69W (Mas), April 2019 April 2019 April 2019 (Mas), June 2019 Charles R. Valenza ’50E, ’53E (MM), John P. Lembo ’56W (Mas), Alexander Sobieski ’61, Susan E. Stephens ’69, May 2019 March 2019 May 2019 May 2019 William F. Beveridge ’51, J. Russell Little ’56M (MD), Lionel W. Young ’61M (Res), Robert Stoessel ’69, June 2019 August 2018 April 2019 September 2017 Charlotte Lane Hamilton ’51, Ronald L. Phillips ’56E, Martien A. Mulder ’62M (MD), Mark A. Thorn ’69, April 2019 June 2019 June 2019 July 2018 Janet Canning Rae ’51N, Lawrence G. Silverstein ’56M (MS), Manuel J. Perez ’62, Kenneth R. Tintinger ’69W (Mas), April 2019 April 2019 March 2019 March 2019 Beverly Fanton Rahr ’51N, Ellen McFarlane Wightman ’56E, Charles F. Raetz ’62, Samuel J. Lanzatella ’70, May 2019 April 2019 April 2019 May 2019 Ray Rueby ’51, Carolyn Willis ’56E, Victor O. Stead ’62, Ray S. Messenger ’70S (MBA), April 2019 June 2019 April 2019 April 2019 Richard R. Ball ’52, Christopher H. Hodgman ’57M Leon C. Wallace ’63W (Mas), Dale W. Olson ’70 (PhD), May 2019 (Res), June 2019 May 2019 May 2019 Merrill R. Benson ’52, C. Anne Simpson House ’57E, Edmund S. Copeland ’64M (PhD), Paul J. Wiesner ’70M (Res), April 2019 May 2019 May 2019 June 2019 Lois A. Debes ’52, Charleen Dorwald Drotning ’58, Theodore J. Fischkin ’64, David P. Willoughby ’70E (PhD), March 2019 April 2019 June 2019 March 2019 Thomas A. Huffman ’52M (MD), Nancy Nickeson Kane ’58E, Glen C. Hadsell ’64E, Donald J. Galvin ’71, April 2019 March 2019 May 2019 March 2019 Robert N. McFadden ’52, Thomas T. Makielski ’58 (MS), Marian Todd ’64, ’68W (Mas), Deborah Rolfe Dabczynski ’72E, March 2019 June 2019 April 2019 March 2019 John R. Schactler ’52E (MM), Richard J. Martin ’58M (MS), Philip H. Bobrove ’65 (PhD), Pamela Roman ’72, May 2019 June 2019 April 2019 November 2017 Justin D. Call ’53M (Res), Ronald G. Matteson ’58 (MS), Rose Marie D’Silva ’65 (Flw), Robert W. Smith ’72M (MD), January 2019 April 2019 June 2019 May 2019 John W. Felton ’53, William A. Miller ’58, Philip A. Selwyn ’65, David N. Weart ’72W (EdD), January 2019 May 2019 May 2019 April 2019 Anita Kant Fleet ’53, Clark W. Perry ’58, Charlotte Konneker Wilson ’65W Christine Bodelson ’73, ’77N, May 2019 February 2019 (Mas), April 2019 April 2019 Frances Young Martin ’53, James W. Ring ’58 (PhD), Wendell Gale Ayers ’66 (MS), Baruch Gur ’73 (PhD), April 2018 April 2019 June 2019 June 2018 Joseph J. Ponazecki ’53, Karen Farney Vinkey ’58, ’59N Alexander R. Brinkman ’66E, ’78E Frank M. Smith ’73, January 2019 (Dpl), April 2019 (PhD), March 2019 April 2019 Robert B. Santone ’53, Elinor Binnebosel-Brown ’59, Roxanne McDonald Carr ’66, William P. Kirk ’74M (PhD), April 2019 March 2019 May 2019 April 2019 Alice Widell Augenti ’54, Frank C. Cegelski ’59M (MD), ’64M Douglas M. Astolfi ’67 (MA), Frederic W. Chapin ’75 (MS), May 2019 (Res), May 2019 June 2018 June 2019 Albert A. Caretto ’54 (PhD), Jean Marie Kimmel ’59N (Dpl), Richard G. Budynas ’67 (MS), Peter B. Lounsbury ’75S (MBA), June 2019 May 2019 June 2019 April 2019

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rr_Summer2019.indb 60 8/5/19 10:08 AM CLASS NOTES William E. Uhlendorff ’75, TRIBUTE June 2018 Terry J. Donovan ’76S (MBA), June 2019 Douglas Crimp: ‘To Live a Creative Life’ Richard G. Ensman ’76, ’82 (MS), Douglas Crimp changed my life. He also saved me the prospect of owning real estate terrified May 2019 Clifford T. Rubenstein ’76, my marriage, which is funny, since he thought him, so he rented. I remember visiting him at May 2019 marriage was a repressive institution of the state. his apartment in New York City. His huge desk Elizabeth Sammons ’76, But that was Douglas—incisive mind, capacious and bookshelves occupied the “living room.” We May 2019 heart. were eating lunch amidst his orchids at the small Beth Abrams ’77, My husband and I were married in Rochester table near the windows, and the Fed Ex man December 2017 the weekend before I started in the PhD pro- walked in. Douglas said it happened all the time James C. Powers ’77M (Res), gram in Visual and Cultural Studies. The first because “they don’t think anyone lives here”—all April 2019 two years were a rough transition for us, not the other building occupants were businesses. Kathryn Paden Touhey ’77, least of all because we Southern