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contentsWinter 2006 Volume 26, Number 1

departments2 First Things First

3 Mail Call

4 RuminationsThe Bible in public life.

Take 5

Provost Mart)' Krauss, PhD'81.

6 Innermost Parts

31 FieldworkUnmasking the KKK.

33 Arts

The imaginative universe of Dana Schutz.

34 SportsBryan Lambert has National aspirations.

35 Books

54 Class NotesAlumni profiles, births/adoptions,

marriages/unions, in memoriam.

71 Games

72 Photo Finish

The Old City.

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features

Judges without BordersBrandeis institute dissects and nurtures global justice.

By Christopher Moore

Dancing with Lois Greenfield '70

Her photographs defy gravit)'. Her success does not.

By David E. Nathan

Memories for Life

Professor Margie Lachman offers some good news

about the aging process.

By Laura Gardner

special sections

Development Matters

Alumni News

Cover: Antigravity by Lois Greenfield.

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Reap the Change"If you're finished changing, " Ben Frankhn once observed, "you're finished."

In that spirit, we introduce you to your new university magazine, Brandeis University

Magazine—replete with a new name, a new editorial locus, and a new look.

First, the name. While Brandeii Review has served us—and you—well these past

twenty-five years, we think it's time the university's showpiece publication more

confidently proclaims its focus—placing the emphasis on "Brandeis" rather than

"Review." A small distinction, perhaps, but a meaningful one.

Next, the editorial focus. The good news is that you'll continue to receive the same

energetic mix of news and feature stories that always made the Review a good read.

The better news: We've added several new departments to enhance your reading

experience and give you more points of entry into the magazine. They include:

• Mail Call—The best indication of a successful alumni magazine is a lively letters

column. We've carved out space at the beginning ol each issue to publish your

brickbats and bouquets. Send them to <magazine@brandeis.edu>.

• Ruminations—A short essay, usually by a faculty member, on a timely topic in his or

her area of expertise. In this issue, Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies Marc

Bretder '78, MA'78, PhD'86, has an interesting piece on the Bible's place in public

life [page 4].

• Take 5—A Q&A. with a member ol the Brandeis community. In this issue, Provost

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, PhD'8 1 , opens up on topics ranging from the college

experience to her favorite vacation [page 3].

• Fieldwork—An in-depth look at research and scholarship being conducted by a

member of the Brandeis laculty. In this issue, we highlight sociologist David

Cunningham's study ol the Ku KJux KJan during the Civil Rights era [page 31].

• Arts and Sports—While we have always reported on interesting arts and sports

stories, we have now given them a permanent home. In this issue, you can read

about artist Dana Schutz's current exhibition at the Rose [Arts, page 33] and

aspiring major league pitcher Bryan Lambert [Sports, page 34].

• Games—For you puzzle junkies, we've added a double crostic. Written by Sue

Gleason, the mother of two Brandeis graduates, each puzzle contains several clues

unique to Brandeis [page 71].

• Photo Finish—One of university photographer Mike Lovett's constant laments is "I've

got this great photo, but don't have anywhere to run it." Now, he does [page 72].

Finally, the design. We thought a new name and new editorial focus demanded a new

look and feel. So we asked Eson Chan, an award-winning designer from New York City,

to bring his creative talents and journalistic sensibilities to bear on the magazine's

redesign. With its clean lines, bold images, modern typography, and generous amounts

of white space, the new design is fresh, contemporary, and easy on the eyes.

We're confident the overwhelming majority of you will approve of the new direction.

Please drop us a line and let us know what you think.

We'll take all your comments to heart and, mindful of Franklin's sage advice, keep

working—and changing—to make things better.

Ken Gornstein

Editor

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Contributing Editor

Lewis Rice '86

Contributing Writers

Laura Gardner

Adam Levin

David Nathan

Dennis Nealon. MA'95

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What Would Moses Do?The Bible is a great guide— but use it wisely. By Marc Zvi Brettler

When I studied at Brandeis in 1975, the Hebrew Bible or

Old Testament was viewed as an arcane book. The same

was true when I began teaching here two decades ago.

The last few years have seen a remarkable change—the Bible has

(again) moved into the center of American life.

While I'm happy to see the Bible more widely discussed, and

more students of all religious backgrounds taking Bible courses, a

grear deal of the public discourse about the Bible is highly problem-

atic. In facr, it betrays fundamental ignorance of what the Bible

actually says.

Take the controversy concerning the public display of the Ten

Commandments. I applaud the McCreary County v. ACLUSupreme Court decision, which bans certain public presentations

of the Ten Commandments. Any English display privileges one

translation over another, and the text considered by the court, the

King James version, reflects a tradition that I find problematic on

several grounds.

It does not count the opening, "I (am) the Lord your God whotook you out from the land of Egypt," as a significant part of the

Ten Commandments, viewing it as an introduction instead. In con-

trast, the main Jewish tradition sees this as the first "command-

ment. " The King James version also uses a specific Christian

division of the Ten Commandments into ten separate sayings. But

the Hebrew has no Roman numerals, and many alternative divi-

sions are possible.

I also disagree with the translarion "Thou shalt not kill," which

is historically inaccurate. The Bible contains numerous cases of cap-

ital punishment and killing during war—the Hebrew term used.

tirzach, refers to unsanctioned killing. Thus, placing this particular

translation in public places, which then becomes used in debates

concerning capital punishment and even abortion, is fundamental-

ly misleading.

Public display of the Decalogue has other problems as well. Is it

really fair to ask everyone in America to believe in a "God who took

you out from the land of Egypt"? And do we want to display, espe-

cially in judicial settings, a document that supports intergenera-

tional punishment of children, grandchildren, and

great-grandchildren for their parents' sins?

Don't get me wrong—the Bible is a wonderful and important

book, which helps us understand a great deal about American cul-

ture and its development. It contains many profundities that we

ignore at our own peril. But as university biblical scholarship

emphasizes, it is an ancient text that developed at a parricular time

in a particular context, and it cannot be easily imported into con-

temporary American culture.

There is, however, anorher rext written long ago that does belong

in public spaces. It, too, has moved to the center of American life

and is the subject of great debate and interpretation. That text

begins: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a

more perfect union . .

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Marc Zvi Brettler 78, MA'78, PhD'86, is the Dora Golding Professor

ofBiblical Studies and chair ofthe Department ofNear Eastern and

Judaic Studies. His book How to Read the Bible ivas recently pub-

lished by the Jewish Publication Society. See a synopsis in "Books " on

page 36.

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Marty KraussProvost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, the

John Stein Professor of Disability

Research at the Heller School for

Social Policy and Management, has served

as provost since 2003. She is an expert in

the areas of disability policy, family care-

giving, developmental disability, and

human services. She holds a bachelor's

degree from the University of Michigan

and a Ph.D. (1981) from Brandeis.

1. What's changed the most about

college between the time you were an

undergrad at the University of Michigan

in the 1970s, and now? Kids today are

consumers, and in addition to very strong

academics, they're looking for all kinds of

perks and amenities that people of mygeneration never considered part of the

college experience. We didn't think to

complain about food or about the quality

of the dorms. In fact, we almost wanted to

have a more minimalist lifestyle. Keeping

up with the Joneses has now become a big

part of higher education, and it's not one I

think is particularly attractive.

2. When you were 18 years old, what

was your fantasy job? I had a very strong

interest in social-justice issues. I wanted to

be a social worker, working in urban

renewal, helping people rebuild their com-

munities. I had a focus of being in the

nonprofit world, doing good deeds and

helping others. So, I haven't strayed that

far away from those core instincts.

3. Name a book that every student

should read before entering college?

1 was a great Faulkner fan as I was grow-

ing up, and when 1 think about the rich-

ness of that prose and the depth of the

experience that came through with it, 1

would like to think that college-bound

kids are able to wrestle with that level of

material. There are other books that I've

read that I've found so illuminating, I

would urge other people to read them.

One of those is Tom Friedman's From

Beirut to Jerusalem. It's one of those

books that helps to explain the Middle

East in a way that's very accessible.

4. What's the best-kept secret about

Brandeis? Probably the view from the

Castle, overlooking Boston. It's absolutely

exquisite. I've been on the campus since

1977, and I saw it for the first time

last year.

5. What's the best vacation you ever

took? Sailing in the Caribbean with my

siblings and their spouses and myhusband, in February 1991, just as the

first Gulf War broke out. I remember

being very nervous about leaving my kids

at home and going on this prepaid,

planned vacation. When we got down

there, we were glued to CNN at the

different ports. But by the third day, we

didn't even listen. There was something so

wonderful—and scary—about completely

dropping out of the world for a week

when you knew the world was in turmoil,

and then coming back. It was just a won-

derful, wonderful vacation.

—Ken Gornstein

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Shapiros donate $25M toward new center

Sciences Get a BoostBenefactors Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro have

donated $2S million toward construction

of a 175.00()-square-foot science center

designed to enhance the university's lead-

ership in the lite sciences and emerging

areas ot interdisciplinary research.

Ground will be broken in the spring

tor the $154 million Carl J. Shapiro Sci-

ence Center, the largest capital initiative

in Brandeis's history. The facility,

designed by Payette Associates, will fea-

ture interdisciplinary research labs, class-

rooms, a science commons, seminar

rooms, conference space, and a cate.

"The complex will allow Brandeis to

advance its leadership position in scien-

tific research, and make it possible for us

to continue to attract the brightest and

best researchers from around the world,"

President Reinharz said.

Brandeis scientists in recent years have

made important breakthroughs in the

areas of genetics, neurodegenerative dis-

eases, and memory and hearing. The uni-

versity has also distinguished itself by

creating new fields at the intersections of

established scientific disciplines.

Architectural rendering of the proposed Carl J.

Shapiro Science Center.

Ruth and Carl Shapiro

"1 have always believed in Brandeis and

its commitment to improving the human

condition through scientific research," said

Carl Shapiro, a trustee emeritus ot the uni-

versity. "Brandeis is doing important work

in the lite sciences and other areas that will

help us understand the causes and find

cures for debilitating diseases."

The donation—matched only by the

tamily's 1999 gitt for construction of the

university campus center—brings to

$60 million the Shapiros' total litetime

giving to Brandeis. Previous gitts have

established the Carl and Ruth Shapiro

Center for Library Technology and Jour-

nals, Carl J. Shapiro Chair in Internation-

al Finance, Carl and Ruth Shapiro

Admissions Center, and an atrium/public

toruni space at the Heller School.

"Remarkable does not adequately

describe the Shapiro family's dedication

to and support of this institution, " Rein-

harz said.

New ApproachUniversity to begin training

new generation of scientists

The university has won a highly competi-

tive three-year, $1 million grant to develop

an interdisciplinary doctoral program in

quantitative biology.

The grant—one ot ten awarded nation-

wide by the Howard Hughes Medical Insti-

tute—will be used to train a new generation

ot collaborative scientists by recruiting stu-

dents trom biochemistry, biophysics and

structural biology, chemistry, molecular and

cellular biology, neuroscience, and physics.

Under the new program, quantitative biol-

ogy students with life sciences backgrounds

will learn to use instrumentation and model-

ing, while those with backgrounds in com-

puter science and physics will learn to apply

their knowledge in life-science laboratories.

The simultaneous cross-training of each

group ot students will include interdiscipli-

nary graduate-level courses, as well as special

lectures, events, and "boot camps" to foster

the communication skills necessary for a

team approach to science.

Students will graduate with doctorates in

their chosen fields and an additional spe-

cialization in quantitative biology.

"This grant could only happen in a place

like Brandeis, where physics and lite sciences

freely mix," noted physicist Jane Kondev,

who spearheaded the university's proposal

with biochemistry chair JeflFGelles.

The award will fund the salary of a new

faculty member in quantitative biology,

and the creation of an instrumentation

teaching laboratory. After the initial grant

expires, the National Institute of Biomed-

ical Imaging and Bioengineering will step

in with peer-reviewed institutional train-

ing gi'ants, officials said.

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Michael Steinhardt delivers address at the Steinhardt Institute's inaugural conference.

It FiguresJewish population underestimated, study says

The American Jewish population may be

1 5 to 22 percent larger than previously be-

lieved, according to a new study unveiled

at the inaugural conference of the Stein-

hardt Social Research Institute at Brandcis

last fall.

A National Jewish Population Survey con-

ducted in 2000-01 found about .^.') million

Americans who identify themselves as |ew-

ish by religion, and about 5.3 million who

identify themselves as Jewish using broader

criteria such as ethnicity or ancestry.

However, a new method for estimating

the population, which factors the results

of more than twenty existing national sur-

veys with reliable data about religious iden-

tir)', suggests the real number ofAmerican

Jews may be between 4.5 million and

6.5 million.

This is the first time that the meta-

analytic methodology, as it is called, has

been used to study Jewish population figures,

said Steinhardt director Leonard Saxe.

"It allows us to estimate the size of the

lewish population without our contacting

hundreds of thousands ot households to find

out if there is a Jewish member, " he said.

This frees up time and resources for other

important projects and studies, Saxe added.

The Steinhardt Social Research Institute

was established and underwritten by a

Si 2 million gift from philanthropist Michael

Steinhardt, who attended the conference,

"By the Numbers: Understanding Ameri-

can Jewry. " The institute's mission is to col-

lect, analyze, and disseminate unbiased data

that can bolster understanding ot religion

and ethnicity in the United States.

Prize CatchPulitzer winner Friedman

to teach for a semester

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas

Friedman '75 has signed on to teach at Bran-

deis for a semester next academic year.

Friedman, the foreign-affairs columnist

for the New York Times,

will serve as the Fred and

Rita Richman Distin-

guished Visiting Professor

of Economics.

Established in 1998

through a gift from Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Richman of New York, the

professorship brings accomplished practi-

tioners of politics and economics to campus

each year. The Richmans are the parents ol

Carol Saivetz '69, the parents-in-law of the

late Richard Saivetz '69, and the grandpar-

ents of Michael Saivetz '97. Carol Saivetz's

daughter, Aliza, graduated from Brandeis

in 2001.

"This is a fantastic opportunity tor our

students to hear and learn from one of the

leading thinkers on a wide range ot critical

global issues, " President Reinharz said.

In addition to winning three Pulitzers tor

his column writing, Friedman has written sev-

eral best-selling books. His latest book, The

World Is Flat: A BriefHistory ofthe Twenty-

first Ceiitniy, was recently named the winner

ot the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman

Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

Friedman was also recently named to U.S.

News & World Reports list ofAmerica's Twen-

ty-five Best Leaders.

Friedman, a university trustee, graduated

trom Brandeis summa cum laude with a de-

gree in Mediterranean studies, and received

a master's degree in modern Middle East

studies trom Oxford University.

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Warhol painting of university namesake joins Rose collection

A Brandeis HoinecoininoIn time tor his 150th birthday, Louis Bran-

deis is coming home to the university that

bears his name.

A renowned Andy Warhol portrait of the

famed U.S. Supreme Court Justice, part of

the artist's "Ten Portraits of Jews of the

Twentieth Century," has been donated to

the Rose Art Museum by the Feldman fam-

ily (Mark, a resident of Newton, Massachu-

setts; his brother, Andrew, of New York; and

their sister, Julie Feldman Golovcsenko, ol

New York).

Warhol's "Ten Portraits, " a collection of

works featuring great Jewish thinkers, politi-

cians, performers, musicians, and writers,

was originally shown at the Jewish Museum

in New York in 1980. Others featured in the

noted collection are Albert Einstein, Sig-

mund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda

Meir, novelist Franz Kafka, writer and femi-

nist Gertrude Stein, philosopher Martin

Buber, composer George Gershwin, and

actor Sarah Bernhardt.

"It's enormously important tor us to have

this work," said Michael Rush, the Flenry

oand Lois Foster Director ot the Rose. Brandeis was appointed to the Supreme

"Warhol is one of the towering figures in Court in 1916, the first Jew to hold

twentieth-century art, and tor him to have that position,

painted a portrait of the individual who

inspired our university combines two great

figures of the last century."

"As a family, we felt that Brandeis was

the place where this important Warhol

painting of Louis Brandeis belonged,"

Mark Feldman said. "We hope the stu-

dents, faculty, and university visitors will

enjoy the painting as much as we have."

Louis Bnvideis is an acrylic and

silkscreen enamel portrait on canvas, forty

by forty inches, and is one of seven unique

paintings of Brandeis by Warhol.

The Rose's permanent collection also

includes nearly two dozen other Warhols,

including the original Saturday Disaster

depicting a fatal car accident, and prints of

Draivingfor Black Bean Soup, Jackie Kennedy,

Jackie Kennedy III, and Ten Portraits.

On November 13, the university will

celebrate Brandeis's 1 50th birthday. Aleading litigator and privacy advocate,

Egyptian ambassador urges Israeli-Palestinian accord

Road to PeaceWhile a hopetul first step, Israeli disengage-

ment trom twenty-one settlements in Gaza

and tour in the northern West Bank marks

only the beginning of a long road toward

peace, a leading figure in the Middle East

said at a conference hosted by the Crown

Center for Middle East Studies last fall.

"This is either going to be the beginning

ot a two-state solution, or we will end up

with two losers," said Nabil Fahmy, Egypt's

ambassador to the United States, who deliv-

ered the keynote address at "Israel and the

Palestinians: The Road Ahead."

Fahmy, a career diplomat who has served

in his current role since 1999 and has played

an active role in negotiating peace to the

Middle East, said the two sides must work

together to bring an end to the cycle ot vio-

lence that has long plagued the region.

"If the Israelis let Gaza turn out to be a

prison tor the Palestinians, we will be

empowering those who believe in violence

or don't believe in a two-state solution," he

said. "We also need to prove as Arabs, espe-

cially Palestinians, that there is less violence

as a result of this withdrawal."

The time for peace, he added, is now. "I

believe it will be harder to make peace in

the future because we will demonize each

other, " he said. "It we don't move now, we

will be seriously missing an opportunity."

Khalil Shikaki, director ot the Palestine

Center tor Policy and Survey Research,

said during a session on the next steps in

Israeli-Palestinian

rchttions that he

liclicved there will

be little move-

ment in the next

few months.

"Where we go

trom here is to

bilateral negotia-

tions or to stagna-

tion and violence,"

said Shikaki, a senior research fellow at the

Crown Center who team-taught a course

on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last semes-

ter. "I do not believe in the short term there

will be a return to violence, nor do 1 believe

there will be bilateral negotiations."

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Reinharz gets honorary degree from Ben-Gurion

Doctor. DoctorBen-Gurion University of the Negev in

December awarded an honorary doctor-

al degree to President Reinharz in recog-

nition of his distinguished contributions

to humanity.

During a ceremony on the Marcus

Family Campus in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in

the presence of former Prime Minister

Shimon Peres, Ben-Gurion President

Avishay Braverman prai.sed Reinharz tor

his commitment to scholarly excellence,

social justice, pluralism, and service to the

community, and cited the close academic

relationship between Brandeis and BGU.Born in Haifa in 1944, Reinharz spent

his childhood in the nascent state,

received his high school education in Ger-

many, and immigrated with his family to

the United States, in 1961. He earned

concurrent bachelor's degrees from

Columbia University and the Jewish The-

ological Seminary and advanced degrees

from Harvard and Brandeis. He served as

the first professor of Jewish history at the

University of Michigan, where he estab-

lished the program in Judaic Studies.

In 1982, he became the Richard Koret

Professor of Modern Jewish History in the

Department of Near Eastern and Judaic

Studies at Brandeis. Two years later, he

was named director of the school's Tauber

Institute for the Study of European Jewry.

In 1992, Reinharz founded the Jacob

and Libby Goodman Institute for the

Study of Zionism and Israel. From 1991 to

1994, he served as provost and senior vice

president for academic affairs. In 1994, he

became the seventh president of Bran-

deis—the first graduate to hold that office.

"1 am a great 'hasid' ol [Ben-Gurion]

University," Reinharz said during the

award ceremony. "1 have always been

attracted to the pioneering spirit of the

Second Aliyah. My research interests focus

on the pioneering spirit that is embodied

in this university that believes in the

power of Jewish values and knowledge to

help realize dreams."

Reinharz outlined the four pillars of

faith that he said BGU and Brandeis share:

outstanding research, social justice, plural-

ization, and service to the Jewish people.

Other honorary doctorate recipients

included actor and singer Yossi Banai ot

Israel; Ralph Goldman, honorarj' executive

vice president of the American Jewish Joint

Distribution Committee; Terry Meyerhoft

Rubenstein, executive vice president of the

Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family

Charitable Funds; and Israeli Supreme

Court Justice Jacob Turkel.

Eliyahu Levant and Menachem Perl-

mutter of Israel received the Ben-Gurion

Negev Awards.

President Reinharz (cen(er) is flanked by Ben-Gurion rector Jimmy Weinblatt (left) and president

Avishay Braverman.

newsmakersMichael Rush, former direc-

tor and chief curator of the

Palm Beach Institute ofCon-

temporary Art, in Florida,

has begun work as the new

director of the Rose Art Mu-

seum. A former Jesuit priest

who holds a doctorate in theology and psy-

chology from Harvard University, Rush has

"distinguished himself as an arts administra-

tor, curator, scholar, and artist," provost Marty

Wyngaarden Krauss said. He succeeds |oseph

Ketner 11, who resigned last spring to become

chief curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Eve Marder '69, the Victor and Gwendolyn

Beinfield Professor ofNeuroscience, has wonthe Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience

for her outstanding contributions to the field.

The award is given annually by the Washing-

ton, D.C.-based Society for Neuroscience.

Over the past three decades, Marder has helped

shape and advance the field through research

into neural networks in lobsters and crabs and

the application ofcomputational methods to

explain the function of neural circuits.

Gil Villanueva, former sen-

ior associate dean of admis-

sions at Bucknell University,

has begun work as the new

dean of admissions at Bran-

deis. In his eight years at

Bucknell, Villanueva helped

transform the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, uni-

versity from a highly selective to a most-selec-

tive institution, achieving significant increa.s-

es in applications, SAT scores, numbers ot

students of color, and geographic distribu-

tion of the undergraduate student body. He

succeeds Deena Whitfield.

Robert Meyer, professor of physics, and Al-

fred Redfield, professor emeritus ol biochem-

istrv' and physics, were awarded the top prizes

in their fields from the American Physical So-

ciety. Meyer received the Oliver E. Buckley

Condensed Matter Prize for his "groundbreak-

ing experimental and theoretical contributions

"

to the fundamental science and applications

of liquid cr)'stals. Redfield won the Biological

Physics Prize for his "seminal contributions"

to the theory and technical development of

nucleat magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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Less Is MoreUniversity begins multiyear

energy-savings program

In an effort to reduce its energy consump-

tion and lessen the burden on the environ-

ment, Brandeis has instituted a mukiyear

energy-savings program that will encourage

responsible energy-use practices, establish

utility efficiency improvements, and devel-

op standards for energy use on campus.

Scheduled projects include conducting an

energy- and water-usage audit to identify

conservation opportunities; installing ener-

gy-efficient lighting and

occupancy sensors; and

improving building heating,

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^j^^^^^^B tioning control systems.

^ J^^B^L Officials will promote the

program through .1 new

Web site <wvi'w.brandeis.edu/energy> and

an interdorm energy-savings competition.

It's All FineMusic department founder recalled

in new/ biography

Irving Fine, a world-renowned composer

and founder of the music department at

Brandeis, is remembered in a recently

released biography by composer and pianist

Phillip Ramev.

Irving Fine: An American Composer in His

Time, published last November by Pendrag-

on Press, is partly based on the reminis-

cences of the composer's family, friends, and

colleagues. It discusses Fine's brief teaching

career in the 1940s at his alma mater. Har-

vard, and his subsequent years at Brandeis,

where he flourished and produced such rec-

ognized masterpieces as Toccata Concertante

for Orchestra and Partita for Wind Qidntet.

Fine's growth, Ramey argues, stemmed

from not only his probing musical and cre-

ative intellect, but also from his personal and

professional relationships with the likes of

Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Leonard

Bernstein, who once described Fine as "a

beautiful spirit in the world of music [who]

brought honor to everything he touched."

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Ten years later, Schwartz's life lessons still resonate

Morrie s LegacyTen vears after his death, Morrie Schwartz

is still teaching—just the way he would

have wanted it.

Since the 1997 publication of Tuesdays

with Morrie—1979 grad Mitch Albom's

poignant account of his weekly visits with

his former teacher amid Schwartz's losing

battle with Lou Gehrig's disease—and a

subsequent TV movie and play, the life,

death, and teachings of the iconic sociolo-

g)' professor have become known the

world over. The book has sold more than

ten million copies and been translated

into thirrv languages. The play has toured

nationally, including a two-week run in

Boston last fall.

"He gloried in all the attention in the

final year of his life," said Gordon Fellman,

a Brandeis sociologist and close friend of

Schwartz, "but it was not narcissism. He

knew that he was having an effect on peo-

ple. He was a teacher to the end."

"I think it's great that his teachings are

still out there in circulation," added Jacob

Potofsky Professor of Sociology Shulamit

Reinharz, MA'69, PhD'77, a former stu-

dent of Schwartz. "He would have been

very proud of that."

Schwartz was born in 1916 and grew up

in the Jewish tenements in New York City.

He earned his master's and Ph.D. from the

University of Chicago, and chaired the

sociolog)' department at Brandeis for

many years.

November 4, 2005, marked the tenth

anniversary of Schwartz's passing, and

some of those closest to him used the

occasion to fondly recall the man who has

become perhaps the most-recognized fac-

ulty member in Brandeis history.

Fellman, who was hired by Schwartz as

an assistant professor in 1964, remembers

his former boss as a wonderfullv energetic

dancer. "When we had department par-

ties, he would dance and dance and

dance," Fellman said. "He would go

through one undergraduate after another

and tire them out."

Reinharz first met Schwartz in 1968,

when she was a graduate student in sociol-

ogy. It was the start of a friendship that

endured for nearly three decades.

"We became very tight very quickly,"

she recalled. "If you knew Morrie, you

didnt just know him superficially, you

knew him much more deeply."

The actors Harold Gould and Dominic

Fumusa, who starred in the Boston pro-

duction of Tuesdays with Morrie, visited

campus in October to meet the people

who knew Schwartz best.

"It you want to play Julius Caesar, go to

Rome. If you want to play Morrie

Schwartz, go to Brandeis," Fumusa said.

Discussing the life and times of IVlorne Schwartz are {trom left) Scott Edmiston, director of the

Office of the Arts; Shulamit Reinharz. the Jacob S. Potosky Professor of Sociology: and actors

Harold Gould and Dominic Fumusa.

End of EraPetri to step down as dean

of IBS, return to teaching

Peter Petri, founding dean ot the Interna-

tional Business School (formerly the Grad-

uate School of International Economics

and Finance), will step down at the end of

the academic year to return to the faculty

as the Carl J. Shapiro Professor of Interna-

tional Finance.

Petri's vision for the International Business

School began in 1994, born of a desire to

build "from the ground up " an international-

ly focused business school to address the

challenges of global markets. During his

twelve-year tenure as dean, the business

school has matured into a prominent niche

institution that enrolls four hundred students

from sLxt)' countries.

Petri joined the Brandeis faculty in 1974

after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard Uni-

versity. His research interests include interna-

tional trade and investment, with emphasis

on the Pacific Rim.

Stuart-shipAltman named Heller dean,

succeeding Jack Shonkoff

Stuart Altman, the Sol C. Chaikin Professor

of National Health Policy, has been named

dean of the Heller School for Social Policy

and Management, through

June 2008. He succeeds

Jack Shonkoff who served

IS dean for eleven years.

In making the announce-

ment. Provost Marty Krauss

cited AJtman's "effective and

strong leadership" of the school since t;iking

over as interim dean last September.

"I am grateful to Dean Altman for agree-

ing to extend his leadership of the school

and to provide the benefits of his wisdom

and experience for an additional period of

time," Krauss said.

Altman is an economist whose research

interests are primarily in the area of federal

health policy. He previously served as dean

of the Heller School and as interim univer-

sity president.

Jonathan Sarna 75. MA75. will lead the expanded and reorganized Hornstein Program.

Program reorganized, new director named

Hornstein Moves AheadMarshaling its diverse academic resources

to help develop the next generation of Jew-

ish leaders, the universiry has expanded and

reorganized the Hornstein Program and

named American Jewish history scholar

Jonathan Sarna 75, MA'75, its director.

The program—now officially known as

HORNSTEIN: The Jewish Professional

Leadership Program @ Brandeis Universi-

r\'—will offer dual masters degree pro-

grams with Brandeis's Department of

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (master

of arts) and Heller School for Social Poli-

cy and Management (master of business

administration). In addition to Hornstein

courses on Jewish organizational life, phi-

lanthropy, and Diaspora-Israel relations,

students will have access to a broad range

ot Brandeis course offerings.

Students in the Jewish studies dual-

degree program will take courses designed

to help them develop a deep understand-

ing of the contemporary Jewish communi-

ty and knowledge of Jewish cultures and

traditions. Students in the MBA-linked

program will take traditional management

courses focused on nonprofit organiza-

tions, as well as specialized courses rele-

vant to the Jewish community.

"Jewish leaders in the twenty-first cen-

tury will be faced with increasingly com-

plex challenges," President Reinharz said.

"Under the capable leadership of

Jonathan Sarna, and the support of addi-

tional faculty, the Hornstein Program is

poised for a new phase in its distinguished

history. It will prepare tomorrows leaders

for new challenges and equip them with

the tools necessary to shape Jewish life in

the next century."

Key to the changes at Hornstein is the

collaboration of Brandeis faculty across

schools and departments.

"The new Hornstein Program will train

the next generation of Jewish leaders by

leveraging the university's strengths in the

area of Jewish studies, management, and

scholarship about the Jewish communit)',"

said Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun

Professor of American Jewish Histor\'.

Former program director Susan Shevitz

will return to flill-time faculty status and

concentrate on her research on pluralism in

the Jewish community and her education

of Jewish community professionals. She

will continue to be involved with special

projects related to Hornstein's redesign.

The Hornstein Program was founded

in 1969 by Leon Jick. Its six hundred

alumni work in key leadership positions

in Israel, North America, and other Dias-

pora communities.

Willln (III I liiiiiMJci^ I iiiMi-.ilx \l;ii;:i/illi' 11

Global justice dissected and

nurtured at Brandeis institute

Judges

BordersIn

January, in a modest conference peered mass murderer walk free; it would

room in West Africa, judges from have effectively torpedoed the cases of

nine international courts and com- dozens of others, including President Slo-

missions discussed the ongoing bodan Milosevic, accused of similar crimes,

development of the international Faced with such a jurisdictional crisis, the

judicial system. One of them asked, judges on the ICTY interpreted their

"How do the courts in that system interact, statute in what they saw as the best interest

and how does that affect their legitimacy?" of justice, ruling that the Security Council's

Judge O-Gon Kwon of the International decision was never intended to deprive

Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's citizens of U.N. protection.

Yugoslavia (ICTY) was reminded of a case "In reaching that conclusion, I was

four years earlier that had caused him to ask uncomfortable as to whether we could reach

the very same questions. a legitimate decision," said Kwon, of South

Dragoljub Ojdanic, a high-ranking mili- Korea. "I thought, "What if the Internation-

tary officer in the Federal Republic of al Court of Justice (ICJ) produces a differ-

Yugoslavia, was charged with committing ent opinion?' Although 1 didn't doubt that

crimes against humanity in the 1998-99 our conclusion was a right one, 1 was con-

genocide in Kosovo. Before mounting a ccrned, hypothetically, whether the ICJ

defense, his attorney claimed the ICTY had might say otherwise later on."

no jurisdiction over crimes committed in Addressing such questions, and raising

the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at that others of equal importance, is the mission

time because the country hadn't been a of the Brandeis Institute for International

U.N. member since the breakup of the Judges (BlIJ). The institute provides a con-

Yugoslav republics in 1992. fidential forum for judges from such courts

But dismissing the case on those grounds and tribunals to engage in dialogue and

would have meant more than letting a sus- debate, and to form connections that geog-

By Christopher Moore

iJtP^ges without BDrders.

raphy and a rigorous caseload do not often

allow. In fact, the Brandeis Institute is the

only such forum that currently exists. With-

out it, judges like Kwon and many others

would have no avenues for hearing differing

legal perspectives or for posing their ques-

tions and dilemmas to anyone who is not a

member of their own bench. Being able to

do so helps not only the judges themselves,

but also the courts they serve on and the

jurisdictions they preside over.

History of BIIJ

First held in 2002, the institute is conduct-

ed roughly every eighteen months and host-

ed by the International Center for Ethics,

Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis. The

BIIJ developed out of the Brandeis Semi-

nars in Humanities and the Professions,

which began in the early 1980s. Those one-

or two-day sessions on values and ethics,

most of which were for judges, used litera-

ture as the basis for discussion—Melville's

Billy Budd, for example, raised issues of

power and judgment. By the time the cen-

ter was formed in 1998, its director, Daniel

Terris, and a core group of Brandeis and

other local scholars had held hundreds of

such sessions all over the country.

"The question then was, 'How do we take

that approach and be useful in the interna-

tional domain?" said Terris. "Working with

international judges was the result."

Institutes have been held in 2002, 2003,

2004, and most recently in January. More

than fifty judges, commissioners, scholars,

and practitioners of thirty-five nationalities

and from every region in the world have

been involved in the institutes as parrici-

pants, presenters, or organizers—with some

having been a part of all four Brandeis insti-

tutes. The institutes have been funded by

grants from the JEHT Foundation, the

Rice Family Foundation, and the David

Berg Foundation.

International "ruling bodies" come in

many forms. Some, like rhe International

Court of Justice and the International Tri-

bunal for the Law of the Sea, produce rul-

ings on disputes between countries.

Claire L'Heureux-Dube (\ei\.'). retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and Judge

Theodor Meron (center), president of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former

Yugoslavia, talk with Joseph Ndiaye, curator of the Maison des Esclaves (Slave House) on

Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar

Specialized international criminal courts,

like those established in the aftermath of

conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda,

and Sierra Leone, render judgments in

ctiminal matters considered too significant

for a national judiciary to address. The

Internarional Criminal Court (ICC) nowhas a general jurisdiction over war crimes

and crimes against humanity; it is currently

in the process of investigating its first cases

in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the

Congo, and Sudan.

Other institutions that participate in the

BIIJ are not "courrs" in the traditional

sense. The African Union has established an

African Court of Human and Peoples'

Rights that will soon be operational, its first

bench having been elected in January. But

prior to the court's formation, commission-

ers on the African Commission on Humanand Peoples' Rights have for decades inves-

tigated charges of human righrs abuses on

the continent. Though no official head

count exists, two hundred to three hundred

individuals are estimated to be serving on

inrernational courts, tribunals, and com-

missions around the world.

The first BIIJ was held at Btandeis, while

the second and third were conducted in

Salzburg, Austria. The most recent was held

in Dakar, Senegal, in recognition of the

newly formed African Court of Human and

Peoples" Rights. BIIJ 2006 was immediately

followed by the West African Judicial Col-

loquium, also in Dakar, which brought

together five international judges with jus-

tices from twelve Wesr African high courts.

The colloquium marks the first effort by

the center to facilitate dialogue between

national and international judiciaries, an

issue that has been discussed at every BIIJ

since the beginning.

Held over the course of tour to five days,

BIIJs are divided into several thematic ses-

sions led by legal experts and other scholars.

After brief presentations, the judges and

commissioners in attendance engage in

debate and discussion on the issues raised.

Some BIIJ presenters hail from disciplines

wholly outside the field of law—in the past,

they have included professors of literature,

philosophy, and women's studies—whoencourage judges to approach their work

from multiple angles. Jeffrey Abramson, a

professor of politics and legal studies at

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Participants at January's Brandeis Institute for International Judges pose for a group photo.

Brandeis, also played a key role as a BIIJ

codirector in its first two years.

The Place of America

One topic addressed at each BIIJ has been the

inconsistency of U.S. support for interna-

tional justice. The United States is not a party

to certain courts, such as the Inter-American

Court of Human Rights. The United States

also has not ratified the Rome Treaty, which

established the International Criminal Court.

Despite these recent examples of resist-

ance, U.S. administrations have historically

organizer of the BIIJ. "The U.S. is afraid

that a lot of parties will, for reasons of polit-

ical vengeance, bring American officials

before the court for war crimes and crimes

against humaniry."

If the United States were a party to the

ICC, Swigart said, U.S. military command-

ers could potentially have been charged

with abuses that took place at the Abu

Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"But before that would happen, they'd

need to be tried in an American or other

domestic court," she added. "No case is

Swigart and Terris are working on attract-

ing other American judges to future insti-

tutes. They are planning a colloquium that

will bring together international and

domestic judges from Canada and the

United States, much like January's West

African Judicial Colloquium. After having

held the last three institutes in Europe and

Africa, the 2007 institute will take place in

New Hampshire.

The two are also collaborating on a book

project with Cesare Romano of the Project

on International Courts and Tribunals. The

'No case is supposed to be brought to the ICC until domestic

remedies have been exhausted."

been supportive of international justice,

from the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals

in the 1940s to the establishment of the

ICTY and International Criminal Tribunal

for Rwanda (ICTR) in the 1990s. Howev-

er, U.S. familiarirv' with international judi-

ciaries remains limited.

" The United States really became hostile

to international justice with the develop-

ment of the ICC, " said Leigh Swigart, asso-

ciate director of the center and the main

supposed to be brought to the ICC until

domestic remedies have been exhausted.'

Despite these recent examples of resist-

ance, Swigart said, U.S. administrations

have historically been supportive ol inter-

national justice, from the Nuremberg and

Tokyo tribunals in the 1940s to the estab-

lishment of the ICTY and the Internation-

al Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

in the 1990s. But U.S. representation on

such courts is limited.

book, expected to be released in fall 2007,

will cover the still little-known profession of

international judges.

"We do see one part ot our mission as a

kind of public information and awareness

project with regard to international courts in

the American environment," said Terris.

"We're not pursuing any policy line. But we

certainly want to increase knowledge of these

institutions and encourage American judges,

lawyers, and politicians to make informed

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jurisprudence of his or her own court, but

ot the international sphere as well."

As such, reliable and comprehensive

sources are essential to a judge's work. During

the most recent Brandeis Institute, several

participants disseminated information about

case digests from local or regional jurisdic-

tions and from law associations that were

appropriate to each others work. Such publi-

cations are often available in print and online,

but a judge who has little or no contact with

that court or association might never know.

Daniel Terns (right), director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life,

with Yussif D. Kaba of the Supreme Court of Liberia, at January's West African Judicial

Colloquium in Dakar.

decisions about what they think should be the

U.S. role in the international justice system."

The lack of U.S. involvement in the inter-

national system drives a perception from

other countries that American lawyers and

judges regard international law as irrelevant

to their profession. Someone who occasion-

ally cites international law is Justice Anthony

Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court, who

served on the facult)' of BII] 2003. In Roper

V. Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court halt-

ed Missouri's execution of a prisoner who

was 17 when he committed murder.

Delivering the court's opinion, Kennedy

observed that executing a juvenile offender

would put the United States in a very small

minority of nations across the globe. He

wrote, "It does not lessen our fidelity to the

Constitution or our pride in its origins to

acknowledge that the express affirmation ol

certain fundamental rights by othet nations

and peoples simply underscores the central-

iry of those same rights within our own her-

itage of freedom."

Judges on courts around the world fre-

quently consider rulings made outside their

countries or courts, as Brandeis Institute

participants report.

"We read a lot," said Fatoumata Dembele

Diarra, a Malian judge at the International

Criminal Court. "All decisions, from a lot

of different trials. ICTR, ICTY, ICJ. We're

even interested in the Nuremberg trials."

Claire L'Heureux-Dube, a former justice

of the Supreme Court of Canada, recalled a

case in which a Namibian court looked to

decisions from India and the United States.

"Judges look to a broad spectrum of

sources," said L'Heureux-Dube. "Justice

requires a judge not just to be aware of the

Harmonizing Legal Systems

Brandeis Institute participants also discussed

basic trial procedures that vary significantly

from one country to the next. Some coun-

tries (like Great Britain, Canada, and the

United States) use the common law system,

which is generally characterized as an adver-

sarial system, in which a judge serves as an

impartial referee. The civil law system (used

by most of Europe, Asia, and Central and

South America) is often called an "inquisito-

rial system," where juries are largely nonex-

istent and the judge plays an active role in

determining the facts of the case. Many

countries also use customary or religious

law. Often, a blending of two or more sys-

tems takes place within a single jurisdiction.

The result is that judges trained in a single-

svstem countr)' might not be fully prepared

for service on an international court or tribu-

nal, especially when appointed to a bench

dominated by judges from differing systems.

Richard Goldstone, a member of the center's

International Advisory Board and its codirec-

tor since the beginning, reflected on his own

transition from the judicial system of his

native South Africa to the International

Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,

where he served as its first chief prosecutor.

"One of the problems was the tensions

introduced by judges having different con-

cepts of the relationship between the judges

and the prosecutors," said Goldstone. "It's

quite a fundamentally important issue.

Common law judges were not used to inter-

fering with cases; civil law judges were.

Coming from a common law country, I

resisted that interference, and the result was

tension. A prosecutor from a civil law coun-

try would have been okay with it.

"

Though Canada is mostly a common law

country, the province of Quebec operates

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both under common and civil law. At the

most recent institute, L'Heureux-Dube

spoke about the potential consequences of

not striking the appropriate balance between

differing systems.

"In the first fift)' years of the Supreme

Court, there was an attempt to mix the two

systems. It didn't work," she said. "At one

point, they said, 'Let's respect each system.'

Before that was done, the Quebec Court of

Appeal never respected the Supreme Court;

Professions. One of the ten sessions at Jan-

uary's institute was led by Jane Hale, chair

of the Comparative Literature Program at

Brandeis. Hale began the session by asking

each participant to extract what he or she

thought was the moral of an Ethiopian folk

tale about justice.

The folk tale describes a woman whose

goats went wandering. In her search, she

came across a deaf man who coincidentally

pointed her in the right direction after not

Judge Diarra said that session got her

thinking more than any other. It reminded

her of the time her court president asked

her to read a stack of documents; after a

half-hour, she returned to him and said,

"I'm finished. " He responded, "No, that's

too fast. Read them again." Upon rereading

the documents, she discovered nuances she

hadn't seen the first time.

After Hale's exercise with the Ethiopian

folk tale, Diarra gave a good deal of thought

'We do see one part of our mission as a kind of public

information and awareness project."

it just went against whatever the court

decided on civil law, and the Supreme

Court was losing all credibility."

Harmonizing legal systems is an ongoing

process, one that has concerned the insti-

tute since its inception. By continually plac-

ing emphasis and encouraging dialogue on

this issue, the institutes are playing a part in

that harmonizing process.

Moral of the Story

Though the BIIJ has developed its own

identity, it has maintained its roots in the

Brandeis Seminars in Humanities and the

understanding her question. She found her

goats by the river, where one had fallen

among the rocks and broken its foot. Whenshe offered the injured goat to the deaf man

as thanks, he thought she was accusing him

of breaking its foot; they argued, and he

struck her with his hand.

The two went before a judge, who was

also deaf as well as nearsighted. After "hear-

ing" their stories, the judge told the man to

stop mistreating his wife, told the womanto stop being late with her husband's meals,

and wished their infant child (the goat) a

long life.

Discussion at January's Brandeis Institute for International Judges, in Mbodiene, Senegal. In

the foreground is Andresia Vaz, judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal

Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

to the role of human perception—with all

its limitations—in making justice.

"Everybody pulling the moral out of that

story helped me to reconsider some of the

assumptions that go into the judgments I

make," said Diarra. "I realize that I need to

take care, and open my ears and my eyes

before giving an opinion."

BIIJ 2006 was Diarra's first; she agreed

to attend after Navanethem Pillay, her

South African colleague on the ICC and a

repeat BIIJ attendee, recommended it to

her. Such recommendations are not only

testimony to the program's past success,

they are important for its future develop-

ment. Seven judges and commissioners

participated in 2002; by 2006, that num-

ber had grown to seventeen.

While seeking to increase participation in

the BIIJ, organizers at the center intend to

preserve what has made the institutes a suc-

cess: sessions that resemble conversations

more than auditorium-sized lectures. In the

future, Swigart and Terris plan on organizing

small working groups between BlIJs to delve

into ongoing issues of interest to participants.

All of those associated with the Brandeis

Institute pledge to continue the dialogue on

international justice that began with the

establishment of the International Court of

Justice in 1946 and the Universal Declara-

tion of Human Rights in 1948. Because in

the end, as one BIIJ participant noted, no

judge alone can really make justice.

Christopher Moore is a communications spe-

cialist at the International Center for Ethics,

Justice, and Public Life. For more information

on the BIIJ, visit <www.brandeis.eclulethics>.

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I ler pliolooraphs defy gravity.

Her success does not.

^K XJLvyXXXc^ with

Lois Greenfield

Bv David E. Nathan

You need to know this about Lois Green-

field to fijily appreciate the work of one

of the world's best-known dance pho-

tographers: What you see on paper is what she

saw through the lens.

"I never, ever, ever Photoshop," says the

1970 Brandeis graduate. "I don't even know

how to Photoshop.

"

So when you see one of her images of a calm-

as-can-be dancer hurtling horizontally through

the air destined for a certain meeting with a

hard floor, you can be assured that's just what

Greenfield saw through her camera lens. Or

when you see a dancer who appears asleep in a

strange bush, you can be certain that he is very

much awake—and moving—the optical illu-

sion a byproduct of Greenfield's skilled eye. She

does her manipulating—of dancers, props, and

lighting—before snapping the picture, not after.

Greenfield's pictures have appeared in pub-

lications from A to Z {American Photographer

to Zoom, with the likes of GQ, Newsweek,

Sports Illustrated, Time, and Vanity Fair in

between), while her client list nearly stretches

the alphabet, running from A to X (Adidas to

Xerox). She is at work on a third mono-

graph—she published Breaking Bounds in

1992 and Airborne in 1998—and produces an

annual calendar. This year, Greenfield's work

has been exhibited in France, China, Japan,

and the United States (Colorado and Alaska).

Although the New York-based Greenfield

is considered by many to be the world's most

important dance photographer, she is pas-

sionate about dancers, not dance. She's inter-

ested in exploring movement and its

expressive potential.

"There are no rules for capturing the peak

moment, it's a matter of instinct," Greenfield

says. "What often interests me more, however,

are the split-seconds before or after the so-

called peak. There are very subtle emotional

nuances in these micromoments. A dancer

going up, for example, connotes striving,

whereas coming down suggests release. A com-

pletely different narrative can emerge from the

same series of jumps, depending on my tim-

ing. I am fascinated by these subdeties."

She works to create seemingly impossible

configurations in order to confound the viewer.

"My rule of composition is that ifyou under-

stand what you're looking at, then it's boring,

"

Greenfield says. "1 like pictures that defy' a

rational, logical explanation—when the viewers

can't understand what exactly is going on and

what will happen next. That's my challenge."

At Brandeis, Greenfield studied anthropol-

ogy and film, and hoped to combine the rwo

Flipper Hope, Jack Gallagher, Daniel Ezralow, Ashley Roland for

Raymond Weil Watches, 1993

"I didn't direct the dancers' movements, but I guided them. I made sure their faces were relaxed,

but still connoted some emotion. They were all on separate planes, but the camera compressed

them to look like they were on the same plane."

to become an ethnographic filmmaker. But

circumstances led her in another direction.

During the summer after her treshman year,

Greenfield traveled to South America on a

community service project. She brought along

a camera to photograph the people and their

landscape. Two summers later, traveling across

North Africa, photographing was central to

her experience.

"Mv interest in photography arose from myinterest in other cultures," says Greenfield,

who is married to former Brandeis classmate

Stuart Liebman and has rwo sons.

As the late 1 970s grew to a close, Greenfield

fully rebelled against being a dance photogra-

pher. She opened her own studio in 1980,

driven by the desire to create her own art

rather than document someone else's.

"I wanted to impose the medium of photog-

raphy on my subject matter, to produce images

of dancers that captured the feeling and excite-

ment of the movement, even though that

moment may not exist on stage," she says.

In her latest project, Greenfield is collabo-

rating with the Australian Dance Theater in

Held, a production in which she shoots the

(.(.When 1 look back at mv career; I see this

straight hne that has bent into a circle.'

Despite no formal training, after graduation

Greenfield started working as a freelance pho-

tographer for newspapers in Boston. She

snapped pictures of everything from prisons to

rock concerts to dance performances. In 1973,

she returned to her native New York and fell

into dance photography quite by chance. She

worked regularly for the Village Voice, the NewYork Times, and other publications.

performance from the stage itself and the

images are transmitted immediately onto two

nine-by-nine-foot projection screens that are

part of the set. The audience sees the dance

and its representation at the same time.

The conceptual framework for Held was

developed with her associate, Henry Jesionka.

The choreography grew out of a photo shoot

Greenfield did with the company in Adelaide.

She had been invited to collaborate on the

making of a dance with Garry Stewart, the

company's artistic director. Held has been per-

formed at the Sydney Opera House, and

Greenfield has toured with the group for sub-

sequent performances in New York, Paris,

Monaco, and Alaska. She will be on tour with

Held in fall 2006 and spring 2007.

"One of the reasons I find this experience so

rewarding is it is so unexpected," Greenfield

says. "Who ever thought I'd be on stage per-

forming with a dance company?"

Greenfield is also working with filmmaker

Jodi Kaplan on a feature film, 18 Degrees Lati-

tude, about dance as prayer. They chose to focus

on ceremonies along the 1 8th parallel because it

crosses thirty-two countries with diverse cul-

tures and terrains, more than any other latitude.

For Greenfield, 18 Degrees Latitude and

Held bring her back to her roots, when she

studied anthropology and film at Brandeis,

and then her years as a dance photojournalist.

"When 1 look back at my career, I see this

straight line that has bent into a circle,"

Greenfield says. "I have come full circle."

To view more of Greenfield's photographs, visit

< www. loisgreeiifield. com>.

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Johanna Boyce Dance Company, 1982 (opposite page)

"This photo was taken for the Village Voice. I wanted to

represent a dance by re-creating moments of it in my studio

rather than going to the actual performance. I love chaos and

the chance factor that all these disparate elements—the figures,

the shadows, and the balls—come together in one fortuitous

moment. The chaos coheres into a magical moment."

Teal Marx of the Danscompany, 1976

"This is one of my earliest shots, taken while I was covering

dance performances. It doesn't have the technical qualities of

my later work—I couldn't use my own lighting—but it reflects

my current preoccupation with time. I'm really photographing

the passage of time as much as I'm photographing movement."

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Daniel Ezralow and David Parsons, 1987 (far left)

"This reflects my interest in depicting contradictory realities

within a single image without the benefit of Photoshop."

Daniel Ezralow and Ashley Roland, 1989 (left)

"This image became the cover of my first monograph,

Breaking Bounds. Dan and Ashley would jump and entwine

themselves. It can take on romantic connotations, but in

between each jump the dancers were fighting. Like many of

my pictures, this is a uniquely photographic event. It exists

for one-rwo-thousandth of a second."

Sham Mosher, 1993

"I saw a picture of Sham Mosher in a newspaper, called him

up, and invited him to the studio. We experimented with a

Jute sculpture that he made. He looks like a bud that is about

to blossom. There is an illusion ot support— it seems as if he's

resting in the ropes. But he's not—he's jumping."

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Mia McSwain, 2004

"Mia is improvising with a large piece of cloth. I he fabric

doesn't trace her path oF movement, but gives the impression

of movement. It looks as it she is in a flower or a cloud.

"

Sham Mosher, 1995 (opposite page)

"I started with the idea to create the effect of sand flowing

through an hourglass. I wanted it to look as though the

sand, for a split-second, made the form of a person. Mycollaborator, Jack Deaso, made a mixture of flour and sugar

that he poured through a tube on to Sham as he jumped."

0(1 I Bl;lll,lrl~ I lliM-r-iu Mil 27

By Laura Gardner

As director of the Lifespan Lab, Professor Margie Laehman studies

the aging process and how, in many ways, we can control it

Aquarter ot a centur\' from now, seven-

ty- million Americans—one fifth of

the population—will be at least 65

years old. On average, they can expect to live

another dozen years or more—thanks largely

to advances in medicine. Human evolution,

however, simply didn't anticipate such longevi-

ty, leaving millions to figure out how to make

the twilight years, well, twinkle, instead of slip

awa\' into a tog of forgetflilness or worse.

Professor Margie Laehman, chair of the

psychology department and director of Bran-

deiss Lifespan Lab, has spent more than two

decades researching healthy adult develop-

ment and aging through the prism of memo-

ry and cognitive function. With major

support from the John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation and the National

Institute on Aging, Lachman's research has

led her to investigate whether and how the

aging process can be influenced by beliefs

and behaviors.

Aging has become a hot area of scientific

research, fueled by recent advances in decod-

ing the biological underpinnings of life span

and understanding the workings of the brain,

along with dramatic revelations about how

behavior contributes to health and well-being.

What once was considered inevitable in

aging—steep physical decline accompanied

bv memory and cognitive failures—is, Laeh-

man has found, to some extent up to us.

Indeed, the notion that we can control out-

comes in our lives is deeply embedded in

American culture, feeding a marketplace ot

countless advertisements and products— anti-

aging products and services alone tally some

$40 billion annually. In hict, one recent poll

suggests that Americans believe more than cit-

izens of any other country that they can influ-

ence how things turn out in their lives.

"It's no surprise that age-related losses or

lapses in memory can challenge that deeply

embedded sense of control," says Laehman.

"Thus, we find an increase with age in beliefs

that memory declines are an inevitable, irre-

versible, and uncontrollable part of the aging

process. These beliefs are detrimental because

they are associated with distress, anxiety, and

giving up without expending the effort or

strategies needed to support memory.

"

In fact, studies show that even young people

have problems with memory performance, but

they typically attribute it to distraction or other

external factors (e.g., if a young person is miss-

ing her keys, she'll assume someone took

them). In contrast, older adults are more likely

to judge their forgetfulness an inevitable fact of

aging or even a warning sign ofAlzheimer's dis-

ease, leading to anxiety and despair.

Yet Lachman's research demonstrates that

middle-aged and older adults can often

improve a low sense of control by developing

beliefs and behaviors that actually improve

memory performance. "This is not just a mat-

ter of wishful thinking," she says.

She outlines strategies people can follow,

including thinking about what they did when

they were learning new information on a regu-

lar basis. "There's no magic pill or trick, " she

says. "You can draw on the resources you've

been using all along to compensate for age-

related changes, whether it's visualizing yourself

doing something, carefully rehearsing, writing

it down, or employing other mnemonic strate-

gies or organizational techniques to help

encode the information and aid in retrieval."

In a new study published in (he Joiinnr/s of

Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Laehman

demonstrates a link between actual and per-

ceived declines in cognitive functioning and a

low sense of control. The study examines

whether the relationship between control

beliefs and memory performance varied for

young, middle-aged, and older adults and

whether using mnemonic strategies influ-

enced memory performance.

The study involved 335 adults, ages 2 1 to 83,

who were asked to recall a list of thirty catego-

rizable words, such as t\'pes of fruit and flowers.

Photography by John Brandon Miller

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Althoughmany factorscontribute tomemory declineour resultssuggest thatmanaginganxiety maybe a promisingavenue forminimizingepisodic memoryProblems inlater life."

Middle-aged and older adults who perceived

greater control over cognitive functioning were

more likely to categorize the words and had bet-

ter recall performance, Lachman notes.

Middle-aged and older adults who lack

confidence in their memory are less motivat-

ed to improve their memories, according to

Lachman. This in turn causes greater anxiety

and stress in the face of memory challenges.

The increased stress further impairs optimal

cognitive functioning and can even lead to

mental decline.

"One's sense of control is both a precursor

and a consequence of age-related losses in

memory," says Lachman. "The theory says

the more you believe there are things you can

do to remember information, the more likely

you will be to use effort and adaptive strate-

gies and to allocate resources effectively, and

the less you will worry about forgetting."

In a related study, Lachman examined the

relationship between anxiety and recall per-

formance, and whether this association varied

by age. She evaluated nearly two hundred

young, middle-aged, and older adults on their

ability to recall a list of thirty words. Before the

test, all age groups reported roughly the same

levels of anxiety on average: Some individuals

were worried about their memory and others

were less concerned, regardless of age. But anx-

iety hindered the performance of older and

middle-aged adults on the memory test.

"Compared to their younger counterparts,

the older adults need to draw on all of their

cognitive resources to do well, so if they were

anxious, it interfered with their test perform-

ance," says Lachman.

The Lifespan Lab, which focuses on per-

sonality and memory changes in adulthood

and old age, has uncovered similar findings in

studies looking at different indicators of anx-

iet\'. including stress hormones and heart rate.

"Although many factors contribute to memo-

ry decline, our results suggest that managing

anxiety may be a promising avenue for mini-

mizing episodic memory problems in later

life," Lachman concludes.

If brain exercise is an essential component

of any successful aging strategy, physical exer-

cise also seems to promise better cognitive

functioning among oldet adults. Although

the scientific evidence touting the benefits of

lifelong exercise is relatively recent, the

ancients were also aware of its value.

As the Roman orator Cicero noted in

44 B.C.: "It is our dun,', my young friends, to

resist old age; to compensate for its defects by

a watchful care; to fight against it as we would

fight against disease; to adopt a regimen of

health; to practice moderate exercise; and to

take just enough food and drink to restore our

strength and not to overburden it..."

In a study published in January in the Joiir-

iial of Aging and Physical Activity. Lachman

investigated the effect of resistance training

on working memory span among sedentary

older adults with at least one disability. While

many studies have shown the value of resist-

ance training in increasing physical strength

in older adults and othet studies have shown

that aerobic training is good tor memory, few

have looked at the link between resistance

training and cognition.

The study asked participants, who all had

physical limitations such as difficulty walking

or climbing stairs, to do strength training

with elastic bands at least three times weekly

over six months. Those with the greatest dis-

abilities also had lower memory.

The Lifespan Lab director found evidence

that resistance training increased the partici-

pants' working memory span (in this case,

how many numbers a person can memorize

and repeat in reverse order). In fact, the high-

et the level of resistance, the more memory

improved, suggesting that strength training

benefits not only the muscles but also the

mind, she says.

Lachman will continue researching factors

that improve memory and cognition in older

adults. Her work shows that as much as

Americans focus on the condition (or fitness)

of their bodies, it also pays to condition your

mind throughout your life. After all, as Cicero

wrote, memory is "the treasury and guardian

of all things."

30 liriiiiilii', I iiivi'i Nii\ \la: IK)

iieldwork

Behind the ViolenceRise of the KKK isn't as simple as black and white. By David E. Nathan

His search for answers has taken

him to the back roads of North

Carolina, to small cities like Kin-

ston in the east and Lenoir in the west. Hehas been to Troy, a little town outside of

Charlotte, and plans to visit the cir\' of

Wilson in the eastern portion ot the state.

For the last two years, Brandeis associate

professor of sociolog)' David Cunningham

has examined communities in the state

that had more dues-paying Ku Klux Klan

members in the 1 960s than the rest of the

South combined. He plans to write a book

about the mobilization ot the KKK during

the Civil Rights era.

Cunningham was recently awarded a fel-

lowship from the Harry Frank Guggen-

heim Foundation to pursue this research

during the 2006-07 academic year. The

fellowship will fund a semesterlong

research leave.

Relying on archival research and inter-

views with former Klansmen, longtime res-

idents, and elected officials, Cunningham

is discovering the underlying sociological

factors that allowed the Klan to flourish in

some communities while it was ineffectual

in other areas.

For instance, Kinston was a hotbed of

KKK activity with nine or ten highly mobi-

lized units in town, yet the Klan was barely

able to infiltrate nearby Wilson. And the

KKK was a powerful civic force in both

Lenoir and Troy, but it was relatively quiet

in surrounding communities.

"1 have found Klan mobilization to be

related to the structure of social ties within

and across local communities," said Cun-

ningham, a 34-year-old Connecticut native

who earned his Ph.D. from the University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Specifi-

cally, Klan action tended to spread in areas

with dense local ties that members could

use to help recruit others. Conversely, areas

with strong links to other regions, especial-

ly to northern business interests, tended to

be rclativelv insulated from the fClan."

For his research, he works to establish a

relationship with a person in the communi-

ty and then uses that individual to help him

set up interviews with others. "If you can

develop a contact person who trusts you,

that makes it much easier," he said. "It's dif-

ficult if you are blindly going to people and

knocking on doors."

Most of the former Klansmen he has

interviewed have been helpful. "These days.

Wiiiiii III] I liiaiiilris I iin(i-ii\ \his;a/iin- 31

lie 1(1work

they often aren't still politically invested in

what thev did back in the 1960s," he said.

Cunningham has attended high-profile

trials of former Klansmen being prosecuted

for crimes that happened decades ago. Last

summer, he spent a week in Philadelphia,

Mississippi, where 80-year-old former KKKmember Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of

manslaughter in the slayings of three civil

rights workers in 1964. In 2002, Cunning-

ham went to Alabama to see a jun' find

Bobby Frank Cherr)' guilty of killing four

black girls in the notorious 1963 bombing

of a Birmingham church.

Cunningham first became interested in

the KKK while working on his dissertation

on government-based efforts to limit social

protest, specifically, the FBI's counterintel-

ligence programs from 1956 and 1971.

His book based on the research. There's

Sometlniig Happening Here: The New Left,

the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence, was

published in 2004.

Cunningham has come to understand

that the Klan's racism was founded upon

the struggles of people who found their

economic livelihood and social standing

threatened by looming desegregation

efforts. During the Civil Rights era, the

Klan thrived, for example, in areas where

whites were in direct competition for jobs

with black workers.

"It's easy to say it's a terrible group ol

people—and in many cases that wouldn't

be inaccurate—but you must really look

behind the violence, the hatred, the terror,

and see these people as a product of their

environment," Cunningham said. "You

must see what gives rise to such a group

—

the social, economic, and racial context

that produces this type of activity."

In its history, the Klan enjoyed its great-

est prominence during Reconstruction fol-

lowing the Civil War, in the 1920s during

a significant wave of immigration to this

country, and again during the Civil Rights

era. Cunningham says the Klan probably

won't become a powerful force again, but

he doesn't dismiss the possibility.

"It seems unlikely, but in 1948, if you

asked someone if the Klan would ever

become strong again, they would have said

no," Cunningham said. "It's not incompat-

ible with certain political ideas that have

some currency in America now."

32 <l.'i- I iMIv \hi^:i/nir I Wirilii (Id

deisartsSfallery

Other WorldlyThe imaginative universe of Dana Schutz.

Self-eating cannibals, a one-eyed woman, a long-haired fellow

named Frank who represents the last man on earth, and an

assortment of additional otherworldly figures are spending

the winter at the Rose Art Museum.

All the characters are part of rising young contemporary painter

Dana Schutz's imaginative universe. "Dana Schutz: Works from

2002 to 2006," curated by the Rose's Raphaela Platow, will be

exhibited through April 9 in the museum's Lois Foster Wing.

The show includes more than two dozen of the artist's works cre-

ated in the last four years along with new paintings specifically cre-

ated for the exhibition. It is the first East Coast museum show

featuring Schutz's ecstatically imaginative work.

Schutz, 29, will serve as the Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter

Artist in Residence at Brandeis. The residence invites emerging

artists on the cusp of international acclaim to work with students

and the larger Brandeis communin' in conjunction with an exhibi-

tion at the museum.

Schutz's work, executed in a vibrant, subjective palette, has

earned her critical acclaim and established her as one ot the rising

young stars of contemporary art.

The exhibition brings together significant examples of Schutz's

different bodies of work, including a selection oi paintings from the

fictitious narrative "Frank from Observation," a series of twelve

paintings featuring the title character.

Schutz's show will also display important examples of her "Self-

Eaters" paintings that depict figures devouring themselves and

revolve around the continuous process of making and remaking.

Additional works depict the construction and destruction of imag-

inary societies; visualize feelings, actions, and body conditions;

focus on actual political happenings;

and feature musicians.

"Schutz creates her figurative

paintings in thick, glutting strokes,

similar to sculpting the image from

paint, " Platow said. "Many of her

works depict hypothetical scenarios

that are based on reality, but extend-

By David E. Nathan

ed into the imaginary based on the parameters the artist sets for

her narratives."

The native of Livonia, Michigan, describes her work as pictures

that "float in and out of pictorial genres. Still-lifes become person-

ified, portraits become events, and landscapes become construc-

tions. I embrace the area berween which the subject is composed

and decomposing, formed and formless, intimate and alive."

Willhi l)(i I lir;in.lrl^ I lll\.l-IH \lj 33

deissportsbaseball

National AspirationsLambert makes a pitch for the big leagues.

Brvan Lambert spent his time at Brandeis as a big man on

campus. And that's not just because he's six feet, nine inches

tall. Lambert's performance in athletic arenas in 2004-05

—

when he broke three school records in one sport and earned All-

New England honors in another—meant that his status as BMOCwas assured. Now he has another sizable goal: the big leagues.

A pitcher, Lambert signed with the Wiishington Nationals organ-

ization last summer, beginning his career in the Gulf Coast League,

where he posted a 4-2 record with one save, striking out twenty and

walking just seven in 291/3 innings. When the season ended, he

earned a promotion to the Savannah Sand Gnats of the South

Atlantic League. As the sixteenth former Brandeis Judge to enter

the professional baseball ranks, he hopes it's the first in a string of

By Adam Levin

34

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Blaiicliis I ni\ir-ll\ \l;ma/ilH' I WiiilcrOil

promotions that will allow him to join Nelson Figueroa '99 as a

major-leaguer.

"He has the physical tools to reach the majors," baseball coach

Pete Varney said. "And teams don't draft players if they don't think

they can go all the way. Having played two sports, Bryan has the

mentality to stay in a competitive mode. As long as he can develop

a second pitch and keep working on his control, there's no reason

he can't make it."

As a senior in 2004-05, Lambert was recognized as the universi-

ty's outstanding male athlete for his prowess on the diamond and

on the basketball court, where he was the Judges' star forward. Hewas honored as a first-team All-Universit)' Athletic Association

selection in basketball for the second vear in a row, and was named

to the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association's All-New

England squad.

Midway through Brandeis's 2005 baseball season, Lambert

expected he would be playing sports for a living professionally

—

but on the hardwood, not the diamond. After an impressive per-

formance in a basketball exhibition against a team from Israel and

some off-season pickup games with European players, Lambert's

future seemed to be overseas with professional teams in Portugal or

Israel. Then the Nationals called.

It was the opportunit}' to plav both sports that initiall)' brought

Lambert to Waltham from Auburn, Maine, where he grew up.

'While schools with Division I baseball or football programs recruit-

ed him—he was a quarterback at Edward Little High School

—

Brandeis gave him the opportunity to play hardball and hoops. He

put up some staggering numbers in both sports; he ranks seventh

on the university's all-time scoring list in basketball, and is the

school's all-time career saves leader in baseball.

Now that he has entered the professional world, life is much dif-

ferent than it was at Brandeis. For one thing, without a basketball

season in the winter, this will be the most prepared for baseball he

has ever been. "I've put on fifteen pounds, my legs are stronger, and

I have increased stamina, " Lambert said. "In my Brandeis career, I

always started baseball at my weakest; now I'll be able to go in at

my strongest."

deisbooksFaculty

A Fearless Visionary in the

Land of Israel: The Letters of

Manya Shochat, 1906-1960Edited by Jehuda Reinharz, Shula-

mit Reinharz, and Motti Golani

718 pages, Yad Ben-Zvi Press

Publisiicd in Hebrew, A Fearless

Visionary in the Land ofIsrael traces

the iii-e of Manya Shochat (1879-

1961), a Zionist

activist who was

^fl^ known as the moth-

^S* " er of the kibbutz

^ movement and col-

lective settlement.

Brandeis President

Jehuda Reinharz,

PhD72, and his

wife, Shulamit,

MA'69, PhD77,

director of the

Women's Studies

Research Center, collaborated with

Israeli scholar Golani to shed light on

the lite Shochat, who, after fleeing her

native Russia in the early rwentieth

centur)', went on to become one of

Israel's earliest feminist leaders.

Ho\N to Read the Bible

By Marc Brcttler

384 pages, $35, Jewish Publication

Society of America

In his new book, Brettler '78,

MA'78, PhD'86, the Dora Golding

Professor of Biblical Studies and

chair of the Department of Near

Eastern and Judaic Studies, argues

that today's contem-

porary readers can

only understand the

ancient Hebrew

Scripture by know-

ing more about the

culture that pro-

duced it. Brettler

surveys representa-

tive biblical texts

from different gen-

res to illustrate how

modern scholars have taught us to

"read" these texts. Using the "histori-

cal-critical method " long popular in

.academia, he guides us in reading the

Bible as it was read in the biblical

period, independent of later religious

norms anci interpretive traditions.

The Islamic Challenge:

Politics and Religion in

Western EuropeBy Jytte Klausen

240 pages, $29.95,

Oxford University Press

In this groundbreaking book,

Klausen, an associate professor of

comparative politics, examines the

response of Euro-

pean Muslim leaders

to the idea that there

exists a "clash ot civ-

ilizations" between

religious Muslims

and secular Euro-

peans. Based on

inrerviews with three

hundred Muslim

leaders, the book

tackles big questions

to teveal what Mus-

JYTTt KLAISF.N

ORthe ISLAMICCHALLENGi;

lim leaders in Europe really want, and

the myriad ways in which Islam can

become a European religion.

Jewish Women in

Eastern EuropeEdited by ChaeRan Freeze, Paula

Hyman, and Antony Polonsky

486 pages, $29.95, The Littman

Library of Jewish Civilization

The eighteenth volume in the award-

winning Polin series on Polish |ewry.

this collection of essays is the first

devoted to the study of Jewish

women's experiences in Eastern

Europe. The introduction by Freeze,

MA'94, PhD'97, an associate profes-

sor of East European [ewish history,

and her coeditors provides a much-

needed historio-

graphic survey that

MHiimarizes the

major work in the

field and highlights

die lacunae. Their

contributors, fol-

lowing this lead,

go beyond mere

description of what

women experienced

to explore how gen-

der constructed distinct experiences,

identities, and meanings.

Teaching One Momentat a Time: Disruption andRepair in the ClassroomBy Dawn Skorczewski

152 pages, $24.95, University

of Massachusetts Press

Based on the author's longtime

experience as an instructor of com-

position, this book explores the

"delicate negotiation" between

teacher and student that determines

success or failure in writing courses.

Skorczewski's focus is on the role of

the teacher in shaping this class-

room dynamic, particularly the ways

in which theoretical presuppositions

and personal expectations influence

the responses elicit-

ed from students.

Drawing on the

insights of psycho-

analysis as well as

recent infant

research, Skorczews-

ki, director of uni-

versity writing and

associate professor

(if English and

American literature,

argues that teachers

who recognize the beliefs they bring

to the classroom are equipped to lis-

ten to their students more carefully

than teachers who hold their beliefs

so closely they can no longer see

them as beliefs.

CHMSbooks

Borrowed Scenery

Janet Krauss

36

Alumni

Borrowed SceneryBy lanet Hentott Krauss

136 pages, $1 1.95, Yuganta Press

A collection of more than eighty

poems. Borrowed Scenery, in the

words of Krauss '57,

"reflects the need

through love of lan-

guage to compre-

hend situations,

scenes, and feel-

ings." The title of

the book comes

from a Japanese

concept, the shakkei

garden, which

makes outside

scenery part of the

garden. As the Japanese would bor-

row landscapes to incorporate into

their gardens, Krauss, who teaches

literature and writing at St. Basil

College and Fairfield Universirv in

Connecticut, borrows her ideas from

paintings, beaches, clouds, and other

objects that affect her.

Catch a Tiger by the Toe

By Ellen Levine

176 pages, $15.99, Viking Juvenile

Levine '60, an author well known tor

her nonfiction on social and political

issues, scores with a historical chil-

dren's nox'el that explores McCarthy-

ism and the Red Scare. Catch a Tiger

tells the story of 13-

\ear-old Jamie

Morse, whose

Bronx, New York,

family is thrown

into chaos when her

father's Communist

Parr\' affiliation is

exposed. Levine

portrays well Jamie's

contusion, tear, anx-

iety, shame, and

anger at her parents,

yet her love for them, as well. Chil-

dren will relate to the pervasive fear

.Ills I lUMi-iu \hi;;a/iiir I Wiiiln III.

ot the early 1950s as it resonates in

our post-9/1 1 world.

The Commentators'Bible: The JPS Miqra'ot

Gedolot: ExodusTranslated and annotated

By Michael Carasik,

349 pages, $75, Jewish Ptiblication

Society ot America

First published five hundred years ago

as the Rahhiiiic Bible, the biblical

commentaries

known as the

Miqra'ot Gedolot

have inspired and

educated genera-

tions of Hebrew

readers. With this

edition, translated

and annotated by

Carasik, MA'93,

PhD'97, the voices

of Rashi, Ibn Ezra,

Nahmanides, Rash-

bam, and other medieval commenta-

tors come alive once more, speaking

in a contemporary English translation

annotated and explicated for lay read-

ers. Each page ot The Commentators

Bible contains several Hebrew verses

trom the book of Exodus, surrounded

by both the 1917 and 1985 JPS

translations and new English transla-

tions ot the major commentators.

The Confessions of SeHoraFrancesca Navarro andOther Stories

By Natalie L. M. Petesch

159 pages, S34.95, Swallow

Press/Ohio University Press

In five stories rooted in the Spanish

Civil War, Petesch, MA'56, immerses

readers in the lives ot characters whose

personal conflicts are caused or inten-

sified by the tumult of war. Against

this backdrop, Petesch's characters

struggle to lead their lives, negotiating

the paths of love,

loss, compassion,

and dur\'. In the title

novella, an elderly

woman describes to

her granddaughter

how the families ot

Franco's officers

fighting against

Republican militia-

iiien endured

hunger, filth, and

danger in an underground fortress.

Petesch conveys the humiliating

details ot war through the sensibility

of a cultured woman who recalls only

too vividly latrines made of laundry

tubs, the smell of unwashed humans,

and the stench of death.

Courts, Liberalism, andRights: Gay Law andPolitics in the United States

and CanadaBy Jason Pierceson

264 pages, $68.50,

Temple University Press

Pierceson, PhD'03, guides readers

through a discussion of liberalism,

court rulings, and

the progress that

gays and lesbians

have made in U.S.

and Canadian

courts, and focuses

on the interplay

between law and

politics on this issue.

In a discussion

encompassing public

law, comparative

politics, political cul-

ture, liberal political theory, and insti-

tution.ilism, Pierceson argues that

courts do have the ability to affect

social change, especially when a judi-

ciar)' with broad interpretive powers

encounters a political culture that

endorses a set of rights that recognizes

the inherent dignin' and worth of

evei"y individual.

52 Weeks: Interviews

with Champions!By Dave Hollander

392 pages, S16.9S, The Lyons Press

Shunting aside agents, handlers, mar-

keting executives, and public rela-

tions scripts,

Hollander '87 con-

ducts fifty-two stun-

ningly candid and

often laugh-out-

loud interviews with

some of the biggest

names in sports,

including Mariano

Rivera, John Wood-

en, Kareem Abdul-

Jabbar, and Larry

Holmes. Laced with

Hollander's charming and humorous

memoirs, 52 Weeks is part manifesto,

part sports journalism, part Aesop's

Fables—a refi'eshing must-read tor

any sports tan.

Gullboy (A Novel):

The Inconceivable Life of

Franco Pajarito ZanpaBy Wade Rubenstein

400 pages, $24.95,

Counterpoint Press

A month into the

rocky marriage of

Ernesto Zanpa and

Venus Rojo—two

rwentysomethings

stumbling into

adulthood—Ernesto

discovers a baby in

a seagull's nest near

their Brighton

Beach bungalow.

Ernesto adopts the

baby and, with bird-like speed, it

grows from intant to teenager,

Ernesto matures from beach bum to

workaholic chef and Venus, tired of

her husband's inattention and with

ambitions ot her own, transtorms

herself into an internet porn star.

A tragicomic tale of fatherhood told

in the tradition of Katl<a, Cervantes,

and John Kennedy Toole, Gullboy—1''87 grad Rubenstein's first novel

—

is a story about mistaking the best in

ourselves tor the worst, and vice

versa—a heart-rending novel with a

hectic energy, an expansive view, and

an unflinching eye.

Human Rights andGender Violence:

Translating International

Law into Local Justice

By Sally Engle Merry

264 pages, $20 (paperback).

The University of Chicago Press

As an observer of United Nations

diplomatic negotiations as well .is the

workings of grassroots feminist organi-

zations in several countries. Merry,

PhD'78, offers an

insider's perspective

on how human-

rights law holds

authorities account-

able for the protec-

tion of citizens even

while reinforcing

and expanding state

power. Providing

legal and anthropo-

logical perspectives,

Merry contends that

human-rights law must be framed in

local terms to be accepted and effec-

tive in altering existing social hierar-

chies. Gender violence in particular,

she argues, is rooted in deep cultural

and religious beliefs, so change is often

vehemently resisted by the communi-

ties perpetrating the acts of aggression.

The Police Chief's LadyBy Jacqueline Diamond

256 pages, $4.99,

Harlequin America

Diamond '7f, author of more than

seventy-five novels, scores again in

this, the first of her

five-book miniseries,

"Downhome Doc-

tors." Newly arrived

physician Jenni Vine

has a troubled

past—too troubled

to suit Downhome,

Tennessee, Police

Chief Ethan Forrest.

But once Jenni

starts caring for For-

rest's motherless son, the lawman

would swear on a stack of Bibles that

she's not the heartbreaker t}'pe.

Except, she's driving him wild!

Shiuffy Girl

By Anne-Marie

Baila Asner

M pages, $6.95,

Matzah Ball Books

Following on the

success of her first

two Yiddish-

inspired children's

picture books,

Slniiittzy Girl and

Noshy Boy, Asner, MA'96, introduces

us to ShlufiBi' Girl, who, as any bubbe

could guess, is fond of napping. As

with the earlier books in the Matzah

Ball series, the protagonist learns a

lesson connected with the central

attribute of her personality. "There's a

time and place for almost every-

thing," a doctor advises Shluffy's

mother in one passage. "Mavbe

ShUiff)' Girl could tr\' sleeping only

when she's really tired. Probably nap

time and nighttime are enough."

Sunstroke

By Jesse Kellerman

384 pages, $24.95, Putnam Adult

Kellerman, MFA'03, establishes him-

self as a new force in the suspense

genre in this page-turning debut

novel. Gloria Mendes, a 36-vear-old

deiHbooks

38

secretary at a Los Angeles

novelty item import busi-

ness, is in love with her

boss, Carl Perreira, though

he has never reciprocated

her romantic interest. So

when Carl disappears and

is later found murdered

while on a mysterious trip

to a small town in Mexico,

Gloria's world falls apart.

Distraught and restless,

she travels to Mexico to try to make

some sense of his death. But what

she discovers about the man she was

in love with shocks her to the core.

More Than Ramps: A Guide

to Improving Hea/fh Care

Quality and -Access for

People with Disabilities

By Lisa lezzoni and Bonnie O'Day

384 pages, S6S,

Oxford LJniversiry Press

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. adults

—

and 42 percent of those over age

65—live with a disabilit)', but getting

proper treatment is possible, authors

lezzoni, professor of medicine at

Harvard Medical School, and O'Day,

PhD 98, research associate at Cornell

University's Institute tor

Policy Research in

Washington, D.C.,

argue. The book offers a

multitude of strategies to

circumvent barriers to

receiving care, such as

asking people with dis-

abilities about workable

solutions and applying

universal design princi-

ples more widely.

To Be a Playwright

By Janet Neipris

264 pages, $17.95, Routledge

Chair ot the Dramatic Writing Pro-

gram at New York University's Tisch

Hl:ilHliiN I lllMTsilv Mil'IMzirn- I WirilciOd

School of the Arts,

Neipris, MFA'75, dis-

tills a career's worth ot

wisdom, advice, and

encouragement in

these collected lec-

tures and essays for

every playwriting stu-

dent and practicing

playwright. With her

gift tor succinct and

practical instruction,

she lavs out the questions (and

answers) that face every dramatic

writer. Chapters like "Fifty Questions

to Ask about Your Play" illuminate

the concrete work of writing dia-

logue, plot, scene, and act.

A Verse from Babylon

By Jeannelle M. Perreira

148 pages, $27.95, Prime Books

fold in a mosaic ot scenes and events,

A Versefrom Biibylo>i. chronicles the

lives ot a group ot Jewish friends who

banded together to

create the repertory

theatre in the ghetto

of Vilna, Lithuania,

under the Nazi

regime. Perreira '02

presents the artists not

as victims ot a violent

genocidal war, but as

humans with himian

interests. As thev tall,

one by one, to the

brutalities ot the ghet-

to, they continue to fight back with

their only weapons: words, sub-

terfuge, and defiance.

What's the Difference?

How to Tell Things Apart

That Are Confusingly Close

By Marc Tyler Nobleman

192 pages, $6.98,

Barnes & Noble Books

Who hasn't wondereti what distin-

guishes an alligator from a crocodile.

partly cloudy from partly sunny, or

Daniel Boone trom Davy Crockett?

Moving from science and society to

geography and the arts. Nobleman'94—a dedicated tact compiler and

the author of more than fifty other

books, including Howto Do a Belly Flop—figures out the confus-

ing pairs to even the

worst stickler's satisfac-

tion. Perfect for the

intormation fiends

among us. What's the

Difference? is sure to

settle many an argu-

ment and put inquir-

ing minds at rest.

BrandeisUniversity Press

A Holocaust Controversy:

The Treblinka Affair in

Postwar France

By Samuel Mo\n220 pages, $6.95

Moyn, an assistant professor ot histo-

ry at Columbia University, explores

the heated controversy surrounding

Jean-Frangois Steiner's 1966 book

Treblinka: The Revolt ofan Extermi-

nation Camp. A cross between histo-

ry and a novel, Steiner's book

narrated the 1943 revolt at one of

the major Nazi

death camps. Focus-

ing on the contested

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well as on the ques-

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Stern elected to Board of Fellows

—

sixth family member to earn honor

The Board of Trustees has elected Dr. Barbara Stern to the Board oi Fellows.

She will serve a three-year term through Commencement 2009.

Stern, a psychologist, and her family have been longtime supporters of

Brandeis. She is the sixth member of her family to become a Brandeis fellow,

joining her late father. Max Feldberg; late uncle, Morris Feldberg; cousins

Sumner Feldberg and Milton Levy; and husband, Burton Stern. Her late

brother, Stanley Feldberg, was a trustee.

At Brandeis, the family has been instrumental in the establishment of the

Feldberg Communications Center; TJX/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science;

Feldberg Family Foundation Microcomputer Cluster; Feldberg, Karp, Levy &Stern Faculty' Development Laboratory; and the Burton and Barbara Stern

Endowed Scholarship, and has donated artwork to the Rose Art Museum.

Comiiiiinitv mourns loss of Andy " Bronfman

The Brandeis community mourns the tragic death of Andrea M. Bronfman,

beloved wife of trustee Charles Bronfman.

Known to her family and friends as "Andy," Mrs. Bronfman along with her

husband served as cochairs of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philan-

thropies. She helped establish pioneering initiatives to strengthen Jewish iden-

tify, including birthright Israel and Reboot, and created the Association of

Israel's Decorative Arts to showcase the arts. She also worked passionately to

improve education and environmental awareness, and promote peace.

At Brandeis, the Bronfmans established the Institute for Informal Jewish

Education, the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Scholarship Fund, and the Pro-

fessional Development Seminars: Advancing the Israel Experience.

Charles Bronfman was elected a Brandeis trustee in 2003 after serving as a

Brandeis fellow since 1992. He received an honorary degree from the univer-

sity in 1992.

Ill Our Prayers

Our prayers for comfort on the passing of Fellows:

• Jack N. Friedman, August 1 1 , 2005

• Norman F. Lev)', September 9, 2005

• Dalck Feith, October 16, 2005

• Miriam Helpern Stoneman, November 13, 2005

• Betty Wohlvert Ratner, P'69, December 9, 2005

• Toby Sheinfeld Nussbaum '60, January 3

FROM THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Campaign SuccessGifts total $525M—and counting

B randeis has achieved a new milestone. At the end

of November, nearly a year ahead of schedule, the

Campaign for Brandeis surpassed its $470 million goal

with a total of $495 million in cash and pledges.

Through January, campaign gifts had grown to

$525 million. This was possible thanks to the generous

philanthropy of alumni, friends, parents, and members

of the National Women's Committee. Now, as we

move forward, a new goal has

been approved by the Board of

Trustees: $770 million, or an

additional $300 million, will

be raised for scholarships, fac-

ult\' chairs, and new and

enhanced physical facilities.

Trustees Barbara Mandel,

P'73, and John Rosenwald are

chairing a campaign commit-

tee focused on these new initiatives. Members of the

committee include Jonathan Davis '75, Stephen Kay,

Gershon Kekst, P'05, Barbara Rosenberg '54, Martin

Gross '72, Paul Zlotoff '72, and Alex Barkas '68.

Twenr)'-one alumni have stepped forward with gifts

of $1 million or more. Four alumni have contributed

at least $5 million. More than one hundred gifts of

$1 million or more have been made. This includes

three major gifts from Carl J. Shapiro and his family

that now total more than $60 million, including

$25 million for the Car! and Ruth Shapiro Campus

Center, $25 million for the Carl J. Shapiro Science Cen-

ter, and $3.5 million to name the atrium/public forum

space at the Irving Schneider and Family Building.

In the spring, we look forward to celebrating the suc-

cess of the Campaign for Brandeis, and to thanking

those whose gifts to the University have truly wrought

a transformation of its financial and physical fabric.

—Nancy Winship

Senior Vice President ofInstitutional Advancement

Wiiil.l ()(> I lii .iii.lii^ 1 iil\ci«in \lii;;a/l]lr 39

NEWS FROM PALM BEACH

Gala WeekendMore than 1,400 attend annual dinner, Fellows Breakfast, and Rabb Seminar

Mort and trustee Barbara Mandel. P'73,

hosted the annual Palm Beach Dinner.

Brandeis University held a weekend of

events in Palm Beach, Florida, on Janu-

ary 20 to 22. More than 1,400 people

attended the annual Palm Beach Dinner,

Fellows Breakfast, and Norman S. and

Eleanor E. Rabb Seminar.

The dinner honoring major contributors

to Brandeis was held at the Palm Beach

Country Club and was hosted by Barbara

and Mort Mandel, P'73. The evening's pro-

gram included a presentation of the plans for

the new Carl J. Shapiro Science Center by

President Jehuda Reinharz. Thomas L.

Friedman '75 followed with a lively inter-

view of Roderick MacKinnon '78, winner of

the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistn'.

At the Fellows Breakfast on January 21,

professor Gregory Petsko, director of the

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research

Center, spoke compellingly about research

initiatives at Brandeis related to aging and

neurodegenerative diseases. A center for

research in this area is being planned as part

of the new Shapiro science facility.

Later in the day, more than one thousand

people gathered at the thirteenth annual

Rabb Seminar. Friedman spoke about his

latest book. The World Is Flat: A BriefHis-

tory of the Twenty-first Century. The Rabb

Seminar concluded with a standing ovation

for Friedman, whose writing and journal-

ism has now won three Pulitzer Prizes.

(From left) Daniel Waintrup, Linda Shapiro Waintrup, Ruth Shapiro, trustee emeritus Carl

Shapiro, Ellen Shapiro Jaffe. and Robert Jaffe.

Margot Davis. MA'05. and trustee

Jonathan Davis 75.

Jonathan Plutzik 76 andLesley Goldwasser Plutzik.

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Linda Loye and Morton Ginsberg '56,

(From left) Trustee Henry Foster, Lois Foster,

and John Foster 75.

(From left) Shulamit Reinharz, PhD'77, trustee Myra HIatt Kraft '64, Robert Kraft, and

President Jehuda Reinharz, PhD72.

