Spring 2011, Vol. xVI, No. 1

QueensThe Magazine of Queens College

FindingFinding SuccessSuccess inin aa WorldWorld ofof FantasyFantasy Jeff Gomez ’85, Co-Founder and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, Shepherds Hollywood Movies into Transmedia Franchises

Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 1 QueensThe Magazine of Queens College From left: Prof. Mark Rosenblum meets spring 2011, VOL. XVI, NO. 1 with student facilitators Mohiba Nasimi and Jamar Whaley and CERRU Assistant Director Steven Appel (see p. 22)

Political feelings ran high on campus Mailbag during my time. Around 1949 or 1950 a 10 student named Walter Moomjy ’52 started a Snapshots from Homecoming how many graduations? Alan Krawitz rival to the Crown with the aim of bringing I write with some puzzlement and seek a conservative voice to the college. It was clarification. called Ramparts (or maybe the Rampart— 12 On the back of Queens Magazine, it’s been 60 years). I graduated in January An Institution in His Own Writings Summer-Fall 2010 issue, we see a full-page David McKay Wilson 1951 and never found out how much longer photo with text which says “The College’s either paper was published. 86th Commencement.” In those days the college also boasted 15 86th??? a humor magazine called the Queen’s Life with Big Bird Queens College was founded in 1937, Garter. Its editorial board consisted of Paul Ken Handel and its first Commencement was in June Berman, Herb Gussack, Jerry Lavin, Hank 1941. I know, because I entered QC in Levine, Ivan Levine, Dick Ruffine, Joan 16 September 1941, as was thought of by Veit, and Willa Witkin. I recall that the Master of the Digital Universe some of us as “the second round.” After faculty adviser, Dr. Dwight Durling of the Donna Shoemaker three years away to fight WWII, I graduated English Department, was highly amused in mid-year: January 1948 with a BS in by the apt motto the editors put on the mast- 19 physics from the recently formed physics head: Honi soit qui mal y pense (“Shame be Something to Sing About department. (I had to major in chemistry Donna Shoemaker We BOTH have something in common . . . to him who thinks evil of it”). I still have initially when I entered because there was a copy of the May 1950 issue (Volume 1, no physics department.) No. 2). 20 I then went on to an MA and PhD William Hyder ’51 Setting High Goals in astronomy (1949 and 1956) from Alan Krawitz we chose Columbia, MD Harvard University, although life has taken unexpected turns since. [For some of those Send your letters to Queens: The Magazine of 22 unexpected turns, see Alumni Notes, p. Queens College, Queens College, Kiely Hall 808, Meeting in the Middle Queens College. 28.–Editor.] Flushing, NY 11367 or [email protected]. David McKay Wilson So how do you come up with 86 Commencements? If they were annual, that 33 would take us back to 1924, long before Alumni Families there was a QC. Or are there multiple Donna Shoemaker commencements each year now? I figure We chose Queens College for its high academic standards, world-class faculty, and affordability. on the cover that there could only be 69, as of 2010, if SECTIONS they remained annual. Adore, painting by But public support provides only a fraction of funding for the college. Gifts to the Annual Fund News Athletics Bookshelf Explanation, please. Thanks. Jasmine Becket- 4 8 25 make up the difference and keep quality education accessible for students willing to work hard to Franklin E. Kameny ’48 Griffith. Jeff Gomez 26 Giving Back 28 Alumni Notes reach their goals. Ensure that Queens College is a choice for future students. Washington, DC and his production 32 2010 Honor Roll company Starlight From 1942 to 1959—excluding 1944 Runner Entertain- Choose to support the Queens College Annual Fund. and 1945—the college also held a ment have teamed commencement in February.–Editor with Witchfactory Make your gift today by visiting www.qc.cuny.edu/supportqc Productions to create a cross-media newspaper wars fantasy world for young girls appropri- or calling 718-997-3920. Tuition ssistant for ommunications Your Summer-Fall 2010 issue carried a letter A VP C | Maria Terrone ately dubbed Adore, inspired by Griffith’s Editor | John Cassidy State from my classmate Richard Richter stating popular artwork. The project is the first Creative Director | Dyanne Maue Design Manager | Georgine Ingber Funding that the Queens College student newspaper, of many original productions that will Staff Designers | Jefferson Caballero, Kia Watkins launched in 1937, was called the Crown. An be coming out of Gomez’s studio. Staff Writers | Leslie Jay, Jacquelyn Southern article printed earlier had erroneously given Staff Photographer | Nancy Bareis GIfts & (See story p. 16.) it another name. Other Sources Copyright © 2011 by Queens College.

2 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 3 QUEENS NEWS Year of China Celebration Continues Positive Reception February 2. A show by classically trained Through the generosity of a QC professor, a wedding-that-wasn’t booked space at Dressler, an elegant eatery in the bride’s Wil- Chinese artist Mansheng Wang opened raised thousands of dollars for a Brooklyn soup kitchen. liamsburg neighborhood. But about half a year before the big day, February 15 in the Godwin-Ternbach Robin Rogers (Sociology) and her fiancé, Boston-based they came amicably uncoupled. In a gallant gesture, Overholser Museum. (At left is his work from the investment banker George Overholser, had set a date. They had told Rogers that she could keep the $4,500 they’d spent on the Memory of Autumn series.) The rest of the restaurant reservation and save-the-date cards. So she decided schedule includes lectures, performances to sell tickets at $99 apiece and hold a gala fund-raiser on De- by the New Shanghai Circus (right) and cember 5 for the Greenpoint Reformed Church soup kitchen, pianist Joel Fan, and the U.S. premiere of a also in Williamsburg. ballet choreographed by Yin Mei (Dance). “I’ve been lightly involved with the soup kitchen since its At the end of the semester, two dif- founding a few years ago,” explains Rogers, who evaluates anti- ferent groups will travel to China for poverty and anti-homelessness programs. “It’s in my community Halfway through the Year of China, the col- an in-country experience. QC and it’s well run. I knew everything I’d give would actually go to lege is looking forward to a second semes- students will go to Szechuan needy people.” Meanwhile, the soup kitchen’s own needs had ter of Sino-centric activities. “This has been University, and some risen; by last summer, it was distributing more than 400 bags of an extremely successful program that has faculty and staff members groceries a week, a greater than tenfold increase since it began reached into every pocket of the campus, will visit operations. involving students, faculty, and staff,” says sites in Upon learning of Rogers’s plans, plenty of people offered their Director of Asian Initiatives Marleen Kas- the support. Cheree Berry Paper, the company that had designed sel. “We’ve presented lectures, seminars, provinces of Rogers’s save-the-date cards, reworked them gratis into invita- performances, exhibitions, and student- Szechuan and Beijing as part tions that volunteers cranked out on a manual letterpress; the sponsored events. Some of the most distin- of a professional development seminar. cards were mailed to community activists. For an auction to be guished experts on China have given talks Based on the success of the Year held at the dinner, Jane Wilson-Marquis donated a wedding gown. and met with faculty and students privately. of China, QC is already planning similar Rogers’s wedding planner put together awards to honor several This program has solidified existing collabo- multidisciplinary programs that focus on individuals who had helped the soup kitchen. rations and opened new channels.” other nations. Turkey, India, Brazil, and Other donors wrote checks. Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s This spring promises more of the same. South Africa—chosen by consensus from “Mad Money,” sent in $200. All told, the fund-raiser brought in Chinese New Year was celebrated with a list of nearly 20 countries—will be the more than $13,500, with roughly a third of that from ticket sales a luncheon in the Student Union on subjects of the next four Years to come. and the rest from contributions. For her efforts, Rogers got a lot of media attention—“very embarrassing”—and praise from Brooklyn Borough President Tackling Tough Environmental Issues Marty Markowitz, who asked her to stand up at his state-of-the- In December in one of his last acts as governor, year after year. Previous classes have tackled borough address on February 3. “Since the dinner, there has been David Paterson vetoed legislation that would Mayor Bloomberg’s call for “greener” prac- a little more attention to issues in the immediate neighborhood,” have imposed a moratorium on the use of the tices at all city institutions and the feasibility Daily News says Rogers. “The event itself was fun.” And the food at Dressler, controversial hydraulic fracturing method of of converting to all renewable energy sources At the Greenpoint Reformed Church’s soup kitchen, which has earned a star from the Michelin Guide’s New York drilling for natural gas in New York State. Of in 10 years. Bernard Chadwick and Robin Rogers season food City edition four years in a row? “I don’t know,” laughs Rog- particular concern to environmentalists have Hendrey is an engineer. Consequently, he preparation with laughter. ers. “Like any good hostess, I didn’t eat it.” been plans to use this method to drill in the says he tends to approach every problem as vast geologic region known as the Marcellus an engineering problem, deconstructing it Shale that includes much of the watershed area backwards from the stated objective. This is from which New York City receives its water. the process he teaches his students. Children’s Author Experiences Crazy Success At about the same time, a class run by “The underlying objective of the course Distinguished Professor George Hendrey is for students to learn something about how Rita Williams-Garcia ’97 has written six critically acclaimed novels for mer, she relied instead on her memo- (Earth & Env. Sciences) in Environmental projects are created and managed. I run the young adults. But One Crazy Summer (HarperCollins)—her latest title ries of the book’s time and place. “I was Problem Solving was putting the finishing class like a small consulting firm: Our little firm and her first for middle-grade readers—may be her biggest success 11,” says the author, a Queens native touches on a 241-page report of its own has just received a contract to produce a re- yet. It’s been cited as a best book by the Boston Globe, the Horn Book, who grew up in California. “I kept a analysis of this issue: An Assess- port, and it has to be delivered by December 1. Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; it was named diary and remembered the climate of ment of Natural Gas Extraction “Then,” he continues, “there has to be a from the Marcellus Shale in process, not just of writing but of the project’s a Newberry Honor Book; it received the Coretta Scott King Award things.” For additional inspiration, she Now on display in the Music Building, the New York City Water management,” including editing and determin- and the Scott O’Dell Prize for Historical Fiction; it’s an NAACP Image immersed herself in African American this painting of Karol Rathaus was Supply Region. ing the format of the report, devising a flow Award nominee and a National Book Award finalist. “Summer is my art and literature of the period and recently donated by his son, Bernt. The With extensively re- chart, and more. lucky number seven,” says Williams-Garcia. “I’m still grappling with all of read transcripts of the murder trial of early years of music at QC were substan- searched text, charts, “They deliver to me a preliminary outline this. I’m kind of speechless.” Panther co-founder Bobby Seale. The tially shaped by Rathaus, a Polish-born graphs, illustrations, and develop that into an expanded outline Unfolding in 1968, Summer is a compelling mix of the personal and results feel authentic. “I hear a lot from composer who immigrated to the United and photographs, together with what sources of information the political, told from a child’s perspective: Three young girls visit their people who either connect with the States during World War II. Rathaus joined Hendrey’s 19 students they’re going to draw upon. absentee mother in Oakland, California, where she enrolls them in a truth of the book or are curious about the faculty as a professor of composi- provided an in-depth “With such a broad topic,” says Hendrey, camp run by the Black Panthers. “I knew the Black Panthers had served the 1960s,” she continues. tion in 1940, a position he occupied look at one of the most “the trick is to constrain the class so they can children, but that angle hadn’t been pursued,” Williams-Garcia explains. Now at work on her next project—“a gaming novel set in an until his death in 1954. In 1961 the compelling environ- write something and get something done.” “I approached a little-talked-about subject in recent American history alternative future, written with boys in mind”—Williams-Garcia plans music department moved into its mental issues of the They have. And given their record to date, and made it accessible to young minds.” to revisit the characters in Summer, but not yet. “I didn’t want to go own building, Karol Rathaus Hall. To research her previous novel, Jumped, about contemporary urban directly to a sequel,” she says. “First I want to rediscover what is new day—which is something Hendrey’s classes will continue to do so for teens, she hung out in New York City high schools. When writing Sum- and what I love about the story.” his classes have been doing years to come.

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College Obtains Personal Library of Civil Rights Leader Forman The “Jeopardy”-Winning Voice of Watson Speaks The announcement in November that Queens College’s Civil entering our curriculum from the moment of acquisition as our Rights Archive had acquired the library of one of the major graduate students are working with them.” Developing speech skills in Watson, a relationship between the college and IBM,” says Rosenberg. figures of the Civil Rights Movement marked not only a major Given Forman’s stature, interest in the archive will expand the machine that trounced top hu- As far as the computer was concerned, “IBM already had a very coup in efforts to build the collection, but also significant considerably with this acquisition, says Alexander. “Until now, man competitors on “Jeopardy,” was good speech synthesis system,” he observes. “Watson could read recognition of the commitment the college has made to seeing we’ve had this tremendous resource, but it was largely from a anything but elementary, says Andrew free text very well. But the words it would make a mistake on were that materials related to this chapter of the nation’s history are northeast liberal perspective. We’ve now advanced to a much Rosenberg (Computer Science). He ‘Jeopardy’ words—foreign words, foreign-derived words, proper preserved for future study. more national presence. We can advertise to a much broader should know: In December 2009 nouns, medical terms. We had to identify those types of words and James Forman, who died in 2005, is best known for his audience and a much broader group of scholars. And once you he became part of the team that either improve the pronunciation rules, or just tell the computer work as the executive secretary of the Student Non-violent break that ice, it’s really exciting.” prepped the IBM computer for its how to pronounce the word. Our fear was that Watson would gen- Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His collection contains Julian Bond, one of the founders of the SNCC, spoke at QC television debut. erate a correct answer that became incorrect through mispronun- roughly 2,000 books, over 2,100 pamphlets, academic journals, on February 17 about his friend and colleague Forman. Mem- IBM had invested three years in ciation.” Puns and category names such as “Rhyme Spr‘ee’,” in which and printed ephemera, as well as a variety of audio and moving bers of Forman’s family were also present. programming a computer to play the every answer ended in “ee,” were also problematic. Nonetheless, the image material. Many of the boxes in which they were received game; as originally designed, the artificial contestant could display machine’s only lapse in speech was to say “Deng fever” instead of have not been opened since Forman sealed them himself over answers on a screen. But Sony, the owner of “Jeopardy,” thought “Dengue,” an answer that wasn’t considered wrong. 25 years ago. a talking computer would make for better television. That’s why “Watson did just fine,” concludes Rosenberg. So did he. “The “The acquisition was a textbook example of how to build Rosenberg, a new QC faculty member specializing in speech and responses after the fact have been great,” the professor says. “It’s an archive,” says Ben Alexander (Graduate School of Library & language processing, was asked to join the project. Once a week, he remarkable to be getting emails from department heads and deans Information Studies), explaining how the school’s creation of went to IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, a year and a half into my stay here.” But the experience will not in- the archive—which began with acquisitions from alumni who to collaborate with research scientist Raul Fernandez and his staff. spire him to follow his automated protégé on to “Jeopardy.” A regu- were active in the civil rights movement—along with a related “Everyone at QC was very supportive and farsighted enough to lar participant in bar trivia contests on Wednesday nights, Rosenberg website have generated considerable interest among historians. realize that this would not only promote Queens, but also establish would never dream of entering a quiz show himself. “It was a combination of word of mouth and the demon- stration on the part of the department and the institution that we’re serious about this,” he continues. “We’re getting these Armstrong Archives: Now Available Around the World materials made public quickly and democratically, and they’re Louis Armstrong, one of America’s jazz greats, lived for almost three www.louisarmstronghouse.org/collections/online_catalog.htm. The decades in a modest house in the working-class neighborhood of archives include more than 5,000 sound recordings, 15,000 photo- Corona, just four miles from Queens College. After the death of his graphs, the 30 filmsA rmstrong appeared in, 100 scrapbooks, and 20 wife, Lucille, in 1983—a dozen years after Louis’ passing in 1971— linear feet of letters and papers. the house became the property of NYC’s Department of Cultural The museum’s holdings offer “an intensely personal look at who Affairs. Queens College was given the job of administering the prop- he was,” says Michael Cogswell, a one-time professional jazz saxo- erty, which opened to the public as a museum in 2003. phonist turned archivist who directs the Louis Armstrong House When caretakers entered the house, they discovered a treasure Museum. The archives are routinely used by jazz scholars, authors, Calandra Institute Busy on Two Continents trove of materials left by Armstrong in the attic and closets: photos, and documentary filmmakers.A ll the Armstrong photos in Ken home music tape-recordings, scrapbooks, manuscript band parts, and Burns’s epic 2000 film Jazz came from the LAHM. Italian Americans—the most prevalent European campaign to preserve Italian as part of the College Board’s Advanced five trumpets—several of them gold-plated. The painstaking work of combining the various paper and com- ancestral group in New York, and perhaps the Placement programs in European languages, previously limited to That collection, along with three other Armstrong-related collec- puter catalogs into one, and putting them online along with generous rest of the tristate area— are simultane- French, German, and Spanish. Its annual conference on April 28–30 tions subsequently acquired by the museum, forms the world’s larg- amounts of digitalized photos and text, was funded by a $105,384 ously everywhere and nowhere, visible in addressed The 3 F’s in Italian Culture: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, est archives devoted to a single jazz musician. The museum recently two-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. government and television, ignored by and Film. put a catalog of its three largest collections online at: academia. The John D. Calandra Italian Meanwhile, Tamburri has been promoting a dialogue with his coun- American Institute strives to correct that terparts overseas. “Except for a few historians in Italy, Italian American imbalance. “Calandra is the Italian Ameri- culture did not get the attention of Italian scholars,” he observes. can research institute par excellence,” “My own work drew me to see what Italians were and weren’t saying How to Succeed in Show Business says Anthony Tamburri, its dean. “It’s the about Italian American culture.” only game in town, and the town is Last spring was especially productive. In April Americana, the Actor Danny Burstein ’86 (second from right) visited his the western hemisphere.” Italian-language book series Tamburri edits for the Florentine pub- alma mater in November to break bread with students Since his arrival in 2006, lisher Franco Cesati Editore, released its first two titles: a study of the who aspire to achieve the success he has had on Broadway Tamburri has strengthened work of Italian American novelist John Fante and Tamburri’s own Una (The Drowsy Chaperone, South Pacific), in film, and on tele- the institute’s connections semiotica dell’etnicita. Nuove segnalature per la scrittura italiano/americana vision, where he can currently be seen in HBO’s “Board- to communities here and (A Semiotic of Ethnicity: New “Directionals” for Italian/American Writing). walk Empire.” He will appear in May with Bernadette abroad. Stateside, Calandra Last May Tamburri delivered the keynote at Italia–USA: lingua, cul- Peters at the Kennedy Center in Follies. His father Harvey supports research projects, tura & identita, a conference presented in Siena by the Italian Language is a long-time member of the QC philosophy department. archival material on the Inter-Cultural Alliance, Calandra, and the local University for Foreign- Italian American experience, ers. An agreement he worked out with the University for Foreign- publishes books and a journal, ers in Perugia will allow it to collaborate with Calandra on research the Italian American Review, and related to migration. presents a wide range of public Tamburri’s efforts are winning him recognition on both sides of Polar Attractions lectures, readings, and screenings. the Atlantic. The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum in Staten Island paid trib- Tamburri himself hosts “Italics,” ute to him last August at its annual fund-raiser. And he was named a A Korean tradition was introduced on campus when four jangseungs— a CUNY-TV show about prominent Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. “Knighthood, wooden totem poles erected by villages to mark boundaries and repel Italian Americans. In addition, the basically, though no horse,” says the honoree, who received a pin from bad spirits—were installed near Renée Kroll Zarin Alumni Hall on institute gets involved in educa- the Italian ambassador in a ceremony last fall. October 7. Working on site, sculptor Jong-Heung Kim carved the poles tional issues, such as the successful out of trees that had been damaged by a tornado three weeks earlier.

