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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 <[email protected]>.
• 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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Production ManagerAudrey Griffin
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Class Notes Editor
Jill Ettori
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."
Nabil Fahmy
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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.
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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."
Iir;irnli-is rniversitv Maaa/iin' I Wiiiici Od
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
WiMIn IKjI HiMinlri. I iii\.'rsilN Mm 15
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>.
.. iWfetsSs.
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."
Br.-iiMlri. I \l^l; 21
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."
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
A4
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
Tt---.
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
distinction between
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well as on the ques-
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surrounding the uses and abuses ot
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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 <[email protected]>.
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 <[email protected]>. 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
—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
23
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
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
[email protected] 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
Maryland
8a/t/more
Alexandra Ainsztein '89
Massachusetts
Greater Boston
Jonathan Brant '68
New Jersey
Northern New Jersey
Michael Palace '90
northnewjerseya'alumni. brandeis.edu [email protected]
Texas
Houston
Michael Kivort '87
Washington, D.C.
Dan Kazzaz '74
wash ingtondc@'alumni. brandeis.edu
INTERNATIONAL
CanadaToronto
Mark A. Surchin '78
England
Joan Givner Bovarnick, PhD'69
Israel
Rose Shirwindt Weinberg '57
Korea
Suk Won Kim '70
AFFINITY GROUPS
Alumni Admissions Council
Alan M. Rosenberg '74, P'07
New York
Long Island
Mark Steven Cohen '78
New York City
Doug Monasebian '84
Westchester County
Davida Shapiro Scher '69
Future Alumni of Brandeis
Benjamin Reed '06
Beth Wexelman '07
fab@'alumni. brandeis.edu
Minority Alumni Network
Joseph Perkins '66
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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
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
1954William Marsh
5113 Castlerock WayNaples, PL 34112
1955Judith Paull Aronson
838 N. Doheny Drive, #906Los Angeles, CA 90069
I^IM^
Leona Feldman Curhan
366 River Road
Carlisle, MA 01741
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
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
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 [email protected]
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
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 [email protected]
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Kenneth E. Davis
28 Mary Chilton Road
Needham, MA 02492
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
1968David Greenwald
3655 Aquetong Road
Carversville, PA 18913
1969Phoebe Epstein
205 West 89th Street, #10-S
New/ York, NY 10024
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
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
35TH REUNION: JUNE 9 TO 11
1972Dan Garflnkel
2420 Kings Lane
Pittsburgh, PA 15241
1973George Kahn
11300 Rudman Drive
Culver City, CA 90230
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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a.
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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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dassnotes
1975Class of 1975
MS 124 Brandeis University
PO Box 549100
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
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
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
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
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
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
Wiiiliidli I liraiMlii> I Mivir.sil\ Matiaziiii 61
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
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
1985James R. Felton
26956 Helmond Drive
Calabasas, CA 91301
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
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
<[email protected]>, and we'll try
to schedule vou in."
1988Class of 1988
MS 124 Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
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
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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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
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.
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Andrea C. Kramer
PO Box 5496
Takoma Park, MD 20913-5496
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 <[email protected]>."
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
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
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
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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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
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80 Class NotesAlumni profiles, births/adoptions,
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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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innermostparts
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.
10 Braiidci.s Universilv Magazine I Siuiinicr l)()
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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Pulitzer, TooFor Wyner, prize serves as capstone
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.
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
United States.
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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
ILLUSTRATIONS BY AMY PATACCHIOLA
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-
Photographij by Mike Lovett and Justin Knight
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-
^^^^H^^^^^^^^^^l and diversity it aspires to
contemporary society. Kushner's
appearance at Brandeis, though con-
troversial to some because of his per-
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
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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
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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).
36 Uraiulcis I iiiM U \h,
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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."
Siiinitirr- Ol> I Iir;nnliMs I tii\('r^il\ \l;iL:;t/iri( 37
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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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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deissportshall of fame
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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Faculty
Alternatives to Sex: A Novel
By Stephen McCauley
304 pages, $24, Simon & Schuster
The latest novel by
McCauley, writer-in-
residence in English
and American litera-
ture, lays bare the
inner life and obses-
sive-compulsive
behavior of William
Collins, a gay 40-
something Boston
realtor who struggles
to give up trolling
the Internet for impersonal sexual
liaisons. Taking stock ol the year fol-
lowing 9/11, William attributes his
promiscuity to "posttraumatic self-
indulgence" and unsuccessfully
attempts to trade one addiction for
another: cleaning house (not always
his own). When affluent straight cou-
ple Charlotte O'Malley and Samuel
Thompson arrive at his office, prowl-
ing for a new home, William hopes
he can close the sale and wonders if
he can look to their marriage as inspi-
ration for a long-term relationship.