(From (eft) Alice Lee MacKinnon 77, Roderick MacKinnon 78,

and Provost Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, PhD'SL(From left) Trustee Daniel Elkaim '81, Gladys Elkaim, Susan

Lewtan Langberg '82, and trustee Glenn Langberg '82.

(From left) Daniel Waintrup, Lin Gosman,and trustee emeritus Carl Shapiro.

Ann Louise Friedman and trustee Thomas Friedman 75. Linda Yale ZIotoff 72 and Paul ZIotoff 72.

FELLOWS BREAKFAST, PALM BEACH

(From left) Joyce Vise and Martin and Karen List. P'08.

(From left) Professor Gregory Petsko, Fellows cochair Richard H. Kaufman '57, P'83, and Stephen Kay,

chairman of the Board of Trustees.

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Golf and Tennis Outing

scheduled for July 24

Brandeis will hold its 2006 Golf and

Tennis Outing, presented by Alpine

Capital Bank, on Monday, July 24.

The second annual event in the NewYork area will take place at Ridgeway

Country Club in White Plains. Pro-

ceeds benefit an undergraduate stu-

dent scholarship.

Last year's inaugural Golf Outing

raised over $100,000, with more

than one hundred alumni, parents,

and fi'iends enjoying a day of cama-

raderie and friendly competition.

Many alumni sponsors donated raffle

prizes and other special items to help

raise funds.

This year, the day will begin with

brunch, followed by both golf and

tennis. Golf will include team com-

petitions as well as contests for the

longest drive, closest to the line, and

closest to the pin. The four winners

of the closest-to-the-pin contests

will then compete in a $50,000

hole-in-one shootout. Tennis will

also include individual as well as

team awards. The day will conclude

with cocktails and an awards dinner,

where prizes for team and individual

winners, plus raffle prizes, will

be presented.

Special thanks to this year's event

committee members: Henry Aboodi

'86 (chair), Charlie Fisch '87,

Michael Baumrin '75, Stacy A. Sarna

'90, Shari Gersten '86, and Brani

Weber '97. For more information

or for sponsorship opportunities,

contact Robyn Hartman at

212-472-1501, ext. 2.32, or

e-mail <hartman@brandeis.edu>.

alumninewsFifty Will Be NiftyWeekend of events planned for '56 Reunion

Michael Walzer 56, a leading American political philosopher and theo-

rist, will deliver the keynote address to classmates as part of their fifti-

eth Reunion celebration May 1') to 21.

Walzer, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study

(LAS) in Princeton, Nevv' Jersey, will speak May 20 on "Arguing about War and

Terrorism," a reference to his 2004 book, Arguitig about War.

His address is one of but many events planned for members of the Class of

1 956. Others include a lecture with a faculty author; a reception with Univer-

sity trustees and members of the graduating senior

class; a Class of 1956 group photograph; a musical

review by the Brandeis theater group, featuring

songs and lyrics from the fifties; and a formal com-

mencement reception and dinner.

Walzer has written about a wide variety of topics

in political theory and moral philosophy—political

obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and

ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state

—

and has played a part in the revival of a practical,

issue-focused ethics and in the development of a

pluralist approach to political and moral life. He is

currently working on the toleration and accommodation of "difference" in all

its forms, as well as on a collaborative project focused on the history of Jew-

ish political thought.

"I remember so many wonderful arguments at Brandeis in the fifties,"

Walzer said. "I guess the subjects have changed—even changed radically—but

1 look forward to the same liveliness. 1 will try to sound more certain than 1

am about war and terrorism, and wait for my classmates to disagree."

Walzer graduated from Brandeis summa cum laude with a bachelor's

degree in history, and then studied at Cambridge University on a Fulbright

Fellowship from 1956 to 1957. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard Univer-

sity in 1961.

Walzer was an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University from

1962 to 1966, and a professor of government at Harvard from 1966 to

1980. He has taught at IAS since that time. He has served as a member of

the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1974

and on the board of trustees at Brandeis from 1983 to 1988. Walzer has

been co-editor oi Dissent since 1976 and a contributing editor to the NewRepublic s'xncc 1977.

For more information, contact Elisa Gassel 01 at 781-736-41 1 1 or visit the

Web site at <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/reunions>.

Ready for Reunion?

Join Us June 9-11

Gather with classmates and friends for a fun-filled

Reunion weekend June 9 to 1 1 . Relive your college days

as you mingle with faculty, catch up with old friends,

and enjoy a weekend of fun, food, and festivities.

A host of activities—including the ever-popular

Ralph Norman Barbecue on Saturday afternoon

and the Gala Dinner and Dance on Saturday

evening—is being planned for members of the class-

es of 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991,

1996, and 2001.

For more information on Reunion 2006, contact

Elisa Gassel '01 at 781-736-41 1 1 or visit the Web site

at <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/reunions>.

Exercise Your Brain

at Alumni College

On Friday, June 9, Brandeis welcomes alumni to

attend Alumni College, a daylong event featuring

intellectually stimulating presentations and talks by

eight Brandeis scholars.

Highlights include Marc Brettler, the Dora Gold-

ing Professor of Biblical Studies, discussing "The

Bible in Contemporary American Life," and Michael

Rush, director of the Rose Art Museum, speaking on

"Revealing the Rose." Other speakers include Chad

Bown, associate professor of economics; Jacob

Cohen, associate professor of American studies; Ken-

neth Hayes, professor of biology; Jacqueline Jones,

Truman Professor of American Civilization; Sarah

Lamb, associate professor of anthropology; and Dan

Perlman, associate professor of biology

For information, contact Amy Luchans in the

Office of Alumni Relations at 781-736-4041; e-mail

<alumnicollcgeC''alumni. brandeis. edu>; or visit

online <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/alumnicollege>.

To save a seat, please register by May 19.

WiMin (III I Hi .l.-i^ I r>iu \l:i 43

lalumninewsl

FROM THE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Making ConnectionsNew Web site, regional clubs enhance alumni ties

We are proud to launch the new Bmn-

(ieis University Magazine with this

inaugural issue. The newly designed maga-

zine is but one ot several changes to better

serve the needs of our 35,000-plus alumni.

In response to last year's survey, the Alumni

Association board of directors and staff are

committed to enhancing the programs and

services that will benefit, connect, and

engage all of our current and future alumni.

To that end, we have created a new Website <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web>.

Click on the link to check out the benefits,

services, and events offered to you by the

Alumni Association. The new site will pro-

vide immediate access to information about

the more than 1 50 alumni programs,

including Reunion, Faculty in the Field,

and networking events.

From there, you will also be able to access

LouieNet, our online community. As with

all Web sites, ours is a work in progress.

Please send any feedback or suggestions you

have to <rich.goguen@brandeis.edu>. Your

ideas for alumni profiles and story ideas are

also welcome!

We are also pleased to introduce the new

logo for the Alumni Association. Inspired

by Andy Warhol's original portrait, which

was donated to the Rose Art Museum this

winter (see story on Page 1 1), this modern

interpretation of Justice Louis D. Brandeis

is a way ot bringing together the traditions

of the man and the University with a more

contemporary, distinctive design that

reflects the momentum and energy of

today's Alumni Association.

In order to extend our personal connec-

tion with more alumni, we have established

two new regional clubs in Denver and

Cleveland/Northeast Ohio, bringing to

twentv-three the total number ot Brandeis

alumni clubs. Susan Hendrick '96 and

Nicole Hoffman '96 will serve as copresi-

dents of the new Denver club, and Aryeh

Dori '96 as president of the new Cleve-

land/Northeast Ohio club. We encourage

you to visit our new Web site for upcoming

events and activities, to contact local club

presidents and get involved with your club,

or just to connect with other Brandeis peo-

ple in your area.

Behind ever)' first-class university are its

committed alumni. Although our members

are very young—the average age is 41—we

recognize that we have a responsibility for the

continued success

and future growth of

our beloved universi-

ty. While we hope

our programs and

services will keep you

connected to the

Brandeis communin-,

we are also stepping

up to our efforts to be

"a strategic asset by and to the university.

'

To this end, our board is committed to

encouraging and increasing alumni giving

and to being a meaningful part ot the capi-

tal campaign, which will ensure the univer-

sity's leadership in scientific research and

help to attract even more of the brightest

and best researchers from around the world.

Our Alumni Association board has been

energetic and extremely generous with its

time and talent on behalf of our alumni and

the University, and you should expect more

exciting results in the coming months. Weinvite your comments, suggestions, and

news at <office@alumni. brandeis. edu>, or

you may contact me directly at

<enimak@aol.com>.

—Darlene Green Kainine '74

Aliiinni Association at a Glance

Our Vision

To be recognized as an invaluable resource

by alumni and future alumni, and as a

strategic asset by and to the University.

Who We Are

35,224 total alumni

27,259 undergraduate

7,965 graduate

Age

34% between 48 and 75

65% between 22 and 4826% under 30Average age: 41

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Where We Live

68% Northeast/Central Atlantic

11% West Coast

6% Midwest

4% South

3% International

2% Southwest

Regional Alumni Clubs

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More than 75% of alumni served by

nearby alumni club

For more information:

http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/clubs

VOLUNTEER PROFILES

All in the FamilySuderow's Brandeis affiliation

takes root in next generation

Detlev Suderow "70 has a simple message to fellow graduates:

"Brandeis is a premier universir)' thanks to the long-term sup-

port of 'foster' alumni—friends and members of the communin,'

who, while educated elsewhere, believed in

its mission. The torch is now being passed

to alumni, and we must accept it."

One of four elected vice presidents of the

Alumni Association Board of Directors,

Suderow has a compelling story to tell about

his passion to give something back to his

alma mater. An immigrant from Germany

who came to the U.S. at the age of 13, Sud-

erow did not have the financial means to

attend college. However, his reputation as

an all-scholastic soccer star at Lexington (Mass.) High School—he

set a single-season scoring record with rwenty-four goals—caught

the attention of Brandeis recruiters, and he was offered a full schol-

arship. Once at Brandeis, he succeeded in the classroom and on the

soccer field, where he was a four-year starter and held the Brandeis

career scoring record.

His relationship to Brandeis was cemented further when he met

his wife, Ellen Beth Lande '73, there. Married thirty years, Sud-

erow affectionately refers to Lande as his life partner and best

friend. "I wouldn't be where I am without her, " he says.

Though Suderow's volunteer efforts at Brandeis began in 1993

on an alumni chapter steering committee, the relationship truly

became a family affair when he and Ellen Beth teamed up as

copresidents of the Alumni Club of Greater Boston in 2001.

Watching their elder son, Sasha 05, prosper at Brandeis and

become a congressional aide in Washington, D.C., made them real-

ize that the university would remain a part of their family. Their

younger son, Max, has applied to Brandeis for the Class of 2010.

"Seeing the intellectual awakening of Sasha was very emotion-

al," recalls Suderow. "1 knew then that my involvement with Bran-

deis would be lifelong."

Suderow's commitment is so deep that he established the Sud-

erow Family Scholarship Fund to give future students the oppor-

tunity once given him.

As a vice president of the Alumni Association, he focuses on lead-

ership, succession planning, and membership. He also serves on the

Dean's Council for the International Business School. Suderow is

senior vice president of human resources and organizational excel-

lence at FLIR Systems, an international infrared-technology firm.

"My professional and financial success would not have been

possible without Brandeis," he notes. "Brandeis made a venture

capital investment in my future, and I now have the abilit)' to

repay my school, with interest."

A Richer LifeGrad sees Brandeis connectionsas "priceless gift" from alma mater

One look at the Brandeis scrapbook of Victor Ney '81 , and it

is evident his connections to the university go well beyond

the four years he studied history and economics here. From the

moment he arrived on campus, so began a

simple chapter of relationships that has

since grown into the story of his life.

Talking with Ney, it quickly becomes

clear that he holds his Brandeisian connec-

tions as a "priceless gift" from his alma

mater. Most important among them is his

wife, Karen Binder '82, whom he met at

Brandeis. Married for rwent\'-two years,

they have three children and live in NewYork. After many years running a family

supermarket business in New York Cit}', Ney is now director of

the Union for Reform Judaism Press in New York. He oversees

the publishing division of the agency, which serves as the congre-

gational arm of the Reform Movement in North America.

One of four vice presidents of the Alumni Association Board of

Directors, Ney views his volunteerism as a way to support the

school that was a catalyst for him both personally and profession-

ally. "My closest friends are people from Brandeis, and this is a

great way to reconnect while giving back to the University,"

explains Ney, an avid skier who goes on an annual Colorado ski

trip with many alumni friends.

Ney served as chair of the Finance Committee of the Associa-

tion Board, and is widely credited for helping to reorganize the

boards finances. He recalls fondly how his best friend, former col-

lege roommate, and fellow board member Yehuda Cohen '81

approached him in 2001 to help revitalize the Alumni Club of

New York City. Seeing it as an opportunity to reconnect with even

more of his college cohorts, Ney took on the role of president.

Getting involved on the local level made "a light bulb go on,"

he says. "My life is richer because of Brandeis, and 1 realized how

important it is to offer my support— both financially and by get-

ting alumni reconnected."

Ney will likely be adding several pages to his scrapbook this sum-

mer, after he celebrates his twenrv'-fifth reunion in June. Not surpris-

ingly, he is serving as one of three reunion cochairs. "Our class is

already tight-knit," he .says. "Out rwenty-fifth will provide a gre.it

opportunity to rekindle old friendships and establish new ones."

His message to get more people involved comes from the heart.

"Aside from the quality of education and wonderful physical

plant, look beyond to the people you met at Brandeis and how

they shaped your life," he says. "I have yet to meet more phenom-

enal and insightful people than my fellow Brandeisians. They're

not a dime a dozen. They are very special people."

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FALL FEST:

HOMECOMING 2005From October 28 to 30, alumni, families, and students enjoyed a beautiful

autumn weekend on campus at Brandeis Fall Fest: Homecoming 2005. held

in conjunction with Family Weekend. Atnong the signature events: the Class of

2005 Zero-Year Reunion and Pub Night, and the Alumni and Friends Tailgate

Reception, held during the men's and women's soccer games. Several special

reunions and receptions were held as well, including the Ethics and Coexistence

Fellows Dinner, Transitional Year Program and Friends Reception, Company B

Red-Carpet Reunion, Intercultural Center Open House and Luncheon, alumni

Softball game, and alumni women's lacrosse game.

Welcome1^ ^ to

FALL FEST.0.SJP^B»Si

Past and present Ethics Center Student Fellowship participants

gather for Saturday's dinner and discussion on current events.

Associate Professor of American Studies Jacob Cohen leads a

discussion with alumni and parents.

Participants In Saturday's alumnae and student Softball game are all smiles.

Soplioaiore Brett Fitzgerald,

right, dribbles around a

defender during Sunday'smen's soccer game against

the University of Chicago.

Brandeis mascot OIlie the Owlposes with a fan.

Jules Bernstein '57 poses with students from the Transitional Year

Program at the group's Fall Fest reception.

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FACULTY IN THE FIELD

Karen HansenSociologist's new book challenges concept of today's nuclear family

As a working mother, Karen Hansen

knows firsthand the challenges of nur-

turing children and a professional career at

the same time. But it was her role as a pro-

fessor of sociolog)' and women's and gender

studies that compelled her to ask, "How do

families with two working parents manage

to care for their kids?"

That question led Hansen to her latest

research project and book, Not-So-Nuclear

Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of

Care (Rutgers University Press, 2005), in

which she investigates the lives of working

families and the networks that they con-

struct to help them care for their school-

aged children. As a regular speaker at

Facult)' in the Field events this winter,

Hansen has shared her findings with alum-

ni across the country.

A finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award,

Hansen's book follows four families and

vividly illustrates the conflicts, hardships,

and triumphs that they share despite their

different economic backgrounds. "Clearly,

those with greater resources have greater

flexibility in terms of remaining in the labor

force, but all are working hard to cover the

gaps in care created by typical school and

work schedules," notes Hansen.

Her latest work is particularly poignant

given the recent trend in public policy, which

focu.ses on strengthening the nuclear family

as a primar)' strategy for improving the lives

of America's youth. According to Hansen,

this strateg}' ignores the fact that today more

than half of U.S. households with young chil-

dren have two employed parents. She quickly

points out that sociological studies of child

rearing that focus on nuclear families assume

that they are self-sufficient. Not so, says

Hansen. Most modern families depend on a

complex network of individuals that move in

and out of children's

lives— babysitters,

extended family

members, friends,

and neighbors, as

well as more formal

caregivers, such as

day-care providers

and teachers.

"Contrary to pop-

ular view, the extended family is not dead,

and the nuclear family is not as isolated as

we are led to believe," she says.

Hansen came to Brandeis in 1989 after

receiving her Ph.D. from the University of

California, Berkeley. She teaches courses in

feminist theory, the sociology of families,

women's biography and society, and histor-

ical methods. She is the 2005 recipient of

the first Dean of Arts and Sciences Gradu-

ate Mentoring Award.

Derek IsaacowitzPeople may get happier as they age, professor's research shows

Gray hair. Arthritis. Memory loss. These

are just a few of the unwelcome changes

people may experience as they age. However,

new research from the Emotion Lab at Bran-

deis, headed by

Assistant Professor of

Psychology Derek

Isaacowitz, investi-

gates a possible silver

lining: people may

actually get happier

as they get older.

Isaacowitz has

been the featured

speaker at several Faculty in the Field events

across the country, sharing his current

research on the interplay between cognitive

processes, particularly visual attention, and

emotion throughout adulthood and old

age. He and his research team are identify-

ing ways different people process emotional

material and stimuli and how it affects their

moods.

Using eye tracking, a sophisticated, non-

invasive technique that records the eye

movements of a person watching computer

images in real time, they are discovering sig-

nificant differences in the emotional reac-

tions of people as they age.

"Older people tend to look at negative

stimuli for less time, and gravitate toward

more positive images," says Isaacowitz.

"They limit their exposure to unpleasant or

disturbing stimuli, which naturally keeps

them from getting depressed by it. Con-

versely, younger people gravitate toward

unpleasant and negative images, and may

linger over them longer.

"This may be a matter of older individu-

als actually having better 'perspective,'" he

adds. "Older people have had a lifetime to

develop perspective. As we age, we learn

from experience that despite difficulties, the

world goes on."

Studying the roots of happiness is tricky,

to say the least. Understanding what triggers

happiness in one person may not translate to

another. Isaacowitz, however, suggests some

more general truths about happiness. For

example, research has shown that the things

that make people happy lose their potency

over time; that memories of happier times

are in fact quite biased, not objective; that

people who are preoccupied with external

and material rewards are less happy; and that

the happiest people are those who enjoy

strong social contacts with others.

Isaacowitz, who holds a doctorate from

the University of Pennsylvania, is a rising

star of the Brandeis faculty. He received the

2004 Michael Laban Walzer '56 Award for

Excellence in Teaching and was awarded a

National Institute on Aging grant in 2003.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Alumni Club of Baltimore

Faculn' in the Field: "Does

Music Mean Anything?

Can It Be Explained?" with

Yehudi Wyner, professor

emeritus of composition.

May 7, 2 to 4 p.m.

Alumni Club of Greater

Boston

PeiformingAits Network

Things Beyond Our Control.

a play by Jesse Kellerman,

MFA'03, Laurie Theater,

Brandeis, March 26, 2 p.m.

Family Network

Pool Part)', private swim

and light refreshments, Lin-

sey Pool, Gosman Sports

and Convocation Center,

Brandeis, April 2, 1 1 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

Brandeis Breakfast Series

"Wine, Women, and

Altered States: The Cult of

Dionysus and the Athen-

ian Stage," with AnnKoloski-Ostrow, associate

professor and chair of clas-

sical studies, April 27,

7:30 to 9 a.m., Napoli

Room, Gosman Sports

and Convocation Center,

Brandeis.

Performing Arts Network

Brandcis-Wellesley Orches-

tra and the Marcus Roberts

Trio, performing works by

Gershwin and Bernstein,

April 30, 7 p.m., Spingold

Theater, Brandeis.

Downtoum Lunch Series

"The Leadership of George

Washington," with David

Hackett Fischer, Earl

Warren Professor of

History, May 3, noon to

1:30 p.m.. Brown Rudnick

Berlack Israels, One

Financial Center, Boston.

Hosted by Lawrence

Uchill '69.

Alumni Club of Denver

Faculty in the Field:

Charles Reed Jr., adjunct

professor of the practice ot

entrepreneurship, April 23.

Alumni Club of

New York City

Lawyers Network

"Paths to Participation: The

Rise, Fall, and Enduring

Legacy of the Civil Rights

Era Ku Klux Klan," with

David Cunningham, associ-

ate professor of sociology,

April 4, 7 p.m.

Media Netivork

"Media and Journalism:

Yesterday, Today, and

Tomorrow"; Allen Alter

"71, senior producer oi 48

Hours, interviews Peter

Osnos '64, founder and

editor-at-large,

PublicAffairs books, April

10, 7 p.m.

Alumni Club of Toronto

Facult)' in the Field: "The

Science of Happiness,"

with Derek Isaacowitz,

assistant professor of psy-

chology, April 30.

Alumni Club of West

Coast Florida

Faculty in the Field: Jody

Hoffer Gittell, assistant pro-

fessor at the Heller School,

April 2, 1 to 3 p.m.

To RSVP or learn more, call

781-736-4041 or e-mail

<rsvp@alumni.brandeis.edu>.

For New York clients, call

212-472-1501. ext. 231,

or e-mail <events@nlumni

.

brandeis.edii>.

ALUMNI CLUB CONTACTS

Contact any of the club leaders via the e-mail addresses below, or call the

Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 1-800-333-1948. Please contact

the Minority Alumni Network directly to be included on its mailing list.

DOMESTIC

Arizona

Rachel Hernandez '92

arizonaiaialumni.brandeis.edu

California

Northern California

northcaliforniaia'alumni. brandeis.edu

SouWern California

Francine Ladd Sohin 74

Ohio

Cincinnati

Chuck Kamine 74, P'03

cincinnati'Salumn I.brandeis.edu

Cleveland

Aryeh I. Dori '96

neohio<aial umni.brandeis.edu

Pennsylvania

Ptiiladelphia

Tamara Chasan Pomeranz '91

southcalifornia@alumni.brandeis.edu philadelphiaigjaiumni.brandeis.edu

Colorado

Denver

Susan J. Hendrick '96

Nicole S. Hoffman '96

denven&al umnl.brandeis.edu

Florida

South Florida

Gil Drozdow '79

southfloridai<ialumni. brandeis.edu

West Coast Florida

Sylvia Haft Firschein '55, P'87

Joan A. Greenberger Gurgold '53

westflorida'Sialumni. brandeis.edu

Illinois

Chicago

Aria IVIedvin Silverstein '88

chicago@alumni.brandeis.edu

Maryland

8a/t/more

Alexandra Ainsztein '89

baltlmore@alumni.brandeis.edu

Massachusetts

Greater Boston

Jonathan Brant '68

boston@alumni.brandeis.edu

New Jersey

Northern New Jersey

Michael Palace '90

northnewjerseya'alumni. brandeis.edu aac@alumni.brandeis.edu

Texas

Houston

Michael Kivort '87

houston@alumni.brandeis.edu

Washington, D.C.

Dan Kazzaz '74

wash ingtondc@'alumni. brandeis.edu

INTERNATIONAL

CanadaToronto

Mark A. Surchin '78

toronto@alumni.brandeis.edu

England

Joan Givner Bovarnick, PhD'69

england@alumni.brandeis.edu

Israel

Rose Shirwindt Weinberg '57

israel@alumni.brandeis,edu

Korea

Suk Won Kim '70

korea@alumni.brandeis.edu

AFFINITY GROUPS

Alumni Admissions Council

Alan M. Rosenberg '74, P'07

New York

Long Island

Mark Steven Cohen '78

longisland@alumni.brandeis.edu

New York City

Doug Monasebian '84

nyc@alumni.brandeis.edu

Westchester County

Davida Shapiro Scher '69

westchester@alumni.brandeis.edu

Future Alumni of Brandeis

Benjamin Reed '06

Beth Wexelman '07

fab@'alumni. brandeis.edu

Minority Alumni Network

Joseph Perkins '66

man@alumni.brandeis.edu

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RECENT EVENTS

Alumni Club of New York City

Lawyers Network

The Lawyers Nerwork hosted a panel discussion,

"The American Legal System and the War on Ter-

ror," September 27, 2005, at Brandeis House in

New York City. Panelists included Lev Dassin, a

partner with the international law firm Kaye

Scholer; Adam Brodsky 79, deputy editorial page

editor of the New York Post: and Neil Kressel '78,

professor of psychology at William Patterson Uni-

versity. Stuart Slotnick '91(left) and Julie Krasno-

gor '92 cochaired the event. Pictured with Slotnick

is Eran Raphael '91

.

Alumni Club of New York City

Recent Graduates Network

Evan Rudnicki '98, Michele Felder '02, David

Magid '98, and Galete Levin '00 were among

those attending the Recent Graduates Network's

Halloween Happy Hour on October 27, 2005, at

the Red Sky Bar and Lounge in New York City.

James Holley 02 and Galete Levin 00 served as

party cochairs.

Alumni Club of South Florida

Harold Gould (center), who portrays the late

Brandeis professor Morrie Schwartz in the stage

play Tuesdays with Monie, meets with Gil

Drozdow '79(left), president of the Alumni Club

of South Florida, and Laura Moskowitz.

Greenstein '80 following a performance of the

show on December 18, 2005, at the Parker Play-

hou.se in Fort Lauderdale.

Alumni Club of New York City

Daniel Terris (center), director of the International

Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life,

presented a talk, "Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue

at an American Corporation," November 7, 2005,

at a Faculty in the Field and book-signing event

hosted by the Alumni Club of New York City at

Brandeis House. Also shown here are AdamRifkin '97 {left} and Ted Sorensen, who served as

special counsel to President John F. Kennedy.

Alumni Club of New York City

Performing Arts Network

Robyn Goodman '69 (right), Tony Award-win-

ning producer ot Avenue Q, was interviewed by

Jane Paley Price "69, P"08 (left), a producer at Paley

Price Productions, before a large crowd ot alumni

at a November 29, 2005, event hosted by the Per-

forming Arts Network at Brandeis House in NewYork Cit)'. Rachel Reiner '97 served as event chair.

Alumni Club of Westchester

Assistant Professor ot Psychology Derek

Isaacowitz (right) delivered a talk on

"The Science of Happiness" at a Faculty

in the Field event hosted by the Alumni

Club of Westchester on September 18,

2005, at the home of Dr. Jane Willner

Bloomgarden '72, P'03, in Scarsdale, NewYork. Mickey Komornik '65 was the event

chair. Davida Shapiro Scher '69(left)

serves as president of the club.

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RECENT EVENTS

Alumni Club of Greater Boston

Performing Arts Network

Members of the Alumni Club of Greater Boston gathered at Spingold

Theater on December I, 2003, tor the premiere of The Two Orphans,

a musical by Theresa Rebeck. MA'83, MFA'86, PhD'89. Directed by

Dennis Garnhum, the production was made possible with generous

support from the Robin, Barbara, and Malcolm L. Sherman Endow-

ment for the Performing Arts. Gathering in Spingold lobby after the

show were (from left) Eric Hill, the Barbara '54 and Malcolm L. Sher-

man Chair in the Department of Theater Arts; John Sheehy, MFA'89,

who wrote the lyrics; Rebeck; and Kim D. Sherman, music director.

Alumni Club of Greater BostonRecent Graduates Network

The Alumni Club of Greater Bostons Recent Graduates Network held a

Holiday Happy Hour at Our House West in Allston, Massachusetts, on

Thursday, December 22, 2005. Jenn Klein "02 chaired the event. (Left

photo, from left): Matthew Konjoian 04, Brian Lowe '00, Jonathan

Koplow '05, and Jennifer Rothwax Koplow '05. (Right photo, ftom left):

Jeremy Lechan '03, Asavari Kamerkar '03, Evan Guggenheim '03,

Jocelyn Kirsch '05, and Jen Nadler '03.

Alumni Club of Washington, D.C.

Marvin Pinkert '74 led two sold-out groups of alumni

through the newly restored Rotunda and Public Vaults

exhibit at the National Archives on Sunday, November

6, 2005. Pinkert, executive director of the National

Archives Experience, led the team that turned federal

records into a discovery environment. His tour gave the

group the inside scoop on how the exhibits came togeth-

er, and he shared stories about the historically significant

documents in the National Archives. The tours were

organized by Wendy Finn '85-

Alumni Club of Chicago

Fine Arts Professor Nanc)' Scott gave a talk and slide pres-

entation on "O'KeefFe in Bloom: Nature into Art, " at a

Facult)' in the Field event hosted by Yasmin Schaller '83

on November 20, 2005. Scott's lecture traced a thematic

thread through the development of Georgia O'KeefFe's

early work, focusing on her paintings of trees and flowers.

Alumni Club of New York City

Entrepreneurs Network

John Korff '73, owner and chief executive officer ot Korff

Enterprises, delivered a talk on "Entrepreneurial Opportu-

nities in Sports Marketing" at Brandeis House on Novem-

ber 3, 2005. Izzet Bensusan '98 served as event chair.

Alumni Club of New York City

Family Network

The Family Network hosted an event at the Maritime

Aquarium at Norwalk, in Norwalk, Connecticut, on

November 13, 2005. Guests enjoyed a private tour of

the facility. Rachel Greenfield '95 and Leslie Effron

Levin '94 cochaired the event.

Alumni Club of

Northern New Jersey

Stephen Cecchetti, professor of international economics

and finance at the International Business School, delivered

a talk, "Is It Wise for the U.S. to Borrow $3 Billion a Day

from Foreigners?" at a Facult}' in the Field event on

December 4 at the home of Deborah Cummis '80 and

Douglas Sandlaufer. Michael Palace '90 chaired the event.

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Alumni Club of Southern California

Debra Messing '90 (bottom center), Eric McCormack (bottom

left), and Sean Hayes (bottom right), stars of the NBC hit Will

dr Grace, welcomed Southern California alumni backstage after

a taping of the Emmy Award-winning show last October. Los

Angeles—based art dealer Jonathan Novak '75. a member of

the steering committee tor the Alumni Club of Southern

California, and New York-based TV writer and producer

Jane Paley Price '69, P"08, secured tickets for the taping and

meet-and-greet with help from Ken Samuel '90, vice president

of program standards and compliance, NBC West Coast.

Among the lucky attendees were [back row, from left) Karen

Landman, Elisha Fara Landman '95, Jeffrey Landman, Tracey

Wise "93, Rachel Newlander '96, Anna Forward "05, and Ken

Samuel '90.

Alumni Club of England

Gregory Petsko (thirdfrom right), the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and

Molecular Pharmacodynamics, and director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research

Center, presented a talk, "Aging Research at Brandeis: Live Better, Longer," at the Alumni Club ot

England's eighteenth annual Alumni and Student Thanksgiving Tea November 20, 2005, at the

home of Alberta Gotthardt Strage '56(left). This annual event—the clubs most popular

program— is an opportunity for Brandeis students studying abroad to meet alumni living and

working in Greater London. Club president Joan Givner Bovarnick, PhD'69 (right), and some of

Petskos former students are also shown.

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classnotes

54

1952Diana Laskin Siegal

900 SW 31st Street, #BE339Topeka, KS 66611

1952notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Social science classes come alive and are

updated as members of the Class of

1952 become world travelers. An infor-

mal survey showed that members have

visited every continent in the past year

and are planning more travels in the

coming year. Trips have included voyages

from San Diego to Antarctica and back

up to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro;

from Italy to Saigon and Singapore; from

Scandinavia to Russia; and between NewYork City and London on the Queen

Elizabeth 2. Others have traveled to

Bhutan, the British Isles, Turkey, India,

Florence, and Easrern Europe. Trips to

Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand,

as well as Sicily, are already planned tor

next year. Alaska continues to be a popu-

lar destination, as does Maine. In tact,

the most recent class Reunion was held

in Portland, Maine, in September 2005;

seventeen classmates and five partners

attended. Activities included a harbor

sail, lobster-bake cruise, and a drive out

to the countryside; video showings of the

1952 Creative Arts Festival, coproduced

by Lou Lindauer '53, and of The Dan-

isl> Solution; and a visit to the Rockwell

Kent retrospective art show, mounted

only in Portland. It was decided to hold

another Reunion in fall 2006.

Laurence Nigrosh

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Nigrosh was a member of the 2005 Cape

Cod OldTimers seventy-plus travel soft-

ball team that won the Winter National

Championship in the AA division at

Fort Myers, Florida, on November 18,

2005. Nigrosh, a catcher and outfielder,

was named to the All-Tournament team.

1953Abraham Heller

1400 Runnymede Road

Dayton, OH 45419

1953notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1954William Marsh

5113 Castlerock WayNaples, PL 34112

1954notes@alumni.brandels.edu

1955Judith Paull Aronson

838 N. Doheny Drive, #906Los Angeles, CA 90069

1955notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

I^IM^

Leona Feldman Curhan

366 River Road

Carlisle, MA 01741

1956notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

50TH REUNION: MAY 19 TO 21

Can you believe our 50th Reunion is

around the corner? It is sure to be a

memorable weekend tull ot tun and

surprises! Many exciting programs are

being planned, including a discussion

with classmate Michael Walzer. We will

reminisce with classmates, and wine and

dine with honorary-degree recipients

before we march proudly in Sunday

morning's Commencement exercises.

Please fill out your Reunion yearbook

questionnaire. The yearbook will be

distributed during Reunion weekend.

I look forward to seeing you all.

1957Wynne Wolkenberg Miller

14 Larkspur Road

Waban, MA 02468

1957notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Janet Hentoff Krauss

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Krauss, who teaches literature and

writing at St. Basil College and Fairfield

University, had her book Borroived

Scenery published by Yuganta Press in

March 2005. A collection of more than

forty years of Krauss's lite, the book

reflects the need through love of lan-

guage to comprehend situations, scenes,

and feelings that affect her.

Robin Brooks

Amherst, Massachusetts

Brooks reports that his mother, MaeBrooks, observed her one hundredth

birthday on February 28, and as proof

of her mental stability—or perhaps

not—still hoks a tihnik him to get

married. As evidence of his mental

stability, he continues to disappoint

her by declining her entreaties.

1958Judith Brecher Borakove

10 East End Avenue, #2-F

New/ York, NY 10021

1958notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Judy Chazin-Bennahum

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Chazin-Bennahum has been elected to

the board of directors of the Congress

on Research in Dance, an international

organization of teachers, students,

writers, performers, choreographers,

researchers, archivists, and librarians,

housed at the State University of NewYork College at Brockport. She is a

professor of theatre and dance at the

University of New Mexico, where she

also served four years as associate dean

of the College ot Fine Arts and three

years as chair of the Department of

I-, I iiiM'i>ii\ Nhinii/iiu- I Wiiiici- (li>

newSllOteS classnotes@aliuiini.brancleis.edu

Theatre and Dance. Chazin-Bennahum

has written or edited three books in the

past three years: The Living Dance: AnAnthology ofEssays on Moi'ement and

Culture (Kendall/Hunt Pubhshing,

2003); The Lure ofPerfection: Fashion

and Ballet, J 780-1830 (Routledge,

2004); and Teaching Dance Studies

(Routledge, 2005). She has also choreo-

graphed for the Santa Fe Opera—most

notably The Marriage ofFigaro—and

for the Opera Academy in Rome. She

has worked steadily with the University

of New Mexico Opera Studio and the

UNM Dance Ensemble, and in 2002,

received the Albuquerque Arts Alliance's

Bravo Award for her outstanding con-

tributions to dance. Chazin-Bennahum

has two daughters—Ninotchka, a dance

historian who teaches at Long Island

University in Brooklyn, and Rachel,

who teaches high school in California

—

and a son, Aaron Bennahum '92, a

middle school teacher in Los Angeles.

Ellen Hart Harriman

Delray Beach, Florida

Harriman writes, "After having taught

history in London for many years and

run an antique shop, I am now enjoying

peace and tranquiliu' in rural France,

surrounded by many English people and

even a few Americans!"

1959Sunny Sunshine Brownrout

87 Old Hill Road

Westport, CT 06880

1959notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Judith Sanders Goodie

Wilmette, Illinois

Goodie recently started her appointment

as a federal administrative law judge for

the Social Security Administration, in

Chicago. Last August, her daughter,

Sharon Goodie '85, started her

appointment as an administrative law

judge for the District of Columbia.

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classnotes alumnipiofile Doreen Rappaport '61

1960Joan Silverman Wallack

28 Linden Shores, #28

Branford, CT 064051960notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

I would like to remember Toby Shein-

feld Nussbaum. She was a wonderful

classmate, friend, wife, mother, and

grandmother. She lived her life to the

fullest, with grace, dignity, courage, beau-

rv', and most of all, love. She is forever in

our hearts and will be greatly missed.

Maggie Schneider Cohen

New York Ciry

Cohen, founding principal ot the

Manhattan firm Room Service Designs,

garnered a first place and an honorable

mention in the residential category at the

2004 American Society of Interior

Designers' New York Metro Interior

Design Competition.

Ellen Levine

New York Cit)'

Levine is the author ot Catch a Tiger by

the Toe. The book takes place during the

McCarthy era and is the story of a 13-

year-old girl whose parents are caught up

in the "red hunt" of the time. It's a look

at bullies, big and small, and their

impact on a teenager's life.

mmBJudith Leavitt Schatz

139 Cumberland Road

Leominster, MA 01453

1961notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

45TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Marion Liniado Cuba

New York Cit)'

Cuba writes, "During World War II,

nearly 20,000 Jews sought safety in the

unlikely haven of Shanghai—the one

place that would have them without a

visa. Learning about this fatefia! chance

of history nine years ago on a trip to

lii :iiiili-is Lliiiversitv Miigaziiif I Vi iiiler '()(i

Hittino the Ri^ht Notes

Doreen Rappaport '61 came to Brandeis to

study music. Now. the prolific author writes

books that are music to children's ears.

"I come from a musical background,"

said Rappaport, whose father was a vocal

arranger and mother was a singer "I am al-

ways looking for ways to interpret material

and rearrange it in a fresh, original way.

"

She's done it in more than thirty works of

nonfiction and historical fiction, about both

famous and overlooked figures from histo-

ry (or, as she puts it, the "not-yet-celebrat-

ed Americans"). For instance, while Rap-

paport's Victory or Death! Stories oftheAjner-

icaii Revolution, coauthored with Joan

Verniero, devotes space to George Wash-

ington and Abigail Adams, she also writes

about 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, whorallied her father's militia to batde the British,

and enslaved African James Armistead, who

spied on the British.

Her most recent books, UnitedNo More!

Stories ofthe Civil War (coauthored with

Joan Verniero, HarperCollins, 2006) and

The School Is Not White!A True Story ofthe

Civil Rights Movement (Hyperion Books,

2005) reflect her fascination with individ-

uals who face danger and change history

—

a passion born from her own experience.

After graduating from Brandeis, Rappa-

port taught music and reading at junior high

schools in New York. In 1965, she went to

McComb, Mississippi, to teach at a free-

dom school during the height of the civil

rights movement.

At the rime, she couldn't find the books to

make the songs from the movement relevant

to her students, Rappaport said. The courage

of the people she met, particularly African-

Americans deprived of their rights, inspired

her to write some of those books herself

Before writing, she devotes herself to her

subject maner, with an attention to detail she

credits to her parents' influence. For her

award-winning Martin's Big Words: The Life

of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rappaport

spent three months at the library reading

the works of the slain civil rights leader. She

read three hundred books and conducted

numerous interviews before she wrote The

Flight ofRed Bird: The Life ofZitkala-Sa, a

twentieth-century activist for Indian rights.

"Writing for children is a combination

ofdeep research and trying to find the hook

or the angle that will interest them. I look

for the nugget that pulls somebody's life to-

gether," Rappaport said. "There are lots of

books out there that are very factual—and

the kids hate them."

Today, the grandmother of eight divides

her time berween her native New York City

and Copake Falls in upstate New York, to-

gether with her husband, a painter and sculp-

tor. More than forty years after living through

history, she intends to keep writing about it.

—David A. Nathan

classnotes

China, 1 knew 1 had to explore it in fic-

tion. My debut novel, Shanglnii Legacy,

published in February, is the result.

Based on years ot research, the book

weaves actual events oi this 1938 to

1945 period with an imagined mother-

daughter story of generational conflict,

dark secrets, and the search for love and

tulfillment. It probes a theme that

haunts so many ot us: how a survivor's

past hardships affect—and afflict—the

next generation. While at Brandeis, after

hearing Mark Van Doren speak one

evening, I was inspired to major in Eng-

lish literature. 1 have been involved with

words ever since. I've worked as a writer

in advertising, promotion, and nonprofit

fundraising. I served as editor of the

New York chapter Hadassah newsletter,

and for many years, I was an adult litera-

cy tutor. I live in Manhattan (formerly

from Virginia, I 'inhale' the city's music,

drama, and unique energy like a zealot)

with my native-born husband. Besides

writing, like my protagonist in Shanghai

Legacy, I sculpt and design jewelry. I'm

planning to come to Reunion. I think

the last one I attended was the 1 Oth!

Looking forward to it!"

Elaine Greenberg Frank, John Frank

Philadelphia

The Franks write, "Writing from Klez

Kamp in the Catskills, urging fellow

Brandeisians and their families to join us

next December.

"

Jeffrey Golland

Bronx, New York

Golland last August completed a

thirty-five-year career as a professor in

the Department of Early Childhood and

Childhood Education at City University

of New York. Now a member of the clin-

ical faculty in psychiatry at Mount Sinai

School ot Medicine, he continues in the

independent practice of psychoanalysis

and psychotherapy.

1962Ann Leder Sharon

13890 Ravenwood Drive

Saratoga, CA 95070

1962notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robert Richman

Jamesville, New York

Richman is retired from the faculty of

Upstate Medical University. He has two

sons

—

Peter Richman '89, an emer-

gency room physician in Scottsdale,

Arizona, and Michael, an electrical

engineer tor a defense company in

Bedford, Massachusetts—and a daugh-

ter, Tammy, a molecular biologist work-

ing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both

sons are married to physicians.

1963Miriam Osier Hyman140 East 72nd Street, #16B

New York, NY 10021

1963notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Theresa Castellana Orr

Waltham, Massachusetts

Orr writes, "After rwent\'-five years at

Harvard Medical School, I retired as

associate dean for admissions and stu-

dent services. I now have a private

advising practice coaching premedical

students. In addition, I became a justice

of the peace, commissioned to perform

marriages. I would love to hear from

Brandeisians with needs in either of

those areas!

"

1964Shelly A. Wolf

113 Naudain Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

1964notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Myra Hiatt Kraft

Foxborough, Massachusetts

Kraft, a member of the university's

Board ot Trustees, was recently elected

chair emerita of the Boys & Girls Clubs

ot Boston—the first in the agency's

history. She will serve as an ex officio

voting member of the board, and will

retain her title and position for as long

as she chooses.

1965Joan Furber Kalafatas

3 Brandywyne

Wayland, MA 01778

1965notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Simon Albury

London, England

Albury, chief executive of the Royal Tele-

vision Society, has been appointed chair

ot the Centre for Investigative JournaJism

(CIJ), an organization that provides

resources, research, and training to jour-

nalists in London, Africa, Asia, and conti-

nental Europe. Albury writes, "As a failed

investigative journalist, I was delighted to

be asked to take on the role of first chair

of CIJ. One of my tasks is to find some-

one more distinguished in the field to

take over from me as soon as possible.

"

Marian Siegel Krauskopf

New York City

Krauskopf is now two and a half years

into launching the Research Center for

Leadership in Action at the Robert F.

Wagner Graduate School of Public Ser-

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vice at New York University. She serves

as codirector and senior research scientist

at the center, which promotes practice-

grounded, social science-based, interdis-

ciplinary research that helps strengthen

the theory and practice of leadership in

public service.

snl*K •a«j

Kenneth E. Davis

28 Mary Chilton Road

Needham, MA 02492

1966notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

40TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Victoria Hllkevitch Bedford

Bloomington, Indiana

Bedford was recently promoted to full

professor in the School of Psychological

Science at the University of Indianapolis.

She has edited a new book, Aleii in Rela-

tionships: A Life Course Perspective, that

will be published in May. She writes,

"My daughter Sibyl is headed for an aca-

demic career in sociolog)', and Iris is a

ceramic artist. Also, I celebrated my bat

mitzvah (finally) this year."

Fery Hekmat Dayzadeh

Los Angeles

Dayzadeh writes, "At age 61, I am a

retired teacher. I left my native country

after the Islamic Revolution, in 1979."

Dayzadeh and her husband have a 34-

year-old daughter, who is a certified

public accountant; a 31 -year-old son,

who is a lawyer; and two grandchildren.

1967Anne Reilly Hort

10 Old Jackson Avenue, #21

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

1967notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1968David Greenwald

3655 Aquetong Road

Carversville, PA 18913

1968notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1969Phoebe Epstein

205 West 89th Street, #10-S

New/ York, NY 10024

1969notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Judith Tellerman

Chicago

Tellerman, a clinical assistant professor

of psychology at the University of

Illinois College of Medicine, was

chosen to be an examiner tor board

certification tor the American Board of

Professional Psychology, in group psy-

chology. She is a tellow of the Ameri-

can Academy of Croup Psychotherapy,

and serves on the Center for Substance

Abuse Prevention National Advisory

Council for the U.S. Health Depart-

ment's Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration.

1970Charles S. Eisenberg

4 Ashford Road

Nev»/ton Centre, MA 02459

1970notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Arthur E. Levine

New York City

Levine, president of Teachers College at

Columbia University and a nationally

noted advocate for educational equity

and education reform, has been named

the sixth president ot the Woodrow Wil-

son National Fellowship Foundation, an

independent, nonprofit organization ded-

icated to the encouragement of excellence

in education through the identification of

critical needs and the development of

effective national programs to address

them. Levine is the author or editor of

more than a dozen books and reports and

numerous articles on opportunity in

higher education and school leadership.

i??JifJlllBeClass of 1971

Brandeis University, MS 124

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1971notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

35TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

1972Dan Garflnkel

2420 Kings Lane

Pittsburgh, PA 15241

1972notes@alumni.brandeis,edu

1973George Kahn

11300 Rudman Drive

Culver City, CA 90230

1973notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

I am pleased to announce that in addi-

tion to holding off-campus interviews

tor prospective Brandeis students in the

Los Angeles area, on behalf ot the Alum-

ni Admissions Council, I will now also

be the class correspondent for the Class

of 1973. A little about myself Besides

running a successful mortgage banking

business, 1 found time last year to fulfill

my passion for jazz music by performing

in California with my jazz quintet on a

promotional tour for my fifth album.

Compared to What^The tour included

two swings through San FrancLsco,

Berkeley, and Carmel, as well as a host of

dates in the Los Angeles area. The new

year began with a show at the Triple

Door in downtown Seattle.

Bt;iiuli-i.s I iii\i'isil\ M;iii;i/illf I Wiiilri' 0()

alumniprofile Frederick Alt '71

Gettiiio" Back to Basics

Frederick Alt spends his days trying to un-

ravel the complicated mysteries behind can-

cer. But ever since the 1 971 graduate toiled

in his college biology lab, he has believed

in the power of simplicity.

"1 learned early—it was imprinted on meat Brandeis—that you have to do basic re-

search despite the fact that you will never

know all the implications ofyour work," he

said. "Everywhere I've been, 1 realize basic

discoveries provide the foimdation lor things

to come further down the road."

For his research into how basic cellular

processes relate to cancer, Alt, a Howard

Hughes Medical Institute investigator at

Boston Children's Hospital, won the

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's 2005 de

V'illiers International Award tor helping the

medical field better understand how can-

cers ofimmune cells develop. For example,

Alt and fellow researchers helped identify

how a type of lymphoma develops when

large pieces ofchromosomes swap locations.

"Dr. Alt's studies of the instability of the

genome are central to our understanding of

the events that lead to transtormation of

normal cells to cancer cells," Marshall Licht-

man, the society's executive vice president

said in a written statement.

The de Villiers award is the latest in a long

line ofhonors for Alt. He won the 2003 Ex-

cellence in Mentoring Award from the Amer-

ican Association of Immunologists and the

2004 Clowes Memorial Award from the

American Association ofCancer Research.

Alt's interest in research was sparked by

personal tragedy. "Both my mother and fa-

ther died of cancer by the time I turned

1 1 , and from that point on, 1 decided that

I would spend the rest of my lite working

on this disease," he explained.

Born and raised on the outskirts of a small

coal-mining, steel-mill town in western

Pennsylvania, Alt noted that he faced culture

shock upon arrival at Brandeis, but it was the

right place for him, and he loved it.

After graduating magna cum laudc with

honors in biology, Alt earned a Ph.D. at

Stanford University. In addition to his post

at Children's Hospital, he serves as the

Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics

at Harvard Medical School and the scien-

tific director of the CBR Institute tor Bio-

medical Research. He also teaches im-

munology courses at Harvard Medical

School and has written more than four

hundred papers.

"I'm extremely gratified that our research

has led to discoveries in cancer and im-

munology," Alt said. "And I've trained on the

order ot one hundred people, many of

whom have gone on to do great research.

"

Despite his multiple duties, Alt doesn't

spend all his time working. An avid basket-

ball player, downhill skier, and flv-fishernian,

he also plays the guitar and loves to cook all

kinds ot ethnic foods.

Just ask the well-ted researchers in

his lab.

—Marjorie Lyo>i

1974Susan Goldberg Benjamin

Ten Train Band Road

Bedford, NY, 10505

1974notes™alumni. brandeis.edu

Todd Miller is so good at keeping in

touch with classmates! Our correspondent

from Israel described a minireunion he

recently attended. "One of those spectacu-

larly clear and sunny late September NYCweekends turned even more magical for

ten members ot the 1973 champion Lord

Windesmere (Shapiro A boys) intramural

tast-pitch sottball team. After several years

ot talking online, eight original members

The Shapiro A boys at their

September Reunion.

of the Class of 1974 met up with two

former teammates from 1975 for the first

time in more than thirty-two years. In

true Brandeis tradition, the professions

were well represented: a doctor (Dave

Horowitz), a dentist (Steve Kaminsky), a

CPA (Josh Peckler), four lawT,'ers

(Michael Smiley, Michael H. Singer,

Stewart Cohen, Jeff Bleiwels 75), a

scientist (Jerry Baum '75), and two busi-

nessmen (Frank Gilbert, Todd Miller).

Despite the lost years, hair, and physiques,

the time, the distance, and the separation

completely disappeared as the group tell

back into solid friendships and well-worn

routines, plus the expected kvelling about

their kids (alas, no grandpas among the

group yet). The friendship endured the

weekend—surviving a Friday-night game

at Yankee Stadium, despite pennant-race

differences between the 'visitahs' from

Boston (Stew, Steve, Jeff, and Frank) and

the New York crowd (Dave, Mike,

Michael, and Todd—still a Bronx boy,

even after thirty years in Israel). The

Chicago (JefF) and SF (Josh) contingents.

i notes iTiarnaaes unions

in first place and 'no place,' respectively,

went along with the flow. Midnight

munchies on Broadway, a Saturday toss ot

the ball in Central Park (still had it in

'em), followed by a barbecue in the 'burbs

(at Singer's). Sunday brunch and off they

went, with promises to do it again, but

sooner than thirrs'-two more years! Warm-

ly recommended to other '74 grads, while

we still have the youthful enthusiasm and

the memory to pull it off.

"

Lisa Hammerman Cain

Mitzpc Yericho, Israel

Cain, who recendy welcomed a daughter,

Adereth Hawa, is on sabbatical from the

high school in Ma'aleh Adummim, where

she has been teaching and coordinating

the art program since 1992. She takes

online courses and a baby-swimming

class—which is not virtual—and enjoys

"this amazing gitt from above.

"

Susan Foreman Jordan

Pittsburgh

Jordan, chair ot the employee benefits

practice at Fox Rothschild, is among

twenty attorneys from the firm to be

selected for inchision in The Best Laivyen

in America 2005-2006.

Heidi Ravven

Ca/.enovia, New York

Rawen. MA'74, PhD'84, professor of

religious studies at Hamilton College in

Clinton, New York, has received a

$500,000 grant from the Ford Founda-

tion. She will receive $350,000 of the

grant over the next two years and eight

months to write a book tentatively titled

Seairhi>tgfor Ethics in a New America.

Bonnie Ann Steinberg

New Hyde Park, New York

Steinberg is the rabbi at a nursing home

in the Bronx. She and her husband, Dan

Gensler, who has a private psychology

practice in New York City and Great

Neck, New York, have two sons, Joshua,

21, a senior in college, and Micah, 18, a

senior in high school.

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Levitasov-Diab '97-Hotter Naggar 'ge-Bebchick '96 Slanger-Kulick '95

a.

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1987

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1997

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Grad

Scott Edelman and Aylin Roditi

Wayne Phillips and Caryn Mendes

Nancy Bernhaut and Bruce Scott

Stu Kolinsky and Lori Strouch

Lisa Ann Goldman and Steven Tiger

Jeremy Kaufman and Vered Hanl<in

Joshua Wyte and Mindy Goldstein

Rachel Bebchick and Eric Naggar

Richard Morris Golland and Lei Zhang

Alexis Kulick and Alexander Slanger

Matthew Tilem and Jill Rubin

Lisa Zaks and Ryan Markowltz

Yana Levitasov-Diab and Christian Hotter

Robyn Aronberg and Mike Goecke

Anne Mogilevich and Alexander Lumelsky

Katarina Stern and Neil Raphael

Jaqueline Veissid and Mark Najarian '95

Jessee Hope Boyce and Michael Grady Clements

Lee Eric Rubin and Jamie Allyn Labell

David Salama and Rebecca Abel

Larkin Tackett and Katie Klinger

Amanda Sacher and Nolan Goldberg

Jennifer Zwilling, MA'98. and Jon Rosenwasser

June 19, 2005

November 23. 2002

May 31. 2003

May 9, 2004

November 13, 2005

November 13. 2005

August 8. 2004

September 5, 2004

August 7, 2004

September 4. 2005

December 4, 2005

January 14. 2006

May 15, 2003

November 12. 2005

October 10. 2004

October 24, 2004

July 3, 2005

November 13, 2004

June 26, 2005

October 25. 2003

October 1. 2005

July 9. 2005

November 12, 2005

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Aronberg '98-Goecke

dassnotes

1975Class of 1975

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549100

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1975notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Fred Eriicli

Newton Centre, Massachusetts

Erlich is thrilled that his son Jacob has

been accepted at Brandeis (Class of

2010), where he will join sister Brittany

(Class of 2008). Jacob is also welcomed

into the Brandeis family by his aunts,

Rhonda Fried '78 and Cheryl Rosen '81;

uncles Ronald Fried '78 and Richard

Rosen '80; and first cousins Tara Schra-

ga '90, Lean Schraga '02, Ariel Fried

'09, and Adam Rosen (Class of 2010).

mvs.

Beth Pearlman

1773 Diane Road

Mendota Heights. MN 55118

1976notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

30TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Hello again, '76ers! Can you believe we

graduated almost thirty years ago? Our

30th Reunion is the perfect opportunity

to reminisce with classmates about our

college years. I know a few of us can't

make it because we'll be celebrating the

bar mitzvah of Josh Hyman, son of

Linda Snitkoff and Dov Hyman, but

we'll be there in spirit.

Donna Artz

Syracuse, New York

Artz, a professor of law at Syracuse

University's College of Law, has been

awarded the title Dean's Distinguished

Research Scholar.

Simha Ruth Rosenberg

Brooklyn, New York

Rosenberg is executive director of the

Jewish Coalition for Service, in New York,

an umbrella resource for full-time, hands-

on volunteer service programs in the Jew-

ish community. Her husband, Simka

Weintraub '75, is rabbinic director of the

Jewish Board of Family and Children's

Services' New York Jewish Healing Center.

He recently led members of his support

group for 9/1 1 families on a weeklong

"healing trip" to Jerusalem, where they

met with Israelis and Palestinians who

have lost relatives to terror and violence.

1977Fred Berg

150 East 83rd Street, #2CNew York, NY 10028

1977notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Randy Rich

McLean, Virginia

Rich is a partner in the Washington,

D.C., office of Bracewell & Giuliani,

where he has practiced energy law for

twenty years.

1978Valerie Troyansky

10 West 66th Street, #8J

New York, NY 10023

1978notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jean Fain

C'oncord, Massachusetts

Fain writes, "I'm publishing my tried-

and-true weight-loss strategies on a series

of audio CDs, beginning with Eat to

Live & Lose Weight!The first CDinstructs listeners

how to hypnotize

themselves safely,

'tiL^ ^H again and again, co

their desired weight.

Two dozen studies

have shown that hyp-

nosis helps people

lose more weight and

keep it off longer, without dieting. The

Eat to Live & Lose Weight! CD features

an introduction to hypnosis and healthy

eating, and the same trance I teach my

weight-management clients. In addition

to using hypnosis regularly in my private

practice, I teach hypnosis at Cambridge

Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of

Harvard Medical School, and write for

O. The Oprah Magazine, among other

women's magazines. More information

about my weight-loss CDs is available on

my Web site <www.ieanfain.com>."

1979Ruth Strauss Fleischmann

8 Angier Road

Lexington, MA 02420

1979notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robert Schuckit

Carmel, Indiana

Schuckit has opened his own law firm,

Schuckit and Associates, specializing in

commercial litigation and transactions.

The firm is in Indianapolis and employs

five attorneys.

1980Lewis Brooks

585 Glen Meadow Road

Richboro, PA 18954

1980notes.alumni.brandeis.edu

Shelley Reed

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Reed, whose black-and-white paintings

are inspired by centuries-old artwork, was

awarded the 2005 Maud Morgan Prize

by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The prize is given annually to a Massa-

chusetts female artist in midcareer who

"celebrates the spirit of adventure and

independence " embodied by the late

New England artist Maud Morgan. As a

Maud Morgan Prize recipient. Reed

received $5,000 for the purchase of one

of her paintings to be added to the muse-

um's contemporary art collection. Reed,

who received her art degree from the

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,

showed her work extensively in Boston

and New York in the late 1980s and early

1 990s, and is now repre.sented exclusively

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classnotes

by a New York galler\'. After a break from

exhibiting to raise two children, she is

again showing her works.

Mark Sack

Orange Village, Ohio

Sack served as captain of the USA's

silver-medal-winning master's division

basketball team at last summer's Interna-

tional Maccabiah Games in Israel. Fellow

Brandeisian Michael Lichtenstein '79

competed on the master's division

triathlon team. Other than playing "old

men's basketball " from time to time, Sack

works in the education profession and

Sack '80 and Liclieribiein /^

practices law on the side. He is a teacher

leader in a Bill and Melinda Gates Foun-

dation "small schools" initiative, which

seeks to transform large, impersonal pub-

lic urban high schools into several small-

er, high-achieving learning communities.

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tmrnBGDavid J. Allon

540 Weadley Road

Wayne, PA 19087

1981notes@alumni.brandels.edu

25TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Arthur Eric Mallock

Stoughton, Massachusetts

Mallock is a veterinarian and owner

of the Lloyd Animal Medical Center

in Stoughton.

Bramieis I ni\oi>ilv Ma<iaziin- I Wiiiiri- ()()

classnotes

1984Class of 1984

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549100

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1984notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1985James R. Felton

26956 Helmond Drive

Calabasas, CA 91301

1985notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

m»KBeth Jacobowitz Zive

16 Furlong Drive

Cherry Hill, NJ 080031986notes'a)alumni. brandeis.edu

20TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Susan Silver Bartell

Port Washington, New York

Bartell, a psychologist specializing in

teens, will have her third book. Dr.

Susan's Girls-Only Weight Loss Guide.

published in winter 2006. She writes,

"Life is fast-paced and fast-moving. Myhusband Lewis and 1 are starting to

realize that, before long, we will have

three of our own teens (they are 11, 9,

and 7 now)!"

Julie Stern Dorfman

New Rochelle, New York

Dorfman is the director of the Early

Childhood Center at the Jewish Com-munity Center of Mid-Westchester

in Scarsdale.

Wayne Phillips

Clifton, New Jersey

Phillips married Caryn Mendes on

November 23, 2002. They welcomed

their first child, Harrison Cooper, in

2004 and are expecting their second

child in March.

1987Vanessa B. Newman153 East 57th Street, #2GNew York, NY 10022

1987notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Dave Hollander

New York Citv

Hollanders new book, 52 Weeks: Inter-

views with Champions, was published in

October 2005 by Lyons Press. The book,

which contams fifrs'-two interviews with

past and present sports figures, has

received praise from the New York Times,

SportsIllustrated.com, the Newark Star-

Ledger, WFAN Radio, and Penthouse

magazine.

Lucy E. Reyes

Milton, Massachusetts

Reyes writes, "My husband, Mike

McLaughlin, and I have decided to

take some time away from the law and

pursue our hobbies. This summer, we

will travel across the country via RV,

exploring each city and town on our

way, by motorcycle. I recently purchased

my first Harley and am really excited

about seeing the country this way. If

youd like us to visit you, contact me at

<Lreyesl64@comcast.net>, and we'll try

to schedule vou in."

1988Class of 1988

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1988notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Alexander Azbel

Maitland, Florida

Azbel is a partner in the Orlando

Regional Medical Center radiology group.

1989Class of 1989

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1989notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Stu Kolinsky

New York City

Kolinsk\' married Lori Strouch on

May 9, 2004, in Great Neck, Long

Island. Brandeis alumni in attendance

included Sharon Schechter Kolinsky

'62, Carrie Kolinsky Gordon '85,

David Zieper, Mike Freedman, Howard

Elman, Gayle Zimberg Rosenberg,

Betsy Moses Album, Jennifer Stein-

haus Goldstein, Polly Flaum Zieper

'88, Stefanie Martin Elman '91,

Charlie Savenor '91, Mark Cohen '78,

Roberta Weinstein-Cohen '79, Marc

Damsky '91, and Rati Rone '92.

Kolinsky left his job as a lawyer in

Manhattan after ten years in practice,

and upon returning from his honey-

moon in Hawaii, began a career as a

mortgage broker at FCMC Mortgage

Corporation, originating loans in NewYork, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania,

and Connecticut.

Brandeisians were well-represented at

last summer's Chai Time at the Ritz

fundraising event for the Jewish Com-munity Center of the North Shore in

Marblehead, Massachusetts. From left,

Elissa Kupelnick '90, committeemember; Dana (Wayne) Gonzales '89,

attendee; Dr. Helyne (Hander) Hamel-burg '87, attendee; Dr. Stephen

Hamelburg '87, ad-book cochair; Kate

(Spivak) Friedman '89, event cochair;

and Barbara (Goldblatt) Goodman'88, committee member.

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iiiiiienioriam

Alumni

Marie Ethel Gordean '54

New York City

Ms. Gordean died peacefully on

November 9, 2005. She worked in

public relations for more than tour

decades and was a member of the Associ-

ation of Theatrical Press Agents and

Managers. She loved New York City and

its people, adored traveling, was a con-

stant supporter of her synagogue, and

was a true patron of the arts.

Toby Sheinfeld Nussbaum '60

New York City

Ms. Ntissbaum, who was active in politi-

cal, community, and philanthropic

endeavors throughout her life, died

January 3 after a lengthy battle with

pancreatic cancer.

She served as finance chair for U.S.

Representative Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) in

Lowey's first race for Congress, in 1988;

as an elector in the 1992 presidential

election; and as an officer of the Westch-

ester Counrv (N.Y.) Democratic Party.

She also served on the board of trustees

at Brandeis and Westchester Community

College. Ms. Nussbaum was deeply

involved with the UJA-Federation of

New York, Metropolitan Council for

Jewish Poverty, Jewish Community'

Relations Council, and America-Israel

Cultural Foundation, and served as an

officer of Temple Israel Center of White

Plains. For many years, she sang in

Carnegie Hall as a member of the chorus

of the New York Oratorio Society.

She is survived by her husband,

Bernie; two sons, Peter and Frank; a

daughter, Emily; two brothers. Jay and

Bob Sheinfeld; three grandchildren; and

several nieces and nephews.

Emily Shain Mehlman '63

Brookline, Massachusetts

Mrs. Mehlman, known to her friends as

the "Jewish angel" because of her com-

passion for people, died February 12 at

the age of 64.

During the late 1980s and early '90s,

Mrs. Mehlman helped many Soviet

immigrants adjust to life in the United

States. She assisted them with housing

and banking issues—even with under-

standing the differences between prod-

ucts at the supermarket. She was also

involved with the Jewish WomenArchive Project, a taped oral history of

elderly members of the Jewish commu-nity who had lived through significant

historical events; volunteered at WBZradio's Callfor Action program; served

as a docent at the Boston Athenaeum;

and frequently tended to people with

illnesses and to individuals with new-

born children.

She is survived by her husband.

Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman; two sons,

Jonathan of Scarsdale, New York, and

David of Brooklyn, New York; a sister,

Harriet Steinberg of Brookline; a step-

mother, Elaine Shain of Brookline; and

four grandchildren.

Carol Kirschenbaum '67

New York City

Ms. Kirschenbaum died November 8,

2005. She is survived by a brother. Dr.

Ira Kirschenbaum of Boston.

David H. Engelhard, MA'69, PhD'70

Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Rev. Dr. Engelhard, general secretaty

emeritus of the Christian Reformed

Church in North America, died Decem-

ber 22, 2005. A dedicated servant of

God, he also taught Old Testament and

Hebrew at Calvin Theological Seminaty

for twenty-four years. He is survived by

his wife, Jeanne (Stuit); two daughters

and sons-in-law, Kristin and Chris Grek

and Erin and John Molhoek; a son and

daughter-in-law, David Jr. and Alisa; four

grandchildren, Caleb, Gideon, Naomi,

and Courtney; his mother, Hermine; sib-

lings; and many other family members.

Conrad O'Donnell '76

South Boston

Mr. O'Donnell, executive director of

Shiver Clinical Services and Shiver Nurs-

ing, died November 19, 2005. After

graduating from Brandeis, he went on to

earn an MBA from Suffolk University.

He is survived by a son; rwo brothers,

Ellis and Larry of Mendon; a sister-in-

law, Debra of Mendon; and several

nieces and nephews and close friends.

Patti Wilde Marcus, MA'85

Sudbury, Massachusetts

Ms. Marcus, program director at the

Stephen Palmer Senior Center in Need-

ham for the past four years, died

December 28, 2005. She is survived by

her husband, Mark; a daughter, Carolyn

Wilde; a son, Philip Wilde; her father,

Farley; three brothers, Jonathan, David,

and Daniel Soroff ; a sister, Jody Chin;

and many other family members and

close friends.

Melissa Ann Santacreu '91

Orlando, Florida

Ms. Santacreu, an accomplished commu-

nications professional, died Januaty 2

after a long battle with cancer. She

worked for major New York City finan-

cial firms and, most recently, as a star pro-

ducer for the family business. An avid

traveler, she enjoyed visiting and experi-

encing the different cultures of the world.

She is survived by her husband, Jean-

Michel; a son, Mateo; two stepdaughters,

Allison and Michelle; her parents; and a

brother, Neal, and his wife, Stephanie.

Renee Beth Shatz-Amdur, MA'93

Edison, New Jersey

Ms. Shatz-Amdur died November 20,

2005. She devoted herself to the Jewish

community all her adult life. She is

survived by her husband, Niv; her

parents, Judith and Harvey Shatz; a

grandmother, Lillian Chodash; and

many family members and friends.

Faculty

Gerald Bernstein

Department of Fine Arts

Professor Bernstein, a

longtime faculty

member in the

Department of Fine

Arts, died Januaty 8

after a long illness.

A specialist in

modern and contem-

porary architecture. Professor Bernstein

joined the Brandeis faculty in 1968 and

chaired the fine arts department from

1979 to 1981 and 1985 to 1986.

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He won many awards for his teaching,

including the Alumni Association

Recognition Award, National WomensCommittee Recognition Award, and

Brandeis Annual Teaching Award. Last

spring, he received the first Leonard

Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

Award lor distinguished service to the

arts at Brandeis.

Professor Bernstein was regarded as an

expert on the history of the Brandeis

campus, and was a contributor to

Building a Campus: An Architectural

Celebration ofBrandeis University's 50th

Anniversary. He also helped found

Boston Bv Foot walking architectural

tours of the city.

Gifts in his memory may be made to

the new Brandeis Fine Arts Building

fund. Send check (payable to Brandeis

University and note "In Memory of Ger-

ald Bernstein") to Brandeis University,

Office of Development and Alumni

Relations, PO Box 5491 10, MS 122,

Waltham, MA 02454-91 10.

Robert Morris

Heller School

Professor Morris, a faculty member at the

Heller School and a pioneering social-

welfare educator, died October 14, 2005,

at the age of 94. Mr. Morris joined the

Heller School in its inaugural year, 1959,

as one of several founding facult)'. As

director of the school's Levinson Geronto-

logical Policy Institute, he launched an

initiative on personal care for poor elders

in the community, gaining national visi-

bility for his novel social-welfare ideas.

Trustees

Alva "Ted" Bonda

Trustee Emeritus

Mr. Bonda, a longtime trustee and

former owner of the Cleveland Indians

baseball team, died October 22, 2005, at

the age of 88. He was elected a trustee in

1981, having served previously as chair-

man of the Brandeis Fellows. He was

elected a trustee emeritus in 1985. Mr.

Bonda is survived by two sons, Joel and

Thomas; a daughter. Penny; five grand-

children; and three great-grandchildren.

•lassnotes

1990Judith Libhaber Webe4 Augusta Court

New City, NY 10956

1990notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello, Class of 1990! I hope the new

year has been happy for you and your

loved ones. I am currently serving as

president ot the New York State Psycho-

logical Association's clinical division.

What's new in your lives? Please send me

a note so that our classmates can know

what you've been doing of late. Looking

forward to hearing from you soon.

Suneeti Singh

Dehradun, India

Singh, who majored in English and

American literature, is a writer, based

in Europe.

Wil •1»1

Andrea C. Kramer

PO Box 5496

Takoma Park, MD 20913-5496

1991notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

15TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Get ready for an exciting year that can

help you reconnect with your alma mater!

Believe it or not, our 15th Reunion is just

around the corner. Make your plans now

to come, and help spread the excitement

among our classmates!

Lisa C. Sherman Burnett

Philadelphia

Burnett has been named a partner in the

international law firm Dechert, effective

lanuary 1. She practices in the corporate

and securities, mergers and acquisitions,

private equity, and venture capital

groups, and is based in the firm's

Philadelphia office.

Steven Fassler

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Fassler and wife Anne Skopp '92 wel-

comed a daughter, Lucy, in 2005. She

joins sisters Mikayla and Julia. Fa,ssler is

a colon and rectal surgeon in Abington.

Jonathan Fuchs

San Francisco

Fuchs writes, "After completing a Dorot

Fellowship in Israel (1991-92), 1 com-

pleted med school at the University of

Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

and a master's in public health at Colum-

bia University. I then completed my inter-

nal-medicine residency at the University

of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As

an assistant clinical professor of medicine,

I direct an HIV vaccine clinical trial unit,

testing experimental preventive vaccines at

UCSF and the San Francisco Department

of Public Health. I lead a National Insti-

tutes of Health-funded training program

for fourteen developing-world vaccine

trial sites that help build clinical research

capacity. I recently returned from Cape

Town, South Africa, where I trained a

local investigative team as it embarked on

its first HIV vaccine clinical trial. 1 live

with my partner of six years, Steven

Glomstad, a critical-care nurse, and our

rather rambunctious golden retriever,

Bailey, in a renovated 1901 Victorian.

"

Julie Hoffman Marshall

Lafayette, Colorado

Marshall's latest book. Making Burros

Fly: Cleveland Amory, Animal Rescue

Pioneer, will be published in May by

Big Earth Publishing. The book is a

tribute to world-renowned author,

Boston society critic, journalist, and

self-described curmudgeon Cleveland

Amorv, who lounded the NewYork-based Fund for Animals.

Daniel Richer

Framingham, Massachusetts

Richer and wife Rachel welcomed their

first child. Max Simson, in 2004. Max

joins Sadie the pug.

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classnoTc'8

1992Lisa Davidson Fiore

34 Van Ness Road

Belmont, MA 02478

1992notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello, classmates! Since the last issue of

this magiizine, Johnny Damon left the

Red Sox for New York, Angelina

announced she's carrying Brad's baby, and

my son became potty trained. Actually,

only two of these is true. The other is

wishful thinking on my part. Timing is

ever)'thing, or so they say. Ple.ise

continue to submit updates to me via

e-mail, paper and pen, or phone.

Dan Fishman

Framingham, Massachu.setts

Fishman and Elizabeth Rabkin were mar-

ried at the White Cliffs in Northborough

on januarv 1 . After traveling as a

consultant tor the pharmaceutical and

medical device industries tor eight years,

Fishman moved back to Boston, where

he works in corporate compliance for

Boston Scientific.

Brian Kirschner

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Kirschner is director ot communications

and new media for the Philadelphia

76ers organization. He and his wile,

Caren (Gever), a pediatrician, have a

4-year-old son, Nate.

Gary Kletter

San Mateo, California

Kletter is a founding partner of the

San Francisco law firm Kletter & Peretz.

He and his wife welcomed a son, Ethan

Benjamin, last year.

Joshua Wyte

Loveland, Colorado

Wyte writes, "Since graduating, I spent a

year in Vail as a ski bum, then lived in

Boston with Robb Sctiachter for about

eight months before moving back to San

Diego to complete a postbac in premed at

UCSD. I then went to Case Western

Reserve University Dental School. I joined

the Coast Guard right out ot dental school

Braiulcl-, I'lliviTsilN \l:m;i/llii' I Wiiilir (Kj

A Career with All the Perks

It almost seems like a commercial for Lin-

coln Street Coffee. A woman balancing a

mug and some treats heads to an over-

stuffed chair across from a couch. "Don't

you love this place?" she says to the friend

who joins her. "It's kind ot like a Brook-

lyn spot."

That's no coincidence, as the owners

—

and New York Cirv natives—Peter '91 and

Larissa Meyer '91 have unveiled a cottee

shop reminiscent of a Big Apple gathering

place, with touches that fit upscale, protes-

sional Newton Highlands, Massachusetts.

The couple, who met at Brandeis, had al-

ways joked about opening their own coffee

shop, but a "For Rent" sign in a storefront

minutes from their home inspired them to

joke no longer. And about a year ago, Lin-

coln Street Coffee was born.

Peter, the primary manager for the busi-

ness, left his job in the hospitality industr)'

at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston

(previously he worked for the Ritz-Carlton)

to provide hospit.ilit\' to his own neighbors.

Larissa, a physician, has kept her day job as

a faculty member of Harvard Medical

School, where she teaches and does breast

cancer research. She occasionally dons an

apron, however, and serves drinks.

In addition to offering a variety of bev-

erages, sandwiches, and soups, the shop

displays local artwork and hosts live music

on Friday nights. The Meyers designed a

tamily-friendly environment—little

chairs, toys, and children's books mix with

the Tiffany lamps and antique tables—to

accommodate customers' children as well

as their own, Andrew, 3, and Jonah, 5. In

fact, their children as much as their love

tor cotfeehouses motivated them to open

the business. Working in hotels, Peter

says, would never allow him the time he

wanted with his kids.

"It's a financial investment in our fu-

ture and a social investment in our fami-

ly," Larissa says.

Ot course, it's also hard work, and con-

cerns about running the business can

cause stress, as Peter points out. He knew

he needed to relax a bit when he expressed

shock that an employee sliced a sandwich

diagonally. Such things happen, he says,

when you invest your money and your

soul in your livelihood.

"You never appreciate until you're in

business how much responsibility you

feel," says Peter. "It's not only your job,

it's your creation. It's very exciting, and it's

exhausting."

Business has met their expectations so

far, and they still get a kick out of seeing

their neighbors as well as Brandeis profes-

sors and alumni enjoying the shop. But

nothing can beat the customer who strolls

to the counter, and before saying a word is

asked by a barrista, "Would you like your

usual?" A cotfeehouse where people order

the usual is just the kind ot place the

Meyers want.

—Lewis I. Rice

classiiotes

and spent five years' active dim' on Cape

Cod. I met my wife, Mindy Coldstein,

and we were married August 8, 2004, and

mo\ed to Lox'eland. I'm in private practice

and am a reservist with the Colorado Air

National Guard. Our first child, Mia Ava,

was born last year."

1993Joshua Blumenthal

467 Valley Street. #6-G

Maplewood, NJ 07040

1993notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Michelle Berk Gold

Potomac, Maryland

Gold has been elected partner at the

Washington, D.C.-based law firm Fried,

Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson.

Deborah Waller Meyers

Arlington, Virginia

Meyers has been promoted to senior

policy analyst at the Migration Policy

Institute in Washington, D.C. She and

her husband. Bill, recendy celebrated

their tenth anniversary and take great

pride in their 6-year-old daughter,

Amanda, and 3-year-old son, Jason.

Jenna Sebolsky Rubenstein

Studio City, California

Rubenstein works as an organization

development and training manager at

Amgen, Inc., a biotechnology company.

She and her husband Josh, a meteorologist

tor KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, welcomed

their first child, Rachel Celia, last summer.

1994Sandy Kirschen Solof

28 Francis Street

Avon, CT 06001

1994notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jordan Grotzinger

Westwood, Calitornia

Grotzinger, an attorney whose practice

includes commercial and entertainment

litigation, has been promoted to

shareholder at Greenberg IVaurig's Los

Angeles office. A graduate of Southwest-

ern University School of Law, he joined

the firm in 2001 as an associate.

1995Suzanne Lavin

154 W. 70th Street, Apt. lOJ

New York, NY 10023

1995notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Mark Najarian

Los Angeles

See Jacqueline Veissid '98.

1011110•T»1

Janet J. Lipmannt

c/o MIdreshet Rachel

PO Box 3151

Jerusalem 96343, Israel

or

Class of 1996

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1996notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

lOTH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Kathryn Foster

Springfield, Massachusetts

Foster writes, "I married Paul Foster in

1997. We have two children, Michacia,

3, and Nathan, almost 2. We've been in

Springfield for the last five years, pursu-

ing campus and urban ministry with

InterVarsiry Christian Fellowship. 1 just

left employment with them and amapplying tor social work grad school for

next tail."

Richard Morris Golland

lokushima, Japan

Golland married Lei Zhang on

August 7, 2004. He works as an

English teacher.

Alexis Kulick

Los Angeles

Kulick and Alexander Slanger were

married September 4, 2005, at the Los

Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank.

They honeymooned for two and a halt

weeks in Greece and Italy. The couple

recently purchased a condo in Los

Angeles, where Alexander works as an

actor and real-estate appraiser, and

Alexis works as a clinical psychologist

in an inpatient chronic pain-

management program.

Matthew Ohison

Gainesville, Florida

Ohison writes, "I have recently received

a four-year doctoral fellowship from the

College of Education at the University ot

Florida. My wife, Tiffany, and I will be

pursuing our Ph.D.'s in hopes of

improving the curriculum and instruc-

tion being implemented in schools. Our

son, Gabriel, just turned 2 and loves our

new home in Gainesville."

Paul Shipper

Rochester, New York

Shipper works as an appellate court

attorney for the New York State Supreme

Court, Appellate Division, Fourth

Department, in Rochester. He and his

wife, Talya, welcomed their first child,

Max Benjamin, last spring.

Matthew Tilem

Newton, Massachusetts

Tilem and Jill Rubin were married

December 4, 2005, at the State House in

Boston. Jill is assistant corporate counsel

at Fresenius Medical Care of Lexington,

and Matthew is a staff neurologist at

Lahey Clinic in Burlington.

Dena Groothuis Weiner

Glen Head, New York

Weiner and her husband welcomed their

second daughter, Hannah Simone. She

joins sister Andie. Weiner is taking a few

years off to be a mom and says she

enjoys being home. She hopes to make it

to Reunion 2006!

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classnotcs

1997Joshua Firstenber

96 29th Street, #2

San Francisco, CA 94110

1997notesia'alumni. brandeis.edu

or

Pegah Hendizadeh Schiffman

58 Joan Road

Stamford, CT 06905

1998Alexis Hirst

502 East 79th Street, #5DNew York, NY 10021

1998notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robyn Aronberg

Washington, D.C.

Aronberg married Mike Goecke on

November 12, 2005, in Washington,

D.C. Brandeis alumni in attendance were

Elie Schochet '97, Abby Siege! Scho-

chet '98, Dan Silverboard '98, Laura

Surwit '98, IVIA'99, Jeremy Sharp '98,

Karen (Youman) Rogol '98, Mark

Rogol, Michele (Greenwald) Glik '98,

Melissa Rock '98, Duane Ludwig,

Steve Glik '98, Jana Sharp, and Hilary

Reich '93. Robyn and Mike honey-

mooned in South Africa and live in

Washington, D.C. Robyn is an attorney

with Coventry Health Care, and Mike is

an attorney with Crowell and Moring.

Anne Mogilevich

West Hartford, Connecticut

Mogilevich married Alexander Lumelsky

on October 10, 2004. Her bridesmaids

were Olga Volfson Morgovsky, Angela

Zhurbilo, and Marina Baranovsky.

Katarina Stern Raphael and

Neil Raphael

Quincy, Massachusetts

The Raphaels were married October 24,

2004, at Crest Hollow Country Club on

Long Island. Brandeisians in attendance

were Michael Liss '98, Pedro Fontes

'00, Evan Trost '98, Marina Mazor

'98, Lori Weiss '98, Yong Sung '98,

Amy (Goss) Smalarz '98, and Nate

Sacks.

Jacqueline Veissid

Los Angeles

Veissid and Mark Najarian '95 were

married on the beach in Hull, Massa-

chusetts, on July 3, 2005. Najarian's

freshman-year roommate, Sasha Kovri-

ga '95, was the officiant. Other alumni

in attendance were Pasha Gleyzer '95,

deis

) notes

ried mv beautiful fiancee, Jamie Allyn La-

bell, under the chuppah at OceanClifFin

Newport, Rhode Island. Numerous Bran-

deisians, including my father, Richard

Aaron Rubin, MFA'72; sister, Marissa Joy

Rubin '07; and groomsmen, Lucas Baker-

Siroty, Tomur Ho, Reza Zarghamee, and

Eugene Rozenshteyn, were on hand to

make the day unforgettable."

IflMJ IIIWenLin Soh

5000 C Marine Parade Road, #12-11

Singapore 449286

or

Class of 2001

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

2001notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

5TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11

Greetings to my fellow classmates. I'm

currently commuting between my home

base in Singapore, and Hong Kong,

Guangzhou, and Shanghai for a strategy

consulting project at work. When at

home, I'm trying my best to get time oft

to attend our class Reunion. I hope you

will too, and we can meet up then!

Julia Becker

Philadelphia

Becker writes: "My partner, Ashley

Agerson, and I had a commitment cere-

mony in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in April

2005. We were surrounded by family

and friends, including some Brandeis

people—AM Brennan, Cheryl Green-

wald, Jennie Meier '00, Andrea

Sorokin, and Oren Barouch '02. Ashley

and I graduated medical school in June

and moved to Philadelphia, where I

started residency in internal medicine at

the University of Pennsylvania."

Devorah Bondarin

New York City

Bondarin writes: "I am finishing myMFA in directing at Brooklyn College in

New York City, where I directed my

thesis production of David Lindsay-

Abaire's Wonder ofthe World last fall. I

am currently working on a few projects

and would love to connect with other

theater arts alums in the New York City

area. E-mail <devbond@yahoo.com>."

Francesca DiFulvio

Richmond, Virginia

DiFulvio writes: "I am working in

administration at the Faison School for

Autism, a private, nonprofit school for

children with developmental delays. I'm

also pursuing a master's in public admin-

istration at Virginia Commonwealth

University."

Mary Faber

Brooklyn, New York

Faber made her Broadway debut as Kate

Monster in Avenue Q on December 26,

2005.

Shana (Ratafia-Brown) Gertner

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Gertner gave birth to a son, Samuel Tal,

on July 16,2005.

Jordan Isenstadt

New York City

Isenstadt and Lauren Rifkin met during

their junior year at Brandeis and have

lived together in New York City since

2002. Lauren recently started a new job

as a brand manager at VNU Business

Media. Jordan is communications direc-

tor for a New York state senator and is

pursuing a master's in public administra-

tion at Baruch College.

Seth D. Michaels

Somerville, Massachusetts

Michaels continues to write and perform

with the Late Night Players. In the past

year, the group has traveled from Maine

to Arkansas, Florida to South Dakota,

and everywhere in between. They've

raised money for tsunami relief, hurricane

relief, children's theater workshops, and

the Campaign to End AIDS, and have

acted as creative consultants to the Demo-

cratic National Committee. Check out

<www.latenightplayers.com> for the latest

adventures of Seth D. and the gang.

Elliot OxmanHanover, New Hampshire

Oxman writes: "Promoted to lieutenant

and serving as a criminal defense attor-

ney in the Navy JAG Corps. Stationed

in Jacksonville, Florida. Area of opera-

tions covering South Carolina down to

Puerto Rico, and including GITMO(Guantanamo Bay, Cuba)."

Selamawit Paulos

Framingham, Massachusetts

Paulos is engaged to Adam Abate. The

ceremony will be in Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia.

Betsy Loren Plumb

New Orleans

Plumb writes: "My house and job

survived Katrina. I'm back and watching

New Orleans slowly but surely return to

normalcy. I wish love and strength to all

of my fellow New Orleanian 'Deis

alums."

Josh Rubin

New York City

Rubin writes, "I'm currendy a third-year

medical student doing my clinical

rotations. That's really all that's going on

in my life!"

2002Hannah R. Johnson

1688 Devonshire South Drive, Apt. F

Greenwood, IN 46143

2002notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Michael Izen

Tenatly, New Jersey

Izen writes, "In August 2005, I started

studying for my doctorate of veterinary

medicine at St. George's University

School of Veterinary Medicine in

Grenada, West Indies. I will spend three

years at St. George's and my fourth

clinical year will be spent at an affiliate

veterinary school in the United States.

My passion is small animals. I am very

excited about pursuing my career as

a veterinarian."

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class notes

2003Caroline Litwack

1602 44th Street NWWashington, D.C. 20007

2003notesiaialumni.brandeis.edu

Happy New Year! Lots of exciting news

from our classmates this issue. Best of

luck, everyone! As always, feel free to

e-mail me if you have any milestones or

just want to make contact with old

friends.

Leah Berkowitz

Brooklyn, New York

Berkowitz is in her third year of rabbinic

school at Hebrew Union College-Jewish

Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). She

spent her first year in |erusalem and now

studies in New York City. She is head

chef of the HUC-JIR soup kitchen and

serves a small congregation in Monessen,

Pennsylvania.

Noah Branman

Cupertino, California

Last August, Branman started a new job

as social action project coordinator at

Hillel at Stanford Universit}'. He oversees

social action and tzedek programming,

particularly tor Camp Kesem, a camp for

kids whose parents have or had cancer.

Jonathan Sclarsic

Ithaca, New York

After working on several political cam-

paigns, Sclarsic started his first semester

at Cornell Law School last fall.

Harris Eisenberg

Falls Church, Virginia

Eisenberg received an MBA from Ameri-

can University's Kogod School of Busi-

ness last spring and then moved to Falls

Church. He began working as the man-

ager of client service for a small branding

agency, Mediastudio, Inc., where he

manages most projects, both internally

and externally, and handles many of the

firm's internal business operations and

corporate development.

2004Audra Lissell

11 Cross Street

Plympton, MA 02367

2004notes'aialumni.brandeis.edu

2005Judith Lupatkin

15 York Terrace

Brookline, MA 02446

2005notes@alumni.brandels.edu

Hi, everyone! I hope your first six

months outside the Brandeis bubble

have proven successful. Congratulations

to Amanda Sacher Goldberg on her

marriage to Nolan tioldberg (see Class

Note below). I'd like to remind everyone

to visit the alumni Web site and create a

forwarding <alumni. brandeis.edu>

account to stay up-to-date with alumni

events in your area. That's it for now.

