Class Notes
1950 Mary Lee Monroe Birmingham has written a genealogy, 鈥淗istory of the Monroe Clan and some Descendants of Isaac Monroe and Sarah Monroe,鈥 which has been accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution for the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. She writes: 鈥淚鈥檝e been researching this for over 60 years and began when I was a student at the U of R. The Monroes, known as the Doctors Monroe, came from Washington County, New York.鈥
1958 Dee Molinari writes: 鈥淚 was in Atlanta for New Year鈥檚 weekend, on a Road Scholar trip. One of the other travelers listed Canandaigua as her home, so I immediately went over to say hello, having recently moved to Pennsylvania from Fairport, New York. She was Beatrice (Trixie) Sanborn Meteyer 鈥67. She was traveling with a friend, Merri Merriman Boylan 鈥68, whom she had met on a previous trip when they realized they had sung together in a UR chorus. It is such a small world. They were enjoyable members of the group! While in Atlanta, I had an opportunity to get together with Jerry Gardner 鈥65 (MA) and Adrienne (Sydney) Horne Langdon 鈥07, 鈥07E. Some of you may remember Sydney as the recent graduate who was the staff support for our 50th reunion and did a terrific job of keeping us all focused and organized. She has married her college sweetheart, Joel Langdon 鈥09, and they have a beautiful daughter. Sydney now works for Turner Communications. It was great to see them. Jerry and I hope to see many of you at our 60th next year! How did we get so old so fast?鈥
1964 John Milne died in June 2016, his wife, Dorothy, writes. John grew up in Barre, Vermont, and as a youth attended Lotus Lake Camp, where he and Dorothy met. After graduating from Rochester with a degree in electrical engineering, he embarked on a career in secondary school teaching. John spent most of his career鈥攆rom 1978 until his retirement in 2008鈥攁s a physics teacher at Deerfield Academy, where he also coached tennis. In addition, after he and Dorothy married in 1967, the couple took over as directors of Lotus Lake Camp, which had been founded by Dorothy鈥檚 father in 1952. Dorothy writes that as a science teacher, John was known for hands-on learning. 鈥淥ne of his favorite projects with students was converting a gas-powered Chevy S-10 truck to electric to be used by the Deerfield Academy maintenance department.鈥 John and Dorothy raised two sons, J. Martin and Justin, and had four grandchildren.
1967 Beatrice (Trixie) Sanborn Meteyer (see 鈥58).
1968 Merri Merriman Boylan (see 鈥58). . . . David Graham 鈥73M (MD) (see 鈥10). . . . Louis-Jack Pozner writes that he recently observed the 45th anniversary of his admission to the New York State bar. 鈥淎fter several years of service in three levels of New York State courts in the 1970s鈥攊ncluding a clerkship at the New York State Court of Appeals鈥擨 closed my solo practice office and am of counsel to Mack & Associates, a boutique family law firm in Albany.鈥
1970 Nancy Heller Cohen 鈥70N has published the 13th book in her Bad Hair Days mystery series. In Facials Can Be Fatal (Five Star Publishing), 鈥渟alon owner Marla Vail鈥檚 new day spa hits a snag when a client dies during a facial.鈥
1971 Alan Feinberg has joined the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, or SV2, as a partner. 鈥淪V2 partners are 鈥榲enture philanthropists鈥 who pool our financial capital to fund a diverse portfolio of small, innovative nonprofits based in the San Francisco Bay Area鈥 and help them build strong and sustainable organizations, he writes. 鈥淕iven the staggering levels of inequality right here in our own backyard, with many of our neighbors struggling just to get by, I feel compelled to make social responsibility a top priority and feel equally fortunate to be in a position to do so.鈥
1976 John Accordino has been named dean of the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He鈥檚 been at the university since 1986, when he joined the faculty of the urban studies and planning department. He鈥檚 since served as director of the university鈥檚 Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and has overseen multiple partnerships with universities abroad. . . . Alan Lipkin writes: 鈥淚 have been practicing otolaryngology in the Denver area since 1986. In addition to my full-time medical practice, I am a part-time nature and wildlife photographer. I recently started a photography website with some of my images. Check it out at Coloradophotodoctor.com.鈥 . . . Al Power 鈥80M (MD), 鈥83M (Res) writes that鈥檚 he鈥檚 been named Schlegel Chair in Aging and Dementia Innovation at the Schlegel鈥揢niversity of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging. Al鈥檚 book, Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care (Health Professions Press), was named a 2010 Book of the Year by the American Journal of Nursing and was reissued last September. Al includes a photo of himself taken by Kirk Moldoff 鈥79M (MS), who stayed with him during the 40th reunion celebration during Meliora Weekend last fall. Kirk is a medical illustrator and photographer.