Becoming Mikhail
Lermontov: The Ironies of
Romantic Individualism in
Nicholas I's Russia
By David Powelstock
582 pages, $99.95,
Northwestern University Press
Becoming
Mikhail
Lermontov
The Ironies of
Romantic Imiividualiitn
in Niclmlns I's Russia
David Powclslock
Mikhail Lermontov
(1814-1841) is one
of Russia's most
prominent poets
—
and one of its most
puzzling. In this
radically new
interpretation,
I'owelstock, assis-
tant professor of
Russian language
and literature, reveals how the seem-
ing contradictions in Lermontov's lite
and works can be understood as
manifestations of a coherent world-
view. By bringing to light Lermon-
tov's operative version of Romantic
individualism, Powelstock is able to
make sense of the poet's relationship
to "romantic irony, " his highly mod-
ern concept of the reader (both real,
and implied in the text), and his
vexed passion for his predecessor
Alexander Pushkin. Furthermore,
Powelstock offers the most persuasive
account ever given of Lermontov's
exceptionally odd treatment of and
success with, women—both in real
life and in fiction—and of his cruel
overlapping of these two planes.
On Jameson: FromPostmodernism to
Globalization
Edited by Caren Irr and
Ian Buchanan
290 pages, $24.95,
State University of New York Press
Jamesor^FROM n-WTMOtieRNf!
TDCLOIMLIi
4out,
One of the leading
figures in the debate
over postmodernism
in the 1980s and
1990s, Fredric
lameson is regarded
as the most impor-
tant Marxist theo-
retician and cultural
critic writing in
America today.
Although Jameson's
significance as a global intellectual is
widely recognized, none of the litera-
ture covers the full range of his work.
This collection, edited by Irr, associ-
ate professor of English and Ameri-
can literature, and Buchanan,
professor of communication and cul-
tural studies at Charles Darwin Uni-
versity, reflects on Jameson's entire
body of work and demonstrates its
potential to shape the emerging field
of globalization studies.
Parting the Mists:
Discovering Japan and the
Rise of National-Style
Painting in Modern China
By Aida Yuen Wong186 pages, $44,
University of Hawaii Press
Parting the Mists
explores the sensitive
phenomenon of
Japanism in the
practice and theor)'
of Chinese painting.
Wong, assistant pro-
fessor of fine arts,
carries out a
methodical study
that sheds light on
multiple spheres:
stylistic and iconographic innovations,
history writing, art theory, patronage
and the market, geopolitics, the cre-
ation of artist societies, and exhibi-
tions. Without avoiding the dark
history of Japanese imperialism, she
provides a nuanced reading of Chi-
nese views about Japan and the two
countries" convergent, and often col-
liding, courses of nationalism.
Poussin and the Poetics of
Painting: Pictorial Narrative
and the Legacy of Tasso
By Jonathan Unglaub
298 pages, $95,
Cambridge University Press
Torquato Tasso's
poetic discourses
were the most
important source for
Nicolas Poussin's
theory of painting.
The poet's ideas on
artistic imitation,
novelty, and plot
structure and unity,
which are exempli-
fied in his epic La
Genisa/einme liberata, proved to be
fundamental to the artist's conception
clei^ book^
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ot narrative painting, culminating in
The knulitfi Gatliering Manna.
Unglaub, assistant professor of fine
arts, investigates Poussin's larger liter-
ary culture and how this context illu-
minates the artist's response to
contemporary poetic texts, especially
in his mythological paintings.
Reaching for Power:
The Shi'a in the
Modern Arab World
By Yitzhak Nakash
248 pages, $19.95,
Princeton University Press
As the world focuses
on the conflict in
Iraq, the most
important political
players in that
country today are
not the Sunni insur-
gents. Instead, they
are Iraq's Shi'
I
majority—part of
the Middle East's
ninety million Shi'I
Muslims who hold the key to the
future of the region and the relations
between Muslim and Western soci-
eties. So contends Yitzhak Nakash,
associate professor of modern Middle
Eastern studies. With his characteris-
tic verve and style, Nakash traces the
role of the Shi'is in the struggle that
is raging today among Muslims tor
the soul of Islam.