I wish everyone all the best in the

upcoming months. If there is anything

you would like to share with the

Brandeis community, e-mail me at

<Judith@alumni.brandeis.edu>.

Amanda Sacher Goldberg

Jersey City, New Jersey

Goldberg married Nolan Goldberg at

Gedney Farm in the Berkshircs on July

9, 2005. She is a national recruiter at

UBS in Weehawken, New Jersey. She

targets candidates from various industry

backgrounds, puts them through a two-

year paid training program, and trains

them to advise and offer financial coun-

sel to their clients. Her husband is a

patent attorney, specializing in telecom-

munications, at Proskauer Rose in

New York City.

GRADRuth Deech, MA'66

Oxford, United Kingdom

Deech has been appointed a life peer in

the House of Commons, where

she will serve as an independent non-

party member.

Antonio Samson, MA'67 PhD'69

Cagayan De Oro, Philippines

Samson was installed as president of

Ateneo de Davao University on

September 24, 2005.

Robert K. Boeckman Jr., PhD'71

Honeove Falls, New York

Boeckman, the Marshall D. Gates Jr.

Professor of Chemistry at the University

of Rochester, will receive a 2006 Ameri-

can Chemical Society Arthur S. Cope

Scholar Award, the top honor in organic

chemistry. Boeckman's research focuses

on new ways to construct complex

organic molecules by controlling the

three-dimensional spatial arrangement of

atoms. He joined the University of

Rochester in 1980 and has chaired the

chemistry department since 2003.

Gideon Rappaport, MA73, PhD'79

San Diego

Rappaport teaches English and

humanities at the Bishop's School in

La Jolla, California, moonlights as

theatrical dramaturge on productions

ot Shakespeare, and can be read online

at <www.raplog.blogspot.com>. He

recently edited Dusk and Dawn; Poems

and Prose ofPhilip Thompson, available

from One Mind Good Press at

<www.onemindgoodpress.com>.

Henry Srebrnik, MA'73

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Srebrnik is a professor in the Department

ot Political Studies at the Universin' of

Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown,

Canada. He served as coeditor of

De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty,

published in 2004 by Routledge.

Janet Neiprls, MFA75New York City

Neipris is a playwright and head ot

graduate studies in dramatic writing at

New York University's Tisch School of

the Arts. She has recently had a book ot

her lectures and essays on theater and

writing. To Be a Playwright, published

by Routledge.

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The Old City: December 2005 By Mike Lovcii

I had the good fortune to be part of a Brandeis contingent that traveled to Jerusalem in December to participate in

the nascent partnership between Brandeis and Al-Quds University.

As we headed out to grab a bite on our second evening there, I decided to leave my camera bag at the hotel, its thirty

pounds of equipment already beginning to take a toll on my back. During a postdinner stroll, our host. Dr. Hasan,

offered to show us a "unique" view of the Old City from the Mount of Olives. Unique? Try breathtaking—the type of

expansive, picturesque landscape every photographer dreams of capturing on film. I did all I could to keep from kicking

myself for violating the first rule of photography: always bring a camera.

A few nights later, I made my way back to the identical spot, equipment in hand. Steadying the camera on a stone

wall, I took this image. Illuminated in the top right is the Dome of the Rock, the oldest Muslim building dating to

691. The foreground is replete with ancient above-ground tombs that seem to tumble off the hillside.

I was moved to be standing on holy ground. And the panorama spreading out before me, with its three distinct

layers—the simple tombs bounded by the green slopes encircling the incredibly lit city—overwhelmed my senses.

Shimmering in the distance, Jerusalem that night truly looked like a city of gold.

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contentsSummer 2006 Volume 26, Number 2

departments3 Mail Call

4 RuminationsOvercoming slavery's sexual legacy.

Take 5

Karen Adler Abramson '85, MA'94.

6 Innermost Parts

41 FieldworkMurder most foul.

43 SportsMarry Zelnik '61 earns Hall pass.

45 Books

56 Arts

Exotic sounds from the Middle East.

80 Class NotesAlumni profiles, births/adoptions,

marriages/unions, in memoriam.

103 Games

104 Photo Finish

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Confronting the NightmareHistorian David Oshinsky, PhD'71, takes on polio and

takes home the Pulitzer.

By Theresa Pease

The Biology of Social Justice

Heller School professor weighs the health effects of

growing up poor.

By Laura Gardner

NerveAn original comic by A. David Lewis '99.

Commencement 2006Prince ofJordan sends graduates off in style.

By Carrie Simmons

Experiential learning pays off for graduates.

By Tamar Morad

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Shoulders of GiantsThe inaugural copy of the redesigned Brandeis University Magazine

looks great, and 1 enjoyed several of the articles. What a great

vehicle for displaying Lois Greenfields exciting photographs; keep

up the phenomenal visual features.

I'm so excited that this year is the sesquicentennial of [Justice

Louis] Brandeis's birth, and 1 would also love to see more coverage

ol that lact, and about the university's and its community's role as a

living legacy to Brandeis's life and work. We stand on the shoulders

of giants, and I like it that the newly redesigned magazine is

determined to make the view up here especially nice!

Sara Cormeny '92

Portland, Oregon

Change Is GoodI just wanted to let you know how much I

like the new look and layout of the maga-

zine. It's a lot easier to navigate, and the

photography is excellent. It all makes for a

ver)' enjoyable read.

—Christine (Tomasello) Gallagher '87

Fairfax, Virginia

I enjoyed the recent issue, containing the

double crostic. Although not difficult for

this puzzle fan, it was a fian brain exercise

(see article by Laura Gardner) for us

alumni who are looking forward to the

50th Reunion.

—Lea Kanner Bleyinan '58

New York City

I wouldn't be true to my Brandeis roots if 1

didn't have something to say about the

"new" magazine. It's almost all good news

—

I like all the changes you "reaped," as noted

on page 2. My only comments concern

• The size of the font. I estimate it to be

about 9-point, which is not reader friendly.

• I think readers would appreciate having

the various sections highlighted or sepa-

rated in some way, perhaps by vertical

bullets on the right edge of the right page.

Separating the [feature] articles from the

alumni-specific sections would especially

be welcomed.

But tor that, a job well done.

—Robert N. "Robin" Brooks '57

Amherst, Massachusetts

Congratulations on a terrific redesign. From

cover to cover, it is a dynamic and enjoyable

publication that captures the very best of

Brandeis. Well done!

—Rich Welch '83

New York City

I just loved the dance photography article

["Dancing with Lois Greenfield"] and the

discussion about the Ku Klux Klan

["Fieldwork"] in the last issue. As an

episodic dancer, I was so impressed with

Lois Greenfield's ability to capture a

moment of movement. I also enjoyed the

nuanced approach to the other article cov-

ering a very difficult social issue. Keep up

the good work.

Sharon Nemvald. MMHS'82Oklahoma City

On Second ThoughtI find the recollections of Robert Zand faulty

when he says he was Brandeis's first chem-

istry PhD ["The Start of Something Big,"

Vol. 24, Nos. 1 and 2]. I have photographs

of the 1961 PhD graduation that clearly

show the order in which the degrees were

awarded. The recipients were Inga Mahler,

first PhD in biolog)', followed by me, first

PhD in chemistry, Ezra Khedouri, and

thirdly and last in chemistry, Robert Zand.

— W. Glenn Howells, PhD'61

Albany/Berkeley, California

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Slavery's ShadowSexual exploitation of women still echoes today. By Bernadette Brooten

Biblical religions have inspired U.S. ideals of freedom, justice,

and the dignity and worth of every human being. But in the

history of the country, people have also used religion to sub-

vert these very ideals by supporting and justifying the subordina-

tion ofwomen and the institution of slavery. During the Civil War,

for example, virtually all pro-slavery advocates, most ofwhom were

Protestant, appealed to the Bible in support of slavery.

While slavery as a legal institution is, of course, long over in the

United States, slave-holding values continue to influence modern

American society. We have not yet overcome the idea that wives

should obey their husbands, that parents own their children, or that

sex can entail ownership and domination. The racism upon which

modern slavery was founded still exists. We have yet to value equally

all of our citizens in education, in the criminal justice system, or at the

voting polls. Women do not have equal access to reproductive health

services. Incomes remain profoundly disparate. And our religious

communities are the most racially segregated institutions in society.

Slavery has cast a long shadow over society and, in particular, over

the lives of women and girls. In many cases, people of faith have sex-

ually exploited enslaved women and girls throughout history. Slavery

was part of life in the biblical world, and slave women experienced it

differently from slave men.

The New Testament commanded slaves to obey their owners in

all things. We know that ancient slaveholders sometimes coerced

their enslaved women, girls, and boys into sex or made them work

as prostitutes. While the early church fathers told Christian men

not to have sex with their slave women, canon law did not punish

men for having done so.

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Both the early rabbis and the early Muslim jurists tolerated slavery

and used categories derived from slavery in their marriage legislation,

such as "acquisition" (in Judaism) and "ownership" or "control" (in

Islam). These categories continue to shape religious law in both

Judaism and Islam today. The early rabbis did not penalize male

slaveholders for having sex with their slave women, and the early

Muslim jurists explicitly allowed it. Religious toleration of slavery

lent it moral credibility and contributed to its longevity as a legal

institution. As late as June 20, 1866, the Vatican's Holy Office stated

that slaver)' contravenes neither natural nor divine law.

The contorted morality that allowed slaveholders to sexually

exploit enslaved women still echoes today. After slavery, the Ku Klux

Klan employed sexual terror with impunity. In fact, never in U.S.

history have African-American rape survivors received equal treat-

ment under the law. Studies today reveal that it is easier to prosecute

and punish a rapist if the victim is white than if she is black.

The idea that one person may own another person's body is

embedded in the ethics—including the sexual ethics—of the Jew-

ish, Christian, and Muslim religious texts. Sexuality without mutu-

ality and consent is fertile ground for abuse. This is as true in the

time of slavery as it is now. If we are to create a just and free

society, we need to transform religious sexual ethics so that mean-

ingful consent and mutuality are central.

Bernadette Brooten is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt

Professor ofChristian Studies and director ofthe Feminist Sexual Ethics

Project. She will host a public conference, "Beyond Slavery: Overcoming

Its Sexual Legacy, " October 15 and 16 at Brandeis.

Karen Adler AbramsonAssistant Director, Special Collections and University Archives

Karen Adler Abramson '85, MA'94,

has led the university's archives

department since 2003 and its

special collections unit since 2005. In

addition to her Brandeis degrees, she

holds a master's in library and information

science with a concentration in archives

management from Simmons College.

She previously worked as an archivist at

the Mary Baker Eddy Library and the

State Library of Massachusetts.

L What are three important traits for an

archivist to have? First, it helps to be

highly organized. Second, it helps to have a

real public-service orientation. There's a

stereotype of archivists as being antisocial

guardians of the treasures, who never let

anyone in the doors, but the truth is we

have to be very public-service-oriented peo-

ple. And third, it's important to be method-

ical and painstaking in your work. Our job

is to provide information that is accurate

and helpful. If we're not thoughtful and

mindful ot how we do that, we're not going

to be helpful to the researchers we serve.

2. What's your favorite item in the

Brandeis collection? We have a work

that is known in colloquial terms as the

Nuremberg Chronicle. It's essentially a

history of the world that was written in

1493. It's considered an incunabulum

—

which is an early printing before 1500

—

and it is absolutely spectacular. It was

donated to Brandeis in honor of

[President] Morris Abram's inauguration

in 1968 by the Brandeis Bibliophiles.

They were a group of administrators and

faculty who loved books and who were real

collectors. They amassed a huge collection,

and this was one of those works.

3. What's the Holy Grail of items you

covet for the Brandeis collection?

There are a number of faculty collections

that I would have loved to have acquired

but that have already been scooped up by

other institutions because we didn't open

until 1997. When 1 think of some of the

important collections that 1 believe are still

out there and ready to be acquired, it

would be extraordinary if we could get the

papers of [1960s radical] Angela Davis, a

Brandeis alumna, and of Simon

Rawidowicz, who was a faculty member

here and one of the leading Judaic studies

scholars of his time.

4. Outside of the essentials, what three

things do you pack for every vacation?

I always pack something to read—either a

book or a series of magazines that I haven't

had time to read yet. I always pack

snacks—dark chocolate and pretzels are

my favorites. And 1 always take pencils. 1

write letters, I enjoy doing crosswords, and

1 like to take notes when 1 travel.

5. If you weren't an archivist, what

would you be? I'd be a documentary

filmmaker. I'm entranced by documentary

film. 1 love the fact that it's meant lor

enjoyment but also teaches you some-

thing—historical usually. And, of course,

I love history.

—Ken Gornsteiii

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Class of 2010 measures up

YoiiVe Got to AdmitThe university received a record number

ot freshman apphcations this vear and is

poised to enroll one ot its best-prepared

and most diverse classes in history.

Through mid-May, admissions officials

processed 7,638 applications for the Class

of 2010, up 4 percent over last year's

7,420. The acceptance rate dropped 2

percent from last year, to 36 percent.

Two key indicators of academic

qualit)'—SAT scores and class rank—also

showed gains over last year. The average

Scholastic Aptitude Test score improved

from 1362 to 1367, while the percentage

of accepted students coming trom the top

5 percent and top 10 percent of their high

school graduating class rose from 62 per-

cent to 63 percent, and from 76 percent

to 78 percent, respectively.

"The class of 2010 is emblematic ol

Brandeis's growing stature among the

nation's elite institutions," admissions

dean Gil Villanueva said.

Villanueva pointed out that the higher

SAT scores among Brandeis applicants

stand in contrast to an overall national

decline in scores this year.

The percentage ol" minority applica-

tions, meanwhile, increased more than 57

percent, from 106 last year to 167 in

2006, according to preliminary figures.

Villanueva attributed the gain, in part, to

targeted recruitment of students ot color

and Brandeis's emphasis on social justice,

which has broad appeal to minorit)' con-

stituencies.

Figures also indicate that while Massa-

chusetts, New York, and New Jersey were

the top-represented states among appli-

cants, California and Florida also cracked

the top five.

"We continue to attract the best and

the brightest students, and now we're

attracting more students from minority

populations and trom areas outside the

Northeast," Villanueva said.

The most requested major among those

students who declared a preference

—

many selected "undecided"—were biolog)',

psycholog)', politics, international and

global studies, and economics, according

to preliminar)' figures.

As a first-year dean, Villanueva said he

was grateful for the support he has

received from every corner of campus

—

and beyond.

"The admissions office is fortunate to

have the support of the entire Brandeis

. communic)', including faculty, staff, stu-

L dents, alumni. Board of Trustees, and

^ friends of the university," he said.

Top ScientistBiochem graduate honoredfor cancer research efforts

Susan Band Horwitz, PhD'63, has been

named winner ot the rwenry-ninth annual

Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover

Award for Distinguished

Achievement in Cancer

Research. The award car-

ries a $50,000 prize.

Horwitz, the Rose C.

Falkenstein Professor of

Cancer Research and

cochair of the Department ot Molecular

Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein Col-

lege of Medicine of Yeshiva University in

New York, was recognized for her

pioneering work over many decades in

developing an understanding of the mecha-

nisms ot action of antitumor agents. Her

pivotal research in the 1980s eventually led

to the development of paclitaxel—sold as

Taxol—one of the most important anti-

cancer agents ever developed.

Robert Kramer, vice president ot oncol-

ogy and immunology discovery biology at

Bristol-Myers Squibb, said that Horwitz's

research has had a "profound effect on

enhancing and extending the lives ot

thousands of cancer patients throughout

the world."

Five years after earning a doctorate in bio-

chemistry at Brandeis, Horwitz joined the

faculty at Albert Einstein College ot Medi-

cine. She was appointed cochair ot molecular

pharmacolog)' in 1985, Falkenstein professor

in 1 986, and associate director for therapeu-

tics at the Albert Einstein Cancer Cenrer in

2000. She holds all three positions today.

Horwitz was selected to receive the

Distinguished Achievement Award by an

independent panel of her peers.

most arts

Trustees Take Action on SudanProhibit investments tied to genocidal government

The executive committee of the board of

trustees has unanimously endorsed a state-

ment to keep the university's endowment

free of any holdings in companies doing

business in Sudan to protest the Khartoum

government's genocide in the country's Dar-

fur region. Brandeis does not have any such

investments, according to school officials,

and the committee said the university should

maintain that position.

The vote supports the concerns of stu-

dents and human-rights groups who say the

government ot Sudan and Arab militias that

support it have carried out ethnic cleansing

in Darfur that has cost the lives of tens of

thousands and driven nearly two million

people from their homes.

Citing the university's founding commit-

ment to social action and social justice, the

executive committee's disinvestment

policy reaches further than such measures at

many other colleges and universities. It pro-

hibits investment in any companies that are

conducting business activities in Sudan,

such as maintaining equipment, facilities,

personnel, or other tools ofcommerce; that

are providing goods and services to compa-

nies operating in Sudan; or that are invest-

ing in the bonds or the financial instruments

of the government of the country.

The committee said it would exclude

from the ban companies that contribute to

the economic or humanitarian welfare of

the people of Sudan. That includes busi-

nesses that provide goods and services

intended to alleviate human suffering or

that promote the welfare, health, and edu-

cation of Sudan's people.

Women WantedFemale presence lacking

in academic medicine

Brandeis, in cooperation with five of the

country's leading medical schools, will con-

duct a landmark study to explore the dra-

matic underrepresentation ofwomen in sen-

ior positions in academic

medicine and develop

effective solutions to the

long-standing problem.

The five-year project,

"Gender, Culture, and

Advancement in Academ-

ic Medicine," has received a $1.4 million

starter grant from the Josiah Macy Jr.

Foundation of New York. Linda Pololi (pic-

mred), a senior scientist and resident schol-

ar at the Women's Studies Research Center

at Brandeis, serves as principal investigator.

An equal number ofmen and women are

admitted to medical school, but just 14 per-

cent of tenured faculty in the country's 125

medical schools are women, according to the

American Association of Medical Colleges.

AAMC statistics also show that only 1 1 per-

cent of department chairs and 8 percent of

deans are women.

"There is widespread perception that there

may be something in the organization and

culture ofacademic medicine that disadvan-

tages women and keeps them from reaching

key decision-making positions," Pololi said.

Medical schools at Duke University,

George Washington University. Tufts Uni-

versity, the University of Minnesota, and the

University of New Mexico will serve as

demonstration sites. The initial phase of the

project involves in-depth interviews with

their medical faculty. A national faculty sur-

vey will also be conducted in partnership

with the AAMC.

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Donors step up in support of science initiative

Campaign BubblyThe Campaign for Brandeis recently

received several substantial gifts in support

of the university's science initiative, a bold

fundraising plan designed to keep Brandeis

at the forefront oi lite-changing research

deep into the twenty-first century.

Trustees Jonathan Davis 75 and Morton

Ginsberg '56 each made gifts oi $3.5 million,

longtime supporters Manny and Sheila

Landsman contributed $2.5 million, and fel-

low Joyce Krasnow and her husband, Paul,

P'83, donated $1 million to support the sci-

ences at Brandeis. The centerpiece of the sci-

ence initiative is the 175,000-square-foot

Carl J. Shapiro Science Center.

Through May 31, the Campaign for

Brandeis had raised more than $553 mil-

lion in cash and pledges, easily outpacing its

original target of $470 million and 72 per-

cent of the way toward achieving the new

goal of $770 million by June 2009.

Davis and Ginsberg are among twenty-

four alumni who have made campaign gifts

of at least $1 million. The latest million-

dollar alumni donors include:

• Moses Feldman '62 honored his parents

by establishing the Jacob and Sarah Feld-

man Academic and Student Services Clus-

ter in the Heller School for Social Policy

and Management's new Irving Schneider

and Family Building.

• Paul Zlotoff '72, the former national pres-

ident of the Brandeis Alumni Association,

made an unrestricted campaign gift.

• Henry Aboodi '86, a former trustee,

funded the Esther Aboodi EndowedScholarship, which he and his sister, Abi

Hoffman '90, established in honor of their

late mother.

In other campaign news, the Crown

Center tor Middle East Studies received two

multimillion-dollar gifts.

Judith and Sidney Swartz made a gift of

$3 million to endow the directorship ot the

center—currently held by Shai Feldman

—

and General Dynamics contributed $2.5 mil-

lion in honor of Lester Crown, a longtime

director of the corporation who made the

original $10 million gift that established the

Crown Center.

Interior of the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center

Additionally, the Leir Charitable Foun-

dations donated $3.3 million to establish a

chair in the economics of the Middle East.

Although based in the Department of Eco-

nomics, the incumbent will work closely

with the Crown Center.

The Crown family also made a gift of

$2.5 million to establish permanent funding

for the Irving and Rose Crown School of

Graduate Studies in American Civilization.

Chalfie, Tsien honored for work with living cells

Biologists Capture Rosenstiel AwardTwo scientists who have pioneered the

development of powerful new tools that

enable the direct visualization of molecules

in living cells have won this year's Lewis S.

Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Workin Basic Medical Research.

Martin Chalfie, the William R. Kenan Jr.

Professor of Biological Sciences at Colum-

bia University, and Roger Tsien, professor

of pharmacology, chemistry, and biology at

the University of California, San Diego,

were chosen for their "recent discoveries of

particular originality and importance to

basic medical research."

Established at Brandeis in 1971 to

encourage and foster basic science research

at the nation's educational institutions, the

award carries a $10,000 prize. Each recipi-

ent also receives a medallion {pictured).

Chalfie's work has tocused on the study

of a set of six neurons that are the sensory

receptors for gentle touch. He also research-

es neuronal degeneration, microtubule

structure and function, and channel struc-

ture and function. Chalfie has revolution-

ized many crucial aspects of biological

research by introducing the technique of

vitally labeling cells in intact organisms

with the jellyfish green fluorescent protein.

Tsien, a Howard Hughes Medical Insti-

tute investigator, has advanced the fields of

cell biology and neurobiology by allowing

scientists to peer inside living cells and

watch the behavior of molecules in real

time. He is renowned for devel-

oping colorful dyes to

track the move-

ment of calcium

within cells and

has genetically

modified mol-

ecules that

make jellyfish

and corals glow,

creating fluores-

cent colors in a daz-

zling variety ot hues.

Tsien recently has set his sights

on the imaging and treatment of cancer.

Chalfie and Tsien were honored in cere-

monies on campus in May.

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newsmakersAlumni honored for contributions to their field

High AchieversHuman rights litigator Michael Ratner "66

and statesman Geir H. Haarde '73, the

new prime minister of Iceland, were hon-

ored last month as winners

of 2006 Alumni Achieve-

ment Awards.

Ratner, president of the

Center lor Constitutional

Rights in New York, has

spent decades fighting on

behalf of those denied

their human rights around the world. Hewon a landmark case involving Guanta-

namo Bay detainees before the U.S.

Supreme Court.

Haarde was recently named prime

minister of his native Iceland, the first

Brandeis graduate to lead a country. Hehad been a member ot Parliament tor

nearly two decades and previously served

as minister for foreign affairs and minis-

ter of finance.

The Alumni Achievement Award honors

graduates who have made distinguished

contributions to their professions or fields

of endeavor. The awards were presented at

a ceremony during Reunion weekend.

The seed lor Ratners life as an activist

was planted at Brandeis during the turbu-

lent 1960s. His eyes were opened to the

world around him by frequent student-led

protests, activist professors like Herbert

Marcuse, and visits to campus by leading

political figures such as Malcolm X.

"Those years really changed my life,"

Ratner said. "It's clear that Brandeis is

where 1 became an activist. The intellec-

tual atmosphere at Brandeis was truly

amazing. It expanded my mind in a way it

had never been expanded before."

Ratner graduated from Brandeis with a

bachelor's degree in English, then headed

to Columbia University Law School.

He has litigated numerous cases

opposing U.S.-initiated wars from Cen-

tral America to Iraq, and his Center for

Constitutional Rights has challenged the

USA Patriot Act.

Haarde arrived in the United States in

the fall ot 1971 as a Wien Scholar, the ben-

eficiary ol the pioneering scholarship pro-

gram that, to this day, seeks to further

international understanding by offering for-

eign students a chance to study at Brandeis.

"When I first got to Brandeis, it took

time to adjust to a different society and a

different language," Haarde remembered.

"I grew accustomed to studying and

thinking in a different language; after

awhile, I started to dream in English."

Haarde's rich Brandeis experiences

—

both in and out of the classroom

—

changed the course of his life.

"When I decided to go abroad, my eyes

were opened, and I realized that there

were so many other opportunities out

there," Haarde said.

Haarde graduated with a bachelor's in

economics before earning master's degrees

from the School ofAdvanced International

Studies at Johns Hopkins University and

the University of Minnesota.

Michael Ratner '66 accepts the Alumni Achievement Award.

Shulamit Reinharz, direc-

tor of the Women's Studies

Research Center and the

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,

was named winner of a

Women of Valor Award by

the New York-based Jewish

Fund for Justice. The award honors womenwho have played a leadership role through

their activism, accomplishments, philan-

thropy, and commitment to social justice.

Oleg Ozerov, assistant professor ofchemistry,

has won a 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship, a

highly competitive award given to support

research by early-career scientists and scholars

of outstanding promise. Ozerov's research

focuses on how transition metal centers make

and break chemical bonds during catalysis.

Robert Art, the Christian A. Herter

Professor of International Relations, has won

a distinguished scholar award from the Inter-

national Studies Association for exceptional

contributions in scholarship through research

and mentorship. The award cited Art's

lifetime achievement in international

securir\' studies.

Eve Marder, the Victor and Gwendolyn

Beinfield Professor ofNeuroscience and Volen

National Center for Complex Systems, has

been elected president of the Society for Neu-

roscience for 2006-07. The society works to ed-

ucate the public about the findings, applica-

tions, and potential of neuroscience research.

Seven faculty members were honored during

the spring with awards for teaching excellence:

Brenda Anderson, Heller School for Social

Policy and Management Teaching Award and

International Business School Award for

Excellence in Teaching; Robert Carver, Inter-

national Business School Award for Excellence

in Teaching; Jane Kamensky, American his-

tory. Dean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring

Award; Donald Katz, psychology, Michael L.

Walzer '56 Award for Teaching; Ann Olga

Koloski-Ostrow, classical studies, Jeanette

Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer

Prize for Excellence in Teaching and

Mentoring; Dan Perlman, biology and envi-

ronmental studies, Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Prize for Excellence in Teaching; and Leonard

Saxe, Heller School Mentoring Award.

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Parting GiftCBS marks employee's retirement

with $50K donation to WGS program

CBS's loss, it turns out, is an important

gain for the women's and gender studies

(WGS) program.

The Tiffany network has donated

$50,000 to WGS to honor the retirement

of Esther Kartiganer '59, who worked at

CBS News tor more than forty years. For

the past twenty-two years,

Kartiganer was a senior

editor and then senior pro-

ducer at the primetime

powerhouse 60 Minutes.

WGS chair Sue Lanser

said the money will go

toward an endowment for an assistant pro-

fessorship that is shared with an academic

department. Women's and gender studies

offers undergraduate and graduate courses

integrating the study of women's experi-

ences and gender roles with the university's

curriculum in science, social science,

humanities and arts.

That s Super!School administrator Rivera wins

Levitan Prize at Brandeis Reunion

Manuel Rivera '74 received the Harry S.

Levitan Remedial Reading and Educa-

tion Prize during the annual Brandeis

Reunion reception.

Rivera, superintendent of the Rochester

(New York) City School District, was

recently named National Superintendent

of the Year by the American Association of

School Administrators for his creativin' in

meeting student needs, effective communi-

cation skills, community involvement, and

for providing prol-essional-development

opportunities and motivation to those on

his education team.

The Levitan Prize is named for the late

brother of Dr. Joseph J. Levitan, a Boston

optometrist who established the Harry S.

Levitan Chair in Teacher Education at

Brandeis. Harry S. Levitan taught students

with reading and learning disabilities in the

Boston public school system.

Trustees elect five new members

On BoardFive new members were recently elected

to the Board of Trustees. They are

Morton Ginsberg '56, Vartan Gregorian,

Jonathon Jacobson, Dorothy Pierce, and

John Usdan.

Ginsberg, who will serve a four-year

term through May 2010, is a prominent

real-estate developer and attorney. Heserved as national president of the

Brandeis Alumni Association tor two

terms. Ginsberg delivered the com-

mencement address for his senior class

and again addressed that class during its

50th Reunion dinner. After graduating

from Brandeis, he attended Harvard

Law School.

Gregorian, who will serve a four-year

term through May 2010, has been presi-

dent since 1997 of the Carnegie Corpora-

tion of New York, a grant-making

institution founded by Andrew Carnegie.

He earlier served as president of Brown

University for eight years and led the NewYork Public Library for nine years.

Gregorian serves on numerous boards

and has received fifty-six honorary

degrees. In 2004, he received the Medal of

Freedom, the nation's highest civilian

award. He earned his bachelor's and doc-

toral degrees from Stanford University.

Jacobson, who was also elected to a

four-year term, founded Highfields Capi-

tal Management, a Boston-based hedge

fund with $7.5 billion under manage-

ment. He earlier served as a senior

equity-portfolio manager at Harvard

Management Company for eight years

and was a vice president at Shearson

Lehman Brothers in New York. He earned

a bachelor's from the Wharton School at

the University ot Pennsylvania and an

MBA trom Harvard L'niversirv.

Vartan Gregorian

Pierce was elected a trustee ex otFicio tor

a two-year term through May 2008, which

will coincide with her term as president of

the Brandeis University National Women's

Committee. A former teacher and business-

woman. Pierce has been a member of

BUNWC for thirteen years, most recendy

serving as president of the Florida region.

She holds degrees from Brooklyn College,

Yeshiva University, and Hofstra University.

Usdan, who will serve a four-year term

through May 2010, is president of Mid-

wood Management Corporation. He has

been a Brandeis fellow since 1996 and has

served as chair ot the Board of Overseers

at the International Business School since

2000. Usdan's grandfather, Samuel

Lemberg, was a Brandeis trustee and early

benefactor, and his father, Nathaniel, and

brother, Adam, are fellows. He graduated

from Wesleyan University'.

Additionally, former trustees Barbara

Rosenberg '54 and Rhonda Zinner were

reelected to four-year terms through May2010, following a one-year hiatus.

Trustees Daniel Jick '79, Ann Richards,

Robert RitTs;ind, and Perry Traquina '78

were also reelected to tour-year terms and

will serve through May 2010.

From left: Morton

Ginsberg '56,

Jonathon Jacobson,

Dorothy Pierce, and

John Usdan.

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Inspirational stories from Holocaust Remembrance Day

Celebrating SWhile pausing to remember victims oi the

Holocaust, members of the Brandeis com-

munit)' celebrated the inspirational stories

of people who survived the Nazis' death

grip on Europe and later rebuilt their lives

in the United States.

In separate Holocaust Remembrance

Day activities in April, trustee Jeanette

Lerman '69 screened her stirring docu-

mentary about her parents' efforts to turn

their Holocaust past into the pursuit of

truth and optimism, and Joseph Pell

shared his memoir about life as a partisan

fighting Hider's followers.

Lerman's film, The Upside of Memory,

chronicles the return of four generations of

her family to Poland in 2004 to dedicate a

new memorial that her father, Miles,

established at the Belzec death camp. Dur-

ing the journev, the family also attended a

ceremony honoring Miles for his work to

improve relations between Poles and Jews;

visited the shtetl where Miles and his

brother were born: and traveled to

Auschwitz to hear Lerman's mother, Chris,

tell of her experiences at the infamous con-

centration camp.

Miles met his future wife at a displaced-

persons camp. They immigrated to the

United States and built a successful life

dedicated to preserving the memories of

Holocaust victims through education.

iirvivalMiles served as chair of the U.S. Holocaust

Memorial Museum, and Chris has lectured

frequently about the Holocaust.

"To me, what is most remarkable about

them is that they can see the positive side

of even the worst situations, " Lerman told

the overflow crowd at Rapaporte Treasure

Hall. "The reason I made this film is to

pass along their wisdom to our family."

A day later. Pell related his survival story,

chronicled in Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth

in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life

in California. Pell wrote the book with

Jewish historian Fred Rosenbaum.

"When I was in Poland, I never dreamt

of standing in a place like this, at a great

university, to speak about my experi-

ences, " Pell said. "But here I am.

"

At the age of 18, Pell escaped from his

Ukrainian ghetto by crawling into the for-

est on his hands and knees. He joined a

group of partisans who slowed the Nazi

war machine, primarily by disrupting

trains carrying supplies. Pell's partisans also

maintained camps for displaced civilians.

After World War II, Pell immigrated to

the United States and settled in San

Francisco. Lacking formal education but

equipped with the resourcefulness and

determination that helped him survive the

Nazis, he went on to found Pell Develop-

ment, a leading Bay Area real-estate firm.

Trustee Jeanette Lerman '59 (second horn

left) with her parents, Holocaust survivors

IVIiles (/eft) and Chris (right), and her hus-

band, Joseph Neubauer. at the screening of

The Upside of Memory.

(From left): Historian Fred Rosenbaum with

David Tucl<er '09. trustee Barbara Rosenberg'54. and Holocaust survivor Joseph Pell after

a discussion about Taking Risks.

on campus

April J

Jesse L. Martin and S. Epatha Merkerson

Martin and Merkerson, stars of NBC's

Law & Order, stole the show at third annual

SunDeis film festival with their lively repar-

tee and extemporaneous remarks. Merker-

son, who was honored as the festival's first

Entertainer of the Year, let slip that she initial-

ly agreed to receive the award because she

thought it was being bestowed by Barnard

College, just up the road from her New York

home. Martin, who presented Merkerson her

award, reported he had been in a car accident

earlier in the day and revealed that his costar

was given to curse a blue streak—to which

Merkerson, well, cursed a blue streak.

March 22

Sister Helen Prejean

The exoneration of more than one hundred

death-row inmates is proof enough that cap-

ital punishment is flawed

and should be abolished in

the United States, Prejean,

author of the Pulitzer

Prize-nominated book Dead

Man Walking, told an audi-

ence of more than four hun-

dred in Spingold Theater. Sloppy forensics,

the use ofjailhouse snitches, mistaken eyewit-

ness identifications, and other "inadequa-

cies" in the judicial system inevitably lead to

the execution of innocent people, she said.

"How do we know we are getting the truth?"

she asked. "We need the absolute truth ifwe

are going to take on something as absolute as

life and death."

March 16

Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald

Rather than trying to work around inherent

differences in their creeds, religious leaders

should embrace those disparities to

enrich ecumenical dialogue and unity, Fitzger-

ald, president of the Pontifical Commission

for Interreligious Dialogue, told a Brandeis

gathering. Speaking at a conference titled In

Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a

Divided World, he said, "We are on a journey

together. We can continue this journey de-

spite our difference—or even being enriched

by our differences—until that day when his-

tory itself will come to an end, and the differ-

ences will have no further significance, for

Cod will be all in all."

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Confronting thtNightmaM

Ifthey give any thought to polio at all, today's

Brandeis students probably think ot it as some-

thing they heard a great-great uncle had, or a

word that flitted past them in a public health lec-

ture, or a now-defunct ailment that once afflicted

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

But to their parents' generation—and the genera-

tion of many of their professors—polio was an omi-

nous cloud that darkened the childhood years.

"Of" course you can't go swimming in a pool,"

mothers would say. "You'll get polio, and you won't

ever walk again." Or, most horribly, they would

declare in an exasperated tone, "No, you cannot go

see Bambir and then, brandishing a Life magazine

photo of a child flat on her back in a mystifying con-

I knew I was happy with the book I wrote, and I knew the reviews

were good. But yes, I was surprised to win the Pulitzer.

traption that looked like a cross between a casket

and a torture chamber, add, "Do you want to spend

your life in an iron lung'."

Children of the mid-rwentieth century knew that

polio—also called poliomyelitis or infantile paraly-

sis—was a disease that did not care whether you

were rich or poor, clean or dirty, bad or good. It got

the captain of your town's football team, the little

girl who beat you out for the lead solo in your third-

grade dance recital, the cute baby boy across the

street. It got, your parents reminded you, the thirrv-

second president of the United States.

Oshinsky embraces a

colleague after

receiving word he

had won the Puhtzer

Prize in history.

Like other baby boomers, David Oshinsky,

PhD'71, remembers being scared silly. To capture

those memories, he decided to research and write

about the disease and its conquest. In April, he won

the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in history for his book Polio:

An American Story, published last year by Oxford

Universiry Press.

Was he surprised to learn his polio chronicle

had beaten out hundreds of history books to claim

the Pulitzer?

He laughs at the question. "You can hope and you

can dream, but winning the Pulitzer is like winning

the Powerball lotter)', " he says. "I knew I was happy

with the book I wrote, and I knew the reviews were

good. But yes, I was surprised to win the Pulitzer."

Nevertheless, rumors of the book's nomination

were rite the morning of April 18 around the Uni-

versity ot Texas at Austin, where Oshinsky is the

George Litdefield Professor of American History.

The department chairman, Alan Tully, was so

buoyed by the buzz that he set up a large-screen pro-

jector in the faculty lounge, where dozens of col-

leagues gathered to see the Pulitzer press conference

broadcast from Columbia University. Just as the his-

tory category was to be announced, a reporter from

the Austin American-Statesman walked into the room

and said, "Congratulations, professor. You've just

won the Pulitzer Prize."

"I guess he had gotten it ott the wires," Oshinsky

reflects.

A DELICIOUS DEJA VU

It was not the first time Oshinsky had been present

at a Pulitzer celebration.

In 1967, as a graduate student in history at Cor-

nell, he had stood in a lecture hall and applauded the

entrance of his teacher and adviser David Davis,

who had just won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for

his book The Problein ofSlavery in Western Culture.

In 1969, while Oshinsky was conducting postgrad-

uate studies at Brandeis, his doctoral mentor

Leonard Levy was honored with the Pulitzer Prize in

history for his work Origins ofthe Fifth Amendment.

"They had both written incredible, path-breaking

books," Oshinsky says, "and I was in awe."

The son ot two educators in the New York public

schools, Oshinsky says he was an unfocused student

prior to entering Cornell as an undergraduate. But

he credits Davis and another Cornell professor, Gerd

Korman, for urging him—

"propelling" is the word

he uses—to continue his studies at Brandeis. They

told him it was a small, intense, hands-on program

where he would not fall through rhe cracks.

"They knew I needed some tender, loving care, and

Brandeis gave me all that, " he says, noting that in

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Waltham he enjoyed the camaraderie among his fellow

doctoral students, many of whom also went on to

teach at first-rate universities. His strongest faculty

influences were Levy, a constitutional scholar; the late

Marvin Meyers, a historian of nineteenth-century

America; and John P Roche, a specialist in twentieth-

century America. Oshinsky also credits professor emer-

itus Morton Keller with expanding his knowledge of

nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history

as well as helping him to find his first academic job. At

a time when tenure-track entrees into the field were

hard to come by, Keller nudged Oshinsky into an assis-

tant professorship in American history at Rutgers Uni-

versity. Oshinsky stayed there for thirty years, teaching

and supervising dissertations, before moving to Texas

in 2001 with his wife, Jane.

ROMANCING THE SERUM

A prolific writer, Oshinsky has produced halt a

dozen books and scores of articles on American his-

top.' topics, including crime and punishment in the

South, Alger Hiss, constitution.il law, and the Cold

War. He is also a regular reviewer of nonfiction tor

the New York Times Book Review. Never, prior to his

most recent release, had he written about a medical

or scientific topic.

Oshinsky with his

prize-winning

book in his UTAustin office.

Yet the writing projects that were in many ways

most meaningful to him were those that built upon

his early memories, shedding light on topics like

Senator Joseph McCarthy and the executions of

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—powerful subjects dis-

cussed with passion in Oshinsky's Jewish home in

Queens, New York.

"For those in my age group, polio was a very visi-

ble disease," he says. "You didn't need to know a

polio patient personally to be affected. Apart from

You didn't need to know a polio patient personally to be affected.

Apart from the terrifying pictures of iron lungs, you could look

around and see other children who walked with crutches or leg

braces or who had withered limbs.

the terrifying pictures of iron lungs, you could look

around and see other children who walked with

crutches or leg braces or who had withered limbs."

Oshinsky does not recall whether he was a Polio

Pioneer—one of those intrepid two million kids

who were lined up military-style in schools during

1 954 to get that first polio shot. But he does remem-

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to distinguished career in music

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia recognizes Yehudi Wyner

as a "composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator."

The Milken Archive: American Jewish Music has called him

"one of America's most gifted composers."

And on April 18 at Columbia University in New York City, the

world came to know the professor emeritus of composition as the 2006

Pulitzer Prize winner in music.

The award carries with it a $10,000 stipend and places Wyner in the

company of past Pulitzer-winning composers Aaron Copland, Gian-

Carlo Menotti, and Ned Rorem.

In a charming online essay called "Reflections on the Pulitzer Prize"

(viewable at <www.newmusicbox.org>), the 76-year-old composer said

he had been returning in the middle of the night to an ancient farm-

house he and his wife, Susan Davenny Wyner, were occupying in Italy

when he heard the insistent ring of his telephone. To answer it, he had

to make his way from auto to villa, through the darkness and past the

terrifying sound of a wild boar, with his keys in hand

—

chiavi in

rnano—which, as chance would have it, happened to be the title of the

composition being honored.

The caller was Robert Levin, who a year earlier played solo piano in the

Boston Symphony Orchestra premiere of Chiavi in Mano. a concerto for

piano and orchestra, and who was, in Wyner's words, "out of his mind

with excitement" as he shared the news via transatlantic telephone.

"The initial surprise and excitement, the avalanche of affectionate

goodwill, the joyous exclamations of all those involved in the realization

of this work ... [as well as] the media coverage and press reaction, the

blast of publicity . . . converged to create an aura of significance around

the event," Wyner wrote. "My family has overwhelmed me with love

and joy. ... I think it is because they sense that the Pulitzer will precip-

itate a broader and deeper understanding ot my work."

Not that Wyner's work is that difficult to grasp. It's just, well, different.

According to Brandeis artist-in-residence Daniel Stepner, a violinist

who has shared the stage with Wyner on several occasions, Wyner is a

"lively and accessible" contemporary composer whose music "can be

dissonant and rhythmically very sophisticated, but is not abstract in the

true sense of the word."

"It's never off-putting but instead is often highly lyrical and some-

times even humorous. Often it is inspired by poetry, pictures, or other

concrete things," Stepner says.

The title Chiavi in Mano, for example, draws on a double entendre

for its own wry humor. In Italy, aggressive salesmen often use the

phrase to lure reluctant buyers into imagining themselves as the

owner of a new home or automobile—for a small down payment, you

can have the key in hand. But in Wyner's musical language, chiavi in

mano also refers to the feeling of piano keys fitting comfortably under

the hands of the performing artist despite the challenging nature of

the music.

Says Stepner, "Chiavi in Mano is a wonderful, listenable, single-

movement piano concerto with an arc to it, a real climax, and a very

striking form. It has a lot of dissonance, but it's still very tonal harmon-

ically. There are some wonderful surprises in it."

Wyner calls the concerto "the culmination of a life's work . . . the

piece that most comprehensively reflects the various sides of me, both

the serious and the absurd."

Born in Alberta, Canada, Yehudi Wyner is the son of Lazar Weiner,

who was regarded as the preeminent composer ot Yiddish art songs.

After studying music at the Juilliard School, Harvard, and Yale, Wyner

went on to write more than sixty works, including compositions for

orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments. His

Jewish liturgical compositions include the frequently heard Friday

Evening Service for cantor and chorus.

A member of the faculty at Brandeis from 1986 until his retirement

last year, Wyner held the university's Walter W Naumburg Chair in

Composition. He has also taught at Yale, SUNY Purchase, Cornell,

Harvard, and Tanglewood.

According to Stepner, Wyner's contagious enthusiasm for his sub-

ject won him the devotion of facult)' and students alike. "He is not

just a fine composer, but also a likable person and a wonderful per-

former. He loves to talk about music and he loves to teach about

music," Stepner says.

Wyner's numerous honors include two Guggenheim fellowships,

membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise Stoeger Award for

liferime contributions to chamber music. In 1998, he was a Pulitzer

Prize nominee tor his composition Horntrio. Among the CDs featuring

his work, the most recent is The Art of Yiddish Song, on which he per-

forms as a pianist, playing thirry-two songs composed by his father.

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ber that the newspapers carried items that resembled

baseball box scores enumerating the nimiber of chil-

dren and adults who had contracted the disease each

week, as well as the number who died.

"It was a nightmare," he says.

Confronting that nightmare involved five years

of research for Oshinsky, including a tull-year sab-

batical from teaching. He benefited fiom a rich

trove of correspondence available on the subject and

manuscript collections of the leading scientists who

were involved in the polio crusade: Jonas Salk in

San Diego, Albert Sabin in Cincinnati, and others

at Yale, lohns Hopkins, and the Rockefeller Insti-

tute. The March of Dimes archive in White Plains,

New York, provided especially compelling material,

with papers documenting every aspect of the polio

crusade. He also interviewed scientists still living

who worked on the disease, as well as speaking with

Salk's children.

Part of Oshinsky's task was to educate himself

about science, learning how viruses work, how vac-

cines work, and how medical discovery is conducted.

Because this was particularly challenging, he was

gratified, he says, that the book won rave reviews

even in scientific publications.

"The more I investigated polio," Oshinsky says,

"the more it became clear to me that this was not

just a story about a disease. It was a story about how

the crusade against this disease revolutionized phi-

lanthropy, how it revolutionized medical research,

and how it involved one of the most stunning sci-

entific races among researchers—a bitter teud in

which they were forced to cooperate but were

intensely jealous and competitive. It was a real

human-interest story."

A FEW SURPRISES

Oshinsky cites references to infantile paralysis going

back as far as an Egyptian stone tablet dated from

It was a story about how the crusade against this disease

revolutionized philanthropy, how it revolutionized medical

research, and how it involved one of the most stunning

scientific races among researchers.

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player, and traveled to race tracks and college foot-

ball games, where he was greeted with resounding

applause. On the other hand, Oshinsky says, "He

was unable to brush his teeth, comb his hair, shave

himself, or wipe his nose. He lost the ability to

cough, so his throat had to be regularly suctioned.

He had to be fed in rhythm with the respirator,

which caused his chest to rise and fall every four

seconds, 21,600 times a day." Oshinsky calls this

life a "private version of hell."

On a lighter note, Oshinsky reveals that the

Roosevelt-head dime was minted posthumously on

FDR's 64th birthday in recognition of his vast influ-

ence in the March of Dimes and his role as a potent

symbol of hope for polio patients. Earlier, one moth-

er of a voung boy in braces had written to the presi-

dent, "Your life is, in a way, an answer to my prayers."

A RESEARCH REVOLUTION

On the tundraising side, Oshinsky characterizes the

battle against polio as a campaign that revolution-

ized the way our society mobilizes around a cause.

Inspired by svmpathv tor the mostly youtht-ul

patients with this paralyzing disease, as well as by the

charisma of Roosevelt, its most famous victim, the

National Foundation tor Infantile Paralysis and

March of Dimes fashioned virtual blueprints for

fundraisers to follow. Specifically, they created

• the first campaign that targeted small but numer-

ous gifts, literally asking for dimes;

• the first campaign that engaged fundraisers neigh-

borhood by neighborhood in their Mothers March

on Polio;

• the first funding formula to factor a sum into each

grant for overhead costs like heat, electriciu', and

the 100,000 monkeys needed for research;

• the first charity to have a "poster child" as its

symbol; and

• the first charitable venture to draw upon celebrities

to promote the battle. Besides Roosevelt—whose

January 29 birthday annually set the stage for major

tundraising events—the long list of notables who

climbed on the anti-polio soapbox included Eddie

Cantor, Judy Garland, Mary Pickford, Frank Sinatra,

Eartha Kitt, Grace Kelly, Ezio Pinza. Helen Hayes,

loe DiMaggio, and Marilyn Monroe.

The March ot Dimes raised nearly halt a billion dol-

lars, which, with the exception of the American Red

Cross, was more money than every other charity com-

bined, according to Oshinsky. "They turned the fight

against polio into a national crusade," he says, "basi-

cally promising the American people, 'You give us your

money, and we'll give you a vaccine,' and they did."

At a time when the National Institutes ot Health

was in its infancy, and when the government and pri-

vate universities were spending very little

money for medical research, the March ot

Dimes was "providing incredible

research facilities for some of the

best virologists and biologists in

this country," Oshinsky says.

Further, at a time when

women and Jews were often

overlooked when grants

were made, the March ot

Dimes gave generous

support to Dorothy

Horstmann, Isabel Mor-

gan, Jonas Salk, and

Albert Sabin.

Beyond spending

what he calls "a gigantic

mountain of money" on

polio research, Oshinsky

says, the March of Dimes

also provided extraordinary

rehabilitative care for thou-

sands of polio survivors.

What lessons can we learn

from Oshinsky's research?

"We live in a different era now, where

we rely on the government to do so much

tor us," the author says. "To me, the greatest

takeaway lesson is that there were no red states or blue

states in this—there was a country united against a dis-

ease in order to protect their children from this horrif-

ic plague. They mobilized through the March of

Dimes to form the largest and greatest public-health

experiment in our history. So what I take away is that

voluntarism works, and that when Americans unite

they can do extraordinary things. That's the best part."

And the best part about winning the Pulitzer? It's

an award celebrated not just by academics but by

The greatest takeaway lesson is that there were no red states or

blue states in this-there was a country united against a disease in

order to protect their children from this horrific plague.

everyone he knows, Oshinsky says. His children

Efrem, 24, and Hannah, 16, each weighed in with

kudos, and his son Matthew, 28, sports editor of the

Neiv York Sun, phoned his dad and kept repeating, "I

can't believe this. I can't believe this.

"

Despite all the fanfare, Oshinsky is not wasting

much time basking in the glory of the Pulitzer.

Instead, he's at work on a book about a topic Amer-

icans are not united on: capital punishment in the

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THE BIOLOGY OFSOCIAL JUSTICEHELLER PROFESSOR WEIGHS THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF GROWING UP POOR By Laura Gardner

No wonder obese teens are depressed! They should just change their

diets. And its not surprising that unhappy adolescents take up

smoking to dull the pain. Then again, why worry about kids' risks for

cardiovascular disease if they are healthy?

Ask pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist Elizabeth

Goodman about such wobbly but commonplace ideas and you'll get a

finely honed response derived from equal parts passionate commit-

ment, rigorous medical research, and cutting-edge social science, fin-

ished with a dollop of^ exasperation.

Professor of child and adolescent health at the Heller School for

Social Policy and Management, Goodman is on the upward (some

might say uphill) trajectory of a career dedicated to reshaping the land-

scape of adolescent medicine. Her goal is to reframe how we think

about teen health by compelling us to look beyond the behavioral and

biological factors that affect health and scrutinize social determinants

such as parental education, household income, and occupation.

"I look at obesity, depression, and cardiac risk as social issues," says

Goodman. "I don't think health care can fix these problems—national

health insurance won't do it, and neithet will medicine. If we want to

have a healthier teen population, we need to rethink our economic,

educational, and social policies."

A Web of ConcernsAlthough the impact of socioeconomic status on adult health is well

understood, far less attention has been paid to its role in adolescent

health, often called the poor stepchild of pediatrics. Goodman has built

a career teasing out the social factors underlying teen health. While

health disparities have historically been focused on race, she also

emphasizes the importance of social disadvantage.

"Race and social status are often thought of interchangeably and

considered synonymous, but they're not," she says. "I'd like us to stop

defining disparity by a single domain and to look at multiple things,

defining it more broadly through race and socioeconomic status and

the intersection of the two."

Goodman essentially threw down the gauntlet in 1999, establishing

her approach to adolescent medicine in a study in the American Jour-

nal of Public Health. Her report demonstrated direct relationships

among self-rated poor health, depression, and obesity among adoles-

cents whose parents had manual occupations, marginal educations, and

low household income.

A recent study by Goodman in the Journal ofAdolescent Health con-

cluded that both race and socioeconomic status lay the groundwork for

"chronic stressors" in adolescence that may eventually translate into

heart disease, cancer, or depression. "These are markers of lifelong expe-

rience in the social world. When the world is harsh and challenging,

health consequences accrue," Goodman wrote.

Surprising Findings

Admittedly, Goodman's studies often turn conventional wisdom on its

head. Her research shows that teen depression actually increases the

likelihood of obesity, not the other way around. Moreover, the lower a

family's socioeconomic status, the greater the risk of teenage obesity

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and depression. Another study concluded that teen smoking tends to

beget depression, not vice versa, putting teens who smoi<e at four times

greater risk of suffering heav)' depression than their nonsmoking peers.

"In our society we tend to take a blame-the-victim approach, so if

you're obese, you're supposed to exercise more and eat less. In other

words, you can fix the problem," Goodman says. "I'm trying to suggest

that it is not a matter ot choice all the time. There are direct physiolog-

ical effects mediated by social factors that influence health."

For example, she notes that the stress ot lower social status has direct

effects on the neuroendocrine system. In a study published last year in

Psychosomatic Medicine. Goodman found that teens whose parents are

Teen smoking tends to beget depres-sion, not vice versa, putting teens whosmoke at four times greater risk of

suffering heavy depression than their

nonsmoking peers.

not college-educated are at higher risk ol developing heart disease and

diabetes, even when accounting for such risk as overweight.

The study, which looked at 758 black and white teens in a suburban

public-school district in the Midwest, found that adolescents in htmilies

with lower parent education had higher insulin levels, abnormal choles-

terol levels, higher blood sugar, and greater insulin resistance than their

counterparts with better-educated parents. Yet since elevated levels ot

these metabolic factors are silent in the young, these at-risk young peo-

ple appear healthy and thus are not flagged by the health care system.

Teens from socially disadvantaged families must constantly adapt to

their challenging environment, leading over time to wear and tear on

the body's regulatory systems and setting the stage for the development

of disease later on in adulthood, Goodman explains. "We need to rec-

ognize that we, as a society, play a part in this. You can't just say, 'Eat

more salad' and expect things to change," she says.

Swimming UpstreamSocial medicine, which looks at how social institutions, norms, and

behavior affect the health of populations, is a challenging career path

for doctors like Goodman. Our market-based system rewards down-

stream treatments for diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovas-

cular disease, while the causes are often upstream, rooted in social and

economic disadvantage.

Still, she has her champions. Jean Emans, professor of pediatrics at

Harvard Medical School and chief of the division of adolescent medi-

cine at Children's Hospital Boston, recruited Goodman more than a

decade ago for an adolescent medicine tellowship at Children's and has

coauthored studies with her. "1 think Liz is rather unique in her ability

to conceptualize health in a much broader and much more valuable way

than many people do. She's incredibly bright and creative," she says.

And the lounuil of Pediatrics, in an editorial praising Goodman's

work, says that social medicine has been overshadowed by the promise

ot genetic-based medicine, but adds, "Only the most positive among us

believe that molecular medicine can cure the health consequences of

multigenerational poverty and its corollaries of family dysfunction,

hopelessness, and social ostracism."

Indeed, Goodman got a solid vote of support in 2004, when she

was named a MacArthur Network Associate on the strength ot her

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THE BIOLOGY OFSOCIAL JUSTICE

social approach to medicine and her ability to "translate what we

know about adults to the lives of children," says Nancy Adler, director

ot the MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health. "Liz

is very intense, but along with that intensity is a commitment to break

down the barriers between health and other sectors, such as education

and poverty."

It's a pursuit that Goodman herseli has termed "the biology of

social justice."

A Record of Determination

As reasonable as it seems when Goodman points out that better educa-

tion and higher income help parents create a less stressful environment

for children, the health-care implications of such a conclusion can be a

hard sell in the medical profession—a profession that traditionally relies

on drugs and other therapies as treatment. "What does this have to do

with pediatrics.'" bewildered colleagues occasionally ask Goodman.

"Physicians tend to look at stuff like this as noise in the data," says

Goodman, admitting, "We're not going to create a drug or a medical

intervention to make these problems go away, but I don't think this is

a reason to give up.

"

In fact, giving up is not in Goodman's vocabulary. Even at 3 years

old, Goodman announced to her family that she would go to Radcliffe

College and then become a physician. She ended up attending Harvard

and Radcliffe, following up with medical school at Columbia.

"I was one driven kid," she says matter-of-factly.

With equal single-mindedness and an omnivore's appetite, she

decided to pursue academic pediatrics. In addition to studying

depression, smoking, obesity, and cardiovascular disease risk in teens,

Goodman has tackled AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, aggression

and rock music, and teen pregnancy.

For a time, Goodman planned to be an AIDS researcher and a pedi-

atric infectious-disease specialist. But her education and career path

changed profoundly while she was studying adolescent HIV in 1992 as

a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Califor-

nia, San Francisco. At the time, she took a course at nearby Berkeley

with Leonard Syme, the leading voice of social epidemiology.

"I had an epiphany," says Goodman. "1 had never thought about the

social aspects of health—how, for instance, in adolescent AIDS, drug

abuse and unprotected sex are the social mediators."

The Road to Heller

She returned to Boston and Harvard, but instead of infectious-disease

research, she pursued postdoctoral research on socioeconomic status

and health and adolescent medicine. Over the next decade, Goodmanheld joint academic and clinical positions at Harvard Medical School

and its clinical program at Children's Hospital, as well as at the

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and its affiliate, the

Children's Hospital Medical Center.

She enjoyed the research and the clinical contact with young people,

but found her novel ideas about the social determinants ot health

received a chilly reception. Goodman began to reconsider whether aca-

demic medicine would provide the best venue for advancing her

research interests. At about the same time, the Heller School was

searching tor someone to advance the family and child-health agenda

within the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Goodman had already

collaborated with Heller professor John Capitman on a highly influen-

tial study for the journal Pediatrics examining the link between teen

smoking and depression.

"When we began the search, I knew I wouldn't be satisfied until we

found someone who not only was bright and had a record of accom-

plishment, but also was intellectually adventurous—someone with a

passion to make a difference in the world," explains Jack Shonkoff

then dean of the Heller School. "The more I got to know about Liz,

the more convinced I became that she was that person."

Goodman joined the Heller School faculty in 2002, giving up her

clinical practice—and her beeper—to have a more global impact in

adolescent medicine.

"Seeing patients brings the satisfaction of one-on-one influence,

but research is potentially a way to change things on the macro level,"

she says.

A Guiding Intellect

Although Goodman was not present at the launch of Brandeis's under-

graduate Health, Science, and Society Program (HSSP), she became a

guiding force in its growth, serving as associate chair of the program

and principal investigator on a grant from the National Institutes of

Health to develop the HSSP curriculum. She describes it as a model

undergraduate program for students interested in studying not only the

Our market-based system rewardsdownstream treatments for diseases

such as diabetes, ohesitv. ond foi-dio-

vascular disease, while the causes areoften upstream, rooted in social andeconomic disadvantage.

biology of disease, but the complex interplay of the social, economic,

and political determinants of health.

Despite a busy schedule that includes teaching, researching, and par-

ticipating in HSSP's growth to 127 students, Goodman has steadily

produced peer-reviewed studies for top pediatric journals. Last year,

when the national obesity crisis seemed to reach the tipping point, she

published an important paper in the American Heart Association's

peer-reviewed journal, Circulation.

With data from 1 ,578 healthy suburban seventh- to twelfth-graders,

Goodman used factor analysis to determine their cardiovascular risks

based on a number of variables, including cholesterol and insulin

levels and body mass index. While heart disease risk has been studied

extensively in adults, teens have been neglected, despite the fact that

clustering of cardiovascular risks begins in childhood, long before dis-

ease appears. The news was not good: The study showed that obesity is

indeed a powetful correlate of cardiovascular risk in healthy teens.

Goodman's research points to a latticework of interrelated factors

—

some physiological, some behavioral, all socially mediated—that define

the complex health landscape of adolescence. Her ambition is to

untangle that web for physicians, educators, and policymakers alike,

generating a new approach to curing adolescent ills.

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CROWNING GLORYPrince of Jordan sends Class of 2006 off in style

AtBrandeis's fifty-fifth commencement, Prince Hassan bin Talal of

Jordan urged the graduates to build multilateral cooperation to

overcome political, cultural, and religious conflicts.

"Our challenge—your challenge— is to draw on our collective wisdom

to put a shared vision into action," he said. "We have no alternative."

Despite the conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world,

bin Talal offered an optimistic assessment that the Class ot 2006 and

other future leaders would meet the challenge.

"I believe that wisdom will prevail over prejudice, science over igno-

rance, freedom over oppression, and ecological wisdom over short-

sighted waste," he said. "Our collective learning curve is getting steeper,

not flatter. There are no problems that the human brain cannot solve,

and there is always time."

Bin Talal, brother of the late King Flussein and uncle of the current

King Abdullah II, told more than one thousand graduates to mold

their own futures and to think creatively.

"Whatever motivates you, whether it's fairer global trade or saving

gorillas, don't conceive of the future as an empry space to be colonized

by the present and driven by the market," he said. "Search for new

conceptual models and new metaphors. Creativity sets us apart from

other species, yet so often we stand in our own way, keeping its full

potential unrealized."

After the universirv awarded 1,014 degrees—675 bachelor's, 299 mas-

ter's, and 40 doctorates—blue and white balloons cascaded from the

ceiling of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center as a celebratory

ending to the exercise, which drew a crowd ol about 7,000.

Graduating students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,

the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and the Interna-

tional Business School also took part in the ceremony.

The university presented honorary degrees to bin Talal, who received a

standing ovation, and five others: Pulitzer Prize-winning plawright Tony

Kushner, rehabilitation activist Mimi Halper Silbcrt of the San Francisco-

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based Delancey Street Foundation, philanthropists Judith and Sidney

Swartz of the Timberland Company, and BlendaJ. Wilson, president and

chief executive officer of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.

President Reinharz, addressing the gathering, said the life's work of

the honorary degree recipients mirrored the university's founding

tenets, underscored its commitment

to the arts, and represented the inclu-

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contemporary society. Kushner's

appearance at Brandeis, though con-

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ceived criticism ot Israel, prompted

extended, enthusiastic applause.

Known for his comical, and often

political, speeches, Kushner kept true to

form as the guest speaker for the School

of Creative Arts ceremony later in the

day. He joked first about not being

accepted to Brandeis in the 1970s, then

about how the controversy surrounding

his visit added dramatic tension and

excitement to graduation day. But he

assured the newest class of graduates

that it wasn't his part)'.

"This is about your hard work, not

mine, but joy is contagious and so

I come to catch some of your joy,"

he said.

Instead of talking about the

employment possibilities for creative

arts majors ("always a good subject for

generating hilarity"), Kushner cau-

tioned graduates against what he sees

in many artists—fierce ambition for

the wrong kind of fame. He took a jab

at what he called the "I'm-gonna-live-

forever tame" of actor Tom Cruise, in

contrast to achieving recognition

through the process of exploration

and mastery.

"You have to do hard things to

accomplish anything," said Kushner,

who broke on to the American scene

in the early nineties with his epic

Angeh in America: A Gay Fantasia on

National Themes. "You have to dis-

criminate between fantasy and reality.

If, finally, ambition can't humble itself

enough to contribute energy to the

organization of skill, insight, emotion,

and mystery we call talent, well, then what are you? Hollow. An aber-

ration. An illusion."

Artists make art to tell the truth, Kushner said, and an artist's work

should delve deep into paradox, uncertainty, contradiction, despair as

well as hope, and hate as well as love.

"Work to change the world," he said. "Why else do anything at all?"

—Carrie Simmons

^

Prince Charming

Though his message to graduates was suflicientlg

serious, Prince Hassan hin Talal also dished out a

heavg dose ol humor during his lorty-iive-minute

address. Some choice nuggets:

We hear on CNN about Shia and

"Sunny" Muslims in Iraq. Well,

whether you're a Sunny Muslim, a

Cloudy Muslim, or even a Sushi (both

Sunny and Shia), you are still heir, like

Jews and Christians, to the great

Abrahamic heritage.

You see, ladies and gentlemen, I am a

Marxist—of the Groucho kind.

When we were negotiating the peace

treaty between Jordan and Israel in

1994, [Israeli prime minister] Shimon

Peres said to me, "We are surrounded

by enemies!" I told him, "You think

you've got problems, we're surrounded

by friends!"

I work to maintain the true spirit of our

great traditions because otherwise they are

hijacked by the privatizers of religions

—

Abu-this and Abu-that, the new noms de

guerre. I sometimes say we were better off

when we were all "ibns" (sons ot) rather

than "abus" (fathers of), although I do

recall sitting down after a speech in

Scotland to hear my host saying, "Thank

you very much for speaking, Hassan

bin. . .bin. . .bin. . .Laden!"

Prince El Hassan bin Talal

k\ —

Ton; Kushner

Mimi Halper Silbert

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Moving Citations

PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL

Author, peace activist, i)iternatio>idl standard-

bearerfor religious tolerance and human rights.

For the better part of three decades, you have

worked tirelessly to give tangible meaning to a

culture of peace, dialogue between peoples,

humanitarianism, and the importance ol edu-

cation. A good education, as you have coun-

seled, promotes openness toward different

ways of doing things and emphasizes the values

that all human beings hold in common.

Founder, benefactor, or leader of numerous

organizations devoted to global dialogue and

understanding, including the Royal Institute

for Intertaith Studies, the Independent Com-mission on Christian-Muslim-Jewish Rela-

tions, the Arab Thought Forum, and Partners

in Humanit)-, among others, you have worked

tirelessly and skillfully in an effort to build

societies in which all people can live, work, and

function in freedom and with dignity. The

author of several books, including To Be a

Muslim: Islam, Peace, and Democracy and

Christianity in the Arab World. )'ou remind us

that hope is a condition of the heart, not a state

of the world. For your dedication to helping

create a world in which dialogue, cooperation,

and peace are so commonplace that they excite

no comment, Brandeis University is proud to

bestow upon you its highest honor.

TONY KUSHNER

Prolific playwright, passionate social critic,

chronicler ofthe human condition.

Raised in a family with a love of the arts, you

move us with the anistry of your written and

spoken words. Catapulted to international

prominence with your epic p\3.Y Angels in Amer-

ica, which, through a mixture of brutal reality

and miraculous fantasy, explores the sexual,

racial, religious, political, and social issues con-

fronting the nation at the dawn of the AIDSepidemic, your work touches the soul of Amer-

ica. Acclaimed as "the broadest, deepest, most

searching American play of our time," Angels in

America received the Pulitzer Prize for drama,

among its numerous other awards. You are a

master of different artistic forms, and your work

as a playwright, poet, essayist, and lyricist can be

sensitive and compassionate, but is always

thought-provoking. You wrote the screenplay

for Steven Spielberg's Munich, and your highly

acclaimed new libretto for Brundibar has helped

reclaim a Czech children's pla)- first performed at

Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. Casting

your unsparing eye over life's tragedies and con-

fusion, you leave your audiences with a deep-

ened sense ofoptimism and hope, inviting us to

be moved to action in a spirit of social justice.

For your talent and creativit)' as one of the great-

est playwrights of your generation, Brandeis

University is proud to bestow upon you its high-

est honor.

MIMl HALPER SILBERT

Criminal psychologist, tireless humanitarian,

miracle worker.

Thirty-five years ago and with a $1,000 loan,

you took four residents into a single home in

San Francisco and launched the Delancey Street

Foundation, a residential education center

where drug addicts, former felons, and the

homeless learn to lead productive lives. Today,

the foundation—self-funded and run by its res-

idents—is a recovery empire grossing some

$20 million annually, with locations in NewYork, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Los

Angeles. With faith in yourselfand in the power

of the human spirit, you have enabled more

than 14,000 members ofAmerica's underclass to

live as productive and contributing members of

society. In a career fighting for others in what

you call a "university of the streets, " you have

successfully developed over twenty enterprises

run entirely by formerly unskilled ex-offenders.

From the beginning, you refused government

grants for your foundation, arguing that doing

so would encourage dependency. You have

championed the principles of personal account-

ability, mastery of life, and career skill. In recog-

nition of your inspiring commitment to social

justice in action, Brandeis University is proud to

bestow upon you its highest honor.

SIDNEY AND JUDY SWARTZ

Model corporate citizens, generous and selfless

philanthropists.

Under your family's leadership, the Timberland

Company sets a standard for corporate respon-

sibility and community involvement, raising

money for cancer research, establishing a den-

tistry program at a Peruvian orphanage, and

developing a distribution-management system

for an antihunger organization. Timberland

workers have transformed community sites in

rwenty-four countries through more than

30,000 hours of service. Timberland's Commu-

nity Builders Tour improved neighborhood

parks, playgrounds, and schoolyards in Philadel-

phia, Atlanta, and Baltimore. Together, your

coundess philanthropic gifts, often given anony-

mously, coupled with Judy's leadership role in

Hadassah, the Jewish Communit)' Relations

Council of Boston, and die resettlement of

Soviet Jews, have benefited the Jewish and the

larger communiry. Your benefactions have

helped to endow the City Year program; support

Hebrew College and the Hebrew Rehabilitation

Center for the Aged; create an endowed faculty

chair at Brandeis; and establish the Judy and

Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine

at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. For

your generosity and commitment to tikkun

olam, repairing the world, and for your passion

to improve the Jewish condition in this country

and in Israel, Brandeis University is proud to

bestow upon you its highest honor.

BLENDA J. WILSON

Educator, mentor, and advocate for underserved

populations ofstudents.

As president and chief executive officer of the

Nellie Mae Education Foundation, New Eng-

land's largest public charity dedicated to

improving the academic achievement of under-

served communities, you have crafted a creative

philanthropy, addressing critical issues of educa-

tional equit)'. A national spokesperson on high-

er education policy, you have argued

passionately as a champion for many young

women and men who have you to thank for

their opportunity to realize their full potential

through education. In a life remarkable for the

ability to overcome discrimination and seeming-

ly limited opportunity, you have reached the

highest levels of educational leadership. You

have served as executive director of the

Colorado Commission on Higher Education,

chancellor of the Universit)' of Michigan-

Dearborn, and president of California State

University-Northridge. Your career is marked

by recognition of the contribution educational

institutions can make in support of community

needs. You are past chair of the American Asso-

ciation of Higher Education and chairman of

the Federal Reser\'e Bank of Boston, serving ;ilso

on several boards committed to education and

community renewal. In recognition of your

dedication to expanding educational opportuni-

t}' for all, Brandeis University is proud to bestow

upon you its highest honor.

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Class (of '56) ActThe talk was of the lik'-shaping nature of a

Brandeis education, the star-studded fac-

ulty's intellectual heft, founding president

Abram Sachar's "edifice complex," the iron-

clad 10;30 p.m. dorm curfews, and the social

gatherings at Saldi's Pizzeria in Waltham.

From as far away as Switzerland and Cali-

fornia, seventy-tour members of the Class ol"

1956 came together during Commencement

weekend to share memories, update one

another on the course of their lives, mourn

deceased classmates, and bask in the glorv ot

their central place in university history.

"It's hard not to cry," said Rena Shapiro

Olshansky '56, who served as vice chair of the

50th Reunion Committee. "Every time 1 see

somebody, I want to cry tears of joy. It's wonder-

ful to see all of these people. We all know how

lucky we were to be at Brandeis at that time

—

we were pioneers."

Members of the Class of '56 marched in

the processional at Commencement and were

feted at the annual black-tie CommencementDinner with university trustees, honorary

degree recipients, and other members of the

Brandeis community.

Reunion attendees also participated in a

variet)' of other events, including an open

house at the Boston home of Marge Grodner

Housen '56, chair of the 50th Reunion Com-

mittee; a Meet the Author event with cele-

brated faculty authors; and a discussion on

war and terrorism with Michael Walzer '56 of

the Institute tor Advanced Study.

Trustee Morton Ginsberg '56, who delivered

the senior Commencement address fittv vears

ago, returned to campus to speak to his class-

mates at the Class ot '56 celebration dinner.

During his address, he congratulated the class

for having the courage to enter a fledgling

institution like Brandeis in 1952.

"1 think our class was very pivotal in the

history of Brandeis," Ginsberg said. "The

university needed that level of credibility of

having students enrolling at Brandeis who

could have gone to some of the top schools in

the countrv."

The common theme among the reunion-

goers was the crucial impact that Brandeis had

in shaping their lives.

David Blumenfeld '56 figures he would have

become an attorney had he matriculated any-

where else. But courses at Brandeis in Near

Eastern and Judaic Studies eventually led him

on a path to becoming a rabbi. "I was like a fish

in water," Blumfield said.

"Brandeis opened my eyes to the world," he

added. "Brandeis had a certain intellectual

spirit that has survived and grown. We have

very passionate students and professors."

"We were always told to ask, 'Why? Why?

Why?" said 50th Reunion Committee vice

chair Leona Feldman Curhan '56. "President

Sachar was fond ot saying, 'The more you know,

the more \'ou know there is to know."

If Curhan found Brandeis a good match

tor her talents, she made at least one other

meaningful match when she introduced

Housen to her husband, Charley, during

their freshman year. The couple have been

married tor fifty years.

Housen shared a variety ot memories with

her classmates: hurricanes Carol and Edna,

which hit campus in 1954; the group of scart-

clad intellectuals who gathered at the cafete-

ria's so-called Table One; and the Bos

(Bohemians) and Ras (football players and

cheerleaders, short tor rah-rahs).

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WORKnPROGRESSExperiential learning-active engagement beyond

the classroom-set these graduates on the road to success

Profiles bij Tamar Morad Photographs by Mike Lovett

Jacob KimFinance industry internships focus career drive, complement his work on community and diversity.

Jacob Kim doesn't waste time or opportunity. At age 1 1, he left Korea

with his parents and moved to New Zealand, where he began learning

English. At age 1 5, the family moved to Staten Island, New York, where

his parents opened a liquor store. Two years later, he had an acceptance

letter from Brandeis in hand and a full scholarship from the Posse

Foundation, which targets budding leaders and academic stars from

urban public high schools.

As a sophomore economics major he had set his eyes on a career in

investment banking and spent the next summer interning at Lehman

Brothers in New York. The next summer: a home run of an internship

at Goldman Sachs, where he'll begin working full time aher graduation.

Kim says his internships informed his study of economics—and that

his economics courses prepared him well for those real-world number-

crunching experiences. "Being a part of workplaces where people are

goal-oriented and career-driven inspired me," he says, "and gave me a

better sense of what life is going to be Hke after college."

Girding for the stress and intense work environment that investment

banking is known for motivated Kim "to soak up the whole college

experience," he says, adding, "1 knew I'd never have another opportu-

nity' like this."

On campus, he was a leader, serving this year as vice president ot Stu-

dent Union, where he helped change the student activit}' fee so that it

is more equally distributed across groups. He also served as cochair of

the Intercultural Center, an umbrella organization for thirteen student

ethnic and cultural groups, where he served as a liaison between the

groups and university administrators. He was an active participant in

Culture X, a multicultural celebration of dance, music, and poetry, and

in the Korean Student Association.

While his brain is in finance and business, his heart is in nonprofit

work on cultural and racial diversity. He intends to use a portion of

financial rewards in his career to support such nonprofit groups, partic-

ularly those that assist immigrant or low-income communities in edu-

cational initiatives.

Kim's life on three continents has influenced his perspective on cul-

ture, he says. After moving to New Zealand from Korea, he had few

friends, and the only other Korean boy in his class made fun of him for

his poor English. It shocked him. "I expected him to identify with me

more than with [native] New Zealand kids," he says, "but instead he

tried to distance himself from me." That experience has stayed with

him as he has thought about and promoted, at Brandeis, community

and diversity.

Although he has had several far-flung homes in two decades, he says

of Brandeis, "I felt like I was always at home here."

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Darnisa Amante insists she's not superstitious. But, she says, "For

me, everything that is meant to be comes in threes." That

includes her torays into experiential learning, one of the elements

she savors most about her Brandeis experience. One: A summer teach-

ing history and cartooning to largely black low-income middle-

schoolers in San Francisco. Two: a summer in South Africa on a

Brandeis Ethics Center Student Fellowship. Three: a summer spent in

Senegal on a study-abroad program.

Together, those experiences translated into a master's thesis and a

drive to transform the lives of African-American children.

Darnisa AmanteForays into Africa and an American inner-city school shaped her thesis and focused her devotion to social change for African-Americans

^'

Amante, a native of Brooklyn, New York, graduated with a bache-

lor's/master's in anthropology and a bachelor's in history with a minor

in French, placing on the Dean's List for five semesters. She loved her

classes and lite on campus too much to travel abroad during the aca-

demic year, she says, so instead she spent her summers on the go. Onan Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellowship through the university's

International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Lite, she spent ten

weeks in 2004 at an art studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, docu-

menting how art processes serve as a medium for engaging social

change. She spent weekends interning at a paper company that pro-

motes economic development in poor, ex-urban areas.

At the studio, called Artist Proof, she noticed the bulk of artists were

men who were struggling to pursue their passion yet maintain a mas-

culine image in a society that expects men to be primary breadwinners.

"The men opened up to me because they felt ditterent in their society

and saw me as different too because I'm not South African, so I think

that they felt their feelings were safe with me," says Amante.

So she performed a second study, exploring men's conceptions of

what it means to be a black artist in South Africa. The gender study

evolved into her master's thesis. She also returned to Africa the follow-

ing summer on a study-abroad program in Senegal.

"Anthropology is the study of the other," says Amante, "but to me being

in Africa taught me so much about me, about being an African American

versus an African." She hopes to translate her experiences and that under-

standing into fostering a better sense of identity and promoting leadership

skills among black American youth through nonprofit work.

Politically active on campus, she served as a Roosevelt fellow, men-

toring first-year students in their academic and personal acclimation to

Brandeis. She helped found the campus improvisational comedy group

and is a student representative to the Board of Trustees.

She also pushed for greater diversity at Brandeis and beyond.

Through the Board ofTrustees, she championed expanding the univer-

sity's nondiscrimination policy to include transgendered students and

adjusted the budget for the student activity fee so that a greater diver-

sity of student organizations receives more funding. She was a Mosaic

Ambassador for Diversity, facilitating discussions on race, class, and

gender on campus, and directed political affairs for the Brandeis Black

Student Organization.

Lastly, as a Posse Leadership Scholar—recipient ot a tull-tuition schol-

arship for exceptional student leaders from from urban public high

schools—she meets regularly with other Posse students to discuss every-

thing trom minorities on campus to their common goal ot giving back.

Amante is now working on her next set ot three—a trio of goals that

will make her career fall into place. She's searching for a nonprofit job

that would allow her to work with African-American kids. In the fall,

she'll apply for a Fulbright scholarship to return to Johannesburg for a

follow-up study at Artist Proof And, in time, she'll seek a doctorate in

anthropology and enter academia.

38 iiramieis liiiivcrsilv Masiaziin' I Suniinn- ()()

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When Rachel Beauheu and Jason Goldsmith talk about science,

they finish each other's sentences and cue the other when to

speak—no surprise given their love for science and for each

other. They were married May 29, just weeks after commencement and

four years after first eyeing each other at Brandeis orientation.

On campus, the duo was known as the "science couple," and for good

reason. Each excelled academically in his or her respective double-

majors—Beaulieu in biochemistry and biology, Goldsmith in biochem-

istry and chemistry—and they amassed more than a half dozen science

scholarships and fellowships between them. They were hyperactive in all

things science, from Goldsmith's role as student adviser to the new sci-

ence center's sreering committee to Beaulieu's initiative for a mentoring

program that matches first-year science majors with upperclass students.

They agree on most things. Among them is that their most valuable

college experience was experiential learning: lab research on- and off-

campus. Goldsmith worked in the enzyme kinetics lab of professor of

biochemistry and molecular pharmacology Jetf Gelles for four years. Anative of Portland, Oregon, Goldsmith also spent a summer at the Ore-

gon College of Oriental Medicine studying how acupuncture works.

The experience sparked his interest in acupuncture's effect on inflam-

matory diseases, which he will explore further in graduate school.

"Learning in the lab is inextricable from studying science," notes

Goldsmith, "and it has given me a realistic picture of what graduate

school will be like. " Beaulieu chimes in, "I came to Brandeis because it

is major research institution in a small campus setting. But now I appre-

ciate Brandeis even more because the research experience I've had is

phenomenal."

Beaulieu, from Philadelphia, worked in three labs that all involved

the study of cancer cells: on campus with professor emeritus of biology

Chandler Fulton and professor of chemistry Thomas Pochapsky, and in

Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Both will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

where Goldsmith will begin a MD-PhD program in immunology and

Beaulieu a PhD program in pathology and lab medicine. Then, over the

horizon, the two plan to pursue academic careers. From future profes-

sorial perches, they wish to communicate to students why science is so

important to their lives, says Beaulieu.

Jason Goldsmith and Rachel BeaulieuDuring school, they kept a hand in all things science. After graduation, they walked hand-in-hand down the aisle.

In tandem, they took active roles on improving academic life for sci-

ence majors. As Undergraduate Departmental Representatives (UDRs)

for biochemistry (Beaulieu is also a UDR for biology), the duo served

as liaisons between students and faculty and hosted events that foster

community within the major. As a junior, Beaulieu came up with the

idea for the Undergraduate Science Mentoring Program, and the two

logged dozens of hours together to make it work. The program "is very

valuable," says Beaulieu, "because there are so many requirements for

science majors that a student really needs to know from day one which

classes to take and when."

Planning the wedding was wedged between study sessions and grad-

uate school applications. But guests shouldn't hold their breath for

party favors: The couple donated money for that budget to Brandeis

science programs [see related story, page 66]

.

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Picture-Perfect Ending

fieldwork

Vlurder Most FoulWhy good-versus-evil narratives enthrall us so. By Carrie Simmons

Whether it is Stephen King's words

on the pages of Pet Sematary or

actors performing Shakespeare's

Romeo andJuliet on the theatrical stage, fic-

tional stories have long had the ability to

captivate people and move them to laugh-

ter, tears, and even fear.

Evolutionary biologists have for years

attempted to explain why people have pow-

erful emotional reactions to imaginary tales.

They have failed mostly because they don't

understand how narrative works, according

to William Flesch, professor of English and

American literature.

In his latest book. Comeuppance: A Nat-

ural History of Our Interest in Narrative,

forthcoming from Harvard University

Press, Flesch uses game theory and evolu-

tionary psychology to explain why people

find pleasure in both the happy and tragic

lives of fictional characters.

"We evolved so that we punish cheaters,

take pleasure in punishing cheaters, and

take pleasure in watching others punish

cheaters," said Flesch, a Shakespearean

scholar who also teaches courses about

Spenser, Milton, adolescent literature, and

film noir. "It is that kind of pleasurable

interest that we also take in literature.

"

Gripping narratives typically include a

villain or antagonist whom readers want to

see punished and another character whomthey want to see rewarded. Those desires

often come together so that the reward for

the good character is to punish the bad

character, which further causes readers to

like the hero. That possibility is what narra-

tives are always about, said Flesch, a

49-year-old Manhattan native who earned

his PhD from Cornell University.

Hamlet, for example, takes on the bur-

den of avenging the death of his father on

the king who has killed him.

"Hamlet can see that this will lead to

his own death, and the fact that he still

takes arms against a sea of troubles and

seeks to set things right is what we admire

in him," Flesch said. "We admire him as

well lor his strange, energizing euphoria,

for the antic energy he displays in seeking

to punish the wrongdoer."

Fictional stories also help solve some ot

the very real problems of altruistic punish-

ment by creating an audience, Flesch said,

so that even if the villain doesn't learn a les-

son, other characters or the readers can be

swayed to the side of the altruistic punisher.

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Narratives like Charles Dickens's AChristmas Carol can also give a character

such as Ebenezer Scrooge time to rebuke his

earlier self and give a reader time to feel bet-

ter about forgiving him.

Flesch believes Shakespeare understood

this kind of audience reaction and dramatic

illusion better than anyone.

"He was not just a great, moving play-

wright who understood the human heart

better than anyone else," said Flesch. "He

was an expert at knowing how theater

worked, at knowing how far he could push

an audience without breaking the illusion."

In Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra,

Cleopatra doesn't want to go to Rome to

see her story performed on stage. She says

with disgust, "I shall see some squeaking

Cleopatra boy my greatness in the posture

of a whore."

Cleopatra is complaining about seeing a

boy playing her on stage. Yet boys played all

female roles on Shakespeare's stage, and it is

actually a boy who says those lines. "Shake-

speare is so confident in the illusion and so

confident that what he's doing is gripping

that he can refer to what's outside of the

illusion," he says. "That gets absorbed into

the illusion as well."

for the characters. But Shakespeare always

delivered an extra surprise at the end.

In The Comedy ofErrors, for example, the

audience expects that the twin sons will

reunite to save their father's life, and that

one of the unmarried twins will ultimatelv

marry his sister-in-law. But the audience

doesn't anticipate that the lather will find

his long-lost wife.

"Any advanced screenwriting class would

talk about this as something you want to do

in a movie, but it was Shakespeare who fig-

ured out how to draw an audience's attention

to something and still fool you," Flesch said.

As a Shakespearean, Flesch doesn't cringe

at Hollywood blockbusters or even televi-

sion series like Bnj]]i the Vampire Slayer. Hebelieves popular, well-written movies such

as The Sixth Sense and Fight Club have

caused a resurgence in interest in the kinds

of things Shakespeare did. Young people

who got interested in the well-written dia-

logue of those movies, as well as the bril-

liant misdirection in their plots, are more

open to literary works, he says.

Flesch's understanding of why people

take pleasure in narrative is one of the rea-

sons his classes are so popular, according to

Jenn Lewin '94, now an assistant professor

ot English at the University of Kentucky.

"He makes students feel as though they

are in the company of somebody who wants

them to appreciate not his own brilliance

but the brilliance of the text that he's deal-

ing with, or the pleasures of getting to know

the authors he's dealing with," she said. "He

makes you feel as though the texts are not

only accessible but, at the same time, aston-

Shakespeare was not just a great, moving playwright

wfio understood the human heart better than anyone

else. He was an expert at knowing how far he could

push an audience without breaking the illusion.

Although the current trend in Shake-

spearean teaching is to look at Shakespeare

as part of the religious and political debate

in England at the time, Flesch focuses his

courses on Shakespeare as an expert play-

wright and dramatic technician. Shake-

speare could masterfully draw people's

attention to a significant piece of informa-

tion, event, or object, Flesch said, leading an

audience to believe it knows what is in store

ishing in their complexity. Being in his

classroom is an opportunity to learn from

someone who really knows how to commu-

nicate his love of literature."

In his next book, a kind ofsequel to Come-

uppance: A Natural History ofOur Interest in

Narrative, Flesch will examine the experience

of absorption—how people can get so lost in

reading a book or watching a movie that they

forget about their own existence.

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Hall PassFive-sport star Zelnik heads list of 2006 inductees. By Adam Levin '94

Inhis acceptance speech ar the Brandeis Athletic Hail of Fame

induction cetemony, Marty Zelnik '61 said that his nomina-

tion was merely a matter of happenstance. Certain holes on

certain teams needed to be filled, and he was in the right place at

the right time.

Except that the three varsity tennis teams for which he competed

posted a 30-3 record as he played No. 1 or No. 2 singles and No. 1

doubles, winning nearly 75 percent of his matches, as he recalled.

And he participated in five different varsity teams in his career—in

addition to tennis, he played basketball, football, and soccer and was

a member of the fencing team. As a senior, he served as the coach of

the women's tennis team, earning the athletic department's Morris

Sepinuck Sportsmanship Award.

While just one of those feats might not have earned Zelnik a spot

in the Hall of Fame, the combination made him more than a wor-

thy candidate.

A native of the Bronx, New York, Zelnik played tennis, basket-

ball, and football in high school. He decided to attend Brandeis

after seeing the Judges basketball team defeat NYU in Madison

Square Garden. Arriving in Waltham, Zelnik was unsure about his

athletic future, especially after learning two things about Brandeis:

freshmen would not be eligible for varsity tennis in 1957-58 and

the university had one court—

"a cracked, weed-infested asphalt

tennis court next to the Castle."