Californians Douglas expressed his resistance to normativ- May 2019 had never experienced winter and we moved ity in his scholarship, his activism, in the art he John F. Oddo ’78E (MM), April 2019 to Rochester without a car. So when Douglas, loved, and the way he lived. He wrote me once Craig H. Duncan ’79M (PhD), the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art His- saying that he felt like a “freak” in Rochester June 2019 tory, loaned me his car while he was traveling, because, “I went to see the live broadcast of the Tania Homonchuk ’79M (MD), our life became easier. But more than the April 2019 car, it was the talks with Douglas to and Howard Sohnen ’79M (MD), from the airport that felt freeing. He was May 2019 always going somewhere, writing some- Byron E. Carson ’81, thing new, visiting some brilliant scholar June 2019 or curator or artist. I cherished those car Joseph D. Deal ’82 (PhD), rides. His feet were so big, sometimes when April 2019 Rosemary Fontaine ’83, he’d push the gas pedal his foot would in- March 2019 advertently also press down on the brakes. Dennis P. Lorah ’83 (PhD), I remember his big winter gloves on the June 2019 steering wheel. The smell of brakes. I miss Lawrence Pass ’83M (Res), listening to him. If he was going on a long June 2019 trip, he would bring me his citrus fruit so it Mark S. Hierholzer ’84E (MM), wouldn’t go to waste. On one of our rides, September 2018 he told me that when he was growing up in Joan Samuels Schwartz ’84, ’89 Idaho, one birthday he wished for all the ba- (MS), April 2019 con he could eat. So I started getting bacon William C. Ness ’85M (MD), April 2019 for him. Oranges out, bacon in. That was Elaine Abbott ’86W (Mas), our routine. When he was away, I’d drive June 2019 around Rochester in his rusty green Nis- Bruce R. Waring ’88, san Sentra, listening to his opera cassettes, January 2019 and I’d imagine the constellation of artists Christopher Kent ’89M (MD), and activists and theorists that surround- May 2019 ed Douglas, and that I might someday be F. Matthew Jackson ’91, ARTFUL LIFE: World-renowned art critic and queer theorist a part of too. Crimp, seen in a portrait by photographer Catherine Opie, March 2019 Then Douglas hired me to assist him with Seth L. Abrams ’92, cared “about living and thinking.” the research for his book on Andy Warhol’s April 2019 Joshua B. Levine ’93, films. He was adamant that my work for him not Bolshoi production of The Pharaoh’s Daughter May 2019 interfere with the progress of my own research. (admittedly not the best-known ballet) at Tin- Melissa Greene ’95, Little did he know that this would be one of the seltown Greece and I was the ONLY person in April 2019 most inspiring and informative experiences of the audience.” I love to imagine him there, in that Donna Marie McCagg ’95N (MS), my life. In helping him, I learned how he re- suburban multiplex theater, all alone, watching June 2019 searched, what threads he followed, how he put ballet. I find it totally inspiring. Ellen Swartz ’96W (PhD), it all together. As I look back on all that Douglas taught me January 2018 When Douglas died in July, those who had en- about the queer world and art and writing, I re- Chalice (Summer) Averett ’99, ’16S countered his work remembered him as one of alize that what he really showed me is what it (MS), November 2018 the world’s most important critics of contempo- means to live a creative life.r William E. Schneider ’00M (Res), ’05M (Res), March 2019 rary art and a foundational thinker in queer the- —Lucy Mulroney ’13 (PhD) Yuri Blinov ’09E (DMA), ory. For me, he was a friend and a mentor, from April 2019 whom I learned how to write. Mulroney is the associate director of collections, Troy Harrison ’13M (Res), Douglas was a beautiful writer. But he didn’t research, and education at the Beinecke Rare March 2019 archive himself. He threw away most of his ear- Book & Manuscript Library at Yale. She is Zachary Cook ’18, ly drafts. He cared more about living and think- also the author of Andy Warhol, Publisher April 2019 ing than he did about keeping things. He told (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

