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Judge Bernard Feuer, a member
of the first graduating class of the “23rd Street Branch”
of City College, has published his autobiography. Third
Lieutenant (1st Books Library) describes his early life
on New York’s Lower East Side, his student days in the
late ’20s, and his experiences in the U.S. and Europe.
37
Anne Bender (MS ’39) has
officially retired after 32 years of teaching but continues
to volunteer at the Brooklyn College Institute for Retired
Professionals. She is also a member of the Community Committee
at the Brooklyn Museum. Abraham J.
Briloff (MS ’41) was named to Accounting
Today’s “Top 100 Most Influential People”
list for 2001.
44
Retired accounting teacher Blanche
P. Kogan is a member of American University Women.
47
Retired CPA Stanley Grey remains
active as trustee of the North Shore L.I.J. Health System
and serves on three committees. He is also an avid golfer.
Raymond H. Phillips is currently
chair of the N.Y.C. office of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired
Executives), which offers free business counseling under the
U.S. Small Business Administration. Benjamin
Podgor moved to Atlanta, Ga., from Massapequa Park,
N.Y., in July 2001.
48
Retired Adelphi University professor Leon
Lebensbaum is currently practicing tax law after working
as a special agent of the IRS criminal division specializing
in tax fraud.
49
Stanley Rothman, who lives
in Boca Raton, Fla., was a general agent in insurance in N.Y.C.
for over 40 years.
52
Maxine L. Baden (MBA), who has
two married children and five grandchildren, is an owner and
office manager of a promotional products distribution company
operated by her son and son-in-law.
54
Ruth Geller (MBA ’83)
has retired from teaching at California State University.
She has three children, who are practicing doctors. Morton
L. Mann is a property and casualty insurance accounting
columnist for the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association
(IASA).
56
Lila R. Mussman recently retired
from her career in human resources with the Internal Revenue
Service and is available as a consultant to nonprofit organizations
in the Tampa, Fla., area.
59
Robert S. Nadel has been elected
president of HR/NY, the New York chapter of the Society of
Human Resource Management. He is also president of Nadel Consulting/HR
Spectrum, Inc., a management consulting firm with offices
in New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago.
60
Chair of the Department of Accounting, Taxation, and Law at
the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University, Dr. Myrna
L. Fischman (MS ’64) was elected president of
the Brooklyn chapter of the N.Y.S. Society of CPAs for the
year 2001–2002. Jesse D. Geller
is currently an associate clinical
professor at Columbia Teachers College. In 2002, he and his
wife
celebrate their 40th anniversary. They have two children.
61
Chairman and CEO of Stat-A-Matrix, Inc., Stanley
A. Marash (MBA ’70) was granted the E. Jack Lancaster
Award by the American Society for Quality in recognition of
his 41 years as a quality professional.
62
CPA Melvin Meyerson, a director
at McGladrey and Pullen, continues to lecture on tax matters
for the N.Y.S. Foundation for Accounting Education and is
a member of the Individual Income Tax Committee of the N.Y.S.
Society of CPAs.
63
Alan E. Weiner, senior tax partner
with Holtz Rubenstein and past president of the N.Y.S. Society
of CPAs, was among 16 accounting professionals on the Long
Island Business News’s recent list of “Who’s
Who in Accounting.”
64
Robert L. Israeloff was named
to Accounting Today’s “Top 100 Most Influential
People” list for 2001.
65
Andrew Radding was recently
appointed to the executive board of the Mayor’s Domestic
Violence Coordinating Committee in Baltimore. He was also
elected to the Executive Council of the Baltimore City Bar
Association and chairs its arbitration committee for the District
of Maryland.
69
Jerome M. Federlein (MBA) is
a financial planner with Guardian. He has also worked as an
international business consultant and spent two years in Nigeria
with the Peace Corps. Stuart A. Hoberman,
shareholder and director of the Woodbridge, N.J., law firm
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, was recently installed as
secretary of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA).
He also serves as a trustee for the New Jersey State Bar Foundation,
the NJSBA’s philanthropic arm, of which he is immediate
past
president.
71
Clark Fegan, CEO of C.F. Consultants,
performs accounting and tax preparation services and consults
to small businesses in the N.J. and N.Y. metropolitan areas.
