Class Notes

1960s

Lenore "Lee" Blum Hausner (WCAS60) of Los Angeles is a partner with DoudHausnerVistar, a consulting organization offering strategic management and psychological guidance for entrepreneurial and family-owned businesses.

Francine Rosenblatt Hurwitz (SESP60) of Indianapolis was named trustee and member of the board of governors for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Her husband, Roger A. Hurwitz (FSM60), is the Phillip R. Murray Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Indiana University.

Harvey I. Lapin (EB60, L63) of Northbrook, Ill., is president of Harvey I. Lapin & Associates PC of Northbrook. A tax and corporate attorney concentrating on funeral and cemetery law in the United States, he is editor and primary contributor to the Cemetery and Funeral Service Business and Legal Guide.

Robert W. Thomas (C60, GC61) of Radford, Va., retired from the Southwest Times, a daily newspaper, and teaches part time as an adjunct professor in Radford University’s media studies department. He also is on the board of Main Street Radford and Salvation Army for New River Valley. His wife, Betsey Thorne Thomas (CB58), is office manager of television/radio communications services at Radford University and is active in the local historical society and garden club.

David C. Horowitz (GJ61) of Beverly Hills, Calif., is producer of fightback.com, which received the Excellence in Media’s 2002 Silver Angel Award. His career includes television productions, syndicated newspaper columns, radio shows and books with extensive research and reporting on consumer issues and product safety.

Kenneth Lowenberg (Mu61) of Potomac, Md., is the minister of music at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., and a lifelong composer who sets sacred texts to music.

Ginger Shaw (Mu61) of Vancouver, British Columbia, retired as dean of the summer school program at the Vancouver School of Technology and program associate of VST’s Chalmers Institute for continuing education. She is the music director at St. Laurence Anglican Church in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Steve Bell (GJ63) of Muncie, Ind., is a professor of telecommunications at Ball State University after 20 years as a correspondent and anchor for ABC-TV.

Jean Jones (SESP63) of Denver, president and CEO of the Mile Hi Girl Scouts Council, was named a board member of the American Humane Association in Englewood, Colo. She is active in a number of organizations, including the Women’s Forum of Colorado and the Rotary Club of Denver.

Dell F. Pendergrast (C63) of McLean, Va., retired after 32 years with the U.S. Foreign Service. His last post was as minister-counselor for public affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. He is serving as director of the George J. Mitchell Scholarships, which are awarded to deserving U.S. students for graduate study in the Republic of Ireland.

Dean M. Trafelet (C63) of Bailey Harbor, Wis., a retired judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., was appointed legal representative in March for future claimants in the reorganization of Armstrong World Industries Inc., Nitram Liquidators Inc. and Desseaux Corp. of North America. He has extensive experience in trial settlement and administration of class actions, mass toxic torts, product liability and environmental coverage litigation.

Bruce L. Whisnant (EB63) of Portland, Ore., retired last year as senior vice president of Portland-based Stevedoring Services of America.

William C. Whitbeck (J63) of Lansing, Mich., became chief judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals in January for a two-year term.

Gilbert R. Herer (GC64) of Rockville, Md., chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., serves on the advisory board for the School of Education at Syracuse University.

Janet Mendel (J64) of Mijas, Spain, completed her fifth book, My Kitchen in Spain: 225 Authentic Regional Recipes (HarperCollins, 2002), which was selected as an alternate by the Book-of-the-Month’s Good Cook Book Club.

Terry W. Rose (S64) of Kenosha, Wis., an attorney with Rose & Rose law firm in Kenosha, was elected in April to his ninth term on the Kenosha County Board of Supervisors.

Maureen Seligman (WCAS64) of Waltham, Mass., is an executive recruiter with Boston-based Levin and Co. She earned her master’s degree in public affairs from the State University of New York at Albany in 1992.

Lynn R. Wardour (EB64) of Rochester, N.Y., is project director of Pike Co., a construction, contracting and building design firm in Williamsville, N.Y. He was named vice chair of the Construction Exchange of Buffalo & Western New York, a professional organization.

Oswald Perry Bronson Sr. (G65) of Daytona Beach, Fla., president of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, is serving a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. In January the city of Daytona Beach presented him with the Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Award.

Noal Cohen (G65) of Montclair, N.J., co-authored Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce (Berkeley Hills Books, 2002). Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with jazz legends Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach.

John S. Gregory (J65, GJ66) of Arcadia, Calif., is president of Gregory Communications, a Pasadena, Calif.-based provider of speech and media relations services. On the board of the Pasadena Museum of History, he served as a volunteer curator for the museum’s multimedia exhibit on 100 years of film and television production in the area. He also wrote Hollywood Comes to Pasadena (Pasadena Historical Museum, 2001) as a companion book to the exhibit.

Richard A. Raub (G65) of Libertyville, Ill., is senior research scientist at Northwestern’s Center for Public Safety. His wife, Mary Worman Raub (GSESP65), is a senior executive assistant at Baxter Healthcare International in Deerfield, Ill. They have two married daughters.

