February 19, 2016
Jerry Zeldis
Jerry Zeldis just celebrated his eighteenth year at Celgene Corporation (CELG) where he is the Chief Medical Officer and CEO of Celgene Global Health. Since leaving academic medicine as a gastroenterologist in 1994, Jerry has participated in over seven drug approvals including thalidomide, lenalidomide, pomalidomide, and apremilast. He is currently developing drugs for diseases associated with low income settings. In addition he currently serves on the Boards of a few small and intermediate sized biopharamaceutical companies and is on the President’s Oversight Committee for Brown’s Albert Medical School.
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February 15, 2016
Jonathan Bigelow
My company - KnowledgePoint360 Group - an international provider of medical communications, strategy consulting, and benchmarking services - was sold in late 2014 after a long run of strong growth. Am now consulting and serving on boards in the communications and pharma services areas, and speaking on health policy issues.
Carla Lejade (Smith)
I've moved to Santa Barbara and will be opening a super fun & whimsical vacation rental house called EL ZAPATO on downtown Garden Street. Brown Alumni are especially welcome. It is a Jeff Shelton Architect creation covered with lobster tiles from my real home state of Maine. See you in Santa Barbara. Carla. P.S. I must acknowledge my beloved husband Bruce Henderson '71 (now deceased) who encouraged me to follow this dream and make it possible.
Eileen Rudden
LearnLaunch, the organization I co-founded in 2012, continues to grow. We are now an ed tech accelerator, a co-working space, and the convenor of the ed tech community in Massachussetts.
Samuel (Skip) Halpern
Samuel (Skip) Halpern retired earlier this year after 35 years as an institutional investment consultant and litigation lawyer, specializing in ERISA and public fund investing. He and his wife Barbara now split thier time between downtown Washington and their legal residence in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, just outside Luray.
Philip Y. M. Lu
Two years ago, my wife and I moved back to suburban chicago after 10 years in Madison, Wisconsin whre I got an M.E. in Special Education and taught special ed at the high school level.
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December 28 , 2015
From Bill McNeely:
One of the Class of 1972's more amazing members has recently left this side of life
Al "Big Tuna" Snider '72 was a prominent debater at Brown, ranked in the national top 10, and had his greatest success partnered with (the late) Bruce "Hotep X" Owens '72. With me and a few others, he helped hire Barbara Tannenbaum as our debate coach before there was a Theater, Speech and Performing Arts Dept. He was also a brother at (the old) Zeta Psi national fraternity (predecessor of the current Zeta Delta Xi) in Wriston Quad.
He also was one of the Providence Police Dept.'s Top 10 parking violators (he had about 400 open tickets at the time of his, uhhhh, "settlement encounter"), had freshman first semester courses whose numbers totaled 4 (he would have had numbers totaling 8 second semester, but there was no Psych 2), led a GISP on science fiction comic books, and married his first wife in Manning Chapel on Good Friday. Her parents disowned her for running off with him, but we all welcomed her. Rev. Dick Danenfelser presided, and both Louis and Dominick of Brook St.'s infamous Louis Restaurant attended.
This is, of course, the tip of the huge iceberg of The Tuna's colorful undergraduate career. It is wonderful that he succeeded so well in "mainstream" academia, and sad he left us so young.
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June 15, 2015
Gerald (Jerry) Eaton
I retired from Public Service Company of New Hampshire in July of 2012. I now deliver car parts in the afternoon.
Douglas (Doug) Price
Doug has been working with the W.W.E. show "Total Divas" with Natalaya and T.J. Neidhart. He appears as an expert on the Vibramav fitness platform. He also has an office on Clearwater Beach where he treats Hulk Hogan and Luke "the Bushwacker" who has a 24 hour gym next door.
Cliff Saper and Christy Bowman
Cliff Saper and Christy Bowman '72 welcomed their second grandchild, MacKenna Rose (Tacoma, WA) on September 25. They were joined at Thanksgiving by their son, Ben '07 to celebrate the expanded family.
Richard V. Campagna
Richard Campagna is a retired attorney, consultant and professor living an "existential" life style in Iowa City, IA, where he and his family have lived for the past 25 years.
Samuel (Skip) Halpern
After many years of working with the fiduciary and financial aspects of institutional investing by private and public pension funds, I plan to retire from the business. In 2011, we sold our own firm to a publicly-traded company and now it is time for a new stage, namely, part time work as an expert witness, plus lots of time for other pursuits. We've also moved to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, but keep an apartment downtown in Washington, DC, too.