Athletic director Benny Friedman, after meeting with Zelnik and

learning of the quality of the incoming class, approved funding for

the Rieger courts, still in use today. He also approved the hiring of

a new coach, a young sports reporter named Arthur "Bud" Collins.

After playing freshman basketball his first year and tennis as a

sophomore, Zelnik branched out as a junior, mostly out of necessity.

A depleted football team, which had gone 9-1 in Zelnik's freshman

year, suffered so many injuries in 1959 that even "an oddity," as he

referred to himself earned a start at defensive end.

The winter of that junior year, Zelnik explained, was frustrating.

"My academic career was going well, but I had the urge to try

something else," he said. Friends on the fencing team urged him to

give fencing a shot, not an uncommon occurrence in the program's

early days. Handed an epee as the Judges were being routed by

Rochester, Zelnik was thrown to the wolves—and an undefeated

opponent—only to emerge a 5-0 winner in his only career bout.

While Zelnik was applying to graduate schools in the fall of his

senior year, soccer goalkeeper Sid Boorstein '62 went down with an

injury. Once again, Zelnik was called in to fill the breach. With a

starting lineup of nine Wien Scholars, he didn't have to make very

many saves as the team went 10-0.

Zelnik graduated with a degree in fine arts and has gone on to

become the second of three generations of architects in his family.

He has published three books on interior design and architecture,

spending thirty years as a professor of design at the Fashion Insti-

tute of Technology.

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other new inductees to the Brandeis Athletic Hall of Fame are:

Dick Bergel, who let-

tered for four years as a

running back on the

football team and was on

the university's first-ever

track squads. He served

as vice president of

Friends of Brandeis Ath-

letics in the early 1970s

and was presented with

the athletic department's

Charlie Napoli Distin-

guished Achievement

Award in 1990.

Carmen Bumgarner,

who was a four-year

member of the women's

soccer team. A sweeper,

Bumgarner led the team

to a 42-28-4 record in

her four-year career, a

stint that included the

program's only NCAADivision III tournament

appearance in 1988 and

an ECAC tournament

berth in 1990.

Melissa Jones, who

was named the Softball

team's Most Valuable

Player all four years of her

collegiate career from

1995 to 1999. For her

career, Jones hit 3 1 home

runs with 162 RBI, a.451

career batting average, and

.873 slugging percent-

age—all school records.

She was also a senior cap-

tain of the women's soccer

team and earned the

team's Most Dedicated

Plaver award in 1998.

Ed McCarthy, who

was a member of the

cross-country and track-

and-field teams from

1980 to 1984. He was a

rwo-time Ail-American

who led the Judges to

back-to-back runner-up

finishes at the NCAADivision III cross-coun-

try championships in

1981 and 1982.

Frank Raio, who

starred on the soccer

team from 1979 to 1982,

serving as captain his

junior and senior seasons.

Brandeis made four

NCAA Division III tour-

nament appearances

during his career. Raio is

currently nineteenth on

the university's career

scoring list, with 18 goals

and 13 assists for 49

points despite playing

defender.

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The 1977 baseball team, which features si,\ previous inductees and

posted a 20-2 record in the regular season. The Judges went 7-1 in the Greater

Boston League to earn the GBL title. The team qualified for the program's

first-ever Division III World Series, losing in the championship game to end

the year with a 24-5 mark.

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The latest novel by

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The Ironies of

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Mikhail Lermontov

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Parting the Mists:

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Painting in Modern China

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Parting the Mists

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Poussin and the Poetics of

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298 pages, $95,

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Torquato Tasso's

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Reaching for Power:

The Shi'a in the

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By Yitzhak Nakash

248 pages, $19.95,

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As the world focuses

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Reluctant Capitalists:

Bookselling and the Culture

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328 pages, $35,

University of Chicago Press

Over the past half-century, book-

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A World Without Time:

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By Palle Yourgrau

210 pages, $15,

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What if time is only an illusion—if it

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American Green:

The Obsessive Questfor the Perfect LawnBy Ted Steinberg, PhD'89

295 pages, $24.95,

W. W. Norton & Company

Apartment-dwelling urbanites may be

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Western Reserve

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Articles of ImpeachmentAgainst George W. BushBy Michael Ratner '66

144 pages, $9.95, Melville House

In the halls of Congress and on the

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Biological Weapons: Fromthe Invention of State-

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By Jeanne Guillemin, PhD'73

256 pages, $27.95,

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A Book of Life: Embracing

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Strassfeld, rabbi of the New York-

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Civilizing the Museum:The Collected Writings of

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By Elaine Heumann Gurian '58

217 pages, $35.95, Routiedge

Written over a thirty-five-year

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Aimed at university professors and

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The Coin Collector's Survival

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By Scott A. Travers '83

384 pages, $22.95, RandomHouse/House of Collectibles

From one of the world's most knowl-

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Confessions of the Other

Mother: Nonbiological

Lesbian Moms Tell All!

Edited by Harlyn Aizley '83

208 pages, $16, Beacon Press

After Aizley gave birth to her daugh-

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stories by women like her partner who

are creating new parenting roles,

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the view ot two-parent families.

Creating Communities for

Addiction Recovery: TheOxford House ModelEdited by Leonard A. Jason '71,

Joseph R. Ferrari, Margaret I.

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155 pages, $48, Haworth Press

Jason and his colleagues review

important research conducted during

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The editors conclude that substance

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Cross My Heart

By Carly Phillips '87

304 pages, $19.95, HQN Books

New York Times

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Phillips, aka Karen

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A Dash of Style: The Art andMastery of Punctuation

By Noah Lukeman '93

224 pages, $23.95, W.W. Norton

Why did Poe and Melville rely on the

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Daughter of the Bride

By Francesca Segre '94

336 pages, $14, Berkley Trade

Segre scores with this dazzling debut

novel about a woman watching her

mother get hitched while her own

finger is still decidedly bare. Whenher mom calls to say she's getting

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hasn't come close to

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Daniella struggles to

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Daughter

of the Bride'

long before she realizes she's going to

have to make some changes in her

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aisie herself.

Defiant Gardens: MakingGardens in Wartime

By Kenneth Helphand '68

320 pages, $34.95,

Trinin' Universitv' Press

In a rich history focusing on the first

half of the twentieth century—an era

marked by the deadliest wars in

human history

—

landscape historian

Helphand examines

gardens built by

both combatants

and civilians.

Gardens created

during wartime are

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Helphand calls

"defiant gardens"

—

those cultivated in

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writes, "defiant gardens attempt to

create normalcy in the midst of

madness and order out of chaos."

Dinner witti Anna Karenina

By Gloria Goldreich '55

368 pages, $21.95, MIRA Books

When a book club comprising six

well-educated New York women gath-

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// change. Cynthia, the

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Although the group is not close-knit,

this singular event has repercussions,

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her life. Goldreich, author ol numer-

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sympathy, and skill the balancing act

that modern women must perform to

achieve success at work and at home.

Ending the Gauntlet:

Removing Barriers to

Women's Success in the LawBy Lauren Stiller Rikleen '75

437 pages, $25,

Thomson Legalworks

Based on the author's interviews with

hundreds of female lawyers and law-

firm managers, Ending the Gauntlet

focuses on the chal-

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Rikleen, a senior

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ending™gauntletRemoving Barriers

to Women's Success

in the Law

Lauren Stiller Rikleen

The Forgotten Nefwork;

DuMont and the Birth of

American Television

By David Weinstein '89

240 pages, $19.95,

Temple University Press

During the late 1940s and early 1950s,

the name DuMont wai synonymous

THEFORiiore

NETWORK

jiWy/O M'EIHSA'tV^,

with the new medi-

um of television.

Many people first

watched TV on

DuMont-brand

sets—the best

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1955, the DuMont

network was out of

business and its

founder and name-

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relinquish control of the company he

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In The Forgotten Network, Weinstein

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to tell the story of a "forgotten net-

work" that helped invent the very

business of network television.

The Geographic Revolution

in Early America:

Maps, Literacy, andNational Identity

By Martin Bruckner, PhD'97

296 pages, $49.95, University of

North Carolina Press

The rapid rise in popularity of maps

and geography handbooks in the

eighteenth century ushered in a new

geographic literacy among nonelite

Americans. In a path-breaking and

richly illustrated

examination of this

transformation,

Bruckner argues that

geographic literacy

as it was played out

in popular literary

genres significantly

influenced identit)'

formation in

America from the

1680s to the 1820,s.

Drawing on

historical geography, cartography,

literary history, and material culture,

Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of

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geography consisting of property plats

and surveying manuals, decorative

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nation's first atlases, and sentimental

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The Harvest of Mysticism

in Medieval GermanyBy Bernard McGinn '59, PhD70784 pages, $34.95,

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McGinn, the

Naomi Shenstone

Donnelley Professor

Emeritus of

Historical Theology

and of the History

of Christianity at

the University of

Chicago's Divinit)'

School, offers the

fourth volume of

his Presence of God

series, covering the greatest mystics

of Germany, including Jan van

Ruusbroeck, Meister Eckhart, and

Johannes Trauler. One critic calls the

book "a monumental achievement

both in its historical sweep and for

its conceptual rigor."

How Nature Speaks: TheDynamics of the HumanEcological Condition

Edited by Yrjo Haila and

Chuck Dyke '61

344 pages, $23.95,

Duke University Press

Dyke, professor of

philosophy at Tem-

ple University, and

his fellow contribu-

tors address the

complicated rela-

tionship between

scientists and nature

as part of a broader

reassessment of how

we conceive ot our-

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selves, knowledge, and the world that

we inhabit and shape. Case studies

focus on the origin of environmental

movements, the politicization of

environmental issues in city politics,

the development of a local energy-

production system, and the conver-

gence of forest management practices

toward a dominant scheme. The

book also includes a helpful primer,

"On Thinking Dynamically about

the Human Ecological Condition,"

which explains the basic principles of

complexity and nonlinear thinking.

An Intercessor's

Tribute to Israel

By Siv Rapuano "77

380 pages, $17.99, Authorhouse

Rapuano, who con-

verted to Judaism

aftet marrying a

Jewish man at the

age of 1 9—only to

leave the faith after

divorcing five years

later—has published

this collection of

monthly prayer

letters, personal

testimony, and study

materials as an expression of her deep

regard tor Judaism. Her intent is to

address the Christian community on

the mandate to pray for Israel, to raise

an awareness of today's worldwide

problem of anti-Semitism, to

encourage the reader to take a

proactive stand on behalf of Israel,

and to "bless Israel and the Jewish

people from the heart.'

Interpretation and Method:

Empirical Research Methodsand the Interpretive Turn

Edited by Dvora Yanow '71

416 pages, $89.95, M.E. Sharpe

This book demonstrates the rele-

vance, rigor, and creativity of inter-

pretive research

methodologies for

the social and

human sciences.

Designed for use

either in a course

devoted to interpre-

tive or qualitative

research methods or

ui a course in

which the instruc-

tor seeks a balance

between positivist and interpretive

approaches, the book situates meth-

ods questions within the context of

broader methodological questions

—

specifically, the character of social

realities and their know-ability.

Exceptionally clear and well-written

chapters provide engaging discus-

sions of the methods of accessing,

generating, and analyzing social sci-

ence data, using methods ranging

from reflexive historical analysis to

critical ethnography.

Kabbalah: The Mystic

Quest in JudaismBy David Ariel, MA'81, PhD'82, P'04

256 pages, $17.95,

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

kabbalahTHE Sn^TIC QL FST l\ II HMSM

Today, many people

from all faiths are

exploring the

Kabbalah. What was

once controversial

and esoteric teaching

from medieval

lewish mystics now

is becoming one of

the latest spiritual

trends sweeping

across America.

In the wake of this renewed interest,

Ariel, president ot the Laura and

Alvin Siegal College ofJudaic Studies

in Cleveland, presents a thoroughly

updated edition of his best-selling

book. The Mystic Quest, which

provides a contemporar)' context tor

understanding Jewish mysticism.

DAV ID ARIEL

Lessons from Joan: Living

and Loving with Cancer,

a Husband's Story

By Eric Kjngson, PhD79209 pages, Si 9.93,

Syracuse Universiu' Press

In the thirty-two

months toUowing

loan's cancer diag-

nosis, she and her

family experienced

.1 journev that

changed their

lives.Vith

unflinching hon-

esty, Kingson, pro-

fessor of social

work and public

administration at Syracuse

University, recounts the ensuing

medical treatments, their hopes and

fears, their advocacy, and everyday

struggles. But at the heart of the

book is Joans warmth and courage.

Making Burros Fly:

Cleveland Amory, Animal

Rescue Pioneer

By Julie Hoffman Marshall '91

192 pages, Si 7.50, Johnson Books

M/\KINr, BURROS FLYA tribute to author,

journalist, and Fund

tor Animals founder

Cleveland Amory,

Making Burros Fly

explores Amory s

most exciting and

controversial animal

rescues, including

•lirlifting burros out

of the depths of the

Grand Canyon in

the 1 980s. Marshall treats readers to

a tour of Amory s three animal

sanctuaries, including his famed

Black Beaut)' Ranch, where many of

the Grand Canyon burros are alive

today. The book also offers details

about the Fund for Animals'

animal-rights campaigns.

No Greater Threat:

America after September 11

and the Rise of a

National Security State

By C. William Michaels '75

364 pages, $33, Algora Publishing

Did America's proud history of civil

liberties come tumbling down on

September 11? In

this searing analysis

of the USA Patriot

Act, Michaels seeks

to start a different,

parallel dialogue

about the war on

terrorism to pre-

vent it becoming a

war on ourselves

and on the Consti-

tution. A wake-up

call for Americans

concerned with preserving our

nation's values.

Parasites: Latching On to a

Free LunchBy Paul Fleisher '70

112 pages, $27.93,

Twenty-First Century Books

In this book aimed at ninth- to

twelfth-graders, Fleisher, a retired

teacher of gifted

students for the

Richmond, Virginia,

public schools, intro-

duces us to all man-

ner of unpleasant

creatures that can

feed on the body

—

head lice, fleas, ticks,

tapeworms and

fungi—as well as a

huge variety of parasites that feed on

animals and plants. Discover such

skin-crawling facts as a single female

head louse can lay three himdred eggs

in a month. While some parasites

spread disease and cause harm,

Fleisher teaches, all are complex

organisms with amazing life cycles.

^..&

The Pluto Project

By Melissa Glenn Haber, MA'99

272 pages, $17.99,

Dutton Juvenile

Alan Green has an unusual talent for

reading meaning into randomness.

Even though he knows it's dork)',

Alan still likes to sit

in an old culvert

with his friends and

imagine the scraps

of conversation

they're overhearing

are really the

encoded communi-

cations of the

nefarious group

Conspiracy Rule

American People. It's

loads of fun—at

least until Alan's predictions start to

come true. As Alan struggles to con-

vince others of the danger, he is

forced to confront the larger question

of whether he can make any sense at

all out of the random mess that is his

life. Conspiracy theory and psycho-

logical drama season this intriguing

and literarv' coming-of-age novel.

Private Neighborhoods

and the Transformation of

Local GovernmentBy Robert Nelson '66

469 pages, $32.50,

Urban Institute Press

To the three tradi-

tional levels of gov-

ernment—federal,

state, and local

—

add private neigh-

borhoods, home to

nearly one in five

Americans. In

Private Neighbor-

hoods. Nelson, a

professor of public

policy at the

University of Maryland, details how

private community associations have

dei.'- books

52

increasingly eclipsed local government

in providing public services and

regulating land use. He argues that

private associations can foster more

secure neighborhoods and create mar-

ket incentives for redeveloping deterio-

rated areas in cities and inner suburbs.

Public Policy and Lawin Russia: In Search of

a Unified Legal andPolitical SpaceEdited by Robert Sharlet '60 and

Ferdinand Feldbrugge

318 pages, $162,

Brill/Martinus Nijhoff

Sharlet, the Chauncey Winters

Research Professor of Political Science

at Union College, and Feldbrugge,

professor emeritus

of law at Leiden

University, Nether-

lands, have gathered

an international

group of scholars to

trace the attempt to

complete the cre-

ation of a unified

legal and political

system in the

Russian Federation.

In the volume,

political scientists and law professors

focus on post-Soviet political and

legal developments, especially during

the Putin administration. While

much progress is noted, significant

problems remain to be addressed.

Sharlet is author or coauthor of three

chapters in the volume.

Reuben SachsBy Amy Levy

Edited by Susan David Bernstein,

MA'86, PhD'90

250 pages, $15.95,

Broadview Press

Bernstein, professor of English, Jewish

studies, and women's studies at the

Bfandci^ l'iii\'ersitv .VIai;aziiie I Siiiiiiin

University of Wisconsin, Madison,

gives new life to this classic by Levy, a

nineteenth-century

British novelist,

poet, and essayist.

The story of an

extended Anglo-Jew-

ish family in Lon-

don, the book

focuses on the rela-

tionship between

two cousins, Reuben

Sachs and Judith

Quixano, and the

tensions between

their Jewish identities and English

society. The novel's complex and

sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-

Jewish life caused controversy on its

first publication.

Remarkable Psychotherapeutic

Experiences: A Client's Report

By Neil Friedman '61

109 pages, $20.99,

neilheart.com

Friedman tells from the viewpoint of

the client the story of three

therapeutic experiences. It is unusual

to hear about good therapy from the

report of a client. The experiences are

varied and the therapists use different

approaches. From the book one can

get a feel for what goes on in the

sessions and the

workshop described.

You are there. There

is an immediacy to

the writing and

description. One

well-known theorist

of therapy, Eugene

Gendlin, is por-

trayed, as are an

existential therapist,

Leida Berg, and a

nationally known

workshop, Opening the Heart. You

will not forget these descriptions of

therapy at its best, working well, and

helping a client.

Rhetoric and Sexuality:

The Poetry of Hart Crane,

Elizabeth Bishop, andJames Merrill

By Peter Nickowitz '92

192 pages, $65,

Palgrave Macmillan

Nickowitz, a lecturer

of English at the

University of South-

ern California, com-

bines a rhetorical

and thematic inter-

pretation, employing

close readings and

the critical lens of

Freudian and KJein-

ian psychoanalysis,

to illustrate an addi-

tional way to read American poetry.

He argues that the extent to which

homosexual desire is problematic for

poets Crane, Bishop, and Merrill

compels them to formulate new ways

of expressing issues of homosexuality

for which they have no available

words. Rhetoric and Sexuality demon-

strates that the logic of identity in

rwentieth-century American poetry

becomes a question of rhetoric.

Save Your OwnBy Elisabeth Brink, PhD'93

288 pages, $23, Houghton Mifflin

Gillian Brandenburg, intensely cere-

bral, uptight, narcoleptic, and a vir-

gin, is in her final year at Harvard

Divinity School when her life takes a

sharp U-turn. The

faculty deems her

thesis topic of spiri-

tual transformation

"New Agey" and

threatens to

cancel her funding.

Determined to

prove them wrong,

she sets out to

gather research by

taking a job at a

halfway house for addicted women.

Here, she must quickly transform

herself from obedient graduate stu-

dent to hardcore authority figure.

The women push every limit she has

set, and Gillian finds herselt at once

repelled by their crass ways and in

awe of their gutsy impulsiveness.

Scandalous Knowledge:

Science, Truth, andthe HumanBy Barbara Herrnstein Smith '54,

MA'55, PhD'65

208 pages, $21.95,

Duke University Press

Throughout the recent culture and

science "wars," the radically new

conceptions of knowledge and science

emerging from such fields as the

history and sociology

of science have been

I

ScandalousKnowledgeScience, Truth and the Human

denounced by

various journalists,

scientists, and

academics as irre-

sponsible attacks on

^d^^^ ij science, absurd

^^H^VI I

denials of objective

^^^H rc.ility, or a cynical

^^^^r abandoment of truth

itself In Scandiibus

Knowledge, Smith,

the Braxton Craven Professor of

Comparative Literature and English at

Duke University, explores and

illuminates the intellectual contexts

for these crude denunciations.

Shanghai Legacy

By Marion Cuba '61

212 pages, $14.95,

Booklocker.com

In life, Hannah is a stark, distant

enigma to her daughter, Maya. But

when Hannah dies, a German diary

turns up, revealing a secret. In

1938, Hannah and her parents fled

Hitler to the one place that would

have them without

a visa: Shanghai. As

this little-known

chapter of the Nazi

era unfolds, Maya

is amazed at the

brave, poignant

choices Hannah

made. Now, Maya

must evaluate her

own life—her

empty marriage,

neglected art career, and outworn

child-centered existence. She has

choices Hannah never had. She

must dare to seize them.

Sister SwingBy Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, PhD'73

230 pages, $12,

Marshall Cavendish

Sister Swing chronicles the growing-

up years of three sisters. It follows

their transplant from a relatively

sheltered life in

Malaysia to the raw

realities of the

United States. Lim,

professor of English

at the University of

California, Santa

Barbara, illuminates

rhe complex rela-

tionships among the

sisters, and gently

but firmly explores

the morals, values,

and mindsets of growing up Asian in

a Western world.

State Fair

By Arthur Grace '71

128 pages, $34.95,

University of Texas Press

From prize-winning pigs to corn

dog-eating contests, from beauty

queens to marching bands, from

gravity-defying midway rides to

miracle machines for back pain, state

yiiku nM

t Irffi"

fairs are a mother

lode of pure Ameri-

cana. State Fair is a

visual distillation of

Arthur Grace's pho-

tographic odyssey

through fairs in ten

states. Grace shows

that far from being

an anachronism in the twent)'-first

century, state fairs are a vital, living

tradition throughout America.

Tehran Rising: Iran's

Challenge to the

United States

By Ilan Berman '97

224 pages, $24.95,

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers

Iran today constitutes the single great-

est challenge to the United States and

the war on terror. Despite this, argues

Berman, vice presi-

dent for the Ameri-

can Foreign Policy

Council, Washing-

ton is woefully

unprepared to deal

with this mounting

peril. In this hard-

hitting and provoca-

tive book, Berman

provides what has

been missing so far

in the foreign policy

discourse regarding Iran, both within

the U.S. government and outside it:

practical policy prescriptions designed

to contain Iran's strategic ambitions.

Theories of Counseling

and Psychotherapy:

Systems, Strategies, and

Skills (2nd edition)

By Linda Seligman '66

536 pages, $86.70,

Pearson Prentice Hall

A counselor educator for more than

twenty-five years, Seligman provides

d(MSbooki;

Theories of Counst'img

and Psychotherapy

54

a clear, concise, and up-to-date

overview ot both well-established and

emerging approaches to counseling

and psychotherapy.

Rather than present

each treatment

approach in isola-

tion, separating the-

ory and practice,

the book groups

treatments systems

according to

whether their pri-

mary tocus is on

background, emo-

tions, thoughts, or actions. Introduc-

tory chapters on each of these four

areas help readers to understand the

commonalities among theories and

determine which approach is best tor

them and their clients.

Tropicana Nights: The Life

and Times of the LegendaryCuban Nightclub

By Rosa Lowinger 78

and Ofelia Fox

448 pages, $26, Harcourt

It was to Havana what the Moulin

Rouge was to Paris or the Blue Note

to New York. The brightest jewel in

1950s Cuban nightlife, the Tropicana

was a "paradise under the stars

"

where one could gamble, hear the

finest mambo and jazz musicians,

and ogle the extrav-

agantly risque floor-

shows. Journalist

Lowinger and Fox,

widow of the Tropi-

cana's last owner,

vividly portray the

cultural richness

and roiling social

problems of pre-

revolutionary Cuba

and take the reader

on an intimate

insider's tour of one of the world's

most glamorous venues at its most

brilliant moment.

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Visions of the Torah: AnArtist's Reflections on the

Torah as a Source of Insight

into Our Lives

By Michael Bogdanow '76

59 pages, S36,

"

Naissance Publishing House

Bogdanow's art cuts across cultural

barriers while capturing the timeless

nature of biblical texts through his

own contemporary

sr\'le. His paintings

are exhibited widely

and included in

many private and

institutional collec-

tions. V7«o?« of

Tomh. in the words

lit author and

scholar Daniel C.

Matt, "looks won-

drous and is a

superb synopsis ot the Torah along

with an inspiring and uplifting series

of creative Midrashic artistic gems.

I think it will touch and move many

people tor years to come."

y^hat Time and SadnessSpared: Mother and SonConfront the Holocaust

By Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar

with Doron S. Ben-Atar '82,

MA'82, P'07

196 pages, $27.95,

University of Virginia Press

In this family collaboration, Roma

Ben-Atar tells the story of how her

life moved with

shocking speed from

a happy upper-mid-

dle-class childhood

in Warsaw to the

horrors of the death

factories of Maj-

danek and

Auschwitz. Yet what

makes this memoir

even more com-

pelling is the pairing

of Romas narrative with the voice of

her historian son, Doron, who intro-

duces his mother's storv from the

point ot view of a survivor's family

—

children and grandchildren—whose

own struggles with the ghosts of Nazi

persecution led them to urge Roma

to record her story.

Wounded Hearts: Masculinity,

Law, and Literature in

American Culture

By Jennifer I'ravis, MA'94, PhD'96

232 pages, $22.50,

University of North Carolina Press

From the Civil War to the early

twentieth century, Travis, assistant

professor of English

at St. John's

University, traces

the history of men

and emotions in

American discourse.

She argues that

injury became a

comfortable vocab-

ulary—particularly

among white

middle-class men

—

through which to

articulate and claim a range of emo-

tional wounds. Debates about injury

that flourished in the cultural arenas

of medicine, psychology, and the law

spilled over into the realm of fiction,

Travis demonstrates, in works by

Stephen Crane, William Dean

Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James,

and Edith Wharton.

woundedHearts

Write Your Self Well: Journal

Your Self to Health

By Ina Albert '57 and Zoe Keithley

224 pages, $16.95,

Mountain Greenery Press

The toxic memories of stress and

trauma stored in the body act as

barriers to healing. But by fully

expressing those feelings through

Wri-t^e

Your SelfWell . .

.

Journal Your Selfto Health

l(U Albert £ZteK>flhley

daily journal writ-

ing, these toxins can

find release as the

body, mind, and

soul open to heal-

ing. In Write Your

SelfWell, authors

Albert, a health-care

communications

professional, trainer,

and workshop

leader, and Keithley,

director of the Story Workshop at

Columbia College in Chicago, pro-

vide a map that leads readers into

their past so that they can enhance

their own healing process.

Zapotec Women: Gender,

Class, and Ethnicity in

Globalized OaxacaBy Lynn Stephen, PhD'87

392 pages, $23.95,

Duke University Press

In this revised and updated second

edition of her classic ethnography,

Stephen explores the intersection of

gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity

in southern Mexico. She provides a

detailed study of how the lives of

women weavers and merchants in the

Zapotec-speaking town ofTeotitlan

del Valle, Oaxaca, have changed in

response to the international demand

for Oaxacan textiles. This volume pro-

vides a unique view

of a Zapotec com-

munit}' balancing a

rapidly advancing

future in export pro-

duction with an

entrenched past

anchored in indige-

nous culture. Newinformation is pre-

sented about the

weaving cooperatives

women have formed

over the last two decades in an

attempt to gain political and cultural

rights within their community.

Brandeis UniversityPress

American Dreams and Nazi

Nightmares: Early Holocaust

Consciousness and Liberal

America, 1957-1965By Kirsten Fermaglich

264 pages, $29.95

To a great extent. Holocaust con-

sciousness in the contemporary United

States has become intertwined with

American Jewish

identity and with

support for right-

wing Israeli poli-

tics—but this was

not always the case.

In this illuminating

study, Fermaglich,

.m assistant professor

of history and Jewish

studies at Michigan

State University,

demonstrates that in

the late 1950s and early 1960s many

Axnerican Jewish writers and academ-

ics viewed the Nazi extermination of

European Jewry as a subject of univer-

sal interest, with important lessons to

be learned for the liberal reform of

American politics. Fermaglich analyzes

the lives and writings of Stanley M.

Elkins, Betty Friedan, Stanley

Milgram, and Robert Jay Lifton, four

social scientific thinkers whose work

was shaped by a liberal perspective.

Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews,

and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot

By Edward S. Shapiro, P'89, P'93

256 pages, $26

Perhaps no single event shook the

notion of a black-Jewish alliance like

the 1991 unrest in Crown Heights,

Brooklyn, which began after a

Hasidic Jewish motorcade

accidentally killed a black child. As

Shapiro, professor emeritus of history

at Seton Hall University, shows in

frEIWARD S. SHAPIRCt^ this comprehensive,

dispassionate

account, the acci-

dent and what fol-

lowed touched off a

political firestorm in

New York City:

both black and Jew-

ish activists exploit-

ed the death and

the ensuing black

unrest—during

which a Jewish student was killed

—

for their own purposes. Shapiro

deconstructs the simplistic readings

of the event given at the time: some

thought the Hasidic community

received favored treatment, others

that then mayor David Dinkins was

unwilling to use fotce against the

black community.

Observing America's JewsBy Marshall Sklare, P78; edited by

Jonathan Sarna 75, MA753 1 8 pages, $27

The late Sklare, a sociologist and

founder of the Cohen Center for

Modern Jewish Studies at Btandeis,

made influential

contributions to the

study of American

Jewish life. This col-

lection of book

chapters and articles

from journals such

as Comr}ientary and

Ma'nistreaiu, edited

by Sarna, the

Joseph H. and Belle

R. Braun Professor

ot American Jewish

History and director of the

Hornstein Program, investigates

American Je\vr}''s rituals, worship,

and attitudes toward Israel; perceives

a loss of direction in conservative

Judaism; addresses questions of

Christian-Jewish relations; and exam-

ines the condition of urban Jews who

are unattached to their communities.

deisartsmusic

soundideaMiddle East musicians weave powerful musical tapestry.

Music is a universal language that can help to deepen appre-

ciation of diverse cultures and transcend boundaries in the

global community. In this spirit, Brandeis will play host

October 18 to 21 to two exceptional instrumentalists performing

music from the ancient traditions of Persia and Turkey.

Their visit has been arranged by MusicUnitesUS, a Brandeis

program that includes an intercultural residency series, an educa-

tional outreach program for the Waltham Public Schools, and the

World Music Concert Series, which spotlights artists of interna-

tional stature in public concerts where audiences experience the

history, cultural memories, and heart and soul of various peoples.

The October 21 concert, Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan:

Musical Metaphors from the East—Improvisations on Persian and

Turkish Themes, will be held in Slosberg Recital Hall. It will culmi-

nate a three-day residency by the pair that includes student work-

shops, films, lectures and other educational events.

A native of Tehran, Iran, Kalhor is a master of the kamancheh,

or spike fiddle, a four-stringed Persian ancestor of the violin. He has

toured the world performing Persian and Indian improvisations,

composed works for Iran's most renowned vocalists, and recorded

with many of Iran's greatest artists.

Sharing the stage will be Erzincan, a Turkish musician who plays

the baglama, a lute sometimes known as the saz. His collaboration

with Kahlor brings together the music of two great cultures: the

Persian classical tradition and the Turkish Sufi (Alevi) tradition.

According to Brandeis's Judith Eissenberg, founder and director

of MusicUnitesUS, "These extraordinary musicians spin an imagi-

nary tale, drawing us back thousands ot years into a veiled past. The

saz, regarded as a sacred instrument, sketches out a soundscape that

is at once lonely vet lush, while the

mysterious kamancheh pours out

soulful laments and rapturous

dances that ask us to reach deep

within outselves—and to each other.

Incredibly, the concert is an improv-

isation; using ancient melodies ot

civilizations, each song is a new ver-

By Marjorie Lyon

sion of itself. Erzincan and Kalhor inspure each other and their

audiences with music of entrancing beauty.

"

A spring 2007 residency featuring the internationally acclaimed

Amazones: Women Master Drummers from Guinea will include a

World Music Concert on March 3 at the Spingold Theater. For

more on MusicUnitesUS, visit <brandeis.edu/musicunitesus>.

To obtain tickets, call 781-736-3400.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Reinembering Joel1976 grads honor late classmate

Joel Friedland never forgot a friend, and his Brandeis

classmates have not forgotten him.

Several members of the Class of 1976 made a gen-

erous 30th Reunion gift to establish the Joel Fried-

land Memorial Scholarship in honor of their

classmate, a nonsmoker who died of esophageal can-

cer in 1999 at the age of 44. The largest of the dona-

tions was matched by Joel's wife,

Joanne, to create an endowed

undergraduate scholarship fund

worth more than $480,000.

"This was an extraordinarily

generous gesture on the part oi

^V^MCYi Joels friends from Brandeis,"

<^^\3^^y Joanne said. "He would be very

proud to know that they wished

to keep his name and legacy alive

in this way. He had deep feelings

for Brandeis and the people he met there."

Friedland developed enduring friendships that last-

ed a lifetime. Among the four hundred mourners at

his fimeral were more than a dozen friends from

Brandeis. The eulogy was delivered by Michael

Letchinger 76, who first became friends with Fried-

land during their high-school days in Chicago.

"Joel built deep and lasting relationships with peo-

ple," said David Yoffie '76, who conceived oi the idea

of the Friedland Scholarship, and enlisted Joel's

numerous friends to raise the money. "He was some-

one who was extremely loyal to his friends and

showed great interest in them."

After graduating from Brandeis, Friedland received

an MBA from the Wharton School at the University

of Pennsylvania. He joined Chicago-based Chilmark

Partners as an associate in 1985, and became a

partner two years later.

If you wish to contribute, contact Mary Shepherd at

781-736-4021 or <shepherd@brandcis.edu>.

Friedland's 1976

yearbook photo.

The Benefits of Online Giving:

Simple, Secure, and Sure to Help

More people than ever are discovering that supporting Brandeis is just a

secure click away.

Since the online giving program was established at Brandeis three years ago,

the number of people making gifts over the Internet has more than quadru-

pled, and the amount donated has increased fivefold. One recent donor made

an online gift of $10,000.

In the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2003, 144 donors gave a total of

$40,632. Through May 31, 2006, 511 people had donated $155,472. Full-

year figures were expected to surpass 600 donors and $200,000 in gifts.

"We are excited that so many people are choosing to visit the Alumni

and Development home pages to make their donations to Brandeis," said

Mark Ableman, assistant vice president of development. "More and more

alumni and friends are finding that supporting Brandeis is just a simple

click away."

The online giving link is located at the top right of the Alumni home page

<http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/> and the top left corner of the Develop-

ment home page <http://givingto.brandeis.edu/>.

By clicking on the link, donors are directed to a secure pledge page that per-

mits them to make gifts directly to Brandeis using their MasterCard or Visa.

k.JThe Campaign toi Brandeis has reached a

lolal ot S537 million in cash and pledges,

exceeding the original goal by S67 million Anew goal has been established lor an

additional $300 million, or a lotal ol 5770million, by June 2009

Alumni leaders urge fellow alums to make gitts by

June 30

SiPaul Zlotolt 72. Clare Tully '80 and WendyMoms Berliner '95 ask lellow alumni Itom

iheir eras lo contnbute to the Annual Fund

by Ihe close ol the 2006 fiscal year

Alumni Focus

Eyewitness to the phenomenal growth of Brandels's

academic reputation and the transformation of Its

physical plant

Nancy K WmshtpSenior Vice President ol

Institutional Advancement

Development Spotlight

Justice Brandeis Society

Upcomlne Events

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FROM THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Glorious FutureWorking together, Brandeis community puts university on solid footing

There is much to celebrate at Brandeis

these days!

• The Campaign for Brandeis reached its

$470 million target a year ahead of sched-

ule, and we are already 11 percent of the

way toward achieving the new goal of

$770 million by June 2009.

• The physical transformation of the campus

is continuing. Construction has begun on

the state-of-the-art Carl J. Shapiro Science

Center, and the gleaming new Irving

Schneider and Family Building for the

Heller School for Social Policy and Manage-

ment will be completed in the fall.

• Reunion giving set a record this spring,

more than doubling the old mark. The Class

of 1956 broke all previous records by giving

a total of $7.4 million. As part of its gift, the

Class of '76 established an endowed scholar-

ship worth more than $480,000 in the name

of late classmate Joel Friedland.

• The university endowment has grown to

$600 million, nearly tripling in size over the

last ten years.

Of course, none of these extraordinary

accomplishments would have been possible

without the passionate commitment of our

iilumni, parents, friends, and members of

the Brandeis University National Women's

Committee to this institution that we all

hold so dear. It has been gratifying to work

so closely with both longtime benefactors

and first-time supporters as we embark on a

new era of philanthropy for Brandeis.

While we have just completed a banner

year, there are many challenges ahead. Weare seeking funds for a number of important

capital initiatives, including the science cen-

ter, the Edmond J.

Safra Center for the

Arts, a student resi-

dential complex,

and the further ren-

ovation of the Rose

Art Museum. Addi-

tionally, we are seek-

ing to secure much-

needed funding for more undergraduate

scholarships, graduate fellowships, and fac-

ulty chairs.

Working together with the many people

who share our vision of a glorious future

for Brandeis, I am certain we will reach

our goals.

—Nancy Wimhip

Senior Vice President of Institutional

Advancement

Reunion classes give record $11.1M in gifts and pledges

There was an extra reason to rejoice at Reunion

this year: Reunion class giving set a record, more

than doubling the old standard.

Paced by nearly $7.4 million from the Class

of 1956, the 2006 Reunion classes had made

$11.1 million in gifts and pledges through

May 31. The previous mark of $4.6 million

was established two years ago.

"This is great news!" said Jonathan Davis '75,

chair of the Board of Trustees' development com-

mittee. "The dramatic increase we're seeing in

Reunion giving is consistent with the powerful

growth of alumni support that we're experiencing

across the board and reflects both the coming of

age of our alumni body and a growing recognition

of the importance of alumni support to the vital-

ity of the universit)'."

As of May 31, two of the classes— 1956

(50th) and 1986 (20th)—established individual

Reunion giving records.

The Class of '56 topped the record-setting

50th Reunion gift of $1.4 million, which was

established last year. The Class of 1 986 had raised

$1.4 million, exceeding the $196,000 donated by

the Class of 1978 at its 20th Reunion in 1998.

Additionally, the Class of 1 966 had collected

$1.2 million, nearly matching the previous best

by a 40th Reunion class, set in 1994. A record

was expected to be established by the end of the

fiscal year.

DEVELOPMENT CONTACTS

Senior Vice President of

Institutional Advancement

Nana- Winship

781-736-4002

winship@brandeis.edu

Vice President of Development

Myles Weisenberg '78

781-736-400S

weisen@brandeis.edu

Associate Vice President of

The Campaign for Brandeis

Susan Krinsky

781 -736-4006

krinsk:y@brandeis.edu

Assistant Vice President of Development

Mark Ableman

781-736-4051

mableman@brandeis.edu

Senior Director of Corporation

and Foundation Giving

Robert Silk '90

781-736-4052

rsilk@brandeis.edu

Director of Development Communications

David Nathan

781-736-4103

dnathan 1 @brandcis.edu

THE CAMPAIGN FOR BRANDEIS

IBS Campaign Hits $30 MillionGifts will fund four chairs, atrium, and global entrepreneurship center

Business is booming at the Brandeis Inter-

national Business School!

Thanks to six major gifts this year, IBS

surpassed its $25 million campaign goal by

20 percent, raising $30 million. The new

gifts will fund four faculty chairs (global

finance, financial markets, business and

society, and real estate), a center for global

entrepreneurship, and a public atrium

space.

"We are gratefiil for the support of friends

who have all along seen enormous potential

in Brandeis's new global business school,"

said Dean Peter A. Petri, the Carl J. Shapiro

Professor of International Finance. "Many

of our dreams are now coming to fruition."

The latest gifts include:

• The Asper Center for Global Entrepreneur-

ship. Established this year with a $5 million

gift from longtime IBS supporter Leonard

Asper '86, the center will explore and iden-

tify key trends affecting entrepreneurship

across cultures and borders. The Asper

Center was dedicated on April 7.

• Suzanne Lemherg Usdan Chair in Business

& Society. Brothers John and Adam Usdan

continued their family's long history of

supporting Brandeis and the study of busi-

ness at the university by establishing the

chair in honor of their mother. Created

through a gift ot $3 million, the chair will

fund a new position on the IBS faculty.

• Barbara '54 and Richard Rosenberg Chair

in Global Finance. Longtime Brandeis

benefactors, the Rosenberg family estab-

Donald Softer is surrounded by family and friends at ttie dedication ot ttie Donald M. Softer '54

Academic Court.

lished the chair with a gift of $3 million.

The chair will be held by Professor

Stephen Cecchetti, an expert in interna-

tional economics and finance.

The Donald M. Sojfer '54 Academic

Court. Located in the Sachar Interna-

tional Center, the court will serve as the

central hub of IBS and the primary

meeting space for students gathering to

work on group projects. The Soffer

Court, which was dedicated on April 5,

was established through a $1.5 million

gift from Soffer.

• Earle Kiizis '55 Chair in the Practice ofReal

Estate. Made possible by a gift from Kazis, a

former member of the Board of Trustees,

the chair is held by professor Edward

Bayone, a three-time Brandeis Teacher of

the Year as selected by IBS students.

• An anonymous alumni gift of $3 million

funded a chair in financial markets, which

will be filled by a new faculty member.

Trustee Barbara '54 and Richard Rosenberg Leonard Asper '86 Adam (/ef() and Trustee Jotin Usdan

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FELLOWS NEWS

Honorary Degree Recipients Attend BreakfastThis turnaround expert specializes in peo-

ple, not businesses.

Mimi Silbert, founder of the Delancey

Street Foundation in San Francisco, shared

stories about her successful turnarounds

(fourteen thousand at last count) during the

Fellows Breakfast on May 21 at the Gos-

man Sports and Convocation Center. Some

one hundred friends and alumni attended

the annual gathering, which was hosted by

Rosalind '59 and Richard '57 Kaufman,

cochairs of the Board of Fellows.

Attending along with Silbert was fellow

honorary degree recipient Blenda Wilson,

president and chief executive officers of the

Nellie Mae Education Foundation. They

received their degrees during the 55th

Commencement exercises later in the day.

Silbert turns around the lives of drug

addicts, ex-convicts, prostitutes, and for-

mer gang members by helping them

become productive, law-abiding members

of society.

Brandeis trustee Barbara Rosenberg '54,

a San Francisco Bay Area resident and long-

time friend of Silbert, introduced her to the

Fellows Breakfast crowd. "Mimi had the

drive, energy, and commitment—along

with the chutzpah—to found Delancey

Street, " Rosenberg said.

Rosenberg not only is a spirited advocate

for Delancey Street but is a satisfied cus-

Honorary degree recipients Blenda Wilson (left), president and chief executive officer of tfie

Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and Mimi Silbert, founder of the Delancey Street Foundation

in San Francisco, at the annual Fellows Breakfast.

tomer as well. She once used the Delancey

Street Moving Company, the largest inde-

pendent moving firm in Northern Califor-

nia. "Only one glass was broken—a wine

glass that I dropped when I was unpack-

ing," she said with a laugh.

Considered by many to be the country's

most successful rehabiliration project,

Delancey Street has expanded to New York,

New Mexico, North Carolina, and Los

Angeles. Residents spend up to four years at

the facilities and must pass a high-school

equivalency exam to graduate.

"Delancey Street gives people a second

chance to be the best people they can be,"

Silbert said. "They learn values, they learn

about giving, and they learn how to take

care of each other."

Delancey Street generates $20 million a

year through the operation of more than

twenty businesses, which also serve as train-

ing schools.

Krasnow elected to Board of Fellows

Joyce Krasnow, P'83

The Board of Trustees has elected Joyce

Krasnow, P'83, to the Board of Fellows.

The outgoing president ot the Brandeis

University National Women's Committee

(BUNWC), Krasnow will serve a three-

year term that runs through Commence-

ment 2009.

Krasnow served as president ofBUNWCfor two years and helped the organization

forge a new partnership with the university.

She has been active in BUNWC since

shortly after her son. Marc '83, enrolled at

Brandeis, serving as president of the Los

Angeles chapter before being elected

national vice president in 2000.

She and her husband, Paul, made a sub-

stantial gift to The Campaign for Brandeis

to support a new science library.

In Our Players

Our prayers for comfort on the passing of:

• Arthur Lang, father of Steven Lang '79

and father-in-law of Steven Richelson '72,

May 1.

• Morton Metzger, May 6.

Brandeis Univorsiiv Magazine I Sun 0(1

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Pay It ForwardChang gift helps to educate next generation of chemistry students

Tony Chin-Teh Chang became the first Bran-

deis graduate student to endow a fellowship

at the university when he established the

Myron Rosenblum Fellowship Endowment

as a lasting tribute to his mentor.

Chang, the founder and managing direc-

tor ot Hong Kong-based Tech-Link Silicones,

earned his PhD in chemistry in 1983.

At Brandeis, Chang worked closely with

Rosenblum, a professor emeritus and former-

ly the Charles A. Breskin Professor ofChem-

istry. Chang and Rosenblum have stayed in

touch over the years and often see each other

when Chang visits the area on business.

"Professor Rosenblum was very focused

and very dedicated to both his research and

to supervising his graduate students and post-

docs. He was like our father," Chang said. "1

wanted to do something to recognize him

and thank him for what he has done for meand so many other students."

Chang's establishment of the Rosenblum

Fellowship ensures that qualified graduate

students will have the chance to pursue ad-

vanced degrees at the university. "I wanted

to help young people the same way I was

Tony Chang. PhD'83, established the Myron Rosenblum Fellowship.

helped, and allow the Chemistry Department very generous to me. When you have a feel-

to be able to educate the next generation of ing like that, it never goes away. Hopefully,

students who are interested in chemistry," this will be the catalyst for more alumni to give

Chang said. "The people at Brandeis were back to the university."

Cohens make $1.2M gift to endowfellowship at Hornstein program

Motivated by their desire to help build the next generation of

Jewish leaders, Melvin and Ryna Cohen have made a $1.2 mil-

lion gift to establish the Melvin S. and Ryna G. Cohen Endowed

Fellowship at Hornstein: The Jewish Professional Leadership

Program at Brandeis.

The Cohen Fellowship, which will support two Hornstein stu-

dents each year, is designed to make the university a center for

those with the interest and desire to serve and strengthen the Jew-

ish community.

"The Cohens' gift has set an important standard for other sup-

porters of the Jewish community to follow, and will enable us to

attract the very best students to the new Hornstein program,"

said Hornstein director Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. and

Belle R. Braun Professor ofAmerican Jewish History. "The abil-

ity to offer talented students this fellowship will make a huge dif-

ference in their willingness to come to Brandeis."

Graduate fellowship honors Maslow

To honor the work of Abraham Maslow, a former Brandeis professor

and renowned human development theorist, longtime supporter

Albert "Sonny" Abramson has established a new graduate fellowship

for students pursuing an advanced psycholog)' degree.

The Abramson Family Fellowship will support Brandeis students

seeking either a master's or doctoral degree with a focus on human

development. Maslow served as chair of the Psychology Department

from 1951 to 1969 and was a mentor to many students.

"It is especially noteworthy that this fellowship was inspired by the

first chair of the Psychology Department, whose work was so signif-

icant," said professor Margie Lachman, chair of the Psychology De-

partment. "Now, we also can brag that Dr. Maslow's legacy lives on

with our ability to support important graduate-student research and

training in the area of lifespan human development."

Abramson established the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust

Studies in 2000 and has generously supported the Brandeis Annual

Fund for the past thirty years.

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PerlmutterArtist-in-Residence Award

Michael Rush (left), the Henry and Lois Foster

Director of the Rose Art Museum, and Rose sup-

porter Ruth Ann Perlmutter (right) present leading

contemporaPi' artist Dana Schutz with the third

annual Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-

in-Residence Award. The award invites emerging

artists on the cusp of international acclaim to work

with students and the larger Brandeis community

in conjunction with an exhibition at the museum.

Justice Brandeis Society

Michael Rush (at left in left photo), the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum, is joined by trustee Ken

Kaiserman '60 (center) and President Jehuda Reinharz, PhD'72, at a reception of the Justice Brandeis Society, the university's

leadership giving organization, at Brandeis House in New York. Alumni at the event included (right photo, from left) Helene

Lowenfels '05, Emily Sessions '02, and Rachel Liebowitz '03.

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Asper Center Dedication

The new Asper Center for Global Enrrepreneur-

ship, established this year through a $5 million

gift from Leonard Asper '86, was dedicated dur-

ing the third annual Asper Forum for Global

Entrepreneurship at the International Business

School. The forum honored the leaders of

Firaxis Games, including Jonathan Plutzik '76

(left), who is pictured with Stuart Lewtan '84

(center), chair of IBS dean Peter Petri's Global

Business Council, and Asper, chief executive

officer of CanWest Global.

Softer Court Dedication

Actor George Hamilton (secondfroni left) joined

longtime friend Donald Soffer for the

dedication of the Donald M. Soffer '54

Academic Court at the International Business

School. Hamilton is pictured with students

(ftvm left) Kolbjorn Nelson, MA'07,

Emily Rumanek, MA'07, David Reichsfeld,

MA'07, and Rakesh Tripathi, MBA'06.

Zinner DistinguishedLecture Series

Stuart Altman (left), dean of the Heller School

for Social Policy and Management, speaks

\\ ith sponsor Ronny Zinner at the Zinner

Distinguished Lecture Series. This year's

lecture, moderated by Drew Altman '73, was

titled "Putting Health Care Back on the

National Political Agenda: Time for a

Wake-up Call." Drew Altman serves as

president and chief executive officer of the

Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Arts and sciences dean Adam Jaffe (/eft)

with Lisbeth Tarlow (center) and her husband,

trustee chair Stephen Kay.

President Jehuda Reinharz, PhD'72 (/eft), with

honorary degree recipients Sidney and Judy Swartz at

the annual Fellows Breakfast before Commencement.

Trustees Perry Traquina 78 (leii). Daniel Jick 79 (center), andJonathon Jacobson at the Senior Class Reception with Trustees.

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Class of 2006 graduates (from left) Edgar Ndjatou. Rachel Present, Melissa Alter, Lauren Apfelbaum,

Catherine Heffernan, and Amanda Martin present President Jehuda Reinharz with a check representing

the largest Senior Class gift in university history.

Wedding GiftNewlyweds' donation helps set class gift, participation marks

Guests at the recent wedding of 2006 gradu-

ates Jason Goldsmith and Rachel Beaulieu

had to do without customized Goldsmith-

Beaulieu test tubes as party favors. But since

about half the guests were Brandeisians, they

surely understood.

Goldsmith and Beaulieu instead chose to use

the money they had set aside for party favors

to make a gift of $1,800 to The Fund for 21st

Century Science at Brandeis. Their generosity

helped boost the size of the senior class gift to

$14,328, about one-third higher than the pre-

vious record of $10,566, set by the Class of

1996. In all, 61 percent of the Class of 2006

contributed to the gift, beating last year's record

by 10 percent.

"This record-setting participation level is a

strong statement about how the members of the

Class of 2006 feel about their Brandeis educa-

tion," said Catherine Heffernan of the Class of

2006 Gift Committee. "To exhibit this level of

commitment to Brandeis before they have even

gone out in the working world is astounding."

Goldsmith and Beaulieu met during their

first week on campus as freshmen and became

engaged at the end of their sophomore year.

They were married in Waltham on May 29

—

eight days after Commencement—and

honeymooned in Hawaii.

"We both feel Brandeis gave us a lot, both in

terms of our education and our relationship,"

said Beaulieu, who hails from the Philadelphia

area. "We wanted to honor that by giving back

to Brandeis."

The decision to support the sciences at Bran-

deis was an easy one. Goldsmith majored in

biochemistry and chemistry, Beaulieu in bio-

chemistry and biology. Both were generously

supported by scholarships and spent many

hours during the school year and in the sum-

mer working in Brandeis labs. Goldsmith also

served on the steering committee for the new

Carl J. Shapiro Science Center.

"We gave specifically to the science fund be-

cause the sciences at Brandeis provided each

of us with a tremendous education," said Gold-

smith, who was raised in Portland, Oregon.

"The science faculty and administrators were

like parents away from home for us."

The Fund for 21st Century Science, an

endowment that was established by a gift of

$2.5 million from Althea and the late Samuel

Stroum, provides resources for faculty recruit-

ment and retention, lab equipment, and new

areas of promising research.

In the fall, the newlyweds will head to the Uni-

versity ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill to con-

tinue their studies. Goldsmith will pursue a com-

bined MD/PhD, while his wife will study for a

joint doctorate in pathology and lab medicine.

"As an institution, Brandeis had such a pos-

itive impact on our lives," Goldsmith said.

"We are a Brandeis couple that grew up with

the sciences."

Sachar Legacy Society

Luncheon September 20

Friends Manny and Sheila Landsman

will serve as hosts of the annual

Sachar Legacy Society Luncheon on

September 20. The society honors

and recognizes more than five

hundred alumni, parents, and friends,

who have included Brandeis in their

estate plans. For information, contact

Orla Kane at 781-736-4069 or

e-mail <kane@brandeis.edu>.

Scholarship Appreciation

Luncheon on October 25

The annual Scholarship Appreciation

Luncheon, when donors who support

Brandeis scholarships meet the stu-

dents who benefit Irom their

generosity, will be held on October 25.

Trustee Ken '60 and Susan Kaiserman

will serve as hosts. For information,

contact Erin Warnke at 78 1-736-4064

or <warnke@brandeis.edu>.

Justice Brandeis Society

reception on October 21

The Justice Brandeis Society will host

a reception in conjunction with the

Brandeis Alumni Making a Differ-

ence (BAMD! '06) Alumni Leader-

ship Retreat on October 2 1 . For

information, visit <http;//givingto.

brandeis.edu/annualtund/jbs/html>.

Hahn family establishes

endowment for PAX

The family ofAri Hahn, a member of

the Class of 1994 who was deeply com-

mitted to social justice and peace, has

made a gift to establish an endowment

in his name in the Peace, Conflict, and

Coexistence Studies Program. The

generous gift from Hahn's mother,

Jacqueline, will provide vital support

for courses, conferences, colloquia, and

student prizes in the program. Hahn

died in 1997.

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alumninew

New on the 'NetAlumni Association launches enhanced Web site

In its ongoing efforts to enhance services for alumni, the Alumni Association has

officially launched its new, content-rich Web site (http://alumni.brancleis.edu/web).

In just the first few weeks, the site experienced a significant increase in visits, as more

and more alumni discovered an exciting and informative way to keep abreast ofcam-

pus happenings, learn news and accomplishments of fellow alumni, keep track of

upcoming events and activities, and stay connected to each other and to Brandeis.

The redesigned site, which carries the new Louie logo inspired by Andy Warhol's

original painting of Justice Brandeis, offers a variety of features and services for

alumni. They include online event registration; a list of upcoming events hosted by

twenty-two different regional alumni clubs; easy access to LouieNet, the online

community; links to Career Services, Class

Notes, and Affinity Groups; an online

Annual Fund contribution site; and much

more. An alumni task force is exploring the

creation of B-Connect, an online commu-

nit)' network to further enhance existing

services while providing alumni the

increased connectivity they seek.

In addition, there are several news and

feature sections that rotate each time a vis-

itor logs on, ensuring fresh news and

information on nearly every visit. Profiles

of alumni appear regularly, showcasing at

any one time several Brandeis graduates

who are breaking new ground profession-

ally or making a difference as volunteers

in their communities or at the university.

The Events Wrap-Up section, which fea-

tures photos from any of nearly 1 50

events hosted annually across the country,

has quickly become one of the most popular features. The News from Brandeis

section reports on news from campus, including faculty achievements, recogni-

tions, theater and arts performances, and much more.

"Our goal is to generate added value for alumni through a branded Web site,"

says Bobbi Kravitz '57, who cochairs the Alumni Association's IT and Web Com-mittee with Yehuda Cohen '81. "Now we have a central showcase where alumni

can become informed about today's Brandeis; access the benefits and services

available to them; connect with fellow alumni, students, and faculty; and partic-

ipate in on-campus as well as local alumni activities."

"We are extremely pleased with the site," says Karen Ann Engelbourg '79, asso-

ciate vice president for alumni and universit)' relations. "More and more alumni

are visiting every day, which tells us they like what they see. We are looking for-

ward to continued improvements, and welcome feedback from fellow alumni."

Please visit us at <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web>, and send your sugges-

tions, story ideas, or comments to Rich Goguen at <rich.goguen@brandeis.edu>.

Alumni HeadBack to Class

Nearly three hundred alumni and friends headed

back to the classroom for this spring's annual

Alumni College, held June 9 on campus on the first

day of Reunion 2006. Participants at the daylong

academic symposium attended as many as four of

eight classes offered by renowned Brandeis faculty

members. Topics ranged from the role of the Bible

in modern public life to African-American perspec-

tives on the American Civil War to cross-ctiltural

perspectives on aging.

"I was thrilled," said Ellen Atlas, a member of

the Brandeis Universiry National Women's Com-

mittee (BUNWC), after hearing Michael Rush,

the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose

Art Museum, deliver the lecture "Revealing the

Rose." "I had no idea the Rose had such an exten-

sive and impressive collection of contemporary

work. It was fascinating."

Barry Elkin '71, who attended associate profes-

sor of economics Chad Bown's lecture "Globaliza-

tion Update: Economic Developments from the

World of International Trade Policy," said he

rarely misses the opportunity to go back to school

and learn something new. "Alumni College is fan-

tastic," Elkin said. "I am a regular. I come when-

ever I can."

Other faculty speakers included Sarah Lamb,

associate professor of anthropology; Marc

Brettler '78, MA'78, PhD'86, the Dora Golding

Professor of Biblical Studies; Jacob Cohen, associate

professor of American studies; K. C. Hayes, profes-

sor of biology and director of the Foster Biomedical

Research Laboratories; and Jacqueline Jones, the

Truman Professor of American Civilization.

Sarah Lamb lectures at Alumni College.

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alumni ?ews

FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Forever ConnectedAlumni passionate about their alma mater, each other

At a recent dinner honoring a Brandeis

alumnus, I sat next to a graduate ofYale Uni-

versity. An attorney at a large law firm, he

told me that while he credited Yale with his

professional success, he felt no attachment to

the school or to fellow alumni. With its long

history, substantial endowment, and large

alumni body, he felt Yale didn't really need

him or his financial support.

By contrast, he found Brandeis alumni

were unusually passionate about their alma

mater and each other, and frankly, he was

envious. When he learned I was the presi-

dent of the Brandeis Alumni Association, he

asked me to explain why Brandeis alumni

are so connected.

In my interactions with Brandeisians of

all generations, I have found ample evi-

dence of this passionate tie to Brandeis.

Paul Levenson, one of our first alumni,

from the Class of 1952, told me that since

his 50th Reunion many of his classmates

continue to meet on their own throughout

the year after realizing how much their con-

nection means.

Earlier this year, 1 had the honor of con-

tacting the nominees for the board of direc-

tors of the Brandeis Alumni Association.

Despite impossibly busy professional sched-

ules and personal commitments, each one

responded to the invitation with great

enthusiasm and a moving statement about

why they loved Brandeis and were eager to

serve [see profiles, pages 70-71.]

Even current students, our Future

Alumni of Brandeis (FAB), are already

cementing their lifelong connections to Bran-

deis. Ben Reed '06 and Bram Weber '97

cochaired the inaugural FAB Committee of

the Alumni Association board. They recently

organized a reception for seniors that literally

overflowed with students eager to plug into

the Brandeis "afi:erlife" of alumni activities

and networks.

One of the most unforgettable displays of

alumni passion came in March at the Bran-

deis Athletic Hall of Fame induction cere-

mony. Each winner spoke of a lifelong

gratitude for the opportunities that Bran-

deis gave them and of their enduring, deep

connection to their teammates and coaches.

But the tears really flowed when an

inductee spoke of his recent battle with can-

cer and credited his Brandeis teammates

from more than twenty years ago lor

helping him through it. All of his proud

teammates were there, having traveled from

throughout the countr)' to share in the cel-

ebration of their captain, whom they called

their "emotional leader.

"

The Alumni Association and its affinity

groups are working hard to keep us all con-

nected to each other

and the university.

This past year, our

22 alumni clubs

have sponsored more

than 150 events and

hosted more than

5,000 alumni. Hun-

dreds more served as

admissions represen-

tatives, interviewing hundreds of prospec-

tive students and helping recruit the largest

applicant pool in the history of Brandeis.

Reunion, and Alumni College teemed with

enthusiastic alumni in June.

This fall promises to be equally busy, when

hundreds of International Business School

alumni will celebrate an all-class reunion

September 15 to 17, and hundreds more will

attend BAMD! '06: Brandeis Alumni

Making a Diiference, Alumni Leadership

Retreat, "In the Legacy of Justice Louis D.

Brandeis," from October 20 to 22. Our

membership of 36,000 is growing, and we

plan to make sure every alumnus has a reason

to stay part of our large and devoted family.

Whatever the reason for our strong

bonds, our passionate commitment, the

Yale graduate was right—Brandeis alumni

are forever connected.

—Darlene Green Kamine '74, P'03

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President

Darlene Green Kamine '74, P'03

Vice Presidents

Victor R.Ney '81

Steven M. Sheinman 79Detlev H. Suderow '70. P*05

Clare T. Tully '80

Immediate Past President

Paul M. Zlocoff'72

Note: Alumni club presidents

(see page 69) are also members

of the Alumni Association Board

of Directors.

Members at Large

Laurie Slater Albert '74

Allen B. Alter '71

Mindy E. Berman '78

Daniel H. Blumenthal '85

Susan M. Epstein Deutsch '62

Steven Greenfield '79

Anne Reilly Hon '67, P'91, P'93

Dennis M. Keileher '84

Lisa R. Kranc 75Barbara Krasin Kravitz '57, P79Jane Paiey Price '69, P'08

Adam Raboy '82

Adam j. Rificin '97

Robert S. Rose '92

Bram David Weber '97

Lewin C. Wright '84

Student Representatives

Beth V. Wexelman '07

Matthew A. Brown '08

Heller School Alumni Representative

Roblyn Anderson Brigham. PhD'Ol

Friends of Brandeis Athletics

Representative

James P. Leahy '85

Homstein Alumni Representative

Rachel L. Glazer '95. NLVOO. MM'OO

Alimini Admissions Council

Representative

Deborah J. Dragon '95

International Business School

Representative

Michael J. Ramer '88. rvU'89

Minority Alumni Network

Representative

Joseph W. Perkins '66

National Women's Committee

Representative

Beth Anne Wolfson '75

IT/Web Site Representative

Yehuda C.Cohen '81

Presidential Appointee

Michael A. Saivetz '97

Brandei?' Liiiversity Magazine I Suniinrr Oo

UPCOMING EVENTS

BAMD! '06 salutes Justice Brandeis

join event chair Laurie Slater Albert '74 and fellow alumni

for a weekend of networking, inspiration, and entertain-

ment at the BAMD! "06: Brandeis Alumni Making a Differ-

ence, Alumni Leadership Retreat, "In the Legacy ot Justice

Louis D. Brandeis." In tribute to the 150th birthday of the

university namesake, this year's retreat will highlight the

leadership and legacies of many members of the Brandeis

communit)'. Speakers include Walt Mossberg '69, author

and creator of the weekly "Personal Technology" column in

the Wall StreetJournal. Marshall Herskovitz '73, producer of

The Last Samurai, and David Hackett Fischer, Warren Pro-

fessor of History at Brandeis and 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner

for his book Washington's Crossing.

On Saturday, October 21, attendees are invited to a spe-

cial celebration at the Justice Brandeis Birthday BBQ Bash,

followed by a panel discussion moderated by Cambridge

District Court judge Jonathan Brant '68. Distinguished

panelists include California Superior Court judge Anita H.

Dymant '71; Connecticut Supreme Court justice Joette

Katz '74; University of Connecticut Law School professor

Richard S. Kay '68; Philippa Strum '59 of the Woodrow

Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington,

D.C., and a Justice Brandeis biographer; and Charles

Stuart, Emmy Award—winning documentary fdmmaker

who is currently producing a film about Justice Brandeis.

Senior administrators will also provide an update on

groundbreaking developments at the universit)'.

For more information or to register, please e-mail

<leadership@alumni. brandeis.edu>, or visit <http://alumni.

brandeis.edu/web/specialprograms>.

Wien scholars to celebrate fiftieth

The Wien Alumni Network will join Wien family members

in spring 2008 to host a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the

Wien International Scholarship Program. The weekend-long

event will feature a series of programs honoring the legacy of

Lawrence A. and Mae Wien, who established the program in

1958 to further international understanding, provide foreign

students an opportunity to study in the United States, and

enrich the intellectual and cultural life at Brandeis.

The program offers flill or partial tuition to outstanding stu-

dents who demonstrate academic ability and a commitment to

understanding important international issues. More than eight

hundred students from one hundred countries have attended

Brandeis as Wien scholars, including O. Faruk Logoglu '63,

Turkey's former ambassador to the United States, and Geir H.

Haarde '73, the newly installed prime minister ot Iceland.

For information, visit <http://alumni.brandeis.edu/

web/clubs> or e-mail <wien@alumni. brandeis.edu>.

ALUMNI CLUB CONTACTSContact any of the club leaders via the e-mail addresses below, or call the

Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 1-800-333-1948.

DOMESTIC

Arizona

Rachel Hernandez '92

arizona@alumni.brandeis.edu

California

Northern California

northcalifornia@alumni.brandeis.edu

Soutliern California

Francine Ladd Sohn '74

southcalifornia@alumni.brandeis.edu

Colorado

Denver

Susan J. Hendrick '96

Nicole Hoffman Myers '96

denver@alumni.brandeis.edu

Florida

South Florida

Gil Drozdow '79

southflorida@alumni.brandeis.edu

West Coast Florida

westflorida@alumni.brandeis.edu

Illinois

Cf^icago

Aria Medvin Silverstein '88

chicago@alumni.brandeis.edu

Maryland

Baltimore

Alexandra Ainsztein '89

baltimore@alumni.brandeis.edu

Massachusetts

Greater Boston

Wendy Morris Berliner '95

boston@alumni.brandeis.edu

New Jersey

Northern New Jersey

Michael Palace '90

northnewjersey@alumni.brandeis.edu

New York

Long Island

Mark Steven Cohen '78

longisland@alumni.brandeis.edu

New York City

Doug Monasebian '84

nyc@alumni.brandeis.edu

Westchester County

Davida Shapiro Scher '69

westchester@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ohio

C/nc/nna(/

Chuck Kamine '74, P'03

cincinnati@alumni.brandeis.edu

C/eve/and/Northeast Ohio

Aryeh I. Dori '96

neohio@alumni.brandeis.edu

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Tamara Chasan Pomeranz '91

philadelphia@alumni.brandeis.edu

Texas

Houston

Michael Kivort '87

houston@alumni.brandeis.edu

Washington, D.C.

Dan Kazzaz '74

washingtondc@alumni.brandeis.edu

INTERNATIONAL

CanadaToronto

Mark A. Surchin '78

toronto@alumni.brandeis.edu

England

Joan Givner Bovarnick, PhD'69

england@alumni.brandeis.edu

Israel

Rose Shirwindt Weinberg '57

israel@alumni.brandeis.edu

Korea

Suk Won Kim '70

korea@alumni.brandeis.edu

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NEW MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD

Mindy E. Berman '78

NEWTONVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS

Mindy Berman is senior managing director ot 42 North Structured Finance Inc. in Boston, the successor com-

pany to Key Global Finance, of which she was a founding director in 1996. She is responsible for the overall

business development as well as originating and structuring asset-specific financing transactions. Since its

inception, 42 North has originated transactions with an aggregate asset value of more than S16 billion.

Berman is a member of the board of directors of the Equipment Leasing Association and a member of its

Financial Accounting Committee. She graduated magna cum laude with high honors with majors in history

and American studies and earned an MBA from Boston Universit)'.

Steven Greenfield 79NEW YORK CITY

Steven Greenfield is president ot New York City-based Salo Ventures, which manufactures and wholesales

licensed products and toys and provides consulting services to manufacturers of licensed products. He recently

finished his term on the board of directors ot the Toy Industry Association and currendy heads the search to find

a new, permanent home for the association in New York City. Greenfield earned his undergraduate degree in

politics and psychology and later received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served on his 20th

Reunion Gift Committee and as chair of his 20th Reunion Program Committee. Greenfield has been a sponsor

of the Brandeis Golf Outing and is a member of the Alumni National Campaign Committee, the Entrepreneurs

Network, and Dean Peter Petri's Global Business Council at the International Business School.

Anne Hort '67

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK

Until her recent retirement, Anne Hort was director of the Annual Fund at Riverdale Country School in New

York. She and her husband, Robert '67, have three children. Two of their sons, Benjamin '91 and Daniel '93,

are Brandeis graduates. After receiving her bachelor's in history, Hort went on to earn a master's in library

science from Queens College. She served as chair of the Annual Fund Regional Committee from 1994 to 1995

and of her 30th Reunion Program Committee. Hort has been a class correspondent since 1998 and is a

member of the Alumni National Campaign Committee.

Dennis Kelleher '84

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dennis Kelleher is chief counsel and senior leadership adviser for U.S. senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota,

chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Prior to working with Dorgan, Kelleher was the

legislative director for U.S. senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and a litigation partner at the international

law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Kelleher has also served as chairman of the Rules Committee

for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and as a member of U.S. senator Edward Kennedy's staff. Kelleher

received his bachelor's degree in politics and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He was also a member of

his 15th and 20th Reunion Gift Committees.

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Lisa Kranc '75

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Lisa Kranc is senior vice president of Auto Zone Inc., a Fortune 350 specialty retailer with annual sales of

$6 billion and 3,600 stores nationwide. One of nine executive committee members, Kranc oversees business and

marketing strategy development and implementation, advertising and media relations, and consumer research

efforts. She is a member of the executive committee of the Car Care Council, which is a standing committee of

the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association. Kranc is also active in the Memphis community, where she

has been a board member of the Memphis Zoo and is currently a board member of the Greater Memphis Arts

Council. She earned her bachelor's degree in American studies and an MBA from Columbia University. She is

an Alumni Admissions Council representative and a volunteer for the Hiatt Career Networking Program.

Jane Paley Price '69, P'08NEW YORK CITY

Before cofounding the New York production company Paley- Price Productions in 1992 with husband Larry

Price '67, Jane Paley Price spent eleven years at ABC Television creating a series of documentaries titled

ABC Notebook. She received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1987 for "The Children of Ellis Island."

Since then, she has written television documentaries for ABC, PBS, Court TV, and HBO, among others. In

2001, Paley Price was appointed to the New York Ciry Board of Correction by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and

served until 2005. She is currently president of the Friendly Visitors of New York, a charitable organization

that supports female inmates on Rikers Island. Paley Price received her bachelor's degree in theater arts and a

master's degree from the Tisch School at New York University. She and Larry have a son, Brian, who is a

member of the Class of 2008.

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Adam Rifkin '97

NEW YORK CITY

As vice president in Lehman Brothers' Retail and Consumer Investment Banking Group, Adam Rifkin travels

extensively across the world, working with large public and private retail, apparel, and restaurant companies on

mergers, acquisitions, and financings. Before joining Lehman Brothers, he worked for nine years at Credit Suisse

First Boston in the Retail Investment Banking Group. Rifkin, whose father, Matthew, is a 1971 Brandeis

graduate, earned his bachelor's in economics. He served as student representative to the Alumni Association Board

from 1995 to 1997, and currently serves as its Hiatt Career Center representative and as chairman of the Finance

Committee. While at Brandeis, he also served as the business manager and managing editor of the Archon

yearbook. Rifkin was cochair of his 5th Reunion Gift Committee, a member of the 'Wall Street/Finance Network,

a sponsor of the 2005 and 2006 Golf Outings, and cochair of the Justice Brandeis Society Emerging Leaders.

Robert Rose '92

RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY

Robert Rose is chief revenue officer of Datran Media in New York City, an online database management

company. The grandson of Brandeis trustee Harry Stone and his wife, Lucille, Robert is one of many members

of his extended family to attend Brandeis, including his parents, James '66 and Natasha '66 (Richman). He is

married to Deborah Karmin Rose '94. The couple have three children. Rose's bachelor's degree is in fine arts.

He was a member of his 5th and 10th Reunion Gift Committees and currently serves on the Alumni National

Campaign Committee.

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REUNION CLASS PHOTOS

More than one thousand alumni and their

families came back to campus June 9 to 11 to

celebrate Reunion 2006. Despite a weekend

of rain, record numbers of alumni from nine

classes enjoyed a series of special events. Class

photos (below) were taken during the Ralph

Norman Barbecue on June 10. The 50th

Reunion of the Class of 1956 was held in

May during Commencement (see related

story, page 36.) Combined, all Reunion

classes raised a record $1 1,109,083 through

May 31. The Class of 1956 raised a record

$7,391,132 toward the overall total.

Class of 1966

Kent Lawrence was chair of

the 40th Reunion Com-

mittee. The Class of 1966

raised $1,207,607* and, as

ot May 31, was well on its

way to breaking the 40th

Reunion Class gift record.

Class of 19

Bruce B. Lirwer

Stephen Reiner servei

cochairs of the 4

Reunion Commit

The Class of 1

raised $267,6'

Class of 1971

Allen Alter was chair of

the 35th Reunion Com-

mittee. The Class of 1971

raised $169,415*.

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More than one thousand alumni and their

famihes came back to campus June 9 to 1 1 to

celebrate Reunion 2006. Despite a weekend

of rain, record numbers ol alumni from nine

classes enjoyed a series of special events. Class

photos (below) were taken during the Ralph

Norman Barbecue on June 10. The 50th

Reunion of the Class of 1956 was held in

May during Commencement (see related

story, page 36.) Combined, all Reunion

classes raised a record $1 1,109,083 through

May 31. The Class of 1956 raised a record

$7,391,132 toward the overall total.

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Led by committee

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Rich Greene, Jonathan

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the Class of 1976 raised

$610,523* in honor of its

30th Reunion.

Class of 1981

Danny Elkaim, Elizabeth

Etra Jick, and Vic Ney

cochaired the 25th

Reunion Committee. The

Class raised $287,125*.

Class of 1986

David Spiler served as

chair of the 20th Reunion

Committee. The Class of

1 986 raised a record

$1,410,441*.

'indicates dollars raised as of May 31, 2006.

Actual totals may be higher.

Please visit http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/

to see more Reunion 2006 photos.

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REUNION CLASS PHOTOS

Class of 1991

Jeremy Pressman and Eran

Raphael cochaired the 15th

Reunion Class. The Class

of 1991 raised $47,131*.

Class of 1996

Mitchell Baruchowitz

served as chair of the

Class of 1996 10th

Reunion Committee. The

Class raised $32,989*.

Class of 2001Kara Grossman and

Amanda Moskowitz

served as cochairs of the

Sth Reunion Committee.

The Class of 2001

raised $11,738*.

'Indicates dollars raised as of May 31, 2006.

Actual totals may be higher.

Please visit http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/

to see more Reunion 2006 photos.

Wien Scholars

Djessan Philippe Djangone-Bi 71 (center left),

former Wien Scholar and ambassador of the

Permanent Mission of Cote d'lvoire to the United

Nations, and his wife, Martine, joined twent)' other

Wien Scholars who traveled to New York Cit)' for a

special visit and tour of the United Nations on

April 25.

Alumni Club of

Toronto

Assistant professor of psy-

chology' Derek Isaacowitz

(left) delivered a talk,

"The Science of Happiness,'

on April 30 at the home of

event host Judi Shostack

'78. Pictured with

Isaacowitz is club president

Mark Surchin '78.

Alumni Club of

Southern California

Los Angeles area alumni and their children gath-

ered at Storyopolis on April 2 to hear Anne-Marie

Asner, MA'96, read from her new book, Noshy

Boy: practice bookmaking; and enjoy a nosh. The

children met all of Asner's characters, including

Noshy Boy, Shmutzy Girl, Kvetchy Boy, and

Shluffy Girl.

Alumni Club of

Washington, D.C.

(From left): Hosts Connie and Jay

Krupin, P'02, event chair Sara Cormeny'92, club president Dan Kazzaz '74, and

Audrey Corson were among more than

fifty alumni and guests at a January 28

dinner and production of Tuesdays with

Morrie, an adaptation ot the bestselling

book bv Mitch Albom '79.

SI Atlanta Event

Jonathan Sarna '75, MA'75 (center), the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braiin Professor of American Jew-

ish History, delivered a talk, "An Old Faith in the New World: American Judaism Backwards and

Forwards," at a Faculty in the Field event March 5. Sarna also signed copies of his hooV American

Judaism: A History. The event was attended by more than eighty alumni, Brandeis University

National Women's Committee members, parents, and friends of the university, including

(fivm left) Julie Smith-Bartoloni '90, Esther Gerson Levine '62, event host Judith Grossman

Taylor '56, and Judy Rothenberg Feldstein '63. Jason Adler '99, Carrie Waxier Singer '96,

Michael Rosenzweig, P'08, and Shell! Bank, P'08, also served on the event committee.

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alumninews

RECENT EVENTS

The Minority

Alumni Network

The Minority Alumni Network held its

annual Creating Connections: Alumni

and Students of Color Networking Event

at the Intercultural Center on campus on

February 8. Susan Lim '06 and Stephen

Bell 71 served on the event committee.

Pictured are (front row, from left) Herman

W. Hemingway '53, Stephen A. Bell '71,

Kimberly A. Truong "01, and Joanne

Wan '03, and (back row, from left) Mabray

Andrews '74, Zeus Estrada '82, Joseph W.

Perkins '66, Sherwood C. Lewis, PhD'63.

Alexander T. Lo 03, and Peter C.

Wong '89.

Alumni Club of Cleveland/Northeast Ohio

Club president Aryeh Dori '96 (front) poses with members of

the women's basketball team and their parents at the club's

first-ever event, Alumni Basketball Day. The judges' men's and

women's teams both prevailed over their counterparts from

Case Western Reserve University.

Alumni Club of Houston

Bernadette Brooten (left), the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob

Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies, delivered a talk on "Slavery's

Long Shadow over the Lives of Girls and Women" at a Faculty

in the Field event March 12. Pictured with Brooten is club

president and event host Michael Kivort '87.

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alumninews

Alumni Club of Greater Boston

Professor emeritus of composition Yehudi Wvner {center), winner

of tiiis year's Pulitzer Prize for music, performed works by Bach,

Chopin, Mozart, and Beethoven for more than thirty alumni and

friends at the club's third Breakfast Series event on February 9. Healso delivered a lecture, "Does Music Mean Anything? Can It Be

Explained?" Wyner is shown here with Arthur Finstein '67,

MFA04, P'98, P'Ol, P'08, cochair of the Alumni Club of Greater

Boston's Performing Arts Network, and Performing Arts and

Breakfast Series cochair Etta Lappen Davis '73.

Left photo: I he club's Performing Arts Network, cochaired by Melissa Bank Stepno '99 (rigltt), hosted a reception and book signing for

author and pla)'wright Jesse Kellerman, MFA'03 {left), following a March 26 performance of Kellerman's play Things Beyond OurControl ax. Spingold Theater. Right photo: Eric Hill (standing, fourthfrom right), artistic director of the Brandeis Theater Companyand the Barbara Sherman '54 and Malcolm L. Sherman Chair of the Theater Arts Department, joined Kellerman and more than

twenty-five other alumni at the reception and book signing, where Kellerman signed copies of his first novel, Swistrnke.

Amy Greenberg Bard "79 and Len Bard '79, joined here by OIlie

the Owl, were among one hundred alumni and family members

to attend Alumni Family Basketball Day on January 29. On the

court, both the Brandeis men's (77-70) and women's (75-57)

teams defeated their counterparts from Emory University.

Associate professor of biology Dan L. Perlman {right) is joined by

former students Ari Kahan '04{left) and 'Yoni Resnick '04 at a

Downtown Lunch Series event March 21. Lawrence Uchill '69

hosts the lunch series. Barbara Cantor Sherman "54, P'83, and

Mitch Cohen '76 served as chairs of this event.

Event chair Jen (Rothwax) Koplow '05 and her husband,

Jonathan '05, at the Recent Graduates Network event,

"Munchies and Margaritas," on February 21 at Boston's

Cactus Club. About thirty alumni attended.

Alumni Club of New York City

Shai Feldman (right), the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the

Crown Center for Middle East Studies, delivered a talk, "After

Palestinian and Israeli Elections: Policy Options, " at a Faculrv' in

the Field event on March 7 at Brandeis House. A large gathering

of Brandeis alumni and friends attended the event, including

trustee Ken Kaiserman '60[lefi).

^^i4 ^Alumni Club of New York City

The Family NetworkMembers of more than twenty Brandeis families with young

children gathered for a program at the Metropolitan Museumof Art in New York City on March 4. The program included

storytelling, sketching, and other activities to encourage the

exploration of art. Rachel Greenfield '95 chaired the event.

Alumni Club of New York City

The Lawyers Network

Attorneys (from left) Marcie Braunstein Roth '93, Seth Borden '95, Steven Sladkus '91, and

Jason Paris '92 were among those attending a Lawyers Network Continuing Legal Education

seminar at Brandeis House March 9. The event, chaired by Lisa Rothman Jesner '95, included a

panel discussion, "Legal Ethics: Confronting Everyday Legal Issues. " Panelists included Roy

Simon, P'07, the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics at Hofstra

University Law School; Heather Boshak '91, principal of Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman;

Daniel S. Finger '96, an attorney at Finger and Finger; Marcie Roth '93, an asssociate at

Freedman, Fish & Grimaldi; and Mark Saloman '89, an associate at Proskauer Rose.

Brandeis Uiiiversitv1^

Golf and Tennis Outing

Monday, July 24, 2006Ridgeway Country Club, White Plains, NY

Register online for Golf or Tennis

http://alumni.brandeis.edu/golfandtennis

Reception and Awards Dinner special guest:

President Jehuda Reinharz, Ph.D. 72

Tickets for the Reception and Awards Dinner are $100, To reserve a space,

please contact Robyn Hartman 212-472-1501 x232 or hartman@brandeis.edu .

ALPINE CAPITAL BANK

classnotes1952Diana Laskin Siegal

900 SW 31st Street, #BE339

Topeka, KS 66611

1952notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Eleven class members and four partners

held their annual Florida dinner in Boca

Raton on March 20. Class members will

meet next in Lenox, Massachusetts,

July 24 to 27. Contact Diana Laskin

Siegal or Julian Koss for information.

1953Abraham Heller

1400 Runnymede Road

Dayton, OH 45419

1953notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1954William Marsh

5113 Castlerock Way

Naples. FL 34112

1954notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1955Judith Paul! Aronson

838 N. Doheny Drive, #906Los Angeles, CA 90069

1955notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Risa Hirsch Eriich

New York City

Eriich writes, "After many years teaching

middle-school math, I began to make

ceramic pieces and started exhibiting in

1998. In the last year and a half, besides

exhibiting in many group events, I've had

a major solo show of my ceramics. Vessels

and Reliefs, at Studio Gallery 88 in NewYork City; have been the only artist in

L X Wx D + Texture at MMC Gallery at

Marymount College in New York City;

and have been invited to show at Suhay

Gallery in Fort Lee, New Jersey."

1956Leona Feldman Curhan

366 River Road

Carlisle, MA 01741

1956notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Congrarulations, Class of 1956! Neither

record floods nor a toxic spill that shut

down the Mass. Pike could implode our

50th Reunion! Sixty-six class members

and lort)' guests came together to

remember, to rejoice, and to renew our

Brandeis connections in song, in discus-

sion as to where we've been, and in

debate as to where do we and the world

go from here. As Mimi Richman Han-

dler said, "We are family, we can really

talk to one another." We didn't stop

talking to say goodbye—the weekend

just ran out. Send in your digital pictures

and we'll trv to redistribute them to add

to the 50th Reunion yearbook. The class

gift of more than $7 million was indeed

a record breaker! Morty Ginsberg, class

president, was named a university

trustee, joining 1956 trustees Louis

Perlmutter, Marge Housen, Rena

Olshansky, and Jane Eskind. Barbara

Hoenig would like to explore the possi-

bility of a travel/study group tor '56. Let

me know if you're interested.

Susan Geller Gold

Englewood, New Jersey

Gold retired from the insurance and

financial services company American

International Group, where she was a

representative in the Moscow office.

She still works as an adjunct professor at

Columbia University's School of Public

Health and at Fairleigh Dickinson

University. In addition. Gold recendy

completed her memoirs. The Eyes Are the

Soul, to be published by Full Court Press.

Alan Simon

Alexandria, Virginia

Simon writes, "I retired from the CIA

in 1 994, but continue to work as a

consultant for a number of other federal

agencies. In my spare time, I had a spy

novel published. To Live Among Wolves,

and completed the manuscript tor the

sequel. I'm now at work on the third

book m the series."

1957Wynne Wolkenberg Miller

14 Larkspur Road

Waban, MA 02468

1957notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Barry Hantman

Matthews, North Carolina

Hantman writes, "My son graduated in

the Class of 2004. Thought you would

like to know that during his sophomore

year he occupied the same dorm room in

Ridgewood Quad A that I had lived in

forty-seven years earlier! Of course, it

had been refurbished twice, but it was

the same room."

Janet Hentoff Krauss

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Krauss is the second recipient of the

Adjunct Facult)' Award at Fairfield

University. A reception was held in her

honor on April 2.

Arnold Rovner

Coram, New York

Rovner writes, "We have been blessed

with our sixth grandchild, adding a

granddaughter to three others and two

grandsons. Eldest son Ron is a senior vice

president of the United States Life Insur-

ance Company, a division of AIG, in NewYork City. Middle son Dr. Eric S. Rovner

is an assistant professor and surgeon at the

Medical University of South Carolina in

Charleston, an author/lecturer in urology,

and a specialist in women's incontinence;

his wife, Michelle, is a doctor of pediatric

anesthesiology. Youngest son Gary has

been made partner in the Chicago otfice

of Foley & Lardner, a national law firm

specializing in environmental law; his wife,

Suzanne, is an attorney. I am engaged full

time in life- and he;rlth-insurance sales,

marketing, and administration; my wife.

Sherry, is employed at Stony Brook

University in the Social Services

Department. Retirement beckons, but we

are having too much fun working."

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Glenda (Stone) Sakal

Westboro, Massachusetts

Sakal writes, "In January, I fulfilled a

lifetime dream when 1 landed on the

Antarctic continent. It was the last of

the seven continents that I have been

fortunate enough to visit. It was the trip

of a lifetime!

"

1958Judith Brecher Borakove

10 East End Avenue, #2-F

New York, NY 10021

1958notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

David Cohen

West Palm Beach, Florida

Cohen writes, "I am currently living in

Ibis at West Palm Beach, enjoying the

beautiful weather, playing golf, seeing

old friends, traveling—doing it all

after retirement."

Allan Drachman

Wayland, Massachusetts

Drachman writes, "After my three-year

stint as chairman of the Massachusetts

Labor Relations Commission, I have

resumed my practice as an arbitrator

and mediator of labor and employment

disputes. I am enjoying life and

particularly twin grandsons Ari and

Joel, who arrived in November."

Peter Ranis

New York City

Ranis, professor emeritus in the PhDprogram in political science at the CUNYGraduate Center and York College, has

written "Argentine Worker-Occupied

Factories and Enterprises" in Socialism ivid

Democracy (November 2005), "Learning

from the Argentine Worker" in Situations

(Winter 2006), and "Factories without

Bosses: Argentina's Experience with

Worker-Run Enterprises" in Labor Studies

in Working-Class History ofthe Americiis

(Spring 2006). He has a daughter, Maria,

a legal assistant, of Guttenberg, New Jer-

sey, and a son, Paul Ranis '91, an attor-

ney, of Cooper City, Florida. Ranis also

has four grandchildren, ages 3 through 7.