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SOCCER Championships at Post with two runners, Reaching the East Coast Conference Max Gazzara and Robert Gaertner, Winning Women’s Championship game for the first time in QC finishing in the top 30, placing 17th and history, the women’s soccer team lost 1–0 in 30th, respectively. an overtime heartbreaker to C.W. Post, the country’s 15th-ranked team. They concluded WATER POLO Tennis Team their season with an overall 12–6–1 record, The Men’s Water Polo Team placed seventh winning all seven of their home games. Post in the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s By Bob Suter also proved the nemesis for QC’s Men’s Northern Division Championship. The Soccer Team, dashing their playoff hopes by Knights, who were seeded sixth entering the sked to explain why his team has so many foreign-born Senior Maria Mendes from São Paolo, Brazil, who had a full defeating them 2–0 and leaving the Knights tournament, completed their season with Aplayers, QC women’s tennis coach Alan Nagel doesn’t hesitate scholarship at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, also one tie short of an ECC playoff berth. The an overall 9–11 record. When the CWPA to concede that it doesn’t hurt to be located in one of the world’s chose to transfer to Queens, says Nagel. men finished their season 5–12–1. announced the 2010 Men’s Varsity All- great cities. With both players, he notes, the Knights’ reputation as a Four QC soccer players were honored Northern and All-Southern Division teams, “In many cases, such as with Maria Perevezentseva who’s from perennial contender was a significant draw. “Every year, when by the ECC for their accomplishments. Both QC claimed two of 17 titles, with Nemanja Moscow, coming to New York is their prime objective,” says Nagel, you look at the rankings—and these kids do—they see that we’re senior Brian Buckmire and sophomore Danny Milijanovic (#13 at right) earning a place on whose powerhouse nine-member team currently boasts four foreign- either number one or number two in the East. And right now we’re Stoker were First Team All-Conference the Second Team and coach Or Gil receiving Coach of the Year award. Queens received born players. also ranked 35th in the country. So the players see we’re not only selections. Team captain Buckmire lived up to his billing as 2010 ECC Preseason Defensive two of only four awards given to teams that That, combined with QC’s high academic standing and in New York, we’re also ranked in the country. And last year we Player of the Year by earning the same did not qualify for the Eastern Tournament. willingness to provide scholarship assistance, makes for an made it into the final 16 in the country.” distinction in the end of the year honors. unbeatable recruitment package, he boasts. “If you want to play Somadi Drucker, a South African and one of the players who On the women’s side, senior midfielder SWIMMING AND DIVING tennis in New York, there are only three schools: NYU, Columbia, helped get the Knights to last year’s Sweet 16, forged such strong Kirri Bolton was named to the All-ECC The Women’s Swim Team concluded their and Queens. And NYU and Columbia don’t give scholarships to ties to the people and the place that she has stayed on with the First Team, while forward Lorena Russi was season competing in the Metropolitan tennis players.” team as a coach while doing graduate work, says Nagel. honored on the All-ECC Second Team. Swimming Championships, where they placed Some players, notes Nagel, will even forgo scholarship offers for For one native-born player, junior Taylor Barber of Salt Lake a respectable 12th out of 19 teams, with each the opportunity to play in New York. “Take Andrea Salvetova,” he City, coming to Queens was initially like coming to a foreign BASKETBALL swimmer posting her best time of the year. says of the Czech junior who has impressive academic credentials country as it was her first experience living in a place where Seeded third, the Men’s Basketball Team The men’s swimming and diving squad (4.0 GPA) in addition to being an accomplished flutist and painter. everyone wasn’t a Mormon. But Nagel is happy to report that advanced to the East Coast Conference placed 13th at the championships, with “She had a full scholarship at Texas-Pan Am, which is a Division I “Now, she’s like a native New Yorker all the way.” semifinals, falling 73–67 in overtime to numerous personal-best marks achieved in the process. school. Yet, she wanted to come to New York, and when she looked Though temporarily lost to storm damage, QC’s impressive second-seeded C.W. Post on their home us up and saw we had a strong academic program and good tennis indoor tennis facility has also aided recruitment—as has the court. The Knights finished the season with a 20–8 record. Senior Lamonte Lans (right) VOLLEYBALL team, she got a release to come play here.” new residence hall, The Summit. “All our student-athletes room was named the inaugural ECC Defensive The Women’s Volleyball Team will have to together in a suite that has two bathrooms, a living room, kitchen, Player of the Year and joined classmate wait until next year to make a run at the and dining area.” Anderson Labase on the all-conference postseason. They wrapped up their 2010 And yes, reports Nagel, the players practice sprints in second team. Junior Khalil McDonald was season with a 3–0 loss to C.W. Post, falling the halls. tabbed to the ECC all-conference first team. to 9–16 overall, one spot out of playoff The QC Women’s Basketball team’s contention. season also ended in Brookville in a 67–61 ECC Quarterfinal loss to C.W. Post. Their FENCING record was 10–20 for the season. Junior The women’s fencing program sent eight Amanda Bartlett was named to the ECC competitors to the NCAA Northeast all-conference first team after leading the Regional Championships, after a13th-place league with a 20.2 point-per-game average. showing at the National Intercollegiate Freshman center Caitlin Hopkins earned a Women’s Fencing Association Championships spot on the All-Rookie Team. in Baltimore. Sophomore Haley Ward was a standout this season for the Knights, placing CROSS-COUNTRY 10th at the NIWFA meet and 28th at the The Women’s Cross-Country Team NCAA regionals in the foil discipline. completed the season with a sixth-place finish at the ECC Championship 5K Race. DANCE TEAM Indira Avila led the way with a fifth-place Ranked 13th nationally, the QC Dance QC’s Women’s Tennis Team (front, finish overall. Five runners, including Avila, Team (above right) traveled to Orlando, l-r): Andrea Salvetova, Daniela Celi, posted personal bests for the C.W. Post FL, in January to compete in the Universal Taylor Barber, Erika Goldsmith; course: Kailin Kuo, Cadie Chu, Michelle Dance Association’s College National Dance (back): Head Coach Alan Nagel, Martin, and Lauren Esposito. Avila was also Championships on the Disney World Sport Kim Xiong, Maria Mendes, Maria selected for the All-Conference First Team. Pavilion stage. Before a packed house, the Perevezentseva, Laura Mocodeanu, The Men’s Cross-Country Team finished team came away with a fourth-place finish in Assistant Coach Somadi Drucker. their season placing sixth overall in the ECC Above, Perevezentseva in action. the Open Pom division.

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Homecoming and we had to be careful,” he recalled. Brings Dead End Since retiring from a Boys Back successful drapery and cleaning business, Fine now gives Snapshots to Life lectures on Jewish immigration from Homecoming 2010 Membership in the Dead End at synagogues and senior centers Boys fraternity was determined across Queens. “But, I loved my Alums visit campus for a refresher course in the friends and activities they treasured by some very exacting criteria, time here at QC,” he adds. “So according to group chairman many great friends have come Vince Algeri ’57. “The basis and gone through here.” By Alan Krawitz leave of absence and a job at of being accepted was if they Seventeen magazine were ulti- thought you were an OK guy,” For Susan Isaacs mately her undoing. said Algeri, who claims the ’65, it’s been a Nevertheless, Isaacs recalled With caffeinated beverages in hand, or nearby, former Phoenix group traces its roots back to having a “great time” writing reporters swapped stories. Some of the paper’s staffers went on to 1939 when a bunch of guys careers in publishing. writer’s life for QC’s Phoenix student wanted to play basketball but New York Times best-selling newspaper, offering up her love needed to be part of some type author Susan Isaacs has been of the paper’s “collegiality.” “I of group. a frequent on-campus guest felt about my colleagues the Newsbeat Goes to work with people.” He also Algeri, who laments that since the late 1980s, return- way you feel about family,” spoke about people making a there are no more fraternities save On, Phoenix ing periodically to speak to she said. “I preferred being in difference, one by one. left on campus today, said that the Dates! students about the ins and outs the newspaper office to being Rises Again But, he added that the Dead End Boys were ahead of publishing. anyplace else.” While author Susan Isaacs lays journalism is going through of their time regarding diversity. Thursday But, at Homecoming on What’s more, she recollected claim to her roots as a former unprecedented changes “There was no hazing and the June 2 regarding revenue streams and organization was open to all October 3, Isaacs delivered the writing “impassioned” defenses Phoenix reporter, QC’s other Reunion for the Classes keynote address in Armstrong vital funding. “Things are a bit racial and ethnic groups.” of fraternities and sororities. student paper, Newsbeat, had of 1951 and 1961 Alley before an eclectic mix of “It was my first taste of getting its former reporters on-hand scary right now. News media is Charles Fine ’48, another returning classes dating back noticed for my writing,” she as well with fond memories of not what it once was.” Dead End Boys member, to the 1940s. Ironically, Isaacs, said. Isaacs also spoke about her Surrounded by delighted family and friends—including (l-r) Susan student life. Barbara Brotman ’78, now recalled his service during Sunday a Queens College Foundation turbulent freshman year in ’61, Isaacs ’65, Vice President Sue Henderson, and President James “Working for Newsbeat was an editor with the Chicago WWII in Guam and the South October 23 board member, never actually the civil rights movement, and Muyskens—Renée Kroll Zarin ’54 cuts the ribbon at the Home- a great experience and I made Tribune, worried that “quieter Pacific. As a Jew, Fine recalled coming ceremony renaming Alumni Hall in her honor. stories,” or stories that take Homecoming 2011 received her degree from the of classmates such as Andrew tons of friends while at the pa- that other Jewish soldiers college although she attended Goodman, who made the per,” recalled Donna Balopole more time to develop, may learned to identify themselves Both events will school from 1961 to 1965. A ultimate sacrifice for his beliefs. ’74, who worked for Newsbeat suffer in the future. “Many to each other during the war take place on campus. Goodman was a civil rights she began to read mysteries, she more celebrities and politicians from 1969 to 1975. “I did book of my favorite stories have by using the code, “MOT,” Check the Alumni Relations activist who was killed for his recalled, a character formed in are writing nonfiction books reviews, entertainment, campus been those that were the result meaning Member of the Tribe. website for updates. activities by the Ku Klux Klan her head. “I was a Long Island and memoirs. “Women are no news and lots of other interest- of sustained reporting and “During those days, it wasn’t in Mississippi in 1964. housewife with gum problems, longer the large sales base for ing topics.” attention,” she said. real popular being Jewish After leaving QC, Isaacs so who better to murder than books they once were,” she Balopole, who still lives landed a job at Seventeen a periodontist,” said Isaacs, said. “Technology is partially in Queens and now works in magazine writing an advice referring to her mid-1980s to blame with the advent of the medical publishing, said that column for the lovelorn. Her best-selling book Compromising Internet, iPods, and the myriad working at Newsbeat helped career would progress from there Positions, which centered ways people entertain them- her career. “I think that the as she began to write political around the murder of a Long selves these days.” experience was really invaluable speeches for NY politicians, Island dentist. The book would Expressing shock at how . . . I still have most of my clips!” including Herman Badillo ultimately be made into a movie our culture has changed in the Meanwhile, former and Mayor John Lindsay. starring Susan Sarandon and past five years, Isaacs noted graduates who worked for the But, when her career at Raul Julia. that Simon & Schuster has just Phoenix were not only recalling Seventeen ended abruptly Demonstrating her well- offered a book deal to Snooki the good old days but were due to pregnancy, developed and self-deprecating from the MTV reality show discussing the current turbulent Isaacs admitted, “I humor, she said a woman “Jersey Shore.” state of media and where things was a loose end. I approached her at a recent book “Snooki could get a Pulitzer are headed in the coming years. didn’t know what signing in Denver and said, “I’m for fiction,” she quipped. “The Recalling that he came to the to do.” She went so glad you’re not dead.” only thing I can do is keep Phoenix because he “loved to on to detail an Speaking on current trends, writing.” write,” Jim Ostroff ’73, now an The Dead End Boys pose at Alumni Plaza, where they have generously donated many a brick. 1st Row Isaacs noted that more and editor with Kiplinger’s Personal (l-r): Nick Fiore ’61, Fred Shapiro ’53, Jack Herschlag ’53, John Rafferty ’59, Vincent Algeri ’57, John unlikely journey Pagarliotas ’54, Manfred Korman ’53, Melvin Schlechter ’53, Charles Fine ’48; 2d Row: John Fava ’48, from housewife Finance, said that he learned Raymond Porfilio ’55, Dominick Benvenuto ’56, Paul Giovinco ’70, Morton Peritz ’51; 3d Row: Jerry Novelist Susan Isaacs, who was a big hit at Homecoming last invaluable lessons at the paper. to published October, will be receiving the Alumni Award at the college's Haller ’53, John O’Brien ’59, Dominick Lamontanaro ’57 & ’65, Jerry Matejka ’63, QC President James author. As annual Gala on May 3. “I learned reality and I learned Muyskens, Frank Capodacqua ’60, Bob Zifchak ’61, Art Cohen ’50, Roger Aquino ’61.