Reluctant Capitalists:
Bookselling and the Culture
of ConsumptionBy Laura J. Miller
328 pages, $35,
University of Chicago Press
Over the past half-century, book-
selling, like many retail industries,
has evolved from an arena dominated
by independent bookstores to one in
which chain stores have significant
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market share. And
as in other areas of
retail, this transfor-
mation has often
been a less-than-
smooth process.
This has been espe-
cially pronounced
in bookselling,
argues Miller, assis-
tant professor of
sociology, because
more than most other consumer
goods, books are the locus of pas-
sionate debate. In Reluctant Capital-
ists. Miller looks at a century of book
retailing, demonstrating that the
independent/chain dynamic is not
entirely new.
A World Without Time:
The Forgotten Legacy of
Godel and Einstein
By Palle Yourgrau
210 pages, $15,
Perseus Books Group
What if time is only an illusion—if it
doesn't actually exist? Yourgrau, the
Harry A. Wolfson Professor of Philos-
ophy, explains that Albert Einstein's
general theory of relativity may allow
for this possibilit)',
first realized by the
great logician Kurt
Godel. Godel, a
friend and Princeton
neighbor of
Einstein, theorized
the existence of what
have come to be
called Godel uni-
verses—rotating uni-
verses in which time
travel is possible.
But it one can travel through time,
how can rime as we know it exist in
these other universes, since the past is
always present? This book will appeal
to readers who enjoy a good thought
experiment or having basic precon-
ceptions about their world challenged.
Alumni
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
surprised to learn how significant lawn
care is to the American economy, gen-
erating more than
$10 billion in annual
sales of pesticides,
fertilizers, and other
products. Steinberg,
professor of history
and law at Case
Western Reserve
University, asserts
that most lawn-care
products are not
only unnecessar}' but
may actually harm
soil and turf. He particularly damns
the lawnmower industry, revealing
how manufacturers "worked tirelessly
to mislead the American public" for
years in order to avoid the expense of
installing safet)' features that could
prevent severed fingers.
Articles of ImpeachmentAgainst George W. BushBy Michael Ratner '66
144 pages, $9.95, Melville House
In the halls of Congress and on the
front pages of a growing number of
mainstream periodi-
cals, the impeach-
ment of President
Bush is being dis-
cussed more and
more widely. And
many leading con-
stitutional scholars
agree: There has
never been so strong
a case for impeach-
ment since Richard
ARTICLES OFIMPEACHMENTAGAINSTGEORGE W. BUSHCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Nixon. In this gripping new book,
Ratner, president of the New Yori<
City-based Center for Constitutional
Rights, sets out the legal arguments
for impeachment detailing four sepa-
rate charges: warrantless surveillance,
misleading Congress on the reasons
for the Iraq War, violating laws
against torture, and subverting the
Constitutions separation of powers.
Biological Weapons: Fromthe Invention of State-
Sponsored Programs to
Contemporary Bioterrorism
By Jeanne Guillemin, PhD'73
256 pages, $27.95,
Columbia University Press
BIOLOGICALWEAPONS
JEANNE GUILLEMIN
Only in recent
vears, and especially
after September 1
1
and the anthrax
attacks of 2001,
have biological
weapons become
a major concern in
the United States.
Today, the
possibility of their
use by terrorists
against Western states looms large as
an international security concern. In
Biological Weapons, Guillemin, pro-
fessor of sociology at Boston College,
offers readers an informed account of
the circumstances under which scien-
tists, soldiers, and statesmen were
able to mobilize resources for exten-
sive biological weapons programs
and explains why such weapons were
never deployed in a major conflict.
A Book of Life: Embracing
Judaism as a Spiritual Practice
By Michael Strassfeld 71 , MA72, P'09
508 pages, SI 9.99,
Jewish Lights Publishing
Strassfeld, rabbi of the New York-
based Society for the Advancement
of Judaism, exam-
ines life as a
spiritual path from
morning to night,
from one full year
to a lifetime,
believing that being
a good Jew is to live
a life of goodness
and holiness. In this
guide to behavior
and values,
Strassfeld explores such topics as
Sabbath laws and practices, speech,
work ethics, and keeping kosher. His
sources include the Bible, Midrash,
Talmud, and other Jewish writing,
and the book is fdled with prayers
and blessings for every occasion.