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threat of ISIS–inspired The Red Ribbon: A Memoir Books groups, she argues that of Lightning and Rebuilding The Little Book of Pain Management far-right nationalism and After Loss By James Woods et al neo-Nazi movements By Nancy Freund Bills ’76 (MA) University of Rochester, 2019 pose the greater threat. She Writes Press, 2019 Woods, a professor in the Perry is a consultant and In a memoir of love, grief, Department of Obstetrics a senior associate with and survival, Bills reflects and Gynecology at the the Democratization Pol- on her life after a freak Medical Center—joined icy Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina. lightning strike left her by contributors from the husband dead and her son Medical Center’s depart- The Winter Army: The in critical condition. Bills ments of anesthesiology, World War II Odyssey of the 10th is a retired clinical social psychiatry, surgery, and Mountain Division, America’s Elite worker. others—offers a comprehensive guide to Alpine Warriors understanding the biology and manage- By Maurice Isserman ’79 (PhD) Principle Based Enterprise ment of pain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 Architecture: A Systematic Isserman tells the story Guide to Enterprise Architecture Decoding Persistent Depression: of the US Army mountain and Governance Book Two—Mind and Body Mysteries troops—the first special- By Ian Koenig ’82 By Roger Di Pietro ’04M (Pdc) ized alpine fighting force Technics Publications, 2019 Lulu, 2019 in American history— Koenig provides a In the second book in a who broke the last line of guide to Principle series, Di Pietro, a clinical German defenses, in the Based Enterprise Ar- psychologist in private Italian Alps, in 1945. chitecture, or PBEA, a practice, explores com- Isserman is the Publius Virgilius Rogers method of enterprise mon perceptions of mind- Professor of American History at Hamil- architecture he honed body dichotomy, the ton College. as chief architect most conscious and uncon- recently of LexisNexis, scious, the role of emo- Dr. Angela Longo’s Quantum and before that, Thomson Financial and tions, defining neurotic characteristics, Wave Living Workbook: Tools for Reuters. the diverse origins of problematic per- Discovering and Living My Eternalself ceptions and goals, and the functions of By Angela Longo ’70 Case Studies in various symptoms. Balboa Press, 2019 Interventional Cardiology Longo offers a self-help By Mark Eisenberg ’85M (MD) Passing Fancies in Jewish American workbook intending to McGraw-Hill Education 2019 Literature and Culture guide readers “to an Eisenberg’s e-book in- By Judith Ruderman ’64, ’66W (MA) understanding of how a cludes firsthand accounts Indiana University Press, 2019 quantum worldview of 50 cardiac catheteriza- Ruderman, a visiting can be used to structure tion cases featuring coro- scholar of English at a successful life.” She nary anomalies and Duke University, explores has a doctorate in bio- severe complications that the phenomenon among chemistry from the University of Califor- may occur during coro- American Jews of “pass- nia, Berkeley. nary angioplasty. The ac- ing” in and out of Jewish- counts are accompanied by videos and ness, showing the ways in Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography self-review questions. Eisenberg is the di- which American Jews By François Lesure; translated from the rector of the MD/PhD program at McGill have balanced deep engagement in Jewish French by Marie Rolf ’77E (PhD) University in Montreal. history with an understanding of identity Boydell & Brewer, 2019 as fluid and multifaceted. Rolf presents the first En- The Last Offering glish translation of Le- By Donald Graff ’87 Extremism and Violent Extremism in sure’s comprehensive BookLocker, 2019 Serbia: 21st-Century Manifestations biography of the influen- Graff’s debut novel “tells of an Historical Challenge tial composer Claude the tale of the lovers Pazhè Edited by Valery Perry ’92 Debussy. Rolf is senior and Atirin, sundered by ibidem Press/ associate dean of gradu- deadly sorceries and the Columbia University Press, 2019 ate studies and a profes- return of a forgotten evil Perry explores the varieties of extrem- sor of music theory at Eastman. The book in an ancient land.” ism in Serbia and their interconnections. is part of the Eastman Studies in Music While much attention has focused on the Series.