10 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 11 In the classroom and in his books, veteran political science professor Andrew Hacker focuses on important issues; his latest title looks at Higher Education An Institution In His Own Writings by David McKay Wilson

getting paid by the course. “I wanted to continue teaching,” he says. Last fall he was teaching American Politics 100, an introductory class that Hacker tackles by prodding his students to wrestle with the differences between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. There’s a hint of Old School in Hacker. One morning in De- cember, he arrives at his classroom in a brown sports jacket, a tie knotted snugly at his neck. He is slight, with thinning gray hair. Hacker peers through dark-rimmed glasses when calling on stu- ndrew Hacker’s (Political Science) books

Tequila Minsky dents, typically choosing those who haven’t raised their hands. He target hot-button topics in American society: racism, gender differ- scribbles abbreviations of his points into a grid on the blackboard, ences, and the concentration of wealth among the economic elite. A then ignites a discussion about what these founding fathers said His latest book, coauthored with Claudia Dreifus, is Higher Edu- about slavery. cation?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our “Starting with Hamilton and Jefferson, our leaders were talk- Kids—And What We Can Do About It (2010). It takes a provocative ing about race,” he tells the class. “They worried about race, they look at higher education, exploring the lives of privileged tenured emphasized it.” professors as well as the inner workings of elite institutions that That leads Hacker to a discussion of racial identity and the power have given second-class status to undergraduate education. The race still has in 21st-century America. He notes that more than one authors believe these institutions are engaging in a costly competi- of every five Americans identify themselves as Hispanic or Asian, tion over sports, research, and campus amenities to attract students which denotes ethnic heritage, but not race. to their campuses. “Over 20 percent of Americans get by without having a race,” “It’s the students who suffer,” says Hacker. “They end up at the says Hacker. “Then why do we still talk about it? Because it was so bottom of the list.” much a part of our history for 258 years and the effects still persist.” Hacker, an unlikely 81, knows first-hand about the perquisites that The class was vintage Hacker: fast-moving, dipping in and out of come with tenure, which he had for decades at Queens College. In American history, brimming with data and concepts, and spawning 1996, he says, he had an epiphany while sitting pretty with a hefty a discussion that made American history and politics come alive. salary and a comfortable retirement account. So he decided to retire, Hacker says his classroom hasn’t changed much over the years. which allowed the college to hire two assistant professors for what He’s still teaching in Powdermaker Hall, and many of his students they were paying him. are immigrants or the children of recent immigrants. Forty years He remained in the classroom, however, as an adjunct professor, ago, many were Italian, Irish, and Jewish; today, many are Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese. Claudia Dreifus and Andrew Hacker's book Higher Education? has been hailed as “a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the “Students are students,” says Hacker. “And I’ve been using the state of American higher education” by the New York Times. basic format for my classes for a long time. I adapt and tinker, but

12 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 13 it’s not broken, so I don’t fix it.” We fought a lot, but we came out with a joint voice we both liked.” At a celebration of Hacker’s long The book takes special aim at what Hacker and Dreifus call the Life with Big Bird academic career, friends, faculty, and Golden Dozen—the 12 institutions they call the top in the nation, former students from Queens and Cornell which include two of Hacker’s alma maters (Princeton and Am- University gathered on November 5 at a herst). He asserts that undergraduate instruction at these institutions By Ken Handel So when he was invited to join Sesame Workshop, he leapt midtown Manhattan townhouse. Among is spotty, with top faculty involved in esoteric research while teach- Lewis Bernstein ’69 has had the good fortune to work at Sesame at the opportunity. “ ‘Sesame Street,’ ” he says, “is still pretty those who spoke was Owan Tulloch ing fellows grade their students’ papers. ’88, who recalled how Hacker men- He urges universities to limit sabbaticals for professors, arguing Workshop, the organization that created “Sesame Street,” for much alone as a full, whole curriculum for pre-school children tored him. that they should be able to write their books in the evenings or on more than 40 years. His association with the group, formerly that deals with everything from literacy to social reasoning.” He “He took me to intellectual maturi- weekends, as he did throughout his career. And he questions the known as the Children’s Television Workshop, began when he notes that after 9/11, the show also had to take account of the ty,” says Tulloch, a supervisory survey value of the huge volume of academic research generated each year walked off the street to inquire whether an internship was avail- question: “How do you teach children about intolerance?” statistician for the U.S. Census Bureau. by the professorial ranks. Over a 14-year period, he discovered able. There were no unpaid positions––but he was offered a job. For three years, Bernstein was the executive producer of “Dr. Hacker would put the questions 2,784 published papers on the work of novelist William Faulkner. So, in 1972, as he began his doctoral studies in communications “Sesame Street.” He was able to improve an already beloved out there, allow you to weigh the pros “There’s too much research going on,” says Hacker. “Some of it is research at Columbia University, he also became director of institution––for example, by introducing a narrative story at the and cons, and come up with your knowledge we don’t need.” research at Sesame Workshop. “Working here,” he comments, “is beginning of each episode––and was rewarded for his efforts own conclusion. It didn’t matter if it Hacker and Dreifus are now working on a project that’s been sheer joy. There are many people who have been at the show since with three Emmys. was in line with his view, as long as on Hacker’s back-burner for more than a decade. They call it The the beginning.” In another executive role, VP of global Sesame Street you made a sophisticated argument Math Myth. It will question the academic establishment’s belief Today, Bernstein is executive vice president of education, re- productions, Bernstein trained production teams from France, and could defend it. It taught you think- that American teens need to master algebra to obtain a high ing skills. He taught me to think on my feet.” school diploma. search, and outreach, and still enthusiastic about the Workshop’s Spain, Holland, Germany, and Kuwait. But possibly his great- Algebra, notes Hacker, often trips up inner-city youths seeking core values: “How do we help children have an opportunity to est triumph internationally was the development of Israeli and a foothold in the academic world. Frustrated by their inability to learn the basics of literacy? How can we enable children to believe Palestinian versions of “Sesame Street.” At first, he thought one grasp polynomial equations, they drop out, into a world where a in their own abilities and to be sensitive to respecting others?” show would suffice for both cultures. But then, he says, there he son of a Columbia history high-school diploma is the bare minimum required for gainful Bernstein grew up in the East Bronx. He attended Queens Col- were “changes in our thinking based on political realities. The T employment. lege from 1965 to 1969, at first attracted by the college’s reputa- Intifada broke out, and we realized we needed a separate show professor, Hacker grew up in Morningside Heights by the Columbia campus on Man- “It’s unjust,” says Hacker. “We’ve been shooting ourselves in tion in math and science, and then, as he realized that he “wanted [for Palestinians].” hattan’s Upper West Side. He earned his the foot with these policies for too long. Now it’s time to get this to help people at the beginning of their lives,” was drawn to the In Israel, “Rechov Sumsun” premiered in 1983 and has been on undergraduate degree at Amherst, then book out.” study of communications. He “loved” the Music Department, and and off the air in a number of versions ever since. “Shara’a Sim- went to Oxford for his master’s degree, thought the English Department “great.” sim,” the Palestinian show, made its debut in 1997. Both broadcasts before nabbing his doctorate in politics Before enrolling at Queens, he had attended Ramaz, a Jewish have had to cope with the Middle East’s explosive politics, such as at Princeton. He spent 16 years teaching at elementary, middle, and high school, and following the Six-Day the violence in Gaza. Yet, rather than be dissuaded from pro- Cornell before coming to Queens College in War in 1967, he went to Israel, where he remained for a year of duction by these catastrophes, Bernstein sees them as the raison 1971. study at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. He returned to that in- d’etre for being on the air. “We’re going to produce ‘Rechov For Hacker, teaching the class in stitution after his graduation from Queens and earned a master’s Sumsun’,” he explains, “because this violence is going on.” political science keeps him active in the academic world, where he has taught for degree in communications. Working with such renowned schol- He sees the positive values communicated by “Sesame Street” 55 years. Hacker is prolific. While his father, Louis, ars as Elihu Katz, Bernstein discovered something as an antidote, a healthier alternative for kids, “a vision of the fu- wrote regularly for the New Republic and the Nation, Hacker ]critical about himself: he was much more ture.” At the launch of “Shara’a Simsim,” Bernstein commented: has thrived as a regular contributor to the New York Review interested in practice than theory. “We together, artists and educators, academics and animators, are of Books, writing about race, politics, higher education, and the only limited by the scope of our imagination and vision. I ask all moneyed classes. of you to dream big for the sake of your children, and mine, and His acclaimed 1992 book, Two Nations: Black and White, Sepa- the world’s. I urge you to dream of making the entire Middle East rate, Hostile, Unequal, is taught at campuses across the country. a more tolerant neighborhood.” Six years later he wrote Money: Who Has How Much and Why. His Bernstein has been no stranger to the Queens College 2003 book, Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men, campus in recent years, participating in the Jewish Lecture explored the gender divide. Series and talking to students enrolled in Mark Rosenblum’s Higher Education? was written with New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus, an associate professor at Columbia’s School of (History) course, “The Middle East and America: Clash of International and Public Affairs and Hacker’s domestic partner. A Civilizations or Meeting of the Minds.” Most recently, he was dogged reporter with a nose for good sources, Dreifus provided sto- Left: When the weather was fine it was not unusual to see Andrew here last May when the Center for Ethnic, Racial and Reli- ries from the trenches of higher education, where she interviewed Hacker on his bike, having cycled the 18 miles to campus. Above: At gious Understanding honored him at its first annual Evening students and professors. the November 5 celebration of his 40 years at QC, Hacker received of Uncommon Courage for his work in trying to bridge ethnic “I’m a writer who teaches, and he’s a professor who writes,” says some encouragement in cutting the cake from President James Muyskens, Claudia Dreifus, and VP Sue Henderson. and religious divides. Dreifus. “We have different approaches to how we gather informa- tion. We went back and forth, with up to seven drafts on each chapter.

Ernie and Lewis Bernstein have been helping generations of chil- dren learn their numbers and important lessons about tolerance. 14 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Master of the Digital Universe

Part Tolkien and part Bruce Springsteen, cast metal toys through mini-comic books, a video game, a website, action figures, and an animated television series. Clients also include Jeff Gomez ’85 helps Hollywood and Hasbro, Sony Pictures, Showtime, and 20th-Century Fox. “What I do for a living,” Gomez notes, “is not creating alternate reality games or devices that sell more movie tickets. Fortune 500 companies tell their stories Transmedia narrative techniques give us a new way of expressing ourselves artistically that is just starting to come into its own. It across multiple media platforms all starts with a story.” A Gomez biopic would be peopled with superheroes and legends of the imagination, beginning with Godzilla. Later, as a teen, Star Wars and the Hobbit realm of Middle-earth fascinated by Donna Shoemaker him. “You can basically sum up my life,” says Gomez, “by com- You can’t hide in your bedroom and “play with your plastic bining Tolkien with Bruce Springsteen.” dinosaurs forever,” muses the boy inside Jeff Gomez ’85. Instead, through his imagination, this lonely Latino child from the Lower East Side morphed into a globe-trotting storyline universe Above: Gomez's Starlight Runner created an elaborate mythology creator, consultant, and producer. From a gritty childhood and for Coca-Cola's "Happiness Factory" global ad campaign. Below: an adolescence of playing Dungeons & Dragons in the Queens Gomez's hunch that the card game Magic: The Gathering would be wildly popular paid off handsomely. He drew from his own life College Student Union, he has shaped a professional experiences to create the character Shadow Mage. life immersed in dozens of fictional worlds. President and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment in Manhattan, Gomez is a guru of transmedia storytelling, which involves cre- ating a narrative robust enough to span animation, ads, films, As a youngster, Gomez spent a thrilling year in Honolulu, web content, and books to video games, toys, and theme Hawaii, “discovering Japanese superheroes that jumped from one parks. He guides Hollywood and Fortune 500 companies media platform to the next.” He soon came back down to Earth, as they incubate or expand their epic fictional realms of returning to New York in the late 1970s. As he’s told some of his branded entertainment, such as Disney’s sci-fiTron: audiences, “My life became less like Power Rangers and more Legacy and Microsoft’s $2-billion Xbox game Halo. like Midnight Cowboy” as he wandered the streets of Times The fantasy universes Starlight Runner has been Square. When his mother could finally afford to move involved with generate millions of fans eager to to Flushing, he discovered QC’s campus. As a 14-year- interact with that world—as well as megabucks old needing “an outlet for my imagination,” he says for the companies. he sneaked into the Student Union to play Dungeons Starlight Entertainment springboards a & Dragons. Then as an undergraduate, he became “a popular company’s intellectual property into enormously gamer,” drawing dozens of onlookers as he infused drama into profitable transmedia franchises. Marketing this fantasy role-playing game. experts seek the CEO’s expertise to broaden their That campus hub, Gomez says, is also where he first noticed entertainment brands through these story franchises. Coca-Cola, for “the young lady who sneered at us because we were such nerds.” example, came to Starlight Runner to expand its animated “Happi- Years later, she would become his wife. He and Chrysoula ness Factory” ad featuring a fantasy world inside a Coke machine. Artemis-Gomez ’85 now have a daughter, age 8. Through fantasy role-playing games on campus, Gomez says he discovered “a group of people where I felt I genuinely Gomez, who co-founded Starlight Runner in 2000, guides a belonged.” In classes, majoring in film studies and commu- lean creative team—about a dozen freelancers. Their first project nication arts and sciences, he continues, “I finally felt not

was to create the narrative that propelled Mattel’s Hot Wheels die- © H asbro talked-down to. Listening to my fantastic professors was

16 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 17 As a child, Jeff Gomez lived in the Baruch projects on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. “A dreamy kid” Choral Society conductor James John with “a mom who loved to read to me,” he spent a pivotal year in Hawaii, where he marveled at how the receive no pay. Members (students excepted) pay $85 annual dues. Last fall’s two-for-one dues deal, along with excitement fictional worlds in Japanese manga can draw a fan from comics to television to movie theatres. about the society’s 70th anniversary season, boosted member- ship from 100 to 147. What inspires John is “the joy that comes forward in that amateur spirit.” completely eye-opening. They taught me story. They opened up produced the anti-bullying video “Don’t Laugh at Me,” featuring QC sponsors his position as director and provides rehearsal space. However, the community organization must raise about the hood of the car,” revealing “all the pieces that comprise the hip-hop star Baby Jay. $10,000 a year to cover expenses, including hiring an orchestra engine” in the language of film. He especially cites film studies for the winter concert. professors Jonathan Buchsbaum, Royal Brown, and Robert Braine, the longest-serving member, joined as a QC student Kapsis as well as Edgar Gregersen (Anthropology) as influenc- At Starlight Runner, the CEO has come to know James Cam- in 1954 because his mother, Hetty, so enjoyed singing with the ing his development. Notes Gomez, “One course on persuasion eron through working on Avatar, Johnny Depp through Pirates group. Not long after, he laughs, “I was dragooning everybody,” I’ve used on a daily basis ever since.” of the Caribbean, and Will Smith through Men in Black III. He foremost among them his wife, Barbara ’57, right after their A year out of college, Gomez and other QC graduates notes, however, “It’s not so much that we hobnob with movie marriage in 1958. Three of their five children—Theresa, Kath- began to desktop-publish Gateways, which became a national stars and directors.” What intrigues Gomez is “playing a hand in ryn, and Jennifer—also have joined the chorus at various times. magazine about fantasy and adventure games. Chrysoula did twirling these enormous entertainment franchises, fostering the “My dragging Barbara into the chorus cemented our relation- the illustrations. Kissena Park Press, his company’s publishing universe of the intellectual property so that it continues to have ship,” he recalls. imprint, pays homage to this Queens park where Gomez pro- something important to say about life, even though it’s about While favoring Baroque and Renaissance pieces, Bob Braine also enjoyed the medieval Carmina Burana. Barbara Braine posed to Chrysoula. Starlight Runner’s name, its CEO explains, crazy, fantastical creatures.” Something loves “the challenge of singing something different—Porgy and originated in Gateways. “It’s a euphemism for your best friend,” For Gomez, “the act of thinking about these rich uni- Bess, Die Fledermaus, Verdi’s Nabucco,” to cite several of her someone who would “come to you at night.” verses”—the style of their proper names, their geography, the to sing about QCCS favorites. The operatic excerpts and choruses presented Before Starlight Runner, Gomez had made a name for continuity of their narratives—aids him in bringing his obsessive- Choral Society Celebrates by soprano Erika Sunnegårdh ’99 (MA), who has sung at the himself writing for the adventure and video game industries. At compulsive disorder “down to a low roar.” Met, were a highlight for both retirees. Acclaim Entertainment’s comic book division and as a Valiant He now plans to devote more time to telling his own story and 70th Anniversary As a conductor, John “wants the music Comics editor, he “steered the lives of several superheroes for a to “the social and international components of what I do,” he to be authentic,” explains Bob Braine, few years,” he notes. “I became aware of the Magic: The Gath- says. “We’ll always have fun with the next Avatar movie, but including making sure that their 17th- ering trading card game and had a hunch of how popular it we’re really getting into things that By Donna Shoemaker century Latin has a Germanic accent where was going to be.” He says he convinced his bosses to put him in are truly impacting people’s It had been a long wait—since 2006. But on December 11, 2010, appropriate. “Professor John is very good. charge of writing the comic book and producing a video game lives. I’m a person who is very those soaring hallelujahs resounded once more in Kupferberg He teaches. He has patience,” he observes, Center’s packed Colden Auditorium. Poised to conduct 171 and the music director was a wonderful that became “smash hits.” interested in shifting people’s performers in Handel’s Messiah, Queens College Choral Society Bob Braine ’57 counselor for Messiah. “A complicated Those boyhood plastic dinosaurs weren’t forgot- perceptions about themselves musical director James A. John was relaxed, centered, smiling. four-part fugue like that is ten. Gomez turned a comic superhero into the and their world.” “There’s a lot of subconscious communication between difficult to execute,” Braine notes. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter video game for Nintendo. From Frodo Baggins the podium and the group,” reflects John. “People pick up on For its 70th annual Spring Concert on May He is amused that “all those hours that people told despairing at the Black that confidence and joy, and I really felt that was present. They 14, the QCCS takes on Beethoven’s Missa me I had wasted playing D&D earned me my first Gate of Mordor were singing new energy into the piece.” John, who has guest- Solemnis. The Queens College Choir and $100,000 check.” to Luke Skywalker bat- conducted several times at Avery Fisher Hall’s annual Messiah Chorus will amplify vocal power to over 200, Gomez’s first job after college— tling the Galactic Sing-In, has directed the QCCS since 2002. He also is direc- accompanied by the QC Orchestra. teaching creative writing in a Empire, Jeff Gomez tor of QC’s choral activities, associate professor of music, and “There are two sides to the Choral Soci- Bedford-Stuyvesant elementary loves succumbing to the director of the Manhattan-based chamber choir Cerddorion. ety in terms of its traditions: performing the Barbara Braine ’57 school—ignited a commitment to spell of a well-spun Handel’s 1741 masterwork launched QCCS’s 70th anniver- standard repertoire like Messiah as well as sary season. The oratorio had been its inaugural offering in expanding the group’s horizons into new areas, inspiring others. Today, through yarn. “I’m evidence,” December 1941, a dozen days after Pearl Harbor and four years like premièring works by QC faculty members, or taking on his Life Adventure System cur- he says, “that a after QC opened its doors. “Born in World War II, the Choral new repertoire that has never been performed before at Queens riculum and “Never Surrender” talks, good story Society gave significant support to community morale,” wrote College, like Beethoven's Missa Solemnis,” John explains. His Gomez coaches students in how to lead while can im- Bob Braine ’57 in its website history (www.qcchoralsociety.org), mentor, Maurice Peress (Music), “encouraged me to program following their bliss in what he calls “that Joseph prove a and that still holds true. some of the greatest, most demanding works in the repertoire, Campbell manner.” In more than 1,000 venues, he per- John based the anniversary Messiah on the version inaugurat- like Britten’s War Requiem, because of the significant artistic has drawn upon his street smarts and entrepreneurial lessons son’s ing Colden Center. That 1961 concert was one of 25 consecutive and spiritual rewards for everyone involved,” John says. “I took to help 120,000 young people face their own dark days. With life.” Messiahs conducted by founding director John Castellini. QCCS his advice. The War Requiem was an exceptional challenge, and Operation Respect, a foundation created by Peter Yarrow now presents the oratorio approximately every four years. turned out to be one of our best concerts. On this occasion of (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame), Gomez devised and In their two annual concerts, members beautifully blend our anniversary, to have another monumental project like Missa voices that range from 16 years to 80-plus. Community residents, Solemnis is very exciting for everybody.” many of them alumni, sing side-by-side with QC students, fac- Recalling how at Messiah “things seemed to click,” Barbara ulty, staff, and a small number of talented students who partici- Braine is eager to resume the couple’s almost-an-hour commute Gomez is the co-creator of Kristina of the Woods, a pate in the Choral Society’s high school outreach program. powerful "Planeswalker" from the world of Magic: to Wednesday rehearsals. “You get up on the stage, and every- © H asbro The Gathering. These polished singers are amateur in one sense only: They one’s best comes forward,” she says. “You amaze yourself.”