Civilizing the Museum:The Collected Writings of
Elaine Neumann Gurian
By Elaine Heumann Gurian '58
217 pages, $35.95, Routiedge
Written over a thirty-five-year
career, the essays in Civilizing the
Museum introduce students to the
powerful, some-
times contested,
and often unreal-
ized notion that
museums should
welcome all
because they house
the collective mem-
ory of all. Drawing
on her experience
working in and
with museums in
the United States,
and throughout the world, Gurian,
former deputy director of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum,
explores the possibilities for making
museums more central and relevant
to society. Without abandoning the
traditional museum processes,
Gurian shows how museums can
honor tradition while embracing
the new.
Clinical aniResearch Uses
Adolescent Mental Health
Intake Questionnaire
Clinical and Research
Uses of an Adolescent
!\/lental-Health Intake
Questionnaire: What Kids
Need to Talk AboutCoedited by Ken Peake, Irwin
Epstein, and Daniel Medeiros '81
326 pages, $34.95, Haworth Press
Aimed at university professors and
practitioners seeking to reinvigorate
their practice, this book explores the
research on adoles-
cent behavior
culled from the
answers to a clini-
cian-designed
intake question-
naire. Respected
authorities discuss
the enlightening
findings and pres-
ent ways to reshape
services, taking into
account customet
preference, risk and worry, and
youth development perspectives
while presenting practical clinical
strategies to engage at-risk adoles-
cents in mental-health treatment.
The Coin Collector's Survival
Manual (Fifth Edition)
By Scott A. Travers '83
384 pages, $22.95, RandomHouse/House of Collectibles
From one of the world's most knowl-
edgeable coin dealers—a former con-
sultant to the Federal Trade
Commission often
quoted by the Wall
Street Journal—comes a thorough
update of his con-
sumer protection
handbook to buying
and selling rare and
valuable coins.
Travers combines
insider information
on the latest trends
delsbook^
AS
in coin collecting with his inHueinial
How to Make Money in Coins Right
Now. The Coin Collector's Survival
Manual is indispensable for seasoned
collectors and novices alike.
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-
ter, she watched in unanticipated hor-
ror as her partner
scooped up the baby
and said, "I'm your
new mommy!"
While they both had
worked to find the
perfect sperm donor,
Aizley had spent
nine months
carrying the baby
and hours in labor,
so how could her
partner claim to be
their child's mommy? Many diapers
later, Aizley, whose first book Buying
Dad: One Woman's Search for the
Perfect Sperm Donor appeared on
several nonficrion best-seller lisrs,
began to appreciate the complexit}' ol
her partner's new role as the other
mother. In Confessions, Aizley has
put together a collection of personal
stories by women like her partner who
are creating new parenting roles,
redefining motherhood, and reshaping
the view ot two-parent families.
Creating Communities for
Addiction Recovery: TheOxford House ModelEdited by Leonard A. Jason '71,
Joseph R. Ferrari, Margaret I.
Davis, and Bradley D. Olson
155 pages, $48, Haworth Press
Jason and his colleagues review
important research conducted during
Hi;iiiili-i> I iii\('rsitv Maua/iin- I Siitimni t)()
CreatingCommunities'"'Addiction Recovery
a thirteen-vear col
l.iborarive partner-
ship berween
Oxford House, a
community-based,
self-run residential
substance-abuse
recovery program,
.md DePaul Univer-
sitv in Chicago. It
also presents practi-
cal guidelines for
developing effective research collabo-
rative programs that can cultivate
and maintain mutually beneficial
community-research parrnerships.
The editors conclude that substance
abusers can take charge of their own
recovery in effective and efficient
ways, and practitioners can find low-
cost housing options for their clients
with substance abuse problems.
Cross My Heart
By Carly Phillips '87
304 pages, $19.95, HQN Books
New York Times
best-selling author
Phillips, aka Karen
Drogin, delivers a
perfect summer
read. Lacey Kinkaid
is a classic NewN'ork success story.
Born Lillian
Dumont, she spent
her childhood with
a silver spoon in her
mouth, until the deaths of her
wealthv parents and the evil schemes
of an abusive uncle forced her to take
drastic measures. She's never planned
to return to her former life or her
abandoned idenriry—but when her
childhood sweetheart, Ty, resurfaces
and urges her ro claim her rightful
inheritance, she decides that maybe
being the Dumont heiress wouldn't
be so bad. Lacey's uncle doesn't see it
that way, though—and he's willing
to do anything to stop her.