1978 David Tillman, Michael Shapot, Michael Messing, and Russell Fox met for a weekend of skiing in Park City, Utah, last February. They send a photo from the minireunion, which they鈥檝e been holding regularly for more than 20 years.
1981 Randy Otto writes that he鈥檚 coauthored a book, Ethics in Forensic Psychology Practice (Wiley), with two longtime colleagues. Randy is a professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the University of South Florida.
1985 Jay Marinstein, a commercial litigator, has been promoted to managing partner of the Pittsburgh office of the law firm Fox Rothschild. . . . Peter Szabo has published a family memoir, Finding Maria (Chickadee Prince Books). It tells the story of his friendship with his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, that began after 鈥渁 grudging afternoon visit鈥 he made to see her when he was a young man. Peter lives in New York City and is an organizational consultant with a focus on nonprofits working on environmental issues. He has published articles in multiple magazines as well as a volume of poetry, Death and Life (Bloomingdale Press).
1986 Christine Joor Mitchell ran her eighth consecutive Boston Marathon in April in memory of Nancy Melvin Taylor and in honor of Doreen Gostin Massie and three other friends. Nancy and Doreen were field hockey teammates in addition to classmates. Christine started running the Boston Marathon as a participant in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society鈥檚 Team-in-Training program. This year, for the fifth consecutive year, she served as a mentor to other runners participating with Team-in-Training. 鈥淥ver the years,鈥 she writes, 鈥渕y passion has grown for running; honoring the fighters, survivors, and taken; and LLS鈥檚 mission. I have also raised more than $80,000, thanks to the generosity of family, friends, and strangers.鈥 Christine aims to raise $100,000 by the end of June. Her website is at http://bit.ly/cjmBOS17.
1988 Eric Malden (see 鈥89).
1989 Chris Wood celebrated two anniversaries this past fall: 20 years of marriage to his wife, Kristin, with whom he has two sons, Eric, 18, and Ryan, 16; and 10 years working at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta, where he has been a leading architect of the leveraged finance and investment banking strategy of the firm. Helping Chris and Kristin celebrate their wedding anniversary were Eric and Ryan as well as many Rochester friends. Pictured are Brad Ellis, Eric Malden 鈥88, Jeff Blaydes, Mary Blades, Rene Malden, Greg Krohner 鈥91, Susan Widmer, Rob Waldeck, Stephanie Rosseau, Ryan, Chris, Todd Rosseau, Kristin, Eric, Lisa Murphy, Genie Donnelly, Brian Donnelly, and Joel Alper, and Lori Alper.
1991 Greg Krohner (see 鈥89).
1992 Marc Esposito has been named vice president of crew and values relations at JetBlue. He first joined JetBlue in 2014.
1993 Christina Bucci-Rechtweg 鈥97M (MD) (see 鈥68 Eastman). . . . Victoria O鈥橞rien Paterson is first violinist for the Broadway production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard. The production, starring Glenn Close, runs through June 25, 2017. Victoria is founder of the Lumiere String Quartet and executive director of the American Modern Ensemble. She lives in New York City with her husband, composer Robert Paterson 鈥95贰.
1996 Tom Hall 鈥08W (EdD), principal of Brighton High School near Rochester, has been named 2017 New York State High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State. Tom began his career as a biology teacher at Brighton High School and has been principal of the school since 2012. He also served for several years as principal of French Road Elementary School, also in the Brighton Central School District. Tom was nominated by teachers, students, fellow administrators, and members of the community. Under Tom鈥檚 leadership, graduation rates for special education students reached 88 percent in Brighton, the highest in Monroe County, and general graduation rates rose 10 points, to 96 percent.
1998 Bethany MacLennan Centrone, a senior counsel in the Rochester office of the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, has been named a cochair of the firm鈥檚 school districts practice. Bethany specializes in school as well as labor and employment law.