18 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens:Queens: TheThe MagazineMagazine ofof QueensQueens CollegeCollege 1919 No one can ever accuse Matt Higgins ’98 cared that I could write, I was smart, that I would work my tail of being a slacker. Since graduating from Queens College with a off for him, and I’m grateful for that.” He also recalls the mayor’s degree in political science, Higgins has gone from the Office of the strong work ethic and that he “rarely slept or took a break.” Higgins Setting Mayor of New York City to the front office of the New York Jets. was not far behind the mayor, as he attended Fordham Law School at night while working as press secretary. Now 36, Higgins credits his time at QC for much of his current success. Indeed, he refers to the school as his “path out of poverty.” In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Hig- Higgins grew up poor in a working-class neighborhood in Bay- gins assumed control of communications for the Lower Manhattan side. His parents divorced when he was nine. Raised by his mother, Development Corporation (LMDC). During this time he wrote Linda, he fondly remembers sitting in on Saturday classes she was numerous Ground Zero speeches for then-Governor George Pataki, attending at QC. “She was a great writer and she also became a per- who remembers Higgins fondly. “Whether it was his leadership in petual student,” Higgins says of his mother, who earned a BA from helping New York recover from the tragic impact of September 11 the college and also pursued two master’s degrees there. or quarterbacking public affairs for the New York Jets, Matt Higgins HighGoals eam Giuliani, A self-described “scrappy kid,” Higgins dropped out of Cardozo is a proven, innovative, and effective leader,” Pataki said recently. by Alan Krawitz ew York Jets High School at age 16 to help care for his ailing mother, who battled After serving as press secretary on T chronic illnesses. But, taking a cue from her, he completed his GED iggins ’98 went to work for the N and SATs all within a few months and enrolled at the college in Matt H ut despite the opportunity to work with top political leaders, 1991. At one point in the early 1990s, Higgins and his mother were B Higgins says the LMDC was an “emotionally charged environment both attending classes at QC. where no matter what you did, you were roundly criticized.” And At the college, Higgins and his older brother Todd helped revive while he says it was a privilege to work there, he felt it was time to a then-moribund speech and debate team, each serving as president. move on to a “less weighty” position. So after years of dealing with He became such a skilled debater that he competed nationally against hot-button political issues, Higgins switched teams. other schools. “The debate team gave me the confidence and polish I had lacked,” Higgins says. “It taught me to think on my feet.” “The New York Jets are big, they’re in the public domain, but at the end of day it’s not life and death,” says Higgins, who joined the Jets in 2004 in a business operations capacity. “It’s a nice change of pace.” Now an executive VP with the team, Higgins has helped revital- Higgins’s first foray into politics would come soon after, ize the New York Jets’ brand by overseeing the team’s efforts in working on the congressional campaign of another QC graduate, marketing, sponsorships, merchandising, broadcasting, social Gary Ackerman ’64. He then landed a position with Community media, and human resources. He also helped transform the team’s Board 8 in Fresh Meadows, where he dealt with issues from tree website, created a host of new TV shows centered around the team, pruning to pothole repairs. helped build a production studio, created a cheerleader squad, and Like his mother, Higgins was a strong writer. While still at QC he was instrumental in bringing the Super Bowl to New York/New wrote a column for the Queens Tribune called “The Action Desk.” Jersey in 2014. “I would tackle local problems and basically do investigative-type Higgins clearly enjoys the challenge of the Jets, and the Jets clear- journalism,” he says. His column garnered several New York Press ly feel strongly about him. “For me, leadership is about trust—trust Association awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a in a person’s ability to make sound, sometimes difficult, decisions story he helped uncover about a major asbestos problem at Terrace and to continually innovate, driving the Jets to new heights,” says on the Park. Jets Chairman and CEO Woody Johnson. “I have seen nothing but Not long after that, a profile of Higgins in the Daily News both of these leadership qualities showcased by Matt time and time grabbed the attention of staffers in Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s again since the day he joined the organization.” administration. “I gave an interview about what I liked about the Things were going well for Higgins and then, in April 2007, mayor, and that led to another interview and a subsequent job offer,” he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He chose to see this as a Higgins recalls. He would become, at 26, the youngest press secre- wake-up call that forced him to re-examine his life. “Knowing that I tary in New York City history. had another chance, I wanted to make sure that I would live my life But his first day on the job would also be one of the saddest days the way I had hoped I always would,” he explains. of his life. “That morning mom called my office and told me she’d called an ambulance,” he said. “She died later that day of congestive heart failure.” Underscoring the importance of the college in his mother’s life, So Higgins changed the way he ate and vowed to exercise more. Higgins noted that instead of having the funeral procession go by He dropped more than 50 pounds and in 2009 ran the New York the family home, Mayor Giuliani arranged for a motorcade, and the City Marathon in just over five hours. “I love running because it procession went by QC en route to the cemetery. “That’s what she forces me to be deliberate and thoughtful. It forces me to slow down would have wanted,” Higgins says. and apply a constant rate of speed and not try to rush things all the Top: Three former Jets stars—quarterback Joe Namath, defensive Thinking back on his career, Higgins notes, “I was lucky that time. I have family and kids now, so I have an incentive to take care tackle Marty Lyons, and running back Curtis Martin—get ready to there was always one special person who would look past my age, of myself,” he says. huddle with Higgins, who suited up for the team’s business opera- tions seven years ago. Higgins was recently named to the “40 upbringing, or lack of credentials—such as not having attended an As something of a reformed workaholic, Higgins offers advice to Under 40” list of top sports executives in Sports Business Journal, Ivy League college—and could see what I had to offer the world in those still obsessively answering every last email into the wee hours which also praised the Jets for being one of the most innovative terms of talent.” of the night: “If you don’t have vision, then all you have is execution. teams in the National Football League. At far right, Higgins Higgins says Giuliani was one of those special people. “Rudy You need to look at the road ahead instead of just always driving.” meets with former Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

20 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 21 sustain, respectful dialogue on this difficult topic. He noted that af- The consensus among the participants at the end of the evening ter Khan and Riches spoke, a panel of students would question them was what Rosenblum had hoped it would be: a win-win situation, about the issue as part of the center’s process of finding common with both sides agreeing that they should talk together again. Meeting in the Middle ground on tough issues. “We’re hoping to get something of a win-win here tonight,” The Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding helps Rosenblum said. For Rosenblum, that evening of dialogue on Park51 was the Khan, who was born in Kashmir, India, and raised a Muslim, kind of event he thought might unfold when, in the fall of 2009, different cultures find common ground. said she welcomed the dialogue, noting that she has long honored all a core group of 18 facilitators learned his process of promoting religions: from her childhood attending Catholic schools understanding, which puts participants in role-playing exercises in India, to her arrival in Jericho, NY, where she lived in which they take on the argument of the person most dif- By David McKay Wilson Hillel and the Muslim Student Association—to foster more cross- in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. ferent from themselves. cultural exchange. “We’re here to pave the way across the divide,” “They have to study the pains and claims of the Queens College President James Muyskens believes that the she said. “When we proposed the project, we other,” says Rosenblum. “They have to stand in the Batya Septimus ’12 grew up an Orthodox Jew, attending Jewish center has shown that students can get beyond their divisions and didn’t realize it would create such pain. There’s a other side’s shoes.” schools, studying for a year in Israel, and socializing within her embrace diversity. “We can celebrate our differences and make national conversation we haven’t had yet, and we The center’s student dialogues, held on campus close-knit community in Queens. So when she arrived at Queens certain we understand what we have in common,” he says. “And need to have it.” throughout the spring and fall, attracted scores College and was the only Jew in her introductory class in Arabic, there’s no better place than Queens College to take advantage of Almost a decade after his son’s death, Riches of students. Participants had to agree to certain she was confronted with many preconceptions she had about her such diversity.” said the pain is ever-present. He asked Khan to ground rules: They would speak for themselves, not Muslim classmates. consider relocating the project farther away in recog- criticize or comment until the proper time, be mindful They were Muslims, so they hated Jews, she figured. She was nition of the feelings of some 9/11 families. He strongly of historical patterns and power relations, not interrupt, Jewish, so they hated her. Muyskens was among over 400 people from the QC com- believes that the site two blocks from the World Trade Center honor requests for confidences, and listen to what emerged in the But that all changed as Septimus and her classmates hung out and munity who saw the center in action one evening last November. towers is “sacred ground.” conversations. discussed their religious and cultural backgrounds at sessions held CERRU students had arranged for an evening of dialogue about the “We are the victims too,” Riches said. “We lost our loved ones. They learned the process of reflective listening, in which par- by the college’s Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understand- controversial plan to build an Islamic center a few blocks from the They will never come back.” ticipants quietly listen and only ask clarifying questions. They then ing (CERRU), recently founded by Mark Rosenblum (History). site of the September 11 attacks in lower Manhattan. The high-rise The CERRU students then helped focus the discussion. Alexan- paired off to address issues of identity, asking about key events in She soon became involved in Rosenblum’s training sessions in Islamic center, called Park51, would include a community center dra Ruiz ’07, now a history graduate student, asked the opposing each other’s lives, and the genesis of their involvement in social is- conflict resolution, in which students with differing points of view and prayer space. Many politicians joined the 9/11 families to sides how they might find a compromise that wouldn’t compromise sues. They spoke about their core values and their hopes for societal come to understand each other better through role-playing, guided denounce the project, while others countered that it was wrong to either group’s rights. Sahar Khatri ’12 asked how society could stop conversations, and learning how to listen to those who hold dia- discriminate against a religious group with a right to build there. the demonization of Muslims. And Charlie Wohlberg ’12 asked Ongoing dialogue (l-r): Student Alexandra Ruiz, Muslim communi- ty leader Daisy Khan, retired NYC Fire Department Deputy Chief metrically opposing views. On the podium that evening were Daisy Khan, executive director Riches just how far away from Ground Zero was far enough. of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, and a former Jim Riches, and QC students Sahar Khatri, Charlie Wohlberg, and “There’s such a need for this kind of dialogue, and Queens Col- Riches said he’d be satisfied if it moved a few blocks away. “That Batya Septimus are among the people who participated in discus- lege is the perfect place for it to happen,” says Septimus. “You start deputy chief of the New York City Fire Department, Jim Riches, would be fine with me, but I know it might not be possible,” he said. sions organized by CERRU Director Mark Rosenblum. talking to people as you walk home with them, and you realize they whose son died in the attack. Riches himself spent 16 days in a Khan, meanwhile, stressed that Americans should support moder- are pretty much the same as you. And they may have had the same coma due to injuries he received as a first responder. ate Muslims like herself, who are looking for common ground and preconceptions about me that I had about them.” Rosenblum welcomed the audience and told them want to become more a part of our nation’s fabric. “A center like this CERRU is founded on the concept that dialogue and shared the evening was an opportunity to initiate, and [Park51] will amplify voices of Muslims involved in peace-building,” experiences are essential to combating intolerance, overcoming she said. “Otherwise, we’ll be drowned out by the extremists.” stereotypes, and promoting understanding. It has also reached out to myriad clubs and groups across campus—such as

22 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 23 QUEENS Bookshelf change. They later shared their findings with the larger group. film Arranged, and later discussed dating practices in both cultures. Most powerful for students like Batya Septimus were the ex- November events included a student dialogue on religious faith Previous titles by Winner of a 2010 Winner of the Best ercises in which participants listened to each other as they talked and sexual identity in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism; a production Peter D’Epiro ’72, National Jewish Book Award from about issues over which they disagreed. They were instructed to of Warsaw: A Musical Drama, which was followed by a discussion ’77, include What Are Book Award. The the Association listen intently, and not respond with a counter-argument. on genocide and hate; and a screening of the Bollywood film New the Seven Wonders of Rebbe: The Life for the Studies of “It sounds so simple, but it’s not so easy to do if you feel York, with an ensuing discussion on post 9/11 prejudice. There was the World? and 100 and Afterlife of Overseas Koreans. strongly,” she says. “Instead of it turning into a shouting match, also a commemoration of Kristallnacht—the pogroms in Nazi Ger- Other Great Cultural Menachem Mendel Researchers have long you realize that it’s OK if you don’t agree, but you can listen and many and Austria in 1938—that featured six students from diverse Lists—Fully Explicated Schneerson considered religious respect the other’s side.” backgrounds reading the personal stories of six Holocaust survivors and Sprezzatura: 50 (Princeton University cohesion to be critical At the center’s opening event for the 2010 fall semester, stu- and making specific commitments to combat hatred. Ways Italian Genius Press), Samuel to an ethnic group’s dents from myriad ethnic and religious groups set up booths in the Shaped the World. His Heilman (Sociology) identity in the United Student Center ballroom. While some munched on a wide variety of latest is The Book and Menachem States. For proof, they ethnic foods, others performed dances from India and Africa while The events in November came six months after the center’s of Firsts: 150 World-Changing People Friedman’s (Bar-Ilan University) exhaustively point to the country’s Irish, Italian, and Catholic students sang hymns. first annual Evening of Uncommon Courage, held at LeFrak Concert and Events from Caesar Augustus to researched volume on the life of the Eastern European Jewish communities, in “We witnessed how diverse Queens is, and in that spirit, how Hall. The event honored three activists involved in bridging ethnic the Internet (Anchor Books). Covering charismatic late leader of the Lubavitcher which culture is closely linked to rituals people can retain their own identities and celebrate other cultures,” and religious divides while reflecting on the growing influence of 20 centuries in the equivalent number of Hasidim—revered by his followers and holidays. But to what degree does says Wohlberg, a political science major from Yonkers. Rosenblum’s work on campus among students committed to recon- chapters, D’Epiro poses questions that range worldwide as the Rebbe—has garnered the history of white Europeans and their Wohlberg and Khatri also participated in sessions that paired ciliation. from religious and military topics to “What praise from reviewers for the Forward, New descendants apply to other immigrants? Orthodox Jews and Muslims who strictly follow the Qur’an. Both The honorees included Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian is the first surviving European cookbook?” York Jewish Week, and Publishers Weekly, Pyong Gap Min (Sociology) asks that found the conversations illuminating. Khatri says it revealed a physician who advocates peace with Israel despite the fact that three Then he and his editorial team provide the among others. And, as reported in the New question in Preserving Ethnicity common misconception: That both tight-knit communities were so of his daughters and a niece were killed by an Israeli tank shell answers in thoughtful essays, presenting York Times, it has also stirred up controversy Through Religion in America: Korean insular that they only cared for their own. in Gaza in 2009; Lewis Bernstein ’69, executive vice president at even familiar subjects—Martin Luther’s 95 among some who are disturbed by its Protestants and Indian Hindus across “We discovered that while both communities identify strongly Sesame Workshop (see p. 15); and Dear Aunaetitrakul ’10, president theses, the Jamestown colony, World War account of Schneerson’s more worldly Generations (New York University in a religious and cultural sense, the Muslims and Jews also care of QC’s Political Science Club and coordinator of the school’s War I—in new ways. Fun reading for anyone, The endeavors as a student in Berlin and Press). Using data gathered from surveys about others in the broader community,” Khatri says. “We both feel on Hate events. Book of Firsts holds particular appeal for fans Paris. Yet, as this book makes clear, these of congregations and individuals, as well as a responsibility to serve humanity.” “We’ve seen amazing successes,” says Wohlberg of the work of the of quiz shows and knowledge-based games experiences, coupled with his embrace of extensive telephone interviews, Min sheds That sharing also took place in several events late last year. In still-new center. “I’m a pragmatist who takes a realistic view of the like Trivial Pursuit. American-style modernity, may well be what light on two Asian American groups with October Ruiz organized a panel on immigration reform. On another world, and I see that this process works. Engaging with each other is allowed Schneerson to be so successful in very different ideas about the relationship night, students gathered to discuss their response to the massive far better than cutting yourself off and indulging in stereotypes.” Standing an inch too helping the Lubavitchers evolve over the between faith and ethnicity. floods in Pakistan. Jewish and Muslim students also screened the For more about the center, visit qccenterforunderstanding.org short to qualify for four decades of his leadership from a small the New York City sect based in a gothic mansion in Crown With politicians Police Department, Heights, Brooklyn, into a significant force in of every stripe Louis Diaz ’74 ended modern Jewish life. advocating school CERRU Student Facilitators Learn How to Cope with Conflict up working instead reform, the demand A discussion about breakfast choices proved surprisingly compli- exercise for CERRU’s experienced student facilitators. As part of for the feds, in the When ultra-activists for gifted teachers cated when three QC students, all of them volunteers with the the day’s agenda, they created mini-dramas about problems they Drug Enforcement have a family, how can has never been Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understand- had encountered as mediators. Administration. they balance their greater. But according ing (CERRU), presented an impromptu skit on “These improvisations are effective dress rehearsals for real A stand-up guy commitments to to Jack Zevin campus this January. “Hard-boiled eggs are very conflicts in life,” explains CERRU Director Mark Rosenblum. from Brooklyn, causes and children? (Secondary Education healthful,” declared one woman, a little too “Students are often imbued with confidence as well as practice he was a natural undercover operative: Which gets sacrificed? & Youth Services), our forcefully. “Omelets are better, because they techniques for steering difficult dialogues into productive ones.” multilingual, street smart, and—courtesy That’s the rich terrain understanding of the come in different flavors,” insisted Then, after a discussion led by John Vogelsang, the center’s dia- of his childhood in the rough Red Hook explored in Layla teacher-student relationship is based on the second with equal zeal. As logue initiative coordinator, the 13 participants revisited the skits neighborhood—savvy in the ways of (Plainview Press). archaic notions. “Contrary to the popular they argued, the man trapped and came up with new strategies for handling difficult situations. between them maintained his “Change can happen because the conversation changes,” observes gangsters and wannabes. Dancing with the After the death of dictum about gender, the world’s oldest neutrality, trying without suc- Vogelsang. Devil: Confessions of an Undercover her mother, the title profession really must be teaching,” he cess to get both parties to listen Since CERRU’s launch in fall 2009, more than 300 QC students Agent (Gallery Books) is his memoir of character, an apolitical type, gets a surprising writes in his latest book, Teaching on to each other, and him, without have been schooled in conflict mitigation. Like the QC popula- his two hair-raising decades in the field. bequest: travel instructions and a packet a Tightrope: The Diverse Roles of a interruption. The “audience”—a tion, facilitators come from a wide range of backgrounds and Diaz’s career began in New York, where he of letters. The papers lead the protagonist Great Teacher (Rowman & Littlefield mixture of CERRU staff, observ- major in everything from anthropology to mathematics; the only infiltrated the organization of Nicky Barnes, on a cross-country trip that teaches her Education). Dispensing with authoritarian ers, and fellow volun- prerequisite for their involvement is a commitment to participate a lethal Harlem drug lord who modeled about her parents’ secret past—and about models, Zevin encourages educators to teers—watched and in the center's training sessions and educational events on and off himself after mob boss Joe Gallo and beat the father she never knew. Debut novelist understand their work in the context of laughed. campus. New volunteers join the team every semester, complet- so many charges that he was nicknamed Celine Keating ’71, ’74, a music and an interactive relationship that involves five This gastronomic ing at least eight hours of training before being deployed to build “Mr. Untouchable.” After Barnes’s conviction, environmental writer who has published interlocking factors: actor and audience, metaphor for ir- cross-cultural bridges. reconcilable conflict “I appreciate the emphasis on promoting dialogue and conversa- Diaz moved on to dangerous assignments as shorter fiction in literary magazines, drew theory and practice, process and content, emerged during a tion,” said student Adam Kisting at the end of the Sunday session. far away as England and Latin America. For on notebooks she kept from her QC art and science, and cognition and emotion. weekend training “I’m expecting a lot from people and I’m getting it.”—Leslie Jay a change of scenery, he transplanted himself classes to recreate the tense atmosphere of Chapters on each of these factors include and his family to sunny California, eventually the 1960s and 1970s. examples and questions designed to help As part of a CERRU exercise, students Charlie Wohlberg (representing the British Mandate turning in his shield and launching a second teachers find the most effective way to authorities) and Batya Septimus (representing the Arab Higher Committee) assume the career in the film industry. promote lasting student learning. roles of historic figures while re-enacting the deliberations of the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine.