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May 16, 2012
Brad Penney
Sorry I can’t make the 40th as I am completely engaged at the moment in our newly created non-profit, Advocates for The Other America, which lobbies for endangered federal programs that benefit low income citizens. It has been a tough year for appropriations and a huge lift to stand up this new organization, but we have had a very positive response and assistance from many quarters, including Steve Cowell ’72, who is a Member of our Board Advisory Committee. Previously I was Director of Government Relations for the Alliance to Save Energy. Still have two sons in college in Virginia: David age 22 and Stephen age 20. Best wishes to all of our ’72 classmates, and see you at the 50th!
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For many years, Steven Rothstein and Jacques Vroom held lifetime unlimited first-class tickets with American Airlines. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times; Hans Kundnani / May 7, 2012)
For complete story on Frequent Flyer Steve Rothstein .
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May 4, 2012
Kenneth Weiner Retirement
Nationally recognized environmental lawyer Ken Weiner retired as a partner from K&L Gates at the end of 2011. An advisor to presidents, governors, corporations, and citizen groups, Ken founded the environment, land use, and natural resources practice at Preston Gates & Ellis, which in 2007 combined with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham to create the 2,000-lawyer global law firm of K&L Gates.
For the past 31 years, Ken worked in the firm’s Seattle office, where his practice focused on assisting a wide range of private and public clients on sustainability projects. Many of the projects were regional or global models that changed national and state policy—and often involved unusual coalitions of business, environmental and tribal interests.
Ken joined the law firm after serving as counsel and deputy executive director for the White House Council on Environmental Quality under Presidents Ford and Carter, respectively, from 1976-1980.
Ken is a principal author of the federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules, the law that requires environmental impact statements. He spoke at the White House event for NEPA’s 40th anniversary in 2010.
As special counsel to the Washington state legislature’s bipartisan Commission on Environmental Policy, Ken wrote the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) rules. He was also principal author of the Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) rules, a leading state environmental cleanup law, and other land use and environmental laws, including presidential executive orders protecting wetlands and floodplains.
Ken's career was remarkable in his ability to find common ground among environmental and business interests, leading to landmark agreements on major projects and on policies and regulations.
Ken has received awards from both business and environmental organizations, including the Outstanding Service and Heavy Lifter awards from the Association of Washington Business (AWB), Environmentalist of the Year from Seattle Audubon Society, and Bay Hero from Citizens for a Healthy Bay. He served on the board of directors of AWB and A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), and chaired the Washington Environmental Political Action Committee (now Washington Conservation Voters).
Ken’s professional recognitions include Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers in Washington, Washington and Seattle SuperLawyers, and Top Lawyers, among others.
Ken and his wife Kathy Fletcher, former executive director of People for Puget Sound, will be spending much of their time off-the-grid at their wilderness home in Desolation Sound, British Columbia. Following his retirement, Ken can be reached at parkerharbour@gmail.com.
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April 30, 2012
Jeff Paine:
Please send my apologies to the Committee as I will not be able to attend our 40th reunion this year. Too wrapped up in getting my eldest off to university in France -- Sciences Po -- this fall. We did tour Brown this fall as a possibility, but the call of France was too great for her. (Sciences Po is even harder to get into than Brown these days so it was a good result.)
Would have been fun to attend. Maybe next go around.
Jeff
PS: As a matter of interest my HS graduating class is having an impromptu reunion at the Oakland Museum which is featuring an exhibit on 1968. Now you know we're getting old:-)
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April 27, 2012
Eileen Rudden:
I am sorry to say that I will not be able to make it to the Reunion Weekend this year. I’ll miss seeing all of you!
I am going to be in Houston looking at the Houston School System, which is a candidate for the Broad Prize for excellence in urban school systems, and won’t make it back for the festivities.
I am spending most of my time now on Ed Tech and other education innovations to improve teaching and student achievement.
Have a great time!
Best,
Eileen
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Responses to the Fall, 2011, News and Dues mailing:
February 28, 2012
Stephen Cowell:
I have enjoyed working in DC with classmate Brad Penny and the company I founded in 1984 now has over 800 staff, working to make our planet more sustainable through efficiency and renewable energy. Most fun is spending time with my wife Ricki and my two grandchildren ages 8 and 4!
Shaun B. Curran:
Associate with the architectural firm The Lukmire Partnership, Arlington, VA.
Susan Waldrop:
Hi all,
I am still a teacher at the Red Oaks School in Morristowbn, NJ. I teach PE and coach a jump rope team called the Lightning Bolts. Last year I took 6 kids to the Junior Olympics in New Orleans. Lots of fun!!! See you at Reunion!