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
semicolon? 'Why did Hemingway and
Carver embrace the period? Filled with
examples from liter-
ary masters, A Dash
ofStyle is the first
guide to punctuation
for the readership
that needs it the
f^VASff
NOAH LUKEMAN
most: creative writ-
ers. Lukeman,
founder and presi-
dent of Lukeman
Literary Manage-
ment, teaches the
benefits that can be
reaped from mastering punctuation,
such as word economy, enhanced style,
clarit)', progression, and intention.
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
married, Daniella is both thrilled and
devastated. Mom, who's pushing 60,
is about to walk
down the aisle for
the second time,
and Daniella, at 29,
hasn't come close to
saying "I do" once.
Even worse, Mominsists Daniella help
plan the big bash.
Daniella struggles to
make sense of her
own frustrating love
life—all while jug-
gling her high-pressure TV job and
hectic dating adventures. And it isn't
Daughter
of the Bride'
long before she realizes she's going to
have to make some changes in her
own Ute—or never walk down the
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
examples of what
Helphand calls
"defiant gardens"
—
those cultivated in
extreme environ-
mental, social, political, economic,
or cultural conditions. "In trenches,
ghettos, and camps, " the author
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-
ers to discuss Aiuiii
i I Karenina, their lives
// change. Cynthia, the
' • "—
^
hostess, lives in a
beautiful house and
has a fantastic career,
two wonderful chil-
dren, and the perfect
husband, but she
has asked him to
leave and will not
tell the group why.
Although the group is not close-knit,
this singular event has repercussions,
forcing each woman to confront her
own shortcomings and try to improve
her life. Goldreich, author ol numer-
ous novels, dramatizes with honesty,
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-
lenges and road-
blocks women face
as they struggle to
succeed in law firms.
Rikleen, a senior
partner at the law
firm Bowditch &Dewey, addresses all
aspects of law-firm
life, including firm
management, the
assignment process,
billable-hour demands, business gen-
eration, compensation, mentoring,
attrition, and work-family issues. She
also sets forth recommendations for
change, describing concrete actions
that law firms can implement to
enable women to take their rightful
place as equals in the legal profession.
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
receivers money
could buy. Yet, by
1955, the DuMont
network was out of
business and its
founder and name-
sake, Allen B. DuMont, was forced to
relinquish control of the company he
had spent a quarter century building.
In The Forgotten Network, Weinstein
uses rare kinescopes, archival photo-
graphs, exclusive interviews, trade jour-
nal articles, and corporate documents
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
dei !-books
geography consisting of property plats
and surveying manuals, decorative
wall maps and school geographies, the
nation's first atlases, and sentimental
objects such as needlework samplers.
The Harvest of Mysticism
in Medieval GermanyBy Bernard McGinn '59, PhD70784 pages, $34.95,
Herder & Herder
THt Presence or God—* Hilton ot V^,3(r.T' C:llllUI*l^ MyMlcUni
THEHARVEST
OF
MYSTICISMIN MEDIEVALGERMVV^'
Bernard McGinn
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-
IJi;m<li'is Llnivershv Maiiitziiic I Simiii
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
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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
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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 <[email protected]>.
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
Vice President of Development
Myles Weisenberg '78
781-736-400S
Associate Vice President of
The Campaign for Brandeis
Susan Krinsky
781 -736-4006
krinsk:[email protected]
Assistant Vice President of Development
Mark Ableman
781-736-4051
Senior Director of Corporation
and Foundation Giving
Robert Silk '90
781-736-4052
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 <[email protected]>.
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 <[email protected]>.
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 <[email protected]>.
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
California
Northern California
Soutliern California
Francine Ladd Sohn '74
Colorado
Denver
Susan J. Hendrick '96
Nicole Hoffman Myers '96
Florida
South Florida
Gil Drozdow '79
West Coast Florida
Illinois
Cf^icago
Aria Medvin Silverstein '88
Maryland
Baltimore
Alexandra Ainsztein '89
Massachusetts
Greater Boston
Wendy Morris Berliner '95
New Jersey
Northern New Jersey
Michael Palace '90
New York
Long Island
Mark Steven Cohen '78
New York City
Doug Monasebian '84
Westchester County
Davida Shapiro Scher '69
Ohio
C/nc/nna(/
Chuck Kamine '74, P'03
C/eve/and/Northeast Ohio
Aryeh I. Dori '96
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Tamara Chasan Pomeranz '91
Texas
Houston
Michael Kivort '87
Washington, D.C.
