Class of 1968 50th Reunion Yearbook June 8-10, 2018 2 Where It All Began… 3 4 5 6 7 16 27 Steve Abelman Life since Brandeis... I value Brandeis for the Liberal Arts perspective it provided and the commitment to intellectual curiosity which I continue to pursue. After receiving an MBA from BU, I worked in Marketing and Strategic Planning for a variety of industries including consumer package goods, a healthcare system and a not-for-profit organization. I have celebrated my Bar Mitzvah twice more at 50 and 70. With no children, my wife of 40 years (Robin Holab-Abelman) and I have traveled extensively and been to every continent except Antarctica. After living in Boston, Texas, Alabama and New York, we retired to Nashville in early 2013 and have been having a great time with all the activities and opportunities available to us. 28 Tony Annesi Life since Brandeis... Authored four novels, one book or short stories, and ten books on the traditional martial arts. Master instructor of three traditional martial arts. On seminar in S.C., Oct. 2016 At my home office desk At 2016 Xmas party On seminar in Mannheim, 2015 29 Paula Asinof Life since Brandeis... I've also been active in the community, serving on the Dallas Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big I was part of the class of 1968 from 1964 through Sisters and being matched with several "littles" over 1966 and then transferred to Washington University about 30 years. My first "little" evolved from match in St. Louis to complete my degree. My time at to friend to "family" and is still very much a part of Brandeis influenced my life in many ways, and so it my life. My current interest is Bonton Farms in seems appropriate to send in some information for South Dallas, an agricultural intervention (farm and the 50th reunion yearbook. soon to have café/wellness center) to restore lives, create jobs and ignite hope in one of the most I can still recall the names and faces of most of the forgotten and neglected neighborhoods. people on my half of the third floor of the building in the quad where I lived freshman year - and the I'm continuing to work full-time and just going with same goes for the suite in East that I lived in the flow. Starting several years ago, I got involved sophomore year. One friendship that has survived in the Farm-to-Table and Slow Food movements through all these years was my roommate, Corky and will undoubtedly be spending more time with Becker, now a psychologist in Boston. And I that. All in all, it's been a good 50 years. And I'm recently reconnected with another good friend, still taking ballet classes. Carol Prier, now a sculptor in the San Francisco Bay area. Academically, two classes that I loved come to mind - Music Appreciation and Social Psychology. In the Freudian-influenced social psychology class, I still remember that one of the guys did a paper on a spoof Volkswagen advertisement with the headline "Does this stick shift scare your wife?". On the less academic side, I was in a modern dance performance done on chairs, along with a classmate and friend Dinah Hirschfeld. Since 1968, I was married and later divorced after a few years. Finding myself in Philadelphia without much sense of direction, three entrepreneurial Wharton grads that I was working for thought I had more potential than typing and answering phones. They offered to write recommendations for me for Wharton. A couple of years later with MBA in hand, I built a career spanning Chicago, Tampa and How I look now: Professional headshot 2017 Dallas that started in accounting, finance and IT and ended up in executive recruiting. For the past decade or so, I have had my own company, Yellow Brick Path (www.yellowbrickpath.com), that works with executives and Board of Directors candidates on resumes and bios as well as career strategy. I've been an author of a few books, the 2nd edition of one due out this summer. 30 How I looked then: Dance performance including Dinah Hirschfeld A great day: Rehoboth Ranch customer appreciation day Lasting friendship: 60th birthday luncheon including Corky Becker 31 Phyllis Deborah Lewin Azoulay Life since Brandeis... Hello to everyone from the class of 1968! Hard to believe that it has been 50 years. I have many strong, happy memories of my time at Brandeis as well as some more difficult ones. It was a time politically of much upheaval and I am proud of the role that students from our class played. I have vivid memories of a march on Washington against the War in Vietnam and civil rights activities in Boston and elsewhere. When I was at Brandeis I used the name Phyllis Lewin but that changed. After I graduated I spent a year in Israel where I started using my middle name Deborah. I also met my husband there and when we married took his last Recent Picture in Alaska name. So I am Deborah Azoulay now, which is confusing at times. If as a child I had been told that I would go to Israel and meet a man from Morocco and go to live in Toronto Canada I would have laughed. But truth can be stranger than fiction as that is what happened. Over the years I got a doctorate and I became a clinical psychologist. In 2013 I retired from my job in the mental health program of a community hospital but even now I maintain a part time private practice with an emphasis on treatment of people who have gone through trauma. My husband and I have been happily married for over 48 years, We have two adult children, also happily married. My husband Armando and I enjoy auditing university courses, mostly in history, and traveling when we can. 32 Linda J Baker Life since Brandeis... I am recently retired from Keene State College in NH where I taught psychology and related courses for 23 years. My two children, Ben and Annie, are both writers. I now work on projects related to restorative justice and dialogue. My time at Brandeis intensified my interest in social justice, which still guides me today. 33 Naomi S. Baron Life since Brandeis... rocking chair, in addition to the book I have in progress, I'll be spearheading an international project Brandeis helped me find my voice - as a linguist, a to educate teachers and school administrators about writer, an academic, a citizen. (Friends and colleagues how we read on digital screens versus on paper, and refuse to believe I was once shy and afraid to speak how we need to craft pedagogy accordingly. up.) Professionally, here's where I've been for the past fifty years: a PhD in Linguistics at Stanford, tenure at One question my new book explores is how we decide Brown, a Guggenheim Fellowship, visiting stints at what to believe, especially in light of the troubled time Emory University and Southwestern University, and veracity is having on cable news and the internet. The the past thirty-one years at American University (as Brandeis motto, "Truth even unto its innermost parts," professor of linguistics, associate dean, department is a fitting beacon to guide me. chair, director of a TESOL program, and then six year as Executive Director of the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning). Along the way I've been a Fulbright Fellow (at the University of Gothenberg in Sweden), a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Fulbright Specialist in Belgium (at the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve). Thank you, Brandeis, for teaching me how to do research, write, and accept critique. I've enjoyed teaching, but especially writing. Topics have ranged from language change to child language acquisition to the impact of technology on how we speak, write, and read. One book (Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World) won the English-Speaking Union Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award, which I received from the hand of the Duke himself at Buckingham Palace. Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World was reviewed in the Wall Naomi on the island of Murano (Venice) Street Journal and has been translated into Chinese. I'm now at work on book number nine, tentatively entitled Know What? Learning Aspirations in a Digital World. I've been blessed with a wonderful husband and equally wonderful son (owner of a usually wonderful German shepherd). After finishing his PhD in economics, number one (and only) son works for EY (one of the "big four" accounting firms), guiding transnational corporations on how to do business with one another. My husband, a retired philosopher, is Several of Naomi's Books working on a book about the past and future of the university. And speaking of retirement: I retire from American University at the end of this summer. Eschewing a 34 Naomi receiving award from the Duke of Son Aneil and dog Freya Edinburgh 35 Corky Becker Life since Brandeis... Brandeis was where I began to take life seriously, to think about what I cared about and what I was interested in doing in my life. I became a clinical psychologist with specialty in family and couple therapy, which I still practice to this day. I have been a teacher and trainer in these areas in a free standing training center, the Family institute of Cambridge, and Therapy Training Boston.