What’s the news? We are always eager to receive your news at the Magazine, care of the Class News Editor, University of Chicago Magazine, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, or by e-mail: uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. No engagements, please. Items may be edited for space. As news is published in the order in which it arrives, it may not appear immediately. Please specify the year under which you would like your news to appear. Otherwise, we will list: (1) all former undergraduates (including those who later received graduate degrees) by the year of their undergraduate degree, and (2) all former students who received only graduate degrees by the year of their final degree. .

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70 Adelphi University promoted Ellen B. Bogolub, AB’70, to associate professor with tenure in its School of Social Work.

71 William E. Kassling, MBA’71, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania and to the board of directors of Aearo Corporation. Since 1990, he has been chair and CEO of Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Arthur B. Kennickell, AB’71, AM’74, director of the Survey of Consumer Finances at the Federal Reserve Board, was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He chairs the American Statistical Association’s committee on gay and lesbian concerns in statistics, and he also continues his career as a painter. Lawrence R. Sipe, AB’71, is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. dissertation, completed at Ohio State University and titled “The Construction of Literary Understanding by First and Second Graders in Response to Picture Storybook Readalouds,” won four awards during the 1997–98 academic year: the outstanding dissertation award from the College Reading Association, the student outstanding research award from the National Reading Conference, the outstanding dissertation award from the International Reading Association, and the promising researcher award from the National Council of Teachers of English.

72College alumni—Dorthea H. Juul, AB’72, PhD’89, writes: Emily N. Sieger, AB’72, AM’76, lived in Bozeman, MT, for 8 years, working as a librarian at Montana State University, where she earned a master’s in public administration. She was selected as a presidential management intern (quite a different matter from a White House intern, if you please!) and went back east where she worked as a policy analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. After 3 years at NOAA, she returned west and to her “roots” as a librarian. She is now state government information coordinator for the Wyoming State Library in Cheyenne, doing policy planning, training, and Web development.

College alumni, please send your news to: Dorthea H. Juul, AB’72, PhD’89, 1115 S. Plymouth Court, #302, Chicago, IL 60605. Phone: 847/374-4204 (w). Fax: 847/236-4304. E-mail: djuul@abpn.com.

Other alumni news includes: Glenn Caster, MBA’72, president and CEO of ARS Enterprises, was elected president of the Medical Marketing Association. On the MMA board for the past eight years, he served as vice president of finance for six of those years. A resident of Long Beach, CA, he is active in the Belmont Heights Community Association, in which he has been an officer for several years. T. Timothy Chen, SM’69, PhD’72, is now a professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is also head of the biostatistics section at the university’s Greenebaum Cancer Center. David H. Klein, MBA’72, was named the president and COO for Blue Cross Blue Shield of the Rochester, NY, area. On May 16, he married Linde Northrup, his significant other of the past few years. Abt Enterprises LLC appointed William T. Levine, AM’67, PhD’72, vice president of Abt Associates Inc., as general manager of its Mid-East and North African regional office, where he helps develop an indigenous professional staff to implement the company’s policy research and to expand its portfolio in the region. He now lives in Cairo, Egypt, with his wife, Maryl, and would love to hear from friends at wlevine@egyptonline.com. Carolyn V. Pemberton, MST’72, joined ABN AMRO North America, Inc.’s human resources department as first vice president and director of its diversity management division. She leaves her position of corporate ombudsman and diversity manager of Fleet Financial Group, where she had worked for seven years. John D. Stone, AB’72, see 1985, Samuel A. Rebelsky.

74 The Class of 1974 celebrates its 25th reunion June 4–6, 1999.

After graduating from law school, David C. Sobelsohn, AB’74, taught and studied at Stanford Law School. He also practiced law with Jenner & Block as well as teaching at the law schools of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Detroit. Recently, he was counsel to the Michigan House Judiciary Committee and chief legislative counsel to the Human Rights Campaign.

75 Bryon F. Bowman, JD’75, joined the Chicago office of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz as a partner in the investment services group. R. Kelly Kleiman, AB’75, JD’79, was elected president of the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits, formerly CATAP.

76 Paul Finkelman, AM’72, PhD’76, was named to the John F. Seiberling chair in constitutional law at the University of Akron School of Law.

77 College alumni—Tony Mayo, AB’77, MBA’78, writes: Roberta F. (“Robin”) Ellis, AB’77, AM’83, is the new corporate director of environmental health and safety at Ionics, Inc. She lives in Winchester, MA, with her husband, John, and two daughters, Emma, 8, and Julia, 6.

College alumni, please send your news to: Tony Mayo, AB’77, MBA’78, 10915 Thanlet Lane, Reston, VA 20190-3922. Phone: 703/855-6296 (w). E-mail: tm@mayogenuine.com.