1959Sunny Sunshine Brownrout

87 Old Hill Road

Westport, CT 068801959notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1960Joan Silverman Wallack

28 Linden Shores, #28

Branford, CT 06405

1960notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Arnold Jacobson

Alamo, California

Jacobson writes, "I have recently retired

from my medical practice. My partner

and 1 established the first in vitro fertil-

ization program in the San Francisco Bay

Area in 1982. My wife and 1 now enjoy

traveling to see our grandchildren.

"

Alan Sldman

Brooklyn, New York

Sidman and his wife, Sharman, have

been blessed with three grandchildren in

less than a year. The most recent is a boy.

Cole Maxwell, born February 27 to their

son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and

Nancy in Chicago. The first two were

twins, Julia and Charles, born to their

daughter and son-in-law, Stella and

Todd, on March 15,2005.

1961Judith Leavitt Schatz

139 Cumberland Road

Leominster, MA 01453

1961notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ron earner

New York City

Carner has accepted a leadership posi-

tion as general chairman of the USA18th Maccabiah Organizing Committee.

He will put together a team of national

sports directors, chairs, committees, and

coaches dedicated to building a large

team of talented Jewish athletes to

compete at the 18th World Maccabiah

Games in Israel in July 2009.

Marion Liniado Cuba

New York Cit>'

Cuba published her first novel, Shanghai

Legacy, in February. The subject is the

little-known chapter of the Holocaust

when nearly twenty thousand Jews fled

the Nazis to Shanghai—the one place

that would take them without a visa.

Based on years of research, the book

weaves actual events from 1938 to 1945

with an imagined mother-daughter story

of generational conflict, dark secrets, and

the search for love and fulfillment,

probing a theme that haunts so many of

us: how a survivor's past hardships

affect—and afflict—the next generation.

Besides writing, Cuba, like the

protagonist in Shanghai Legacy, sculpts

and designs jewelry. Visit her Web site at

<www.shanghailegacy.com>.

1962Ann Leder Sharon

13890 Ravenwood Drive

Saratoga, CA 95070

1962notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

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1963Miriam Osier Hyman140 East 72nd Street, #16B

New Yorl<, NY 10021

1963notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1964Shelly A. Wolf

113 Naudain Street

Philadelphia. PA 19147

1964notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Joan Paller Bines

Lexington, Massachusetts

Bines writes, "I am still enjoying mywork as the director of the Golden Ball

Tavern Museum. I've also taken up

photography and golf—both with a zest

I would never have guessed I possessed.

We welcomed our third grandchild this

winter and have been doing a lot ot

traveling to see them as well as our other

children. So, all is well."

1965Joan Furber Kalafatas

3 Brandywyne

Wayland, MA 01778

1965notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Louise (Antell) Halper

Montclair, New Jersey

Halper writes, "I'm a professor of law at

Washington and Lee University School

of Law in Lexington, Virginia. Last year,

I was a visiting professor of law at

Harvard Law School, where I taught

Property, Land Use Planning, and a

seminar on Law and Gender in Iran and

Turkey. I was Class of '65 and, though I

actually graduated in '67, I continue to

identity with my friends in '65.

'

1966Kenneth E. Davis

28 Mary Chilton Road

Needham, MA 02492

1966notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Stephen Heller

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Heller writes, "Now residing in Albu-

querque with my wife, Carol (Bachrach),

1 was unable to attend our 40th gala.

1 graduated majoring in economics. In

June 1966, I was afflicted with multiple

sclerosis and, although I no longer amable to play basketball, my condition has

evolved into a state of remission that

allows me to function in a relatively

normal manner. I took a position as an

administrative intern at Knickerbocker

Hospital in New York City. With the

inception of Medicare and Medicaid,

health-care management would embark

on a new direction. I joined Health

SPACE (space, planning, architecture,

construction, and equipment) with the

city of New "York, where I'm engaged in

comprehensive municipal health care

and hospital planning and development.

As a 1 969 graduate ot the University of

Missouri's health-care program, I submit

the following material regarding

management. As a member of the top

management staffs with the Children's

Hospital National Medical Center, the

George Washington University Medical

Center in Washington, D.C., and the

Office for Coordination of Primary Care

Programs with the University of

Maryland Medical School in Baltimore

in the 1970s, I developed an avocational

course in Hospital Management and

Health Care Delivery at the Washington

Hospital Center in the evenings. Uponmoving to Dayton, Ohio, 1 became

involved with the Disabled Consumers'

Network and the quarterly publication

We the People. I then became an inde-

pendent-living specialist with the Access

Center for Independent Living. I

developed complementary courses in

health-care planning and management in

line with Wright State University and

Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

"

1967Anne Rellly Hort

10 Old Jackson Avenue, #21

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

1967notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Leda Schubert

Plainfield, Vermont

Schubert writes, "I'm delighted to

announce the publication of two pic-

ture books: Here Comes Darrell

(Houghton, 2005), illustrated by Mary

Azarian, and Ballet ofthe Elephants

(Roaring Brook, 2006), illustrated by

Robert Andrew Parker. I am also now a

faculty member of the Vermont College

MFA in Wtiting for Children and

Young Adults Program."

1968David Greenwald

3655 Aquetong Road

Carversville, PA 18913

1968notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ronald Kronish

Jerusalem, Israel

Kronish attended the second World

Congress of Rabbis and Imams for

Peace, held in Seville, Spain, in March.

In addition, he and his wife. Amy, whomhe met at Brandeis, were scheduled to be

guest speakers at the Jewish education

confetence known as Limmud Oz in

Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, in

June. Their topic is contemporary issues

in Israeli society.

Phillip Saperia

Brooklyn, New York

Saperia writes, "After thirty-two years

together, Jim Golden and I traveled to

Canada last year and were married.

We followed this civil ceremony by

going under the chuppah together before

one hundred family members and

friends, on the New Jersey bank of

the Delaware River, near our weekend

home. Our friend and rabbi, Ellen

Lippmann, otficiated."

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1969Phoebe Epstein

205 West 89th Street, #10-S

New York, NY 10024

1969notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1970Charles S. Eisenberg

4 Ashford Road

Newton Centre, MA 02459

1970notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Joan Feinberg Berns

Wayland, Massachusetts

Berns, MA71, PhD74, writes, "I have

become a grandmother to three adorable

babies; twins Aaron and Samuel were

born to David and Lee-Anne in October

2004, and Ayla was born to Sarah and

Daren in November 2005. To hold your

children's children in your arms is an

amazing experience!I"

Eugene Tobin

New York CmTobin recently won the American

Education Research Association

Outstanding Book Award for Equity

and Excellence in American Higher

Education, coauthored by William

Bowen and Martin Kurzwcil.

1971Class of 1971

Brandeis University, MS 124

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1971notes@alumni.brandels.edu

Michael Barth

Bethesda, Maryland

Barth will join the senior management

of Darby Overseas Investments as man-

aging director for global investments.

He has had a long and distinguished

career in global emerging markets

investing.

Steven Berk

Amarillo, Texas

Berk, regional dean of the Texas Tech

Universin' Health Sciences Center

School ot Medicine at Amarillo, was

named the new dean of the Health

Sciences Center School of Medicine in

Lubbock. In his new position, he is

responsible for the academic and clinical

administration for the main school of

medicine in Lubbock and supervisory

responsibilities for the school of medi-

cine locations at Amarillo, El Paso, and

the Permian Basin.

Alan Ticotsky

Lexington, Massachusetts

Ticotsky and his wife, Jane Sutton '72,

both have new books out this spring.

Ticotsky's Science Giants: Earth Cr Space

is the first in his series that provides

teachers with ideas for lessons and

hands-on activities illustrating major

discoveries and principles in science. Amiddle-school science and social studies

teacher, he has published two previous

books for teachers. Sutton's children's

picture book. The Trouble with Cauli-

flower, has been praised in School

Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus as

a humorous tale about a koala who is

convinced that eating cauliflower brings

him bad luck. She has a new Web site,

<www.jane-sutton.com>, that includes

her five previous books and even a

"hippie-chick photo" of her at Brandeis.

1972Dan Garfinkel

2420 Kings Lane

Pittsburgh, PA 15241

1972notes@alumnj.brandels.edu

Myra Hindus

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Hindus has been appointed to the

newly created position of vice president

tor cultural diversity at Berklee College

of Music. In this position, she will focus

on four areas of development for the

college: curriculum review and creating

more diversity-related curriculum;

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faculty and staff recruitment issues;

student recruitment and retention; and

promoting awareness and training

on diversity.

Robert Levin

Newton, Massachusetts

Levin writes, "I work from the Cam-

bridge office of- TeachFirst Inc. as a staff

development consultant to public school

districts, primarily in New York City and

Maryland. I recently taught in an alter-

native program for middle schoolers with

behaviotal challenges in the Chelsea,

Massachusetts, public schools. My 20-

year-old son, Joel, recently completed a

round-trip, cross-country motorcycle trip

(not what I was doing at age 20 or any-

time since), and 18-year-old Sam is

about to go off to college. Visiting col-

lege with Sam has brought back many

memories of how unique and important

a time college is. I would love to hear

from old friends in the Boston, NewYork, or Baltimore-Washington areas

—

or an\'where else!"

Daniel Rosen

Bellevue, Washington

Rosen, managing partner and cofounder

of Frazier Technology Ventures in

Seattle, has been named chairman of

the board of directors at Neah Power

Systems, a fuel-cell company based in

Bothell, Washington.

Allen Sablnson

Garrison, New York

Sabinson writes, "I was recently

appointed dean of the Antoinette

Westphal College of Media Arts and

Design at Drexel University in

Philadelphia. Drexel's Westphal College

has 1,600 undergraduate and graduate

students, and we offer degrees in archi-

tecture, film and video, screenwriting

and playwriting, TV management,

entertainment and arts management,

digital media, photography, graphic

design, music industry, arts

administration, fashion design, design

and merchandising, and interior

design. The Westphal approach is to

teach the applied design and media

arts in small studio classes and to

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Diamond Shines in Romance Genre

The key to her success may be that she never

runs out of ideas. Jackie Hyman 71 wrote

her first story at age 4. By age 6 she knew she

wanted to be a writer. And her passion for

writing never waned.

To date, Hyman has published more than

sevenn- romances in subgenres ranging from

romantic suspense to screwball comedy. Aji

active member of Romance Writers ofAmer-

ica (and formerlv on the national board),

Hyman lives in Southern California with

her husband and two sons.

She usually writes under the pseudonym

Jacqueline Diamond and has published hard-

cover suspense tinder her own n,ime. Her nov-

els, most published by Harlequin Books, have

been translated into a dozen languages.

Success did not come easily, however. It

took ten years of rejection slips after she

graduated from Brandeis before she sold her

first book, a Regeno' romance called Lady

in Disguise, published in 1982.

Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and

Nashville, Tennessee, she came to Brandeis

after her mother, sculptor Sylvia Hyman,

suggested she consider the school.

"I felt this was an environment where 1

could grow," says Hyman. "Brandeis allowed

me the scope to pursue diverse interests."

Her courses included graduate-level

poetry writing with Howard Nemerov and

graduate-level playwriting with William

Gibson. Several years of Italian in prepara-

tion for writing a play about Lorenzo

de' Medici were especially valuable when

she received a Thomas Watson Foundation

fellowship to travel in Europe and live in

Italy the year following graduation.

From there she moved to Southern Cal-

ifornia, where her brother lived. Working

in public relations and for newspapers and

the Associated Press bureau in Los Angeles,

Hyman covered news and theater from 1980

to 1983. She wrote a nationally distributed

TV column for AP from 1993 to 1994 and

had the opportunity to interview many fa-

mous stars.

But Hyman hadn't forgotten her first

love—she was still writing plays, scripts,

and books. To her dismay, they were con-

stantlv rejected.

This changed when a PBS series based on

Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice caught her

fancy in 1 980. She was inspired to read all of

Austen's books and then discovered Regency

romances. Hyman had found her niche —she sold her first two Regencies a year later.

Among her latest endeavors is a five-part

miniseries from Harlequin American Ro-

mance called "Downhome Doctors." The

first four tides— The Police Chief's Lady, Nine-

Month Surprise, A Family at Last, and Dad by

Default—were released between December

and June. The fifth and final installment.

The Doctor + Four, is due out in September.

—Marjorie Lyon

classii()r('>

incorporate a strong foundation in the

arts, a university curriculum in the

humanities and sciences, and Drexel's

long-standing co-op program, which

requires our students to worlc for six

months in their chosen field as part of

their undergraduate education. Prior to

joining Drexel in December 2004 as

the director of the Rudman Institute

for Entertainment Industry Studies, I

worked in the film and television

industry for thirty years, holding such

positions as senior vice president for

programming at the A&E Television

Network; president of production at

Miramax Films; executive vice presi-

dent for original programming at

TNT; executive vice president of

made-for-TV movies and miniseries at

ABC; senior vice president for original

programming at Showtime; and in a

variety of jobs at NBC during the first

ten years of my career. I now divide mytime between Philadelphia and

Garrison. My wife, Gretta, is a

psychoanalyst practicing in New York

and Garrison. She is also a writer. Mytwo daughters, Juliana and Elena, are

in college."

Kenneth SackmanLos Angeles

Sackman has retired as an attotney for

Gilbert & Sackman after thirty years

representing unions' pension and health

plans. He will be coaching girls basket-

ball at Venice High School, working

with the Brandeis admissions office in

recruiting Los Angeles public-school

students for Brandeis, and assisting

college counselors at various inner-city

Los Angeles-area public high schools in

advising students heading to college. Hehopes to see more of daughter Caryn

'02, who is a business representative for

AFSCME in Boston, and daughter Lara,

who will be starting law school in the

tall in the hopes of becoming a

union lawyer.

Jane Sutton

Lexington, Massachusetts

See Alan Ticotsky '71.

1973George Kahn

11300 Rudman Drive

Culver City, CA 90230

1973notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hi! George Kahn here, once again. The

big news on the family front is that myolder son, Benjamin (Linfield College,

Class of 2006), is getting married Labor

Day weekend, and my younger son,

Evan, is having his bar mitzvah in

February 2007. Don't be shy! I know

you are out there. Please send all family,

business, or life-changing news to me for

posting in Brandeis University Magazine.

Let's stay in touch!

Rebecca Pepkowltz

Baltimore

Pepkowitz, of Rebecca Pepkowitz Kosher

Foods, has been invited to join Joe

Regenstein and Mohammed Chaudry

at Carnegie Mellon University in

Pittsburgh to teach a groundbreaking

sociology course. Introduction to Kosher

and Halal Food Regulations.

Kathleen Popko

Westfield, Massachusetts

Popko was appointed executive vice

president for strategy and ministr)'

development at Catholic Health East

(CHE), one of the nation's leading

Catholic health-care systems. In this

position, she is responsible for pursuing

ministry growth and identifying, piloting,

and disseminating innovative approaches

and strategies across the CHE system. In

addition, she will oversee CHE's strategy

development, internal audit, and

corporate compliance functions.

Michael Rubin

Berkeley, California

Rubin is an attorney whose focus is on

worker rights and public interest. How-ever, back in 1985, Rubin was assigned

to defend James Horton, a convicted Los

Angeles murderer. Ten years ago, Rubin

got Horton off death row, and recently, a

federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered

Horton's release from state prison in

Salinas. Rubin says working on Horton's

case was a satisfying but exhausting

undertaking, one he enjoyed but would

have to think twice about doing again.

Barbara Brickman Stein

Dallas

Stein writes, "On vacation in South

Beach, Florida, my family and I ran into

the former Liz Morris '74 and her

family. We had not seen each other

since my wedding to Shelly Stein '74

in 1974. We instantly recognized each

other and had a wonderful time

reminiscing about our Brandeis days."

1974Class of 1974

MS 124 Brandeis University

PC Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1974notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Kenneth Fried

Demarest, New Jersey

Fried is chief of the vascular surgery

department at Holy Name Hospital in

Teaneck, New Jersey. He has four daugh-

ters, Ariel, liana, Adina, and Nessa.

Richard Halperin

Basking Ridge, New Jersey

See Elissa Kahn Halperin '76.

Mark Maimone

Huntington Station, New York

Maimone writes, "Just a note to let you

know that, as a graduate of the music

program, I have actively continued myeducation. On January 23, I publicly

defended my PhD dissertation. Water

Resource Planning: Turning Theory into

Practice, published by Ceo Press. The

public defense and the award of the PhDoccurred at the University of Groningen,

the Netherlands, through the faculty of

spacial sciences."

Pamela Saks Weil

Newton, Massachusetts

Weil, the education director of

Wesrwood's Temple Beth Da\ id, was

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Jennifer Kaplan and Susie Tanchel '92

Melinda Panl<en and Glenn Steven Cohen

Elyse Wasch and Ben Goldberg

Deborah Rabitz and Jeffrey Buchbinder

Avi Israeli and Deborah Fertig

Claudy Levin and Geoffrey Thompson

Janet Lipman and Mark Leibowitz

Matthew Tilem and Jill Rubin

Nicholas Rosenberg and Jennifer Abrams Trager

Gela Wax and Shai Fuxman '99

Geoffrey Grove and Hilary Kaiser

Debra Gutis and Eitan Milgram

Dara Meltzer and Oleg Urim

Jennifer Greif and Daniel Green '99

Katharine Higgins and Chris Shea '96

Dalia Kalan and Jason Samansky

Emily Romoff and James Bronstein

Jesse Friedman and Melissa Fleming

Seth Goldstein and Stacy Goldfischer

Jessica Kagen and Robert Weisbein

Irene Su and Bobby Guarino '02

Sofia Zatulovskaya and Peter Novak

Jacqueline Ann Hendries and Charles Chretien

Sharona Siegel and Phillip Vedol

December 4, 2005

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October 21. 2004

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class notes

among the distinguished recipients of

Keter Torah Awards, presented by the

Bureau of Jewish Education to "heroes"

of Jewish education.

1975Class of 1975

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1975notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

lleene Smith

New York Cit\'

Smith has been appointed editor at large

at Yale University Press.

Terrie Williams

New York City

Williams, a well-known marketing and

public relations expert, tells of her

chronic and then crippling depression,

which she kept hidden under her "game

face," in the forthcoming book It Just

Looks Like I'm Not Hurting: Depression,

Hope, and Healing in Black American

Life. First published as a story in Essence,

the piece received the magazine's largest

reader response in 2005. Williams, who

has a master's in social work, also tells

the untold story of depression among

African Americans—from celebrities as

well as ordinary people and psychologists

who want to help break the taboo of the

disease. The book is scheduled to be

published in 2007.

1976Beth Pearlman

1773 Diane Road

Mendota Heights, MN 55118

1976notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello,' 76ers. By now. Reunion is a

memory and summer is in full swing.

It's the perfect time to tell us what

you've been up to, so keep those class

notes coming!

Debra Chernick

Wakefield, Rliode Island

Chernick writes, "I am honored that mydaughter, Elana, is in the Class ot 2008

at Brandeis.

"

Elissa Kahn Halperin

Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Halperin writes, "I joined Alpharma in

September 2005 as vice president for law

for Alpharma Branded Products. Myhusband, Richard '74, is managing

director ot ERA-USA, expense-reduction

specialists in New Jersey. Our children:

Kyra graduated Phi Beta Kappa from

Johns Hopkins in May; Perryn is a

sophomore at George Washington

University, majoring in psycholog)'; and

Brad recently celebrated his bar mitzvah

atop Masada in Israel."

Janet Hibel-Tarpell

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Hibel-Tarpell was named 2005

Psychologist ot the Year by the Florida

Psychological Association. In addition,

she was elected secretary of the associa-

tion and will serve on the board of

directors with Bruce Frumkin '77. She is

in private practice specializing in couples

psychotherapy, and lives with her hus-

band, Alan, dogs Burt and Loni, and

paint mare Ms. Scribbles.

Amir Malln

Oyster Bay Cove, New York

Malin is managing principal at Qualia

Capital LLC and chief executive officer

at Artisan Entertainment.

Julieanna Richardson

Chicago

Richard.son, founder of an archive of

African-American oral history, was

awarded the first Vernon Jarrett Senior

Fellowship from the University of

Illinois-Chicago's Great Cines Institute.

Richardson has served as executive director

of the HistoryMakers since founding the

organization in 1999. It produces a Website, television programs, and events based

on interviews with African-American

leaders in education, law, politics, business,

media, medicine, science, technology, arts,

entertainment, the military, and sports.

AvI Andrew Rose

Oakland, California

Rose recently became executive director

ot Jewish Family and Children's Services

ot the East Bay. He lives with his part-

ner, Ron Strochlic, and their two chil-

dren, Oren and Aviva.

Jay Spieler

Miami

Spieler writes, "I am senior vice president

at Oppenheimer & Co. in Coconut

Grove, Florida, and executive vice presi-

dent of Congregation Beth David,

Miami. Lucie has left teaching (after

years of prodding by me!) and is now in

information services with Florida Grand

Opera. Oldest son William is midway

through Georgetown Law and has

recently become engaged. Alex

Chartove '76 has been generous in offer-

ing school and career advice. Our

youngest boy, Frederic, will be enrolling

at the University of Florida in the Hon-

ors College this fall. Middle son David

has Down syndrome and has been flour-

ishing at his special-ed school. He has

just begun his first paying job. Our chal-

lenge over the next two or three years will

be to find the best independent-living sit-

uation tor him. Speaking of independent

living, we've started enjoying the pleas-

ures of child-free travel, most recently to

Barcelona. Our most exotic trip, though,

was three years ago with kids in tow to

nearby Havana. There are many legal

ways to go, including through a group

called Jewish Solidarity, and I strongly

recommend the trip.

"

1977Fred Berg

150 East 83rd Street, #2CNew York, NY 10028

1977notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Michael Angelo Castellana

San Diego

Castellana, MFA'78, has developed an

intensive group psychotherapy model for

active-duty Marines with combat stress

from the Iraq War. His model has been

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lotes

approved for use throughout the Marine

Corps. He recently presented it at the

Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry

Point, North Carohna, to mental health

professionals serving on the East Coast

who treat returning combat veterans for

post-traumatic stress disorder. He is

currently working with Marine Corps

Iraq War veterans at Camp Pendleton,

north of San Diego.

SIv (Idestrom-Kelman) Rapuano

Madison, Connecticut

Rapuano had her first book, An

Intercessor's Tribute to Israel, published

by AuthorHouse this year. Visit

<www.authorhouse.com> for more

information.

1978Valerie Troyansky

10 West 66th Street, #8J

New York, NY 10023

1978notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Steffi Aronson Karp

Waban, Massachusetts

Karp led the creation of two collabora-

tive quilt projects as part of the month-

long Faith Quilts exhibit in Boston.

For Inspirational Jewish Women, more

than seventy squates honoring Jewish

women were incorporated into a four-

teen-foot-wide installation for the

Brandeis Women's Studies Research Cen-

ter 2004/5766 Sukkot event. She also

led the creation of a thirteen-toot art

quilt for Flat Chayyim, the Jewish

Retreat Center. Karp is a recent graduate

of Flat Chayyim's Davenen Leadership

Training Institute.

1979Ruth Strauss Fleischmann

8 Angler Road

Lexington, MA 02420

1979notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Kate Dunn

Brooklyn, New York

Dunn has been teaching French at the

Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope,

Brooklyn, since 1988. She has a "great"

14-year-old daughter and lives with her

partnet, Allie, in the South Slope. She

wishes all the best to her classmates.

Rebecca Leong

Wayland, Massachusetts

Leong writes, "I'm still in the Boston

area, married with two kids (who swim

at Brandeis), and work as an

anesthesiologist at Mass. Eye and Ear."

Stephen Rubin

North Miami Beach, Florida

Rubin writes, "My son, Yoni, who is

now 22, enlisted in the Israeli army five

months ago. He has one more month of

advanced training and will then spend

two yeats of regular service in Givati.

My daughter, Racheli, will be graduating

high school this year and will follow in

her brother's footsteps. She will spend

next year on a program called Shalem in

Israel and will then either enlist in the

atmy or do national service. My oldest

stepson, Ben Becker, has enlisted in the

Army and will be off to Fort Knox for

four months of basic training. He's 18

years old. Akiva and Shira Becker, myother two stepchildren, will be keeping

us company for several more years. Mybeautiful wife, Karen, is a paralegal in a

very successful law office. I'm a financial

consultant tor an administrator of

eighteen nursing homes and am looking

into forming a new business with several

friends. Regards to all."

1980Lewis Brooks

585 Glen Meadow Road

Richboro, PA 18954

1980notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Florice Orea Hoffman

Orange, California

Hoffman is the Democratic candidate

tor Congress in the 40th Congressional

District of California. She seeks to

unseat seven-term Republican Ed Royce.

1981David J. Alien

540 Weadley Road

Wayne, PA 19087

1981notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Laura Dow Vincent

Mill Valley, California

Vincent tecently passed a national exam

for personal ttaining and is employed as

a certified personal trainer at the Jewish

Community Center in San Rafael and

Elan Health Club for Women in San

Anselmo. Additionally, she teaches

several group exercise classes at Bay Club

Marin and at Stage Door, a dance studio

in Sausalito. She is still active in the

music world, teaching flute and coaching

the flute section at Petaluma High

School. Vincent moved to the Bay Area

in 2004 and is enjoying her California

lifestyle immensely.

1982Ellen Cohen

1007 Euclid Street, #3Santa Monica, CA 90403

1982notes@alumnl.brandels.edu

Pamela Schelnman

Newton, Massachusetts

Scheinman was elected to the board of

directors of the American Contact Der-

matitis Society for a three-year term.

Andrew Shalat

Rolling Hills Estate, California

Shalat's book Mac Design Out ofthe Box

(Peachpit) hit the shelves in January. He is

working on uvo other design-based books.

Patrick Raymond Vaughan

Las Vegas

Vaughan writes, "After working in Asia

for fourteen years as a creative director

and producer for News Corporation and

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Doing Well While Doing GoodOn Hollywood's biggest night of the year,

Caroline Baron '83 was center stage.

Capote, the movie Baron produced, was

nominated for five Academy Awards,

including best picture. Although Crash

won out for top motion picture, Capote

star Philip Seymour Hoffman took home

best actor honors and thanked Baron

during his acceptance speech.

"It was incredibly gratifying, humbling,

and shocking—all at the same time,"

Baron said of her first Academy Award

nomination. "It is the quintessential

acknowledgment of your work."

Baron, the producer or coproducer of

more than a dozen films, including the

award-winning Monsoon Wedding, has

established a reputation for making pic-

tures that not only score well at the box

office but resonate with movie-goers

searching for something beyond simple

entertainment as well.

"I'm interested in making movies with a

social conscience, " Baron said. "We have a

huge opportunity to communicate impor-

tant information—whether it's through

laughter, romance, or drama—through

movies.

"

In 1999, after listening to a radio report

about the perpetual boredom facing

refugees in Kosovo, Baron founded FilmAid

International. With backing from Robert

DcNiro and others in the entertainment

worid, FilmAid coordinates movie screen-

ings in refugee camps, trains refugee staff to

produce films, and offers video production

workshops for refiagee youth.

"Because I have traveled so much, I feel

like a citizen of the world, and I was very

distraught about what was happening,"

she said. "I wanted desperately to figure

out a way to help."

At Brandeis, Baron majored in English

and played for the women's tennis team.

She enjoyed the filmmaking course she

took, but didn't think a career in the

movies was realistic.

Shortly after graduation, she volun-

teered to work on the low-budget film

Toxic Avenger, which was shooting in her

native New York. It developed into a

$175-a-week job—and Baron had found

her calling.

She eventually connected with movie

producer Jeff Silver '77 and moved to Los

Angeles in 1985 to work with him. She

returned to New York in 1997.

Baron and her husband, Anthony

Weintraub, have two young sons, Asher,

2, and Emmanuel, born in February.

The couple recently established A-Linc

Pictures and are at work on several proj-

ects. The production company name

comes from the melding of their two first

names and also their philosophy on pro-

ducing movies. "To make a film," she said,

"all the stars have to be aligned."

—David E. Nathan

Sony Pictures Television International, I

have returned to the United States. Mywile and I are living in Las Vegas, though

1 split my time between Vegas and Los

Angeles as a television producer."

1983Lorl Berman Gans

46 Oak Vale Road

Newton, MA 02468

1983notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Michael Araiz

New York Ciry

Araiz writes, "Running a hedge-fund and

financial-advisory firm, I get to see many

resumes and applicants. It's great to see

that Brandeis graduates consistently

prove to be the top candidates."

Joseph Eviatar

New York City

Eviatar, surgeon director of Chelsea Eye

and Cosmetic Surgery Associates in

Manhattan, and his partner, Eric

Johnson, an attorney for intellectual

property rights, celebrated their tenth

anniversary in the spring.

1984Class of 1984

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1984notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

1985James R. Felton

26956 Helmond Drive

Calabasas, CA 91301

1985notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Seth Grae

McLean, Virginia

Grae has assumed the positions of pres-

ident, chief executive officer, interim

chief financial officer, and interim

treasurer pursuant to terms of the

recently executed definitive merger

agreement between Novastar Resources

and Thorium Power, Inc. In this

capacity, he is responsible tor

appointing new management-team

members and running the day-to-day

operations ot Novastar Resources. Grae

is president, chief executive officer, and

a director ofThorium Power.

1986Beth Jacobowitz Zive

16 Furlong Drive

Cherry Hill, NJ 080031986notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Lawrence and Deborah

(Postelnek) Freedman

Pittsburgh

After ten years living in Pittsburgh, the

Freedmans are moving to Newton,

Massachusetts. Larry will serve as

educator for Temple Emanuel. Deborah

is completing a master's in education

and looks forward to beginning her

career as a teacher.

Todd Goldstein

Stoneham, Massachusetts

Goldstein is working for Stoneham

Savings Bank as vice president, senior

marketing officer.

Lois Friedman RomanHaworth, New Jersey

Roman is the midcap equity portfolio

manager at Bessemer Trust in New York

City. She lives with her two children,

Danielle, 8, and Elliot, 7. She would

love to hear from old friends.

Ronni Rothman

Philadelphia

Rothman has been a certified nurse

midwife for more than ten years and has

recently become the owner ot her own

practice, Woman Wise Midwife. She

lives with her husband and two sons,

Isaac and Emmett.

Bramlfis ljni\ersily Magazine I Sitiiiiii

Not the Retiring Sort

After selling the kitchen-table start-up he

transformed into a thriving, 100-employee

business, Stuart Lewtan "84 plans to take a

year oft. His wife, Lisa, knows better.

"I give him a tew months," she says with

a laugh.

For now, the hard-driving Lewtan is spend-

ing time doing some of the things he could

not do while building Waltham-based Lew-

tan Technologies into a worldwide leader in

the asset-based securitization industry— va-

cationing with his family in the Galapagos

Islands, heli-skiing in Nevada, climbing

mountains in Wyoming, and trying to im-

prove his golfgame. He has also become more

involved with Brandeis's International

Business School, serving as chair ofdean Peter

Petri's Global Business Council.

Lewtan devotes two hours a day to ex-

ploring new business opportunities,

searching for a venture that will quench his

entrepreneurial thirst for creating something

out of nothing.

"Most people freeze up when they see a

blank canvas, " says Lewtan, the son ot an

entrepreneur. "I'm different from a lot ot

people in that I like going from concept to

execution. I've always excelled at that."

No one who knew Lewtan at Brandeis is

surprised by either his career path or his suc-

cess. The general science major and two

friends founded a jellybean business—jelly-

bean lover Ronald Reagan was president at

the time—and sold the candies at the Usdan

Student Center and at a store they opened

on Cape Cod one summer.

"He was not interested in just being a

student," Lisa says. "You always knew he

would go somewhere, you just didn't know

where. He always had big dreams."

Both Lewtan and his sister, Susan Lang-

berg, met their spouses at Brandeis. Susan

and her husband, Glenn, a Brandeis trustee,

both graduated in 1982. Lisa's mother is

also a Brandeisian.

After graduation, Lewtan worked at Bank

of Boston for a year and a halt. On April 1

,

1986, armed with an idea to automate the

process of producing investor reports tor

the securitization industry, he founded

Lewtan Technologies.

Working .ilongsidc his wife, who handled

financial, legal, marketing, and sales duties,

Lewtan set out to build a business. There

were difficult times—he once dipped into

their wedding savings to meet payroll—but

he persevered.

"Once you get on the treadmill and you're

as focused and driven as I am, it's impossible

to get oft," he says. "I never thought ofgiving

up. You feel you will find a way to get it done."

—David E. Nathan

illOlC'

1987Vanessa B. Newman153 East 57th Street, #2GNew York, NY 10022

1987notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Karen (Weinberg) Drogin

West Harrison, New Yori<

Drogin and iiusband Phillip are busy

with their two girls, ages 14 and 10.

Phillip owns C-Town Supermarket in

Astoria, New York, and is an avid golfer

and club champ. Karen is also known as

Carly Phillips, a New York Times best-

selling author of more than rwenry

novels. This summer she has three

releases: Hot hem (June), Cross My Heart

(August), a hardcover, and Summer

Lovin ' (August)

.

1988Class of 1988

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1988notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Martin Abeshaus

Burlington, Massachusetts

Abeshaus writes, "I ran the Boston

Marathon route to help raise funds for

our synagogue, which is in dire need of

repair. I hadn't run since high school,

but I wanted to give back to the temple

that has given .so much to others. Our

rabbi, Susan Abramson 76, also ran in

the race. Check out our Web site at

<www.marathonmartin.com>."

Mari Cartagenova

Westford, Massachusetts

Cartagenova and her husband, Joseph

Zahavi, are pleased to announce the birth

of their third child, Eli Re'ah Cartagenova

Zahavi. He was named after his paternal

grandfather, Arich Zahavi, and maternal

grandparents, Ralph and Shirley Rose.

The entire family is happy and doing well.

Big brother Gavi and big sister Mimi have

been big helpers with "their baby."

Alan Reinach

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

See Dana Beth Perlman '89.

Risa Vine

Trumbull, Connecticut

Vine writes, "I am living in Connecticut

with my husband, David, whom 1 met

at a Brandeis vs. Emory basketball game.

We have three children. Matt, 1 1,

Alyssa, 8, and Ross, 1 . We are very active

in our local Jewish community. We regu-

larly see other Brandeis graduates and

attendees, including Lisa (Schulman)

Safian, Michael Safian, Marni Smith

Katz '90, Stuart Katz '89, and David

Ball. It was nice to see that former

classmates Barbara (Goldblatt)

Goodman and Dana (Wayne) Gonzales

'89 are active in the Massachusetts

lewish community on the North Shore!"

1989Class of 1989

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1989notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Steven Horn

Roslyn, New York

Horn joined UBS Investment Bank in

2005. He is an executive director and

specializes in developing electronic

trading systems. His wife, Deborah

Haleman Horn '91, is a stay-at-home

mom with their two young sons.

Dana Beth Perlman

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Perlman is a midwife. She teaches nursing

students and sees antepartum patients in a

northeast Philadelphia health clinic. Her

husband, Alan Reinach '88, remains in

practice in pulmonary and critical care.

She reports that their two children,

Henry, 8, and Jessica, 4, are fijil of energy,

art, and music.

1990Judith Libhaber Webe4 Augusta Court

New/ City, NY 10956

1990notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hi, 1990 classmates! I hope you are all

enjoying the warm summer weather.

Aron and I took our daughters,

Jocelyn, 7, and Faith, 3, to Florida for

a Disney World vacation during the

February school break. We had a blast!

It was wonderful being able to cele-

brate our younger daughters birthday

with the princesses in Cinderella's

castle! We look forward to going horse-

back riding at a dude ranch again this

summer (three summers in a row).

Please send me a note to let all our

classmates know what has been going

on with you. Looking forward to

hearing from you. Keep in touch.

Michele Becker-Hamou

East Setauket, New York

Becker-Hamou would like to announce

the birth of her third daughter, Eliana

Rose. After a six-month maternity leave,

Becker-Hamou joined a new internal

medicine practice. She went back to

work part time in order to have more

time with her daughters. Samara, Kiley,

and baby Eliana.

Julie Fisher

Washington, D.C.

Fisher received a special Chai Leader-

ship Award from the Jewish Primary

Day School ot the Nation's Capital, cel-

ebrating her many accomplishments

and contributions over the last thirteen

years as a first-grade teacher and, more

recently, as director ot curriculum and

student services.

Alex Paley

Wayne, New Jersey

Paley writes, "My wife, Beth (Gordon)

'91, and our 9-year-old twins, Hannah

and David, are still happily living in

Wayne. In May 2001 , I joined the team of

Cypress Health Care Management as vice

president of strategic operations, and in

Siininirr 00 I Br;iinli*is rnixcrsilx Ma; 91

September 2004 became chief operating

officer. ^X'ith approximately seven thou-

sand employees and with its corporate

ofiFice in White Plains, New York, Cypress

Health Care Management owns and

operates forty skilled-nursing facilities

throughout Florida, Georgia, Texas, and

Louisiana. Beuveen the twins and flying

around the country all too often, I don't

get up to Boston as much as I'd like, but

would love to come up and say hello to

everyone at Brandeis soon!"

Mellnda Panken

Manalapan, New Jersey

Panken married Glenn Steven Cohen on

Sunday, April 2, in a beautiful ceremony

at the Tappan Hill Mansion in Tarrytown,

New York. Many of their Brandeis friends

celebrated with them, including Hope

Berger Levav, Julie Fisher, Daniel

Shapiro '91, Julie Smith-Bartoloni,

Elise Golden, and Andy Vogel.

Alyson Tarr Popper

Medfield, Massachusetts

Popper writes, "I just had another baby

boy, Brandon Luke, born February 23.

Shortly before his birth, 1 attended a

Judges basketball game with my husband,

Jeff, and son, Isaac. My son was thrilled

to meet OIlie the Owl in person, and 1

was happy to spend time with classmate

Steve Levlne and his wife, Sara (Pollak)

Levine '92, and children. I will soon

return to work at Morgan Stanley as an

associate vice president/certified financial

planner. 1 manage money for individual

clients and run 401k plans for corpora-

tions. In the interim, while I spend some

time at home with the baby, my clients

are in good hands with my business part-

ner, Jay Gordon '87."

1991Andrea C. Kramer

PO Box 5496

Takoma Park, MD 20913-5496

1991notes@alunini.brandeis.edu

I hope that many of you were able to

enjoy our 15th Reunion in June! To keep

one another updated between such

events, please remember to submit news

about yourself for publication right here.

Andrea C. Kramer and

Kenneth H. WongTakoma Park, Maryland

Kramer graduated from Washington

Theological Union in May with a master

of diviniry degree. She and Wong will

continue to live in the Washington, D.C.,

area for at least another year while they

adjust to life as new parents to their son,

Simon Patrick, who was born in April.

Wong will continue his research work as

an assistant professor of radiology at

Georgetown University Medical Center

while Kramer seeks part-time work in

ministry for the Catholic Church.

Gwen Leifer

Forest Hills, New York

Leifer welcomed a son, Malachi, on

December 25, 2005, the first night of

Chanukah and Christmas Day. Leifer

and Arthur Nunes are walking-distance

neighbors and attend the same religious

congregation.

Amanda Luell

Seattle

Luell received her doctor of veterinary

medicine degree from Washington State

University in May and plans to practice

as an equine-only or mixed-animal vet in

the Pacific Northwest. She will be mar-

ried in August in Oregon.

Beth (Gordon) Paley

'OC'ayne, New Jersey

See Alex Paley '90.

Julian Zelizer

Brookline, Massachusetts

Zelizer, a professor of history at Boston

University, was one of four arts and

sciences faculty members to win fellow-

ships from the John Simon Guggenheim

Memorial Foundation. He was chosen

for his work National Security Politics

from the Cold War to the War on Terror-

ism. Guggenheim fellows are appointed

on the basis of unusually impressive past

achievement and exceptional promise for

future accomplishments.

1992Lisa Davidson Fiore

34 Van Ness Road

Belmont, MA 02478

1992notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello, classmates! I was looking for a

travel mug this morning (since I

recently threw out my old, cracked,

super-sleek one) and found my"Students for Environmental Action"

mug that 1 received at Brandeis. My2-year-old daughter asked, "Tea,

Mommy?" As 1 answered her, it occurred

to me that I've had that mug for about

fifteen years! Kind of scary. No need for

a caffeine jolt after that realization. But

seriously, it made me think about how

quickly time flies, and how some things

do indeed last, such as (cue corny theme

music) strong friendships. I haven't heard

from many people since the last issue of

the Brandeis University Magazine and amagain putting out a request to send me a

brief update about what you've been

doing lately. I actually made some cold

calls, trying to reach people and ask for a

blurb or rwo. I got two recordings saying

that numbers had been disconnected or

changed, interrupted one alum's family

leaving to celebrate a holiday, left rwo

messages, and debated calling several

people—but chickened out. While I was

looking through our class list, 1 was seri-

ously impressed with the array of jobs

people hold, the fields in which we are

currently involved and committed, and

the countries some of us are living in.

For purely selfish reasons, I would love

to learn more, as I suspect many others

would also. My son is now pott)' trained.

I have a book coming out in August

called The Safe Child Handbook, which is

geared toward parents, teachers, and

caregivers in general who worry about

raising children in our sometimes wacky

world. I have become director of the

Early Childhood Education Program at

Lesley University. In a nutshell, life is

good, busy, and mostly fulfilling, except

for meetings that make me want to bang

my head against a wall.

Brandeis Liiivcrsitv Masazine I Suiiiiner 00

Fencer Makes Good,

As a child, Roberta Brown '87 was mesmer-

ized by stories about knights, warriors, and

other action-adventure characters. Although

most stories revolved around a hero and not a

heroine, she identified with them nonetheless.

While studying at Brandeis, the theater

arts major wielded her first sword under the

tutelage of fencing coach Bill Shipman.

However, she realized her true talent when

she enrolled in the first stage-combat class

offered by the university.

"The theatrical application of fencing is

a really exciting form of storytelling," Brown

said. "In sport fencing, you have to keep

movements small to protect yourself, but

in the performing arts the movements can

be big, bold, and juicy.

"

Brown, 41, is now showing off—and

teaching others—those moves as the direc-

tor of theatrical combat at the Beverly Hills

Fencers' Club in California.

The five-foot-five fight choreographer's

list of theater, television, and film credits is

extensive. She has trained actors like Patri-

cia Arquette, Bo Derek, Noah Wylc, Billy

Campbell, and Goran Visnjic, and choreo-

graphed fights for the historical epic Warrinr

Queen, Queen ofSwords, Disney's adapta-

tion of Louis Sachar's book Holes, and

episodes of £./?. and The District.

Brown moved to Los Angeles in 199.3

with hopes of making the move from the-

ater actress to film actress. Previouslv, she

Neighbor

studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of

Dramatic Art in London, where she appren-

ticed under local swordmasters and became

a member of the Society of British Fight

Directors. She also mastered other tools like

the bullwhip and the Chinese fighting fan.

In Los Angeles, she landed a "day job"

teaching theatrical swordplay and fencing

at the renowned Westside Fencing Center.

But she soon discovered that the sword jobs

outnumbered callbacks tor acting jobs.

While many other fight choreographers

come from a stunt background. Brown's

experience as an actor has strongly influ-

enced her style.

"People often ask me if swordplay is like

dancing, and the truth is I'm just not a good

dancer," said Brown. "For me it is like act-

ing. I'm telling a story and every move is

like a line in the script. Every move has

meaning."

When she was hired as swordmaster tor

Charlie's Angels, she also flilfilled an adolescent

fantasy—becoming an angel herself as Lucy

Liu's stunt double. As the only female sword-

master in Hollywood, she would like to see

more women warriors on the silver screen.

"Hollywood is a little shy of female-

driven epics. It seems to be a harder formu-

la to pin down, " Brown said. "But there are

so many stories of historical women that I

would love to see told."

—Carrie Simmons

Greg Bland

Rock\'ilIe, Maryland

Bland, a practicing attorney in the Greater

Wishington, D.C., area, started Things to

Do DC <www.thingstodoDC.com>, a

social and networking group for young

professionals with more than 100,000

members. He has hosted events such as

New Year's Eve galas, wine tastings,

sporting events, cultural events in more

than sixty embassies, tours, seminars, over-

seas trips, and more. With the help of

some Brandeis alumni, he has begun the

process of exp,inding to other cities. Bland

is happily married and enjoys spending

lots of time with his wife and family.

Mark Covitz

Hilton Head, South Carolina

Covitz is the senior rabbi on Hilton Head

Island. He and his wife, Stacy, recently

welcomed their fourth daughter, Ariel

Oden.

Vanessa Cahn Gorelkin

New York Cxxy

Gorelkin writes, "I'm happily married. Wehave an adorable son, Jordan, born in July

2004. I am the assistant vice president of

medical staff administration for Cabrini

Medical Center in New York City.

'

Jennifer Kahn and Mark Ralzin

North Andover, Massachusetts

Kahn and Raizin moved back from

Chicago to North Andover in October

2004. Raizin is an internist practicing in

Peabody and teaches history-taking and

physical diagnosis to first-year Harvard

medical students. Kahn is a pediatrician

working part time in Beverly. They have

a 3 1/2-year-old, Michael, and 6-month-

old twins, Owen and Naomi. They

would love to hear from old friends at

<jennyLkahn@yahoo.com> or

<mraizin@yahoo.com>.

class notes alumniprofile Mark 80 andLisa '90 Solomon

1993Joshua Blumenthal

467 Valley Street, #6-G

Maplewood, NJ 07040

1993notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Glenn Dynner

Bronx, New Yori'C

Dynner, PhD'02, had his first book,

Men ofSilk: The Hasidic Conquest of

Polish Jewish Society, pubHshed by

Oxford University Press.

Rachel Kronick Rothbart

Los Angeles

Rothbart writes, "My husband, James, and

I are raising an amazing 3-year-oid,

Hayley Corrie Rothbart '92 is a proud

and doting aunt to Hayley. When not

doting, Corrie is the chief operating officer

of Bauer-Martinez Entertainment.

Professionally, I continue to work as a

public-interest attorney in the field of

family law and domestic violence

protection. This year, I was named a

Southern California super lawyer."

Lisa (Raisner) Schwarzwald

Austin, Texas

Schwarzwald recently celebrated five years

as the director of continuing professional

education at St. Edward's University in

Austin. She also recendy completed a year

of service as the president of the Texas

Association of Community Service and

Continuing Education and has been

appointed to serve as the next executive

director of the association. On the home

front, Schwarzwald, her husband, Sam,

and son, Zachary, welcomed their newest

family member, Spencer Eli, in March.

Schwarzwald writes, "We know we live far

from our Boston friends, and we welcome

visitors anytime."

Aaron See

Tokyo, Japan

See Allyson See '94.

Deborah Shufrin

Boston

Shufrin was promoted from chief of staff

to director of the Massachusetts Depart-

Biaiuieis l:iii\ftsin* Ma^aziiu' I Suiiiiiht Dii

Time Really Is MoneyThey say time is money. That's certainly true

for many attorneys, as Mark Solomon '80

and Lisa Solomon '90 can attest.

But for the husband-and-wife Brandeis

alums, time is also business, or rather, a busi-

ness. The Solomons have created timepieces

for their fellow attorneys, watches and desk

clocks that track time in six-minute incre-

ments—the same way lawyers typically bill

clients for their time.

Called the Billable Hour, their company

offers two watch styles—with a black leather

band or a gold-tone band—and two desk

clock models. The timepieces are sold

exclusively through the Web site

<www.TheBillableHour.com>.

"The reaction has been overwhelmingly

positive," says Lisa. The two have applied

for a design patent for their timepieces,

which are stored and shipped out of North

Carolina. Their company headquarters is

their home office in Ardsley, N.Y.

The idea for the timepieces came up

during a conversation about, not surpris-

ingly, work.

"Billing is a huge preoccupation of

lawyers," Mark says. "It's a topic of conver-

sation everywhere they gather."

Mark spends his billable hours as a trial

attorney for an insurance defense firm, while

Lisa runs her own practice providing legal

research and writing services to other

lawyers, including preparing and arguing

appeals and drafting substantive motions

and trial memoranda. Previously she was an

associate for the New York Cir\' law firm

Wohl & Entwistle, where she drafted doc-

uments for all phases of civil litigation. She

has also written for and been featured in

national publications including the ABAJournal and the National Law Journal.

It didn't take much, uh, time for the two

attorneys to know they would get married.

The couple met at a Brandeis gathering at

another alum's apartment in New York in

1994, got engaged four months later, and

married in 1995.

At Brandeis, Mark majored in politics,

Lisa in history and psychology. He played

guitar in bands and studied electronic music

composition with Harold Shapero.

Music is still his passion. He has performed

flamenco guitar, is a violinist in a klezmer

band, and is writing music for a string quar-

tet. Just don't ask him where he finds the time.

—Dennis Nealon, MA'95

•laClassnotes

ment of Business and Technologj-, the

state agenc\' that works to promote

economic growth in Massachusetts. In this

position, she manages more than fifty-five

people and a budget of $30 million.

Monique Spalding

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

Spalding writes, "I received a direct com-

mission from the president of the United

States in the Army Reserve as a chemical

officer. I graduated from the ArmyChemical Officer Basic Course in April."

1994Sandy Kirschen Solof

28 Francis Street

Avon, CT 06001

1994notes@alumni.brandels.edu

Anupma Jain

Manila, Philippines

Jain received a PhD in social polic}' from

the London School of Economics and

Political Science (LSE) in a graduation

ceremony held in London last December,

Since graduating from Brandeis, she has

been working in international economic

development. For her doctorate, Jain con-

ducted field research in Gujarat, India,

where she examined the effects oi a con-

troversial dam being built in the Narmada

Valley on the livelihoods of tribal people

who relocated because of the project. She

wrote a thesis titled Resettlement in the

Ncwmadii Valley: Participation, Gender and

Sustainable Livelihoods. She holds a

master of science in development studies

from LSE and is working as a social-

sector specialist at the Asian Development

Bank in Manila.

Carolyn (Adelman) London

New York City

London writes, "Lm married to a cool

guy named Andy London and live in

Harlem. After working in advertising for

years as a writer and commercial director,

Andy and I started our own production

company called London Squared Produc-

tions (There's two Londons. Hence,

London Squared). We make animated.

live-action, and mixed-media short films,

commercials, music videos, and crazy

stuff for mobile phones. Our most recent

short film, The Backbrace. won a bunch

of awards and was shown in the Tribeca

Film Festival in April and at the Film

Forum in May. We just finished shooting

a quasidocumentary short called 3 Words

About New York that has piqued the

interest of some folks at This American

Life, so . . . fingers and toes crossed, OK?Also, ril be putting my nifry theater edu-

cation to use next year teaching a class on

screenwriting and storytelling structure to

second-year animation students at the

Pratt Institute. Check out out Web site at

<\vww.londonsquared.net>, and drop

us a line."

Allyson See

Tokyo, Japan

See and her husband, Aaron '93, have

been living in Tokyo for the last two and

a half years with their three children.

Aaron works for Johnson & Johnson in

Japan, and Allyson works at several inter-

national schools teaching elementary-

school children. They are headed back to

the United States this summer.

Elyse Wasch

Washington, D.C.

After nine years as a legislative assistant

focused on education policy for U.S.

senator Jack Reed (D-R.L), Wasch was

promoted to legislative director. In

November, she married Ben Goldberg;

Colleen Ryan Smith was matron of

honor. Other Brandeisians in attendance

were Jason Hoffman, Shulamit Lewin,

and Daniel Lobovits '75.

1995Suzanne Lavin

154 W. 70th Street, Apt. lOJ

New York, NY 10023

1995notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Marc Berliner

Wesrwood, Massachusetts

Berliner was promoted to group director

of the consumer practice at Schneider

Associates, a Boston-based public

relations firm specializing in launch

marketing. As group director, Berliner

oversees program development and man-

ages Schneider Associates" growing roster

of consumer clients, including Baskin-

Robbins, Hannaford Supermarkets, John

Wm. Macy's CheeseSticks, and d-Con.

Hannah (Sacks) Bookbinder

Narberth, Pennsylvania

Bookbinder writes, "Just wanted to say

hello to everyone. Mark '96 and 1 are

new parents to Zachary Noah, born

June 21, 2005. Big brother Evan, 3 1/2,

is busy directing packing as we prepare

to move to our new home in Penn Val-

ley. My private practice as a learning

specialist and therapist is booming, and

Mark's financial planning practice,

MDB Associates, keeps him busy."

Deborah Rabitz

Brookline, Massachusetts

Rabitz married Jeffrey Buchbinder on

November 12, 2005, at the Hyatt

Regency in Cambridge. Fellow alumni in

attendance were Jennifer Neuman '92.

Sherri Geller '92, Steven Rabitz '92,

Sherri Culp, Jennifer Newburg '93,

Lori Megan Gannon Prettyman,

Vanessa Khedouri, Eddie Bruckner

'96, Roii Raz '96, Galit Naor Raz '96,

Jackie Hochhauser Berger, Tamara

Wainer, Peter Hartog '92, Jenny

Jacobs Berk, and Barry Berk. Rabitz

works as a human resources generalist at

Marsh & McLennan in Boston.

Buchbinder works as an equity research

analyst for LPL Financial Services in

Boston. The couple are happy they

finished writing their thank-you notes

and live happily in Brookline.

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class! lotes

1996Janet J. Lipmannt

c/o Midreshet Rachel

PO Box 3151

Jerusalem 96343, Israel

or

Class of 1996

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1996notes(a)alumni.brandeis.edu

Mark Bookbinder

Narberth, Pennsylvania

See Hannah (Sacks) Bookbinder '95.

Edward Bruckner

Needham, Massachusetts

Bruckner's painting Mosaic Color Grid

was selected for the ninth annual Prize

Show for the Cambridge Art Associa-

tion. This is a national exhibition juried

by Cheryl Brurvan, the Beal Curator of

Contemporary Art at the Museum of

Fine Arts, Boston.

Avi Israeli

Long Branch, New Jersey

Israeli married Deborah Fertig on

October 21, 2004, at the Crystal Plaza

in Livingston, New Jersey. In attendance

were his best friend, Brian Ferber, as an

usher; Sharon Ferber '97; Ofir Baruk,

as an usher; and Neita Green '97,

among many other close family and

friends. Israeli and Deborah welcomed

their first son, Reuvi Asher, on

October 14. His bris was on the couple's

first wedding anniversary; a month later,

Reuvi was honored with z pidyon haben,

a Jewish ceremony that recognizes the

firstborn male child. Israeli works as a

dentist at two practices in central NewJersey and has achieved a specialty cer-

tificate in esthetic dentistry, a select

honor for less than 1 percent of dental

professionals.

Abigail Lawrence-Jacobson

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lawrence-Jacobson received a PhD in

social work and sociology from the

ulei^ L'liivorsitv Magazine I Suiiinirr "()()

birtlis adoptions

classJioles

welcomed their first child, Jordan

William, this year.

Nicholas Rosenberg

Manhattan, New Yotk

Rosenberg and Jennifer Abrams Trager

married in New York on April 9.

Rosenberg is a second-year student at

Fordham Law School. Trager is a

publicist for New Line Cinema. The

groom's father, Michael Rosenberg 72,

received a master's degree from the

Hornstein program, and the groom's sec-

ond cousin, Aaron Rosenberg '09,

recently completed his freshman year. Ahalf dozen family members are proud

Brandeis graduates or current students.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin

Los Angeles

Tsalolikhin writes, "I recently started a

new job as a Unix system administrator

at Deluxe Labs, a premier film-

processing house in Hollywood. Prior to

that, I worked at EarthLink for seven

years as a system administrator, helping

build out EarthLink's Web hosting and

Web portal product lines. I got my start

in computers at the Feldberg Computing

Services Center at Brandeis.

"

Gela Wax

Medford, Massachusetts

Wax married Shal Fuxman '99 on

July 17, 2005, at St. Clements Castle in

Connecticut. Alumni in the bridal

parry included Yair Fuxman '06,

Carmit Delman, Elina Goman-Baskin,

and the maid ot honor, Regina

Volynsky-Welsel. Alumni in attendance

included Alicia Kohanski '99, Danielle

Snyderman '98, Jocelyn Segal '05,

and Matthew Kllngsberg '95. The

celebration continued in Israel in

Kibbutz Einat on July 22, 2005, with

Eric Danis '99 and Ellsa Helman '96

in attendance. Wax is a speech-language

pathologist in the Boston area, and

Fuxman is working on his doctorate in

education at Harvard.

1998Alexis Hirst

502 East 79th Street, #5DNew York, NY 10021

1998notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Eric Chee

Penang, Malaysia

Chee is the assistant portfolio manager at

Eiger Capital Ltd., a London-based

investment-management firm

specializing in structured credit products.

In addition, he oversees the firm's global

credit market strategy and analysis.

Geoffrey Grove

Boston

Grove married Hilar)' Kaiser on

October 16, 2004, at the Pierre Hotel in

New York City. Some Brandeisians in the

wedding party were Adam Kauffman,

Brian MacFarland, Eric Pressman,

George Megaloudis, Ira Selig, and

Rafael Blumenthal '97 Other alumni in

attendance were Amanda (Metter)

Pressman, Laura (Schram) King, and

Amanda Mayer '97. Kaiser works in

private equity, and Grove has been

working with his father, expanding their

business, for the past five years.

1999David Nurenberg

20 Moore Street, #3

Somerville, MA 02144

1999notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

When four years seemed like an eternity

back at "Deis, 1 could not have imagined

that I could "hiccup" and miss almost two

years now on the magazine! My humblest

apologies for my absence and the conse-

quent "slip" in class notes. Rest assured

that I am back, I have saved all your old

e-mails, and now report on some belated

good news from our old friends. As I t)'pe

these notes, the Boston Marathon is run-

ning down the streets not too far from

where I live in Somerville. My lile has cer-

tainlv been busv! I married a wonderful

woman. Liana Tuller, on July 18, 2004.

Alumni in attendance included Greg

Golstov, Anna (Margulis) Bradley,

Stacey Winkler, Jodi Eichler '00, Mac-

cabbee Levine '00, and Jennifer Home'01. Liana and I are both teachers, both

writers, and both still trying to save the

world. She's finishing up her master of

public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School

of Government while simultaneously

teaching at Charlestown High in inner-

city Boston. Tm wrapping up my sixth

year teaching English at Concord-Carlisle

High School. Come September, III also

begin a part-time PhD in educational

studies at Lesley University. Oh, and if

you havent heard already, you should

check out my first novel. The Fragile

Light, which you can purchase at

<www.fragilelight.com>. If I missed

anyone or anything, please e-mail me

again, and 111 make sure your news lands

in the next issue of Brandeis University

Magazine. In the meantime, keep

watching these pages, because the "99 class

notes are back!

Sarah Berger

Somerville, Massachusetts

Berger married Peter Laybourn on the

Amalfi coast of Italy in August 2003.

Peter is a lawyer from Copenhagen,

Denmark. The two met in Hong Kong

one summer while studying abroad in

law school. Peter graduated from Copen-

hagen University Law School, and Sarah

from Duke Law School. She hopes all

her friends are doing well.

Brenda Bokenyi

Tarrytown, New York

Bokenyi writes, "1 am teaching second

grade in Larchmont, New York. I'm sure

this will be changing soon, though. I am

training for my second marathon and

continue to spend my free time outdoors,

writing or doodling in my sketchbook."

Anna (Margulis) Bradley

Waltham, Massachusetts

Bradley continues to work in the tech-

nology field in downtown Boston.

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Alumni

Miriam F. (Feingold) d'Amato '54

Winthrop, Massachusetts

Ms. d'Amato, formerly of Revere, died

suddenly on April 23. Wife of the late

Albert C, she is survived by a son,

Julian C. Lander of Medford; a

daughter, Alison of Winthrop; a

brother, Mark Feingold of Marblehead;

and many other relatives.

Philip Goldstein '54

Scottsdale, Arizona

Mr. Goldstein, a retired attorney and

member of the Brandeis Athletic Hall of

Fame, died April 15 at the age of 75.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he

attended Brandeis on scholarship, where

he excelled in and out of the classroom.

He played in every varsity football game

while at Brandeis and was inducted into

the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

After graduating from the Universiry

of Chicago Law School, he pracriced

briefly in New York before moving to

Phoenix. He eventually founded his own

litigation boutique practice, with which

he was associated for more than three

decades.

He leaves a brother, Lewis; two sons,

Stuart P. and Jeffery B.; and four

granddaughters.

Lois A. (Lavine) Greenberg '58

Framingham, Massachusetts

Ms. Greenberg died December 16,

2005. She leaves her husband, Harold,

and a daughter, Roberta of North

Lauderdale, Florida. Remembrances may

be made to the American Heart

Association, 20 Speen Street,

Framingham, MA 01701.

Eli Jay Segal '64

Boston

Mr. Segal, a resourceful entrepreneur and

a Democratic political operative who

helped run Bill Clinton's 1992 presiden-

tial campaign and then joined Clinton's

White House staff, died February 20 of

mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer

caused by exposure to asbestos.

During the Clinton presidency, one

of Mr. Segal's greatest accomplishments

was helping to see through the legisla-

tion to create the Corporation for

National and Community Service, com-

monly called AmeriCorps. He served as

the program's first chief executive, from

1993 to 1996.

During Clinton's second term,

Mr. Segal directed the Welfare to Work

Partnership, a nonprofit group spawned

from massive welfare reform legislation.

Shortly after stepping down from that

position in 2000, he was awarded rhe

Presidential Citizens Medal for service to

the nation.

Mr. Segal was a native of Brooklyn,

New York, a 1964 history graduate of

Brandeis, and a 1967 graduate of the

Universiry of Michigan Law School.

He leaves his wife, Phyllis; a son,

Jonathan; a daughter. Mora; a brother,

Alan; and two grandchildren.

Ralph W. Leighton, MA69, PhD'70

Manchester, Connecticut

Mr. Leighton died February 25 after a

courageous battle with cancer. He was 63.

He had been employed since 1974

with the Hartford Insurance Group in

various capacities in property-casualty

automation, primarily in the actuarial

department. He is survived by his wife,

Clair (Henderson); a daughter, Stephanie

of Manchester; and a brother, David T. S.

of Stamford, Connecticut.

John C. Pacheco, MFA'73

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Mr. Pacheco, who worked as a manager

and buyer at various booksrores for

decades—most recently at Harvard Book

Store in Harvard Square—died of a brain

tumor on March 6 at the age of 56.

Known to his friends as "Chuck," Mr.

Pacheco got his first job in bookselling as

manager of the Little Professor in

Waltham in 1973. He also worked at

Darrow Bookstore in Burlington,

Reading International in Belmont, and

the Harvard Book Store Cafe on New-

bury Street in the Back Bay. When that

store closed, he moved over to the

Harvard Square store.

Mr, Pacheco earned his bachelor's in

theater from Bates College before getting

a master of fme arts from Brandeis.

He leaves his partner, Craig

Sonnenberg, and a brother, Christopher

of Pennsylvania.

Robert Cohen '77

West Hartford, Connecticut

Mr. Cohen, who taught business at

Boston Universiry before going to work

for United Technologies Research Center

and then Pratt & Whirney, died April 28

at home with his family at his side. He

was 53.

Mr. Cohen was a member of Beth El

Temple in West Hartford, where he

formerly served on the board of

trustees and as cochair of the ritual

committee. For many years, he led the

congregation in prayer on the High

Holidays and throughout the year. His

love of music and Jewish practice

inspired many people.

He leaves his wife, Ellen (Treu); two

daughters, Ariella and Sarah; and a

brother, Alan.

Cecile M. Pickart, PhD'82

Baltimore

Ms. Pickarr, a professor of biochemistry

and molecular biology at the Johns

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health since 1995, died April 5 after a

long battle with kidney cancer. She

was 51.

Born in Cheverly, Maryland, and

raised in Setauket, New York, and in

Brookesville, Maryland, Ms. Pickart

graduated summa cum laude from

Furman Universit)' in 1976. Six years

larer, she earned a doctorare in

biochemistry.

Prior to working at Johns Hopkins,

she served for a decade on the faculty of

the School of Medicine at the Universiry

ar Buffalo.

She leaves her partner, Jennifer Rose;

her parents, Stanley and Louise Pickart

of Peace Dale, Rhode Island; four

brothers, George of Lothian, Maryland,

Robert of Falmouth, Massachusetts,

David of C'umberland, Rhode Island,

and Christopher of KnoxviUe, Ten-

nessee; rwo sisters, Maureen Pickart

McClure of Lafayette, Indiana, and

Andrea of Arcadia, California; and

nieces and nephews.

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Faculty

Jerome Levine

Mathematics

Mr. Levine, a mathematics professor who

made groundbreaking advances in knot

theory, died April 8 after a nine-month

battle with lymphoma. He was 68.

Professor Levine taught for five years in

the 1960s at the University of California,

Berkeley, before joining the Brandeis

faculty in 1969. He served as chair of the

mathematics department from 1974 to

1976, and again from 1988 to 1990.

He leaves his wife, Sandra; two sons,

Michael of Peaks Island, Maine, and Jeff of

Somerville, Massachusetts; a daughter,

Laura '83, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island;

and five grandchildren.

Trustees

James 0. Freedman

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mr. Freedman, the fifteenth president of

Dartmouth College (1987-98) and an

influential leader in American higher

education, died March 21 after a coura-

geous struggle with non-Hodgkin's lym-

phoma. He was 70.

Born September 21, 19.35, in Manchester,

New H;mipshire, Mr. Freedman received a

bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard

University in 1957 and a law degree cum

laude from Yale University in 1962. He

joined the faculty of the University of

Penns)'lvania Law School in 1964 and was

named dean in 1 979. In 1 982, he was

appointed president of the University of

Iowa. He held the position for five years.

During his eleven years at Dartmouth,

Mr. Freedman took an active role in shap-

ing the college as it exists today. In 1995,

Dartmouth was ranked first in commitment

to undergraduate teaching in a survey of

presidents, provosts, and deans of admission

of colleges and universities nationwide.

In addition to serving as a trustee of

Brandeis, Mr. Freedman also held an

honorary doctorate from the institution.

He is survived by his wife, Bathsheba;

a daughter, Deborah of Philadelphia;

a son, Jared of Washington, D.C.; and

four grandchildren.

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Eric Danis

Modi'in, Israel

Danis married Anat Moshe at Kibbutz

Shefayim in Israel, on May 31, 2004.

Brandeisians in attendance included

Timothy Creegan, Gary Klein,

Sarah-Bess Dworin '00, and Karen

Hovav '00. The couple would love to

host any Brandeisians who find

themselves in Israel.

Shai Fuxman

Medford, Massachusetts

See Gala Wax '97.

Susan Gilbert

Medford, Massachusetts

Gilbert and Lauren Elson '00 are making

a difference in the Boston community

through their participation in the dance

company Rainbow Tribe. This past year.

Rainbow Tribe participated in the

American Cancer Society's Making Strides

Against Breast Cancer Walk and Project

Bread's Walk for Hunger. Members also

teach dance at local elementary schools as

part of Rainbow Tribe's dance enrichment

program and DARE Dance. Gilbert and

Elson rehearse twice a week for the com-

pany's annual dance performance.

Greg Goltsov

Jerusalem, Israel

Goltsov writes, "I've been living and

working in Jerusalem tor nearly three

years, after spending almost a year before

that as a tourist in Israel. I have a private

practice in holistic healing, and teach

seminars and workshops. Life here isn't

always easy, but it's incredibly rewarding

to work with people in the holiest place

on the planet. The Old City of Jerusalem

is just a few miles from my apartment,

and whenever I see tourists I'm filled

with the feeling of being so lucky that so

many people spend a short time in this

land, and I get to live here. My first

book, An Angel's Guide to Surviving on

Earth, is nearly ready."

Elana Gross

New York City

Gross and her husband, David Lebolt,

announce the birth of twins, Molly Leila

and Jesse Amos, on January 1 0.

Debra Gutis

Boston

Gutis married Eitan Milgram on lunc

26, 2005. Alumni in attendance included

bridesmaids Allison Menovich and

Albrielle Benkel, and cousin of the

bride Jessica Temkin Waxman '98.

Lucy Handfield

Anderson, Indiana

Handfield bought a house in Anderson.

Gabriel Koch

Minneapolis

Koch writes, "I have accepted a three-year

postdoctoral position as the L.E. Dickson

Instructor in the Department of

Mathematics at the University of Chicago,

beginning in September. It is a very

exciting opportunity to explore the world

of academic research as well as the great

city of Chicago. Thank you so much for

all your support, which helped me get to

this point in my career and life."

Phil Meer

New York City

Meer, after forming his own software con-

sulting business in 2003, returned to grad-

uate school and served as president of the

Class of 2006 at the Leonard N. Stern

School of Business, New York Universit)'.

Dara (Meitzer) Urim

Allston, Massachusetts

Meitzer married Oleg Urim at Temple

Emanuel in Newton on September 4,

2005. Alumni in attendance were

Shamali Kuru, Manju (Job) Dearing,

Kristen (Thompson) Disimore,

Debra Rubin, and Meital Orr '01.

Both Meitzer and Urim are pharmacists.

2000Matthew Salloway

304 West 92nd Street. #5E

New York, NY 10025

2000notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Lauren Elson

Medford, Massachusetts

See Susan Gilbert '99.

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Katharine Higgins-Shea

Bclcliertown, Massachusetts

Higgins-Shea married Chris Shea "96

on May 29, 2004. Alumni in attendance

included Matt George '95, Tedd

Lupien '95, Adam Wing '95, Kelly

Koch '96, Eric Spindt '98, Jeff Adams'99, Ari Fox '99, Sharon Meiri Fox,

Jessee (Boyce) Clements, Galete

Levin, Joanne Tulin, Nicole Waldheim,

Laura Weiss, Kristen Connelly '01,

and Julie Fabricant '01. Higgins-Shea

graduated from Suffolk University Law

School in 2003 and works at the Massa-

chusetts Superior Court in Springfield.

She and her husband moved back to her

hometown of Belchertown and arc

proud homeowners. On January 27, they

had their first child, Ava Elizabeth.

Dalia (Kalan) Samansky

Los Angeles

Samansky finished her second year at

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute

of Religion rabbinical school. She spent

the 2004-05 year studying and living in

Jerusalem. In June 2005, she returned to

the States and moved to Los Angeles to

continue her studies. In January, she

married Jason Samansky.

Karen Sosnoski

Alexandria, Virginia

Sosnoski was featured on the NPR show

This Aiiicrican Life, hosted by Ira Glass.

The episode in which Sosnoski appeared,

"A Better Mousetrap," discussed her

decision not to tell her child with mosaic

Down syndrome that he has a disability.

A stream is available at

<http://audio.wbez.org/tal/31 l.m3u>.

2001WenLIn Soh

5000 C Marine Parade Road, #12-11

Singapore 449286

or

Class of 2001

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

2001notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

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cla notes

Jessica Kagen

Philadelphia

Kagen married Robert Weisbein on

April 8 in Philadelphia. Bridesmaids

included Allison Cohen, Chari Cohen,

Ariella Softer, Jen Rosengarten, and

Lisa Genser. Other Brandeis graduates

who attended included liana Brand,

Pooja Patel, Brooke Wallock, Shanna

Miller, Esti Schabelman, Scott

Hirshson, Erik Silvan '99, and Jon

Klein '00.

Jamie (Shapiro) Klelnman

Los Angeles

Kleinman writes, "I graduated from law

school in Los Angeles in 2001 and amworking at a law firm in Santa Monica.

I got married September 25, 2005."

Amy Leichtner

New York City

Leichtner has spent the past four years in

New York City, where she has worked as

a Jewish educator for both Central

Synagogue and the Union for Reform

Judaism. She was awarded a We.xner

Fellowship for her graduate work in

Jewish education at the Davidson School

of Jewish Education at the Jewish

Theological Seminary in Manhattan.

Lindsey Schust

Andover, New Hampshire

Schust writes, "I recently released myfirst CD, Donde esta mi Corazon

(Where My Heart Is), on <cdbaby.com>.

All original songs were inspired by

my trips to Cuba. The link is

<www.cdbaby.com/cd/schust>, or more

information can be found on my own

page, <www.mamaleie.com>. The CDhas received airplay on several college

and independent radio stations in Italy.

Australia, Canada, England, and NewHampshire this year! I'd like to thank the

music department, especially David

Rakowski, for teaching me so much."

Emily Silver

New Haven, Connecticut

Silver writes, "I am finishing my first

year at Yale Business School and going to

intern for the summer at Pepsi."

2002Hannah R. Johnson

1688 Devonshire South Drive, Apt. F

Greenwood, IN 46143

2002notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Michelle Eisenberg

Gainesville, Florida

Eisenberg writes, "I graduated from the

University of Florida College of Medi-

cine in May. I plan to move back up

north to pursue my residency in pedi-

atrics at the Children's Hospital at

Montefiore (Albert Einstein College of

Medicine) in Bronx, New York. Fellow

Brandeisians in my intern class will be

Leslie Greenberg, Ginger Janow '01,

and Michael Roth."

Jeannelle Ferreira

Arlington, Virginia

Ferreira married Nicole J. D'Isa on

September 9, 2005, in Toronto. Ferreira's

first book, A Versefrom Babylon, was

published last June by Prime Books.

Yanna Krupnikov

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Krupnikov is a PhD candidate in

political science at the University of

Michigan. She was recently awarded a

grant from the university's Marsh Center

for Excellence in Journalism to support

her dissertation research on voter regret.

2003Caroline Litwack

1602 44th Street NWWashington, DC 20007

2003notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

There have been some exciting events

from our class this year. Hope everyone's

summer is going well! Please contact meat the e-mail address above with any

news. Thanks!

David Earls

Hamburg, New Jersey

Earls started the master's program in

mathematics at Tufts University last fall.

Kara Fitzgerald

West Boylston, Massachusetts

Fitzgerald started the master's program in

neuropsychology at Brandeis last fall.

Desiree Horvitz

Raleigh, North Carolina

Horvitz is a licensed real-estate broker.

She invites all alumni who are thinking

of moving to the Triangle area to contact

her at <desiree@century21.com> for a

free relocation packet.

Elida Kamine

Cincinnati

Kamine graduated from New York Uni-

versity Law School in May and will start

working in September in the corporate

department of the New York law firm

Proskauer Rose.

Adam Koblenz

Roslyn, New York

Koblenz received a law degree from

George Washington University LawSchool in May.

Arwen Roth

Brighton, Massachusetts

Roth started the master's program in

mathematics at Tufts University last fall.

Anna (Ichikaw^a) Somers

Okanogan, Washington

Somers and her husband, Scott, wel-

comed their first son, Nehemiah

Shalom, on January 28. Scott is a youth

pastor at their church, and Anna is a

stay-at-home mom and a volunteer at a

local pregnancy center.

Sofia Zatulovskaya and Peter Novak

Natick, Massachusetts

Zatulovskaya and Novak were married

December 30, 2005, in a private cere-

mony in Boston.

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class notes

2004Audra Lissell

11 Cross Street

Plympton, MA 02367

2004notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Meredith Bodgas

Long Island, New York

Bodgas, an assistant editor at

Brides.com, got engaged to Boston

College graduate Paul Di Pilato while

vacationing in Paris. They are planning

a May 2008 wedding.

Marc Kolpon

Downers Grove, Illinois

Kolpon and Susan Abrams became

engaged on March 26 in Chicago.

Kolpon and Abrams started dating

during Orientation 2000 and have been

together ever since. This upcoming year,

Abrams will begin law school and

Kolpon will begin his third-year

rotations in medical school.

Gabe Reif

Saranac, New York

Reif is a graduate student in the University

ofVermont higher-education and student-

affairs graduate program. He was a finalist

in the StudentAffairs.com annual case-

study competition, a national event that

focuses on a critical issue at the nexus of

student development and technology.

2005Judith Lupatkin

15 York Terrace

Brookline, MA 02446

2005notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Joshua Brandfon

Manchester, Connecticut

Brandfon is a graduate student in higher

education and student affairs at the Uni-

versity of Connecticut in Storrs. He was a

member of the second-place team in the

National Association of Student Personnel

Administrators' case-study competition at

the association's annual conference.

Melissa Fleming

New York City

See Jesse Friedman '01.

2006Class of 2006MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

2006notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

GRADSusan Band Horwitz, PhD'63

Larchmont, New York

Horwitz received the twenty-ninth

annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom

to Discover Award tor Distinguished

Achievement in Cancer Research. See

"Innermost Parts," page 6.

Jacob Hen-Tov, MA69, PhD'69

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Hen-Tov has retired as professor of

Eurasian studies (history and govern-

ment) at the George C. Marshall Center

for Security Studies in Garmisch-

Partenkirchen after twenty-nine years of

service for the Department ot Defense.

Simultaneously, he was a faculn' member

for twenty years at the University of

Maryland (European division).

Betty Jane Cleckley, PhD'74

Huntington, West Virginia

Cleckley won the West Virginia University

Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement

Award, which anually recognizes a state

resident for extraordinary contributions in

support of the principles and work of the

late civil-rights leader. Cleckley, vice presi-

dent for multicultural affairs at Marshall

University, was honored for her leadership,

commitment to social justice, and service

to the university and community.

Beverly Sealey, PhD'95

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sealey, an associate professor at Simmons

College of Social Work, was awarded a

national Fulbright Scholar grant for the

2006-07 academic year. She will spend

the year traveling abroad to expand her

research. Sealey will continue her proj-

ect, the Influence of Petceived Parenting

St)'les and Attachment on Delinquent

Behavior Among Black Adolescents, at

the University of Ghana at Legon School

of Social Work in Africa.

Yaron Peleg PhD'OO

Boston

Peleg's book Orieiitalinn and the Hebrew

Imagaination was published in February

by Cornell Universit)' Press. A major

contribution to the study of the origins

of Zionism at the beginning of the

twentieth century as a blend of the desire

for a homeland and the Oriental allure

of the Palestinian Arab culture, the book

has garnered considerable praise from

scholars in the field.

Sarah Figge, MA'04

New Delhi, India

Figge started a new position with the

United Nations Development Programs

(UNDP) as an editor for its Solution

Exchange section at the India Country

Programs Knowledge Management

Project in the New Delhi office. UNDPis the UN's global development network,

an organization advocating for change

and connecting countries to knowledge,

experience, and resources to help people

build a better life. Solution Exchange

offets communities of development

practitioners a UN-sponsored space

where they can provide and benefit from

each other's solutions to the day-to-day

challenges they face. Members come

from all organizations: government,

NGOs, development partners, private

sector, and academia. Figge will be

editing the queries of a moderated mail

group and consolidating responses that

are posted through the Internet to the

Solution Exchange communit)'. Figge has

been in New Delhi for the past two years

working for Pathfinders International

after she received a master's in sustain-

able international development from

Brandeis. For more on the UNDP, visit

<www.undp.org>.

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RuminationsA sea of white taces.

Take 5

Gil Villanueva, dean of admissions.

Innermost Parts

FieldworkOur dolls, our selves.

Arts

Honorable mention.

SportsThat's Italian!

Books

Class NotesAlumni profiles, births/adoptions,

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Northern ExposureGeir Haarde '73 holds sway over his native Iceland.

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Judging BrandeisThere's no denying the impact of the university's namesake.

By Philippa Strum '59

A Change of RaceAlumni filmmakers follow the path of ethnic impersonators.

By Laura Browder, PhD'94

The Examining Life

To neuroscientist Eve Marder, lobsters and crabs are not just

items on a seafood menu.

By Laura Gardner

5 for '10

A revealing look at five students in the Class of 2010.

By Ken Gornstein

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A Hidden GemThank you for your article about Special Collections and Archives

["Take 5, " Summer]. Having spent much of my four years at

Brandeis in the Goldfarb Library (I arrived the same year as Morris

Abram), I was unaware of any special collections in the building.

Then again, I was unaware of most things.

Not so now. On a recent visit, I discovered not only that there was a

special collections department but a lovely exhibit area as well, with

fascinating objects on view. I even saw an actual Oscar statuette there.

I urge anyone returning to campus to seek out this hidden gem.

Ken Browne '72

New York City

"Silence Signifies Approval"

I couldn't help wondering where the voice

of Brandeis University and the magazine is

supposed to be all these years on the brutal

oppression, ethnic cleansing, and disposses-

sion of the Palestinians at the hands of the

State of Israel. Hardly a word, ever. Is it

simply because of the danger to alumni-

related funding that would be cut off by the

so-called liberal secular elite of Brandeis

contributors and alumni?

Darfur, yes. South Africa, I remember.

No threat to funding there (the "bottom

line"). But Palestine? How long will the

silence reverberate in the name of Brandeis

University? As we say in Hebrew, shtika

ke-hodaa—"silence signifies approval."

—David Goldman '78

New York City

Class Act, Indeed

I write to praise the article on the 50th

Reunion of the Class of '56 [Summer],

which was truly a "class act." David Nathan

got it! He captured the essence of our

thoughts and feelings magnificently.

It is a piece that we will keep and treas-

ure because it described a most precious

experience in our lives. You were generous

to include my photos with huge smiles.

That was the overarching emotion of the

glorious weekend.

—RenaJ. Obhansky '56

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Death and Political Correctness

Wow. The magazine has hit a new low in

political correctness. In "Remembering

Joel" [Summer], you tell us that classmates

have established a scholarship "in honor of

... a nonsmoker who died of esophageal

cancer." Meant to communicate exactly

what? That as a nonsmoker, he wasn't

"guilty" of causing his own cancer (a cancer

much more frequently associated with alco-

hol, by the way, and not linked much to

smoking) and therefore we're free to feel

unambiguous sorrow (instead of saying

"served him right")? That his classmates

wouldn't have established a scholarship in

his name had he been a smoker? A smarmy

judgmentalism is somehow implicit.

Should we look forward to items about "a

virgin who died of AIDS," "a teetotaler who

died of cirrhosis," and "a vegetarian who died

during bypass surgery"? What's happened to

the open-minded Brandeis of yore? Ugh.

—Linda Ashton Stewart '58

New York City

Tall Order

With reference to the cover of your summer

issue, what does "Standing Tall" mean? And

on page 3, someone talks of "standing on the

shoulders of giants." What is this, Gidliver's

Travels?^ou\d you say of Robert Reich that

he "stood tall" as a member ot your faculty?

And Goliath was a giant in his field—and

you know what happened to him.

These are two expressions I never heard

in my youth at the YMHA in Roxbury. Myheroes did not have to stand at all and

wouldn't be seen standing on anyone's

shoulders. 1 am five-foot-three and am

proud of having felt short-listed all my life.

—Ed Bander

Brookline, Massachusetts

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A Sea of White FacesSending out a posse to find tine undiscovered scientists. By Irving R. Epstein

White males comprise more than two-thirds of this coun-

try's scientific workforce, yet they represent just over one-

third of the population, a figure that is expected to shrink

to one-fourth by 2050. Anyone who teaches an introductory science

course at Brandeis or any other elite university confronts a sea of

white faces that whitens further as the semester progresses and as one

moves up the ladder of courses.

Is this situation a cause for concern? I believe it is, and my belief

is apparently shared by our government, which has poured tens of

millions of dollars into studies and programs aimed at increasing the

participation ot underrepresented minorities in science. Another

true believer is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI),

which recently awarded me a $1 million professorship to develop a

Science Posse at Brandeis.

Science has traditionally been a route to upward mobility for

economically disadvantaged groups in this country, and it contin-

ues to play that role for some groups—notably Asian and East

European immigrants. Some ethnic groups, though, seem to have

been bypassed. Considerations of both social justice and economic

survival argue that we cannot afford to exclude a sizeable portion ot

our population from careers in science. This is especially true when

the solutions to society's biggest problems—energy, environment,

health, and water—require scientific expertise and creativity, and

when the brain drain that has brought us so many outstanding sci-

entists from abroad may be on the brink of reversing direction.

The Science Posse is an attempt to weave together the common

threads of two of the very few successful underrepresented minority-

directed programs. In the late 1970s, Uri Treisman, a graduate stu-

dent at the University of California at Berkeley, wanted to under-

stand why Asian-American students were doing so much better in

calculus than their African-American counterparts. Through exten-

sive survey research and careflil data analysis, he demonstrated that

widely held assumptions about diflFerences in motivation, preparation,

family support, and income levels could not explain the situation.

After carefully following the activities of twenty African-American and

twenty Chinese-American calculus students over a tour-month

period, he concluded that the major difference was that the black stu-

dents typically worked alone, while the Chinese students learned from

each other. Based on this insight, he constructed what he called an

"antiremedial program" that emphasized group learning and a com-

munity life, substituting "a challenging yet emotionally supportive

environment" for isolating and sometimes demeaning programs of

remediation. The results were dramatic, with underrepresented

minority participants in Treisman's program outperforming not

only their minority peers but their white and Asian-American class-

mates as well.

The second success story has a distinctly Brandeisian flavor.

Working with inner-city youth in New York, Deborah Bial '87 was

struck by the fact that, when the brightest of her proteges went off

to college, most returned without degrees. When she asked one,

who clearly had the intellectual wherewithal to succeed, what had

happened, he replied, "1 never would have dropped out if I'd had

my posse with me."

Enlightened by his comment, Bial started the Posse Foundation,

an organization that selects and trains "posses" of inner-city students,

largely but not exclusively minorities, chosen for their academic

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Nov. 12-15, 2006, by a team representing the Commission onInstitutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of

Schools and Colleges.

The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education is one of

eight accrediting commissions in the United States that provide

institutional accreditation on a regional basis. Accreditation is

voluntary and applies to the institution as a whole. TheCommission, which is recognized by the U.S. Department of

Education, accredits approximately 200 institutions in the

six-state New England region.

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potential and leadership abilities. The first

posse went to Vanderbilt; Brandeis became

the third Posse school. Brandeis's Posse expe-

rience has vastly exceeded expectations. Stu-

dents who, from their high school records

and standardized test scores alone, would

have been expected to graduate at rates well

below the Brandeis average of 89 percent

have instead achieved a graduation rate

exceeding 90 percent. They have not only

succeeded in the classroom but have become

campus leaders, reaching out to other

minorities and to the majority community.

We are now hosting our eighth posse.

For all its success, however. Posse does not

produce scientists. In a typical Brandeis

posse often, three or four students may start

out in science or premed. In a good year, one

will complete that program. What we now

seek to do, with help from HHMI and the

Posse Foundation, is to develop a program of

recruitment, selection, precollege training,

and on-campus mentoring and support that

will produce a cadre of students who can sur-

vive and thrive in our demanding science

and premed curriculum.

The first Science Posse is scheduled to

arrive at Brandeis in September 2008. If we

succeed, we expect the model to spread to

other universities, just as the original Posse

program has grown from a single partner

institution to rwenry-three. The contribu-

tion to the future of science in this country

would be substantial.

Irving R. Epstein is the Henry F. Fischbach

Professor of Chemistry and a Howard Hughes

Medical Institute Professor.

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Gil VillanuevaDean of Admissions

Gil Villanueva, a native oFthe

Philippines, this month began his

second year as Brandeis's dean of

admissions. He previously served as senior

associate dean of admissions at Bucknell

University and before that was assistant

dean of admissions at Harvey MuddCollege. He holds a bachelor's degree

in psychology from Pitzer College and

a master's in education from Bucknell.

1. What's the first piece of advice

you'd give a high school student who is

just starting out on the college search

process? To continue to do well academi-

cally and to continue to challenge yourself

by taking the more-advanced courses. Alot of very selective institutions are not

always interested in finding straight-A

students. Oftentimes, they'd much rather

see a B in an advanced, honors, or APcourse than an A in a regular course. One

other recommendation: Don't be pre-

occupied with joining many, many clubs

and organizations. Rather than doing a

million things, do a few things very well.

2. A number of colleges have begun

dispensing with SAT scores. Is that

something Brandeis would consider?

We're aware that other institutions are

starting to exercise that score option.

However, the SAT score, at this point

in time, still provides us with a good

predictor of success in college. I don't

see us moving away from the test score

at this time.

3. You've made recruiting a diverse

class a high priority. How do you go

about doing that? It starts by building

strong relationships with community-

based organizations. By making them

aware that we're looking for students with

certain qualities, we're able to find diverse

students who are a good fit for Brandeis.