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was on the verge of dropping out of Queens. He was living on his own and couldn’t afford even the A Thoughtful Gift modest tuition payments. Then one of his professors nominated him for an award from a fund for deserving but needy students set If you believe in the work of Queens College and Internships are intended to give students a taste of a permanent job. up by the Leeds family—including Lilo Leeds ’48—who ran a want to ensure it will continue to serve gen- magazine publishing company in Nassau County. erations of students to come, you may wish to But sometimes they lead to a permanent job. The award he won included financial support and a summer consider a planned gift. Regardless of your age or internship as a proofreader at one of the family’s publications, income, you can benefit from estate planning, and Information Week. “At the end of the summer I went to the a planned gift can be an important tool in your In recent years internships have become more important in prepar- publisher and said good-bye.” But instead, he was invited to stay overall financial strategy. ing students for their work life, says Tesfaye Asfaw, director of QC’s on. So Colonna worked two to three days a week at the magazine There are many creative ways to make a mean- Office of Career Development and Internships. “I’ve heard recruit- while continuing his studies. After graduating with a major in ingful gift to Queens College while enhancing and ers say, ‘When I read a resume, if I don’t see an internship, I don’t English literature, he stayed with Information Week as a reporter safeguarding your own financial situation. Whether take the resume seriously,’” says Asfaw. “A comment that strong is for another eight years, and then worked two more years for the you choose to include the college in your will or es- unusual, but it shows how important internships have become.” publisher, where he was responsible for launching an Internet ver- tablish a Charitable Gift Annuity that would provide Many QC students hold part-time jobs. But an internship sion of the magazine in 1994. you income during your lifetime, we can help you is typically more enriching and chosen for its relevance to a After more than a decade writing about the fast-developing maximize the tax benefits of your charitable giving student’s field of study. Students learn about teamwork, the latest world of computers and the Internet, while allowing you to create a gift you may not have in modern technologies, and other skills. The typical internship Colonna went on to co-found two thought possible. Please contact the Queens College lasts one semester and involves 20 hours of work per week. The venture capital firms. @Ventures, Foundation at 718-997-3920 for more information. majority, including all jobs at for-profit enterprises, are paid. established in 1995, was the first in- About a third of the 80 to 100 internships organized through vestment firm focused entirely on the Asfaw’s office each semester carry academic credit. (A number of then-emerging Internet. Flatiron Who’s on the phone? individual departments also arrange internships; some, like ur- Partners also concentrated on com- For the first time in over 20 years, the Queens College ban studies and media studies, require them.) Below we highlight panies developing online business. Phonathon is back on campus and student staffed. Five three students whose lives were changed by an internship. Flatiron was a very successful nights a week since October (excluding winter break and some treacherous snowstorms), undergraduate did his summer and graduate student callers gather in a calling room internship at Newsday just after graduating with honors from in CEP 2, put on a headset, and reach out to alumni, Queens with a major in studio art and a minor in journalism. “I staff, faculty, and friends to ask them to support the was very young, very green,” he recalls. Kaysian C. Gordon got an internship with a large financial advising Queens College Annual Fund. As of early March they company in 2000. In fact, he had few clippings to show the newspaper when he ap- have logged 975 calling hours, made 9,078 phone calls, plied; most were online obituaries for practitioners of professional and have surpassed pledge dollars raised last wrestling, a sport with which he has long been fascinated. from Queens in 2002 fiscal year. And they still have 10 weeks to “I didn’t think I was entitled to anything,” says Castillo, who was with a major in accounting. In her junior year she was accepted Jerry Colonna '85 says that his internship became a job that “led to go! Not only are these students gaining born in the Bronx to parents who had emigrated from Latin Ameri- for an unusually long-term internship with UBS Financial Ser- my work as a venture capitalist and to the rest of my life.” transferable, real-world skills, but they are ca. “I worked twice as hard as everyone else” vices: it lasted 2½ years, including one year after graduation. also helping to raise essential unrestricted at the newspaper. “Since starting college I had always been working,” says Gor- early stage investment operation, says Colonna. During its six dollars to keep quality education affordable At the end of the summer Castillo don. “But the internship was definitely different.” The service she years of active investing, from 1996 to 2001, Flatiron invested and accessible for future Queens College was asked to stay on for a few months worked for advised wealthy clients on how to invest their money. more than $500 million and has, to date, returned more than students. Additionally, they are realizing more. That fall of 1999 was a busy time She was given small jobs to do by investment advisors and learned $1.8 billion. the importance of private contribu- with the November elections and the the importance of doing those tasks well and on time. Today Colonna works as a life coach, helping about 55 clients, tions at Queens and are on the road Y2K scare, and the newspaper needed Two of the key lessons she learned from the experience, says mostly young CEOs, deal with work and life issues related to to becoming alumni supporters extra help. Early the following year Gordon, is “never to take ‘No’ for an answer,” but also, perhaps their demanding jobs. He is also active with various nonprofit themselves. Castillo won a two-year Newsday intern- paradoxically, to say “No” if asked to do something she felt she projects. The most recent involves frequent travel to Tibet, where But it’s not just about the dollars. ship, in which his reporting highlights could not realistically accomplish. he helps a program aiding micro-businesses. Student callers update alumni on college included helping to cover the 2000 “The internship definitely opened the door for me at the next Colonna also is passionate about serving as co-chair of the activities, encourage campus visits, and presidential elections and the job I got,” which is advising wealthy clients at UBS. She QC Scholarship Committee, along with fellow QC Foundation respond to questions. So the next time attack on the World Trade works hard but enjoys it. “You’d be surprised just how Board Members Kathy Hu ’01 and Renée Kroll Zarin ’54. They your phone rings, pick it up . . . it might Center. Currently he is nice the clients are.” are asking former scholarship recipients to give to current stu- just be a student from QC! Newsday’s transportation dents the support they received when attending the college. reporter. Alfonso A. Castillo ’99, who started as an intern If you would like to offer a student an internship with your company, please contact the Office of Career Development & at Newsday, several years later won the Newsday Internships at 718-997-4465. Publisher's Award for Best Deadline Reporting.

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1941: Irwin Stein, who recently Medical College, received last July Philpott; for the admonitions of she received the society’s highest professor in the department of art history and music and who conducts tours year round 2010. For over 25 years he has turned 90, would like to hear from the Walter Bleifeld Memorial Award Coach Al Feld, who insisted on award. She lives in Harbor Isle, NY, college’s physical at Fordham University . . . Rosalyn devoted entirely to ghostly spirits performed magic shows to cheer up other members of the Class of ’41. for distinguished contributions to better swimming and ball handling with her husband, Fred. She is the education Terborg-Penn was awarded the . . . Robert Rubinstein recently sick children in hospitals in You can reach him at irwin01@ clinical research from the by the water polo team (especially mother of three grown children department from 2010 John Blassingame Prize for published Zishe the Strongman, a California. He notes that many of optonline.net or 914-779-2158 . . . International Academy of Bernstein); and for being selected in . . . Carolyn (Cooper) North 1965 to 1999. Distinguished Scholarship and story of Jewish immigration written his volunteer activities actually 1948: Franklin Kameny writes: Cardiology. A pioneer in many areas summers 1960–62 to teach the recently published three books: In There he Mentorship in African American for grades K–3 (Kar-Ben, 2010). A began while he was at Queens and “I entered QC in September 1941 of cardiovascular research, Wilbert fourth semester of CC (on the Beginning: Creation Myths from developed and History by the middle-school teacher for 32 years, a member of State House. Emmy- and (with three years out to fight has edited eight books and is author contemporary social thought) at Around the World (ICRL Press, 2010), chaired the Laboratory of Applied Southern Historical he also practices the art of nominated Mark has sold over a WWII) graduated in January 1948, or coauthor of 1,148 papers. He is QC.” He is married to Pamela Hen Voices Out of Stone: Magic and Science. Research funded by the Association. storytelling. His performances, dozen of his own game show with a BS in physics; I went on to co-chairman of the American . . . Herbert Gresser is the Mystery in Megalithic Brittany National Institutes of Health, the Currently, she is recordings, and books and stories formats and developed elements for obtain an MA (1949) and PhD College of Cardiology/American inventor of the first laser surgical (Findhorn Press, 2010), and Serious Office of Naval Research, and the university professor have won many awards, and his “Name that Tune,” “Truth or (1956) in astronomy from Harvard Heart Association/National Heart device: the retinal cauterizer using Fun: Ingenious, Low-Tech Ways of U.S. Army Medical Research and emerita, Morgan book Who Wants to Be a Hero! was Consequences,” “Let’s Make a Deal,” University. I have been a resident of Lung Blood Institute Committee on coherent light. Prior to Herb’s Addressing Everyday Issues of Money, Development Command led to his State University in made into a movie for Showtime “Beat the Clock,” and other shows Washington, DC, since September writing guidelines for the treatment invention, the laser was primarily Food, Waste, Water and Home publication of papers in many Baltimore, where . . . Bennett Stark is a visiting . . . 1971: Nicholas J. 1956. On June 10, 2010, in a formal of hypertension in the elderly. He thought valuable as a weapon and as (Findhorn Press, 2011). You can find scientific journals. William is senior she taught for 40 years. She scholar at Agnes Scott College in DiMichael was selected for public ceremony conducted by our graduated from Harvard Medical a light source. An electronic out more about Carolyn by visiting author of several exercise received her PhD in history from Decatur, GA . . . 1966: George inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Mayor Adrian Fenty, a two-block School in 1957 . . . Ernest Giglo engineer who holds a number of her website at http://www. physiology textbooks, one of which, Howard University . . . 1964: Brooks teaches in UC Berkeley’s America 2011. Lawyers are selected section of 17th Street, NW notes that the third edition of his patents, Herb spent a number of healingimprovisations.net . . . Exercise Physiology: Nutrition, Energy Hal Ackerman published his first department of integrative biology, for the list based on votes received between Q and R Streets (near book Here’s Looking at You: Hollywood, years as a professional musician, 1960: Janet Grossbach Mayer and Human Performance, 7th edition, novel—Stein, Stoned (Tyrus Books, but hasn’t forgotten his days running in a survey of their peers. Nicholas Dupont Circle) was permanently Film & Politics (Peter Lang) is now playing both popular and classical writes: “I graduated from Queens was awarded First Prize Medicine in 2010)—last track at Queens College. Working works for Thompson Hine in re-named ‘Frank Kameny Way, NW.’ available. It examines the music . . . Eric Gustafson notes College 50 years ago and began the 2002 British Medical Association summer, and has a with neuroscientists at UCLA, he Washington, DC . . . 1972: Alvin By way of an extremely terse relationship between the film that after a lifetime with the teaching English 50 years ago and I medical book competition. William second—Stein, researches lactate metabolism. Goldfarb has been president of summary of the half-century of industry and Washington from The Beautiful People—from Joan still am teaching English! I lived on earned his PhD in 1965 from the Stung—due out Comparing muscle and brain, he Western Illinois University since personal history leading up to this: Birth of a Nation to Michael Moore’s Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, and 148th St. and 61st Rd. in Flushing University of Michigan. Last this spring. These believes that tapping into the same 2002. He is the child of parents who Life takes utterly unanticipated Capitalism: A Love Story . . . 1954: William Hurt to Andy Warhol, and walked to QC every day for October he received the Lifetime forays into biological mechanism that helps escaped from Europe during World turns. Although I certainly didn’t Mario Monti wrote to say that the Rudolf Nureyev, and Leonard four years. During those years I Achievement Award from Michigan’s detective fiction athletes develop endurance on War II with nothing but their lives expect it or even conceive of it third of his books on diners, Diners Bernstein—and as a writer, worked daily in the ‘new’ Paul Department of Kinesiology. Now follow upon a treadmills may someday help while the rest of his family— when I was at QC or when I came of New York (written with Mike performer, art dealer, and arts Klapper Library, earning 80 cents an retired from QC, William is a career as a playwright, screenwriter, patients with traumatic brain grandparents and others—died in to Washington, I am now widely Engle), has just been published by administrator, he has turned toward hour. I taught English in NYC Fellow Emeritus of the American fiction writer, and member of the injuries . . . 1967: Lew Tesser is hiding or in concentration camps. nationally viewed, up to and Stackpole Books. His previous spiritual regeneration and personal schools for 45 years, 33 in two College of Sports Medicine. He faculty at the UCLA School of the editor-in-chief of The New York His book Theatrical Performance including President Obama books are Diners of Long Island and fulfillment in India. He is traveling, Bronx High Schools. I am still remains active in his field, revising Theater, Film, and Television. Hal’s Rules of Professional during the Holocaust, coedited with personally, as one of the Founding Diners of Florida . . . 1957: lecturing, and publishing extensively teaching part-time in Port Jervis, NY, his textbooks and acting as exercise play Testosterone: How Prostate Conduct (Oxford Rebecca Rovit, was a finalist for the Fathers of the Gay Movement. I Barton Bernstein retired after 45 about his experiences (including and have semi-retired to Hawley, PA, physiologist for Weight Watchers Cancer Made a Man of Me won the University Press, 1999 National Jewish Book Award. initiated gay activism and militancy years at Stanford University, where India: Paradox and Treasures, 2005, with my loving husband of 52½ International and advisor to the William Saroyan Centennial Prize 2010). The He holds a master’s in theatre and locally and nationally in 1961. I he taught history, was the Mellon and Expect the Unexpected, 2009) years, Larry. My students were my Office of the Chief Scientists of for drama. His book Write treatise provides cinema from Hunter College and a coined the slogan ‘Gay is Good’ in Professor of Interdisciplinary . . . 1959: Marlene D. de Rios heroes and I have just finished a Weight Watchers International. He Screenplays that Sell . . . the Ackerman attorneys with the PhD in theatre from CUNY . . . 1968. In the years since then, I have Studies, and chaired American is a medical anthropologist retired book, As Bad as They Say (Fordham and his wife, Kathleen ’61, have Way (Tallfellow Books) is in its third most current case Leslie G. Leach, a former state been deeply involved in the activism Studies and the International from teaching at California State University Press), to change the four children and 13 grandchildren printing. Hal tells us that “Jeff law, opinions, and in-depth judge, is now Governor Andrew which has led to the vastly Relations and International Policy University. Fullerton and an stereotype of Bronx H.S. students, . . . 1963: After teaching English Bennett (’65) and I wrote a commentary governing ethical Cuomo’s appointments secretary. improved status of gay people in Studies programs. History buffs associate clinical professor of who, despite enormous obstacles, for 35 years, Edward Butscher musical called Robin, which was the conduct. Lew, the director of the Prior to this, Leslie was executive ways which would have been certainly know his many highly psychiatry and human behavior at are capable of attaining the highest retired to East Hampton, NY, where first full-length musical production Ethics Institute of the New York deputy attorney general for the unthinkable back then, and while, at respected and influential books and the University of California, Irvine. achievements” . . . Merrill Lynch he continues writing. His latest completely student written- County Lawyers’ Association, is a Division of State Counsel and the age 85, I am pleased to pass the articles. Over the years he has She recently published three books: financial advisor Sybil Sternlieb book of poems is Eros Descending. directed-produced at QC (1963)” partner in Tesser, Ryan & Rochman, administrative judge of the Eleventh torch, I remain involved. It was in received numerous awards and An Hallucinogen Tea Laced with was recognized in the June 7, 2010 His 1976 literary biography of Sylvia . . . 1965: Joyce Gold is an LLP, New York, NY . . . 1968: Judicial District, Supreme Court, recognition of that that I was fellowships and, despite Controversy (Praeger Library Series, issue of Barron’s magazine as one of Plath, the first such, appeared the expert on New York history who Rob Brownstein is the vice Queens County . . . Richard honored on June 10, and will remain “retirement,” he continues to write, 2008), The Psychedelic Journey of “America’s Top 100 Women same year as his initial volume of has become one of the best-known president of intellectual property Sgroi and Robert Gerver (’76) so remembered. My best to Queens lecture widely, and teach at Stanford. Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Financial Advisors.” She joined poems, Poems About Silence, followed tour operators in the business. and innovation at LitePoint recently published Financial Algebra, College. I remember it fondly” . . . Barton writes that he remains Shamans, Ayahuasqueros and Merrill Lynch in 1981 and has been over the years by several other Unlike the typical blockbuster tour Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA. He their seventh high school 1949: Matilda DeLise informs “deeply grateful to QC for the Ethnobotanists (Inner Traditions, the top female producer in their collections, including Child in the guide, she offers visitors guided works closely with the research and mathematics textbook. Their us that she taught math in New education he received” and that he 2009), and Fate, Fortune and Garden City, NY, office since the House (Canio’s Editions). He also tours of the city’s historical design and new-product engineering textbooks have been sold in all 50 York City schools for over 35 years, feels “especially indebted to J.H. Mysticism in the Peruvian Amazon early 1990s. Sybil spent the first 20 wrote the first biography of Conrad neighborhoods and sites, educating groups to identify patentable states, Canada, and several European most of the time at JHS 125. After Hexter and Richard Emery in (Inner Traditions, 2011). “I had a years of her working life teaching Aiken, Poet of White Horse Vale, which as she goes (she also teaches New inventions. Once they are identified, countries . . . 1973: Sharon retiring in 1987, she and her History, to Jack Noone and Ralph wonderful education at Queens calculus and higher mathematics at won the Poetry Society of America’s York history at New York University he oversees the application and Potts had, it seems, too much husband traveled to Europe and Sleeper in Philosophy, to Israel College!” she says . . . Gabriele the high school and college levels. A Melville Cane Award in 1988 . . . and the New School). In response prosecution of patents . . . 1969: order in her life. Not content to across the United States. A mother Barowoy in English, to Saul Kathryn (Heimberg) Libbey resident of Upper Brookville, NY, Larry Stempel’s 30 years of hard to popular interest in the Mark Maxwell-Smith was named be a CPA and business executive, and grandmother many times over, Engelbourgh in Contemporary recently retired as executive Sybil and her husband, Peter, a work on his book Showtime: A paranormal, for the past 15 years Volunteer of the she turned her hand to murder. Matilda notes that since she became Civilization, to Elizabeth Nottingham director of the physician, have four children and History of the Broadway Musical she has added ghost tours to her Year by the Her debut work of crime fiction, a widow in 1996, she has “tried to in Sociology, and to Josef Soudek in Nassau County four grandchildren. Sybil and Peter Theater (Norton, 2010) has paid off repertoire, meaning excursions to Association of In Their Blood, won top honors in remain strong—and active.” She Economics.” He is also “grateful for Dental Society. She are avid ballroom dancers and as the Washington Post praised it as haunted sites (especially popular at Fundraising Mystery/Suspense at the 2010 lives in the Bronx . . . 1953: the support and guidance he was honored at a lifelong jazz buffs . . . 1961: “a brilliant book . . . large in spirit as Halloween). Right behind her is Phil Professionals as a Benjamin Franklin Awards, and was Wilbert S. Aronow, clinical received in the 1950s from Dean gala dinner held in William McArdle is not only a well as scope.” Larry is an associate Schoenberg ’69, also a historian part of National quickly followed by Someone’s professor of medicine at New York George Pierson and Dr. Emily January 2010 where QC graduate but was also a professor of music in the who has taught at Queens College Philanthropy Day Watching (Oceanview, 2011) . . .