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rr_Summer2019.indb 62 8/5/19 10:08 AM BOOKS & RECORDINGS The Vatican’s Vault Lost in Startuplandia: Wayfinding Brahms: String Quintets By Barry Libin ’65 for the Weary Entrepreneur By Maria Lambros ’85E Milford House Press, 2019 By E. Keller Fitzsimmons ’93 Naxos, 2019 Through a story of Lioncrest Publishing, 2019 Lambros, a violist and intrigue and murder, Fitzsimmons presents a faculty member at Libin explores divisions field guide of personal Johns Hopkins Univer- within the Catholic “trials and triumphs, as sity’s Peabody Conser- Church as well as the well as those of other en- vatory of Music, commandment “thou trepreneurs, to share our performs with the New shall not covet.” most valuable lessons for Zealand Quartet, which includes first vio- surviving start-up fail- linist Helene Pohl ’85E. ure.” Fitzsimmons is a co- Connected: The Emergence of Global founder of Custom Reality Services, a Animi Consciousness virtual reality (VR) production company. By Shauli Einav ’08E (MM) By Roger Nelson ’62 Berthold Records, 2019 ICRL Press, 2019 The Joy of Cruising: Passionate Jazz saxophonist Einav Nelson describes the Cruisers, Fascinating Stories presents his sixth album Global Consciousness By Paul Thornton ’79S (MBA) as a quintet leader. Project, a 20-year re- BookBaby, 2019 search program stem- Thornton offers anec- ming from his work at dotes, stories, and profiles Princeton University’s of cruisers from around Engineering Anomalies the globe. He lives in Fort Winds of Change Research Lab, and other Myers, Florida. By Alexa Tarantino ’14E scientific work on human consciousness. Posi-Tone, 2019 Jazz saxophonist Taran- Barry Baskerville and the Buried tino presents her debut Treasure recording as a band By Richard Kellogg ’70W (EdD) Stick Up for Yourself! Every Kid’s leader. Performing in Airship 27, 2019 Guide to Personal Power and her quartet is trombon- Kellogg presents the Positive Self-Esteem (Revised) ist Nick Finzer ’09E. sixth volume in his By Gershen Kaufman ’69 (PhD) detective series de- and Lev Raphael Dupré: The American Experience signed to help young Free Spirit, 2019 By David Baskeyfield ’14E (DMA) readers develop Kaufman coauthors a re- Acis Productions, 2018 problem-solving vised edition to the book Organist Baskeyfield skills. originally published in performs music of leg- 1999. He has also released endary virtuoso Marcel Not Gonna Write Poems: A Poetry A Teacher’s Guide to Stick Dupré. Book for All the Non Poets Up for Yourself! An By Michael Lee ’90 11-Session Course in Lulu, 2019 Self-Esteem and Asser- Lee presents a collection tiveness for Kids (Free Spirit). Kaufman is Max Stern: Retrospective of whimsical poems and a professor emeritus of psychology at By Max Stern ’69E sketches for children. Michigan State University. Israel Music Institute, 2019 The book includes illus- The Israel Music Insti- trations by Lee and his tute presents a retro- 10-year-old daughter, Recordings spective recording of Jessica. biblical compositions by Grace Williams: Chamber Music Stern, a professor emer- By Madeleine Mitchell ’81E (MM) itus at Ariel University. Billionaire’s Paradise: Ecstasy at Sea Naxos, 2019 By Peter Antonucci ’82 Mitchell and her Lon- Books & Recordings is a compilation of Willow Street Press, 2019 don Chamber Ensemble recent work by University alumni, faculty, In his debut novel, Anto- perform world- and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming nucci tells a tale of the premiere recordings of issue, send the work’s title, publisher, scandalous lives of a music by Welsh com- author, or performer, a brief description, group of socialites in poser Grace Williams. and a high-resolution cover image, to Manhattan and the The recording was featured in March as Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, Hamptons who purchase the Guardian’s CD of the week. Mitchell 22 Wallis Hall, Box 270044, University of and live on a mega yacht. is a professor of violin at the Royal Col- Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or by lege of Music in London. email to [email protected].