Justin Mahon:
Gina and I are working towards emply nester status. Sarah is teaching biology at local colleges. Timothy is with the FDNY. Emily and Hillary are college students. ARCADIS, a Dutch Company, bought out my old firm which means new business cards but no change in the type of work assisting water and sewer utilities.
Elaine Boccumini:
My son Adam Weinrib is scheduled to graduate May, 2012.
D. Paul DiMaggio Jr.:
In case Jay Vesce '72 and Stevie Wagner '72 do not write in to defend themselves, I have been in contact with them frequently and they seem to be doing fine in the Virginia and North Carolina area. Maybe this accusation will get them to write in!!!
Jerome B. Zeldis:
After 12 years of heading both clinical research/development and medical affairs, I founded a Global Health Division at Celgene Corporation. This division is focusing on providing access to medicines to those who can least afford to live and to create new medicines for diseases associated with poverty (Diseases of the Developing Worls). Previously, I was responsible for taking five drugs to market.
Douglas Price:
Dr. Doug Price appears in Hulk Hogan's autobiography "My Life Beyond the Ring" a New York Times best seller. He treats professional wrestlers at his clinic in Tampa, Florida.
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January 17, 2011
From Jay Miller:
I'm teaching, as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University Law School in Bristol, RI and share time between New England and Texas.
Click here for photos:
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February 6, 2010
Jean Braucher reports:
I’m looking forward to taking my daughter, Emma Wohl, to Providence next August for the start of freshman orientation at Brown. Emma was accepted early decision to the class of 2014. Admissions decisions these days come on line; we both shrieked when she clicked on the “decision” button on the admissions website on the afternoon of December 14 and got the “Congratulation!” message. It is a relief to have the college search over, and with such a happy ending! Emma is already outfitted with a Brown hoody and has a new interest in shopping for winter clothes even though it is in the 70s most afternoons in February in Tucson, AZ, where we live. Emma spent the last two summers in Latin America (Nicaragua and Mexico) and plans to study history, anthropology and Spanish at Brown, with a Latin American focus. She has been doing a decent job fighting off senioritis so far, staying busy with tennis team, mock trial team, and as party chair in the annual senior mock election among the four AP-government sections at her school (her party won with a superhero themed-platform; tonight is the “inaugural ball,” a big school dance to conclude the madness).
I am reading Brown history professor Karl Jacoby’s compelling book, Shadows at Dawn—A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History, set in and around Tucson in the late 19th Century. I highly recommend it. This is my 12th year as a law professor at the University of Arizona. I am completing work on a contracts casebook with a team of professors from the University of Wisconsin, led by Stewart Macaulay, and I also continue to write law review articles about consumer bankruptcy (hot topic these days) and issues in software contracting. My son Rob Wohl is a junior at Wesleyan, where he is editor in chief of the Wesleyan Argus, the school newspaper, and is studying history and sociology (currently doing a “community research” project on the demands Wesleyan puts on the Middletown fire department and how the cost might be reduced). He also has an Argus blog on rock music called The Rocktimist. I missed our 35th reunion for his high school graduation, but I am vowing to be there in 2012 for the 40th!
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June 8, 2009
George Billings won the election as BAA President-Elect and University Trustee.
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June 1, 2009
Dr. Valerie Parisi ‘72 MD’75 (Birmingham, MI) has assumed the role of acting dean at Wayne State University School of Medicine for an indefinite period of time while the current dean takes a leave of absence to care for a family member. Dr. Parisi is the Vice Dean at Wayne State. [Crane’s Detroit Business, p. M32, 06/01/09]
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April 22, 2009
Mark Blumenkranz ’72 MD’75 MMS’76 P’05 P’08 (Portola Valley, CA), chairman of the ophthalmology department at Stanford University, and John Doerr (Friend) (Woodside, CA), entrepreneur and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins, are being honored by the Foundation Fighting Blindness for their efforts fighting macular degeneration and other conditions that cause blindness. [The San Francisco Chronicle, p. C1, 04/22/09]
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June 3, 2008
SoundBite Communications has appointed Eileen M. Rudden ’72, P’03, P’07, P’11 (Cambridge, MA) to its board of directors. Peter Shields, president and CEO of SoundBite Communications, said: "Eileen's deep insight into the messaging and contact center industries, combined with her strong marketing and product development background, will be invaluable as we deliver our multi-channel communications platform to meet the evolving communications needs of Fortune 1000 companies." [Datamonitor NewsWire, 05/29/08]
Brown University Clinical Professor Josef Mittlemann, ’72, P’00, P’04 (Providence, RI) was honored on May 24, 2008 as the recipient of the inaugural Division of Engineering Impact Award in deep appreciation for his innovative teaching style, endless mentoring, and commitment to Brown Engineering.