We also need to be resourceful about

fishing in different ponds. All of the top

schools tend to recruit in the same areas.

We need to be a little creative and seek

different locales to find these students

from diverse backgrounds who will add

value to this campus.

4. Few kids dream of growing up to

be an admissions dean. What did you

want to be when you were, say, ten

years old? I wanted to be Spider-Man,

actually, but we probably don't want to go

there. Seriously, I come from a family of

educators. My grandfather and grand-

mother were college professors. My father

was a professor in the Philippines. And,

whether you're aware of it or not, a lot of

that seeps in. So, I guess I knew all along

that I would end up going into education

in some capacity.

5. We hear you're an automobile

enthusiast. What's your dream car?

For zipping around town, a Lamborghini

would be very, very nice. And when I'm

hanging with the family, I think my kids'

car seats would fit nicely in a Bentley.

—Ken Gornstein

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Grad wins $250K award for environmental efforts

It s Easy Being GreenPaul Anastas, PhD'90, an environmental

pioneer who has helped advance pollution

prevention through cleaner, cheaper, and

smarter chemistry, has been named winner

of the twelfth annual Heinz Award for the

Environment, one of the largest individual

achievement prizes in the world.

Anastas, founder and director of the

Green Chemistry Institute in Alexandria,

Virginia, was among five Americans to

receive one of the $250,000 awards, pre-

sented in five categofies by the Heinz

Family Foundation.

"Dr. Anastas and his green-chemistry

movement are addressing an issue of

global proportion one molecule at a time,"

said Teresa Heinz, chair of the Heinz

Family Foundation. "He has not only pio-

neered a new process for decreasing, and even

preventing, manufacturing waste, but his

groundbreaking work has created an eco-

nomic stimulus within industry that will help

propel this approach far into the future.

Anastas began to formulate a broad

vision tor change in the early 1 990s while he

was serving at the U.S. Environmental Pro-

tection Agency. Recognizing that wastes

released into the environment represent an

economic investment for manufacturers,

he sought to redesign benign chemical

processes and products at the molecular level,

thereby eliminating potential wastes before

they are ever produced. For industry, such

changes bring about increased efficiency in

processes, reduced costs associated with waste

handling, disposal litigation and regulatory

control, increased worker safety, and

decreased environmental pollution.

In order to help build momentum for

his vision, Anastas convinced the Clinton

administration in 1996 to sponsor the Pres-

idential Green Chemistry Challenge Award,

which has since become the only presiden-

tial-level award in the chemical sciences. It

has inspired hundreds ofcompanies to em-

brace his "Twelve Principles ofGreen Chem-

istry," outlined in his book (coauthored

with John Warner), Green Chemistry,

Theory and Practice.

From 1996 to 2004, the Challenge Award

has recognized technologies that have elim-

inated 460 million pounds of hazardous

chemicals and solvents, saved 440 million

gallons of water, and eliminated more than

170 million pounds of carbon dioxide re-

leased into the air. In 1 997, Anastas laimched

the Green Chemistry Instimte (which merged

with the American Chemical Society in 200 1 )

to create collaborations among government,

industry, and academia.

America's BestCOLLEGES

Pulling RankU.S. News, Princeton Reviewpoint to Brandeis success

University admissions officials received a

double-dose of good news this fall from the

nation's premier rankings guides.

In its 2007 edition of "America's Best

Colleges," U.S. News & World Report

ranked Brandeis thirty-first among 248

national universities—a jump of three slots

from last year—in addition

to naming the university

one of the best values in

the country.

Adding to the universi-

ty's good fortunes, the

Princeton Review named

Brandeis one of the best schools in the

Northeast as well as one of the country's

most socially conscious institutions.

Brandeis's U.S. News ranking moves the

university within a hairsbreadth of the top

thirty national schools. Topping the rank-

ings this year was Princeton University,

which nosed out Harvard University by a

single point on the 100-point scale. Other

Massachusetts schools in the top thirty were

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

which tied for fourth, and Tufts University,

which tied for twenty-seventh.

In the specialty category of "Great

Schools, Great Prices," which measures an

institution's academic quality against its net

cost of attendance to determine outstanding

value, Brandeis was ranked thirty-fifth

among national universities.

The Princeton Review, meanwhile, listed

Brandeis among its 222 best schools in the

Northeast as well as one of eighty-one

"colleges with a conscience," defined as

"great schools with outstanding commu-nity involvement."

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Paperback Writerstudent publishes coming-of-age book

ForTara Lengsfelder 07, senior year includes

one unusual extracurricular activity: publi-

cizing her new book, Dancing in the Rain:

The Final Cut. Released by Pneuma Springs

Publishing in Britain, this coming-of-age

novel reflects her personal experiences as an

adolescent engaged in self-mutilation.

Popularly known as "cutting, " this self-

harming behavior affects one out of two

hundred girls between the ages of thirteen

and nineteen, including a reported two

million in the United States alone.

Because cutting is an easy-to-hide coping

mechanism, it typically goes undetected;

growing up with her sister and parents in

California, Lengsfelder could easily have

been mistaken for a well-adjusted teen who

had everything even as she became progres-

sively more addicted to self-mutilation.

By sharing a fictionalized version ofher ex-

perience, she hopes to provide readers with

a better understanding of the disorder

—

what causes it, how addicting it is, and what

it takes to regain control of one's life.

"I want people to acknowledge this prob-

lem so we can face it and fix it, " she says. "I

also want them to realize that life can get

better, that we all have more strength in us

then we believe, and that you don't have to

live with depression.

"

An economics and business major, Lengs-

felder plays the oboe in the Wind Ensem-

ble and Top Score music, races with the ski

team, and competes with the Mock Trial

team. Currently working on her second

novel, she hopes to work in human resources

for a finance firm in New York or Dublin

after graduation.

Waging PeaceCrown Center assesses

Hezbollah-Israel conflict

As the U.N. peacekeeping force was taking

shape in Lebanon, leading Middle East ex-

perts gathered at Brandeis this fall to assess

the broader impact of the thirty-four-day

Hezbollah-Israel conflict and the prospects

for peace.

Hezbollah was victorious in "the battle of

the narrative," asserted Shai Feldman, the

Judith and Sydney Swartz Director of the

Crown Center for Middle East Studies, which

hosted the panel discussion, but Israel

achieved a number ot strategic objectives.

The weapons provided to Hezbollah

during the war represented about 70 percent

of Iran's long-range rocket forces, and all have

been destroyed, Feldman noted. The war also

provided Lebanon the opportunity to assert

its sovereignty throughout the country.

"This process strengthens the state of

Lebanon and weakens Syria's influence,"

Feldman said.

Despite its strategic successes, the govern-

ment of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

has been wounded, Feldman said. Olmert

hurt himself in the early days of the conflict

by declaring that Israel would "destroy every

terrorist infrastructure, everywhere."

"This was an unrealistic goal upon which

the Israeli government is now being meas-

ured," Feldman said.

Abdel Monem Said Aly, director of the Al-

Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Stud-

ies in Cairo and a senior fellow at the Crown

Center, said the dialogue and analysis must go

beyond who won or who lost the war, which

feeds propaganda and extremism.

"The important question here is not about

victory or defeat," he said. "It's about peace,

and do we have a chance for peace."

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innermostparts

"I hope I never write anything uplifting"

Happy to Be Sad

Kincald addresses a full house at Brandeis.

She grew up poor on rhe Caribbean island

of Antigua and moved to New York alone

and penniless at the age of seventeen. Since

then, she has raised a family and become an

award-winning author, yet her own success

hasn't inspired her to write happy stories.

Instead, Jamaica Kincaid, a former staff

writer for the New Yorker and author of

more than ten books, including The Auto-

biography ofMy Mother and A Smalt Place,

has written about the ethical implications of

the slave trade, the lingering effects of colo-

nialism, the complexities of mother-

daughter relationships, and oppressive

relationships between men and women.

"I hope I never write anything uplifting,"

she quipped during the Women's and Gen-

der Studies Program's third annual Eleanor

Roosevelt Lecture. "I can't wrire to make

people feel happy.

"

In front of a standing-room-only audi-

ence in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Kincaid

read long, lyrical passages from See NowThen, the book she's currently writing. The

novel tells the story of the Sweets, who live

in the small village of North Bennington,

Vermont, where Kincaid lives.

Instead of pride, the birth of the Sweets'

only son, Heracles, incites disdain in his

father. In the hospital room, Mr. Sweet

dwells on his son's jaundice, his wide eyes,

and his large clumsy hands that would

never linger over a piano or hold a flute.

'"What a disaster.' So thought Mr. Sweet

as he held his son in his arms, his hands

which held his fingers," Kincaid read in her

smooth West Indies accent. "But Mr. Sweet

did not throw to the ground or let fall out

of his hands the young Heracles, and so

their narrative continued with a bitterness

from Mr. Sweet that had a taste familiar to

the tongue, and with a bitterness that had a

taste familiar to the ages—the ages and ages

of fathers who did not love their sons."

Kincaid also shared details about her

writing and how the books she read as a

child—a dictionary, an encyclopedia on the

human body, and the Bible—have influ-

enced her writing process.

"WTien I write, I work out a structure

—

who will speak, what they will say. It's very

angular," said Kincaid, now a visiting lec-

turer at Harvard. "After all these years, it has

all the difficulties of being new."

University establishes new mark for fundraising

Broken RecordBrandeis established an all-time fundraising

record for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

In fiscal year 2006, the university

received more than $81.3 million in cash

gifts, eclipsing the old record of $72.1 mil-

lion by 13 percent. The university also

received a record $65.3 million in new gift

pledges during the year.

Additionally, Brandeis set single-year

records in several giving categories, among

them alumni ($19.5 million), reunion

($11.5 million), and online ($196,000).

"This is a testament to the way alumni,

trustees, parents, friends, and members of

the National Women's Committee feel

about Brandeis and its future," said Nancy

Winship, Brandeis's senior vice president of

institutional advancement. "It's even more

remarkable when you consider the size of

our student body and the relative youth of

the institution."

The gifts will fund a number of critical

initiatives, including undergraduate schol-

arships and graduate lellowships, endowed

professorships for faculty, and construction

of the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, the

Edmond J. Safra Center for the Arts, and a

new student residential complex.

The record year continues a trend of

increased giving at Brandeis over the last

decade. Brandeis raised more than three

times as much in cash gifts in fiscal year

2006 as it did ten years earlier. Addition-

ally, alumni giving grew nearly six-fold

during the same period.

The good news extends to the multiyear

Campaign for Brandeis, which had raised

$569 million through August 31, nearly

three-quarters of the way toward reaching

the goal of $770 million by June 2009. The

size of the university's endowment has also

tripled in the last decade, reaching nearly

$600 million.

"We want to thank our supporters every-

where for making 2006 a record-breaking

year for Brandeis and assure them that we

are working hard to establish another record

in 2007," Winship said.

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Journalists delve for justice

Taking Power to TaskOn the eve of the Brandeis Institute tor

Investigative Journalism's second annivet-

sary, a classroom is transformed into what's

known as "the cave." It's home to the Inves-

tigating Justice class, which, led by instruc-

tor Pam Cytrynbaum, is examining the

case of a man who has spent more than a

decade in a Massachusetts prison for a

murder he insists he did not commit.

Students have begun noticing contradic-

tions in key portions of the evidence. Soon,

they'll work on resolving those contradic-

tions as part of the Justice Brandeis Inno-

cence Project, one of three projects within

the Brandeis Institute for Investigative

Journalism.

While there are more than forty inno-

cence projects in the United States, most

are based at law schools; the Brandeis

project, one of just three journalism-based

programs nationwide, is also the only one

that looks into non-DNA cases.

Studies estimate that thousands of

innocent people are in prison; of those

cases, up to 80 percent lack DNA evi-

dence. The New England Innocence Pro-

ject, which says it has a "closet full" of

probable wrongful conviction cases with-

out testable DNA, refers those to the

Brandeis team.

Based on a set of criteria developed by

Northwestern University's famed inno-

cence project, Cytrynbaum decided the

Massachusetts case was one of "likely inno-

cence." Yet because the convicted man has

no money to hire lawyers, "the only thing

between him and the rest of his life in

prison is if we discover evidence showing

that the conviction was incorrect, " she says.

The Innocence Project was conceived by

investigative reporter Florence George

Graves when she launched the Brandeis

Institute for Investigative Journalism in

September 2004, backed by a gift from the

Gerald and Elaine Schuster Charitable

Foundation. Recently the project received a

second $75,000 grant from the Ethics and

Excellence in Journalism Foundation to

continue its work.

Graves says she designed the Brandeis

Institute to help professional journalists

"hold power accountable" by enabling

them to "get the facts, uncover injustice,

and expose wrongdoing." Said Bill

Kovach, founding chairman of the Com-

mittee of Concerned Journalists, "Bran-

deis University is to be congratulated for

creating the perfect symbol of Justice

Brandeis's belief in the role of an aggres-

sive free press."

Pam Cytrynbaum helps investigative journalists scour criminal cases for signs of innocence.

David Rakowski, the

Walter W. NaumburgProfessor of Composi-

tion, was named winner

of the 2006 Barlow Prize

in composition. He will

receive a commission of

$ 1 5,000 to write a major

work for wind ensemble

to be premiered by a consortium of five wind

ensembles: the United States Marine Band,

the Brigham Young University Wind Sym-

phony, the UCLA wind ensemble, the Uni-

versity ofMichigan Symphony Band, and the

Meadows Wind Ensemble of Southern

Methodist University.

F. Trenery Dolbear Jr., the Clinton S.

Darling Professor of Economics, was named

acting dean of the International Business

School while the university continues its

international search for a candidate to fill that

position on a permanent basis. Dolbear has

served previously as chairman of the Depart-

ment ofEconomics and as acting dean of the

Graduate School of International Econom-

ics and Finance.

President Reinharz has been elected a mem-

ber ot the executive committee ofcollege and

university presidents at the Association of

Independent Colleges and Universities in

Massachusetts. Founded in 1967, the organ-

ization comprises fifty-six degree-granting, ac-

credited two- and four-year independent col-

leges and universities in the commonwealth.

Richard DeCapua, former assistant director

of residence life at Wesleyan University, has

begun work as Brandeis's new director of res-

idence life. He holds a bachelor's degree in

psychology from Quinnipiac University, a

master of education in student personnel

administration from Springfield College, and

a doctor of education in higher education

from Johnson and Wales University.

Irene Abrams, former technology licensing

officer at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnol-

ogy, has been appointed Brandeis's new exec-

utive director of the Office ofTechnology Li-

censing. She holds a bachelor's degree in psy-

chology from the University of Pennsylvania

and a master's in cognitive sciences from Johns

Hopkins University.

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Topeople from more southerly climes, the European country of

Iceland is a cold and mysterious wilderness, where craggy gla-

ciers paint the landscape white for as far as the eye can see while,

conversely, eerie northern lights illumine the sky with explo-

sions of green and other startling hues. It's a place where cosmopolitan

shopping and contemporary music bump up against an ancient world

of folklore in which one might encounter dragons, dancing wiggle-

waggle monsters, dreaded trollwives, and a sorcerer disguised as a whale.

To Geir Hilmar Haarde 73, it is a land of beauty, culture, and imag-

ination, where the air is bright, the lifestyle healthy, the population

friendly, the agenda progressive, the economy thriving, and the chil-

dren smiling. It is also home.

And he is now the head of household. On June 15, Haarde became

the first Brandeis graduate to lead a national government when he took

the oath of office as prime minister of Iceland following the resignation

of Halldor Asgri'msson.

On June 17, known as National Day in Iceland, he stood at an out-

door podium before television cameras and echoed in Icelandic the emo-

tional words of the poet Hannes Hafstein, Iceland's first prime minister:

O land so treasured, land so true,

Better than we can ever know.

Tributes and pledges of loyalty to you

Are the first duty we all owe.

AN APPOINTMENT WITH DESTINY

The nomination of Haarde as prime minister was not unexpected news

in Iceland, where he had spent two decades as a member of the world's

oldest parliament and served as minister for foreign affairs and

minister of finance. Indeed, his role as chairman of the Independence

Party made his appointment virtually a given—or, as Haarde puts it,

"one link in a long chain of events."

It came as more of a surprise, though, at Brandeis, where he was due

to travel that very week to accept one of two Alumni Achievement

Awards for 2006. Instead, the university received an e-mail from a

Haarde aide saying, "The minister has asked me to inform you he very

much regrets that he has to cancel his trip to Brandeis this coming

Thursday and Friday due to unexpected political developments in this

country . . . Mr. Haarde has been nominated to become prime minister

of Iceland. This turn of events does not allow him to travel this week."

INVESTING IN UNDERSTANDING

Haarde's inauguration may have been exactly the sort of outcome

Lawrence A. Wien, then chairman of the university's Board ofTrustees,

had in mind in 1958, when he and his wife, Mae, endowed a fund to

support students from other countries who wished to attend Brandeis.

While most U.S. institutions restrict financial aid to U.S. nationals,

drawing international students from families of means, the Wien Inter-

national Scholarship Program opened Brandeis's doors to a wider range

of applicants. In doing so, the Wiens expressed confidence the scholars

would return to positions of leadership in their home countries with a

new understanding of the world, maximizing the possibilities for peace

and international cooperation.

For Haarde, a public-school educated, first-generation college stu-

dent whose Norwegian-born father was a technician with the telephone

BY THERESA PEASE

As the new prime minister of Iceland. Geir Haarde 73 holds sway over a land full

of colorful contrasts. He hopes rising immigration and economic development will

make those colors even brighter.

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company in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, the Wien Scholarship was

a passport to an expanded life. Although Iceland offers higher educa-

tion free of charge to all its citizens, the choices of disciplines in 1969

were limited, and it was not uncommon for young people to study

abroad. Haarde's brother, an engineer, had gotten his degree in Nor-

way. Young Geir, who had never lived away from home, had a similar

hankering to see more of the world.

"Because of Brandeis and the Wien Scholarship, my life took a com-

pletely different direction," Haarde says. "Had I not had this experi-

ence, I probably would have become a practicing lawyer in Reykjavik.

I might have gone into politics later in my life—I don't know—but I

would not have had the kind of overview you get when you have come

to master something new and understand another society. You take

something with you that other people may not have or may not com-

pletely comprehend."

SETTING THE STAGE

At Brandeis, Haarde majored in economics and perfected his already-

good English skills while adapting to an unfamiliar and vastly more

diverse culture far from the safety of his family. Given the state of com-

munications at the time, Haarde counted himself lucky to get a phone

call from his mother once a year—on his birthday. Although he flirted

briefly with the idea of living in another country after graduation, pos-

sibly as an international journalist, he always knew he would return to

Reykjavik to bloom where he was planted.

Haardes career puts him in contact with otiier world leaders: here, he

shares a moment with former president George H W Bush.

After graduating from Brandeis, he earned a master's degree in inter-

national relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced

International Studies and a master's in economics at the University of

Minnesota, then went back to Reykjavik. He launched his government

career as an economist for the Central Bank, Iceland's equivalent of the

U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.

"Many of us who come from this country simply feel that it's the

right thing to do, to return and make a contribution here. Perhaps it's

because we are so small in population that we have an affinity and a

sense of responsibility tor each other you don't see in other countries.

And, of course, life is good

"Many of us who come

from this country simply

feel that its the right

thing to do. to return

and make a contribution

here. Perhaps it's

because we are so

small in population that

we have an affinity and

a sense of responsibility

for each other you don't

see in other countries.

And, of course, life is

good here.

"

here, " he explains.

In part, Haarde says, he was

drawn home by the "family

feeling" one gets dwelling in a

place that has the land area of

Ohio with the population of

Toledo. In such a setting, peo-

ple who are prominent or even

active in public life tend to

know each other fairly inti-

mately, and social interactions

are informal—even strangers

feel comfortable addressing

each other by first name.

A NORTHERN UTOPIA?

Haarde also lays claim to a

host of other benefits. Homeownership, for example, is

close to 90 percent. The liter-

acy rate is 100 percent, and

medical care is free to all.

Hospitalization and higher education are entirely state-supported.

Clean, natural sources of renewable energy abound. Unemployment

hovers between 1 percent and 2 percent.

According to figures compiled by the International Monetary Fund

in April 2006, Iceland has a gross domestic product per capita of

$35,586, positioning it fifth in the world in per-person purchasing

power—trailing only Luxembourg ($69,800), Norway ($42,364), the

United States ($41,399), and Ireland ($40,610).

Because of Iceland's remote location—the closest European

neighbor is Norway, some seven hundred miles distant—its residents

have learned to entertain themselves joyfully, swimming year-round

in natural pools fed by hot springs and enjoying rich offerings in the

performing and visual arts. Haarde and his wile, Inga, are especially

drawn to the Icelandic theater and to the local music scene, which is

sometimes surprisingly "edgy," wrote one critic. Concerts by the

singer Bjork and other pop artists often draw audiences from across

both sides of the Atlantic. A huge array of pageants and cultural fes-

tivals emphasize folklore, history, and the nation's seafaring tradi-

tion—indeed, it's said that Icelanders love to dress up in costumes.

At Christmas, Icelandic children get to know not one Santa, but

thirteen Yule Lads, angry imps who play tricks on them throughout

the festive season.

14 Brandeis Uiiiver.sitv Masaziiie I Kail '()()

Haarde hosts a formal dinner to celebrate the official visit of Premier Gary Doer of Manitoba. Canada (seated beside Haarde).

Lest the culture be perceived as quaint, though, it is important to

know that Iceland also has the world's highest rates of computer and

cell phone use and that Reykjavik, the largest city, is known by world

travelers as a premier shopping destination for luxury goods. In fact, in

2005 London's Guardian Observernnmcdi Iceland as the United King-

dom's top choice among vacation destinations.

Beyond viewing the glaciers and the aurora borealis, tourists come

to fish, to hunt, and to watch volcanoes steam and geysers spout.

They marvel at spooky lava formations said to be trolls' cathedrals,

view Europe's most dramatic waterfalls and fjords, and taste the

dynamic nightlife of Reykjavik.

If Haarde wanted to recommend a single destination to a foreign vis-

itor, he says without hesitation, he would select Thingvellir National

Park, about thirty miles east of Reykjavik.

"It's a wonderful place, " he notes, "because of the geological phenom-

enon you can observe there. It stands right where two great tectonic

plates—the Eurasian plate and the North American plate—meet. You

can actually see the areas of overlap. In addition, it has been designated

by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of its importance in our

country's history. " Among the historic events that took place in that

curious locale was the establishment of Iceland's Althing, the oldest par-

liament in the world, in the year 930.

Despite all of Iceland's natural and cultural wonders, and even

despite its extraordinarily progressive society, Haarde's government is

Haarde's government is

poised to focus on three

key challenges during

his term as leaden

preserving unity,

expanding wealth, and

remaining effective

participants in the world.

poised to focus on three key

challenges during his term as

leader: preserving unity,

expanding wealth, and

remaining effective partici-

pants in the world.

PRESERVING UNITY

Haarde believes a strong

political consensus is one of

the prime reasons Iceland has

been able to fashion the

nearly idyllic society it has; he

offers as an example the unwavering consensus of Icelanders on such

issues as government-funded medical care and higher education.

Indeed, Haarde asserts that in Iceland, at least 70 percent of votes in Par-

liament are unanimous, with serious opposition on any issue extremely

rare. It's a status quo he would like to maintain.

But a new wave of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe,

Asia, and other parts of the world may imperil that national consen-

sus, Haarde believes. Although he encourages immigration, which he

says will contribute to "an even more colorful Iceland," with new

cuisines, new cultural activities, and an important influx of skilled

laborers to enrich the economy, he has taken a firm stand on the Ian-

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ROTTEN SHARK MEAT AND OTHER ICELANDIC TIDBITS

Iceland has a land area of 39,000 square miles and a population of

305,000. Some 1 85,000 of those residents are clustered around Reykjavik.

In midsummer, Icelanders can—and do—play golf rwenry-four hours

a day in the midnight sun. There's a price to be paid, though; in mid-

winter, they enjoy only about four to five hours a day of daylight.

Other pastimes popular with both natives and tourists include riding

horses, as well as swimming year-round in natural pools geothermically

heated to about eighty-five degrees Fahrenheit.

Iceland has some unique holidays and celebrations. March 1, for

instance, is observed as Beer Day, marking the legalization of beer in

1989. Early each August, Icelanders flock to the Westman Islands, off

the south coast, to watch the Flight of the Puffling, in which millions

of baby puffins take wing for the first time.

A shopper looking for authentic Icelandic mementos may snatch up a

lopapeysa—a knitted woolen sweater with a traditional design—as well

as one-of-a-kind lava ceramics, not to mention wedding rings in tradi-

tional Celtic and Norse patterns.

Thanks to the Gulf Stream, Iceland is not as cold as its name implies.

In Reykjavik, average monthly temperatures range from about thirty-

one degrees in January and February to fifty-five degrees in August.

Iceland's official state religion, Lutheranism, is practiced by about

80 percent of the population; citizens over sixteen years of age must pay

an annual church tax.

Porramatur is the name for a class of holiday delicacies traditional

in Iceland. Items on this distinctive Icelandic menu include

pickled ram's testicles, putrefied shark, scorched sheep heads, and

blood pudding.

Iceland's earliest settlers migrated from Norway, Scotland, and

Ireland beginning in the ninth century, but the modern Republic of

Iceland was not founded until 1944. Iceland's system of government

includes the president, who holds a purely ceremonial office, and the

prime minister, who is the head of government.

The word geyser stems from Geysir, a spouting hot s

Thingvellir National Park.

spring located near

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NORTHERNEXPOSURE

guage issue. In that first address as prime minister, Haarde insisted

that all newcomers be trained immediately to speak Icelandic, the

ancient tongue of the Vikings. He is likewise determined that new

arrivals must be absorbed into mainstream communities, rather than

being allowed to form ethnic enclaves and pockets of dissent. "One

family" is his catch phrase.

Despite those caveats, Haarde in his June 17 address told his nation,

"Our forebearers setded this country in search of freedom from tyranny,

seeking a better lite. Today, people still come here who believe that Ice-

landic society offers them opportunities to find suitable outlets for their

energies, ingenuity, and talents. We should feel pleased that our country

and community exert such an attraction and welcome the growing nimi-

bers of people who want to enjoy the privileges of being Icelanders."

EXPANDING WEALTH

Another item near the top of Haarde s early agenda is economic develop-

ment. He means to preserve the nation's high per capita income first by

maximizing the benefits of its cheap, clean, nearly inexhaustible energy

sources like hydroelectric and geothermal energy; its world-class fishing

industry; and its exportation ot aluminum and ferrosilicon. He plans to

continue growing Iceland's thriving tourist trade and will attempt to cap-

ture more high-technology jobs. Beyond augmenting the quality of life

for all Iceland's workforce, he says, a stronger economy will help create

new opportunities for young Icelandic citizens—including his own five

children, who range in age from seventeen to thirty-one, and their

children—so that they will not feel enticed to relocate.

WORLD CITIZENSHIP

The third challenge facing Haarde's administration is what he calls

"continuing to live in harmony with our neighbors and on good terms

Haarde connects with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

in Ttiingvellir National Park, wtiere Icelanders formed the worlds oldest

parliament in the year 930.

with other countries." Although Iceland maintains healthy relation-

ships with the rest of Europe and is part of the European Economic

Area Agreement, it has consistently resisted overtures to join the Euro-

pean Union. One of the key disincentives to membership is Iceland's

reluctance to change its policies on fisheries, which are so important to

the country's economic vigor.

"We have a fishery management system which is absolutely superior

to what they have in the rest of Europe, and this is critical to us because

of our dependency on fisheries," the prime minister notes. Wliile he

has not closed the door

permanently on the question

of European Union citizen-

ship, Haarde maintains that,

for now, Iceland is doing too

well on its own to consider a

change.

"I always like to say that

you can be a good European

without being a member

of the European Union,"

he says.

Another principal concern

is maintaining a close friend-

ship with the United States,

whose links to Iceland

include a long-standing

defense compact, investment

partnerships, and joint ven-

tures in education.

Testing the strength of that friendship is the U.S. government's deci-

sion last March to close its military base near Keflavik in October

2006. Beyond the economic impact of such a withdrawal, Haarde is

concerned about the ramifications for the defense of his country, which

does not have a traditional army or navy.

While Haarde sees no direct territorial threats from other nations,

he says, "There are, however, nontraditional threats presented by ter-

rorism, as there are everywhere else in the world. We are also con-

cerned about environmental threats presented, for example, by

accidents at sea."

Noting that the United States retains responsibility for contributing to

Icelandic security under a defense treaty signed in May 1951, the new

prime minister says, "I am confident the United States will work with us

to find a satisfactory alternative arrangement that stops short of having

a permanent stationing of forces here. This may include periodic mili-

tary exercises, as well as more intensified cooperation with Iceland's

police and coast guard."

Forward momentum on all three challenges will not only benefit

Iceland, but will have a strong bearing on the prime minister's own

political future. In May 2007, when he finishes filling out the term of

office vacated by Asgri'msson, Haarde will stand for re-election for a full

four-year term. Unlike the United States, Iceland has no limit on the

number of terms its leader can serve, so he could potentially influence

the direction of his country for years to come.

Theresa Pease is the editor o/Brandeis University Magazine.

In his first address as

prime minister, Haarde

insisted newcomers

be trained to speak

Icelandic, the ancient

tongue of the Vikings.

New arrivals must

be absorbed into

the mainstream

communities, rather

than being allowed to

form ethnic enclaves.

Fall (Id I Hriiriili-in I'nivdsity Magazine 17

BY PHI LIP PA STRUM '59

'"gft^DEISON THE 150TH

ANNIVERSARYOF LOUIS D.

BRANDEIS'S

BIRTH,

ANYONE WHOQUESTIONSHOW MUCHDIFFERENCE

ONE MAN CANMAKE SHOULDLOOK AT THE

LEGACY OF THEUNIVERSITY'S

NAMESAKE.

LouisDavid Brandeis's first memory was of his mother taking food to the Union

soldiers camped outside his family home in Louisville, Kentucky. His parents,

who had immigrated to the United States from Prague only a few years before his

birth in 1856, supported the abolition of slavery. They also believed, fervently, in

democracy and in the responsibility of citizens to participate actively in public

life. So did Brandeis's uncle, Naphtali Dembitz, who was a delegate to the convention that

nominated Lincoln for president in 1860, served as Louisville's assistant city attorney, and

possessed a seemingly unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Brandeis remembered Dembitz

as "a living university" and a dedicated public citizen, and as a teenager he changed his mid-

dle name to Dembitz in his uncle's honor.

Brandeis graduated from Harvard Law School in 1878 with the highest grades ever

earned at that institution and soon opened a Boston law office with fellow graduate

Samuel Warren. Warren was intelligent and well-connected in Boston society; Brandeis

was brilliant, hard-working, and charming; and their firm prospered in a city that was

bursting with new immigrants and a burgeoning post-Civil War economy. Within a few

years, Brandeis felt sufficiently secure financially to devote some of his time to public

causes. "Have had a public career of late, " he wrote to his brother Alfred in 1884. "Lec-

ture on Taxation Sunday. Spoke against 'Woman Suffrage' before the [Massachusetts]

Legislative Com[mit]tee yesterday and appeared before the Insurance Com[mit]tee yes-

terday & today."

Though he would have different thoughts about women's suffrage in the future, his note

illustrates the range of subjects that engaged him as a young lawyer. Before the words "pro

bono" were in the common vernacular, Brandeis virtually invented the position of the

attorney who accepts public-interest cases without fee as he went on to fight the trusts,

advocate conservation, mediate the 1912 garment workers' strike, devise fair utility and

transportation rates for Boston, and invent savings bank life insurance.

DEFINING INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACYBrandeis's father was a small-business owner, and Brandeis began his legal practice both

convinced of the value of unfettered capitalism and suspicious of the developing labor

movement. In 1891, however, Brandeis heard about the huge strike in Homestead, Penn-

sylvania. The Carnegie steel works there had decided not to renew its contract with its

workers and refused to deal with a union. The company brought in Pinkerton guards to

protect strikebreakers. The Pinkertons fired their Winchester rifles, and workers died.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis as he appeared on February 2, 1916.

shortly after his nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

?^

Brandeis, about to teach a course on business law at MIT, threw away his notes. He real-

ized, he said, that "the complex relations of the modern factory system" demanded a new

approach to the law. The "shock of that battle," he wrote, made him rethink questions

about capitalism and labor.

Brandeis rethought more things a decade later when, in 1902, William H. McElwain, a

client who was a shoe manufacturer, asked for his help. McElwain's business had fallen on

hard times, and his workers were refusing to accept a temporary cut in their unusually high

wages. Visiting the plant and talking to the workers and to a union oflFicial who was helping

them, Brandeis discovered that the employees were indeed paid well when they worked but

that their work was seasonal, and there were many days when no work was to be had. Hesoon created a plan whereby the work could be spread out evenly over the year, satisfying

both McElwain and the workers.

Brandeis was impressed by the union leaders at the McElwain factory. He would even-

tually become a champion ot unions and what he called "industrial democracy," going so

far as to assert that workers should be enti-

tled to share in the profits of the businesses

that benefited from their labor.

The Homestead and McElwain strikes

taught Brandeis that law had to be respon-

sive to real societal conditions and that an

attorney's successful handling of any situa-

tion was dependent upon his knowledge of

all the relevant facts. Those experiences also

showed him that access to information

could change one's most strongly held

ideas. It was a lesson he drew upon in 1908, when he wrote a Supreme Court brief that

altered the course of American law.

WHAT WOULDBECOME KNOWN AS

"THE BRANDEISBRIEF" IS A STAPLE

OE AMERICANLAW TODAY.

OOTOBEK TEBH 1907

CUBT MULLKR, PLiixriFf ix Errob,

0.

THE STATE OF OREOON, Ouexdaxt ix BnnoR

Bam POK SBRHBAirr in msox

Tliix case presents the single qneatkin whether the

Statute of Oregon. a|)]irove<l Feb. II), lOOfl, which pro-

Tliles that " no fentale [slialt] be employcil in any me-chanical eitabliahnient or factory or hiundry " " morethan ten houn during any one day," is unconstitutional

and void as violating the Fourteenth Amendment of theFederal Constitntioii.

The decision in this case will, in effect, determine theconstitutionality of nearly all the statutes in force in the

United States, limiting the hours of labor of adult women.— namely

MAssAciiusErrs

First enacted in 1874 (chap. 22)), now embodied in

Revised Laws, chap. )06, sec. 24, as amended by Stat.

IWM, chap. 489, as follows:

No wonMn dm)) Iw employed in laboring in a ntamifaeturing

or meclMnienl niAbliilinMnt more tlian t«n hours in any one day,eseept us hereinnfter provided in thit (ectiofi, unleu different

apportionment in Iraun of tabor is made for the lole purpose of

Image shows opening page of the first "BrandeisBrief," a 113-page document that laid the

groundwork for future Supreme Court argumentsby providing the Court with extensive research

about the circumstances surrounding a case andexpert witness about the potential impact of

their possible decisions.

SHAPING THE BRANDEIS BRIEFThere were no federal laws regulating minimum wages and maximum hours in the first

decade of the twentieth century, and workdays of twelve hours were not uncommon. In 1903,

Oregon took the radical step of passing a law establishing a maximum of ten hours' work a

day for women employed in manufacturing, mechanical establishments, and laundries. Curt

Mullet's Grand Laundry in Portland broke the law by requiring Mrs. Elmer Gotcher to work

more than ten hours. When Muller was found guilty and fined ten dollars, he appealed his

conviction all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Muller had good reason to believe that the Supreme Court would overturn the convic-

tion, because the Court characteristically read the Constitution to mean that the govern-

ment could not interlere with the employee-employer relationship by setting wage

minimums or hour maximums. After the Supreme Court accepted the case, Florence Kel-

ley, the secretary general of the National Consumers' League, and Josephine Goldmark,

Kelley's associate and Brandeis's sister-in-law, asked Brandeis whether he would jump in on

behalf of women vvorkers' rights. He would do it, he replied, if they would provide him

with the facts he needed about the effects of long working hours on women.

Goldmark and her team came up with statistics about laundries and with endless

reports—reports by officials such as the chief inspector of factories and workshops of Great

Britain, German factory inspectors, and French district inspectors—about the effect on

women and their families of overly long workdays. When they were done, Brandeis com-

piled the material into a 1 10-page document designed to show the Supreme Court that it

was reasonable for Oregon, which shared the obligation of all American states to provide for

the health, safety, and welfare ot its citizens, to limit women's paid working hours. Then he

added two pages of legal argumentation.

That was revolutionary. Supreme Court briefs normally consisted only of long treatises

detailing legal precedents; they did not instruct the justices on what was happening in the

dynamic world ot American society. Brandeis jettisoned over one hundred years of Amer-

ican legal tradition and told the Court that law had to be based on the new realities of work

in the industrial age. In a departure from the norm, the Supreme Court mentioned his

brief in its decision and upheld the Oregon law.

20 Braiiileis University MiiL'azirn- I ImI! ()()

Photo from 1894 shows Brandeis as a young Boston attorney of thirty-eight.

Illinois promptly reenacted a women's maximum hours law that the Supreme Court had

struck down in 1895, and Brandeis defended it successfully with a brief featuring six hun-

dred pages of data and statistics. Because he believed correctly that the argument would

sway the Court, he emphasized women's role in their families, but in fact he was an advo-

cate of maximum hours laws for all workers. He and Goldmark were working on a brief

defending the Oregon law setting maximum hours for men in 1916 when word came that

President Woodrow Wilson had appointed Brandeis to the Supreme Court.

What would become known as "the Brandeis brief" is a staple ofAmerican law today. It was

a "Brandeis brief " that was used in Brown v. Board ofEducation when Thurgood Marshall pre-

sented the Supreme Court with facts that demonstrated the negative effects of segregated

schools on African-American children. It was the kind of brief Ruth Bader

Ginsburg wrote as an attorney in the 1 970s, when she detailed the effects of discrimination

on women so convincingly a^ to persuade the justices to hand down decisions that effectively

wrote gender equality into American law.

WRITING THE BOOK ON PRIVACYBrandeis's effect on American law did not stop there.

As a member of Boston society, Brandeis's legal partner Samuel Warren was outraged by

the insistent intrusions of the press into his family life, and so in 1898 Brandeis and

Warren wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review that for the first time argued that the

right to privacy was inherent in American law. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law

School declared that the article "did nothing less than add a chapter to our law. " Brandeis

drew on the thinking behind the article when, as a Supreme Court justice, he filed his dis-

sent on a 1929 decision endorsing warrantless wiretapping by federal agents.

"The makers of our Constitution," he wrote, "undertook ... to protect Americans in

their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions, and their sensations. They conferred, as

against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and

the right most valued by civilized men." Responding to the argument that the government

THE WORLDINTO WHICHBRANDEISWAS BORNPresident: Franklin Pierce

Next in Line: Democrat James Buchanan

defeats Republican John C. Fremont and

Know-Nothing candidate Millard Fillmore

to capture the presidency (November 4).

Other World Leaders: Henry John

Temple, prime minister of the United

Kingdom; Alexander II, emperor of the

Russian Empire; Napoleon III, emperor of

France; Isabella II, queen of Spain.

Number of U.S. States: 32

Popular Reading: The Scarlet Letter

(Nathaniel Hawthorne), Uncle Tom's Cabin

(Harriet Beecher Stowe), Moby Dick

(Herman Melville)

Popular Music: Kiss Me Quick and Go;

Oh! The Old Old Clock; Darling Nelly Gray

War and Peace: War is declared between

Great Britain and Persia (November 1);

the Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the

Crimean War (March 30).

Death and Destruction: John Brown and

abolitionist supporters kill five home-

steaders in Franklin County, Kansas

(May 23); the Great Train Wreck of

1856— the worst railroad calamity in the

world to date—occurs near Philadelphia

(July 17); hurricane destroys Last Island,

Louisiana, where four hundred die

(August 10).

Famous Firsts: The first free public school

west of the Mississippi River is established

in Tipton, Iowa (January); Kate Warne, the

first female private detective, begins work

at the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

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was merely acting to protect the citizenry, Brandeis responded, "Experience should teach

us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are benefi-

cent . . . The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,

well-meaning but without understanding."

The phrase "the right to be let alone" and the name of Brandeis are invoked in almost every

constitutional decision involving the right to privacy, which is now a staple of American law.

Brandeis's influence on American life and law had even further impact after the United

States entered World War I in 1917. h was the American electorate's first experience of a full-

scale war against foreign foes, and the country panicked. There was widespread fear of an

enemy within. The United States had experienced an enormous influx of immigrants in the

first decade of the twentieth century, and "native " Americans—those born on U.S. soil

—

were dubious about their loyalty.

The years leading up to the war also saw massive labor unrest, causing speculation about

whether the dissatisfied workers, many of them immigrants, would support the war effort or

become a subversive element. President Wilson and the Congress enacted the Espionage

Act—legislation that made it criminal, among other things, to utter anything meant to

obstruct the war effort or to use negative language about the form of government of the

United States, its Constitution, its flag, or the uniform of the Army or Navy. Almost 2,200

RETRAC^j^aBRANDEIS'S STEPS

BY TAMAR MORAD

Acentury after Louis D. Brandeis

trod the cobblestone streets of

Boston, where he lived and

worked, a pack of Brandeis alumni

retraced the former Supreme Court justice's

likely daily route. Despite the city's growth

since Brandeis's death in 1941, his personal

major landmarks still stand, and fans took

Upon his return to Boston from St. Louis, Brandeis

made hiis home at 21 Joy Street on Beacon Hill.

pleasure getting a peek at them during a one-

hour October stroll.

The Louis Brandeis Walk was part of a

celebration marking 150 years since Justice

Brandeis's birth on November 13, 1856. The

yearlong festivities kicked off October 20

through 22 with a weekend of activities that

included a panel of Brandeis alumni judges

discussing the legacy of the remarkably influ-

ential jurist for whom the university is named.

One of those panelists, Massachusetts

State District Court Judge Jonathan Brant

'68, of Newton, Massachusetts, came up with

the idea for the walk as part of the alumni

leadership weekend, which he was responsi-

ble for organizing.

The walk's theme, says Brant, was "Justice

Brandeis goes to work," so the outing followed

the path Brandeis would have taken from three

houses he lived in over the course of his years

in Boston to the places where he worked. It

began at the Charles Street Meeting House,

which was in existence during Brandeis's life-

time, and continued to 6 Otis Place, where he

lived from 1900 to 1916 before being elected

to the U.S. Supreme Court and moving to

Washington, D.C., to serve the nation's highest

court for twenty-three years. From there, walk-

ers continued to 114 Mount Vernon Street,

where Brandeis lived from 1 890 to 1 900, and

trudged up Beacon Hill to 21 Joy Street, where

he resided after returning from St. Louis.

The tour wound around the State House,

where Brandeis spent time advocating for or

protesting the passage of various legislation, to

the Union Club, a still-existing organization

of which he was a member; once a men's-only

club, it was established to support the Union

during the Civil War.

The trek's final leg took walkers past the John

Adams Courthouse. Brant admits he has no

"hard evidence" Brandeis went to that court-

house, but says, "It was a key local courthouse

and, since Louis Brandeis practiced law in

Boston, he almost certainly needed to go there."

The walk ended on Devonshire Street, where

Brandeis's law firm, Warren & Brandeis, was

located at three different addresses at various

points in time. (The firm evolved into today's

Nutter, McClennen & Fish).

Brant, who admits to being "a Justice Bran-

deis enthusiast, " says he was able to identify

the major landmarks mainly via the Internet,

the university libraries' special collections unit,

and biographies.

"I was always a constitutional law and

history lover, and Brandeis was obviously an

important figure in that world," says Brant,

who, like Brandeis, attended Harvard Law

School and practiced as an attorney before

becoming a judge in 1992.

Tamar Morad is a freelance writer living in

Waltham.

22 Brandeis University Magazine I Kail "06

Brandeis (right) shares a moment with Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in

Washington. D.C.. in the early 1930s.

prosecutions were brought under the act, resuhing in 1,055 convictions. One man was con-

victed for saying, "Wilson is a wooden-headed son ot a bitch. I wish Wilson was in hell, and

if I had the power I would put him there."

The Rev. Clarence H. Waldron of Windsor,

Vermont, was sentenced to fifteen years for

handing pacifist pamphlets to five people.

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes wrote to the Kijmas

City Star that "no government which is for

the profiteers can also be for the people, and

I am for the people while the Government is

for the profiteers." The judge sentenced her

to ten years in prison.

A few of the people convicted for their

speech managed to get their cases to the

Supreme Court in 1919, by which time the

war was over. Justice Oliver Wendell

Holmes Jr. then declared that Americans could be jailed for their speech only if it presented

a "clear and present danger." He did not define "clear," or "present," or "danger," however,

but wrote decisions for the Court upholding the convictions of a man who printed a pam-

phlet calling the draft unconstitutional, of two others who wrote that the war served the

interests of big business and England rather than the common people, and of labor leader

Eugene Victor Debs, who preached socialism and told a jury, "I abhor war."

Still relatively new to the Supreme Court, Brandeis quietly acquiesced in the 1919 deci-

sions, but he later told his friend and protege Felix Frankfurter, "I had not then thought

the issues of freedom of speech out— I thought at the subject, not through it." Afterward,

he did begin to "think through" the function of speech in a democratic society.

UNLOCKING THE SILENCEA year later, in 1920, the nation was still on edge, Irightened both by the success of the

Russian communist revolution and by continuing labor unrest. Fear of "foreign ideas" was

SPEAKING OUTON POLITICALMATTERS, BRANDEISSAID, WAS NOTONLY A PRIVILEGE,IT WAS ARESPONSIBILITYOF EVERY CITIZEN.

OTHER NOTABLEPERSONS BORNIN 1856

John Singer Sargent

American-born artist

January 12

Frederick William Vanderbilt

American railway magnate

February 2

Booker T. Washington

American educator

April 5

Henri Philippe Petain

French soldier and statesman

April 24

Sigtnund Freud

Austrian psychiatrist

May 6

L. Frank BaumAuthor ( The Wizard ofOz)

May 15

Nikola Tesla

Inventor, physicist, engineer

July 10

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright

July 26

Richard B. Haldane

British politician and statesman

July 30

Louis Henri Sullivan

American architect

September 3

Woodrow Wilson

U.S. president

December 28

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Brandeis and his wife. Alice, pose outside their

summer home in Chatham. Massachusetts, on

Cape Cod. around 1938.

endemic. At the end of 1919, A. Mitchell Palmer, Wilson's attorney general, deported

more than 200 Russian-born radicals, including the outspoken Emma Goldman. In Janu-

ary 1920, Palmer rounded up another 6,000 people, and the foreign-born among them

were expelled from the country.

That was the climate when the Supreme Court decided the cases of five men who pub-

lished a German-language Philadelphia newspaper; four Albany, New York, socialists who

circulated a pamphlet charging that the war was a capitalist ploy; and a Minnesota man

who asserted in public that the average person had not been allowed any voice about

whether the United States should have become involved in World War I or a draft

imposed. They were all convicted under the Espionage Act, and the Supreme Court

upheld the convictions.

Brandeis dissented. Speaking out on political matters, he said, was not only a privilege;

it was a responsibility of every citizen, because "in frank expression of conflicting opinion

lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action; and in suppression lies ordi-

narily the greatest peril."

What this meant for Holmes's concept of "clear and present danger" would be spelled

out in 1927, when the Court upheld the conviction of a socialist imprisoned for having

been present at a meeting ot the Communist Labor Party. Writing separately in Whitney v.

California, Brandeis articulated the compelling philosophy that underlies American speech

jurisprudence today. Saying in effect that the reasons were not his alone but lay behind the

thinking of the Founding Fathers, he embarked on a description of speech and the demo-

cratic process.

Those who won our independence . . . believed thatfreedom to think as you will and to speak

as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread ofpolitical truth; that without

free speech and assembly discussion would befrtile; that with them, discussion affords ordinari-

ly adequate protection against the dissemination ofnoxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to

freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a

frmdamentalprinciple of the American government . . . they knew that order cannot be secured

merely through fear ofpunishmentfor its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought,

hope, and imagination; thatfear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces

stable government; that thepath ofsafety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposedgriev-

ances andproposed remedies; and that thefitting remedyfor evil counsels is good ones.

A JUBILEE Y]f/\jR̂ANDEISA yearlong celebration is under way on the

Brandeis campus to commemorate rhe 1 50th

birthday of Louis D. Brandeis, whose life

inspired the university's founding mission.

"The relentless pursuit of 'truth, even unto its

innermost parts' characterizes the intellectual

expedition students undertake at Brandeis,"

President Reinharz said.

Academic symposia, art and archival exhi-

bitions, a birthday reception, and other

events throughout the Justice Brandeis

Jubilee year will honor the legacy of the late

U.S. Supreme Court justice, who throughout

his life exemplified intellectual inquiry, pro-

moted social justice, and championed broad

learning in the arts and sciences as one of the

fundamental values of a democracy.

Following is a partial list of activities that are

firee and open to the public. For more informa-

tion about Louis Brandeis and the Justice

Brandeis Jubilee, visit brandeis.edu/jubilee.

Louis D. Brandeis 150th Birthday Recep-

tion and Unveiling ofAndy Warhol's Louis

Brandeis, Monday, November 13, 7:30 to

9:00 p.m., Shapiro Campus Center atrium.

Justice Brandeis Jubilee Academic

Symposium, spring 2007, time and place

to be determined.

Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits ofJews ofthe

Twentieth Century, through May 25, 2007,

Faculty Club. Call 781-536-4280 for hours.

Louis D. Brandeis Special Collection

Exhibit, winter 2006 through spring 2007,

Goldtarb Library, Level 2.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis

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when, then, could the government punish dangerous speech? "Fear of serious injury"

wasn't enough. Instead, Brandeis argued that "to justify suppression of free speech there

must be reasonable ground to fear that serious evil will result if free speech is practiced.

There must be reasonable ground to believe that the danger apprehended is imminent."

lurther, Brandeis argued, if there was time enough for good speech to answer bad speech,

then the bad speech had to be allowed:

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards . . . They did not exalt

order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of

free and fearless reasoning applied through

the processes ofpopular government, no dan-

gerflowingfrom speech can be deemed clear

and present, unless the incidence of the evil

apprehended is so imminent that it may

befall before there is opportunity forfull dis-

cussion. If there be time to expose through

discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to

avert the evil by the processes of education,

the remedy to be applied is more speech, not

enforced silence.

The vague "clear and present danger" test

was transformed into a test ofwhether a seri-

BRANDEIS ARGUEDTHAT IF THERE WASTIME ENOUGH FORGOOD SPEECH TOANSWER BADSPEECH, THEN THEBAD SPEECH HADTO BE ALLOWED.

ous danger to the state itself was imminent.

Advocacy of a bad idea did not meet the test; hateful speech did not meet the test. Advocacy

and hatefulness had to be allowed so that the citizenry, which Brandeis absolutely believed

would see the truth sooner or later, could consider all ideas, pick the ones that served them

best, and rebut the others. The attorney who had learned so much from exposure to ideas and

new facts was insistent that all citizens had to have the same access to competing ideas that

had served him so well. The Supreme Court finally adopted Brandeis's formulation in 1969,

rwenty-eight years after his death, thereby giving the United States the world's most-

permissive speech laws.

SHARING THE BALLOT BOXAnd that business about women's suffrage? Brandeis, who had become deeply involved

in reform movements, worked with women like Josephine Goldmark and social worker

Jane Addams and saw what they could do in public life. He also saw women workers

—

like Mrs. Elmer Gotcher—who were extraordinarily vulnerable. They needed a way to

protect themselves.

Admitting to his initial conservatism, he said in 1912, "From having been of the opin-

ion that we would advance best by leaving voting to men, I became convinced that we

needed all the forces of the community to bring about this advance." He added later that

he was convinced "not only that women should have the ballot, but that society demands

that they exercise the right. " He presided over a meeting of the Boston Equal Suffrage Asso-

ciation at which Jane Addams was the main speaker and went on to campaign for women's

suffrage alongside his daughter Susan.

Brandeis dared to explore new ideas and respond to new social facts, changing his ideas

when that was warranted. His life as an active citizen immersed in the matters of the day

led him to enunciate doctrines that are central to American law and jurisprudence today.

He altered the very way constitutional cases are argued and decided, so that law is able to

keep up with this nation's ever-mutating societal realities. He articulated the right to priva-

cy that is increasingly crucial in the age of technology. In language that continues to res-

onate, he spelled out the need for a democratic citizenry to have free access to all ideas.

In doing so, he leaves quite a legacy and a challenge—not only for this country but for

those of us who are alumni of the university that bears his name.

Philippa Strum is director ofthe Division ofUnited States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Inter-

national Centerfor Scholars and Breuklundian Professor Emerita ofPolitical Science at the City

University of New York. Her numerous books include Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the

People; Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism; (Z^d' Brandeis on Democracy.

Impressed by the achievements of womenlike Jane Addams (above) and Josephine

Goldmark. Brandeis became a strong supporter of

women's suffrage.

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Brandeis University

Postal Card, $1.25

This rwenty-cent postal card, designed

by Richard SheafF and produced by

Artmaster Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky,

was issued in 1998 to commemorate

the fiftieth anniversary of Brandeis

University. Part of the Historic Preser-

vation series, the first-day-of-issue card

features sketches of Louis Brandeis and

Usen Castle. It was purchased from a

dealer in Flushing, New York.

50th Anniversary

Brandeis University

FIRST DAY OF ISSUE

MEMORABILIA OF THE UNIVERSITY'S NAMESAKEIS PLENTIFUL AND AFFORDABLE

DOING BRANDEIS'S

Brandeis Photo Trade Card, $1.95

This four-inch-by-six-inch collectible, part of

the Grolier "Story of America" photo trade card

series, was produced in 1995 as an educational

tool for children inrerested in American history.

Each card in the series contains a portrait of a

"great American" on the front and the

individual's biography on the back. Brandeis's

bio extols him as "the people's attorney" and

"one of the courr's great liberal thinkers.

"

There is perhaps no better way in the modern era to gauge a person's

popularity or importance than to troll eBay for memorabilia and col-

lectibles focusing on that individual. By this measure, Louis D. Brandeis's

legacy Is secure. From post cards and magazines to trading cards and

commemorative plates, we discovered that items bearing the late justice's

likeness are plentiful yet affordable. Here's some of what we purchased

over a two-month period during the summer.

Justice Louis D. Brandeis1856-1941 "The People's Attorney'

He was the first Jew ever appointed lo

the United States Supreme Court, andhe was called the "people's counsel." Alifelong advocate of social legislation,

Louis Dembitz Brandeis devoted his

energy and intellect to the Americansystem of jurisprudence.

Bom in Louisville, Kentucky, onNovember 13, 1856, Brandeis was the

son of immigrants from Prague, Czech-oslovakia. Even before graduating fromHarvard Law School in 1877. he hadbuilt a reputation in legal circles as a

scholar of unsurpassed brilliance: in-

deed, his academic record at Harvardremains one of the yardsticks by whichits law students are measured. In 1879

Brandeis established a law firm with

Samuel D. Warren, Jr., a former class-

mate, and by the time he reached 40

Brandeis was wealthy enough to de-

vote much of his time to promotingpublic causes, often serving without

pay. He was, for example, the unpaidcounsel in a case against the Equitable

Life Assurance Society of New York in

I90S which resulted in a new system of

savings bank life insurance designed to

protect the average man. He also led

the fight against "organized capital"

and was constantly standing up against

monopolies and trusts, which he con-

sidered enemies of the free-enterprise

system. Brandeis also became involved

in the field of labor relations, arbitrat-

ing the New York garment workers'

strike of 1910.

In 1912 Brandeis joined WoodrowWilson's team, advising him and cam-paigning for him during Wilson's suc-

cessful run for the presidency that year.

As a result, Wilson nominated Bran-

deis to the Supreme Court in 1916, al-

though months of debate were required

before the Senate finally confirmed the

nomination. Conservative members of

Congress and the American Bar Asso-

ciation did not like Brandeis's liberal

views, and there was an unspoken prej-

udice against his being a Jew. During

his 23 years on the Court, Brandeis wasgenerally aligned with Justice Oliver

Wendell Holmes. Their support of var-

ious liberal positions often resulted in

the regulation of public utilities on be-

half of the common man. Brandeis also

wrote an important dissent in the case

of Olmsiead v. United Stales, in whichhe declared that wiretapping by Federal

officers in violation cf state law wasillegal.

By the time he retired from the

bench on February 13, 1 939, Brandeis's

firm stand in support of the progres-

sive movement had won the respect of

his peers and infiuenced policymakers.

He died two years later on October 5,

1941, at the age of 8S.

Illustration: Justice Brandeis, one of the Court's great liberal thinkers

C 1979, Pirunion Publilhino Corp. USAlllutt us. Supreme Court

Commemorative Plate, $14.16

This handsome gold-rimmed plate, purchased from a

dealer in Franconia, New Hampshire, was minted

by the well-known china maker Taylor, Smith,

and Taylor for the Brandeis centennial dinner on

October 22, 1956, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in

New York. The adorning Brandeis quotes read, "Let

no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent

with patriotism" and "There is no inconsistency

between loyalty to America and loyalty to Jewry.

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Time iVIagazine, $14.99

A sketch ot Brandeis, produced by Charles

Barmore of Princeton, New Jersey, graced the

cover of this July 7, 1930, issue of Time

magazine, purchased from a dealer in Fall

River, Massachusetts. The related story inside

reports on the differences between Brandeis

—

already an associate justice on the U.S.

Supreme Court—and rival Louis Lipsky over

Zionist economic principles.

Brandeis Centennial

Commission Coin, $9.95

his bronze coin, with Justice

Brandeis's likeness on the front,

was authorized by an act of

Congress and struck by the

United States Mint to mark

November 13, 1956, as the

one hundredth anniversary

of Brandeis's birth. It was

purchased from a dealer in

Long Beach, California.

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ACHANGEJIEThe scene is a small trailer home

tucked away in the Smoky Moun-

tains of western North CaroHna.

Douglas Newman '94 and I wait

patiently with our cinematographer for our

host, the noted Cherokee storyteller and

artist Freeman Owle, to finish carving a

wooden bird he's been working on for a

week. After twenty minutes, Owle puts

down his chisel and ambles over to the couch

to discuss with us the legacy of Forrest

Carter, one of the most well known and

widely read Cherokee authors.

Although he has been dead for more than

rwenty-five years. Carter's best-selling memoir.

The Education ofLittle Tree, continues to touch

people's lives. It is, in fact, required reading in

many multicultural literature classes across the

nation. Published in 1976 by Delacorte Press,

the book recounts the idyllic life of an

orphaned boy learning the Way of the

Cherokee from his sage Native American

grandparents in the hills of Tennessee. Carter's

chronicle was lauded by critics for its authen-

tic portrayal of the American Indian experi-

ence, and it became a hot seller in Indian

reservation bookstores across the nation. Yet in

1991, after sales oi Little Tree had topped half

By Laura Browder, PhD'94

a million copies, an op-ed piece in the NewYork Times broke the news: the critically

acclaimed Cherokee memoir was a fake.

Not only was Forrest Carter not the Native

American he claimed to be, but he had

walked a long and very different path as the

professional racist Asa Carter. Even Carter's

new first name, readers learned, had been

taken from Nathan Bedford Forrest, who

founded the original Ku Klux Klan. Articles

on Little Tree's identity appeared in

Newsweek, in Time, and in Publishers Weekly.

Fans of the book were shocked, as were

friends from Forrest's later years in Texas, for

whom he would, after a couple of drinks, per-

form Indian war dances and chant in what he

said was the Cherokee language.

In the 1950s, Asa Carter had founded five

chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, whose members

brutally attacked black citizens throughout

Alabama. As George Wallace's speechwriter.

Carter had penned the Alabama governor's

infamous "segregation today, segregation

tomorrow, segregation forever" speech. In fact.

Carter's racist beliefs were so extreme that in

1970 he split with his old boss, accusing

Wallace of being "a sellout to the Negro." Yet

less than five years later he was on Today, being

RACEAlumni filmmakers follow the tracks of

ethnic impersonators—elusive characters

who have managed to reinvent their own

histories and heritage.

Illustration by Irena Roman

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THE N/JIV YORK TIM I:

A CHANGE OF RACE

introduced by Barbara Walters to the Ameri-

can public as the "soulful and sensitive voice

behind The Education ofLittle Tree"

For editorialists across the country, the

exposure of Forrest Carter was an occasion for

soul-searching. And for Douglas and me.

Carter's story became the basis of a project

that has consumed us for more than two

years. Our collaborative effort. Gone to Texas:

The Lives ofForrest Carter, is a feature-length

documentary film about this charismatic,

frightening—and perhaps completely trans-

formed—man.

S OP-ED rKIUAV. IHTIilllK r. It'll

The Transformation of a KlansmanBy Dan T. Carter

sATI-ANIA

^urpn^ing bcsl sellers

often provide pul>

llshtnR's swwiestones. " begun u

lory llul appearedin USA Tod«y on

Tuesday atxiol Ihc nonriruon paper-

baek hll o( the summer, Tile Edurn-

Uon ol llltiv Tree'

FIrsI published In l>)76 hy Dela-

corlc Press and rcpi inted In 1986 by

the University ol New Mexico Press,

the lale Forrest ("arters nentle mem-oir o( bis Native American childhood

has remained In first or second place

on The New York Times paperback

bestseller list for H weeksAdolescent and ndull readers have

warmed to the uphdmft story of howthis well known writer of westerns —author of "flic Rebel Outlaw Jo.sey

Wales" and "Cry Geronlmo" andfriend of Clint Eastwood — came to

know the wisdom of his Cheroktx-

ancestors In the wake of the success

of 'Dances With Wolves," there is

even talk of a Hollywood Itltn

Unfortunately, "The Education of

Little Tree" Is a httax Tile carefully

constructed mask of Forrest Carter— Cherokee aiwboy. self-taught writ

cr and spokesman far Native Amen-cans — was stioply the last fantasy of

.% man who retnvenled himself attain

and ag^tln In the ;tO years that preciK]-

ed his death in 1979

His real name was Asa (Ace) Earl

Carter We share a i^mmon Southern

hentafte &tvi he may be a disiani

relation ol mine Between \M6 and

1973. the Alatu ma native carved ool a

violent carcH-r in Southern politics as

a Ku Klux Klun lerrorlsl, nght-wtni:

radio announcer, home-j^rown Ameri-

can fascist and anti-Semite, rabbit^

Though Alabama lournalist

Wayne Greenhaw first labeled

Forrest Carter as a fake after the

ex-Klansman's TV interview with

Barbara Walters in 1975, the

deception was not widely

recognized until the New York

Times "exposed" the hoax in its

1991 op-ed piece.

Gone to Texas had its inception more than a

decade ago, when we were introduced, as Bran-

deis students, by American studies professor

Tom Doherty. Doherty, who was Douglas's

thesis adviser and the third reader on my disser-

tation, put Douglas in touch with me when I

was a grad student beginning to work on a

project about ethnic impersonators—people

who for one reason or another discard their

birth identities and remake themselves in the

guise of new ethnicities. So, in spring 1993, I

served as a talking head for Douglas's thesis

project, an extremely low-budget documentary

film based on the strange story of Asa Carter,

white supremacist-turned-Cherokee author.

Since his graduation from Brandeis, Douglas

has spent most of his time producing docu-

mentary films for A&E, Discovery Channel,

the History Channel, and the independent

production company Blueprint Film Group.

He also received a master of public administra-

tion degree from New York University and has

worked in nonprofit management for film and

jazz music organizations. I went on to teach in

the creative writing program at Virginia

Commonwealth University and to write books,

including Slippery Characters: Ethnic Imperson-

ators and American Identities. I have also

directed community-based oral history theater

projects modeled on work I did at Brandeis

with Professor Joyce Antler of the American

studies program.

I was busy writing a new book about

women and guns in spring 2004 when I got a

phone call from Douglas, who was interested

in producing a documentary based on Slippery

Characters. Soon we decided to collaborate on

a series of films about Asa and some of the

other shifty characters from my research, and

before 1 knew it I was working as writer and

coproducer while Douglas produced and codi-

rected our first project.

To begin, Douglas and I partnered with

independent filmmaker Marco Ricci to help

develop the visual style and structure of the

film. We agreed that what makes Asa—AKAForrest—so alluring is a deep sense of mystery.

In an effort to get to know him, we needed to

uncover layer upon layer of self-created fic-

tions. We believed that the visual style of the

film should reflect Carter's "slippery, layered

truths " and should move seamlessly in and out

of fact and fiction, past and present. To help us

bridge different eras, we developed a camera-

mounting system that piggybacked an old-

fashioned Super 8 film camera on top of a

digital video camera. When we recorded, the

two cameras picked up the same image and

camera movement, allowing us to edit them

together to create a seamless transition from a

modern video aesthetic to an archival film

aesthetic. This effect gives the sense of a mem-

ory taking the viewer back in time. We also

incorporated actual newsreel film from the

1950s through the 1970s in order to blur the

line between fact and fiction. To connect dif-

ferent historical moments even further, we

manipulated the color, temperature, and grain

structure ot the film to impart a timeless qual-

ity. Landscapes, archival photographs and film,

and original music by acclaimed producer and

composer Pete Anderson contributed context

and mood. Since Carter wrote his autobiogra-

phy and novels in his "adopted" voice, the

original manuscripts play an important visual

role. These faded te.xts come alive through the

use of special graphic effects. Recited excerpts

from The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Educa-

tion of Little Tree are also integral elements of

the film. We cast actors who could bring alive

these texts with their distinctive voices.

Forgoing traditional narration, Douglas and

I decided to have Carter's story told largely in

the voices of the people who knew him best,

thereby providing unprecedented access into

the lite of this enigmatic man. We set out to

meet and interview a range of fascinating peo-

ple, including friends in Texas and Alabama,

business associates from Delacorte Press and in

Hollywood, and members of George Wallace's

inner circle. To place the story in its historical

context, we also incorporated the reflections of

scholars and historians.

In Montgomery, we spoke to WayneGreenhaw, the Alabama journalist who had

first exposed Forrest Carter as a fake after

Carter's 1975 interview with Barbara Walters

('Tolks called me up and said, 'I saw old Asa

on the TV yesterday,'" Greenhaw explained).

As we sat together on the gleaming marble

steps of the Alabama State House, across the

street from the Dexter Avenue Baptist

Church, where Martin Luther King Jr.We agreed that what makes Asa so alluring is a deep sense

of mystery. In an effort to get to know him, we needed to

uncover layer upon layer of self-created fictions.

preached some of his most gripping sermons,

Greenhaw recalled George Wallace's 1963

inauguration and the part Asa Carter played in

his political success.

In New York City, we interviewed Diane

McWhorter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning

author of Carry Me Home^ who was able to

paint a vivid picture of Alabama politics of

the 1950s and 1960s and to recapture the

shadowy cabal of violent racists who enforced

the genteel system of oppression. Howell

Raines, a retired executive editor of the NewYork Times, shared stories from his life as a

young reporter in 1950s Alabama, where Asa

Carter had been founding White Citizens

Above, prior to reinventing himself as

the Cherokee writer Forrest Carter,

racist agitator Asa Carter (mth nght

hand raised), made his presence felt

throughout the South; here, he

addresses youngsters in Clinton,

Tennessee. Lower left, "Forrest"

Carter favored casual dress, facial

hair, and a Western-style hat with

Native-American insignia.

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When Delacorte released

Carter's phony memoir in 1976,

complete with a cover illustration

of its author as a young child,

few would have guessed the

narrator was a virulent racist

responsible for spreading hatred

in the Deep South.

A ZU Rook

A TRUE STOBY (IV

Forrest Carter

A CHANGE OF RACE

Councils and building his own chapters of the

Ku KJux KJan—reportedly because he felt

existing chapters were insufficiently extreme.

In Columbia, South Carolina, we spent a

day in the law office ofTom Turnipseed, direc-

tor of George Wallace's 1968 national cam-

paign. Turnipseed shared his memories of the

days when Wallace was beginning to burst onto

the national scene. He also spoke of the subse-

quent time when Wallace began distancing

himself from embarrassing extremists like

Carter who had been instrumental in building

his political career. Turnipseed, now a

personal-injury lawyer and former state sena-

tor, cried as he recounted his own conversion

from segregationist to antiracist activist.

We went to Abilene, Texas, to interview

friends who knew Carter not as the Klansman

he had been in a previous incarnation but as

in a bedroom following Carter's crude passes

at the ten- and thirteen-year-olds. Weyr was

able to place Carter in the context of the NewYork publishing world of the 1970s: although

he appeared naive, she said, "he played us all

very effectively."

This was the conclusion as well of Bob

Daley, the producer of The Outlaw Josey

Wales, the acclaimed Clint Eastwood movie

based on Carter's first novel. Daley, a leg-

endary producer who spent fifty years work-

ing in the film industry, painted a portrait of

Carter as a man who offered him great com-

fort during the months when Daley's father

was dying—but who was also capable of

sending Daley a vituperative letter full of anti-

Semitic and racist slurs.

In Irvine, California, autobiography scholar

James OIney talked with us about how to read

As scholar James OIney reminded us, Carter's book

challenges our ideas about ethnicity, about the

autobiographical "I," and about the very notion of self.

the Cherokee author of the best-selling

memoir The Education of Little Tree. In this

tiny, windswept town, we talked with

Theron Palmer, Forrest Carter's publicist; Bill

WTiitaker, a journalist with the Abilene

Reporter znd Waco Tribune-Heralds Chuck and

Betty Weeth, friends of Forrest Carter; and

Bruce Marshall, a friend of Carter and the

illustrator of the ethnic impersonator's

planned follow-up to Little Tree.

In Cherokee, North Carolina, storyteller

Owie spoke of The Education of Little Tree in

the context of Cherokee narratives and tradi-

tions. In the cozy Tribal Grounds coffeehouse

and Lift Cultural Center, the center's codirec-

tor, an energetic young artist named Natalie

Smith, talked about her own reading of Carter's

"autobiography" and about what it means for

the best-known Cherokee text to be a fake.

We passed a wonderful evening in Boothbay

Harbor, Maine, with Rhoda Weyr, Forrest

Carter's agent, and her husband Fred Kaplan,

who served us a delicious dinner in their house

in the woods. The next day, Weyr narrated the

hair-raising tale of the night Carter spent at

her apartment—an evening that began with

his casual use of a racial epithet to describe a

worker in her apartment building and ended

with her barricading her four young daughters

Little Tree in the context of other American

autobiographies, noting how all autobiogra-

phers, to some degree or another, creatively

reconstruct their memories as a crucial part of

the process of building narrative. As OIney

reminded us. Carter's book, like the many

other ethnic impersonator autobiographies

published in the United States since the

1840s, challenges our ideas about ethnicity,

about the autobiographical "I," and about the

very notion of self

Of course, much of our work on Gone to

Texas: The Lives ofForrest Carter has involved

not only traveling, interviewing interesting

people from all walks of life, and brainstorming

script ideas, but also the seemingly endless

work of fundraising. We have been fortunate to

get support from the Virginia Foundation for

the Humanities, the Alabama Humanities

Foundation, and private donations.

To date, we have shot over three quarters of

the film and hope to use funds from two

pending grants to edit a rough cut this fall. In

September 2005, an eighteen-minute work-

in- progress promo of Gone to Texas was

screened as part of the IFP Market, the pre-

mier industry showcase for new independent

films. The film was one of fifty documen-

taries-in-progress selected nationwide and was

highlighted in the October 2005 issue of

Filmmaker magazine as one of the two most

talked-about documentaries showcased at the

market. Potential buyers found the story of

Carter's Hfe to be a bizarre and riveting tale, a

case where truth is stranger than fiction.

European and American broadcasters alike

saw it as a uniquely American story.

The two years we have worked on this

project have brought us down many deserted

country roads and through a lot of airports

and have left us waiting in coffee shops for

interview subjects who never showed up. Yet

they have also allowed us to understand more

and more about this peculiarly American

story of race and reinvention.

Although Douglas, now development

director for the Houston-based nonprofit

Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, and I

often agree that documentary-making is not

entirely compatible with holding down a full-

time job, we have been having a wonderful

The two years we have worked on this project have

brought us down many deserted country roads and

through a lot of airports and have left us waiting in coffee

shops for interview subjects who never showed up.

time with this project. Recently, we won the

Lawrence W. Towner Award from the Illinois

Humanities Council, which also gave us a

generous grant to use for our next film. The

Jazz Life of Mezz Mezzrow. This project

focuses on the child of Russian-Jewish immi-

grants who in the 1930s turned his back on

Judaism and began redefining himself as an

African-American jazz musician, eventually

persuading the government to reclassify him

racially as black. During our research for the

film, Mezz's biracial son, Milton Mezzrow Jr.,

surprised us by revealing that his father had

urged him to have a bar mitzvah celebration.

Maybe there really is a limit on self-invention.

Long before limnjng the ways of

tfie Cherokee, Asa Carter (fop)

penned Alabama Governor

George Wallace's infamous

slogan, "Segregation today,

segregation tomorrow,

segregation forever" In 1970,

Carter split with his old boss,

accusing Wallace of being "a

sellout to the Negro."

Fall '()(>I Bramlcis lliiivtTsilv Magazine 33

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To a Brandeis

neuroscience pioneer,

lobsters and crabs

are not just items on

a seafood menu

By Laura Gardner

THE

What does the lowly crustacean

Homarus americanus have in com-

mon with the lofty Society for

Neuroscience, the most prestigious and fastest

growing professional association in its field?

They are both deeply respected and champi-

oned by Brandeis neuroscientist Eve Marder

'69, who this month becomes president-elect

of the 38,000-member scientific society, in no

small measure because of her groundbreaking

discoveries about neural circuits in lobsters

and crabs.

Marder, who will take the reins as president

in 2007, comes to power at a time when the

slings and arrows of partisan politics increas-

ingly target scientific research. Particularly

vulnerable to public debate are issues near and

dear to neuroscientists: the use of animals in

research; the future of stem cell research; and

the teaching of evolution in school.

How she exploits the international bully

pulpit of her presidency—a position held pre-

viously by several Nobel Prize winners

—

remains to be seen. But one thing seems

certain: she will bring to this job the kind of

energy that has won her international recogni-

tion as a pioneering neuroscientist.

A SINGULAR VOICE AND VISION

At fifty-eight, Marder, the Victor and

Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuro-

science, biology department chair, and mem-ber of the Volen Center for Complex

Systems, has already won many accolades,

including two lifetime achievement awards

for her contributions to neuroscience.

Her achievements are not the result of

playing the hare in the scientific race to be first

with a breakthrough on a "consensus" prob-

lem—a big scientific challenge that attracts

many labs and researchers and much notoriety.

Rather, Marder's approach has been more,

well, lobster-like, but with a twist. The real-

ization as a young scientist that she didn't

care to pursue the challenges occupying

legions of researchers brought her freedom to

pursue fundamental questions relevant to all

nervous systems.

"I realized as a graduate student," she says,

"that I didn't want to do experiments that

would be done by others if I didn't do them.

Rather than winning a race to be first, I

wanted to contribute through my own voice

and vision to reshape the way we think

about something."

Her strategy posed some risk. Without a

large community working on the same or sim-

ilar problems, it's difficult to get to ground-

breaking experiments, and, even if you do, it's

hard to get everyone else's attention. Despite

those obstacles, Marder's research has indeed

led to several milestones in neuroscience.

EXAMINING

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fNAVIGATING NEURAL NETWORKS

Marder studies a group of neural networks

called central pattern generators (CPGs).

These circuits generate organized and repeti-

tive motor patterns that underlie the walking,

breathing, swimming, flying, and other rhyth-

mic behaviors that creatures from earthworms

to humans take for granted.

Early on, Marder demonstrated that neural

circuits are not unchangeable or "hard-wired,"

as scientists had thought, but are continually

reconfigured or "tuned" by neuromodula-

tors—chemical substances such as hormones,

amines, and peptides.

Some neuromodulators, including norepi-

nephrine, serotonin, and dopamine, alter the

activity of neural circuits, producing different

behavioral effects. Marder's research in this

area has helped reshape the way scientists

think about conditions such as depression,

now thought to result from imbalances in

neuromodulation.

"Eve has shown the world how flexible and

variable neural circuits can be, even when they

seem to be performing relatively fixed roles,"

says Columbia neuroscientist Larry Abbott,

who has collaborated with Marder for years.

Similarly, her research on CPGs is nour-

ishing bold new approaches to treating spinal

cord injuries through strategies that aim to

restore at least some function.

Although an experimentalist by training,

Marder has worked for years with theorists

—

including Abbott, a former Brandeis neurosci-

entist with whom she pioneered the dynamic

clamp, a novel tool that uses computer simu-

lation to study neural systems at the cellular

and circuit levels. Today the clamp is a stan-

dard tool of neurophysiology, used to eluci-

date the function of neural circuits.

FOOD FOR THOUGHTMore than three decades into her research

career, Marder has over the last fifteen years

been wrestling with a conundrum that may

well devour the rest of it. How do neural cir-

cuits maintain stability over the lifespan, essen-

tially maintaining form and function, while in

the short term rebuilding and renewing them-

selves? She likens this process, known as neu-

ronal homeostasis, to building an airplane that

lifts off, flies, and lands while at the same time

its countless component parts—screws, tran-

sistors, lights—are being changed continually.

"Eve has an uncanny ability to spot the

most scientifically relevant questions, find a

feasible and intuitive way to address them in a

'simple' invertebrate system, and then inter-

pret the results and findings in a 'big picture'

way that teaches us about brains in general,

not just about the lobster stomach," says

Emory University professor Astrid Prinz, a

former postdoc of Marder.

THE WARRIOR PRINCESS

Scientifically relevant, but just enough off the

beaten path to establish unequivocally her own

vision: it's hard to imagine the soft-spoken but

authoritative biologist taking any other

approach to scientific discovery. Even before she

came to Brandeis as a freshman in 1965, at the

height of the Civil Rights movement and the

burgeoning Vietnam War, Marder had all the

makings of what she calls a "conservative mav-

erick." A straight-A student with outstanding

board scores and strong interests in math and

science, she nevertheless entered college bent on

pursuing a career as a civil rights lawyer. By the

end of her freshman year, she had declared her

major in politics, jazzed by a phenomenal polit-

ical science course.

But a subsequent psychology course in which

the professor raised the possibility of a biologi-

cal basis for schizophrenia morphed into a per-

sonal intellectual quest for Marder, who

hungrily researched the question in a soup-to-

nuts paper and decided to go to graduate school

to study neuroscience. At the end of her senior

year, while some of her friends joined hippie

communes, Marder packed up for the Univer-

sity of California, San Diego, which had just

that year (thanks to the end of most graduate-

school draft deferrals) opened its doors to more

women. The class before Marder's included two

women out of thirty students; hers included

thirteen women out of thirty.

Even though Marder felt supported in her

doctoral work, in retrospect she believes she

was subjected to the routine harassment many

women scientists of her generation endured.

"One of my first rotation advisers made a

habit of telling me I should quit graduate school

and get married and have six babies. After the

twentieth or so such lecture, I told him I was

spending the rest of my rotation in the library,

because it was clear he didn't want me in his

laboratory. But it never crossed my mind to take

his comments seriously," Marder remembers.

These days, perched on a table behind

Marder's cluttered desk, a campy, life-size

cardboard cutout of Xena, the Warrior

Princess, stands battle-ready lest any visitor

need a reminder of the power of women.

MARDER THE MENTOR

By all accounts a natural-born mentor, Marder

has been panicularly dedicated to advancing

the careers of women in science and neuro-

science. Her career at Brandeis, where she

began twenty-eight years ago as an assistant

professor, is proof positive. More than a third of

students and postdocs in her lab have been

women, a high number in the male-dominated

fields of computational biology and neurophys-

iology, and many of those women are now run-

ning their own successful research laboratories.

"Eve has had a major intellectual influence

on me and my work," says Brandeis neurosci-

entist Gina Turrigiano, who was a postdoc in

Marder's lab before becoming a world-class sci-

entist in her own right researching cortical neu-

rons and their properties. "One of the major

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"As long as I can ask an important biological question

that is better addressed with crabs and lobsters, it

makes sense to continue with them. When the mouseand rat researchers catch up, I'll have to come

up with something more Interesting."

new ideas floating around Marder's lab was the

idea of neuronal homeostasis—the notion that

neurons had regulatory mechanisms that

allowed them to keep their firing properties rel-

atively constant. This idea was very new and

exciting and has had a major influence on the

direction of research in my own lab. Many of

the problems I study in the cortex are direct off-

shoots of this idea."

SHELLFISH WITH SHELF LIFE

Marder has succeeded masterfully in a career

studying the nervous systems of lobsters and

crabs, even while acknowledging that technical

advances in neuroscience and genetic tools

often make it more sensible to study the nerv-

ous systems of vertebrates. Apart from worms

and fruit flies, which are still highly favored

model organisms, Marder admits "it is not an

accident that the scientists using invertebrate

systems have become a smaller fraction of the

neuroscience community."

"Many times, well-meaning colleagues have

urged me to move to a vertebrate preparation.

My answer is that as long as I can ask an impor-

tant biological question that is better addressed

with crabs and lobsters, it makes sense to con-

tinue with them. When the mouse and rat

researchers catch up. 111 have to come up with

something more interesting," she says.

In fact, the crustacean nervous system has

been studied for the better part of a century

precisely because its neural terrain is simple

and well understood. "The appealing feature

of CPGs and rhythmic motor output is that

you know when it's working and when it's not

working; CPGs are among the few places

where the circuit outputs are understand-

able—and the problem is understanding how

circuit networks work," says Marder.

CATALYZING DISCOVERY IN NEUROSCIENCE

The human nervous system plays home to

several billion neurons and several trillion

interconnections that ceaselessly transmit

information in countless, complex networks

overwhelmingly beyond our ken. By contrast,

the nervous system of Homarus americantis,

otherwise known as the American lobster,

contains the stomatogastric ganglion (STG),

which consists of only about thirty large neu-

rons whose interconnections are well under-

stood and whose output is easy to measure. In

the STG, central pattern generators drive the

rhythmic action of the lobster stomach.

These spiny, prehistoric-looking creatures are

among the many non-mammalian species, from

worms to birds, "catalyzing discovery in neuro-

science," Marder wrote in a 2002 article in

Nature. Each model organism is studied because

of the peculiar insight it offers into a specific

characteristic common to all nervous systems.

The beauty of CPGs in vertebrates as well

as invertebrates is that they can generate

rhythmic activity even in the absence of

sensory feedback from higher-order neurons.

Meaning, you can isolate the nervous system

from the lobster, mouse, or chick, and the

CPGs will still produce rhythmic movement.

In the research lab, this makes CPGs an ideal

preparation for manipulating neural circuits

to learn how they work.

NEURAL CIRCUITS TO SPINAL RECOVERY

In the real world, this makes CPGs of growing

interest to scientists researching recovery after

spinal cord injury. Historically, scientists

believed that walking was less dependent on

spinal cord CPGs than it was upon instruc-

tions from the brain, so they reasoned that

without input from the brain it would be

almost impossible to restore mobility. Writing

in Nature, Marder asserted, "In principle, some

rhythmic movement could be reestablished

below sites of spinal cord lesion if the appro-

priate neuromodulatory environment were

supplied to the central pattern-generating cir-

cuitry in the spinal cord."

Marder's research was instrumental in

helping shift thinking about spinal cord recov-

ery to investigate further the potential ofCPGneuromodulation in restoring function. This

broad new direction was championed most

famously by Superman actor Christopher

Reeve. "In the last decade, experts started to

realize that if you want to encourage recovery

of function for walking, the best strategy

is weight-supported treadmill and bicycle

training that tries to reproduce rhythmic

movement," says Marder.

Similarly, Marder's work on neuronal home-

ostasis provides epilepsy researchers with a new

way to think about this condition. This current

interest is a grand challenge that has grown

directly out of her long focus on the simple

neural circuitry of crustaceans. But it would

seem to lead directly to a very "big picture"

understanding of neural networks.

THE DOMAIN OF THE UNKNOWNHow does the human brain retain the capac-

ity to learn, while at the same time main-

taining the essential structure of the net-

works that allow for sensation and action?

Writing in BioEssays, Marder framed the

conundrum this way: "While the circuits

that allow you to recognize and name a sim-

ple object—for example, a tree—perform

impeccably for scores of years, the compo-

nents of the networks that do so are con-

stantly rebuilding themselves."

Although she confesses she has no real

answers to this biological puzzle yet, she has

been able to pose some essential questions

and—as usual—ignite interest among other

neuroscientists in this area.

A pioneering voice and vision in neuro-

science, Marder is right at home, as she puts

it, "in the domain of the unknown, where we

are all powerless."

Laura Gardner is a university science editor.

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Passaic High Sciiooi • Passaic, New Jersey • Major: Biology/premed

High school highlights: Was class

salutatorian; member of National Honor

Society; president of the Teen Institute of the

Garden State (drug/alcohol abuse prevention)

and Z-Club (activism and volunteering);

coordinator of Asian Fusion, a cultural show;

volunteer at the Passaic Beth Israel Regional

Medical Center for three years.

Three people I admire: Angelina Jolie and

Drew Barrymore—they may seem like

shallow, pop-culture "role models," but their

work with the impoverished, diseased, and

others less fortunate than ourselves has

inspired me to do what I can to help as well

—

and Gandhi, because he is the greatest thing

that ever happened to this earth. Well, almost.

Why I chose Brandeis: Its proximity to

Boston, great academic reputation, and

small size.

Other schools on my short list: Boston

University, Brown University.

Job I hope to attain: I'd like to open myown clinic in Kenya, Malaysia, India, or some

other exotic place—or all of the above—and

volunteer with Doctors Without Borders.

Favorite books: Lemony Snicker's A Series

of U>ifortunate Events (all thirteen of them),

the Harry Potter series (all six of them), and

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Surprising fact about me: I was just

sixteen when I started college; I turned

seventeen on September 23. Also, I was born

in Kenya and lived there for nine years.

One thing I'd change about America:

Erase the concept of violence out of our

consciousness.

Ten minutes of fame: I'm writing a series

of articles focusing on my first-year college

experience for the Herald Neu's, the

newspaper of northern New Jersey.

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GORDON MILLNERHighland Park High School • Highland Park, New Jersey • Major: Undecided

High school highlights: Was captain of the Other schools on my short list:

soccer team as well as a member of the varsity American University, Lafayette University,

track-and-field and tennis teams; volunteered Rutgers University, University of

as a peer mediator; served as class treasurer. Massachusetts, Amherst.

Three people I admire: Tennis star Andre

Agassi, former South African president Nelson

Mandela, and the late actor Christopher Reeve.

Why I chose Brandeis: It has a reputation

for producing great scholars and successful

adults, and the faculty are very prestigious

and qualified. I also like the fact that it's a

small school.

Job I hope to attain: Public defender or

an elementary school teacher.

Favorite book: Tuesdays with Morrie by

Brandeis graduate Mitch AJbom.

Surprising fact about me: I really enjoy

working with kids.

One thing I'd change about America:

I'd eliminate the country's "disunity"—why

can't everyone just get along?

Ten minutes of fame: As a junior in high

school, I appeared on an NBC prime-time

special with Katie Couric called The 411:

Teens and Sex. I was one of twenty teens from

around the country selected to participate in

the show.

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AWKDuluth Central High School • Duluth, Minnesota • Major: Physics, politics

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High school highlights: Made movies for

the local public access channel; wrote and

read poetry for local poetry slams; played

tuba and composed music; managed three or

four clubs (including the school branch of

Amnesty International); and wrote quite the

short story about chemical war machines in a

lost Aztec city.

Three people I admire: Hunter Polanka

(scariest kid I ever knew); Banksy, the British

master of stencil graffiti; and Jim Hightower,

a populist activist.