The Fiduciary Trust Company International has named Michael
J. Materasso executive VP and head of its Fixed Income
Department. Previously department co-head, Materasso will
continue to manage institutional portfolios in addition to
serving on the firm’s top management committees.
72
Poughkeepsie CPA Vincent C. Pangia
has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court after
passing a rigorous exam, an accomplishment only 10 percent
of test takers achieve. Pangia is also a
certified fraud examiner and business valuation expert.
Leonard R. Rosenblatt is a tax attorney specializing
in tax crimes, penalties, and frauds. His most recent article,
“Tax Evasion Sentences Enhanced for Concealment,”
appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal of 13 August
2001.
73
Peter Daniels was recently promoted
from supervisory auditor to trade liaison of the Regulatory
Audit Division of the U.S. Customs Service.
74
Stuart Hirschhorn is director
of research at Catalina Research Inc., in Boca Raton, Fla.
He received his MLS degree in 1995 from C.W. Post College
of Long Island University. Jose A. Rodriguez is a life member
of the New York Road Runners Club, an endowment member of
the National Rifle Association, and a U.S.A. Track and Field
certified official at the association level.
75
In October 2001, Carlota Grate,
CPA, was appointed VP of finance/CFO of the YMCA of greater
Hartford, Conn. Previously, she was manager of financial reporting
for Aetna International, Inc.
77
In December 2001, Diane Engelhardt
(MS ’79) was named president of DeVry Institute of Technology
in Long Island City, N.Y. Previously, she was president of
Katharine Gibbs School in Melville, N.Y.
78
Arthur P. Fishman is an independent
tax accountant representing clients across the country. After
graduation, Christine Ann Gebhardt
(Nowak) (MSEd) worked first as a producer then as managing
director of a news service at WPIX TV (now WB-11) in N.Y.C.
She now lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she teaches ESL.
79
Michael J. Choi has been appointed
to the advisory council for overseas taxation by the National
Tax Service of the Republic of Korea. He resides in Honolulu.
Marlene Y. Vidibor (MPA) retired
from the Social Security Administration in April 2001 and
is currently working as a consultant for CMA Associates in
systems development projects.
84
Martin D. Osher was recently
promoted to senior manager at Most Horowitz & Co., LLP.
Jerald E. Pinto (MBA) co-authored
Quantitative Methods for Investment Management (2001),
which has become part of the CFA program curriculum. During
2002–2003, he will be a visiting scholar at AIMR (Association
for Investment Management and Research) in Charlottesville,
Va.
85
Mark S. Bramanate was recently
promoted to associate director and co-head of derivative operations
at Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation. Attorney Daniel
Clivner, partner at Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett
in Los Angeles, was recently appointed a trustee of The Baruch
College Fund.
86
Honor F. Kremer (MS) is a licensed
real estate broker in New York and New Jersey with her own
agency, Malone Kremer, Inc. Dr. Glenn
A. Palmer is a professor at Devry Institute of Technology
in Atlanta, Ga. He recently completed an EdD from the University
of Georgia in adult education.
87
Barbara A. Breuer (Erickson)
is co-founder of the Central N.J./Staten Island chapter of
No Kidding, a worldwide organization for childfree singles
and couples. She is second VP of the Richmond County Business
and Professional Women’s Club and a member of Business
Network International and the National Association of Female
Executives (NAFE). Breuer is married and lives in Staten Island
with six cats and one bird.
88
Jeffrey Neckonoff is owner of
NY Event Connection/Classic Entertainment, a party and event
planning and professional mobile DJ entertainment company.
89
David P. Thomas (MBA) was recently
promoted to the position of VP of strategic planning, business
development, and acquisitions at Fidelis Care.
90
Marilyn B. Calister (MBA) has
been admitted as partner, Metro N.Y. office, of Arthur Andersen.
Anthony Lanzisero is the start-up
principal and president of yNetworks, Inc., a provider of
Internet network security and managed services. Gladys
M. Sotomayor (MPA), a teacher at PS 67 (The Charles
Dorsey School) in Brooklyn, was recently awarded a MetLife
Fellowship in the National Teacher Policy Institute. She is
one of 85 public school educators across the country chosen
to participate in the institute’s mission to link educational
policy with actual classroom practice.