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Wendy J. Strothman ’72 is receiving an honorary degree on May 25, 2008. She is also going to speak at one of the Commencement Forums. Mark Blumenkranz ’72 is also speaking at a forum. See links below for a complete list of Commencement Forums and Honorary Degree Recipients.
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Click here for George Billings swims from Woods Hole to Martha's Vineyard.
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Responses to the Fall, 2007, News and Dues mailing:
Donald Abrams
I am now director of clinical programs at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine practicing integrative oncology and secretary/treasurer of the Society of Integrative Oncology. Andrew Weil, M.D. and I co-edited a textbook on integrative oncology, which should be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Dennis Butcher
Moving into my twenty-seventh year of general internal medicine practice in Jackson, WY. I spend a little less time working and a little more time playing.
Richard Campagna
I am on the road speaking, signing books, and giving interviews regarding political, cultural and philosophical themes. My recent publications include “The Optimistic Existentialist,” “Existentialism and Personal, Professional and Political Freedom” and my political memoirs. Friends are invited to contact me at P.O. Box 5265 Coralville, IA 52241 or email: campodal@avalon.net.
Linda Casinghino Freeman
My son Tulani is teaching social studies at Vancouver School for Arts and Academics in Washington State. My daughter Arianna is clerking at Federal District Court in Philadelphia, PA. I am managing the local part of a large contracted Navy project for connectivity and desktop hardware and software. I am now connecting servers – a long way from my comfort zone of applications.
Tom Mills
I have joined Gallagher & Kennedy P.A. as Of Counsel, as of September 1, 2007. Since 2003 I served in Governor Bill Richardson’s administration as Deputy Secretary of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, then as General Counsel to both the Economic Development and Tourism departments. It was a great career chapter.
Douglas “Doug” Price
Good job at the reunion. Nice pictures of Andy, Elf, and Jim in NYC.
Elaine Rich
My book Automata, Computability and Complexity: Theory and Applications was published this fall. It’s a textbook for a class I’ve been teaching for the last several years at the University of Texas.
Scott Trip
I left the Department of State after twenty-six plus years as a special agent in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (and to get away from all of the travel and overtime) and moved to the National Security Agency as a special agent in the Counterintelligence Division. Then I moved on to the Central Intelligence Agency, where I currently am.
Susan Yelavich
My latest book, Contemporary World Interiors, was published by Phaeton Press this past summer (July 2007). I am happy to report that it is being translated into French and German, but more importantly, the book’s eleven chapters offer a broad social perspective on the spaces we live, work, play, and recuperate in today. I’m currently pursuing a new book project and thoroughly enjoying teaching undergraduates about the social and cultural significance of design.
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From Daily Developments 1-30-08:
Josef Mittlemann ’72, P’00, P’04 (Providence, RI) will present Entrepreneurship and "Good Work" Engineering Dreams at A Conversation about Youth Entrepreneurship and Purpose at Stanford on 02/07/08. [http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/conversation.html]
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February 2, 2008, George Billings reports:
Nancy Jackson visited me in Fort Lauderdale on her way home from Miami, and Jay Maddock drove down from Palm Beach. We met for lunch at Trina's in the Atlantic Hotel, with expansive views of, well, the Atlantic! We predictably laughed a lot and enjoyed a terrific time together!
Click here for Photos from George Billings
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From The Business Journal, 10/11/07:
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation board has selected Leslie Winner ’72 (Charlotte, NC) to become its new executive director. The foundation funds projects that accomplish systemic reform and have North Carolina-wide impact.
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Bob Elfering reports:
Coreen and I, and our sons Dave and Chris, were able to make two class reunions this year. On our way to Providence we stopped in New York City to meet up with Andy Udis and Jim Colby for a short visit. Andy and Joann were the perfect dinner hosts, treating us to a gourmet dinner complete with a cake proclaiming "Ever True to Brown". We had a great time reminiscing about our Toad Hall escapades and catching up on life after Brown. The next morning, after an upscale stay at the Sleep Hollow Country Club arranged by Jim, we met in Chappaqua to visit with Jim, Kathy and their very active offspring Kaitlin, Kyle, Quinn, and Jake. The time went quickly, but it was a great tune-up for graduation weekend.
Click here for Photos from Bob Elfering
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