Why I chose Brandeis: h's an interesting

school, and the academics are great.

Other schools on my short ^tst:

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities;

and Yale University.

Job I hope to attain: Tuba-playing,

astrophysicist president?

Favorite book: The Myths ofMagic: The

Gathering Anthology edited by Jess Lebow

(and no, I have not read very many books).

Surprising fact about me: There is a

tattoo somewheres on the back of my head.

One thing I'd change about America:

Disperse our monstrous economy, or maybe

make our secondary schools into worthwhile

educational tools. Oh, snap.

Ten minutes of fame: There's an insult

that goes, "Yo face!" I created that. I was the

first person ever to go, "Yeah, well, yo face!"

It's the ultimate insult. I'll have you know I

was a hometown hero for that. Good times.

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Middlesex High School • Middlesex, New Jersey • Major: Undecided

High school highlights: Ranked first in

class; captain of the soccer, basketball, and

track teams; volunteer for the local recreational

soccer program; finalist, Wendy's Heisman

High School Award; displayed photography in

the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey.

Three people I admire: Al Gore, Bono,

and Smokev Bear (he prevents forest fires).

Why I chose Brandeis: It has everything

I wanted: a smaller school with great

academics and athletics, opportunities for

anything you can imagine, the people are

friendly, and the campus is beautiful.

Other schools on my short list: Amherst

College, Brown University, Clark University,

Vassar College, Wesleyan University, and

Yale University.

Job I hope to attain: I can't even begin

to imagine.

Favorite book: A tie: The Princess Bride by

William Goldman and Lamb: The Gospel

According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by

Christopher Moore.

Surprising fact about me: For the 2004

Olympics, I ran a leg of the torch run in

New York City.

One thing I'd change about America:

I'd eliminate political parties, because they're

dividing our country in ways that aren't

representative of peoples' views.

Ten minutes of fame: I was featured,

along with other students from my area, in

a newspaper article about my role as high

school valedictorian and my future goals.

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Francis Lewis Higin Sciiool • Rego Park, New Yorl< • Major: Economics

High school highlights: Captain of the

men's fencing teani for three years (ranked

thirteenth in the country as a junior) and

coach of the girls team for one; active

member in the Boy Scouts, holding the rank

of Life; devoted neuroscience researcher, com-

pleting an INTEL science research paper;

played saxophone in the concert band; and

served as a lifeguard at a country club.

Three people I admire: New York Times

columnist Tom Friedman, as an individual

who takes ordinary circumstances and makes

you see the issue from a global/economic

perspective; Al Gore, for creating AnInconvenient Truth that will make the whole

world see why the war on time is impossible

to win; and Woody Alien, for making a

unique line of mysterious comedy.

Why I chose Brandeis: The tremendously

strong social science program, in terms of

economics, and the intense fencing program.

Other schools on my short list:

New York University.

Job I hope to attain: I see myself being an

economic analyst, discussing trends and

futures, and analyzing what would be the

systematic effect of everyday occurrences.

Favorite book: The World h Flat: A Brief

History ofthe Twenty-First Century by

Tom Friedman.

Surprising fact about me: I was prom

king in high school.

One thing I'd change about America:

Ld eliminate the need tor upper class and

lower class to alleviate the tension and

debate that now exists between classes.

Ten minutes of fame: 1 was featured on a

New York 1 "Scholar Athlete of the Week"

segment, where I was interviewed about the

experiences that fencing has brought.

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Our Dolls. Our SelvesWhen is a poppet not just a plaything?

Whether they are little girls'

beloved companions or treasure

troves of memories embodied in

raggedy keepsakes, dolls claim a cherished

place in the human heart. For the Western

psyche, they are a vehicle for play. But in

the complex ancient culture of Japan, dolls

assume innate powers that are thought to

protect, absorb anxieties, and even provide

marital bliss in the world of the spirit.

Listen to Ellen Schattschneider, associate

professor of anthropology and women's and

gender studies, and you will be drawn into

an arena filled with spiritual meaning

honed over centuries. In her current book

project. Facing the Dead: Japan and Its Dolb

in the Mirror ofWar, Schattschneider exam-

ines the significance of dolls and human fig-

urines in Japanese culture.

Drawn toward the Far East in high

school by an affinity for the patterns in

exotic textiles from Indonesia and South-

east Asia, Schattschneider began to study

ikats, fabric used for burial shrouds that

identify ancestors in the pattern. Before

becoming a sociocultural anthropologist,

she worked as a textile artist and designer,

organizing indigenous textile cooperatives

in the northern Philippines, studying

kimono weaving in Kyoto at Kawashima

Textile School, and curating textile arts

exhibitions in North America and in

the Philippines.

"I loved the combination of the tactile

qualities of textiles and weaving with

painterly techniques," explains Schatts-

chneider. "This was an aesthetic system

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completely different from anything I grew

up in or knew anything about."

But it was the custom of attributing

meaning to the fabric that most intrigued

her. The ascribing of power to inanimate

objects—from textiles to dolls— is a theme

that continues to permeate her research.

Schattschneider graduated from Sarah

Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York,

and earned a PhD at the University of

Chicago. Since 1991 she has been focusing

on the Tsugaru region of northern Tohoku,

Japan, where she has traveled many times.

During 2003-04, while a Fulbright scholar

in Japan, she conducted field and archival

research on memories of the Pacific War,

with particular attention to kamikaze pilots.

Those aviators carried with them "mascot"

or "keepsake" dolls on their final missions

during 1944-45. Fashioned from used

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kimono fabric or scraps of cloth, these icons

were produced by the thousands in the

1930s and early 1940s by women and girls

who sent them to servicemen in active duty

and to wounded soldiers in military hospi-

tals. According to Schattschneider, they sym-

bolized the female presences in the warriors'

lives, were thought to have curative powers,

and embodied images of domesticity, safety,

and the home front. A pilot would hang a

doll from his instrument panel and talk to it

in flight; as he looked into the face of the

doll, he would see his mother, sister, or wife.

At one level, Schattschneider says, these

dolls, many of which survive in museums,

are manifestations of the widely reported

Japanese tradition in which "dolls have a

kind of soul and carry the identity, motiva-

tion, or essence of the person who has

made, given, or owned them."

Schattschneider is similarly fascinated by

what she calls "bride doll marriages."

While doing research in the mountains of

northern Japan, she visited Buddhist tem-

ples that looked ordinary from the outside,

but inside she found separate structures

built only to house beautiful bride dolls.

Families come once each year to open the

box and refresh the contents—updating

photos and mementos—and have a kind of

sad picnic with the bride doll and the

deceased in spirit. At the end of three or

four decades, everything in the box

is destroyed, releasing the spirit so it

can transmigrate.

There are also contexts in which dolls

have a happy connotation. In one annual

spring custom, girls make dolls that are piled

up in boats. As the dolls float down the river,

they take away with them ail anxieties and

problems, explains Schattschneider.

Dolls have also been used as offerings of

good will. In the International Friendship

Doll Exchange of 1927, twelve thousand

blue-eyed dolls were sent to Japan from the

United States with passports and letters of

introduction. Japan reciprocated by sending

elaborate dolls to the United States. During

World War II, though, the Western-style

dolls were denounced as enemy dolls, and

all but about three hundred of them were

publicly burned, decapitated, or stabbed

with bamboo spears.

Surprisingly, Schattschneider did not

play with dolls as a child. She was a tomboy,

she says, often outdoors catching butterflies

with her two younger brothers in a suburb

of Washington, D.C., and later in Prince-

ton, New Jersey.

Teaching and research, though, are

in her genes; her grandfather, political

scientist and Wesleyan College professor

E. E. Schattschneider, may have inspired

her interest in the complexity of the

human endeavor.

"Dolls are thought to have a kind of soul and carry the

identity, motivation, or essence of the person who has

made, given, or owned them."

"The unmarried deceased man,"

Schattschneider explains, "has been

denied a spouse, so the family offers him a

wife in the form of a bride doll that is

encased in a box with a photograph of the

deceased and other memorabilia, pre-

served in the temple. This is thought to

allow the couple to live a happy married

life. There's also a belief the doll will pro-

tect the family as the deceased would have

if he were still alive."

For her, the challenges that make her "sit

up and take notice" are those that involve

exploring a different context linguistically

and culturally. "I like putting myself in an

utterly strange environment in which I'm

basically functioning like a child. That's

very humbling, and also a privilege," she

says. "There's always a puzzle—always

something that doesn't make sense."

Marjorie Lyon is a stajfwriter.

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Honorable MentionExploring a seventeenth-century Spanish treasure. By Carrie Simmons

Whether to escape embarrassment, defend oneself against

an accusation of weakness, or avenge a wrong, people

throughout history have gone to great lengths in the

name of honor.

In contemporary society, so-called honor killings of women who

have disgraced their families are on the rise in some cultures, peo-

ple commit suicide rather than face public shame or humiliation,

and men and women murder their cheating spouses.

The Brandeis Theater Company this month will perform a

shocking and compelling drama by Spanish playwright and poet

Pedro Calderon de la Barca that is considered to be one of the great-

est "honor dramas"—plays of the Spanish Golden Age that make

reputation and dignity central issues.

Set during the fourteenth-century reign of King Pedro of Castile,

The Physician of His Honor reveals just how far some will go to

guard their honor.

Don Gutierre, the play's protagonist, descends into obsession

and murder after he begins to suspect that his wife is having an

affair with Prince Enrique, King Pedro's half-brother. Prince

Enrique pursues Don Gutierre's wife, Doria Mencia, despite her

protests. When he finds evidence the prince has been in their home,

Don Gutierre concludes that the only cure for his sick honor is the

death of his wife—even though she has never been unfaithful.

" The Physician ofHis Honoris historically significant and also rel-

evant to contemporary society," says David Colfer, managing direc-

tor of the Brandeis Theater Company. "Honor is not codified as it

was during the seventeenth century, but people today go to

extremes—even murder—to protect their public image, and

women still find their behavior being guided by societal pressures."

The Brandeis production of The Physician of His Honor is an

interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of Creative Arts

and the School of Humanities. The Brandeis Theater Company

will perform a new translation of Calderon's play by Dian Fox, a

professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and women's studies.

The play—a revision of her first translation with Brandeis poli-

tics professor Donald Hindley—cultivates strong ideas and opin-

ions in all who read it or see it performed, according to Fox.

'^The Physician of His Honor is recognized as one of Calderon's

finest and most perplexing plays," she says. "The main characters are

compelling and, like real people, contradictory in ways that bring

them to life with both a clarity and an ambiguity that are startling."

Like any literary classic, Calderon's play continues to be reinter-

preted. For more than 350 years, the writer was reviled for his trio

of wife-murder plays and what many thought was an endorsement

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Codirectors Eric Hill and M6nrca Vihao.

of husbands' violence against their wives. In recent times, critics

have begun to suspect that Calderon's honor plays were a condem-

nation of the honor code.

Fox's sense of the play has also evolved over the last ten years as

her scholarship in women's and gender studies developed. In partic-

ular, she has become interested in how masculinity and nationalism

come together to create violence against the wife in the play. King

Pedro ultimately pardons Don Gutierre in the name of honor, rein-

forcing violence and in particular violence against women.

The Brandeis Theater Company will use cutting-edge theatrical

technology to create a daring vision of cultural codes and the vio-

lence they can inspire. The set designs, lighting, sound, and cos-

tumes created by graduate students will be enhanced with

large-scale video projections to help set the tone as Don Gutierre's

world begins to close in around him.

"In the 1600s, it was a theater of language, passion, and ideas

with a simple physical presentation," says Eric Hill, artistic director

of the Brandeis Theater Company and codirector of the production

with Argentinean director Monica Vinao. "The scenery for this

production will be more abstract to enhance the mood that can be

lost in translation of poetic text."

The Department of Romance and Comparative Literature will

teach the original Spanish text oi El Medico de su honra in language

and literature classes. Yoko Nakatani, PhD'05, has composed an

original musical score for the production.

"This collaboration reaches in many directions, " says Hill. "It's what

the university does best, and I think it is represented well in theater."

The Physician ofHis Honor falls on the heels of two successful

interdisciplinary collaborations last season

—

The Suicide, a new

translation and adaptation of Nikolai Erdman's Soviet-era satire by

Russian literature professor David Powelstock, and The Bacchae, a

new adaptation of Euripides's classical Greek tragedy by Hill and

classics professor Leonard Muellner, accompanied by an original

musical score by music professor David Rakowski.

"Those collaborations have been more than the sum of their

parts," says Colfer. "It makes for much more interesting theater

for both artists and audiences and fulfills the mission of the

School of Creative Arts by uniting creative expression with aca-

demic inquiry."

The Physician ofHis Honor runs through November 19 in the

Spingold Mainstage Theater. Tickets are available by calling

781-736-3400. For more information, visit the Brandeis Theater

Company Web site (www.brandeis.edu/btc).

Carrie Simmons is a media relations specialist in the Office of

Media Relations.

Brandeis University Magazine I Fall "Ob

deissportswomen's basketball

That's Italian!Lady cagers find camaraderie, culture during overseas tour. By Adam Levin

It'snever easy tor members of the win-

ter sports teams to participate in one of

the rites of passage for college students:

a semester abroad. The women's basketball

team found a way to solve this problem for

not just one of its members, but the entire

squad—not to mention a few lucky coach-

es, administrators, and parents—when they

took a nine-day, eight-night tour of Italy in

mid-August. The Judges played two games

against European opponents, but it was not

basketball, but the camaraderie and the cul-

ture, that were the main focaJ points of

their excursion. ^

"The team approached me about doing an international trip a cou-

ple of years ago," coach Carol Simon said, "so we started fundraising

for it. It looked like we were only going to have enough money to get

to South America, but a very generous donation made certain that we

were able to get on the trip that we wanted from the start."

With the Judges headed to play pallacanestro in the shadows of

Rome, Florence, and Venice, Simon and associate head coach

Anthony Ewing had to teach the team the intricacies of the inter-

national rules of basketball. With a larger ball, a trapezoidal free-

throw lane, a deeper three-point shot, and a twenry-four-second

shot clock to prepare for, the Judges' practices the week prior to the

trip were slightly different from those held during the season. At the

same time, dribbling, shooting, defense, and the rest of the funda-

mental skills of the game are the same no matter where you are in

the world. The Brandeis players proved that.

Their first game came in Montecatini, a suburb of Florence. The

Judges led wire-to-wire in an 81-37 win over an Italian "Dream

Team" made up of players touring their own country much as Bran-

deis was. Three days later in Mestre, outside of Venice, Brandeis

took on Neso Lhke, a Slovenian squad. While these opponents

played tough defense, the Judges were even tougher, gaining a

61-34 victory behind twelve points from Courtney Tremblay '08.

Of course, it wasn't all about the games. The team's whirlwind tour

saw them in six major cities in a span of nine days. From Rome to

Milan to Florence to Pisa to Venice to Como, the Brandeis players

experienced a sampling of all that Italy had to offer.

From a 7:30 a.m. tour ot the Vatican to a sunny ferry ride to

Venice, from the picturesque funicular ride between Montecatini

Terme and Montecatini Alto to shopping on the Ponte Vecchio in

Florence, from trying to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling

over to a boisterous group photo in Como that aroused the neigh-

bors, the Brandeis women enjoyed every moment of their trip. "It

was a great bonding experience," said senior cocaptain Ali Chase 08.

"I've never been on a team this close, " added Malcolm. "And this

just served to bring us even closer together.

"

Adam Levin '94 is director ofsports information.

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The Avant-Garde andGeopolitics in Latin AmericaBy Fernando J. Rosenberg

224 pages, $27.95,

University of Pittsburgh Press

This book examines

the canonical Latin

American avant-

garde texts of the

1920s and 1930s in

novels, travel

writing, journalism,

and poetry and

presents them in a

new light as formu-

lators of modern

Western culture and

precursors of global culture. Particular

focus is placed on the work of

Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade

as exemplars of the movement.

Rosenberg, associate professor of

Latin American literature and culture,

provides a theoretical historiography

of Latin American literature and the

role that modernity and avant-

gardism played in it.

i-leartwood: The First

Generation of TheravadaBuddhism in AmericaBy Wendy Cadge

268 pages, $55,

University of Chicago Press

In this ethnographic analysis of one of

the three main branches of Buddhism,

Cadge, assistant pro-

fessor of sociology,

focuses on how

Theravada Bud-

dhism—with its

roots in ancient

Asia—is practiced in

contemporary Amer-

ica. Drawing on the

experiences of men

and women in

Theravada commu-

nities in Philadelphia and Boston, she

touches upon issues related to personal

identity, immigration, cultural assimi-

lation, and the nature of religion in

everyday life. In an advance review,

Robert Wuthnow, who teaches reli-

gious studies at Princeton University,

wrote, "Scholars who want an under-

standing of how immigration is

changing American culture cannot

afford to neglect this important book."

The Way into the Varieties

of Jewishness

By Sylvia Barack Fishman

250 pages, $24.99,

Jewish Lights Publishing

Fishman, professor of contemporary

Jewry and American Jewish sociology,

explores the religious

and historical under-

standing of what it

has meant to be

Jewish from ancient

times to the present

controversy over

"who is a Jew?"

Beginning with the

biblical period, this

book takes the read-

er period by period

through Jewish his-

tory to reveal who the Jewish commu-

nity included—and excluded—and

discusses the range of historical con-

flicts that Jews have dealt with inter-

nally, including rationalists, the

Karaites, and Jews lor Jesus.

The Way Into

theVarieties

of Jewishness

Alumni

Disney Speed Planner:

The Easy Ten-Step Programto a Perfect Walt Disney

World Vacation

By Justine Fellows '92

56 pages, $4.95, PassPorter

Are you looking for an easy method

to plan your vacation? Finding the

task of reading

guidebooks cover to

cover and digging

through Web site

layers daunting?

Follow Disney vaca-

tioner Fellows as she

develops a simple,

ten-step plan to

help you get your

vacation planned in

short order so you

can get on with your life. This

e-book may be purchased online at

passporter.com/wdw/speedplanner.asp.

Easy Labor: Every Woman'sGuide to Choosing Less

Pain and More Joyduring Childbirth

By William Camann '79 and

Kathryn J. Alexander

311 pages, $13.95,

Ballantine Books

Camann, director of obstetrical

anesthesia at the Brigham and

Women's Hospital in Boston and

associate professor ot anesthesia at

Harvard Medical School, teamed up

with medical writer Alexander to

persuade the expectant mother that

bringing a child into the world

doesn't have to hurt as much as she

thinks. Marketed as a "comprehen-

sive guide to pain

relief during labor

and delivery," the

book stresses prepa-

ration through

education in child-

birth, relaxation

techniques, and

medication options.

Apart from pain-

killing drugs and

the use of epidu-

rals, the authors

address alternative treatments like

water immersion, acupuncture, hyp-

nosis, and massage. Reviewer Penny

Simkin, author of The Birth Partner,

c\n> books

called the book "a detailed and read-

able presentation of maternal stress,

fear, and pain during childbirth."

Errors and Omissions

By Paul Goldstein '64

304 pages, $24.95, Doubleday

Goldstein, a Stanford law professor,

follows in the footsteps of attorneys

like John Grisham

and Scott Turow

with publication of

this legal thriller.

The first half of a

two-book deal with

Doubleday, Errors

and Omissions fol-

lows show-biz lawyer

Michael Seeley as he

gets mixed up in a

case that takes him

back into the

Hollywood blacklisting era and the

even darker world of Nazi-occupied

Poland. Customer reviews describe the

book as a page-turning whodunit

that's hard to put down.

Evidence of Things SeenBy Richard Wollman '83

65 pages, $12.95,

The Sheep Meadow Press

In his latest volume of poetry,

Wollman, associate professor of

English and co-

EVIDENCEOF THINGS SEEN

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director of the Zora

Neale Hurston

Literary Center at

Simmons College,

embraces subjects

that range from the

Holocaust to

weddings, from the

Bible to his NewEngland home. In

his comments on

the poet's earlier

book, A Cernetery Affair {Finkhmg

Line Press, 2004), Albert Goldbarth,

Bruiuleis University Magazine I Fall "06

RICHARDWOLLMAN

3f

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two-time winner of the National

Book Critics Circle Award, wrote,

"Richard Wollman is an erudite, well-

read man whose knowledge, instead

of distancing himself from the every-

day pleasures and woes of life, has

only more deeply rooted him in the

soil of our shared human stories.

"

Finding the Deep River

Within: A Woman's Guide to

Recovering Balance &Meaning in Everyday Life

By Abby Seixas '72

229 pages, $22.95, Jossey-Bass

If you can wait at a red light without

applying makeup or practicing Italian

verbs with a CD, this book is not tor

you. For the rest of us, Seixas has a

message: Slow down!

A psychotherapist in

private practice for

more than twenty-

five years, the author

runs workshops dur-

ing which she trains

participants to turn

away from their "to-

do" lists and heed

the quiet voice

inside. Instead of

"time out, " she urges

them to take "time in, " sink beneath

the surface, and learn to listen, feel,

and observe. Journaling and written

exercises are part of the process as

women take steps toward setting

boundaries, silencing their inner

critics, and living in the moment.

FiNDI NG

"DeepRiver^Within

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From Abraham to America:

A l-listory of Jewish

Circumcision

By Eric Kline Silverman '84

336 pages, $34.95,

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Silverman, a professor in the College

of Arts and Sciences at Wheelock

College, offers a comprehensive

overview ofJewish

circumcision

throughout history.

Beginning with

Genesis, the author

traces paradoxes and

tensions in biblical-

Jewish circumcision

as seen both within

Judaism and from

the dominant, non-

Jewish culture. Top-

ics include rabbinic literature, early

Christianity, medieval notions of

menstruating Jewish men and the

blood libel, the relic of Christ's fore-

skin, modern notions of the Jewish

body and Jewish manhood, and the

current debate over Jewish and rou-

tine medical circumcision in America.

Going Dirty: The Art of

Negative CampaigningBy David Mark '95

280 pages, $24.95,

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Mark, former editor-in-chief of

Campaigns & Elections magazine,

presents a history of negative cam-

paigning in American politics and

an examination of how candidates

and political consultants have

employed this

often-controversial

technique. The

book includes case

studies on notable

races throughout

the television era in

which new negative

campaign strategies

were introduced, or

existing tactics were

refined and ampli-

fied. It also outlines

a series of political races in which

negative campaigning has backfired,

either because the charges were not

credible or the candidate on the

attack did not understand the politi-

cal sentiments of the local electorate

he was trying to persuade.

Golden Country: A Novel

By Jennifer Gilmore '92

336 pages, $25, Scribner

Spanning the first half of the twenti-

eth century. Golden Country brings

to life the intertwin-

ing stories of three

immigrants seeking

their fortunes—the

handsome and

ambitious Seymour,

a salesman-turned-

gangster-turned-

Broadway-producer;

the gentle and

pragmatic Joseph, a

door-to-door sales-

man who is driven

to invent a cleanser effective enough

to wipe away the shame of his

brother's mob connections; and the

irresistible Frances Gold, who grows

up in Brooklyn, stars in Seymour's

first show, and marries the man who

invents television. Their three fami-

lies, though inextricably connected

for years, are brought together for

the first time by the engagement of

Seymours son and Joseph's daughter.

How This Night Is Different

By Elisa Albert '00

198 pages, $18, Free Press

In her first book, Albert, who holds

an MFA in fiction from Columbia

University, defines herself in ten

provocative short stories. In book

jacket parlance, Albert "confronts

themes—self-depre-

cation, stressful

family relationships,

sex, mortality—that

have been hallmarks

of her literary pred-

ecessors. " In the

more direct lan-

guage of author

Erica Jong, Albert is

"the real thing

—

funny, perceptive.

quirky, and possessed of a unique

voice." Publishers Weekly says she

"explores traditional Jewish rituals

with youthful, irreverent exuberance"

and is "hilariously vulgar."

Let Today Be a Holiday: 365Ways to Co-Create with GodBy Rose Rosetree '69

369 pages, $18.76,

Women's Intuition Worldwide

You can do better than simply having

a conversation with God. Together,

you can co-create.

In her latest self-

help book, Rosetree,

AKA Laura Rosen-

baum, who special-

izes in face readings

and aura readings,

introduces readers

to a yearly cycle of

new understandings,

amazing explo-

rations they've never

thought of before,

and a deepening of work they've

already done. Daily pages are

grouped by theme, with a sequence

of eight think pieces—many of them

including techniques—plus a poem

for the final installment.

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deisbooks

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Woods, the retired

teacher of hterature

and creative writing

at Temple University

has pulled together a

new volume that

spans his Ufetime's

work. These seventy-

nine poems reflect

Braun's experiences

as an anti-Vietnam

War activist, as an

academic, and as an observer. A for-

mer FiJbright scholar whose writing

has appeared in Poetry, American

Poetry Rei/itw. Prairie Schooner, and

other literary journals, Braun

currently lives in Maine, where he

frequently gives readings.

Militarized Modernity andGendered Citizenstiip in

South Korea

By Seungsook Moon, PhD'94

254 pages, $22.95,

Duke University Press

This path-breaking study presents a

feminist analysis of the politics of

membership in the South Korean

nation over the past four decades.

Moon, associate professor of

sociology at Vassar College, exam-

ines the ambitious

effort by which

South Korea trans-

formed itself into a

modern industrial

and militarized

nation. She demon-

strates that the pur-

suit of modernity

in South Korea

involved the con-

struction of the

anticommunist

national identity and a massive

effort to mold the populace into

useful, docile members of the state.

This process, which Moon terms

"militarized modernity," treated

men and women differently.

Braiideis University Magazine I Fall Oo

Music in

Jewish History

and Culture

Music in Jewish l-listory

and Culture

By Emanuel Rubin, MFA'60, and

John H. Baron, PhD'67

420 pages, $70,

Harmonic Park Press

In fifi:een chronological chapters

reflecting cultural epochs, authors

Rubin, professor of Judaic studies and

music history at the

University of

Massachusetts,

Amherst, and Baron,

Schawe Professor of

Music at Tulane

University, explore

Jewish musical

expression. Topics

range from the per-

formance practices

of the ancient tem-

ple to music in

modern Israel and include songs of

the Holocaust, the klezmer tradition,

and the Yiddish theater. Since both

authors have extensive experience lec-

turing to general audiences, the book

serves both as a college text and as an

informative guide for the lay reader.

No Two Alike: Human Nature

and Human Individuality

By Judith Rich Harris '59

322 pages, $26.95, Norton

UDITH RICH HARRISA Pulitzer Prize

finalist for her

book The Nurture

Assumption, Harris

calls herself an

"independent inves-

tigator." In No Two

Alike, she explores

with humor, imagi-

nation, and exqui-

site storytelling

skills why people

vary as widely as they do in person-

ality and behavior. Examining the

nature-vs. -nurture question, birth-

order studies, and research linking

NO TWOALIKE

Human* Nature akdHuman iNorvroUALlTY

interactions between genes and

the environment, she concludes

none of those theories can solve the

mystery of human individuality.

Instead, after delving into neurolo-

gy, rwin studies, and animal behav-

ior analyses, she proposes her owntheory based on principles of

evolutionary psychology.

101 Things Everyone ShouldKnow about Science

By Dia L. Michels '80

and Nathan Levy

160 pages, $9.95,

Science, Naturally!

How much does a cup of water

weigh? What helped Beethoven

continue composing music after he

went deaf? Where do diamonds

come from.' If you didn't say half a

pound, vibrations

through the floor,

and carbon, better

check out this new

book coauthored by

Michels, science

educator and

founding president

of Platypus Media

in Washington,

D.C. Designed for

readers from ages

eight to 108, J 01

Things features playful graphics,

quizzes, and charts to illustrate its

points. Margaret Kenda, author of

Science Wizardryfor Kids, describes

this friendly volume as "fun,

accurate, and understandable."

Plastic Cameras: Toying

with Creativity

By Michelle Bates '91

240 pages, $29.95, Focal Press

Bates takes her readers on a tour of

the burgeoning world of toy cameras

and low-tech photography in this

first-of-its-kind book. Plastic Cameras

covers the history of the toy-camera

genre, provides extensive how-to

instructions for novice and advanced

photographers alike,

and recommends

resources to

continue exploring

the world of" toy

cameras. Bates dis-

covered the art form

about fifteen years

ago at the Maine

Photographic Workshops, where toy

cameras are used as a teaching tool.

She now gives workshops in her

home area of Seattle and elsewhere

around the country.

Rites and Passages: TheBeginnings of Modern Jewish

Culture in France, 1650-1860By Jay R. Berkovitz 73, MA77,PhD'83

333 pages, $49.95,

University of Pennsylvania Press

Berkovitz, professor of Judaic and

Near Eastern studies at the Univer-

sity of Massachu-

setts, Amherst, sets

the historic stage

for the emancipa-

tion of 1791, when

French Jews gained

full citizenship. Heillustrates how sev-

eral enduring para-

digms—including

the distinction

between rural and

urban communi-

ties, reliance on a strong lay leader-

ship, and heightened divisions

between popular and elite religion

—

emerged within the Jewish commu-nity prior to the French Revolution.

Viewing Jewish history through the

lens of ritual, the author draws on

previously untapped sources as he

documents the struggles of French

Jews to maintain their cultural dis-

tinctiveness while participating in

the larger social and economic life of

the society.

Room for ImprovementBy Stacey Ballis '92

294 pages, $13, Berkley Books

Ballis won the hearts and tickled the

fiinny bones of readers with her earlier

books. Sleeping Over and Inappropriate

Men. In Room for Improvement, she

blends whimsy and

romance with her

taste for home

improvement. Lead

character Lily, a

Chicago interior

designer and

Brandeis graduate,

stimibles disarmingly

through her ascent

to fame as a regular

on Swap/Meet, a TVreality show that

blends decorating, singles-matching,

and personal remakes.

Science Giants: Earth

and SpaceBy Alan Ticotsky 71156 pages, $16.95,

Good Year Books

In this appealing workbook aimed at

students in grades five through eight,

Ticotsky elucidates twenty-five of the

world's greatest sci-

entific discoveries

with activities,

illustrations, vocab-

ulary lessons, and

suggestions for

further study. Anelementary-school

science teacher in

Massachusetts for

more than thirty

years, Ticotsky has

worked as a science coordinator,

curriculum developer, and mentor to

other teachers in his school district.

He is also the author of Science

Giants: Life Science and Who Says You

Can't Teach Science? v/\uc\\ contains

1 1 8 experiments for grades four

through eight.

Single by Chance, Mothers byChoice: How Women Are

Choosing Parenthood

without Marriage and Creating

the New American Family

By Rosanna Hertz 75273 pages, $26,

Oxford University Press

A remarkable number of womentoday are taking the daunting step of

having children outside of marriage.

In Single by Chance,

Mothers by Choice,

Hertz, the Luella

LaMer Professor of

Sociology and

Women's Studies at

Wellesley College,

offers the first full-

scale account of this

fast-growing phe-

nomenon, revealing

why these middle-

class women took

this unorthodox path and how they

have managed to make single parent-

hood work for them. Hertz inter-

viewed sixty-five women, ranging

from physicians and financial ana-

lysts to social workers, teachers, and

secretaries, who speak candidly about

how they manage their lives and

families as single mothers.

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Sliding to the Right: TheContest for the Future of

American Jewish OrthodoxyBy Samuel C. Heilman '68

363 pages, $24.95,

University of California Press

Heilman, the Harold M. Proshansky

Chair in Jewish Studies and Sociology

at the City University of New York,

deJribooks

offers a snapshot of Orthodox Jewry

in the United States, asicing how the

community has evolved in the years

since World War II

and where it is

headed in the

future. In-

corporating rich

details of everyday

life, fine-grained

observations of cul-

tural practices,

descriptions of

educational institu-

tions, and more,

Heilman delineates

the varieties ot Jewish Orthodox

groups, focusing in particular on the

contest between the proudly paro-

chial, contra-acculturative haredi

Orthodoxy and the accommoda-

tionist modern Orthodoxy over the

future of this religious community.

Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart

People: An Interesting andAmusing Guide to Bioethics

By Arthur L. Caplan 71

210 pages, $21.95,

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This assortment of pithy, provoca-

tive essays from noted bioethicist

Caplan focuses on issues at the

center of the new genetics: cloning

in the laboratory and in the media,

stem cell research,

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experiments on

human subjects,

blood donation

and organ trans-

plantation, and

health-care deliv-

ery. Are new devel-

opments in these

areas good or bad,

right or wrong?

What are the

myths and truths

surrounding them? As these topics

heat up the political arena,

Caplan, director of the Center for

Braiuleis University Magazine I Kail 00

Bioethics at the University of

Pennsylvania, provides solid

information necessary to making

an informed decision.

The Trouble between Us:

An Uneasy History of Wtiite

and Black Women in the

Feminist MovementBy Winifred Breines, PhD79269 pages, $29.95,

Oxford University Press

Breines, professor of sociology and

women's studies at Northeastern

University, examines why black

women and white women idealisti-

cally committed to civil rights did

not band together in the 1960s and

1970s to form an interracial

women's move-

ment. Was the

mainstream

women's movement

racist? Were minor-

ity women too

caught up in Black

Power to grasp the

common concerns

that might connect

them to white fem-

inists? How did

social class, igno-

rance, and fear factor in? And how,

in the decades that followed, did the

two groups finally develop coopera-

tion and mutual admiration?

Brandeis UniversityPress

Jewish Roots in Southern

Soil: A New History

Edited by Eli Evans, Marcie Ferris

and Mark I. Greenberg

352 pages, $29.95

For years, historians have struggled

to define the southern Jewish expe-

rience and document its distinctive

culture. Jewish Roots in Southern

Soil examines this issue thoroughly

and adroitly through the voices of

a new generation of scholars of the

Jewish South. Each of this book's

thirteen chapters reflects a re-

sponse, with

particular attention

paid to new studies

on women and

gender; black/

Jewish relations

and the role of

race, politics, and

economic life;

popular and mate-

rial culture; and

the changes

wrought by

industrialization and urbanization

in the twentieth century. Essays

address historical issues from the

colonial era to the present and in

every region of the South.

The Songs That Fought the

War: Popular Music and the

Home Front, 1939-1945By John Bush Jones

338 pages, $29.95

Retired Brandeis theater professor

Jones demonstrates how popular

composers mirror the values and

spirit of our times.

World War II was

a fertile era for

Broadway and Tin

Pan Alley as radio

listeners thrilled to

songs like "I'll Be

Seeing You," "Boo-

gie Woogie Bugle

Boy,' and "Praise

the Lord and Pass

the Ammunition."

In the context of

their day, Jones examines hundreds

of sentimental, patriotic, or darkly

humorous songs whose subjects

embrace romance, war-hero worship,

army life, and coming home—or not

coming home.

mentmaTTersNew Law Provides

Giving Opportunity

Benefits those 70 1/2 and older

The new Pension Protection Act, which was

signed into law this summer, provides a

unique giving opportunity that could bene-

fit both donors and Brandeis.

The new law includes an individual retire-

ment account (IRA) rollover provision for

individuals who are at least seventy and a half

years old, allowing them to transfer up to

$100,000 per year to Brandeis (or another

qualified charity) directly from their IRA

without being required to report it as income

for federal income tax purposes. The provi-

sion is only effective until December 31,

2007, and covers the tax years 2006

and 2007.

"This IRA rollover provision provides a

wonderftjl opportunity for Brandeis sup-

porters to make a gift to the university that

would allow them to meet both their philan-

thropic and financial goals," said Nancy

Winship, P'lO, Brandeiss senior vice presi-

dent of institutional advancement.

The provision provides an exclusion from

gross income for an otherwise-taxable IRA

distribution and allows the amount rolled

over to count against a donor's minimumdistribution requirement. Due to the non-

taxable nature of the distribution, there is no

federal income-tax deduction available.

Previously, donors had to report a with-

drawal from an IRA as income and then

declare an offsetting income-tax deduction

for the charitable contribution.

"Now donors have an exciting new way to

support Brandeis and receive significant tax

advantages while doing so," Winship said.

For more information, call the Office of

Development at 781-736-4069.

Davis Family Endows Chair$3.5M gift will aid study of neurodegenerative diseases

Trustee Jonathan G. Davis '75 and his wife, Margot Trotter Davis, MA'05, made a

$3.5 million gift to establish an endowed chair to study the family of neurodegenera-

tive diseases that threatens to become the nation's leading public-health problem in the

twenty-first century.

The Harold and Bernice Davis Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease, to

be held by biochemistry and chemistry professor Dagmar Ringe, will investigate the

process and consequences of aging while seeking answers to the riddles of Alzheimer's

and Parkinsons.

"These diseases are not only devastating personally to the victims and their families,

but, as people live longer, they present a huge public-health challenge to our society,

"

said Davis, whose late

father had Alzheimer's dis-

ease. "The social cost of car-

ing for people with chronic,

debilitating cognitive dis-

eases is enormous. I amconfident that, through the

work being done at Bran-

deis, we will make signifi

cant contributions in tht

effort to develop cures foi

these diseases."

Said Ringe, "I am very

honored to be chosen for

this chair, especially since

our work on neurodegenerative diseases is going very well. The Davises' contribution

to advancing our research reflects their dedication to this important work and to

Brandeis as well."

The gift is part ot the Campaign for Brandeiss science initiative, a fijndraising eflxjrt

designed to maintain the university's leadership in scientific research and teaching

through new endowed professorships, student fellowships, and state-of-the-art equip-

ment and facilities. The centerpiece of the initiative is the 175,000-square-foot Carl J.

Shapiro Science Center.

The Harold and Bernice Davis Chair serves as a lasting tribute to Davis's parents.

His father, who died earlier this year, was his mentor and first business partner and,

together with Jonathan Davis's mother, instilled in him a deep commitment to the

pursuit of social justice.

"I know my dad would have been very proud, and my mother is very proud, to have

their names associated with this university," Davis said. "My children, my siblings, mywife, and I couldn't have found a more perfect way to honor my father and mother."

Bernice Davis with her late husband, Harold, P'75.

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FROM THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

A Lifetime of GivingJustice Brandeis's philanthropy should not be overlooked

As the university celebrates the 150th

anniversary of the birth of Louis D.

Brandeis with a yearlong Jubilee, it's impor-

tant to remember

the late Supreme

Court justice's rather

considerable philan-

thropic endeavors.

The on-campus

celebration will

rightly focus on the

principles of social

justice and academic

excellence that Justice Brandeis champi-

oned and still shape the university that

bears his name, but we should not overlook

his commitment to Jewish charities and

Zionist organizations, educational institu-

tions, and groups working to maintain civil

liberties and rights.

Jules Bernstein '57, an attorney in Wash-

ington, D.C., who has vast knowledge of

Brandeis's life, recently reminded us of the

famous quote about the university's name-

sake: "You've heard of the milk of human

kindness? He was the cow!

"

Indeed, Brandeis gave away about three-

quarters of his $3.2 million estate in his

will, according to the book Brandeis: AFree Man's Life. Brandeis left money for his

wife and two daughters, donating the

remaining 75 percent to many of his

favorite organizations.

Brandeis was also very generous during

his lifetime. From 1890 until his death, he

made donations of nearly $1.5 million. In

two different years, his donations totaled

more than $100,000.

It's clear that Justice Brandeis was both a

great man and a role model for social

activism and philanthropy.

—Nancy Winship. P'lO

Senior Vice President of

Institutional Advancement

Eleanor Rabb Remembered for Her Generosity, Support of Brandeis

The university mourns the loss of Eleanor

(Epstein) Rabb, a longtime supporter of

Brandeis whose generosity helped establish

the Norman S. and Eleanor E. Rabb School

of Continuing Studies and the Rabb Grad-

uate Center.

Mrs. Rabb, who lived in Boston and

Palm Beach, Florida, was a member of the

Brandeis Board of Fellows. She died on

July 16 at the age of ninety-four.

In Our Prayers

Our prayers for comfort on the passing of

Board of Fellows member Irvin Jaffe on

September 12.

Her husband, Norman, was a founding

trustee of Brandeis and served as board chair-

man from 1961 to 1967. He died in 1997.

The Rabbs were married for sixty-three years.

"Eleanor and Norman were passionate

supporters of Brandeis from the very earli-

est days of the university," Brandeis presi-

dent Jehuda Reinharz said. "The Rabbs

gave generously of their time, energy, and

resources in service to the Jewish communi-

ty and the betterment of the human condi-

tion. She will be sorely missed by Brandeis."

In addition to establishing the School of

Continuing Studies and helping launch the

graduate center with other members of the

extended Rabb family, the Rabbs also handed

the Norman and Eleanor

Rabb Endowed Scholar-

ships and the Norman S.

Rabb Cross Country

Running and Fitness

Course at Brandeis.

Mrs. Rabb is survived

by two daughters, Hope R.

Edison and her husband,

Julian, of St. Louis, and ^'^^"°^ ^^^^

Jane M. Rabb of Cambridge; four grand-

children; two great-grandchildren; and her

sister.

Contributions may be made to the Rabb

School of Continuing Studies, 415 South

Street, MS 126, Waltham, MA 02454.

ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT CONTACTS

Senior Vice President of

Institutional Advancement

Nancy Winship, P'lO

781-736-4002

winship@brandcis.edu

Vice President of

Development

Myles E. Weisenberg '78

781-736-4005

weisen@brandeis.cdu

Associate Vice President of

The Campaign for Brandeis

Susan Krinsky

781-736-4006

krinsky@brandcis.edu

Assistant Vice President of

Alumni and University

Relations

Karen A. Engelbourg '79

781-736-4107

kengel@brandeis.edu

Assistant Vice President of

Development

Mark Ableman

781-736-4051

mableman@brandeis.edu

Senior Director of

Corporation and

Foundation Giving

Robert Silk '90

781-736-4052

rsilk@brandcis.edu

Director of Development

Communications

David E. Nathan

781-736-4103

dnathan 1 @brandcis.cdu

Alt staffmay be reached at:

Brandeis University

Mailstop 122

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9848

THE CAMPAIGN FOR BRANDEIS

In Support of ScienceRecent gifts will help Brandeis maintain its leadership in scientific research and teaching

Several recent gifts have provided a major boost to the Campaign

for Brandeis's science initiative, a multiyear fiindraising effort

designed to maintain the university's leadership in scientific

research and teaching deep into the twenty-first century.

The science initiative is seeking fiinds for new endowed profes-

sorships, student fellowships, and state-of-the-art equipment and

facilities. The centerpiece is the 175,000-square-foot Carl J.

Shapiro Science Center.

The latest gifts include:

• Trustee Morton Ginsberg '56 made an unrestricted gift of

$3.5 million. Ginsberg was inspired to make his donation after

learning about the cutting-edge research being conducted at

Brandeis that may someday yield a cure to the plague of neurode-

generative diseases afflicting the world's aging population. "I was

so impressed with the scientific research being done at Brandeis,

particularly in the area of neurodegenerative diseases, " said

Ginsberg, whose mother suffered from Parkinson's and whose

father batded Alzheimer's.

• Convinced that the university is poised to continue to make

important scientific and medical research breakthroughs in com-

ing years, Brandeis friends Manny and Sheila Landsman made an

unrestricted gift of $2.5 million for the science initiative. "1 have

long had a very good feeling about the direction of the sciences at

Brandeis, " said Landsman, cofounder of American Power Supply

and a member of the Brandeis University Science Advisory

Council. "I have been impressed with the quality of the faculty

and the work being done at Brandeis, and 1 am so pleased with

the university's commitment to the sciences.

"

• Alex Barkas '68, chair of the Brandeis University Science

Advisory Council, and his vAfe, Lynda Wijcik, made a $1 million

gift to Brandeis, most of which will support the science initiative.

Doris and Ira Kukin, G'08, G'll

"With the science initiative, we now have in place a plan to com-

pletely update and reinvigorate the infrastructure of the sciences at

Brandeis," said Barkas, a California health-care venmre capitalist.

"Brandeis is well positioned to continue to make important research

breakthroughs and train the next generation of leading scientists."

• Ira Kukin, G'08, G'll, made a gift of $1 million to establish the

Kukin/Moskowitz Graduate Fellowship in Science and the

Kukin/Moskowitz Undergraduate Prize in Science. "Brandeis is a

wonderful institution with a sterling academic reputation and a

bright future," said Kukin, a scientist and inventor who founded

and serves as CEO ofApollo Technologies. Kukin's connection to

Brandeis goes back to its earliest days, when he was a college

friend of Howard Sachar, the son of Brandeis foimding president

Abram Sachar.

Manny and Sheila Landsman Trustee Morton Ginsberg '56 Alex Barkas '68 and Lynda Wijcik

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FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Donors Mean BusinessAnsin, Kessler endow fellowship in honor of founding IBS dean Petri

IBS founding dean Peter Petri (left) and Ronald M. Ansin.

The original plan called for the Peter Petri Global Fellowship to be named

in honor of one of the Brandeis International Business School s (IBS) most

generous benefactors.

"We proposed this concept to Ron Ansin as the Ronald M. Ansin Global

Fellowship," Petri remembered. "He said, 'That's a wonderful idea, but I just

want to make one change: I want to name it after you, not me.' It shows

something about Ron and his generosity."

And so was born the Petri Global Fellowship, which honors the found-

ing dean of IBS and the Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance.

Supported by the $1 million Ronald M. Ansin Fund, the Petri Fellowship

will be awarded each year to students from three different continents who

demonstrate exceptional scholastic ability, financial need, and leadership

potential.

Funding for the Petri Fellowship was secured through the generosity and

leadership ofAnsin and fellow IBS overseer Amy Kessler '89, MA'90.

Kessler provided a leadership gift and also helped rally her fellow IBS

alumni to make donations to the Petri Fellowship. More than 110 IBS

graduates have already made gifts, helping the fellowship grow to more

than $1.4 million, the school's largest scholarship ftind.

"1 wanted to honor what Dean Petri had created because IBS is such an

incredibly special place," Kessler said. "But I also wanted to ask other aliunni

to think about the scholarship aid that so many of us received and turn

aroimd to make it possible for others to attend IBS."

Ratner Establishes Journalism Scholarship

Michael Ratner '66 made a gift to establish

a ftill-tuition scholarship for a Brandeis stu-

dent interested in pursuing a career as an

investigative journalist.

The scholarship recipient will work

closely with the Brandeis Institute for

Investigative Journalism. Established in

2004 to help revitalize the practice of inves-

tigative journalism, the institute helps teach

students about investigative reporting and

its importance in serving as a check on gov-

ernment power.

"My view is that investigative journalism

plays a major role in a democratic society,"

said Ratner, a leading human-rights litigator

and president of the Center for Constitu-

tional Rights in New York. "Investigative

journalists uncover the stories that protect us

ftom goverrmient excesses and illegalities."

Ratner pointed to recent work by Jane

Mayer (extraordinary rendition) and Sey-

mour Hersh (Abu Ghraib), as well as Bob

Woodward and Carl Bernstein's stories on

Watergate in the 1 970s as evidence of the

important role investigative journalists have

played in bringing to light government

activities that might otherwise have escaped

the public's notice.

"We are so grateftil that Michael Ramer,

who has spent his life fighting injustice and

governmental wrongdoing, has chosen to

support Brandeis students committed to the

type of investigative journalism that is so cru-

cial to a healthy democracy," said Florence

Graves, director of the Brandeis Institute for

Investigative JournaUsm.

Ratner received a 2006 Brandeis Alumni

Achievement Award for his work on behalf

Michael Ratner '66

of those denied their hiunan rights around

the world. He won a landmark case involv-

ing Guantanamo Bay detainees before the

U.S. Supreme Court.

Brandeis Univcrsily Magazine I Fall '06

RECENT EVENTS

Brandeis Night in L.A.

Alumni from the Los Angeles area gathered at the home of

Hollywood producer Gary D. Goldberg '66. The event was

sponsored by the Justice Brandeis Society. ( Top left photo,

from left): Elisha Landman '95, Gina Miller '98, Lauren Warner

'02, Rick Licht '89, Tracey Wise '93, Bill Folman '98, and

Elizabeth Ellenson '99. (Top right photo, from left): Francesca

Segre '94, Laura Gilman '94, and Shana Aelony '9A. (Leftphoto,

back row, from left): Mark '55 and Judith Aionson '55, Chester

Zager '57, Judy Wolbarst Rothman '54, Fellow Burt Rosen '55,

Tani Sackler Krouse '57, and Fellow Richard Silverman '54;

(front row, from left): Gayle Posner '57, Tamar Soloff Brower '52,

and Lionel Lober '55.

Movie PremiereFilm student Scott Feinberg '09 (right)

interviews Hollywood producer Erwin

Stoff prior to the world premiere of

A Scanner Darkly, Stoff s much-

anticipated film based on the Philip K.

Dick novel of the same name.

Brandeis hosted the first screening of

the movie, which proved so popular

that a second screen had to be erected

outside the Shapiro Theater to

accommodate the overflow crowd. The

movie stars Keanu Reeves, Winona

Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert

Downey Jr., and Rory Cochrane.

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Early 55th ReunionMore than rwo dozen members of the Class

of 1952, which in June will become the first

in Brandeis history to celebrate its 55th

Reunion, gathered in the Berkshires this

summer. Along with their spouses and

friends, the group attended Tanglewood and

toured the region.

Crown Center ForumThe Crown Center for Middle East

Studies has initiated the Crown

Forum, a series of briefings with

Middle East insiders at Brandeis

House in New York. Left photo:V\a.ctx

Ney "8 1 and Susan Deutsch '62.

Right photo, from left: Trustee E. John

Rosenwald; Shai Feldman, Judith and

Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown

Center; and Carol Kekst, P'05.

Golf and Tennis Outing

The second annual Brandeis Golf and Tennis Outing, held at

Ridgeway Country Club in White Plains, New York, raised $100,000

for undergraduate scholarships. Left photo, from left: Sam Zimber,

Ed Stoppelmann '87, Andy Stoppelmann, and Ron Stoppelmann,

the net division winners. Above, from left: Charlie Fisch '87, Paul

Silberfarb '87, Kenny Smigel, and trustee Danny Elkaim '81.

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IBS ReunionInternational Business School alumni from

around the world returned to campus for the

All-Class Alumni Reunion, which celebrated

the 1,000th IBS graduate. Left photo: WAheAChilangwa Jr., '91, MA'92, and Peter Petri, the

Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International

Finance and founding dean of IBS. Right

photo, fi'om left: Tren Dolbear, the Clinton S.

Darling Professor of Economics and acting

dean of IBS; Provost Marty Krauss, PhD'81;

and Stuart Lewtan '84, an IBS overseer and

chair of the Dean's Global Business Council.

Brandeis in the BerkshiresPresident Jehuda Reinharz, PhD'72 (left),

and Fellow Harold Grinspoon, a major

supporter of Brandeis in the Berkshires,

listen attentively at the fifth annual

Brandeis in the Berkshires program,

which this year featured a weekend

symposium and four-day institute focused

on the Middle East.

Sachar Legacy SocietyNearly 1 50 people attended the annual Sachar

Legacy Society Luncheon, which honors people

who have included Brandeis in their estate plans.

Leftphoto, from left: Keynote speaker Robert

Sekuler, the Louis and Frances Salv^e Professor

of Psychology and Volen National Center for

Complex Systems, and hosts Sheila and Manny

Landsman. Rightphoto: Orla Kane, associate

director of leadership gifts in the Office of

Development, and Samuel Leech-Chandler.

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eveiopmentiiifSTUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Crown Center Gets a BoostLeir Charitable Foundations establish chair in economics

Eric Graber

The Leir Charitable

Foundations made a gift

of $3 million to establish

the Henry J. Leir Chair

in the Economics of the

Middle East at Brandeis.

The Leir Chair will

become a vital part of the

pioneering Crown Cen-

ter for Middle East Studies, which has earned

acclaim for its balanced, objective, and dispas-

sionate research regarding all aspects of the

region. The Leir Chair will teach students,

conduct research, and represent the Crown

Center at conferences.

While a search for a permanent chair is

conducted. Professor Eric Graber has

assumed the responsibilities for the 2006-07

academic year. Graber comes to Brandeis

from the University of Maryland's University

College Graduate School of Management

and has more than thirty years of experience

as an economist and professor.

"After meeting with the people from Bran-

deis, we came to realize that the economics of

the countries in the Middle East greatly influ-

ence who invades whom, and that shared eco-

nomic concerns could provide a pathway that

leads to a long-lasting peace for Israel and its

neighbors," said Arthur S. Hoffman, president

of the Leir Charitable Foundations. "The idea

of establishing a chair in such an important

area of study was very appealing to us."

The Leir Charitable Foundations, estab-

lished in 1963 by industrialist Henry J. Leir

and his wife, Erna, support a variety of endeav-

ors around the world, including educational

institutions, medical research, libraries, and

museums. At Brandeis, the foundations have

supported construction of the Village residen-

tial complex. The Rose Art Museum, and

other programs that enrich student life.

Israel Studies Institute to ExpandSchusterman Foundation funds program through 2009

With the help of a gift from the Charles and

Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the

Brandeis Summer Institute for Israel Studies

will expand to a year-round program to

enrich the teaching of Israel on campuses

throughout North America.

Since it was created in 2004 to address the

shortage of qualified academics teaching

about Israel, the institute's three-week sum-

mer seminar—two weeks at Brandeis and a

third week in Israel—has assisted faculty

from nearly sixty colleges and universities in

developing new courses in the emerging field

of Israel studies at their institutions.

The multiyear grant from the Schusterman

Foundation will help fund the institute

through 2009 while broadening the program

with the establishment of periodic workshops,

conferences focused on cutting-edge issues,

and an enhanced Web site where program

graduates can share ideas and course materials.

Participants in the one-of-a-kind institute

attend seminars at Brandeis led by distin-

guished scholars from leading universities

throughout the United States and Israel, then

visit Israel for sessions with noted scholars,

writers, artists, and experts as well as leaders

from the Israeli and Arab communities. Par-

ticipants represent the full tange of U.S. aca-

demic institutions, from small liberal arts

colleges to large public universities.

"The foundation is very committed to

enhancing the study of Israel in academia and

making Israel a more normative and positive

part of campus life," said Lisa Eisen, national

program director of the Charles and Lynn

Schtisterman Family Foundation. "We see the

Summer Institute for Israel Studies as an invest-

ment to develop a cadre of professors who are

capable of teaching about modern Israel."

Stuart Altman Peter Petri

Altman, Petri each donate

$100,000 to university

Stuart Altman, dean of the Heller

School for Social Policy and

Management, and Peter Petri,

founding dean of the International

Business School, both recently made

$100,000 gifts to the university that

will enhance the educational experi-

ence for students. "This is my way of

repaying the university for what it has

done for me," Altman said. His gift

will support the Altman Auditorium

in the new Irving Schneider and

Family Building. Petri, the Carl J.

Shapiro Professor of International

Finance, made his gift with his wife,

Jean Lawrence. "We felt that this gift

was a great message to send to all the

people who have made IBS the excel-

lent school it is," Petri said.

Justice Brandeis Society

hosts two events

The Justice Brandeis Society hosted

two events this fall for members of the

university's leadership giving society:

Scott Edmiston, director of the Office

of the Arts, discussed "We've Got

Reality. Who Needs Art? " on Novem-

ber 1 at Brandeis House in New York.

Brandeis Night in Chicago was held on

November 8 at the Park Hyatt Hotel.

President Jehuda Reinharz offered his

greetings, followed by talks from Shai

Feldman, the Judith and Sidney Swartz

Director of the Crown Center for

Middle East Studies, and Kanan

Makiya, the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Pro-

fessor of Islamic and Middle Eastern

Studies. Brandeis Night in Florida will

be held on March 1 at the Betsy Ross

Hotel in Miami's South Beach.

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alumninews

MAN of the MomentPerkins leads minority scholarship effort

Under the leadership of chairman Joseph W. Perkins '66, the Minority Alumni Net-

work (MAN) has established a scholarship fund to support minority students at Bran-

deis. Several alumni have already stepped forward as founding contributors, and

Perkins hopes others will follow suit to help the fund reach its initial goal of $50,000.

Currently, more than $35,000 has been raised, and Perkins envisions permanently

endowing the scholarship in the future.

"This scholarship is a way to give back," says Perkins, who spearheaded the effort

after several years at the helm of the 835-member Minority Alumni Network. "Most

of us benefited grandly from the education we received at Brandeis. This is a nice way

to show our gratitude and at the same time have a sig-

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nificant impact on the university and the lives of future

^-^^^^^^k Brandeis students."

jj^^^^^^t A "We are very grateful to Joe for his vision and lead-

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ership in establishing this important scholarship," said

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Nancy K. Winship, P' 10, senior vice president of insti-

^fm'^^^^^^M tutional advancement. "His commitment to Brandeis

^P^^^^^^l^ University and to its minority alumni and students is

unprecedented. We look forward to awarding the very

first Minority Alumni Network Scholarship in the

near future."

Perkins is president and founder of Communication

Management Inc., of Eastham, Massachusetts, a con-

sulting company that provides marketing and communications services to businesses

throughout the country. He became chairman of the Minority Alumni Network in 1998.

"While living in New York, I would attend an occasional meeting or event," recalls

Perkins. "Once I moved back to Massachusetts, I became much more involved, and I

am glad I did."

The Minority Alumni Network seeks to promote unity and networking among

minority alumni through education, career development, and community and social

events, including an annual program, "Creating Connections: Alumni and Students

of Color Netwofking." Despite their success, Perkins and fellow MAN members

agreed that, with members scattered across the country and unable to attend events

regularly, they needed a program in which all alumni could participate, regardless of

where they lived.

"We kept asking the question, 'How can we come together and give something back

to the university and to future minority students?'" he said.

Perkins believes a diverse student body is a critical component of a well-rounded

education. "Diversity makes the educational experience richer. It makes the world rich-

er," he said. "Until you live, study, and socialize with people from other backgrounds,

you can't fully appreciate different perspectives. We want the Minority Alumni Net-

work to enable everyone—students and alumni—to benefit from the richness that a

diverse community offers."

For more information on the Minority Alumni Network Scholarship, contact AmySilberstein at 781-736-4049 or visit http://alumni.brandeis.edu/web/clubs and choose

Minority Alumni Network under the Affinity Groups option.

Joseph Perkins '66

Richard

Kaufman '57. P'83

Memories Await

at 50til Reunion

It might be the "gracious living" dress-code

rebellion, the Sno-ball weekends, the Hi

Charlie shows, or the commencement

address by President

Harry S Truman. What-

ever the trigger, Richard

Kaufman '57, P'83, uni-

versity trustee and chair

of the Class of 1957

Reunion Committee, is

confident that the up-

coming 50th Reunion

celebration will unleash

a flood ofwonderflil memories for his fellow

classmates when they gather on campus

May 18-20,2007.

"We had a very spirited 45th Reunion.

We had a great turnout and a lot of fun,"

says Kaufman, who already has more than

fifty classmates signed on as 50th Reunion

Committee volunteers. "People were really

excited and eager to reconnect, and they are

even more so now."

With classmates and Reunion vice

chairs Mimi and Dick Bergel, plus Jules

Bernstein and Wynne Wolkenberg Miller

serving on the executive committee, Kauf-

man and the team are planning a weekend

of exciting Reunion activities, including

some "unstructured" time for classmates to

socialize at their own pace.

"Some of our classmates have not been

back to campus since graduation," says

Kaufman. "We want to show them Bran-

deis today. Our diplomas are worth so

much more now, given all the accomplish-

ments at Brandeis, whether among the fac-

ulty, students, or alumni.

"It's nice to be part of a winning team,"

he adds. "We want as many members of

our class as possible to don a cap and gown,

to march together again at Commence-

ment, and to feel that pride. It should be

quite a celebration."

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FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

AAC making a difference

"Thank you so much jar your help in my college choice. I don't

know ifI would hane chosen Bmndeis ifit weren'tforyou.

"

This note has been hanging right by my computer for several

years. It serves as a constant reminder that being a representa-

tive on the Alumni Admissions Council

(AAC) is one of the many ways alumni

make a real and important difference tor

Brandeis and its students.

We depend on alumni to support the

continuing excellence of our university,

whether by hosting events, serving on

Reunion committees, supporting the

Annual Fund, or representing Brandeis to

prospective students through the AAC. Nearly 1,000 alumni

from forty-five states and fifteen countries on six continents

work closely with the university's admissions team to identify

and recruit the best and brightest fijture alumni of Brandeis.

Through college fairs, information sessions, and ofiF-campus

interviews, AAC alumni have been essential to Brandeiss

record-breaking enrollment numbers for each of the past three

years. The Class of 2010, new on campus this fall, was selected

from the largest and most competitive pool in our history.

Organized in 1972 with the support of the university and

the Alumni Association, the Alumni Admissions Council has

as its mission to assist alumni volunteers to represent enthusi-

astically and honestly Brandeis to prospective students and

their parents, as well as within their local communities.

Thanks to the energetic leadership of admissions dean Gil

Villanueva, we are enhancing the role of the AAC this year by

launching an Alumni Admissions Council Advisory Board.

The board will provide leadership, guidance, and support for

AAC alumni and develop an expanded, more strategic role for

alumni in the admissions process.

I am delighted to announce the members of the inaugural

AAC Advisory Board: Deborah Dragon '95, AAC chair of

Southern California and AAC representative to the Alumni

Association Board of Directors; Luigi Solla, assistant director

of admissions; Jeffrey Ginzberg '77, Connecticut; Risa Glaser

'85, Nassau County, New York; Susan Eisenberg Jay '71,

South Florida; Darlene Kamine '74, Southwest Ohio/

Northern Kentucky; Danny Lehrman '64, New York City;

Eli Lesser-Goldsmith '99, Vermont; Eric Pasternack '70,

Minnesota; Jolene Risch-Minsky '90, Dallas; Daryo Rodrigue

'84, Turkey; Marjorie Samuels '75, Northern New Jersey; and

Caryn Wasserstein '92, Northern California.

To learn more about participating in the admissions

process, contact Jim Fowler, associate director of admissions

(jfowler@brandeis.edu), or Luigi Solla, assistant director of

admissions (solla@brandeis.edu).

—Darlene Green Kamine '74, P'03

Biamifis I'tiiveisiiv Mawaziin- I Ivill "0()

UPCOIVIING EVENTS

Alumni Club of Arizona

Faculty in the Field: "The

Medicalization of Society," with

Peter Conrad. Harry Coplan

Professor of Social Sciences. Twodates and locations: January 10,

2007, Tucson, and January 11,

Phoenix. Times and locations to

be announced.

Alumni Club of Chicago

Annual Alumni and Student

Broomball Game, January 13, 2007,

6 p.m., Centennial Ice Rink,

Wilmette.

Brandeis Basketball: Brandeis vs.

University of Chicago, January 28,

2007 noon (men's), and 2 p.m.

(women's), Gerald Ratner Athletic

Center, University of Chicago

Alumni Club of Cincinnati

Faculty in the Field: Mari Fitzduff.

professor of coexistence and

director of the master's program

in intercommunal coexistence,

February 25, 2007 Time and

location to be announced.

Alumni Club of Cleveland/

Northeast Ohio

Alumni Family Basketball Day:

Brandeis vs. Case Western,

February 18, 2007. noon (men's)

and 2 p.m. (women's), Case Western

Reserve University, Cleveland.

Alumni Club of England

The 19th Annual Alumni-Student

Thanksgiving Tea, November 19,

3:30 p.m. Location to be announced.

Alumni Club of Greater Boston

Alumni Professional Networking

Breakfast, November 29, 7:30 to

9 a.m., Goulston & Storrs, Boston.

Annual Holiday Reception,

December 3, 4 to 6 p.m., Rose

Art Museum.

Breakfast and Lunch Series: "Can

Music Unite Us?" with Judith

Eissenberg, artist-in-residence in

music, December 7, 7:30 to 9 a.m.,

Napoli Room. Gosman Sports and

Convocation Center.

Breakfast and Lunch Series; "Early

American Vertical: The Rise and

Falls of Andrew Dexter and the

Boston Exchange Coffee House,"

with Jane Kamensky, associate

professor of American history,

February 8, 2007 7:30 to 9 a.m.,

Napoli Room, Gosman Sports and

Convocation Center

Alumni Family Basketball Day:

Brandeis vs. Rochester, February 11,

2007, noon (men's) and 2 p.m.

(women's), Gosman Sports and

Convocation Center.

Breakfast and Lunch Series: "The

Medicalization of Society," with Peter

Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of

Social Sciences, March 7, 2007, noon

to 1:30 p.m., Brown Rudnick Berlack

Israels, LLP, Boston.

Boston Celtics Game, March 11,

2007 3:30 p.m., TD Banknorth

Garden, Boston.

Alumni Club of New York City

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and

Transgender Alumni Reception,

November 29, 6:30 p.m., Brandeis

House.

Brandeis House Annual Holiday

Celebration, December 7, 6:30 to

8:30 p.m., Brandeis House.

Recent Graduates Network Annual

Holiday Party, December 12, 7 to

9 p.m. Location to be announced.

The Wall Street/Finance Network,

with Tom Lee, university trustee and

president, Thomas H. Lee Capital,

February 13, 2007. Time and

location to be announced.

Alumni Club of South Florida

Fifth Annual Winter Break Beach

Party, January 7 2007, 1 to 4 p.m..

Golden Beach Pavilion, Golden Beach.

Alumni Club of Southern California

Faculty in the Field with Steve

Whitfield, PhD'72, Max Richter

Professor of American Civilization,

February 25, 2007 Time and

location to be announced.

For more information, visit

littp.//alumni.brandeis.edu/web.

O&ADeborah J. Dragon '95, chair, Southern California Alumni Admissions Council

In 2001, Deborah J. Dragon '95 became chair

ofthe Southern California Alumni Admissions

Council (AAC), an international organization

of Brandeis graduates

who represent the uni-

versity to prospective

students, parents, local

secondary schools, and

the community at

large. Since 1972,

hundreds of alumni

have assisted the

Office of Admissions

by identifying talented

andpromising high school students as prospec-

tive applicants, and encouraging those best

qualified for admission to consider Brandeis.

Dragon, who lives in Culver City with her

husband, Justin Goldstein '94, and daughter,

Jordana, was recently namedAAC representa-

tive to the Alumni Association Board of

Directors.

How did you first get involved with the

AAC? I started while still a student, first as a

volunteer guide for admissions tours and

"chatter," a student who chats up prospective

students visiting campus. During my junior

year, I was chair of the National Ambas-

sadors, a group of students who represent

Brandeis at their hometown high schools.

Getting involved in the AAC was a natural

extension of that, and so I began attending

college fairs and interviewing prospective

students right after graduation. It gave me a

great way to stay connected to Brandeis.

How does this program help the univer-

sity's outreach efforts? The AAC extends

the reach of the admissions office well

beyond what the hard-working staff can

possibly accomplish alone. It helps continue

the tradition of excellence in the student

body by identifying and recruiting top-

notch students to Brandeis, and it provides

a wonderful opportunity to keep alumni

engaged with their alma mater.

What do prospective students learn

from interviews with alumni? Students

learn what life is really like at Brandeis.

Hearing the stories of alumni personalizes

the university, and that gives prospective

students a much better read on whether or

not it will be the right fit for them. It's

about connection.

What Is your favorite part of interviewing

prospective students? It's thrilling to

relive that combination of terror and excite-

ment I felt when I was looking at colleges.

It's also invigorating vicariously to antici-

pate the incredible experience these stu-

dents have ahead of them—if they choose

Brandeis, of course! I live three thousand

miles away from Brandeis. Volunteering for

the AAC is a way to stay connected to one

of the most exciting places and times of mylife and to give back to the school that gave

me so much.

What Is the funniest question a prospec-

tive student ever asked? How's the food?

I am amazed at how concerned students are

about the food. I always tell them, "It gets

better every year, but it is college cafeteria

food, and you should seriously question any

university that tells you otherwise."

Reaching OutGay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Affinity Group steps up recruitment efforts

With an event at New York's Brandeis House set for November 29

at 6:30 p.m., the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT)

Affinity Group is ramping up efforts to reinvigorate both its mem-

bership and programming.

GLBT has approximately three hundred self-identified members.

According to group representative Thomas W. Brown '95, many

more alumni have expressed interest and are eager to get involved.

"Since the spring, after reaching out to alumni through Louie

News, we've seen an uptick in interest and membership," says

Brown, who notes that the group is making a special effort to

attract younger graduates who may benefit even more from the net-

working aspects of membership.

Brown and coleaders Gerard Cabrera '85 and Michael Sklar '79

will host documentary filmmaker Seth Bernstein '06 at the Novem-

ber event. Bernstein will show his most recent work, The One I

Love—z film that deals with sexual orientation and Jewish identity

—

which he wrote during a semester abroad at the Academy of Perform-

ing Arts in Prague. Bernstein will be on hand to talk about the film

and about GLBT life at Brandeis today.

Hosting events and providing networking opportunities are just

two of the goals of the newly energized GLBT Affinity Group.

Brown and Cabrera have also established the GLBT Research Fel-

lowship Program, which will fund broadly defined undergraduate

research in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies

at Brandeis beginning in fall 2007.

The program will focus exclusively on intellectual activity and

research in the areas of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gen-

der expression.

E-mail glbt@alumni.brandeis.edu to learn more about the

GLBT Affinity Group.

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VOLUNTEER PROFILES

Life-Altering EventAdmissions interview set Clare Tully '80 on her path to Brandeis

Ask Clare Tully '80 why she chose Bran-

deis, and she will answer without hesita-

tion, "Peter and Ellen Alter.

"

The high school senior from Michigan

had narrowed her focus to two eastern col-

leges, Brandeis and Mount Holyoke. She

recalls her interview at Mount Holyoke. Akind, unassuming alumna asked her

unchallcnging questions about her tran-

script. "I was bored silly," laughs Tully.

Next, she went to her Brandeis interview

with volunteers Peter Alter '69 and his late

wife, Ellen '70. "Peter's first question was,

'What do you think of the recent UN reso-

lution equating Zionism with racism?' Wewere offand running," says Tully, who made

her choice then and there. "It was quintes-

sentially Brandeis. It gave me a taste of the

discussions I would participate in as an

undergraduate and, later, as an alumna."

Tully double majored in politics and soci-

ology, and went on to receive a law degree

from the University of Michigan. After sev-

eral years practicing entertainment law, she

joined NBC in New York, where she helped

launch international channels and new-

media ventures such as MSNBC. As direc-

tor of business development for NBC News,

she collaborated with Tim Russett and other

talent on book and video deals.

After a frenetic decade as a deal maker,

Tully longed to spend more time with her

three young children. Five years ago, she

moved her family to Rockport, Maine.

Recently divorced, Tully negotiates produc-

tion deals for Los Angeles-based Media

Strategies International from her home.

Tully has made it a point to stay

involved with Brandeis. She serves as one

of four vice presidents of the Alumni Asso-

ciation Board of

Directors and over-

sees the Marketing

and Communica-

tions Committee,

which, interestingly,

is chaired by Peter

Alter's brother, Allen

'71. She served on

three of her Reunion committees and cur-

rently serves as an Alumni Admissions

Council volunteer. She is a regular at

Alumni College and cherishes the "fasci-

nating and enduring friendships" she has

established through volunteering.

"I was a student on campus for four

years," says Tully. "I've been an alumna for

twenty-six years. It's a lifelong relationship.

I'm giving something back, but I am get-

ting a whole lot in return.

"

Brandeis s ^^Great Ambassador•)•)

Steven Sheinman 79 spreads the word about his alma mater

Growing up in the Long Island sub-

urb of East Rockaway, New York,

Steven Sheinman '79 was one of a

handful in his high school class to

even consider a private, out-of-state

college. "I learned about Brandeis

from a college directory," he recalls.

"My decision to come was totally

fortuitous, the best one I ever

made."

Describing Brandeis as his "reach

school," Sheinman was thrilled to be

accepted. A biology major, he credits

his art, architecture, and literature

courses for having the greatest impact on his everyday life. "What

I learned outside the classroom and outside my major was even

more important."

After graduating from Brandeis, Sheinman returned to NewYork to attend SUNY Health Science Center in Stony Brook.

"Thanks to Brandeis, I was accepted to several medical schools,"

says Sheinman, now an anesthesiologist at Sheridan Healthcorp in

Sunrise, Florida. After completing his residency in New York,

Sheinman moved to South Florida, where he lives with his two

sons, Zachary, eighteen, and Benjamin, ten.

He began attending Alumni Club of South Florida events when-

ever possible. "We were new to the area and eager to make connec-

tions," he says. "The Alumni Club and Alumni Association

provided us with intellectual stimulation, a sense of community,

and a host of new social contacts."

Sheinman's involvement increased and, in 1998, he became pres-

ident of the club. In 2001, he became an officer of the Alumni

Association Board of Directors. Now one of four vice presidents of

the board, Sheinman considers volunteering for the school he says

"changed the course of his life" the very least he can do.

He has served on his 20th and 25th Reunion committees, spon-

sored New Student Sendoffs, hosted a talk by President Reinharz,

and, most recently, served as a panelist with his co-vice presidents

at last month's BAMD! '06: Alumni Leadership Retreat.

"It is very fulfilling to give back to an institution that was so sig-

nificant in my life, " says Sheinman. "I am a great ambassador. I am

very outspoken in my praise for the university. It's genuine. I would

not be where I am today had it not been for Brandeis."

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NEW STUDENT SENDOFFS

Alumni across the country opened their homes to

members of the Class of 2010 this summer during

twenty-one New Student Sendoffs. Offering incoming

students a chance to connect with other students from

their hometowns, the popular Sendoffs also provided

an opportunity for newcomers to hear from alumni

about all things Brandeis. More than 240 new students

attended. The Alumni Association thanks the alumni

and current students who participated in the Sendoffs

and recognizes the generosity of the hosts and volun-

teers in organizing this year's gatherings.

ArizonaHost David Tierney '62 (right) welcomes

first-year student Sarah Bernes '10.

Northern New JerseyMembers of the Class of 2010 gathered at the home of Margie Rachelson

Samuels '75 (left), and her husband, Larry '75 (secondfrom left), parents of

Rebecca '02, in West Caldwell. Alumni in attendance included club president

Michael Palace '90 (center), Janice Paul '82 (secondfrom right), and Merry

Firschein '87.

BaltimoreClub president Alexandra

Ainsztein '89 (left) hosted the

Sendoff at her Baltimore-area

home. Several members of the

club's steering committee were

on hand to welcome new

students.

Westchester County,

New York

Richard "80 and Cheryl Erlich '81 Rosen,

parents of Adam '10 (back left), hosted the

Sendoff at their home in Scarsdale. Future

Alumni of Brandeis liaison Kimberlee

Bachman '08 (front right) was in attendance

to help welcome the new class.

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Southern California

Patty Mayer 74 hosted the SendofF at

her home in Santa Monica. Alumni

Admissions Council chair Deborah

Dragon '95 chaired the event.

South Florida

Linda Moskowitz Drozdow '80(left photo, left) and

her husband, Gil '79, hosted the Sendoff at their

home in Golden Beach. Alumni Admissions

Council chair Susan Eisenberg Jay '71 (left photo,

thirdfrom left) served as event cochair. At right,

incoming students enjoy the SendofF.

West Coast Florida

Club president Marty Greengrass '70, P'99

(middle right), chaired the SendofF for Tampa and

Sarasota area students. The club's immediate past

presidents, Sylvia Hafi Firschein '55 (front left) and

Joan Greenberger Gurgold '53 (front right), and

steering committee member Alex Winner '99

(back right) v/elcomed Sean Hutchinson 10

(middle left) and Hannah Kirsch '10 (back left).

ChicagoMembers of the Class of 20 1 gathered at the

home of Alumni Admissions Council chair

Carolyn Kahn Birkenstein '95.

Cleveland/Northeast OhioClub president Aryeh Dori '96

(fourthfrom left) hosted the

Sendoff at his home in

Shaker Heights.

Dallas

Alumni Admissions Council chair Jolene Risch-Minsky '90

hosted the SendofFat her home in Dallas.

Maine/New HampshireSteve Carvel '73 and his wife, Shelley,

parents of David '07(fifthfrom left),

hosted the SendofFat their home in

Portland, Maine.

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NEW STUDENT SENDOFFS

ConnecticutAlumni Admissions Council chair JefF

Ginzberg '77(left) poses with incoming

students. Bonnie Becker '80 hosted the

Sendoff at her home in Woodbridge.

New York City

Alumni Admissions Council chair Danny

Lehrman '64 and club president DougMonasebian '84 cochaired the SendofFat

Brandeis House. Current-student panelists

included Future Alumni of Brandeis senior

cochair Beth Wexelman '07, Jason

Brodsky '07, Aileen Gleizer '08, Albert

Cahn '07, and Stephen Sukumaran '09.

Philadeipliia/Southern New Jersey

Ken '77 and Eileen Schnall '78 Winter hosted the

Sendoff at their home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Wasiiington, D.C.

David '73 and Phyllis Brenner '75 Coburn, parents of

Avi '04, Brian '07, and Seth '10, hosted the Sendoff at

their home in Potomac, Maryland.

MinnesotaEric Pasternack '70 and his wife, JoAnn, parents of

Rebecca Taurog '00, hosted the Sendoff at their home in

Mendota Heights. Wendy Robinson Schwartz '79

cochaired the event.

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Cincinnati/Louisville

Alumni Association president Darlene

Kamine '74, her husband, Chuck '74,

and daughter, Elida 03, welcomed the

Cincinnati and Louisville students to

their home. Recent graduate Ben

Reed '06 and Katherine Schram 09, the

Cincinnati Future Alumni of Brandeis

liaison, were among the guests.

Brandeis University Magazine I Fall "06

Greater BostonElizabeth Etra Jick '81 and Dan Jick 79(right), parents ofJamie '09, hosted the

SendofFat their home in Chestnut Hill.

Alumni in attendance included Sherri

Geller '92 (left) and Wendy Morris

Berliner '95 (secondfrom left), president

of the Alumni Club of Greater Boston.

Jordan Michaels '08, Future Alumni of

Brandeis liaison, and Matt Brown 08,

Future Alumni of Brandeis junior cochair,

also attended.Dan Jick '79 is flanked by

incoming students Liane

Hypolite '10(left) and

David Winship '10.

HoustonClub president Michael

Kivort '87 (left) speaks to

incoming students and their

parents. Francyne Davis

Jacobs '95 hosted the event

at her home in Houston.

Long Island

Club president Mark Cohen '78, P'09 (center) and (ft'om

left) Hanna Cohen '09; Aaron Arbiter '10; Elyssa

Cohen '08, Future Alumni of Brandeis liaison; and Justin

Aaron '08 display their FAB laimdry bags.

DenverClub copresident Nicole Hoffman Myers '96

(right) hosted the SendofF at her parents'

home in Denver. Also pictured are (from left)

Josh Figueroa '10, Herb Miller '01, and

Frankie Amdurer '07.

alumninews

Alumni Club of

Northern New Jersey

Left photo, from left: Carly Hartman,

Zeke Rosenblatt, Bailey Hartman,

Addison Hartman, Arielie Rosenblatt,

and Abbey Rose, children of several

New York area alumni, enjoyed a visit

to Demarest Farms in Hillsdale, NewJersey, on September 17 for a morning

hayride and apple picking. Right

photo: Robert Rose '92 and daughter

C^rli show off their bounty. Shari

C lersten '86 and Deborah Karmin

Rose '94 served as chairs of the event.

Alumni Club of

Philadelphia

Thomas Doherty (center),

professor of film studies and chair of

the film studies program, gave a talk,

"Edward R. Murrow Slays the Drag-

on of Joseph McCarthy," at a Faculty

in the Field event held at the home

of Bob Bernstein '79 (left) in May.

Alumni Club of Philadelphia presi-

dent Tammy Chasan Pomeranz '91

(right) also attended.

Alumni Club of Baltimore

Yehudi Wyner (center), professor

emeritus of composition and winner of

this year's Pulitzer Prize for music,

performed works by Bach, Chopin,

Mozart, and Beethoven for more than

twenty alumni and friends at a Faculty in

the Field event in May. The program was

hosted by Monica Pats '82 at her parents'

home in Pikesville, Maryland.

Alumni Club of Greater BostonFamily NetworkThe Alumni Club of Greater Boston's Family

Network visited Belkin Lookout Farm in Natick,

Massachusetts, on September 17. Alumni and their

children enjoyed apple picking, visiting the petting

zoo, riding the caterpillar train, and climbing the

Hay Play pyramid. Heather Swidler Gelardi '95,

pictured with daughter Emily Rose, served as chair

of the event.

Alumni Club of West Coast Florida

(From lefl):]3raes Hooke '57 and his wife, Nancy, and Herb Schimmel '61

and his wife, Brenda, were among those who enjoyed an outing to Tarpon

Springs in June. The group lunched at Santorini's Greek Grill before taking

a cruise to Anclote Key. Marty Greengrass '70, P'99, Alex Winner '99, and

Sanchali Biswas '01, cochaired the event.

Alumni Club of

Northern California

(From left): Alec DeCherney '94, Alexis

Kershner '02, Julie Solomon '90, and Dianne

Ma 09 were among those attending an open

meeting in June at the Atherton home of hosts

Ike '54 and Jeanette Winston '54 Goodman.

Guests shared their ideas and suggestions for

upcoming programs that will help revitalize the

Alumni Club for the region's many members.

Alumni Club of ChicagoGordie Fellman (secondfrom left), professor of sociology and

director of the Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies

program, gave a talk, "Real Men and Real Social Change:

What Is It to Be 'Man Enough' Anyway? " to more than

forty alumni and friends at a September 10 Faculty in the

Field event hosted by Mike '64 and Margo Oberman at

their home in Mettawa. Shown with Fellman are (from

left) Mike Oberman '64, Margo Oberman, and Roger

Weissberg '74. The program was organized by club

president Aria Medvin Silverstein '88.

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lassnotes

1952Diana Laskin Siegal

900 SW 31st Street, #BE339

Topeka, KS 66611

1952notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Tiie Class of 1952 continues to hold

reunions in various locations. The most

recent gathering was held July 24—27 in

Lenox, Massachusetts. Twenty-seven class

members plus fifteen spouses and friends

enjoyed a concert at Tanglewood, trips to

local museums, theaters, and restaurants,

and our favorite pastime—talking.

Thanks to Penny Peirez Abrams, Julian

Koss, Helene Dembitzer Lambert, and

the Alumni Office for their assistance.

We look forward to our annual dinner in

Florida and to our 55th Reunion June

8-10, 2007, at Brandeis. It is also inter-

esting to note that Marvin March, Gus-

tav Ranis, Laurence Nigrosh, Natasha

Litvich Saltzman, Paul Levenson,

S. Alexander Banks have children who

earned degrees at Brandeis. Currently

enrolled are Stephen Meltzer's grandson

Ethan TO, a Justice Brandeis scholar, and

Eileen Dorfman Kessler s grand-

daughter, Rachael Katz '09. Congratu-

lations to Tamar Soloff Brower, who was

admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.

•'from THE

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Move cities? Have a baby? Share

your good news with classmates

and fellow alumni.

Mall your news to:

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MS 1 24, Brandeis University

415 South Street

Waltham, MA 02454

You may also e-mail your news to

your class correspondent or to

classnotes@alumni.brandeis.edu.

or complete the online form at

http://alumni.brandeis.eda/web/

classes/classnotes.html.

Marilyn Bentov

Newton, Massachusetts

Bentov's poetry was published in Poetica,

Watermark, Summer Home Review II, and

the Jewish Women's Literary Annual. She

received honorable mention in poetry

competitions run by NE Poetry Society

2004 and Nimrod 2005 and has had thtee

essays air on National Public Radio.

1953Abraham Heller

1400 Runnymede Road

Dayton, OH 45419

1953notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1954William Marsh

5113 Castlerock Way

Naples, FL 34112

1954notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1955Judith Paull Aronson

838 N. Doheny Drive, #906

Los Angeles, CA 900691955notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Elaine Phillips Ostroff

Westport, Massachusetts

Ostroff, cofounder of Adaptive Environ-

ments, was presented with the American

Institute of Architects' 2006 Honorary

Membership Award. The award is one of

the highest honors that the ALA can

bestow on a person outside the profes-

sion. It is given to "a person of esteemed

character who is not eligible fot mem-

bership in the institute, but who has

rendered distinguished service to the

profession of architecture or to the arts

and sciences allied thetewith." Ostroff is

an international leader and design advo-

cate who has had a significant impact on

both design practice and design educa-

tion for more than thirty years. Highly

regarded for her expertise on issues of

accessible and universal design, for

involving user-experts in the design

process, and for her collaborative style,

she remains one of the wotld's leading

advocates and authorities on innovative

design solutions that enhance the experi-

ences of people of all ages and abilities.

1956Leona Feldman Curhan

366 River Road

Carlisle, MA 01741

1956notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Aaron Auerbach

Jerusalem

Auerbach notes, "The theme of emo-

tional acceptance informs the memoir of

my years at Brandeis in 'My Conversa-

tions with Rawidowicz' in The History

ofthe Ararat Publishing Society by

Aurzham Greenbaum, the only doctoral

student of Simon Rawidowicz. The arti-

cle focuses on the telationships between

Rawidowicz and his students, his col-

leagues, and the poet Chaim Nachman

Bialik. The theme of the emotional

acceptance by parents of their adult child

informs Becoming a Mature Parent, a

recently completed book of fourteen

psychological stoties dealing with the

never-ending parenting of troubled adult

children (aaronauerbach@hotmail.com)."

mONWynne Wolkenberg Miller

1443 Beacon Street, #403

Brookline, MA 02443

1957notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Our 50th Reunion weekend on

May 18-20, 2007, beckons, and I am

enjoying touching base with classmates as

we prepare. A record number of people

have signed up to plan and execute an

outstanding weekend. Have we heard

from you^. If not, contact me at

wynne@win-coaching.com or

76 Brandeis University Magazine I Fall '06

617-244-0880, or our Reunion chair,

Dick Kaufman, at dickk30@aol.com or

914-921-5593. We are, after all, still fun-

loving, bright, provocative kids, aren't we?

Carole Wolfe Barman

Southborough, Massachusetts

Herman keeps busy planning travel,

consulting, taking classes at Harvard

Institute for Learning in Retirement,

and grandparenting.

Philip Conti

Melrose, Massachusetts

Conti, a dentist, was appointed to the

board of governors at Tufts-New

England Medical Center. He traveled to

Portugal in September to sing with

Saengerfest, a men's chorus that performs

internationally in many languages.

John Crosby

Beaufort, South Carolina

Crosby married a church music director

and has retired from teaching chemistry

at the University of South Carolina.

Carole (Mendelson) Felz

Wayland, Massachusetts

Felz performs with the Golden Tones, a

senior singing and dancing group. She is

chair of the Wayland Cultural Council

and is a USO New England consultant.

Evelyn Fox Keller

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Keller, a professor of history and

philosophy of science at MIT, was

elected to the American Philosophical

Society, the oldest learned society in the

United States.

Diana Kurz

New York City

Kurz writes, "I am an artist (painter)

preparing for a solo show in New York

City this fall."

Philip Lieb

Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

Lieb writes, "I am now retired from

dentistry and very active in the

Free Masons and Shrine public

access television."

Beverly Sachs Silpe

Jericho, New York

Silpe has retired from teaching English

to foreign students and is busy with

concerts, courses, and grandchildren.

Moriel Schlesinger Weiselberg

Deer Park, New York

Weiselberg writes, "I visited my family

in Israel, attended an international viola

congress in Montreal, and sang two

requiems in the Berkshires."

1958Judith Brecher Borakove

10 East End Avenue. #2-F

New/ York, NY 10021

1958notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Amy Miklowitz Leinw^and

New Rochelle, New York

Leinwand writes, "I continue to

practice psychotherapy/counseling and

run workshops on social-work issues at

Westchester Community College.

Spending time with my children and

four grandchildren fills my life along

with travel and the pleasures of my'hometown,' New York City."