Other alumni news includes: John W. Cogdill, AM’77, is a Foreign Service officer assigned to the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. He is in charge of all fraud investigations in U.S. Foreign Aid programs in Egypt, Gaza-West Bank, Jordan, and West Africa. The Gerontological Society of America elected Fay Lomax Cook, AM’72, PhD’77, its president. Director of the Institute for Policy Research and professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University, Cook recently returned from a yearlong fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, CA. Robert E. Hawkinson, AM’69, PhD’77, associate professor of politics at Willamette University, was named interim vice president for student affairs. He has taught in the politics department at Willamette since 1982 and served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1994 to 1996. Bruce G. McKelvy, MBA’77, is glad to be working in his hometown of Atlanta as a newly promoted senior associate in the construction management division of Heery International. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded Arthur G. Rubinoff, AM’66, PhD’77, professor of political science at the University of Toronto, and Reeta Chowdari Tremblay, AM’75, PhD’90, associate professor of political science at Concordia University, a three-year grant for their project “Difference, Official Nationalism, and the Construction of Political Community in Post-Independence India.” Rubinoff was recently appointed associate director of the York University–University of Toronto Joint Center for Asia-Pacific Studies. Tremblay has been named chair of the department of political science at Concordia University.

78 College alumni—Kent Maynard, AB’78, MBA’81, writes: Mary L. Derwinski, AB’78, reports that after the birth of her second daughter, Elizabeth Grace Parta, on June 13, 1996, she joined the “‘mommy circuit’ in all its glory” becoming quite an accomplished cook, cake decorator, and gardener, in addition to starting her own business. Among the most useful things she learned at the U of C (in a field- biology class): Never buy a house with willows in the backyard—the basement will flood! Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, AB’78, reports that after graduating from the U of C, she got a Ph.D. in geological sciences at Case Western Reserve, spent five years in West Berlin learning German and then doing postdoctoral research on Cretaceous rocks in Spain, and then became a geology professor at Ohio University. Beth has traveled to five continents to study ancient lake deposits. She and her husband, Martin Kordesch, have a daughter, Alina Victoria Kordesch. Jonathan H. Ginsburg, AB’78, reports that he became a conservative rabbi in 1982; his wife, whom he married in 1980, is also a rabbi. The couple have two children, Shoshana, born in 1985, and Ari, born in 1988. In addition to spending time with his family, work, and friends, Jonathan enjoys golf, movies, visiting Israel, and reading. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in economics from the U of C, Harold W. Green, Jr., AB’78, received a J.D. with honors from the John Marshall Law School, where he received the corpus juris secundum award. Harold then moved back to Alaska where he practiced law and owned several businesses. Now, he is a member of numerous exchanges, including the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, FINEX, and the New York Futures Exchange, where he executes trades and manages funds. Licensed to practice law in the Virgin Islands, he was recently appointed the honorary consul for the Republic of Seychelles, a former British Commonwealth nation, and is often at the Commonwealth offices at the United Nations. Harold is married, has children, and divides each year among homes in Alaska, California, New York, Minnesota, and the Virgin Islands. H. John Hale, AB’78, reports that he earned an M.D. from Northwestern and a Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of California Medical Center and the Institute for Morphogenic Studies. He has been primarily involved in interdisciplinary work in evolution theory, biophysics, social evolution (including sociopsychopathology) and the relationship between scientific thought and mystical traditions. In the next three years, John hopes to publish his first major work, on evolution, with other, lesser works also forthcoming. Deborah Ziegler Hilibrand, AB’78, MBA’79, worked on Wall Street after graduation, trading exotic financial instruments, and loved it: “It was like playing computer games all day.” Deborah then married a “quant jock” on the arbitrage desk and decided to become a full-time wife and mother for her two children, ages 9 and 4. She has found her job as wife, mother, and advocate for children the most rewarding experience of her life.

College alumni, please send your news to: Kent Maynard, AB’78, MBA’81, 2041 W. Dickens Ave., Chicago, IL 60647-4530. Phone: 773/342-5845 (h). E-mail: KMaynard@petersonross.com.

79 The Class of 1979 celebrates its 20th reunion June 4–6, 1999.

David H. Monk, PhD’79, has been recommended as the new dean of Penn State’s College of Education. In 1979, he joined Cornell University as an assistant professor of educational administration, becoming a full professor in 1991. Serving as chair of Cornell’s education department since 1994, he chaired a statewide task force to study boards of cooperative educational services in New York state. John J. Ryan, MBA’79, has joined Marshall & Stevens Inc. as senior vice president of financial consulting. Formerly, he was southeastern regional director of valuation services with BDO Seidman, LLP.