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1974: Leonard Friedlander is of the state of Texas . . . 1979: LaGuardia Community College. I for more than 35 years and has musical theatre librettist. Barry $5 million in tax refunds to low- retired now, but feels that he Mario Macaluso (Specialist have been there for almost 25 had exhibits at many galleries writes prolifically—most recently, income taxpayers . . . Kerin followed in his father’s footsteps: Diploma in School Administration years, but am now retired and and museums, including the Paul the book, music, and lyrics to the E. Coughlin (MA) is practicing Gabriel Friedlander, a policeman, & Supervision) has just published working as an adjunct. I published Klapper Library . . . 1992: musical Calvin Berger, which had commercial and antitrust litigation was among those who did the hard his seventh book, Sicilian Myths and three books, the latest a book of Mary McDonald (MA ’98) has critically acclaimed productions. with Constantine Cannon LLP. work of salvaging the Pacific fleet Legends. He has retired from his letters entitled Dear Sister: Letters become a sought-after speaker on He previously won the Richard She is also an adjunct professor of after Pearl Harbor, which later was position as chair of world languages Home to Sicily from Wartime autism, the subject of her research Rodgers and the Jerry Bock lawyering skills and legal writing key to winning the Battle of at Syosset High School, but remains America. It has been well received on technology-based interventions. Awards . . . 2002: Ben at the Cardozo Law School of Midway. Leonard worked as a high- an active writer and lecturer . . . and I currently do book talks at Mary, a certified behavior analyst, Grysman writes: “I graduated Yeshiva . . . 2008: Aaron rise firefighter in lower Manhattan, David Perrick is a board- various institutions and colleges” directs outreach, consulting, and from QC in February 2002 with Ellner (MSEd ’09) has started where he ended up assisting on certified allergist/ . . . 1984: Howard Fertig research at the Eden II School/ a bachelor’s degree in psychology his own business as that rare and 9/11; he became part of the Funeral immunologist (MSEd) was named regional vice The Genesis Programs and and a minor in philosophy. I unusual person: the male Jewish Desk, which organized funerals who has been in president of RiseSmart, a web- Rutgers University. She also is have been living right in the matchmaker. Aaron’s moniker, and memorials for the 343 private practice enabled outplacement and job an assistant professor in special neighborhood, Kew Garden’s Hills The Wingman, describes his role firefighters who died that day . . . for 21 years in search service based in New York. education at Hofstra University and Forest Hills, and have just as he guides his clients through 1976: Maryanne Verbil Columbia, SC. He Previously, Howard was a global . . . 1993: Odera Odenyo has graduated from Hofstra University, introductions and sticks with them Walter gives a lot of time to wishes “to account director for Globoforce completed and elaborated on his earning a PhD in through the dating process. “It’s a community organizations. A express his Inc., a sales director for BrassRing, late father Amos Otieno Odenyo’s clinical and school great mitzvah to set people up,” teacher at PS 89 in Elmhurst, she gratitude for the educators at and a sales executive at Berlitz memoirs, Staring at the Nyanza psychology. he says, and so far he seems to be has won many awards for her Queens College who were a International . . . 1989: Iris Sun: A Kenyan-American Memoir Queens College having success at it. He is living in work for the Girl Scouts. She led a continuous source of inspiration” DeLutro is vice president of (Spear and Shield Publishing, 2010). was memorable Woodmere, NY, where he also troop in Maspeth for almost 30 . . . 1980: 2010 was a prolific the Professional Staff Congress, When his father passed away in for me because works as a substitute teacher in years and, as the service unit year for Susan Behrens as she which represents faculty and 2007, he left behind an unfinished of the great the public schools . . . Denise manager of southwest Queens, she published two books: Grammar: A staff at CUNY, and is senior autobiography, scrapbooks, education and remarkable Garvey (MA) is director of the organizes Girl Scout community Pocket Guide and a linguistics text counselor and coordinator of photographs, and 20 hours of oral classmates, but what I remember Jets Flight Crew Cheerleaders and service projects. As a member of for non-linguists called Language in the LEAP to Teacher Program of history interviews that Odera had most fondly is my time is also in charge of a Junior Flight the United Veterans and Fraternal the Real World, which shows how the Murphy Institute, a CUNY taped with him. The resulting book volunteering as a research assistant Crew Cheerleader Program for Organizations of Maspeth, she also language study is the basis of many program that helps women is Odenyo’s story from his modest in the Learning Lab run by Dr. girls between 7 and 14. Before chairs its essay contest. Maryanne liberal arts disciplines. The latter is paraprofessionals transition into background in colonial Kenya, Lanny Fields. This was my first going to work for the Jets, Denise and her husband, Michael, have a contributed volume, including teaching. She enjoys living close to through the Kennedy-Mboya airlift exposure to science at work. The danced for the Dallas Cowgirls four daughters and one son-in-law chapters by Ann Jablon ’73, ’76 her daughter Antoinette Hafner that brought him to the United thoughtfulness and dedication and the Knicks City Dancers, . . . 1977: Julian Fortuna was and Helen Smith Cairns, longtime and grandson Joseph . . . Joseph States, and on to his long career demonstrated by Dr. Fields and and entertained servicemen and selected for the QC professor and one-time dean Foy, an IRS special agent in the as chairman of social sciences at his staff is something that drove women for USO tours overseas 2011 edition of of graduate studies. Both books New York field office, was the York College, CUNY, in Jamaica, me through my post-bachelor’s . . . 2010: Luis Perdomo (MA) The Best Lawyers were published by Routledge . . . lead instructor for the Adrian Queens. Odera also reflects on career, which included graduate is touring with the Ravi Coltrane in America, a peer- Leslie Dunner (MA) is principal Project, a day-long crash course growing up Kenyan American, school, adjunct teaching in Touro Quartet, led by the son of the reviewed national guest conductor of the Louisville in IRS criminal investigations for including accounts of his sister College, and research fellowships. late John and Alice Coltrane. Luis, survey. Julian is an Orchestra. Though he has stepped students from QC and Pace. This Dina Odenyo (’92) and his QC (Plus I worked for a legal who has three recordings of his expert in tax law down as music director and was the fifth such event held at education . . . 1996: Robert consulting firm after college to own with a fourth scheduled for and a partner in the Saylor Law principal conductor for the Joffrey the college, where students acted Bedrossian (’97 MSEd, ’01 MLS) save up, before starting Hofstra in early 2011, studied with the late Firm LLP, based in Atlanta . . . Ballet, he is busier than ever with a out executing search warrants, had an exhibition of photographs 2003.) I hope to follow Dr. Fields’ Sir Roland Hanna at QC and has 1978: Laura Carr Bandrowski full schedule of international guest taking in suspects, and so on, with at North Shore Public Library. A lead and continue researching appeared with many acclaimed jazz is the president of Laura Carr Fine conducting engagements. He also IRS special agents playing the part real estate consultant, Robert also and teaching, while I conduct artists, including Ray Barretto and Arts, LLC, which specializes in continues to compose and perform of criminals being investigated, is a serious photographer who psychotherapy. I thank QC for all Alice Coltrane. post-war abstract expressionism as a clarinetist. Leslie makes his pursued, and arrested. Among the studied with Neil Slavin at QC. His that it gave me, preparing me for and pop art . . . Anita home in Chicago, where he special agents on hand for booking photographs document everyday what I hope will be a successful Send Us Your News Farrington is enjoying life as received the 3Arts Award last year were Charles Hyacinthe ’88, life in New York and around the career as a psychologist” . . . We want to hear from you. freshman dean in the College of for his contributions to that city’s also from the NY office, and world, notably in Mexico, Peru, 2003: Robert Clovey (MS) Tell us where you are, what you Arts and Sciences at New York musical life . . . 1981: Michael Eric Rennert ’82, from the NJ and China . . . Chris Ferraro’s is president of the New York are doing, what you remember University, where she helps Schementi is senior VP/CFO of field office . . . 1990: Gary (MS ’01) essay “Teaching the Long State Society of Certified Public most about your college years, students with everything from the American Technion Society. Vollo, in association with the Nineteenth Century (1750–1914) Accountants. Robert, who worked and enclose a photo.