2000 Brian Gottesman, a partner at the law firm of Berger Harris, writes that he is a contributor to the book Litigating the Business Divorce (Bloomberg BNA) and also coauthors the legal blog Business Law Basics. He lives in Delaware with his wife, Rachel, and their children. He adds that in his spare time, he continues to study history and write historical fiction. His published writings include 鈥淕udmund鈥檚 Solution鈥 (The Bencher: The Magazine of the American Inns of Court, March/April 2006) and 鈥淭he Silent Wife鈥 (The Journal of the Delaware State Bar Association, November 2006). He has also written two novel-length manuscripts, The King of Zion and Before the World Falls.
2003 Kathy Aligene writes that she married Marc Lener at the City Club of Washington, D.C., in March. Kathy and Marc met as medical residents at Mount Sinai. Kathy practices psychiatry and interventional pain medicine in New York City, and Marc is a research fellow in psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health. . . . Jon Durfey writes that he married Caitlin Hoffman in Rochester in August 2016. Pictured behind Jon and Caitlin are, from left to right, Lonny Mallach, Christina Boice-Mallach, Jason Berger, Igor Kotlyar, Robert Kamen, Amy Coron 鈥14S (MBA), Joe Burnett, Letty Laskowski-Burnett, Meng Wang 鈥02, 鈥09S (MBA), and Kanwarpaul Grewal.
2005 Chrishelle Lawrence is the author and illustrator of a children鈥檚 book, Monster Truck-tastrophe, the story of a boy who wakes up as his favorite monster truck. Chrishelle published the book under her imprint, CML Literature, which she founded to promote books featuring African-American characters.
2006 Erika Winkler, an attorney, writes that she鈥檚 joined the New York City鈥揵ased luxury fashion company Coach Inc. as director and senior counsel. Previously, she was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer US, where she focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
2007 Christopher and Sandra Schunak Hancock 鈥09 welcomed a son, Hunter Gabriel, last November. . . . Adrienne (Sydney) Horne Langdon 鈥07E (see 鈥58).
2008 Ryan Watson and Sarah Townsend 鈥10 were married at the Chapel Hill Chapel in Rochester last August. Sarah writes: 鈥淲e met at a 鈥90s-themed dance party in Wilson Commons in 2008.鈥 Pictured from left to right are Andrew Alkon (best man), Ryan, Sarah, John Golden 鈥10, Julie Debski 鈥10 (maid of honor), Daniel Rosenblum 鈥10, Irene Minkina 鈥10, Michael He 鈥06, 鈥07S (MBA), and Ciara He.
2009 Sandra Schunak Hancock (see 鈥07). . . . Joel Langdon (see 鈥58).
2010 Mike Collins and Heather Graham write that they were married at the Interfaith Chapel on the River 人妻少妇专区 last September. Pictured in front of Rush Rhees Library are Chris Packhem, Shane DePutron, Allison McComb DePutron, Jake Gardner 鈥11, Lisa Cole, Pat Burke, Elise Van Pelt Ingram 鈥12, Mark Ingram 鈥11, David Graham 鈥68, 鈥73M (MD) (the bride鈥檚 father), Marc Epstein, Heather, Mike, Katie Medford 鈥09, Rachel Twardowski, Adam Paine 鈥11, Greg Waldman, Elizabeth Barnes, Rebecca Landzberg, Heather Pedrin Bauer 鈥11, and Tom Bauer. . . . Steve Guzski writes that he and Nicole Krestos were married last June in Buffalo. They live in Rochester, where Steve is an actuarial analyst at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Nicole is an assistant director of admissions at the Simon School. The bridal party included Bryan Guzski, a physical therapist at the Medical Center, as well as Daniel Brien 鈥09, Elisabeth Karuza 鈥14 (PhD), Patrick Locke 鈥17S (MBA), Meaghan Paganelli 鈥09, Devin Shane 鈥08, Nate Stein 鈥11S (MS), Nate Stein, and Taylor Smith Veenema 鈥13S (MBA). . . . Sarah Townsend (see 鈥08).
2012 Mike Beato and Taryn Ocko were married last October at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, New York. Pictured from left to right are Allison Guggenheim Shaber, Tom Anderson 鈥15, Adam Chernick 鈥10, Harry Ledley, Taryn, Mike, Ruth Dabek Hoffman 鈥76, Braden Czapla 鈥13, and Jeff Williams 鈥15.
2013 Rimsha Khan has joined the Syracuse, New York, law firm of Hancock Estabrook as an associate. While in law school, Rimsha worked in the New York State attorney general鈥檚 office, the Erie County Bar Association, the Volunteer Lawyer鈥檚 Project, and the University at Buffalo law school鈥檚 Health Justice Clinic.