91
Thomas E. Hachtel moved to Alpharetta,
Ga., where he works as a human resources representative for
Extreme Logic Inc., an e-business solutions provider. Founder
of the Actuarial Society and recipient of the Becker Family
Scholarship when at Baruch, Martin
Migliara is currently a managing director with Bear
Stearns in London.
92
Kathleen C. McNally-Reynolds
received her MBA from Columbia University in May 2001. She
is a manager of capital planning at Morgan Stanley. Aida
I. Rios is a benefits consultant for a top ten insurance
company. She is married and has one child.
94
Francesco Arlia is a self-employed
CPA on Staten Island. Nancy Fong Morningstar
is a homemaker and co-editor of Mom’s Club newsletter.
D. Greg Krikorian, a strategy
consultant for Accenture, recently started his own business,
an underground dance music label. Michael
Adam Parizman was married to Lori Gaye Turk in November
2001. Parizman, an associate in the private banking sector
of J.P. Morgan Chase, and Turk, a health teacher at Brooklyn
Technical High School, met as 8-year-olds at P.S. 222 in Brooklyn.
Karla Paz, a recruiting manager
at Deloitte
& Touche, recently earned certification as a professional
in human resources (PHR).
95
Chris J. Anderson, who is enrolled
in a doctoral program at Boston University, assists New York,
Massachusetts, and Illinois school systems in implementing
alternate assessment programs for students with severe disabilities.
In December 2001, Wendy Gail Hotchkiss
(MBA), a VP of
marketing for Citibank in Long Island City, N.Y., was married
to David Michael Kurtz, VP of sales for Affiliated Computer
Services.
In November 2001, Howard J. Klein (MS),
CPA, was named officer of the New Jersey firm Amper, Politziner
& Mattia. Kai Foo Tan became
a Canadian citizen in February 2001 and has joined State Street
Canada as a financial analyst. Nancy
Yung, an import manager for KSK International in New
York City, was married to Paul Gerard Dorflinger, a VP at
U.S. Trust, in November 2001.
96
Arlene Barnard (MBA) has been
named senior financial accountant by the New York Times Company.
She is responsible for corporate balance sheet accounting
and assists in the preparation of SEC filings and financial
press releases.
98
After receiving a BBA in accounting, Ismail
Nishanbayev returned to his native Kazakhstan (former
Soviet Union) to an assistant’s position at KPMG. In
May 2001, he accepted a position as CFO with Andas Altyn LLP,
a junior gold mining company in eastern Kazakhstan.
99
Cheryl Jagdeo, who worked for the publication Euromoney
in London for a year, is now with Bank of New York in N.Y.C.
Michele A. Lindsay was recently
promoted from facilities coordinator to IS administrator at
WB Wood/NY.
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Hiassam Atwi is a senior specialist
in the finance and equity derivatives area at Merrill Lynch.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Tanya
Ballard attained a PPT license and was promoted from
assistant teacher to teacher. Brian
A. Meltzer is founder and president of Office Calls
Medical Services, a New York–based provider of “at
your office” medical and pediatric care. Brian
D. Rawls (MPA), pastor of the Higher Life Church in
Orange, N.J., was recently engaged to Ellisa K. Clark, a teacher
trainer at Babyland Family Services and the owner of Genesis
Learning Place in Irvington, N.J. Angela
Roggerman works for iDeutsch, the interactive department
of Deutsch Inc. advertising agency. She is the assistant interactive
media planner/buyer on the Verizon, SuperPages.com, and Snapple
accounts. Robert C. Sloane (MBA)
recently started his own business, OptiMarket LLC, which counsels
senior executives in career transition. Ronald
P. Wilson is an accountant/consultant for RHI Management
Resources. His plans include graduate school and sitting for
the CPA exam.
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Paul T. Burns (MS), a financial
advisor with Merrill Lynch, looks forward to a doctoral program
in finance. Josephine
Menzies, an auditor with the office of the inspector
general for audit of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, sat for the CPA exam in May 2002. Jessie
Tam works for a CPA firm and intends to take the exam
in November 2002. Amelia Turner,
the first in her family to graduate from college, is working
for Deloitte & Touche. 
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