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Tuning in to Sonic Culture Take out your earbuds and just listen. The world may “look” different, says musicologist Gabrielle Cornish ’13, ’16E (MA). Interview by Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) listen. What things do they hear? Walking down the street, do they hear construction? How do they know when to cross the street? I studied music and Russian studies at Rochester as an undergrad Is it just by looking at the light that tells you to walk, or is it also and then did a Fulbright year in Russia. When I came back to East- from hearing the sound of beeping? Likewise, technologies like man for the PhD program in musicology, I didn’t even know there Facebook and iPhones use specific sounds for messages and texts. was a field called sound studies. I had never heard of that. Fortu- That’s very much a conscious decision on the part of the compa- nately, in our first-year graduate student seminar, our professor. nies to brand their sonic identity. Lisa Jakelski, took us through things like gender and music, sexu- ality and music, race in music—and we had a day on sound studies. Music and sound can tell us a very different story about moments in history than looking at the material or the visual can. I’m re- I had just come back from a year in Siberia, and I remember walk- searching sonic culture in the Soviet Union, and narratives have ing around my hometown and having to stop because I heard really coalesced around material and visual culture. Americans the sound of crickets. I hadn’t heard that the entire time I was in are familiar with the Kitchen Debate—that iconic image of Rich- Siberia. The period of absence really reinforced that sound and ard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev debating the merits of capital- made it quite loud, so to speak. So as we were going through the ism versus communism while standing outside a model kitchen literature on sound studies, all I could think was how sound could with fancy American appliances. Who’s got the bigger kitchen, place me not only physically but also temporally. who’s got the nicer appliances?

We become conditioned to different listening contexts, and they Looking at the sonic side of things, if you look at what Soviet become part of who we are and how we ground ourselves in a mo- citizens are writing and saying about improved appliances like ment in space. When I teach sound studies, I challenge students televisions, radios, and record players, you start to see a narra- to go about their business without listening to music and just to tive about a brand-new listening etiquette. People were saying, “We’re glad for the material reforms, but how do we actually be respectful, sonically?” What they often argued was that the Soviet Union was supposed to have a commitment to Gabrielle Cornish the health and welfare of the masses that capitalist ’13, ’16E (MA) countries did not. New York was a very popular foil, as “the city that never sleeps.” That’s not PhD candidate (musicology) at the Eastman School healthy. So the view was, how do we have prog- of Music; Critical Language Scholar, summer ress but with an awareness of social impact. 2012; Fulbright Scholar (Russia), 2013–14; author of “The Soundtrack to Space Explora- I don’t think there’s a single American sonic tion,” in Slate magazine, February 2019 culture. But I absolutely do think there’s On the distinction between music and a growing concern for noise abatement noise: “At its core, it’s a value-based in the United States. A growing group distinction. Music is good; it implies of scientists, architects, musicologists, something that’s organized. Noise is and just ordinary people are calling at- bad, noise is disorder, noise is chaos. In tention to it. There are things within the 20th century, a lot of composers our control, like the volume on iPods. pushed against that. And I think about But many things are out of our con- discourses that emerged in the 1980s trol. Restaurants and bars are becom- and 1990s against rap and hip hop— ing much louder. There are studies that ‘that’s just drums and noise’—that were show that the louder the music at a bar, rooted in racism in addition to aesthetic the more people drink. So some businesses values. There’s a hierarchy, and it’s some- play music more loudly so that people thing to be aware of but also something will spend more money. to push against.” On the sonics of the University: “If I live near the [Rochester pub] you’re on the River Campus, the car- Old Toad. If I want to have a illon in Rush Rhees Library is a really meaningful conversation, it’s powerful sonic landmark. That sound places where I’ll go, more often than you physically at U of R.” not. It’s a good little pub. And it’s quieter.r

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