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32 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 33 Robert B. Eaton ’68 Sheldon & Judith Stern Public Library Robert & Jacqueline Suzanne M. Aridas ’00 Sondra Cooperman Baxt Alumni Families ECS Publishing Corp. Katz ’60 Gregory L. & Clementine Snitow Willens ’70 Irwin Arluk ’59 ’53 Endicott Management Co. Johanna Thomas Kebabian C. Rabassa William Charles Printing Arthur J. & Carmela Mildred J. Baynes ’56 The Landaus Wilbur H. & Dorothy ’92 RBC Capital Markets Co. Belardi Arnoldt ’87 Elmer H. & Flora Treiber Engels ’41 John W. Kinder ’41 Walter & Dorothy Alfred G. Williams ’61 Ethan & Barbara Beberfall ’72 The mother retired from teaching English to immigrants and became degrees (physics and electrical engineering), a second undergraduate ExxonMobil Foundation David J. & Karen Simon Livingston Reid ’48 Eva Ann Stern Williams Quintana Aronoff ’58 Susan L. Beberfall ’77 Robert C. ’90 & Kathleen Krieger ’78 Seymour J. ’56 & Julia ’53 Leah Athanasiadis Jose C. & Marlen Ovalle a stand-up comedian. The doctor daughter specializes in reproductive degree (engineering), and a PhD (optics). B. Fabio Marvin M. ’75 & Pamela Reisman George L. ’55 & Adelia Zak & Dora Athanasiadis Becerra ’91 genetics. The son is a scientist at a space agency. And the father did He and his sister, Jaclyn L. Roberts, MD, ’87, could bicycle Benjamin D. ’67 & Judy Chin Lager Marie Heise-Stark Ross- Williams Jaclyn R. Aubel Bechtel Foundation research in plasma physics and MRI imaging at various government, com- to campus in 10 minutes. Both had attended yeshivas, including in Israel, S. Fein Edwin A. & Alma Lakin Jachter ’69 Kaitsen ’87 & Jenny Woo Jean-Paul & Joan Leon & Ina Kutz Sarin pany, and university laboratories. Queens College has been the nucleus before the family moved to Queens. Like her brother, Jaclyn skipped Lawrence ’57 & Ruth Carl & Joyce Block Paul & Ursula Reynolds Crissy Wu ’05 Elizabeth Tacke Beck ’49 her senior year to enroll (he’s a year older, but Feinman Lazarus ’67 Roth ’42 Andrew E.K. Yiannakos Aucoin ’72 Ruth G. Becker ’56 Marguerite Henebry Arnold B. & Theresa Joseph ’71 & Jeanne Ernst & Iris Ort Evon & Carole Grevious spent five years at QC). Ferraro ’67 Cerone Lederer ’48 Samet Friends ($100–$499) Auerbacher ’55/’56 Beckford ’84 And both embraced QC’s cultural diversity. Sheldon & Nellie Chester & Diana Jane Sholom Sanders Abbott Laboratories Fund David S. & Helene Michael ’57 & Cynthia “I just loved it,” she says. “It was like being Wiesenthal Fink ’52 Lee ’70 Irwin ’59 & Marlene Grace Lawlor Abere ’41 Freirich Augenblick A. Beer reborn.” A chemistry-biology interdisciplin- Evelyn Albert Flory ’56 Steven E. & Susi Leiter Savodnik Jay M. ’69 & Lynn S. ’43/’45 Charleen Z. Behrschmidt Eileen Caroline Frey ’53 Robert & Ruth Zwickler Carl E. Schachter Susan Beller Auman ’74 ’54 ary major who received a Jonas E. Salk Award, Abrahams she is grateful to pre-med advisor Dan Marien Daniel E. & Victoria Lesser ’63/’63 Leslie ’59 & Susan L. Gail Abramowitz ’73 Reginald & Inez C. Austin Bell Atlantic Vicital Gawiak ’73/’65 Jack E. Levi Scherr Accenture Foundation, ’81 Kristin M. Belmonte for coaching her. Working in the math lab General Electric Fund Mark A. & Linda Kopell Doreen M. Schmitt ’96 Inc. Norma I. Aviles ’98 Mark Benavides and babysitting, Jaclyn earned money to go to Edgar N. ’43 & Mina Levine ’59 Molly Byron Schoen ’48 Sean Adcroft ’03 Charles & Claire C. Leslie S. Bender ’70 SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Now Gilbert Howard R. ’77 & Helene David B. ’42 & Adele Avnyin ’95 Yvette Davis Benjamin Fred M. Adell ’81 on staff at Maimonides Medical Center in Arthur I. & Judith Levitt Chidapel Schwartz AHI International Corp George & Beate Axelrad ’50 Schwam Goldberg ’62 Carl Marc & Beth Peter L. ’66 & Geraldine Charles F. Ahlers ’51 Jeffrey A. & Ellen K. Paul W. & Dorothy Brooklyn, she aids women experiencing difficult Reginald Goldsmith Weinstein Lieberman Schwartz Liliane Frank Akyali ’61 Axelrod ’78 Poulson Bennert ’43 pregnancies “who haven’t gotten the correct Michael S. Goldstein ’61 ’68 Patricia Ann Schwarz Ilse Thode Albers ’53 Marjorie Friedman Axler Fredric B. ’70 & Sheree The Landau family has been a familiar presence on campus, beginning with father Ronald (right), who answers anywhere else.” Scaling back from her & Judith Siegel Deanna Littell John E. & Joan Waidelich Glenda Pines Albert ’55 ’53 Starrett Bennett taught physics and did research on plasma instabilities at QC in the 1970s. Since then (l-r) son Mayer, 90-hour-a-week ob/gyn schedule to a mere 40 Michael R. ’62 & Toby Loews Foundation Secor ’62 Richard & Evelyn Marian Dieterich Bach Helen T. Bennett ’71 wife Linda, and daughter Jaclyn have all earned degrees at Queens. gives her more time with her husband and four Lee Gorelick Mark G. & Judith Catherine Sellinger Braunstein Albert ’50 ’77 Doris Bergman ’60 Grant Thornton LLP Sasonkin Lowenstein Joseph M. & Jane Jeffrey ’69 & Barbara Shirley Rosenberg Bach Seymour & Annette Barth children, ages 5 to 17. David Haas ’59 Cavalieri Sharnoff Alexander ’53 Berkman ’54 Those grandchildren, plus Mayer’s two, de- Raziel S. ’67 & Frances Gail A. Marquis ’80 ’66/’69 Joel & Arlene Kitaeff Michael & Sandra Barry & Emily Schwartz of an expanding universe of education for this nuclear family of Landaus. light Linda Landau ’89 (MA) and her husband, Ronald, who taught T. Hakim Edward L. & Alice Marie C. Sicari ’90 Greenwald Back ’61 Berkov ’63 Alexander ’69 The first three are QC graduates and the fourth is a former adjunct physics at QC in the late 1970s and early 1980s. When New York City John L. & Jeannette Eisenberg Mattison Alfred M. ’62 & Carol Elizabeth Alfano ’07 Stanley M. ’60 Melvin Berkowitz Alonso Hall ’62 R. Sils Arnold ’64 & Elaine & Marilyn Back Andrew S. ’79 & Lisa professor of physics at the college. slashed art teaching jobs during its fiscal crisis, Linda came to QC for her Gerard V. ’74 & Anne Paul T. ’62 & Emilie W. Abraham J. Simon Alfert Burton L. ’54 & Sally B. Berman Mayer Landau ’87, the son, found his niche at QC “hanging out master’s in applied linguistics. “I did very, very well as the oldest student” M. Hannon McSloy Gloria Singer Vincent ’57 & Anne P. Backner Elaine Ginsbourger in the mathematics lounge,” being tutored by faculty. “They were a great in class, she notes, proud to hold her own in a family where Mayer and Stephen H. & Arda Millenium Restoration Peter P. & Phyllis Algeri Werner Baer ’53 Berman ’53 Nazerian Haratunian Corp. Yanowitz Louise M. Baietto ’74 Jay Michael ’73 & Nancy bunch, willing to spend a lot of time with undergraduates,” he notes. In Jaclyn had been weaned on Scientific American and her husband had a Beverly Ackerman Allen Albuquerque, NM, the physicist explores optics and lasers at the Air PhD. While taking evening courses to prepare to teach English as a Sec- ’86 Jeffrey David ’67 & Irene Skomorowsky ’73 ’60 Walter Baigelman ’68 R. Berman Ronald H. & Sylvia Ball Miller Samuel & Stella Skura Catherine Zaita Allen ’88 Bonnie L. Bailer ’75 Paul I. ’51 & Iris M. Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate. ond Language, she developed an unusual way of coaxing immigrants to Hartman ’59 Vincent A. Misiano ’72 Richard S. Sobel ’65 Shameena Alli ’94 Andrew Bailis ’68 Berman As an 11th grader, Mayer took calculus at QC at night, then enrolled learn: “I used joke-telling to internalize language structure,” she explains. Leonore Crary Hauck ’47 Mobil Foundation, Inc. Sprint Elyssa Alpert Beverly Baker ’47 Shani Berman through early admission. He and four other math students, all of whom She based her thesis on that approach. After retiring 13 years ago at age David A. Heimowitz ’78 Mario J. & Lucille David & Peggy Giffen John C. & Carolyn Mark J. ’69 & Susan Mark C. & June Hoffer would earn doctorates, enlisted their professors to design 15 advanced 59, she has been enjoying telling jokes on stage. Hellenic Society of Faraone Monti Starr ’42/’42 Alpert ’77 Schraut Baker ’67 Bernstein Constantinople, Inc. ’58/’72 Richard M. & Robin Christa Altenstetter Anisah Baksh ’09 Philip A. ’73 & Karen classes just for them. 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Desposito ’53 Landesman Edelstein Fava ’48/’48 Charles H. & Gail ’66/’88 Viganti Cowles ’77 Howard P. Deutsch ’73 ’54 Myra M. Feder Zierman Forsberg ’68 Victor Gallis ’67 The ADLERs Tom & Carmela Racanelli Marc A. & Carole Salz Howard J. ’68 & Susan Federated Department Joseph P. Fotos ’66 Shimon D. Ganz ’09 Crawford ’76 Dichter ’67/’64 G. Edenberg Stores Foundation Desmond L. & Masie Zulma C. Garcia ’73 When your dad has published 220 books that delight children world- Grace C. Crocitto ’84 Richard B. & Shirley Jim & Ellen Mandell Irving W. & Zlatta Birch Preddie Francis ’96 Fred & Susan Gardaphe John H. ’62 & Anne Schiffman Dickerson Edmundson ’73 Fein ’51 Paul E. & Margaret Melissa Garza wide in languages from Chinese to Braille, you might find a few details Croghan ’43 George M. & Jane Jeffrey ’66 & Marsha Kingston Franco ’60 Alan K. Gaynor ’53 from your own childhood surfacing in print. So it is with labor law Donna J. Crouch ’85 Stephen A. & Barbara Hewlett Edwards ’45 Feinberg John E. & Anastasia William & Gertrude attorney Michael S. Adler ’99 and his father, the award-winning Michele F. Crown ’65 Marschman Diehl ’96 Walter D. & Mary Kraljic Harry Feiner Frangos ’65/’72 Guzik Gazsy ’87 author David A. Adler ’68. His fictional offspring include such Prudence Crowther John P. ’52 & Dorothy Egan ’57 Robert M. ’85 & Kristina Rhonda Frank Joel R. & Phyllis spunky characters as Cam Jansen, Andy Russell, Jeffrey Bones, and Her- Richard P. & Carole Zimmerman Dietzel Sylvia Kaufman Ehrlich Feingold Robert A. Frank ’65 Friedman Gecht Resnick Crystal ’69 Donna M. Digioia ’71 ’75 Ronald L. Feinman ’66 Alvin & Audrey ’73/’75 man “Houdini” Foster. Jay ’59 & Harriet Cudrin Michael D. & Kathleen Stephen & Florence Stanley & Haya Feld Sandler Berkowitz Mary Gegelys ’58 “He certainly has gotten ideas from me and my [two] younger broth- Candace Cumberbatch Burlon DiGiovanna Josiah Eich ’48/’45 Bella Tabak Feldman ’51 Frankenberg ’57 Elizabeth A. Geiser ers,” says Michael about his father. “A fanatical baseball fan” (like his dad), ’85 ’62/’68 Ruth Eichacker ’73 Irwin M. ’57 & Rita Barbara Weiss Franklin John & Jacquelyn at age 8 he saw himself reflected in a draft of his dad’s book Benny, Benny, Mary Whalen Cummings Joseph Di Lorenzo ’77 Charles M. ’51 & Roberta Feldman ’69 Schillinger Geissman ’43 Julio & Joan Prudente S. Eisenhauer Jules S. & Sharon Feldman Yevette Frazier ’04 ’50 Baseball Nut. The Adlers (back row l-r): Renée ’70, Eddie, and Michael ’99; (front row): Robert & Serena Dineiro ’79 Harold ’80 & Lisa ’00 & Paul Greene Edith Gelber-Beechler ’76 As an infant, Michael played an unwitting part in launching his father’s David ’68, Eitan, and Deborah. Cummins Norman Dishotsky ’62 Eisenstein Scott Feldman ’03 Albert & Phyllis Freberge Stanley & Eve Geller career as a popular and prolific author. David took leave from teach- Alan T. & Catherine Casimir P. & Janina Erik H. Eitel ’95 Joseph & Caryl Fried Mitchell Freiband ’72 Vielka Genao ing math in New York City schools to care for baby Michael while his Kernveis Cunningham Dagys Dobkowski ’68 Eli Lilly & Company Feldmann ’58 Michael W. ’73 Donna Murphy Genova wife, Renée Hamada-Adler ’70, went back to work as a school ’65/’64 Erica Gundell Doctorow Foundation Eleanor Rifas Feller ’49 & Virginia Frenkel ’69 Beverly Cunningham ’81 Milton & Ruth Burg George J. Felos ’73 Lawrence S. & Gloria Marie I. George ’02 psychologist. He had published several books, edited children’s books, basing their bios on authentic sources. David, while researching his Ben Peter J. & Fran Caleca George V. ’74 & Francine Ellis ’42 David F. ’75 & Nancy Berkenstat Freund Neil & Joan Rosenfeld earned an MBA, and was working on a PhD in Franklin picture bio in QC’s Rosenthal Library, was impressed he could D’Agostino ’73/’74 Doerrbecker Melvyn Ellner ’64 S. Fenster ’61/’62 Gerard ’68/’68 marketing. Being a stay-at-home-dad enabled him easily access volumes of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Adele W. Dahlberg Philip Z. ’68 & Linda Howard & Robin Sosis Eugene J. & Tanya Estelle Cooperman Fried Vasilios Gerazounis to concentrate on writing for children. In 1977 Queens College, plus a love of children, are touchstones as well for John Paul & Diane A. Dolen Elson ’69/’71 Fenster ’49 Douglas David & Eileen Kimmel-Bramson Thomas A. & Linda Joseph R. & Marilyn Charles U. Ferguson ’73 Steven & Carol Grosser Cole Gerstein ’63/’66 he wrote his first story about Cam (for camera) his wife Renée and his brother, Joseph Adler ’66, who retired Dalsimer ’62 Riebling Dollard ’66 Goldsmith Emmett Barbara Ferman ’77 Friedling ’67 Elaine Krieger Gerstein Jansen, a red-headed schoolgirl who applies her from teaching math in New York City schools and now is at a private Theodore & Christine Amy Y. Doniger ’70 Lionel ’55 & Rosewita Arlene Ornstrat Friedman ’77 photographic memory to solving everyday myster- school. Renée and David met two years after her graduation; they were Yuschak D’Amico ’08 Bartholomew N. Donnelly James & Lynne Katz Fernandez ’57 Joseph A. Giannotti ’72 ies. Thirty-one years later, the series has sold 25 married a year later. A psychology major at QC, she earned her PhD at Mathew P. ’64 & ’63 Ende ’68/’68 Sidney & Leona Schloss Arthur L. ’78 & Marilyn Elizabeth ’98 & Frank million copies and been in print continuously. “I Elizabeth Gary R. & Barbara Nancy Engdahl ’73 Fernbach ’51 Friedman Giglia Columbia University. QC was “really where I discovered what I wanted R. Daniels Kestenbaum Donshik Celia A. Engel ’01 Dave & Linda Pugliese Carole Holland Friedman Jeffrey C. ’79 & Sandy have the strongest connection to her,” comments to do,” she observes. “It was a happy four years for me.” Retired from Philip & Gloria Robbins ’65 Justin A. Engel ’02 Fields ’73/’77 ’72 Ginsberg her creator. the city schools, she is a part-time therapist at the Peninsula Counseling Darvin ’54 Laurie F. Dorf John G. & Janice Gangi Samuel B. ’67 & Sharon David & Roberta Hirsch Robert Ginsberg ’62 The author’s oeuvre leapfrogs across genres for Center in Valley Stream, NY, where she advocates for troubled young- Robert M. & Susan Antoinette Baicich English ’77 A. Fineman Friedman ’68/’72 Valentene Giordano ’09 children and young readers: fast-paced stories, mys- sters and their parents. Schwartz Davidson D’Oronzio ’65 Patrice A. English-Young Arthur & Rhoda Siegel Marcia Kinstler Friedman Norma Giorgetti ’64 ’62/’64 Ze-Li Dou ’87 ’97 Finer ’53 ’47 Joseph Anthony ’75 & teries, adventures, math puzzles, picture biographies, David earned his BA at QC in economics and education, with certi- Marc ’67 & Sheila Davis William R. ’79 & Eileen Robert S. & Lorelei Stanley & Barbara Fried Ronald L. & Shelley Margarette Girgenti and historical fiction (his favorite). He’s usually fication in history and math. In his required English courses, the author Charles & Karen Doucette Kampf Ennis ’64 Finkel ’61 Friedman Alexander & M. Emily working on several at once. For his children’s books says, “I learned a lot about writing clearly and precisely.” Growing up Normandia Davy ’90 Thomas F. ’73 & Regina Charles M. & Loretta Bradley Scott ’80 & Sandor A. & Judith Brout Sobenko Giris ’56 on the Holocaust, he interviewed dozens of survi- with five siblings, he was always reading and drawing, and since then has Guillermo O. ’97 & C. Dougherty Perettine Epifania ’49 Sandra Finkelstein Friedman ’61 Francesca S. Girod ’96 vors. Almost half of his works are nonfiction—on Carmen Daza Kathleen Downing ’91 Stephen G. Epstein ’71 David M. & Meris Bloom Sidney & Rita Weisberg Vere Gittens exhibited and published his illustrations. A nephew’s persistent questions Richard Stephen & Sol & Pearl Meppen Hilding Carl & Dorothy First ’74 Friedman ’43 Donald A. Glasel ’80 time zones, the laws of supply/demand, fractions, and other topics that inspired his first book, A Little at a Time (1976); it was recently reissued. Estelle Grandon de Drabkin ’49 Ellis Erickson ’58 Robert & Marian C. Fish Stanley D. & Susan Loren I. & Carla Driansky have intrigued him. “One night I went to bed reading poetry and just woke up writing,” he Bear ’53/’51 Edith Zucker Dressler ’86 Amy L. Ernst Earl E. ’73 & Julianne Loeserman Friedman Glassman ’67/’68 Father and son have co-authored several of the picture biographies, relates. “I don’t even remember it as a conscious effort. It flowed through Adelaide DeFalco ’87 Neil Paul ’67 & Lois Charles J. ’68 & Abby V. Fitz ’55 Janie B. Glatt ’72 including ones on Cesar Chavez, James Madison, and Sam Houston. That me. I wrote with a rhythm that mimicked the poetry I had been reading.” Charles L. DeFanti ’63 & G. Dreyer T. Erreger Richard L. & Eleanor Steven G. ’76 & Heidi GlaxoSmithKline Leni Fuhrman Timothy J. & Janice Tatiana Espinosa Anderson Fitzer Friedman Eugene & Carol Price fits in well with Michael’s fascination withA merican history. “I don’t think Last November, almost 300 grade-schoolers, plus elementary educa- John P. & Antoinette Grabowski Driscoll Milton & Jacqueline ’62/’61 Bruce D. & Renée Glazer ’64 I gave consideration to any other major,” he says. He studied in Israel as tion students, came to hear the author speak on campus. “It was like a Badamo De Guardi ’70 Levine Esterow ’93 Arthur Kenneth & Patricia Damesek Friesner ’64 Jonathan B. Glazer ’89 a freshman, and with AP credits graduated from QC in two-and-a-half homecoming,” he recounts. “I felt young again. I started when I was 17; ’56 Scott & Myra Cramer Alan F. ’52 & Rella Eysen Mulcahy Fitzgerald Kenneth C. & Edith Harvey R. & Susan Scharf years. As an attorney with Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP in Manhattan, he here I am, 17 again. I think the college is a wonderful resource for the Frank & Carol Buhr Drotman ’77/’79 Claudio & Marcia ’56/’55 Morris Frishtick ’66 Glick ’75 focuses on employee benefits litigation. Both Adlers are committed to Delany ’61 Joan Carol Drowne ’48 Edelman Fabbro ’56 Leslie B. ’65 & Rochelle Henry & Ruth Frisz Patricia A. Glunt ’91 whole community.” David S. Delbaum ’69 Brian Fadde ’03 I. Flaum