1959Sunny Sunshine Brownrout

87 Old Hill Road

Westport, CT 068801959notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Edward Friedman

Madison, Wisconsin

Friedman published Revolution,

Resistance, and Reform in Village China

(Yale University Press, 2005), China's

Rise, Taiwan's Dilemmas, and

International Peace (Routledge, 2005),

and Asia's Giants: Comparing China and

India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is

now engaged in a multiyear project on

sustainable development and poverty

alleviation in Tibetan areas of China in

the Himalayan Mountains.

Judith Rich Harris

Middletown, New Jersey

Harris writes, "My new book. No Two

Alike: Human Nature and Human Indi-

viduality, came out in March. My previ-

ous book, The Nurture Assumption, has

been translated into fifteen languages. I've

been married for almost forty-five years to

Charles S. Harris (Swarthmore '59). Wehave two nice daughters, two nice sons-

in-law, and four lovely grandchildren.

"

1960Joan Silverman Wallack

28 Linden Shores, #28

Branford, CT 06405

1960notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robert Stein

Wishington, D.C.

Stein was elected chair of the Section

of Individual Rights and Responsibilities

of the American Bar Association at the

group's annual meeting in August.

1961Judith Leavitt Schatz

139 Cumberland Road

Leominster, MA 01453

1961notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Janice Regolsky Babcock

Roslindale, Massachusetts

Babcock wrote an article, "Get Me an

Excedrin, Fast," about the stress on the

long-term caregiver, in the summer issue

of New Politics magazine.

June Colvlll-Jones

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Colvill-Jones writes, "At the age of

sixty-seven, I am finally studying to earn

my high school diploma in Spanish.

Studying Argentine history, Argentine

geography, Spanish language, and Latin

American literature, as well as other

subjects, is proving a most enjoyable

and challenging experience and is

helping the litde gray cells work."

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Robert Moulthrop

New York City

Moulthrop writes, "My play, T.L.C., was

accepted into the 2006 New York Inter-

national Fringe Festival. This marks the

second time in two years that a play of

mine will receive a Fringe production.

Last year my play HalfLife won the

Fringe for Outstanding Playwriting, was

a Top 1 Pick of the Fringe in the NewYork Times and New York magazine,

which called it 'the best written and

acted show at the Fringe.' T.L. C. is a

realistic drama for one actress and an off-

stage cast. Evelyn is terrifiedfor her son.

She grew him strong. Kept him safe. Let

him go. Now their lives are spiraling out of

control in this searing new psychological

thriller. Onephone call And then ..."

Ann Leder Sharon

13890 Ravenwood Drive

Saratoga, CA 95070

1962notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Esther Gerson Levine

Atlanta

Levine is celebrating her twentieth year as

president of Book Atlanta Inc., a company

that specializes in author promotion and

author tours. She has promoted author

events in the city for many years and has

served on the committee for the Atlanta

Jewish Book Festival for fifteen years. Last

year the Jewish Book Festival honored

Levine by naming its annual community

reading event the Esther G. Levine Com-munity Read. She was presented with a

glass sculpture that notes, "Treasured and

Admired by the People of the Book."

1963

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Miriam Osier Hyman140 East 72nd Street, #16B

New York, NY 10021

1963notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

liraiulfis University Magazine I Fall 06

Take Her Advice

what do you do when your ex-room-

mate's cousin and her five kids show up

unbidden at your beach house, wearing

flippers and carrying backpacks? Or when

your spouse presents you with a mono-

grammed diamond bracelet and it has the

wrong middle initial?

If you're like thousands of others in

need of advice, you could send a letter to

"Dear Margo, " inviting Brandeis alumna

Margo Howard to offer a seasoned per-

spective distilled into a thoughtful, no-

nonsense answer leavened with humor.

"Dear Margo" is published weekly

online at Yahoo! and syndicated nationally

in more than two hundred newspapers.

For Howard, dispensing advice is practi-

cally a birthright. The daughter of advice

columnist Ann Landers (AKA Eppie Lederer),

Howard bears a striking resemblance to her

mother and her mother's identical twin,

Pauline Esther Friedman, who wrote the

"Dear Abby ' column as Abigail Van Buren.

Howard, who grew up in Chicago and

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, says it was her

mother who steered her to Brandeis. "Per-

haps on some subconscious level she

thought it would serve as a belated Sunday

school," explains the writer, who claims she

had no formal religious education as a child.

At Brandeis, Howard thrived in courses

with Stanley Kunitz, Abe Maslow, Frank

Manuel, Herbert Marcuse, and John Van

Doren, and took advantage ot the Greater

Boston locale to socialize with the likes of

John Kenneth Galbraith, Eric Fromm,

and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Her ability to

"belt a song a la Ethel Merman" gave her

entree into the theater crowd as well.

With no specific career training,

Howard had a lucky break at age twenty-

eight, when the late Gene Siskel intro-

duced her to his editor at the Chicago

Tribune. With an innate ability to sound

like she was speaking in print, Howard

began by penning feature pieces and with-

in a few months was given a column.

Her wry voice caught the ear of other

editors, and soon Howard was writing for

magazines that ranged from the Nation to

TV Guide. It wasn't until 1 998, at fifty-

eight, that, at the urging of a New Repub-

lic editor, she began doling out her pearls

of wisdom to advice-seekers.

"My mother said 1 had finally gone into

the family business, " Howard quips.

Howard brings to the column a mix of

"broad life experiences, modified Freudian

analysis, being a curious reader, having

eclectic interests, and having learned, from

being with my intellectual betters during

the Brandeis years, to listen, " she explains.

Just what qualifies her to tell other peo-

ple how to live their lives? Howard quotes

her friend Dan Savage, who writes "Savage

Love" for the Village Voice: "One is quali-

fied to offer advice if someone asks."

—Marjorie Lyon

class Holes

1964Shelly A. Wolf

113 Naudain Street

Philadelphia, PA 19147

1964notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Murray Suid

Inverness, California

Suid writes, "This fall McGraw-Hill will

publish Words ofa Feather, a book of

hopefully witty etymologies of such word

pairs as rectitude and rectum, cosmos and

cosmetics, and anger and angina. Sample

entries appear at www.wordsofafeather.net.

I wrote the book to raise money (ha-ha)

for a motion picture project. The ESP

y4^/> (seewww.PointReyesPictures.com).

We're coproducing this paranormal thriller

with Scott Rosenfelt, best known for

Smoke Signals and Mystic Pizza."

1968

1965Joan Furber Kalafatas

3 Brandywyne

Wayland, MA 01778

1965notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ken Zeno

Delray Beach, Florida

Zeno, director of the Center for Health

and Human Development in Delray

Beach, has begun offering seminars for

parents as well as professionals who work

with parents. The seminars, "Parents-as-

Coaches," focus on the principles and

practices of what is called the Life

Coaching Model and its application to

parenting. Zeno's work focuses on devel-

oping healthy families by engendering

effective family communication and

socially responsible values. He moved his

consulting company to Florida.

1966Kenneth E. Davis

28 Mary Chilton Road

Needham, MA 02492

1966notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Anne Rellly Hort

10 Old Jackson Avenue, #21

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

1967notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jeff Civins

Austin, Texas

Civins practices environmental law and

teaches seminars at the University of

Texas School of Law in Austin.

Arthur Finstein

Framingham, Massachusetts

Finstein writes, "I recently retired from

teaching and tutoring and am doing

musical theater when I can."

Laura Gross-Higgins

North Falmouth, Massachusetts

Gross-Higgins is a copy editor at the

Falmouth Enterprise. She enjoys

cooking, drumming, and quilting in

her free time.

Olubanke King-Akerele

Lusaka, Zambia

King-Akerele was appointed minister of

trade and commerce by the new presi-

dent of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson.

King-Akerele retired from her career as

United Nations resident representative

(equivalent to ambassador), after

serving in that role in several countries,

including Zambia.

Howard Scher

Philadelphia

See Eileen Sklaroff '68

Mark Shanis

Durham, North Carolina

Shanis writes, "We are busy finalizing

construction of our new home in North

Carolina. I am still doing intense work

at the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency and still manage several rental

properties. I enjoy seeing my friends and

meeting new ones."

David Greenvtrald

3655 Aquetong Road

Carversville, PA 18913

1968notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Samuel Heilman

New Rochelle, New York

Heilman writes, "Ellin Kaufman '69 and

I are pleased to announce that our son,

Adam, was married to Irit Koren on a

mountaintop at Shoresh, Israel, on

February 26. Our son, Yoni, was married

to Gabrielle Mashbaum in Baltimore

on July 10, 2005. My book. Sliding to

the Right: The Contestfor the Future of

American Jewish Orthodoxy (ucpress.edu/),

was published in July I am at the City

University of New York, where I am a

distinguished professor of sociology. I took

my first course in sociology from Phil

Slater at Brandeis, and I am still at it."

Eileen Sklaroff

Philadelphia

Sklaroff and husband Howard Scher '67

report that their son Eli David Scher

married Jessica Rachel Jaffy in May in

St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Brandeis

alumni joining the celebration included

Steven Bizar '84, MA'87; Dona

Seeman Kahn '54; Ellen R. Novack;

Phyllis Rebell Osterman '67; and

Rachel Present '06.

1969Phoebe Epstein

205 West 89th Street, #10-S

New York, NY 10024

1969notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Ellin Kaufman

New Rochelle, New York

See Samuel Heilman '68

Ronald Ratner

Shaker Heights, Ohio

Ratner and his wife, Deborah, received

the 2006 Sunshine Award from Young

Audiences of Greater Cleveland

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(YAGC). The Sunshine Awards, estab-

Hshed in 1998, are presented annually to

individuals and organizations in north-

east Ohio who show outstanding dedica-

tion and commitment to YAGC and arts

education. The Ratners have helped to

create and support numerous programs

at YAGC. Their enthusiasm for a new

approach to workforce development for

high school students helped launch the

YAGC ArtWorks initiative on Shaker

Square in summer 2005. Deborah is a

longtime member of the YAGCadvisory board.

Rose (Laura Rosenbaum) Rosetree

Sterling, Virginia

Rosetree just scored her fifteenth foreign

rights sale. Turkish publisher Prestij and

1001 Books of Istanbul will publish

Empowered by Empathy later this year. She

has returned from a lecture tour ofJapan

in conjunction with the book's publica-

tion. In August, Ansata Verlag, a part of

Random House Germany, reissued

Rosetree's Aura Reading through All Your

Senses in a softcover edition. Sales of

Ansatas hardcover publication made

Rosetree one of Germany's most popular

authors. Rosetree has become a leader in

the field of personal development,

choosing to bypass academic approaches

to perception in favor of techniques

involving development of consciousness.

In America, she has taught for thirty-seven

years. Clients include Canyon Ranch, the

American Folk Art Museum, and the

National Football League Players Associa-

tion. She lives with husband Mitch Weber

and their fifteen-year-old son. Matt.

1970Charles S. Eisenberg

4 Ashford Road

Newton Centre, MA 02459

1970notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Daniel Rosen

Stateline, Nevada

Rosen writes, "I am on the November bal-

lot this year as an independent candidate

for U.S. representative in Nevada's Second

Congressional District, and I am the first

candidate anywhere to offer a secure state-

ol-the-art digital voting system that will

enable citizens in my district to control

my votes in Congress. My campaign is

connected with a new organization called

Nevada Vote Direct, a citizen initiative to

end political corruption and make govern-

ment more responsive to the people. At

Nevada Vote Direct, registered voters in

Nevada's Second Congressional District

may vote not only on the issues of the

day, but also on specific legislation

pending in Congress. The system provides

secure electronic voting in secret ballots

conducted continuously on the Internet

or by telephone. I have pledged that,

when elected, I will vote in Congress

exactly as directed by the majority of

voters in my congressional district. Neva-

da Vote Direct represents the first imple-

mentation of what I call the Decision

Management System. The DMS is the

missing link on the Internet. Its imple-

mentation at all levels of society (in civic

and environmental organizations, labor

unions, political parties, etc.) will wholly

alter the structure of power in society."

See www.vpsystems.net/Nevada/.

1971Richard Kopley

608 W. Hillside Avenue

State College, PA 16803

1971notes@alumni.brandels.edu

Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Ithaca, New York

Harris-Warrick, professor of music at

Cornell University, spent the spring

semester in Paris working on a book about

dance inside of French Baroque opera.

Ian Lustick

Penn Valley, Pennsylvania

Lustick writes, "I have a new book out,

Trapped in the War on Terror (University

ot Pennsylvania Press, 2006). I was

recently named the Bess W. Heyman

Professor of Political Science at the

University of Pennsylvania, where I've

taught since 1991."

Philip Rubin

Fdirficld, Connecticut

Rubin, chief executive officer and a

senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories,

was named to the National Academies

Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and

Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) and also will

serve as chair of the board. The National

Academies are advisers to the nation on

science, engineering, and medicine.

The BBCSS is an advisory board that

helps the National Research Council,

the research wing of the National

Academies, to identify areas in which

new scientific developments are creating

opportunities or potential problems for

public policy.

Betty Sternberg

West Hartford, Connecticut

Sternberg was named superintendent of

schools in Greenwich, Connecticut.

She formerly served as state education

commissioner and was a twenty-six-year

veteran of the state Department of

Education.

Adele Wolfson

Holliston, Massachusetts

Wolfson was named Nan Walsh Schow'54 and Howard B. Schow Professor in

the Physical and Natural Sciences at

Wellesley College, where she is professor

of chemistry and serves as associate dean

of the college.

1972Dan Garfinkel

2420 Kings Lane

Pittsburgh, PA 15241

1972notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Marcia Meizel Binder

Melrose, Massachusetts

Binder writes, "Still living in Melrose,

Massachusetts, with veterinarian hus-

band Robert and sixteen-year-old daugh-

ter Daria. Nineteen-year-old daughter

Meryl is returning to Drexel University

in Philly as a second-year student in a

five-year program. She is studying sports

lirntuK'i.s l.'iu\crsil v Maji I l-';ill ()()

class notes

management with hopes of becoming an

athletic trainer (would love to work with

a pro team like, oh, um, let's say the Red

Sox). Remember when nothing seemed

impossible? 1 continue working in

private practice as a licensed mental

health counselor. It is good to work for

myself after years of getting hired and

laid off by hospitals. Life is good, and

my health is stable after some major life

challenges going through treatment for

breast cancer. I have passed my five-year

mark and am starting to feel like the old

me again—only older. I have seen AndyLangsam '70 and keep in touch with

Kenny Kafka. Other than that, it's been

sparse contact. Hope to reconnect with

some other old friends in the future."

Stephen Cohen

Portland, Oregon

In 1979, Cohen produced a vinyl album.

The Tree People, with his Eugene, Oregon,

acoustic group of the same name. That

album has been rediscovered in the last

few years and is now being reissued world-

wide by Tiliqua Records ofJapan as a CD.You can find out more on Cohen's blog at

treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com.

Darlene Pollack Nichols

Winthrop, Massachusetts

Nichols works for Partners Healthcare in

research administration for Brigham and

Women's Hospital in Boston.

Sara Sunstein

Areata, California

Sunstein lives on the coast in Northern

California, enjoying the land and

community. She is helping people feel

better through body work, sculpting,

gardening, and peace activism.

1973George Kahn

11300 Rudman Drive

Culver City, CA 90230

1973notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

My son, Benjamin, graduated from

Linfield College in Oregon with a

bachelor's degree in computer science.

I spent Labor Day weekend in Portland,

Oregon, celebrating the marriage of Ben

to his college sweetheart, Emilie Nichols.

1 was also a panelist at the BAMD! '06

Alumni Leadership Retreat at Brandeis

on October 20-22.

Marshall Herskovitz

Santa Monica, California

Herskovitz was elected president of the

three-thousand-member Producers Guild

of America, where he has been a strong

voice in the PGA's fight to curb the

proliferation of producer credits.

1974Class of 1974

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1974notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Terry Perlmutter

Lincoln, Massachusetts

Perlmutter was named director of

admission and financial aid at Applewild

School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

She will manage the enrollment process

for families and will oversee outreach

and publicity.

David Tracy

Lincoln, Rhode Island

Tracy was named a partner at Hinkley,

Allen, and Snyder. He will continue his

commercial real-estate law practice, with

particular emphasis on malls, shopping

centers, office and mixed-use develop-

ments, and commercial leasing.

SherrI Silverman

Santa Fc, New Mexico

Silverman's book The Transcendental

Home: Vastu, the Yoga ofDesign will be

published by Gibbs Smith Publishers in

fall 2007. Her artwork is featured in

100 Artists ofthe Southwest (2006,

Schiffer Books).

Michael Wien

New Rochelle, New York

Wien was made partner in Tannenbaum

Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt's real

estate and environmental law practice

group. Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse &Hirschtritt is a leading law firm in

private and commercial real estate.

1975Class of 1975

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1975notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Paul Linet

Boxborough, Massachusetts

Linet, an international trade attorney,

was named manager of customs and

trade for L. L. Bean Co. of Freeport,

Maine. Linet and his wife, Susan, are

the parents of daughters Ariel '08 and

Sarah '10. Ariel is studying at the

University of Amsterdam during the

fall semester; Sarah was responsible for

training the family's golden retriever

puppy before entering 'Deis.

Richard and Julie (Abramson)

Waysdorf

Denver

Richard Waysdorf was promoted to s

enior vice president for business affairs

and distribution at Starz Entertainment

Group, operators of the Starz and

Encore family of cable program networks

and the Vongo Internet movie service.

He negotiates carriage deals for the Starz

and Encore networks on cable and

satellite platforms. He has been with

Starz in Colorado since 1996. He and

Julie live in Denver with their younger

daughter, Nina, while elder sibling Abby

attends the University of Washington in

Seattle and son Matthew attends Hofstra

University, back in the homeland of

New York.

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motes alumni] )ro file Amy Eilberg '76

1976Beth Pearlman

1773 Diane Road

Mendota Heights, MN 55118

1976notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello, fellow '76ers! As you can see, we

have fallen off in our submissions to

class news. We all want to hear what you

(and your kids) are up to, so please do

send in your news for the next issue. I

will kick it off by telling you that myson, Mathew, started his freshman year

at Emory and my daughter, Ariella, is a

junior at St. Paul Academy. How time

flies! My husband, Garry George, was

recently appointed acting manager (they

call him "Chief") of the Air Traffic

Control Center based in Minnesota that

controls the aitspace for nine states. I

have been promoted to partnership

director for Internet Broadcasting, in

charge of NBC-owned stations' Websites. Now it's your turn!

Fred Berg

150 East 83rd Street, #2CNew York, NY 10028

1977notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Elin Emilsson

San Jeronimo, Mexico

Emilsson has been working in applied

linguistics for the past twenty-five years,

primarily centered on language course

design, curriculum development, teacher

training, and teaching. She has also

developed materials lor literacy teaching

and adult education in general. As a

result, she is coauthor of twelve language

textbooks for English, Spanish, and adult

education. After she graduated from

Brandeis with degrees in anthropology

and linguistics, she earned a master's in

Latin American studies at the University

of Mexico and a master's in language

sciences at Universite de Paris XIII. She's

married and has two children, Irene,

eighteen, going to study in Paris this fall,

Biaiuleis University Magazine I Fall 06

She Helps to Spread Spiritual Guidance

Amid extraordinary conflict, when

images of war, destruction, hate, and

hopelessness permeate the news and our

thoughts. Rabbi Amy Eilberg '76 is dedi-

cated to creating a more peaceful, loving

world. She speaks to congregations in the

twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul

and around the country about issues ot

Jewish spirituality, healing, compassion-

ate listening, and peace-making, as well as

Jewish feminism. Visit her home in Men-

dota Heights, Minnesota, and you may

find her running a spiritual direction

group in her living room.

The first woman ordained as a Conser-

vative rabbi by the Jewish Theological

Seminary of America in 1985, Eilberg is

nationally known as a leader of the Jewish

healing movement, which offers the riches

of Jewish tradition and the resources of

Jewish community to those living with the

challenges of illness, grief and providing

care for others.

Eilberg also offers Jewish spiritual direc-

tion, helping seekers see the ways Godmoves through their lives. While spiritual

direction, also called "spiritual guidance,

"

is an ancient practice in Christianity, it did

not receive attention in the Jewish com-

munity until the 1990s, Eilberg says. Seek-

ing an authentic Jewish language for spiri-

tual direction, she searches Kabbalistic,

Chassidic, and Musar (contemplative)

texts. Implicit in every session, she notes, is

the question, "Where is God in this?"

Married to Dr. Louis Newman and the

mother of three children, Eilberg is famil-

iar with the minutiae of a hectic life,

which she likens to the messy, knotty

backside of a tapestry. By sorting through

the details with a guide, she says, seekers

sometimes glimpse the clearer patterns of

the tapestry's front. Characteristically,

spiritual directors do not provide answers,

but instead create a receptive, prayerful,

and compassionate space where clarity can

be pursued.

"The real director is God," says Eilberg,

who cautions that, while we tend to

assume it is necessary to understand every-

thing immediately, "learning to live grace-

fully with the limits of our knowledge is a

mark of wisdom."

A summa cum laude graduate of Bran-

deis, Eilberg earned a master's degree in

Talmud at the Jewish Theological Semi-

nary and a master of social work degree

from Smith College before entering rab-

binical school.

—Marjorie Lyon

classnotes

and Andres, fifteen, who won a silver

medal in the Central American

Mathematical Olympiad this summer.

A proud mom, no doubt!

Linda Levine

Bethesda, Maryland

Levine writes, "I visited Israel this past

summer. I'm working as a speech

pathologist in my own practice."

1978Valerie Troyansky

10 West 66th Street, #8J

New York, NY 10023

1978notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Leanne Berge

Newton, Massachusetts

Berge was named vice president for

strategic planning and business develop-

ment at Network Health. She brings

twenty years of experience as a health-care

executive and practicing attorney to the

Massachusetts health plan. She will lead

the plan's strategic initiatives and oversee

the government relations and strategic

planning operations. In addition, she will

provide executive leadership as a key

member of the senior leadership team.

Richard Kraft

Los Angeles

Kraft was named Prosecuting Attorney

of the Year for 2005-06 by the Los

Angeles County Bar Association.

1979Ruth Strauss Fleischmann

8 Angier Road

Lexington, MA 02420

1979notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Roslynn Mauskopf

New York City

Mauskopf was nominated by the White

House for a federal judgeship. Since

September 2002, she has been U.S.

attorney for the Eastern District of New

York, which covers Brooklyn, Queens,

Long Island, and Staten Island. She is

responsible for prosecuting all federal

crimes, including racketeering, drug

dealing, gang violence, and terrorism.

Kenneth Nirenberg

Brentwood, New Jersey

Nirenberg is a member of the Internal

Revenue Service Advisory Council.

1980Lewis Brooks

585 Glen Meadow Road

Richboro, PA 18954

1980notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Joshua Ostroff

Natick, Massachusetts

OstrofF's research company, Virtual

Media Resources, has been a principal

subcontractor to the Center on Alcohol

Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at

Georgetown University. CAMY seeks to

reduce the amount of alcohol advertising

to which youth are exposed through TV,

magazines, radio, and other media. This

effort includes published reports and

articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well

as work with public health and law

enforcement. VMR is also engaged in

work on other areas of public policy,

including youth obesity. OstrofFmay be

the first English major to be published in

the Archives ofPediatrics and Adolescent

Medicine Quly 2005). Elaine Ostroff '55

is proud, at any rate. Also, Ostroff was

elected to the Natick Board of Selectmen

in March and is active in local

government and community issues.

1981David J. Allon

540 Weadley Road

Wayne, PA 19087

1981notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

I'm heading to forty-seven, as my boys

constantly remind me. I'm keeping in

shape with bike rides and the gym and

still enjoy eating good food (have a few

pounds to shed). After a family vacation

to Niagara Falls, New York, the kids

headed back to school in September.

I'm still at Progress Financial Resources

(four years now) as an entrepreneur and

professional financial planner; assets and

taxes, estates and insurance, and

investment advisory, too. It reminds meof Econ2 with Schwalberg. Please send

me your monologue.

Juliet (Cantor) and Michael Barr

Ramsey, New Jersey

The Barrs are proud of their son,

Zachary '09, who completed his

freshman year at Brandeis on the

Dean's List. They say the apple doesn't

fall far from the tree.

Joan Cullinane

Anchorage, Alaska

Cullinane writes, "This is Joan Cullinane

up in Anchorage, where, believe it or

not, a number of Brandeis alumni are

hiding. I would like to share that I fin-

ished my first triathlon this year, caught

the bouquets at two weddings, and

received a commission to write a show

about how much fiin it is to work in

mental health when one has mental-

health issues. I am currently the clinician

for Anchorage Community Mental

Health's day rehab program and will

continue at this, I hope, even after the

show opens!"

Allsa Zimbalist Levine

Needham, Massachusetts

Levine writes, "I'm trying to keep in

shape and recently settled our daughter,

Rozalyn '09, into East Quad to start her

sophomore year at Brandeis (scary, since

she is at the age and in the place where

Glenn Levine '80 and I met rwenty-

eight years ago). Our son will be getting

his driver's license in November. The

summer went by much too quickly, and

I am trying to refocus and get into the

fall routine of working in the JCC world

of Jewish family education. So much to

do, but I just keep reminding myself to

breathe and to count my blessings

every day.

"

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class notes

Sandra Ross Lozowick

JerusaJem

Lozowick writes, "My husband, Pinchas,

and 1 have three children. Our eldest,

Hiia, eighteen years old, is currently

in the army, where she will be com-

manding and teaching new immigrants.

Our son, Avi, is sixteen, and our younger

daughter is twelve. I am a clinical

psychologist and am involved in many

volunteer projects."

Brian McDonald

Hong Kong

McDonald was named vice president for

investor relations at International Paper.

He will report to the chief executive

officer and executive vice president, and

will be based in the company's Memphis,

Tennessee, headquarters. McDonald

joined the firm in 1987. He has held

many roles of increasing responsibility,

including his most recent as president

of IP Asia.

Stuart Miller

Owings Mills, Maryland

Miller writes, "I'm an active dad with

fourteen-, twelve- and eight-year-old

treasures. My wife, Jackie, is not

practicing pediatrics anymore due to

family demands. We live in northwest

Baltimore suburbia with all the

trimmings. My career remains fun and

interesting. I subspecialize in orthopedic

foot and ankle surgery at Union

Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Wehave an active research and teaching

facility where I teach residents, fellows,

and international visitors. I continue to

write numerous journal articles and book

chapters and serve on editorial boards.

I have developed several surgical

implants and procedures and continue to

work with the industry to advance the

state of the art and lessen human

suffering in some part. I returned to

fencing with one of my daughters after a

long break and discovered that former

Brandeis coach Joe Pechinsky is well

known throughout the field. I'm starting

to train tor the veterans' competitions. I

have been a bicycle roadie for years, but

recendy started mountain biking and

absolutely love it. Life is good!

"

David Weinsteln

New York City

Weinstein was appointed to the board of

directors of Interstate Bakeries

Corporation. He is a senior investment

banking and reorganization specialist

and has served as both chairman and a

member of the boards of several public

companies. Interstate Bakeries is one of

the nation's largest wholesale bakers and

distributors of fresh-baked bread and

sweet goods, under various national

brand names, including Wonder, Baker's

Inn, Merita, Hostess, and Drake's.

Dvora Weisberg

Los Angeles

Weisberg is an associate professor of

Talmud at Hebrew Union College in

Los Angeles. She and her husband have

rwo sons, Micah, seventeen ("a senior in

high school and applying to Brandeis! "),

and Noah, twelve.

Ellen Cohen

1007 Euclid Street, #3

Santa Monica, CA 90403

1982notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jennifer Gallop

Brookline, Massachusetts

Gallop is a health-care and nonprofit

lawyer at a Boston boutique law firm,

Krokidas & Bluestein.

Lin-Lin MaoRockville, Marj'land

Mao received a master's in visual studies

from MIT in 1985 and worked for IBMas a software engineer until 1995. She is

now a stay-at-home mom for Genevieve,

twelve years old, and Cormac, ten. She

has been married to husband Richard for

sixteen years and is currendy working

from home as a Web designer.

Almee RudmanCherry Hill, New Jersey

Rudman is the immediate past chair of

the New Jersey State Bar Association's

Elder and Disability Law section. She has

been certified as an elder-law attorney by

the National Elder Law Foundation.

David Silver

West Hartford, Connecticut

Silver writes, "I continue in my role as a

stay-at-home dad and am active in the

community with various projects.

"

Alan Smulen

Bayonne, New Jersey

Smulen is a professional opera singer

and accompanist.

1983Lori Berman Gans

46 Oak Vale Road

Newton, MA 02468

1983notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Daniel Green

Sparks, Maryland

Green writes, "I am a practicing

OB/CW in Owing Mills, Maryland.

I am married to Dr. Tamara Sobel, and

we have three children: Zachary, fifteen,

Alexandra, eleven, and Jeremy, seven.

When not working, I enjoy motorcycle

riding, ATV riding, coaching baseball,

and being active in our children's Jewish

day school. We live on a sixteen-acre

tarm with horses, sheep, dogs, cats,

rabbits, and a cow."

Eric Sax, MBA'Ol

Lincoln, Massachusetts

Sax was elected president of the

Massachusetts Radiological Society

(MRS) in June. MRS is the Massachusetts

chapter of the American College of

Radiology, for which he also serves as a

councilor. Sax is a member of the Centers

for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Carrier Advisory Committee and the

Interspeciality Committee ot the

Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS).

In addition, he is a delegate to the MMSand the Massachusetts Hospital Associa-

tion. In January, he left his position as

director of nuclear medicine and PET/CT

at Newton-Wellesley Hospital to start his

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1984Class of 1984

MS 124 Brandels University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1984notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jeff Bernhardt

Van Nu\'s. Cilitornia

Bernhardts poem "Tashlich" was

published in the book Rosh Hashanah

Readings, edited by Rabbi Dov Peretz

Elkins (Jewish Lights). His dramatic

reading, "Who Shall Live . . . .'"was

staged at more than ten synagogues

around the country during the High

Holy Days.

W. Brooke Chang

lohnson Cirv', Tennessee

Chang was appointed associate counsel

in the Office of University Counsel at

East Tennessee State University, where

she had previously served as assistant

counsel. In her new position, Chang

provides legal advice to the faculty and

staff of the university's colleges, schools,

and administrative divisions on many

aspects of federal and state employment

law, such as workers' compensation, the

Civil Rights Act, the Americans with

Disabilities Act, and the Tennessee

Human Rights Act.

Russell Paris

Oak Park, California

Paris hosts a monthly concert series.

Schedule information is available at

www.houseconcerts. us.

Braiideis University Magazine I Fall "06

Dancing to a Different Piper

when Monty Levenson, MA'69, moved to

Northern California in 1970, he planned to

spend no more than a year there finishing

his doctoral thesis.

But while living in the town of Willits

(popiJation three thousand), the Brooklyn

native decided against becoming a sociology

professor and instead joined the "back-to-

the-land " movement that lured educated ur-

banites seeking respite from the social and

political chaos of the time to rural areas.

Levenson homesteaded eighty acres ofun-

developed land, built the home where he and

his wife Kayo would later raise four children,

and put together an alternative-energy sys-

tem incorporating hydroelectricity and pho-

tovoltaics to power it.

"To some degree, I had begun living out

my values," he said. "TTiat's what 1 was learn-

ing at Brandeis in my early twenties, and

that's what the era of the sixties was about.

"

As he embarked on this new path, Leven-

son also encountered the shakuhachi, a tra-

ditional Japanese flute played by Buddhist

monks as a form of meditation. Without

any formal training or even English-

language books about the flute, Levenson

set out to make his own.

"My intent was to take the shakuhachi

off the altar and put it in the hands of the

people," he said.

Today, he is the only craftsman outside

Japan making shakuhachi for professional

players and traditional teachers in Japan.

Made from the root of madake bam-

boo—one of 1 ,500 varieties of the plant

—

the instrument entered Japan in the sixth

century and reached its peak of develop-

ment in the 1700s. To achieve exceptional

resonance and tonal quality, traditional flute

makers spend many hours refining the pre-

cise diameter of the bore for each unique

piece of bamboo.

Working with world-renowned Scottish

Baroque flute maker Roderick Cameron

and master player John Kaizan Neptune

in Japan, Levenson developed a precision

casting technique in the 1980s that allows

him to reproduce exact bore profiles more

quickly and produce a flute at a fraction

of the price.

Between his California workshop and his

workshop in the small Japanese farming vil-

lage of Kitagawa, Levenson has made more

than seven thousand flutes.

In 2004, he started Tai Hei Shakuhachi

Publishing, which offers books, sheet music,

CDs and videos related to shakuhachi.

"If people do not work hard to preserve

traditions like the shakuhachi, they simply

fade away," he said.

—Carrie Simmons

i notes

1985James R. Felton

26956 Helmond Drive

Calabasas, CA 91301

1985notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

1986Beth Jacobowitz Zive

16 Furlong Drive

Cherry Hill, NJ 080031986notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Stacey (Pomerantz) Ullman

Livingston, New Jersey

Ullman and her husband, Harold, a

lawyer, have three children, ages thirteen,

ten, and five. She develops continuing-

medical-education programs for

pharmaceutical companies. Her latest

topic involves erectile dysfunction; great

for cocktail parry jokes, but difficult to

explain at kindergarten career day!

I ION 1987Vanessa B. Newman153 East 57th Street, #2GNew York, NY 10022

1987notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Corrin Ferber

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Ferber writes, "In 2004, 1 left the Office

on Violence Against Women at the U.S.

Department of Justice to join the Office

of Policy Review and Interagency Liaison

at the U.S. Department of State. This

has been a very rewarding move, as the

focus of my work is resolving cases of

international parental child abductions.

My husband and I also moved our

family to a new house last year. This has

been great fun for us and our almost-

eight-year-old twins. Alec and Isabella.

"

Gustavo Gelpi

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Gelpi became a U.S. district judge on

August 2, having been nominated by

President Bush and confirmed by the

U.S. Senate. Classmate Garrett Preis

attended Gelpi's confirmation hearing

before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Rachel Garshick Kleit

Seattle

Kleit was awarded tenure and promoted to

associate professor at the Evans School of

Public Affairs at the University of

Washington. Her research is in the areas of

affordable housing, social networks, and

social and economic opportunity. She and

her husband, David, have two children,

Miriam, four, and Natanya, one.

1988Class of 1988

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1988notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Lori Freedman

Winchester, Massachusetts

Freedman was appointed vice president

for corporate affairs, general counsel,

and secretary for global bionanotech

company pSivida Limited. She is

responsible for overseeing all legal affairs

of the company. Reporting directly to

the chief executive officer, Freedman also

assists in the development of corporate

strategies and serves as a company

secretary to the board of directors.

Michelle Leder

Peckskill, New York

Leder's Web site (www.footnoted.org)

was named one of Time magazine's "Fifty

Coolest" sites in August. Leder, an author

and journalist, lives in Peekskill with her

husband, Scott Cooper, and is currently

working on her second book. She also

heads up the media alumni networking

group that meets several times a year at

Brandeis House; she invites all media

alumni to get involved in this group.

Robert Simon

Jersey City, New Jersey

Simon, a practicing attorney in

Manhattan, and wife Robin Strom cele-

brated their fourth anniversary on June 9.

1989Class of 1989

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

1989notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Cindy Blank-Edelman and

David Blank

Somerville, Massachusetts

Blank-Edelman and Blank are delighted

to announce the birth of their son,

Elijah Isaac, on July 16. Cindy is a

psychotherapist at Fenway Community

Health in Boston. David is director of

technology at Northeastern University's

College of Computer and Information

Science and is the author of the book

Perlfor System Administration, published

by O'Reilly.

Patrick Dimick, MA'90

New York City

Dimick has joined Medley Global

Advisors' (MGA) global market strategy

team. MGA is a provider of policy intel-

ligence on monetary, fiscal, regulatory,

and political developments to many of

the world's leading institutional

investors. Before joining MGA, Dimick

spent ten years working for UBS, where

he served first as an economist, focusing

on U.S. treasuries, then as an analyst in

the area of high yield/leveraged finance,

and finally as a salesperson offering the

company's global investment strategy

and research to asset managers.

Francine Glenn Saperstein

Phoenix

Saperstein was promoted to vice

president of publishing at A-Z Media

Group, a Carlsbad, California,

company. Her publishing responsibili-

ties include a monthly online magazine,

scrapbooking.com, as well as weekly

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Vicki Miller

East Hills, New York

Miller writes, "I have two sons. Maxwell

Ian, six, and Miles Thyme, four. Myhusband and 1 met on a blind date

through Phyllis (Rosenberg) Messner.

For the past sixteen years, I have been

working in the family business as execu-

tive vice president for First Spice Mixing

Co., with manufacturing plants in NewYork, San Francisco, and Toronto."

Stacy Sherman Ziluck

White Plains, New York

Ziluck writes, "When I was studying

Mandarin at Brandeis with Professor

[Xiaoxue] Cao, little did ! know that

many years later I would be traveling to

China to adopt a baby girl. On April 14,

Hannah Emily flew home from Beijing

with us to join her big brothers, Max

and Noah, in New York. Even Max

(seven) and Noah (four) learned a few

Mandarin phrases for the big event.

Hannah has been integrating very nicely

into her new family. She is a beautiful

and spunky twenty-two-month-old. If

any alumni are interested in China

adoption and would like to learn more

from our experiences, they can contact

us at 7,iluck@optonline.net."

1991Andrea C. Kramer

PO Box 5496

Takoma Park, MD 20913-5496

1991notes@alumni.brandels.edu

Christopher Bowen

Somerville, Massachusetts

Bowen writes, "I teach cinematography,

film production, and digital video

editing at Boston University. I freelance

as a commercial director, photographer,

and editor, and I am an AVID-certified

instructor. I have a lovely girlfriend,

Rachael, and I love sunny days! Cheers."

Wayne Cousin

Manalapan, New Jersey

Cousin was named a partner at the NewYork City medical malpractice firm

Br;iTl,lr,- I ?irii- I Fnll (1(1

Taking Aim at HIVEach year, more than four million people

become infected with the HIV virus. For

Jonathan Fuchs "91, the goal of speeding

delivery of an HIV vaccine is a driving

passion.

Armed with a medical degree from the

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in

New Jersey and a master's degree in public

health from Columbia University, Fuchs

directs preventive HIV vaccine clinical tri-

als at the University of California, San

Francisco, where he is assistant clinical

professor of medicine.

Working in concert with the San Fran-

cisco Department of Public Health, Fuchs

and his faculty colleagues are part of an

international effort to test an experimental

vaccine to see whether it works safely in

diverse populations. Researchers hope to

enroll a total of thtee thousand volunteers

in the United States, South America, the

Caribbean, and Australia, says Fuchs,

adding that study participants must be

healthy, HIV-negative men and women

who are at increased risk of getting HIV.

"There is absolutely no chance volun-

teers will be given the disease or contract it

from the vaccines," Fuchs emphasizes,

"because we do not use whole, weakened,

or killed HIV viruses as vaccines. The vac-

cine uses only synthetically ptoduced frag-

ments of HIV delivered in a crippled cold

virus to train the human immune system to

recognize and respond to HFV infection."

While some panicipants in the double-

blind study receive a placebo and others an

actual vaccine candidate, all study panici-

pants get risk-reduction counseling. When

HIV infections do occur, researchers trace

whether the vaccine can prevent infection or

disease progression better than the placebo.

Noting that the HIV patients he cared

for as a medical student and resident

inspired his commitment, Fuchs expresses

optimism about HIV prevention tech-

nologies like vaccines and microbicides.

He paraphrases Bill and Melinda Gates's

comments during an international AIDS

meeting in Toronto, saying, "You can't

ignore the numbers. While it's critical to

get the cocktail of medications to all who

need them, it's infeasible to sustain this for

the eleven thousand people who become

infected every day across the globe. Pre-

vention has to underpin our strategy."

—Marjorie Lyon

class notes

Gordon & Silber. His daughter,

Deborah Rose, was born on August 24,

2005, and son Jonathan Alexander is

three years old and practicing the guitar

Wife Laura continues to work for a NewYork City firm as a managing attorney.

Anna Gold Ecker

Kew Garden Hills, New York

Ecker writes, "My husband and I live

in Kew Garden Hills, Queens. Our

daughter, Esther, is four, and our son,

Avraham, is seven months. For the past

three years, I have been teaching

seventh-grade English—a big change

after ten years in corporate America!

Sarah Friedman

New York Citj-

Friedman and her husband, James, have

three bovs, Jacob (four) and Eli and

Jonah (eighteen months). She works in

private practice as a psychologist. "Life is

hectic, but fun," she writes. "I hope all

of you out there are doing well."

Carrie Johnson

Cairo, Egypt

Johnson writes, "I am still living in Cairo,

working for the Institute of International

Education. On April 21,1 was blessed by

the birth of my daughter, Amina Kenzi,

in California with my family. Her name

means 'faithfijl' or 'honest' and 'my

treasure,' respectively, in Arabic. Debra

Curtis and Debi (Johnson) Younge and

her son Tyler came to visit us before we

returned to Cairo. It was great to see

them and to introduce them to my new

bundle of loy!

Jason Levine

Washington, D.C.

Levine was named one of the top 500

"New Star" lawyers in the country by

Lawdragon Magazine, a legal trade publi-

cation and peer-reviewed ranking service.

Levine, a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law

School, is a partner at McDermott

Will & Emery in Washington, D.C.

Julian Zelizer

Brookline, Massachusetts

Zelizer writes, "This year I was awarded a

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

Fellowship. As a Guggenheim fellow,

I will have an entire year just to work on

mv new book about the history of

national security politics from the cold

war to the war on terrorism. In addition,

my recent book. The American Congress:

The Building ofDemocracy, was named an

outstanding academic title by Choice.

Penn State Press published a new book

I edited titled New Directions in Public

Policy History. This year I have also

appeared regularly in the national media,

including the CBS Evening Netvs, the

History Channel, C-SPAN, National

Public Radio, the Neiv York Times, the

Washington Post. U.S. News & World

Report. USA Today, and more. 1 also

appeared in a documentar\' that aired on

Korean television last January. My family

is doing well. I am a professor of history

at Boston University and we have two

children, Nathan, rwo, and Sophia, four."

Lisa Davidson Flore

34 Van Ness Road

Belmont, MA 02478

1992notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Hello, classmates! I understand this

issue of the magazine features a record

number of class notes, which is appar-

ent by the number of alums who sent

in an update for our class. Thanks for

keeping in touch, and I sincerely hope

the trend continues. At the time of this

writing, school is about to start, and mytwo children will be in different classes

at the same preschool. It will be the

first time in four years that I have had

six hours of time each day dedicated to

work (or anything else I choose!). Need-

less to say, it is a bittersweet moment in

time, but I am looking forward to it.

And, speaking of looking forward, our

15th Reunion is on the horizon! It

doesn't seem possible that we're cele-

brating fifteen years since we finished

college. Now's the time to make plans

and look up old friends. Here are some

updates to start the ball rolling.

Stacey Ballis

Chicago

Ballis is director of education and com-

munity programs at the Goodman

Theatre in Chicago. She is also president

of Dayton Associates Consulting Group,

specializing in strategic planning and

change management for cultural and

educational institutions. She teaches a

curriculum development and arts integra-

tion course for Chicago Public School

educators and serves on advisory boards

for the University Theater School

Partnership Program at the University of

Chicago and for Blessed LJnrest, a theater

company in New York. Her third novel.

Room for Improvement, was released in

lune bv Penguin and was named "one of

the best of the season by the Washington

Post. Her fourth book. The Spinster Sis-

ters, is due out in March. She has also

contributed chapters to two anthologies

being released next spring; Everything I

Needed to Know about Being a Girl I

Learned from Judy Blume. due out in May

from Pocket Books, and Girls Who Love

Boys Who Love Boys, due out in June from

Dutton. Her first book. Inappropriate

Men, will be released in Greece sometime

next year as well. For more information,

visit www.staceyballis.com or join

Ballis's group of MySpace friends at

www.mvspace.com/staceyballis.

Selena Cousin

Franklin, Massachusetts

Cousin, who has been working in Jewish

education for the past ten years, is now

educational director of a Hebrew school.

She is married to Neil Cousin.

Mark Covltz

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Covitz, the senior rabbi on Hilton Head

Island, and his wife, Stacy, recently wel-

comed their fourth daughter, Ariel Oden.

Justine (McBride) Fellows

Fairfield, Connecticut

Fellows writes, "I've begun my thitd year

as coordinator of academic technology

at a private school in Westport,

Connecticut. As a member of the

Connecticut Association of Independent

School-s' Commission on Technology,

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I travel to many schools, assessing

technology and giving lectures at confer-

ences and workshops. I am lucky to be

able to say that I love my job! I am mar-

ried to Cris, a firefighter in Stamford,

Connecticut, and we have two girls,

Kallie, seven, and Emma, two. I just pub-

lished my third book, P/issPorter's Disney

Speed Planner, a guide for busy parents

who want to actually enjoy the dreaded

Disney World trip."

Bruce Field

Baltimore

Field writes, "We spent a week at the

beach this summer. I worked on writing

a story and I've been reading book six-

teen of the Aubrey/Maturin novel series."

Sherri Geller

Boston

Geller left the Brandeis admissions staff

last year and worked as a consultant for

Northeastern University admissions for a

season. She's now a college counselor and

international student adviser at Dana

Hall School in Wellesley and serves on

the eight-member national board of

directors of the National Association for

College Admission Counseling.

Daniel Gewanter

New York City

Gewanter writes, "My wife, Michelle,

gave birth to our first child. Jack, on

March 17. I am currently genetal

counsel of Whippoorwill Associates,

Inc., an investment management firm

in White Plains, New York."

Jacqueline (Morse) Kessler

Delmar, New York

Kessler is thrilled to announce that her

debut novel, Mell's Belles, will be

published by Kensington in January.

Marc Kramer

New York Cit)'

Kramer, executive director of RAVSAK:

The Jewish Community Day School

Network in New York Cit)', received the

2006 Covenant Award from the

Covenant Foundation for his

outstanding contributions to Jewish

education in North America.

Dirths adoptions

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1986

class notes

daughter, Josie, in March. My husband

puts up with all of us girls very nicely;

we will have him fully trained in about

sixteen years. I would love to hear

from any long-lost alumni at

nsimon@medscape.com.

"

Sheri Weinstein

Maplewood, New Jersey

Weinstein writes, "My husband, Adam,

and I moved last year to Maplewood

with our daughter, Daliah Brooke, who

is almost two and a half years old. Last

December, I received both tenure and a

promotion to associate professor of

English at Kingsborough Community

College, CUNY, in Brooklyn. (All of this

is a welcome relief from publishing

pressures tor a little while!) E-mail

sheriweinstein@hotmail.com.

"

1993Joshua Blumenthal

467 Valley St. #6-G

Maplewood, NJ 07040

1993notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Starting things off, 1 have been named

executive director of North Carolina

Hillel, a student organization that strives

to create an environment in which Jewish

life will thrive and enrich the experience

ot the students, staff, and faculty at the

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

and other campuses throughout the state.

Chad Miller

Silver Spring, Maryland

Miller writes, "I left the government and

joined Arnold & Porter as an associate in

the government contracts section, where

I work with Matt Solomson '96. His

wife, Lisa (Entel) '95, and my wife,

Melissa, are friends, and each couple has

three children the same age. Staying

close is ea.sy, especially since we live on

the same street, one house apart."

Ania Siwek Schwartzman

New York Cit>'

Schwartzman wed Ronen Schwartzman

in July. They live in Manhattan.

1994Sandy Kirschen Solof

108 Cold Spring Road

Avon, CT 06001

1994notes@alumnl.brandels.edu

Eric Berkson

Chicago

Berkson, an orthopedic surgeon and

sports medicine physician, has joined the

medical staff at Quinc>' Medical Center.

Specializing in treatment of shoulder,

elbow, and knee injuries, Berkson has

advanced training and expertise in

minimally invasive arthroscopic tech-

niques, cartilage restorative procedures,

knee ligament reconstruction, and

rotator cuff repair.

Stacy Lubov

Durham, North Carolina

Lubov is the new education director at

Judea Reform Congregation. Her main

charge is to be principal of the religious

school on Sunday mornings and to

work with the Hebrew school on

Tuesdays in Durham and on Thursdays

in Chapel Hill.

Stacy Ratner

Chicago

Ratner writes, "I recently founded

Open Books, Chicago's first nonprofit

used bookstore dedicated to promoting

literacy. We plan to open the store in

September 2007 and bought our first

2,600 books this June from—where

else?—the Brandeis University National

Women's Committee book sale.

"

Jennifer Shapiro Spatz

Old Bethpage, New York

Spatz and her husband, Jonathan, have

two children, Amie Loren and Noah

Benjamin. She works part time as a senior

associate in client service and compliance

for Dix Hills Partners, a hedge fund.

Suzanne (Siber) WoodLondon

Wood and her husband moved to

London in July 2005. They've enjoyed it

so much, they decided to have a souvenir

to remember their time by; Daniel Evan

was born June 19 and was welcomed

into the family with open arms by big

brother Justin.

1995Suzanne Lavin

154 W. 70th Street, Apt. lOJ

New York, NY 10023

1995notes@alumnl.brandeis.edu

Allison Cloth

Rochester, New York

Cloth completed doctoral studies in

school psychology and will be a fellow in

child and adolescent psychology at the

University ot Rochester Medical Center

in New York.

Brigid Nuta Howe

Alexandria, Virginia

Nuta married Alexander Howe, a

professor at the University of the District

of Columbia, on May 21 in Dickerson,

Maryland. Her maid of honor and

stand-in officiant (after the judge was

kept away by a personal emergency)

was her cousin Bridget (Mclntyre)

Butkevich. Howe works for the Girl

Scout Council of the Nation's Capital.

Jessica Shulman McGettrick

Salem, Massachusetts

Shulman married Mark McGettrick on

April 15 in Salem, Massachusetts.

Among those in attendance were Brigid

Nuta, Dana Shulman Krashin '00,

Norma Goldstein Shulman '67,

Steve Shulman '68, Nadina McLean

Pendleton, Erika Karnell '96, Megan

Healy Raye '96, Booth Daniels, and

Warren Bloom.

Sally NIckerson Merryman

Mebane, North Carolina

Merryman writes, "In June 1997, I

received my master of arts in teaching,

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Alumni

Herman Sebrini '55

Verona, New Jersey

Mr. Sebrini died March 2 1 . He leaves

his wife, Barbara.

Lois Nesson Cohen '56

Highland Park, Illinois

Ms. Cohen died in Seprember. She

leaves a son, Andrew; a daughter, Elissa

Halpern; a sister, Marilyn Mann; and

four grandchildren.

Anthony D'Amato, MA'57

Coram, New York

Mr. D'Amato, a top record producer

during the 1960s and 1970s with British

recording label Decca Records, died July

7 at the age of seventy-five. During his

professional career, he was responsible

for numerous best-selling albums, many

ot them by light orchestral luminaries

like Frank Chacksfield, Stanley Bhick,

Maurice Larcange, and Ronnie Aldrich,

and bandleaders ot the stature ot Ted

Heath and Edmundo Ros. He was per-

haps best known as the record producer

tor Annunzio Paolo Mantovani until

Montovani retired in 1975.

Fred Epstein '59

Greenwich, Connecticut

Dr. Epstein, the founding director ot the

Hyman-Newman histitute tor Neurolo-

gy and Neurosurgery at Beth Israel Med-

ical Center in New York City, died July

9 of metastatic malignant melanoma. Hewas sixty-eight. Dr. Epstein's unconven-

tional and holistic approach to health,

along with his charismatic demeanor,

made him a medical icon recognized

worldwide. He was the subject of three

tull-length 20/20 episodes, a Readers

Digest cover story, a New York Magazine

cover story, a Discovery Channel televi-

sion special, and hundreds ot newspaper

articles and television news segments. Heleaves his wife, Kathy; two daughters;

three sons; and rwo brothers.

Ira E. Leonard '59

Brookline, Massachusetts

Mr. Leonard died August 23 at the age of

sixty-eight. He leaves a brother, Joseph, ot

Lake Worth, Florida; a niece, Susan; and

two nephews, David and Jonathan.

Elliot S. Wetzler '59

Fresh Meadows, New York

Dr. Wetzler, who suffered a stroke in

2001, died June 17 at the home of his

longtime friend and caretaker, Betty

Breck of Groton, Massachusetts. Heleaves three brothers, Gerald, Peter, and

Leonard, of Flushing, New York,

George Doring '61

New Milford, Connecticut

Mr. Doring, a retired Spanish teacher at

New Milford High School, died after suf-

fering a heart attack at a Rotary Club

function on June 20. He was sixty-six. Astar member of the Brandeis track team

during the late 1950s and early 1960s,

Mr. Doring was inducted into the univer-

sity's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. He

leaves a daughter, Julie, of North Carolina.

Michael H. Silverman, MA'63, PhD'67

Tampa, Florida

Mr. Silverman, a former college

professor and certified public account-

ant, died August 9 at age sixty-six. Heleaves his wife, Myra Libman-Silverman;

three sons, Steven ot White Plains, NewYork, and Brian and Mark, both of

Tampa; a brother, George, of Bensalem,

Pennsylvania; and a granddaughter.

Nancy M. Silver '64

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr. Silver, former chief psychologist at

the Cambridge Youth Guidance Center,

and later a staff psychologist at Westboro

State Hospital, died June 8 after a long

battle with cancer. She was sixty-three.

She leaves a son, Adam Silver Travis.

Richard Steinman, PhD'68

Portland, Maine

Mr. Steinman, a former social worker

and professor emeritus of social welfare

at the University of Southern Maine,

died of cancer September 17. He was

eighty. After a divorce, Mr. Steinman

came out as a gay man in the early

1 970s. He was involved in progressive

social movements and politics, and was

particularly active in gay, lesbian, bisexu-

al, and transgender liberation efforts.

He was a founding member of the

Maine Gay and Lesbian Political Alliance

(now Equality Maine) in 1984 and

worked for many years to help bring

about the addition of sexual orientation

and gender expression as protected

classes under the Maine Human Rights

Act. He leaves a son, Jethro '79, of

Havertown, Pennsylvania; two

daughters, India Hoeschen-Stein of

Natick, Massachusetts, and Medea of

Old Town, Maine; a brother. Dr. Robert

Steinman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania;

and a grandchild.

Alvin Lleberman, PhD'69

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Rabbi Lieberman, retired chief of chap-

lains at the Bedford, Massachusetts, Vet-

erans Administration Hospital, died June

22 from Alzheimer's disease. Over an

eighteen-year period, he also served as

rabbi for various local congregations. He

leaves his wife, Sarah Roth; three daugh-

ters, Ramona, Bonnie Lieberman Tib-

betts, and Sheila; and seven

grandchildren.

Rex Hays, MFA'73

New York City

Mr. Hays, who starred in the original

companies of many long-running

Broadway musicals, died September 8

following a ten-year battle with cancer.

He was sixty-one. A California native,

Mr. Hays arrived in New York in the

early 1970s and made his Broadway

debut in the short-lived musical Angel

at the Mimkoff Theatre in 1978. Hewent on to star in many Broadway

musicals, including Evita, King of

Hearts, Onward Victoria, Woman ofthe

Year, La Cage aiix FoUes, Shenandoah,

Grand Hotel, and Big. He is survived by

his wife, actress Lisby Larsen, and sons

Conor and Matthew.

Fern 0. Marx, MMHS'88Newton, Massachusetts

Ms. Marx, a senior research scientist at

Wellesley Centers for Women at Welles-

ley College, died May 1 9. She leaves a

daughter, two sons, two brothers, and

four grandchildren.

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Sarah Z. Adelman '04

New York City

Ms. Adelman, originally from St. Louis,

Missouri, died suddenly July 24 at the age

of twenty-five. At the time of her death,

she worked as the manager of a dental

office in Midtown Manhattan.

Faculty

Martin Gibbs

Department ot Biology

Mr. Gibbs, former professor and chair of

biology and editor of the journal Plant

Physiology for three decades, died July 24 at

the age of eighty-three. Born in Philadel-

phia, he lived in Lexington, Massachusetts,

for many years. A strong advocate for stu-

dents. Professor Gibbs received many

awards for his career achievements, includ-

ing one named for him: the Martin Gibbs

Medal, from the American Society of Plant

Biologists, in 199.^. He leaves three sons,

Steven of Danvers, Michael ot Burlington,

and Robert of Reading, Massachusetts; two

daughters, Janet Miller of Burlington and

Laura Kocen ofTaunton, Massachusetts;

and ten grandchildren.

Bruce A. Spitz

Heller School

Mr. Spitz, a retired research professor at the

Institute for Health Policy at the Heller

School, died suddenly on September 4 at

the age of fifty-nine. The head and founder

of the Spitz Consulting Group, Professor

Spitz spent his entire professional career

promoting policies to improve health care

for people and communities. He leaves his

wife, Jan; a son, Eric; a daughter, Annie;

two brothers, Robert and Jerry; and three

grandchildren.

Trustees

Sol W. Cantor

Palm Peach, Florida, and New York Cit)'

Mr. Cantor, an early proponent of discount

retailing featuring warehouse-style stores,

died June 2 at the age of ninety-five. He

leaves his wife, Muriel; a son, Robert; a

daughter, Ellen Peck; nine grandchildren;

and five great-grandchildren.

specializing in Spanish education, trom

the Universit)' ot North Carolina at

Chapel Hill. In November 2004, 1 earned

my certification in early adolescent and

young adult Spanish education trom the

National Board of Professional Teaching

Standards. In June 2005. I earned add-on

certification for teaching academically and

intellectually gifted students. On Octobet

29, 2005, 1 married Tad Merryman in

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the

church where we first met in 2000. 1 am

currently teaching Spanish at Smith

Middle School in Chapel Hill. Myhusband and I enjoy gardening, traveling,

biking, hiking, home improvement

projects, and playing with our cat, Simba,

and dog. Diamond.

"

Cheri Brisson Salazar

Okemos, Michigan

Salazar and husband Joe welcomed

Rosalie and Liana in April. They join

brother Joey, age two and a halt.

Ray Selvaduarl

Brooklyn Heights, New York

Selvaduari is engaged to Meghan Carr ot

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. A wedding

has been set for June 24, 2007, at the

Estate at Florentine Gardens in

Riverdale, New Jersey.

Mark Silberman

Chicago

Silberman joined Duane Morris in

Chicago as an associate in the health law

practice group. He has served as general

counsel for the Illinois Health Facilities

Planning Board since July 2005.

Silberman has experience in state and

federal prosecution and enforcement and

will counsel nursing homes and hospitals

in matters of state licensure certification

and regulatory compliance.

1996Janet Lipman Leibowitz

29 Pond Street, #9

Sharon, MA 02067

1996notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Brian Brewer

New York City

Brewer was promoted to director of

communications at the Cancer Research

Institute, the only nonprofit organization

dedicated exclusively to the development

ot vaccines and other immune-based

therapies for cancer.

Miriam (Koiko) Gelman

Pittsburgh

Gelman married Mischa Gelman on May

29 in Pittsburgh. Kell (Chalfant) Merkel

was a bridesmaid.

Ira Goldberg

Great Neck, New York

Goldberg and his wite, Debbie,

welcomed a son, Jacob Simon, March

23. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and

was 21 inches long. Dad Ira writes, "We

were happy that the following alumni ot

the Class of 1 996 attended the bris:

Brian Gaines (and his fiancee Julie

Levitt), Adam Levy, Rachel Bebchick

Naggar, and Seth Benkel."

Sara (Winkleman) and Avi Greene

Los Angeles

Sara Greene writes, 'Avi and 1 moved

back to Los Angeles in summer 2005.

Avi is principal ot Judaic studies at

Shalhevet High School. Our second

child, Shoshana Leah, was born on

November 22, 2000. 1 am staying home

with Shoshana and her big sister,

Elisheve, who is now tour and a half and

1 am actively volunteering at our local

synagogues and helping to start up an

elementary school at Shalhevet."

Cheri Jo Pascoe

Oakland, California

Pascoe earned a PhD in sociology trom

the University of California-Berkeley in

May Her article, "Dude, You're a Fag:

Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag

Discourse," appeared in the journal

Sexualities. Her book. Dude, You're a Fag:

Sexuality and Masculinity in High School.

is forthcoming from Universit)' ot

California Press.

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Governor Richards foiisht the oood fioht By Joshua Israel

It was like no other class I had ever experienced. On the first day. I

arrived a full hour early to get a front-row seat in the lecture hall. I'd

barely made it into the size-limited course during the pre-registra-

tion period a month before. Now, I waited anxiously for her arrival.

She was just like on TV—the silvery-white hair seeming to float

above her head, the brightly colored pantsuit, the slightly wrinkled

face, and a huge Texas star on her lapel. In

other courses, students opened their note-

books when the professor entered. In this

one, students acknowledged the professor's

entrance with a rousing round of applause.

"I'm very excited and very nervous, " she

began. "Excited, because I'm thrilled to be

here. Nervous, because I have such high

expectations for myself.

"

On that day, and once during each week

that followed, Texas governor Ann

Richards—who succumbed to esophageal cancer on September 13

—

regaled us with stories of her remarkable political career. She brought

in friends to illuminate the different aspects of the campaign

process—pollster Celinda Lake, legendary TV ad man Bob Squire,

former Massachusetts governor William Weld, and Mary Beth

Cahill, then director of EMILY's List and future campaign manager

of the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign. But most of all, Gover-

nor Richards became part of the Brandeis communiry.

Some classmates and I told her before class began one week

about our upcoming undergraduate musical production. She began

the class lecture by advising everyone that they must see the Hillel

Theatre Group's production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on

campus that weekend. ("I hear it's second only to The Lion King on

Broadway, " she quipped.) Another day, she came to a Brandeis Col-

lege Democrats meeting. As we were ratifying our new club consti-

tution that day, she was the first person to sign it. I swelled with

pride knowing that students for years to come would see my signa-

ture on the document along with hers.

After I graduated, a classmate who had also taken the course and

I wrote to the governor (then working in Washington, D.C., for the

law firm Verner, Liipfert) and told her we were in town. My

coworkers were awestruck when, a few days later. Governor

Richards called to invite the two of us to lunch. She spent a couple

of hours with us, buying us an expensive meal and sharing a wealth

of new stories and perspectives.

Over the years, we ran into each other every once in a while and

exchanged occasional holiday cards. When I became president of

the Virginia Partisans Gay and Lesbian Democratic Club in 2002,

she sent me a glowing letter, telling me how proud she was of me.

My last contact with the governor was when Judgment Days:

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther IGngJr., and the Laws That

Changed America (on which I worked as director of research) was

published. Given Governor Richards' role in helping LBJ and her

strong advocacy for civil rights in Texas during the sixties and beyond,

Nick Kotz, a San Antonio native and author of the book, and I decid-

ed to send her a copy. She immediately sent back a personal note to

each of us. She wrote, "During the hurricane that exposed the sad

economic plight of blacks in Louisiana, I had hopes that some form

of the Great Society would reemerge. Alas, it is not to be."

When a classmate of mine once asked Ms. Richards why a Chris-

tian Texan and Baylor University graduate would come to teach a

course at a predominandy Jewish school in Massachusetts (and,

later, join its board of trustees), she responded that from the day she

took office as governor of the Lone Star State, people appeared out-

side her house every day demanding something. The Jewish com-

muniry in Texas, she observed, was always there demanding

something that would benefit people other than themselves.

"I decided," she drawled, "that I wanted to do a mitzvah.

"

Governor Richards did mitzvahs, big and small, every day of her

life. She fought to help those who needed it the most. She cared

and she acted. And she was not afraid to raise hell when necessary.

Four years ago, as I began my tenure as Virginia Partisans presi-

dent, we lost one of my heroes, Senator Paul Wellstone. Today, as

my tenure ends, we have lost another.

In their memory, let us all remember that we must all keep fight-

ing to make America the Great Society it can be.

Joshua Israel '99 is a researcher/writer at the Center for Public

Integrity in Washington. D.C He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Joseph R Kauffmaii, first dean of students at Brandeis, at 84

Joseph F. Kauffman, the first dean of students

at Brandeis in the early 1950s and a revered

"master" of higher education administration,

died September 29. He was eight-four.

"He was veritably the 'Godfather' of the

student-affairs profession," said Robert N.

Brooks '57. "When I was hired as assistant

dean of students at the University of Massa-

chusetts at Amherst, I had instant credibility

because he was one of my references."

Kauffman, who lived in Madison, Wis-

consin, spent a decade at Brandeis. In his

book on the history of Brandeis University,

Abram L. Sachar, Brandeis's founding presi-

dent, wrote that Kaufifman's long period of

service to the university was "an indication of

his versatility that he could function with

resourceflilness successively as fund-raiser, as

assistant to the president for special missions,

and as dean of students."

Kauffinan was a pioneering leader of the

Peace Corps and a former president of Rhode

Island College. He also served as dean of the

graduate school of the University of

Wisconsin, Madison, during the tumultuous

counter-culture, anti-war demonstrations of

the late 1960s.

Among his survivors are a daughter,

Marsha Krasnow of Boston, and a son, Frank

of California.

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Professor Lew played key role in the emergence of Brandeis

By Stephen J. Whitfield

News ofthe death on August 24 ofLeonard W.

Levy, who taught history at Brandeis from

1951 until 1970, brought not only a shudder,

since 1 was his student and friend, but also

blackness to the glow of the distinctive early

past of this university. The two-column obit-

uary in the New York Times mentioned only

in passing Lev)'"s teaching career at Brandeis

(from which he had to resign, reluctantly,

because his wife Elyses health required a cli-

mate like Southern California's). But without

taking into account his contribution to the

growth and vitality of this institution, no

tribute to his remarkable achievements or to

his memor)' could be complete.

Levy served as dean of the graduate

school and associate dean of the faculty

from 1958 until 1963, and then as dean of

the faculty from 1963 until 1965. He was,

therefore, pivotal to the spectacular emer-

gence of the university, along with his close

friends, the political scientist and historian

John P. Roche, the political scientist

Lawrence H. Fuchs, and the philosopher

Harold "Red " Weisberg.

Would Brandeis remain an undergrad-

uate college, akin to so many idyllic schools

in New England? Or could we dare to

become a serious research university as well,

with competitive graduate programs, in a

neighborhood already teeming with some

rather lustrous universities? Could Brandeis

expand while sustaining the peculiarly

robust intellectual life that had attracted off-

beat students and uncredentialed faculty?

Could we get bigger, despite fears that the

"old Brandeis"—tiny and eccentric—was

being abandoned (fears probably voiced

before the first class had even graduated)? By

all accounts except his own—he modestly

covered his own tracks—Levy was integral

to establishing the groove within which the

evolution of Brandeis has proceeded.

In 1969, when I met him, he had recently

won the Pulitzer Prize in history for Origins

of the Fifth Amendment (1968), an early

instance of the sort of trans-Adantic history

that later became fashionable. Levy drew

upon a huge body of primary materials

—

spanning two continents and several cen-

turies—to trace how the invocation of a right

against compulsory self-incrimination gained

traction against the prosecutorial power of

the state. Origins ofthe Fifth Amendt^ient is a

monumental scholarly achievement. But it is

a little vulnerable to the jibe of my teacher

Morton Keller, who felt reassured to have as

a colleague an opponent of the Inquisition.

Indeed, Levy's exceptional talent is better

displayed in an earlier book. Legacy of Sup-

pression (1960).

This monograph examines the legal tem-

plate within which the colonial American

press operated. Levy had expected to reveal

how venerable was the tradition of vigorous

political expression in America. He was, after

all, an ardent civil libertarian—and not

merely because the radical uncle of Elyse G.

Levy had lost a famous Supreme Court deci-

sion involving freedom of expression in Git-

low V. New York (1925). Levy's career was

devoted to enabling his students and his

readers to appreciate their constitutional her-

itage. But a sentimental view of it is not what

Legacy of Suppression conveys. Indeed, the

author showed how severely freedom of

speech and press had been restricted, and

thus how pointless it would be to invoke the

eighteenth century in resisting the official

censors of the twentieth century. One First

Amendment "absolutist," Justice Hugo M.

Black, was therefore indignant.

But Levy's volume is the best example in

American historiography that 1 can cite of

fidelity to what the primary sources dis-

close, even when colliding directly with the

author's own values and predilections. Then

came a kicker. Partly because of the criti-

cism that Legacy of Suppression had pro-

voked. Levy decided to return to the

sources, only to discover other tendencies,

which led him to backtrack and to publish

a revised and expanded version whose

title

—

Emergence of a Free Press (1985)

—

largely undermined his earlier volume.

Embarrassment was evidently better than

betrayal of the ideal of integrity. Putting

scruple ahead of ego is not exactly com-

monplace. But talk about honesty!

Let's talk about friendship as well. ^X'hen I

first arrived as a graduate student, Len imme-

diately had me over to his home in Lexing-

ton, demanded that 1 submit a research paper

to him exacdy a month later, and—because

he edited or coedited several series of

books—could offer me my first publishing

assignment, in the belief that Brandeis grad

students should enjoy a jump-start in the aca-

demic job market. 1 learned of his insomnia.

Len got so much done because he could read

and write uninterruptedly through the night,

though it took me a little longer to realize

that mere sleeplessness isn't enough to garner

a Pulitzer Prize. He introduced me to his

favorite restaurant in Chinatown (Yee Hung

Guey), and much later explained the sub-

deties of the prize-winning bonsai plants that

he cultivated.

Len treated me—as he did his other grad-

uate students—with casually democratic

dignity, as though we were joined in a com-

mon enterprise of learning. He had simply

gotten a head start, and could lend us a help-

ing hand. None was firmer, or more reassur-

ing. A less genial side to Len doubtless

existed, though 1 never detected it. (Was the

rumor true of his Army demotions in World

War II because he kept beating up German

prisoners?) What is most indelible, now that

death has overtaken him, are the exacting

standards he set during nearly two decades at

Brandeis. As a teacher of undergraduates, as

a mentor to graduate students, Leonard Levy

honored those standards himself

Stephen J. Whitfield. PhD72, is the MaxRichter Professor of American Civilization.

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96 Twenty-Ninth Street, #2

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Pegah Hendizadeh Schiffman

58 Joan Road

Stamford, CT 069051997notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Jocelyn Bell

Brooklyn, New York

Bell married David McTaggart on May 6

in Brooklyn. Brandeis alumni in

attendance included Tara Cook-

Littmann, Greta (Mendelsohn) Fox,

Mele Nagler '98, Evan Fox '98,

Hilary Prager, and Sarah Carignan.

Gilat Ben-Dor

Phoenix

Ben-Dor completed an MBA in global

management (2005) and a mediation

program (2006), both at the University ot

Phoenix, and is now working in human

resources for the Arizona Republic. She is

engaged to Bryan Krol, a law student at

Franklin Pierce Law School in Concord,

New Hampshire. Krol will join Ben-Dor

in Phoenix upon graduation.

Paul Kaufman

Mansfield, Massachusetts

Kaufman is working as a network

account manager for United Healthcare's

physician contracting department. Heand his wife, Sara, welcomed their first

child, son Shawn Gray Kaufman, on

June 22.

Tyler Bacal Korn

Naples, Florida

Korn married Rebecca Kosloff May 28 at

the Yale Club in New York. He is a tax

lawyer and managing partner at a law

firm bearing his name, with offices in

New York and Naples. His wife works at

Florida Cancer Specialists, an oncology

and hematology practice in Naples.

Evan Mulholland

South Royalton, Vermont

Mulholland has joined the law firm

Cheney, Brock, and Saudek in Montpe-

lier, where he is practicing environmen-

tal law. He married Elizabeth Vires of

Minneapolis on September 9 at the

Blueberry Hill Inn in Goshen, Vermont.

Jeffrey Rosenfeld

Dallas

Rosenfeld and his wife, Mindy, wel-

comed a son, Noah Chaim, on April 29.

Jeffrey writes, "Since my last class note.

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Robyn Shrater Seemann

Potomac, Maryland

Seemann has started her own graphic

design company and had a baby girl

this year.

Jennifer (Lipman) Shinners

Syracuse, New York

Shinners is chief resident in OB/GYN at

SUNY Upstate Medical University.

1998Alexis Hirst

502 East 79th Street, #5DNew/ York, NY 10021

1998notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Carrie Kleiman Braverman

Somerville, Massachusetts

Braverman married her partner of three

and a half years, Arinne Edelman, on

July 2 in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Braverman has worked as an HIV social

worker at Brigham and Women's Hospi-

tal for the past two years, and Edelman is

the regional director of student services

tor the Hillel Council of New England.

Robyn Whipple Diaz

Lofton, Virginia

Diaz is an assistant general counsel tor

MedStar Health Inc., a nonprofit

hospital system in the Washington,

D.C.-Baltimore region. She and her

husband, Geoff, live in Northern

Virginia.

Shannon Duffy

Arlington, Massachusetts

After completing her doctor of dental

medicine degree at the University of

Connecticut School of Dental Medicine

and her certificate in orthodontics at

Stony Brook University School of Dental

Medicine, Duffy is practicing as an

orthodontist at Pediatric Dental

Associates in Reading, Massachusetts.

Her husband, Scott Ribich, earned a

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bachelor's degree in biology from MITand a PhD from Harvard and is working

at Brigham and Women's Hospital. They

were married August 20, 2005, in

Greenwich, Connecticut. Alumni in

attendance included Lauren Grayman,

Melanie Kiely, Jana Booth '99, Jen

Langone '99, Jessica Locke '97, AmyHall '99, Michelle MacKinnon, Eric

Spindt, and Jen Rubel.

Erica Lowenfels

New York City

Lowenfels married Ryan Papir on June

10 at the Yale Club of New York.

Brandeis Iriends in attendance were

Randi (Gober) Ashkenazi, Liane

Broido, Margo Ceresney, Rachel Grad

'99, Brian Irwin, Randy Levitt, Dani

and Rueben Liber, Helene Lowenfels

'05, Gina Miller, Steve Moonblatt, and

Gail (Paris) Schwartz '97. All of the

bridesmaids and one of the groomsmen

were friends from Brandeis. Lowenfels is

beginning her eighth year as the director

of admissions at the Caedmon School, a

private school in New York City. Papir is

an attorney in the litigation department

of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Jill Hughett Nashtatik

Bellmore, New York

Nashtatik and her husband, David,

welcomed a daughter, Jocelyn Paige, on

April 1 1 . A few weeks later, Nashtatik

graduated from the Robert F. Wagner

Graduate School of Public Service at

New York University with a master's in

public administration. Her concentra-

tion of study focused upon health-care

management. Nashtatik is a research

manager for the breast and thoracic

oncology departments within the

Clinical Trials Office of Memorial

Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dayna Steinfeld

New York City

Steinfeld married Jason Kurtz '92 on

July 9. Alumni in attendance were Amir

Monsefi '92, Ayala Cohen Podhoretz

'92, Adam Steinfeld '94, and Terry

Zuckerman '92.

Jill (Berger) Velt

Springfield, Virginia

Velt married Geoffrey Velt on October 15,

2005, in Dedham, Massachusetts. The

couple enjoyed a honeymoon in the Greek

Islands. Jill, who earned a law degree in

2001 from Washington University School

of Law, this year opened Velt Immigration

Law Firm.

1999David Nurenberg

20 Moore Street, #3Somervllle, MA 02144

1999notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robert Anthony Bassett

Newtown, Connecticut

Bassett was among 243 physicians

awarded the doctor of osteopathic

medicine degree from Philadelphia

College of Osteopathic Medicine at

the college's 1 15th commencement.

Jennifer Kadish

Falls Church, Virginia

Kadish wed Marc Cassell in

Washington, D.C., in August 2005.

Maureen Dimino was in attendance.

Kadish and Cassell honeymooned in

Venice. Kadish, a May 2006 graduate

of American University Washington

College of Law, is an assistant general

counsel of CAPREIT Inc., a national

real-estate firm in Rockville, Maryland.

Gabriel Koch

Minneapolis

Koch earned a PhD in mathematics from

the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

and began a three-year postdoc research

position at the University of Chicago in

September. His field of specialization is

partial differential equations.

A. David Lewis

Allston, Massachusetts

Lewis writes, "My graphic novel. The

Lone mid Level Sa)ids, was nominated for

several awards, winning the Howard E.

Day Prize, and has been in the running

three times for this year's Harvey Awards.

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Washington, D.C., in November to

speak at the Society of Biblical Literature

conference about comics and the Bible.

I'm also in the midst of planning a

graphic novel event at the Harvard Coop

in Cambridge. It looks as though I will

also be submitting a proposal to speak at

the thirty-eighth convention of the

Northeast Modern Language Association

in Baltimore in March 2007. The panel 1

will speak on is 'God and the Graphic

Novel,' which will lollow mv PhD work

starting at Boston University this fall.

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Tara Wasserman

Philadelphia

Wasserman works as a registered nurse at

Fox Chase Cancer Center. She graduated

from Abington Memorial Hospital's

Dixon School of Nursing, where she

received the Founders Award for Highest

Academic Achievement, the Oncology

Nursing Career Development Award,

and the Women's Board Award for

Highest Clinical Level of Excellence in

Nursing Care of the Childbearing and

Childrearing Family. She writes, "I love

my work, even though it can be

emotionally challenging at times, but 1

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lives of my patients and their families. 1

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practice in the near future. I am also

engaged and will be getting married in

September 2007. My fiance. Dr. Andrew-

Blum, is a radiology resident at Temple

Hospital. Two Brandeis alumni will be in

my wedding: Jolyn Kramberg is mymarron of honor and Tamar

Dolcourt '98 is one of my bridesmaids."

Max Weinberg

New York City

Weinberg and his partner, Craig Seip,

adopted a boy in May. Mosi Jerome was

born April 24 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Elianna Yolkut

Los Angeles

Yolkut was ordained as a rabbi from the

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the

University ofJudaism in Los Angeles,

the Conservative movement's West Coast

seminary. She will serve as associate rabbi

at Congregation Adat Ari El in Valley

Village, California.

2000Matthew Salloway

304 West 92nd Street, #5ENew York, NY 10025

2000notesi3:'alumni.brandeis.edu

Marci Doniger Bettan

Sparta, New Jersey

Bettan married Seth Bettan on May 21

in Randolph, Massachusetts. In

attendance were alumni Cynthia

(Solomon) Loiterman, who was a

bridesmaid, Michael Loiterman '98,

and Michael Hahn. She writes, "We

have recently relocated to Sparta, NewJersey, and look forward to meeting

up with any alumni in the area. Please

e-mail me at marci.bettan@gniail.com.'

Emily Romoff Bronstein

New York Citv-

Bronstein writes, "I am very happy to

announce that 1 married James

Bronstein on April 30 in Manhattan.

My bridesmaids were Natalie Nanasi,

Caryn Lederer, and Alysha Frankel.

Other alumni who attended were Rob

Welsbach, Jennifer Weiner, Kristine

(Fazio) Richards, Danielle Slade, Debra

Rafson, Jennifer Krasner '01, and

Sharon Blumenstock '02. The party was

a terrific success and everyone danced up

a storm. We honeymooned on the Greek

Islands of Rhodes, Crete, and Santorini.

"

Rafi Cohen

New York City

Cohen married Michele Weber on

August 27 and is moving to Israel for

his third year of rabbinical school.

Alicia Kim

Framingham, Massachusetts

Kim married Scott Shen, a graduate of

Johns Hopkins University, in August.

Nadine Defoe was maid of honor and

Eunjoo Kim '02 was one of the brides-

maids. Other alumni in attendance

included Nathan Lubofsky '58; Michael

Swartz '71; Elana Memberg '97; Lljuan

Bal, MA'05; Karen CIrrito, CE'03;

Danielle (Slade) Chouhan; Danielle

Fitzpatrick '04; Steven Khan; Art Agbay

'95; Helen Lewis '02; and Min Park.

Stephen Rabin

Phoenix

Rabin relocated to Phoenix to serve as

director of policy and speechwriting for

Jim Pederson, the Democratic candidate

for U.S. Senate.

Bryan Rudnick

Boca Raton, Florida

Rudnick was named U.S. Representative

Katherine Harris's campaign manager in

her longshot bid for the U.S. Senate seat

now held by Bill Harris. A member of the

Palm Beach County Republican Executive

Committee, Rudnick helped found

Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage, a

citizen group that attempted to pass a gay

marriage ban in the state. He is the

president of Alliance Strategies Group, a

political consulting firm in Boca Raton.

Stephen Silver

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

Silver relocated to the Philadelphia area

from New York in mid-2005, and it's in

Philadelphia where he'll be getting

married to Rebecca Goldenberg in May.

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He is putting his old Justice skills to

good use as editor and fdm critic for the

Trend Leader, a weekly suburban

newspaper affdiated with the

Philndelphia Inquirer. He also recently

began writing a syndicated column for

the North Star Writers' Group.

Jen Luftig Singer

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Singer has accepted the position ot

environmental program coordinator

with the Saunders Hotel Group and

EcoLogical Solutions in Boston. She

and her husband, Steve, returned to the

Boston area after living in Israel for the

past three years.

Dina Zolotusky

Acton, Massachusetts

Zolotusky has been working since last

August as a senior mathematics editor

for Techbooks Publishing Company in

South Boston.

2001WenLin Soh

5000 C Marine Parade Road, #12-11

Singapore 449286

or

Class of 2001

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

2001notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

In mid-August, I moved to the London

office of Marakon Associates for a

strategj' consulting project based in

London and Amsterdam. In the pockets

of time that I'm not slicing and dicing

Excel sheets and PowerPoint slides, I'd

love to see more of Europe and

Brandeisians in this region while I'm here.

Stay in touch atwenlin_soh@yahoo.com.

Sanchali (Sen Gupta) Biswas

Tampa, Florida

Biswas has accepted an admissions

position at the Ethel 'Wiilker School, a

private girls' school near Hartford,

Connecticut.

Russ Gooberman

Beverly Hills, California

Gooberman, Storey Clayton '02, and

Greg Wilson, PhD'02, won the largest

contest ever in the history of the young

medium podcast for The Mep Report,

hosted by the three alumni. The podcast,

found at http://mepreport.com, bested

more than seven thousand other casts in

a Battle-of-the-Bands-style vote. The

contest, dubbed the Cast War, was held

by Podcast Pickle, a leading community

site for podcasts. Gooberman, Clayton,

and Wilson created and starred in the

podcast, which releases a new hourlong

episode each week. Friends from the

debate team during their time at Bran-

deis, the three live across the country but

are able to come together for the show

using online voice-over technology.

Andrew Tirrell is a frequent guest.

John Ji Hoon Yu

Austin, Texas

Hoon Yu is working as a youth pastor

for Austin Korean Presbyterian Church,

overseeing about 130 middle school and

high school students.

Stephanie Kolin

New York City

Kolin has accepted Temple Israel's

invitation to join the clergy as its new

assistant rabbi. Kolin was ordained in

May at the Hebrew Union College-

Jewish Institute of Religion.

Amber Rohner

Honolulu

Rohner writes, "I recently graduated

from medical school. In June, I started

as a first-year psychiatry resident

through the University of Hawaii

psychiatry residency program. I plan to

do a fellowship in child and adolescent

psychiatry after completing the adult

psychiatry program. Then I'll most

likely move to Maui and practice child

and adult psychiatry."

IffiwHannah R. Johnson

1688 Devonshire South Drive, Apt. F

Greenwood, IN 46143

2002notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Storey Clayton

Berkeley, California

See Russ Gooberman '01

Jonathan Dworkin

Honolulu

Dworkin graduated from Mount Sinai

Medical School and is now doing his res-

idency at Queens Hospital in Honolulu.

Julie Fishman

Miami, Florida

Fishman moved to Miami and is now

an attorney.

Leah Glashow and David Mandel

Tucson, Arizona

Glashow and Mandel were married on

June 17 in Tucson. Several of their

classmates were present, including

Michael Lurie and Paul Kursky, who

signed the ketubah.

Robert Kavitt

Chicago

Kavitt writes, "I graduated from medical

school at the University of Chicago

in |une and have stayed on for myresidency in internal medicine."

Jamie Agins LIncow

Yardley, Pennsylvania

Lincow is teaching high school Spanish.

Nicole Lukehart

Alexandria, Virginia

Lukehart moved to Washington, D.C.,

to work for the Environmental

Protection Agency.

Edith Meyerson

New York City

Meyerson is a fifth-year rabbinical

student at Hebrew Union College in

New York Citv, Class of 2007.

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Lyn Miller Wancket

Springfield, Illinois

Wancket graduated from the University

of Illinois College of Veterinary

Medicine on May 14.

2003Caroline Litwack

325 Summit Avenue, #6

Brighton, MA 02135

2003notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

This summer, I received my master's

degree in the communication, culture,

and technology program at Georgetown

University. Now I have moved back to

the Boston area and am excited to get

involved with the alumni network in

the area.

Joshua Fields

South Pasadena, California

Fields had two articles on melanoma

migration published in Investigative

Dermatology.

MIchaela May

Boston

May started her first year at Boston

University School of Law.

Adam Perlin

East Meadow, New York

Perlin graduated from the University

of Pennsylvania Law School in May.

He will be publishing an article in the

UCLA Pacific Basin Law journal

comparing how the U.S. Supreme Court

and the High Court of Australia utilize

theories of original intent and meaning

in Commerce Clause analysis, as well as

an article in the Southwestern University

Law Review on cryonic preservation. He

is currently working as a litigation

associate at the New York law office of

McDermott Will & Emery.

Arwen Roth

Brookline, Massachusetts

Roth is pursuing a master's in social

work at Salem State College.

Brenna Stein

Somerville, Massachusetts

Stein is pursuing a master of library

science degree at Simmons College.

2004Audra Lissell

11 Cross Street

Plympton, MA 02367

2004notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Meron Langsner

Somerville, Massachusetts

Langsner directed the premiere of

Tonya & Nancy: The Opera, which

received international media attention, at

the Zero Arrow Theatre in Cambridge,

Massachusetts.

2005Judith Lupatkin

15 York Terrace

Brookline, MA 02446

2005notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

2006Class of 2006

MS 124 Brandeis University

PO Box 549110

Waltham, MA 02454-9110

2006notes@alumni.brandeis.edu

Robert Marx

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Marx accepted the position of business

operations associate at Boston-based

software company Veson Nautical.

GRADHoward Tuttle, MA'65, PhD'67

Salt Lake City

Tuttle was appointed a professor of p

hilosophy at the University of Utah-Salt

Lake City, after retiring from the

University of New Mexico following

twenty-nine years of service.

David Kertzer, PhD'74

Providence, Rhode Island

Kertzer, professor and chair of the

department of anthropology at Brown

L'niversity, was named the university's

tenth provost.

Caroline (Stewart) Goodman, MS'94,

MS'97

New York City

Goodman has joined the firm Piper

laflFray & Co. as a vice president and

senior health-care research analyst

covering biotechnology companies.

Piper lafFray is the chief operating

subsidiary of Piper Jaffray Companies, a

focused securities firm dedicated to

delivering financial advice, investment

products, and transaction execution

within selected sectors of the financial

services marketplace.

Christopher Faith, MFA'OO

Perkasie, Pennsylvania

Faith writes, "I have lived in the

Philadelphia area since 2001. My wife,

Reina, and I are the owners and artistic

directors of a bustling children's per-

forming arts school called Dance Arts

Collaborative. The Philadelphia Weekly

has named me 'the next theatrical star' of

Philadelphia, and I have been nominated

for two Barrymore Awards for achieve-

ment in theater. My next project will be

starring opposite Broadway and concert

star Linda Eder in a reading of a new

musical. The Seduction ofSheila

Valentine, which will be presented at the

Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center

in New Jersey."

Tanseli Savaser, PhD'02

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Savaser was appointed to a tenure-track

assistant professorship at Williams

College, where she will teach economics.

Her doctoral dissertation is titled "Macro

News and Large Exchange-Rate Move-

ments: Through the Lens of Market

Microstructure."

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the trees and behold their latest splendor. But for you nature-lovers like me, here's a

heads-up: Look down. Sometimes the most exquisite views of autumn are right at

your feet. Witness this mosaic-like canvas created by Mother Nature on the wet

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