Dan Kazzaz '74
INTERNATIONAL
CanadaToronto
Mark A. Surchin '78
England
Joan Givner Bovarnick, PhD'69
Israel
Rose Shirwindt Weinberg '57
Korea
Suk Won Kim '70
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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
members Mitch Cohen,
Rich Greene, Jonathan
Plutzik, and David Yoffie,
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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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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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 [email protected] .
ALPINE CAPITAL BANK
classnotes1952Diana Laskin Siegal
900 SW 31st Street, #BE339
Topeka, KS 66611
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
1954William Marsh
5113 Castlerock Way
Naples. FL 34112
1955Judith Paul! Aronson
838 N. Doheny Drive, #906Los Angeles, CA 90069
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
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
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
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 [email protected]
1960Joan Silverman Wallack
28 Linden Shores, #28
Branford, CT 06405
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
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
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1963Miriam Osier Hyman140 East 72nd Street, #16B
New Yorl<, NY 10021
1964Shelly A. Wolf
113 Naudain Street
Philadelphia. PA 19147
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
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
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
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
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
1970Charles S. Eisenberg
4 Ashford Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459
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
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
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
Uijiliili-is I in\ri>il\ Magazine I Sitiiiinn (Id
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
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
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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Goldstein 'Ol-Goldfischer
Kalan 'OO-Samansky Lelbowltz-Llpman '96
1986
1990
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2003
2004
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
April 2
November 13. 2005
November 12. 2005
October 21. 2004
April 1
February 19
September 18, 2005
April 9
July 17. 2005
October 16. 2004
June 26, 2005
September 4. 2005
March 20. 2003
May 29. 2004
January 14
April 30
February 25
February 12
April 8
June 4, 2005
December 30, 2005
February 26
June 26, 2005
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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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
lirunilcis L niversirv Matifiziiip I SiiiiiiiiiT 'U6
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
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
1985James R. Felton
26956 Helmond Drive
Calabasas, CA 91301
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 [email protected]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
<[email protected]> or
class notes alumniprofile Mark 80 andLisa '90 Solomon
1993Joshua Blumenthal
467 Valley Street, #6-G
Maplewood, NJ 07040
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
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
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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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
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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
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
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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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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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.
classuotes
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
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
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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
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
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 <[email protected]> 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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2004Audra Lissell
11 Cross Street
Plympton, MA 02367
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
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.
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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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when a student beseeched me to grab my camera and hightail it outside. Though skeptical—what could be worth
photographing on a miserable day like this?—I obliged.
When I emerged from the building, I found the student hovering over some nearby shrubs, excitedly pointing
down at something. "Quick. Take the picture!" he yelled.
I stared hard but couldn't make out anything but a maze of soggy branches. "Right there! Don't you see it?"
I stared harder. Nothing. Still nothing. 5f/7/ nothing.
And then it moved.
"Whoa, that's a big one!" I exclaimed, at once jumping back and reaching for the camera around my neck.
It was a black-and-yellow garden spider (whose Latin name, I've since learned, is Argiope aumnita), perched on its
web, waiting for a snack to wander by.
The fresh drops of rain shimmered like pearls—and made just the prop for the dramatic photograph you see here.
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In the Legacy of Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Alumni Leadership Retreat
October 20-22, 2006
For more information
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Meet distinguished alumni and faculty speakers,
including:
Walt Mossberg '69, author and creator of the weekly"PersonalTechnology" column in the Wall Street Journal.
Marshall Herskovitz '73, award-winning film and television
director, producer, and writer.
David Hackett Fischer, the Earl Warren Professor of History
and Pulitzer Prize winner for Washington's Crossing.
Celebrate the ISO*** birthday of university namesakeJustice Louis D. Brandeis at a special BBQ Bash onSaturday, October 21.
Attend a panel discussion moderated by CambridgeDistrict Court judge Jonathan Brant '68.
Panelists include alumni judges and justices, as well as:
Philippa Strum '59, director at the Woodrow Wilson
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a documentary about Justice Brandeis.
Hear from senior administrators on the state of the
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departmentsMail Call
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,
marriages/unions, in memoriam.
Games
Photo Finish
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features
Northern ExposureGeir Haarde '73 holds sway over his native Iceland.