36 Queens: The Magazine of Queens College Queens: The Magazine of Queens College 37 William & Barbara Stuart L. & June George M. & Loretta Marc A. ’75 & Elaine Howard Community Hilda Rodriguez Kapeles Alumni Families Golden Goebel ’63 Mannheimer Graff Wohlfart Hall ’63/’53 Hertz College ’91 Jalal C. & Carol Smith ’67/’69 Elayne Shapiro Hallarman Stanley M. & Gale Peter W. & Carol Villecco Joel Norman & Dorothy The DOBRINS Gohari ’64 Christine A. Gralton ’89 ’48 Messinger Hertz ’71 Howe ’77 Jurist Kaplan ’63/’64 Carl Jay Gold ’77 Paula Gail Grande ’74 Jerome S. ’53 & Penny Carl P. & Carolyn Strauss Lynn Howell Lawrence & Carol Queens College “was absolutely first-rate. I didn’t love high school but I go into banking. “Outside of school, I’m mainly in the gym or playing Betty Drexler Goldberg Clara Brown Grant ’75 Axelrod Haller Hetzel ’57 Eunice French Howes ’50 Pasternak Kaplan ’65 Paula A. Grant Eugene & Miriam Josiah M. & Merlyn Wade A. & Adonija ’55/’59 got to love education while at Queens. And now to have major respon- basketball. On weekends, I’m a big city person, but what college kid David M. Goldberg ’75 Mark L. ’79 & Karla Feigenbaum Halpert Deluca Heyman ’80 Zilvinskis Hoyt Martin L. & Claire Golde sibilities in the place that gave me my opportunities is just spectacular.” doesn’t love the city?” Edward L. ’04 & Katie F. Grasso ’56 Kevin M. ’71 & Judith ’64/’64 Kaplan ’47 As those quotes attest, there’s nothing wishy-washy about what It’s a view both parents share. “There’s no place like New York Goldberg Jeffrey S. & Sydell J. Robert & Jeanne Thomas Hicks Li Chun Huang Saul & Carol Miller Allan Dobrin ’77 thinks of his four-plus years studying at City, and within that, there’s no place like Queens,” says Allan, who Emily Messing Goldberg Green Handschuh ’49 George & Beth High Edward Martin Huff ’58 Kaplan ’69/’71 Queens College, and where that has led him. Dobrin serves as held high-level positions under three mayors. Before joining CUNY in ’62 David & Renée Messinger Noel N. ’68 & S. Robert ’54 & Eva K. Michelle A. Hyatt ’09 Kaplan & Schultz, CPA Rita M. Goldberg ’54 Greenberg ’82 Gwendolyn Diaz Hilfer Peter ’89 & Janet Wieser Robert S. & Laurie CUNY’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer 2001, for four years he was commissioner of NYC’s Department of Paul ’82 & Rosann Richard S. Greenberg ’71 Hankin Hillcrest Jewish Center, Iacono Kaplis-Hohwald ’75 (COO). The Queens native says he chose QC for two reasons: the Information Technology and Telecommunications, and the city’s Chief Rayome Goldblatt William M. ’68 & Wendy Ann Marie Hannon ’78 Inc. Robert F. ’61 & Paula Prawal & Kriti Kapoor “outstanding academic program” and the fact that his family “didn’t Information Officer. His distinguished public service also includes five Stephanie Golden ’06 F. Greenberg Erik & Kathyrn Leaman Hyman & Francine Block Ingram ’01 have a whole lot of money; my father died when I was very young.” years as a leader in the Board of Education’s Special Education Division Alvin & Elaine Johanson Raymond Stuart & Hanson ’75 Hillenbrand ’66 Kenneth R. Irby ’82 Phil Kapp ’94 Goldfarb ’72/’75 Marsha Kass Donald Frederick ’58 & Robert C. Hinkle ’89 Samuel & Denise Anna Karabelas There is one thing he wishes and two years as VP at Bel- David G. Goldfarb ’89 Greenberger ’67/’68 Eleanor K. Harle Walter & Lotte Landman Rappaport Isaacs ’72 John & Teresa Walsh had been different: Had he met levue Hospital. During the past I. Jay ’55 & Arlene Murray H. & Phyllis Carl Harnick Hirsch ’46 Gerald I. & Carole Schor Karcich ’74 his wife of more than 28 years, decade, from his domain at Goldfarb Yacknin Greenspan Michael A. Harris ’92 Sarah R. Hirschhorn ’50 Isenberg ’65 Lynn Pulner Karpen ’70 LYNDA (KARKOSZA ’79) CUNY—institutional business Leslie Goldfarb ’84 ’48/’47 Mike & Shirley Liftin Carl S. Hochman ’58 Sidney & Shelley Slavin Cary S. ’68 & Michelle DOBRIN, earlier rather than operations—have come major Paul M. ’63 & Janice Siddy Greenstein Hartman ’46 Nicole Hoefferle Itzkowitz ’72/’74 S. Kart Goldfarb Christine Grell Rhona Cohen Hartman Herbert W. ’52 & Lucille Margaret DeHayes Iuso Richard B. & Rita Tall later on, “I could have spent more advances, such as CUNY’s Alvin L. & Elisabeth Douglas J. & Barbara ’60 S. Hoell ’79 Kashdan ’80/’71 time with her.” productivity and sustainability Paris Goldman ’64 Nalven Gribin ’69/’72 Robert L. & Monica Gregory George & Carol Howard A. ’65 & Ellen F. Sevastoula V. Kasparian After starting at Brooklyn initiatives, CUNYAlert (safety), Ilene A. Goldman ’75 Anna Gibson Grier ’98 Deutsch Hartman ’65 Einbinder Hofer Jackson ’94 College, Lynda transferred to QC, and CUNYfirst (streamlined Joyce Schulman Goldman Jane Munkenbeck Griffin Tiffany Haufe ’73/’74 Patricia G. Jackson ’64 Lori Kass ’63 ’88 Elaine Klein Hauptman Maxwell & Ruth Eisner Elliot W. ’66 & Vivian Melvyn M. & Joan taking evening classes in psychol- business procedures). Goldman, Sachs & Robert T. & Eve ’55 Hoffenberg ’47 Jacobs Borowick Kassenoff ogy while working full-time. She The Dobrins enjoy living Company Ludemann Griffin ’75 Allen W. Hausman ’64 William & Clarice Esta Jacobskind ’00 ’67 has taught, been in school adminis- in the borough known for its Richard Goldsmith Vernon W. Griffith ’56 Robert A. & Lauraine Eisenstadt Hoffer ’96 Edmund C. & Betty Weiss Paul S. Katcher ’52 tration, and worked for an agency confluence of cultures. QC Robert & Juliet Goldsmith Arthur C. & Maureen C. Fleischman/Cleet Arlene F. Hoffman ’62 Jacobson ’58/’58 Emanuel G. ’56 & Marina for children with disabilities. “I gives students a chance to Barry S. Goldstein & Grix ’93 Hawkins ’72 Linora Hoffman ’59 Louis & Esther Kaufman G. Katsoulis Marian G. Schwartz Elizabeth Frey Grodsky Robert P. ’75 & Lucy L. Richard Hoffman ’52 Jacobson ’44 Barry W. & Marilyn continued on because I liked QC “live in the global economy,” ’75/’75 ’67 H. Hayes Robert & Dolores Stuart Leslie & Sandra Citrynell Katz ’75/’76 so much,” Lynda recalls about CUNY’s COO points out. “I Merle Goldstein ’68 Gary M. Groll ’84 Andree M. Hayum ’59 Poltorak Hoffman ’56 Morgenstern Jacobson Gloria Fishbein Katz ’48 earning her master’s in special make better decisions because Allan Dobrin ’77, CUNY’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operat- Paul & Joy Honen Joseph L. & Catherine Harold J. & Judith Spina Robert G. & Linda Weiss ’76/’78 Lewis R. ’59 & Jan K. education and her certificate in of having had that opportu- Goldstein ’69 Albitz Groneman ’75 Healy ’56 Hoffman ’59 Daphaney R. Jacquitte Katz ing Officer, out on the town with son,Alexander, wife Lynda ’79, and son Robert & Sandee Allen Robert ’65 & Karen Joseph A. & Florence Roslyn Braverman Herbert & Henny Jaffe Seymour & Arlene W. school administration at Queens Michael, who is currently enrolled at QC. nity to study in such a diverse Goldstein ’71 E. Gross McGuire Heaney Hoffman ’52 Meredith B. Jaffe Katz College. At that latter point, she atmosphere.” In Allan's own Ferrokh & Katherine Peggy Grosser ’50/’46 Maland & Barbara John L. Jance ’79 Howard D. & Arlene had just started a new job and student days, when he was, he Benitt Golesorkhi ’60 Joel B. ’57 & Mary H. Eileen C. Hebrank ’50 Morgan Hoffmann Seymour & Lore Rieger Katzen ’56 was pregnant with their younger son, Michael, now a junior at QC. joshes, a “long-haired, long-bearded, radical-looking kid,” political sci- Helmut ’66 & Dorothy Grossman Donald W. & Carol Rudin ’58/’59 Prausnitz Jarmul ’46 David & Sharyn Brooks Assistant principal of P.S. 009 (“The School with Heart”), Lynda ence classes opened his eyes to other perspectives. Among the places A. Golz Lawrence & Florence Hegeman ’67/’66 Edward J. & Theresa F. Jennifer Jarvis Katzman ’63/’76 Rodney & Theresa Grossman Heinz A. ’69 & Evelyn Hogan ’82 Azmina Jasani ’04 Beth Glaubman Kaufman works at its off-site location in Whitestone. The 80 youngsters there he worked part-time during college was the city’s Off-Track Betting Capogna Gomes Vivian R. Gruder Hegmann Bruce & Ruth Hollander Lester Jenkins ’03 ’75 are “severely emotionally challenged” and have “failed in the regular Corporation. Through being a Big Brother and running a drug therapy ’83/’08 David Grumer Florence Elliott Heine ’51 ’75 Herbert ’58 & Judith Chet ’76 & Carol Hayes classroom over and over,” she explains. “They are in need of a lot program, he learned a lot more about life in Queens and Brooklyn. Bill Gommo Lee Gans Grune ’48 John L. & Helen Kliegl Terrance R. & Marta Jernow Kaufman of discipline and love and caring,” which she thrives on providing. Allan’s high-level position at CUNY often brings him back to Kenneth ’58 & Patricia Kenneth ’65 & Lynda Heineman ’58 Garcia Holliday ’00 Andrea E. Jeromos ’68 Gary Kaufman ’83 Goodman B. Gubin Robert F. ’56 & Joyce A. Babette Solon Hollister Johnson & Johnson Harvey P. ’66 & Judith T. Though eligible to retire, she adds, “I just can’t imagine not doing campus, and the political science department invites him annually to James E. ’69 & Veronica Richard R. ’66 & Heins Livingston Holloway ’79 Family Companies Kaufman what I’m doing.” address students. One year, he gave them “generational absolution.” Goodwin Geraldine Guevara Garson F. & Velma Alan M. Holtzman ’79 Kenneth H. Jones ’67 Hattie Heineman Kaufman Before transferring to QC, son Michael studied at SUNY–Albany. He told them “If tomorrow George Bush instituted a draft, you’d Alvin A. & Elaine Johan Gunawan ’06 Weiner Heller ’58 Joy Mildred Holz ’54 Susan Jones ’59 At QC, “I’m a big fan of my business classes. It comes naturally to me,” be every bit as active [in protesting] as my generation was.” Kellerman Gordon ’55 Gerard C. & Sara Cohen Robert & Ellen Alan ’72 & Benita Holzer Babette Josephs ’62 Lily Kaufman the junior notes of his interest in business finance and his plans to Erica Lang Gorin ’77 Gunther ’64 Warshawsky Heller Edith Holzmann-Lane Vida Jurkus Norman L. & Edith Lawrence M. ’76 & Dennis Gurwitt ’62 ’72/’73 Arnold ’48 & Dorothy Allan B & Robin Heller Ceisler Kaufman ’54 Nancy E. Gorkin Arnold M. & Leslie David H. & Doris Miller Honig Kachel ’74 Phillip & Ronnie Lerman Bernard S. Gorman ’67 Defren Gussin ’58/’69 Hellman ’49 Eleanor Klemens Horchler Evan & Michele Giorgi Kaufman ’70/’67 Curt L. Gorman ’74 Philip Guterman ’71 Marite Ellen Hennessey ’44 Kahn ’89 Hugo M. & Shoshana Alvin & Jeannene Davis Harold E. Guttenplan ’48 ’85 Donald H. ’66 & Marcia Herbert Stanley ’48 & Millman Kaufmann Patricia Smith Walker Tecla M. Kern ’43 Ralph P. & Brenda Victor Robert ’76 & Andrew M. & Tamara Raymond S. & Elissa Gosey ’78 Richard & Dara Uretsky William J. Hennigan ’73 Horn Greta Kaiser Peter B. & Bridget Kelly ’56 Martin E. ’76 & Shaynee Schiffman Kingsley Sharon Mae Klein Krizanowsky Kobziar Berliner Koff ’60 Dave Gosine Haas ’05 Robert & Catherine Hensel Marc S. Horowitz ’70 Paul J. & Shirley Fraier Kavanagh Emanuel & Lita J. Kessler ’59/’59 Kenneth J. Kleinrock ’75 ’68 Behnam & Catherine Anna-Lisa Gotschlich William A. ’85 & Shari ’04 Norman & Manuela Kalina ’59 Albert & Shirlie Wald Kelmenson ’64 Irving & Janet B. Kesten The Kiplinger Foundation Richard Steven & Frida Donald F. ’67 & Senetta Baravarian Kohanim Arnold J. & Ruth De Haas Raymond L. ’69 & Laurie Horowitz Arthur & Janet W. Kalish Kaye ’70 Hannah Kenler ’78 Leonard & Marilyn Polner Klinghoffer Hill Koch ’86/’02 Leon Gottesman ’52 Gary Haber ’56 S. Herbert Robert & Anne Reilly Deborah Kamins Ken N. ’85 & Rhonda Robert Kenler Jeanne Nelson Caffrey Dittrich Kirsch ’79/’80 Herman William ’42 & Robert Leon ’62 & Enid Jeffrey ’67 & Marian Brynne Levinson Haines John David ’61 & Susan Hort ’75 Thomas E. & Esther Kaye Robert J. Kennedy Ketley ’62 ’77/’77 Rosalynd Wolfson Klipper Margaret G. Koch Kohl Gottlieb ’57 Herman Leonard ’42 & June Kamm ’72/’89 Francis J. & Susan Allan ’67 & Tikva Frymer Ranazarnab A. Khan Lawrence I. & Phyllis ’43 Robert F. ’56 & Helke Daniel & Ingolf Kohn D. Robert & Inge Nathan & Pearl Halegua Julio Luis Hernandez- Horwitz Francisca Verdoner Kan Fitzgerald Keenan ’01 Kensky Kathleen E. Kier ’73 Greenfield Kivel Alicia Knight-DeBrady Koehler Daniel & Linda Pitilon Vollweiler Gould ’58 Merritt Dean ’63 & Delgado ’75 Morris Hounion ’58 Judith Keller ’68 William L. ’70 & Victoria Howard B. & Sylvia D. ’64/’66 ’84 Uwe ’61 & Helen Koehn Kohn ’79/’79 Vertell Govan ’76 Monica Halem James L. ’64 & Shirley A. John ’42 & Marjorie J. Steven ’73 & Joanne David M. & Althea Keogan Kimmel Ronald Klausner Gozing Ko ’07 Helen McLaughlin Peter J. Kolesar ’59 Christine A. Hall ’70 Hershey Hovorka Wible Kant Davenport Kelley ’82 Robert Marc & Marcia Harold King ’78 Robert & Elaine Cohen Koepfer ’64 David & Linda Heinz Muriel Tucker Hertan ’60 Michael E. Kelly ’98 Davis Kerchner ’67 Klein ’62 Kollender ’75

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QC Music Professor Antonio Hart (far left) had an instrumental role when Hu Jinto, president of the People’s Republic of China, visited the White House in January for a “quintessentially American” evening hosted by President Barack Obama. The musical lineup included pianist Herbie Hancock (to the Commander-in-Chief’s left), vocalist Dianne Reeves, and bassist James Genus. Inset: Complementing a meal of Maine lobster, rib-eye steak, and apple pie a la mode, Hancock, Hart, and Genus served up a few standards of their own.

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