Roger D. Blackwell (KSM66) of Columbus, Ohio, is a professor of marketing at Ohio State University’s Max M. Fisher College of Business and president of Roger Blackwell Associates, a consulting firm in Columbus. The Sales and Marketing Executives International named him Outstanding Marketing Educator in America and the American Marketing Association named him Marketer of the Year. He also received the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award from Ohio State.

Susan Ravitz Blatt (GC66) of Santa Monica, Calif., is executive director of the Stroke Association of Southern California, which works to reduce the incidence and impact of stroke in the region.

Shelby Keith Dixon (Mu66, GMu68) of Mequon, Wis., is associate conductor of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Senior Symphony. A freelance conductor, clinician and adjudicator, he retired as chair of fine arts and director of orchestras at Homestead High School in Mequon after 26 years. He also is acting music director and guest conductor of the Elgin, Ill., Youth Symphony Orchestra for this season.

Carter Eckert (KSM66) of Far Hills, N.J., was appointed to the board of directors of OraSure Technologies in Bethlehem, Pa., in December. He had been president and CEO of Knoll Pharmaceutical Co. and president of the Americas for Knoll’s parent company, BASF Pharma.

Charles W. Fojtik (WCAS66) of Manhattan Beach, Calif., a professor of marketing at the Graziadio School of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., also serves as chair of the school’s Department of Marketing, Economics and Decision and Information Systems and teaches in the executive MBA program. He and his wife plan to move to Hawaii in the future.

Judi Sheppard Missett (C66) of Oceanside, Calif., the founder of Jazzercise, is featured in Believing in Ourselves: A Celebration of Women (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002) with 35 other women who overcame obstacles to achieve success.

Terry Nardin (G66) of Wellfleet, Mass., wrote The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Pennsylvania State Press, 2001), a study of Oakeshott as a philosopher rather than a political theorist.

Saul B. Wilen (WCAS66) of San Antonio is president and CEO of International Horizons Unlimited, an educational resources and consulting consortium serving industry. He serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s critical infrastructure assurance working group, which deals with crisis management and recovery, and on the U.S. Secret Service’s task force on electronic crimes and terrorism.

George W. Connelly (EB67, L70) of Houston, a shareholder in the law firm of Houston-based Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, wrote "Abatement of IRS Interest — Another Broken Promise," which appeared this year in the Journal of Taxation. He also spoke before the tax section of the Houston Bar Association in 2001.

Ruth Vogel Glick (WCAS67) of Hillsborough, Calif., is an attorney in Burlingame, Calif. President of the California Dispute Resolution Council, she is also an adjunct professor of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution at the University of California, San Francisco’s Hastings College of Law. She is the mother of Justin and Charles Graham.

Robert Kotler (FSM67) of Beverly Hills, Calif., is a cosmetic surgeon. He wrote Secrets of a Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgeon (Ernest Mitchell, 2002).

William J. Kroll Jr. (McC67, GMcC71) of Bridgewater, N.J., is president and CEO of Matheson Tri-Gas, an international supplier of industrial gases, specialty gases, gas handling equipment and gas handling facility services.

John R. Leo (G67, 73) of Providence is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. He is on call as a senior Fulbright specialist for the U.S. Department of State after serving as a Fulbright chair of American studies in Lublin, Poland, from 1998 to 2000.

Teresa A. Norton (J67) of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., is studying toward a master’s degree in theology at the University of San Diego. She and her husband travel, visit their children and five grandchildren on the East Coast and do charity and promotional work for Vineyard 29, a Napa Valley winery.

Charles R. Bruton (WCAS68) of Haddonfield, N.J., was named a partner at the law firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll in Philadelphia. He focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation.

Gerald D. Chapman (GSESP68) of Inverness, Ill., is associate dean of Roosevelt University’s College of Education in Chicago. He previously served as superintendent of Palatine-Schaumburg, Ill., High School District 211 and was honored as the Illinois School Superintendent of the Year in 2000.

Charles Conwell (C68) of Philadelphia was promoted to full professor at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, where he teaches stage combat in the theater school. He also directs the violence in productions at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., and is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors.

Frances C. Schreiberg (WCAS68) of San Francisco is an attorney with Kazan, McClain, Edises, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons and Farrise in Oakland. The firm specializes in asbetos mesothelioma cases and other toxic torts. She was honored by the local chapter of the National Lawyers Guild in May for her pro bono work on behalf of workers and unions.

Craig V. Showalter (FSM68) of Northfield, Ill., a physician, compiled a bibliography of 1960s’ era poet and novelist Richard Brautigan, Collecting Richard Brautigan, that Kumquat Pressworks published in 2001.

Merle W. Carlson (G69) of Park City, Utah, was named professor and lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He enjoys skiing and hiking in his free time.

Bruce Endzel (J69, GJ70) of Chicago heads Endzone Productions, a Chicago-based company that produces casino-based events and tournaments for billiards and backgammon.

Silvia Masini (WCAS69) of Barrington, Ill., was named managing director of Capital H, based in Milwaukee. The company provides human resource services to companies and organizations. She had been a principal at William M. Mercer Inc. in Chicago.

Robert N. Stavins (WCAS69) of Newton Center, Mass., is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University. He will serve for one year as chair of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board in 2002; this will be his fifth year as chair.

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