By Theresa Pease
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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Development Matters
Alumni News
Cover: Detail of Louis D. Brandeis statue, sculpted by
Robert Berks. Photo by Mike Lovett.
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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.
Brandeis University has been accredited by the Commissionsince 1953 and was last reviewed in 1996. Its accreditation by the
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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.
ILLUSTRATION BY JOSEPH ADOLPHE
NORTHFRNEXPOSURE
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.
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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.
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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.
Full '()()I Braiiilcih Uiuvcr.sity Maf;aziiie 21
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
Jubilee24 Brandeis L'niversitv Magazine t Fall 06
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.
Fnll Oil I lirniitleis llniversitv Maaaziiie 27
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
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.
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The Transformation of a KlansmanBy Dan T. Carter
sATI-ANIA
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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.
Fail ()<> I Braiuiciji lJnivei'sil\' Masaziiic 31
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
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
A% \
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
36 Brandeis Universilv Mafiaziiie I l-'alj Ob
"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
/^fe^
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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lieldwork
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
By Marjorie Lyon
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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Ellen Schattschneider
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.
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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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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-
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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
-
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
BALANCE & MEANING ^
'ABsr Se
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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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.
SingleJ3 by(^ Chance,
Mothersby Choice
Haw Women arc C/iooiing
Por* nth 001^ Wffhout Marriog*
and Creating
tfia New American Family
ROSANNA HERTZ
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
Vice President of
Development
Myles E. Weisenberg '78
781-736-4005
Associate Vice President of
The Campaign for Brandeis
Susan Krinsky
781-736-4006
Assistant Vice President of
Alumni and University
Relations
Karen A. Engelbourg '79
781-736-4107
Assistant Vice President of
Development
Mark Ableman
781-736-4051
Senior Director of
Corporation and
Foundation Giving
Robert Silk '90
781-736-4052
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.
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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.
Brandeis University .Maffazine I Fall '06
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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alumninews
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
([email protected]), or Luigi Solla, assistant director of
admissions ([email protected]).
—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 [email protected] 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.
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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
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.
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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
1954William Marsh
5113 Castlerock Way
Naples, FL 34112
1955Judith Paull Aronson
838 N. Doheny Drive, #906
Los Angeles, CA [email protected]
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
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 ([email protected])."
mONWynne Wolkenberg Miller
1443 Beacon Street, #403
Brookline, MA 02443
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
76 Brandeis University Magazine I Fall '06
617-244-0880, or our Reunion chair,
Dick Kaufman, at [email protected] 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
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 [email protected]
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
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
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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class notes
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
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
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
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1964Shelly A. Wolf
113 Naudain Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
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
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
Anne Rellly Hort
10 Old Jackson Avenue, #21
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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1976Beth Pearlman
1773 Diane Road
Mendota Heights, MN 55118
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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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is under development. Sax provides
MRI, CT, PET/CT, ultrasound, radiog-
raphy, and bone densitometry. He lives
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1984Class of 1984
MS 124 Brandels University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
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
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1985James R. Felton
26956 Helmond Drive
Calabasas, CA 91301
1986Beth Jacobowitz Zive
16 Furlong Drive
Cherry Hill, NJ [email protected]
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
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
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
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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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,[email protected]."
1991Andrea C. Kramer
PO Box 5496
Takoma Park, MD 20913-5496
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
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.
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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
"
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
"
1993Joshua Blumenthal
467 Valley St. #6-G
Maplewood, NJ 07040
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
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
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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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
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.
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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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1997Joshua Firstenberg
96 Twenty-Ninth Street, #2
San Francisco, CA 94110
or
Pegah Hendizadeh Schiffman
58 Joan Road
Stamford, CT [email protected]
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
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
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.
"
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
know I am making a difference in the
lives of my patients and their families. 1
am hoping to get a master's in family
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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 [email protected].'
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
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 [email protected].
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
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
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
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
2006Class of 2006
MS 124 Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
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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Thinos Are Lookina Down Bv Mike Lovett
It is said that autumn is a second spring, where every leaf is a flower. This is
especially true at Brandeis during late October, when the mighty maples and sturdy
oaks yield to the cool temperatures and paint the landscape in spectacular hues of
red and orange. As I trek through campus each fall day, I can't help but gaze up at
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
granite steps of Schwartz Auditorium one recent afternoon. A second spring, indeed.
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