37 Retired teacher Anne Bender recently joined her children in Charlottesville, Va., where she takes courses in music and theater.     The Master's Program in Business Journalism, initiated in 1999, has produced graduates who have gone on to a diverse range of national and international careers in journalism and the media: 01 Julio Alejo is teaching part time at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, while he freelances. After spending two years in Texas as a reporter for a medical Web site, Jie Han is currently a reporter at the World Journal, a Chinese-language newspaper in New York City. Gisele Regatao recently returned to New York after several years in Los Angeles, where she was a coordinating producer at KCRW, the NPR affiliate. 02 Yu Cong is a broadcast journalist at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., covering China- and U.S.-related news and topics for VOA's Chinese branch. After working in London as a reporter for Euromoney, Denis Fitzgerald has returned to graduate school, where he is studying international affairs. Javier Gomez is a press officer for New York Governor George Pataki. Previously, he worked as a reporter for Spanish-language media in New York City and in the office of Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer. Eduardo Pereira is working with nonprofit groups in the Boston area. After a two-year stint as a reporter in the Reuters New York bureau, Lauren Weber is currently a business reporter at Newsday, the Long Island daily. Rong Xiaoqing is a reporter for the Sing Tao Daily, a Chinese-language newspaper in New York. She also freelances for Hong Kong's South China Morning Post and New York's City Limits. 03 Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Assane Ba is press officer for the African Union, which is devoted to "the promotion of socioeconomic integration of the continent and greater unity and solidarity between African countries and peoples." Kevin Kiyingi is spending time in Europe before returning to his native Uganda to work as a business journalist. Alessandra Ribeiro is a reporter for InvestNews, a business news service run by Gazeta Mercantil, in S˜ao Paulo, Brazil. Valentina Scekic is a broadcast journalist in Montenegro. Takako Taguchi works for Japan's Ministry of Finance in Washington, D.C. Shawn Turner is a business reporter for the Burlington, Vt., Free Press. Previously, he worked in his native Ohio as a reporter for Plastics News, a trade journal. J.D. Wonnacott is a communications writer for the Savage Companies in Salt Lake City and is co-founding a company that will forecast and invest in currency futures. 04 Ari Levy is a reporter for Bloomberg News in New York. Orrin Schonfeld is assistant news director at ScienCentral News, which provides coverage of medical, environmental, and technological issues for television and the Web.     40 In November 2003, Sydney Fields celebrated 60 years as a working CPA. Shirley Gold is retired and enjoying activities, such as playing duplicate bridge, working in local theater, and volunteering as a grade school tutor with OASIS. 47 Benjamin Podgor, who recently moved from a senior residence to his own apartment in Atlanta, Ga., has been playing piano for over 70 years and is teaching himself to play the violin. 51 Now retired, Melvin Siegel spent most of his career as a quality control statistician in aerospace in Los Angeles. Married since 1957, he has three children. Stuart Stamer is treasurer and event coordinator of Baruch in Florida. 52 Solomon Friedman is practicing law as a partner in Moses and Singer LLP in New York City. Herbert Paul, managing partner of the law firm Herbert Paul PC, is a member of New York University's board of trustees and an adjunct professor of taxation at NYU. 54 Morton Mann recently celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary. He is secretary of the Society of Financial Examiners Educational Foundation, a contributing author of the textbook Property Casualty Accounting, and a columnist for the IASA quarterly newsletter. 57 CPA Seymour Ettinger has been in public practice since 1957, both as a firm partner and as a sole practitioner. He recently celebrated his 75th birthday. 60 Martin Kaplan retired as professor of psychology from Northern Illinois University in 2000. He resides in southern California, where he continues his research and designs prejudice-reduction programs for the Anti-Defamation League. 62 Jerome M. Federlein (MBA) is currently a registered rep with Park Avenue Securities, an insurance agent with Guardian Life Insurance, and a life and health insurance broker. After 40 years as a CPA, Stanley Gordon retired last year and currently lives in Orlando, Fla. Frederick M. Shapiro (MBA) is an authority and consultant on environmental problems affecting printers. He has presented seminars in Europe and Asia, as well as in North America; has served as an advisor to schools and organizations; and has appeared in trade publications. He is active in regulation reform and pollution prevention and has served as committee chair of the Common Sense Initiative for the printing industries. M. Lewis Temaras (MBA '64) is VP, CIO, and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Miami. He has developed government initiatives in Latin America, including Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia. Lucille Feldman-Warner ('70), first VP of Kaye Insurance Associates, Inc., has been with the firm for 34 years. She is currently responsible for supervising several of the New York-based company's largest property and casualty accounts. Feldman-Warner lives in Cliffside Park, N.J. 65 SI Bank & Trust Senior VP Frank Besignano was co-chairman of this year's March of Dimes WalkAmerica event, which took place in April. In addition to acting as board director of the Staten Island March of Dimes, Besignano serves on the boards of the Boy Scouts of America and the Staten Island Children's Campaign. 71 Patrick A. Hidalgo, a director on the board of trustees of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, is also a director at Stanton Chase International. Previously, he was president of the Latin America/ Iberia division of Simon & Schuster. Early this year, Richard I. Gordon ('77) was promoted to executive VP of global operations for New Jersey-based Vital Signs, Inc. The firm designs, manufactures, and markets medical products for the anesthesia, respiratory/critical care, and sleep/ventilation markets, in addition to providing pharmaceutical technology services to the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. Gordon has been with Vital Signs since 1982. 72 Retired federal executive James Dennis is currently living in Virginia Beach, where he is a freelance writer and management consultant. 75 Frank Falco (MBA) is executive director of business development for InfoHighway Communications Corp., a Melville, N.Y.-based local, long-distance, and Internet service provider. Previously, he was executive VP of sales at Invision. 76 Peter Tobias founded Advanced Surface Finishing, a powder coating company, in 1989. He is married with three sons and is a member of Scorpions Hockey Team. Stephen R. Brown ('79) joined Newark, N.J.-based IDT Corporation as its CFO in 1995 and has been a director since 2000. Previously, he operated his own public accounting practice. He is also a board director for Newark's Net@Phone, Inc., a developer of voiceover Internet protocol (VoIP). Brown received a BA in economics from Yeshiva University and a BBA in business and accounting from Baruch. COO of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., in New York City since June 2000, Ira Weinstein ('77) previously served as the company's CFO and treasurer. From 1997 to 1999, he was CFO of Partec Ltd.; from 1989 to 1997, he was an accountant with the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel. Weinstein has also served as a consultant to the New York State Department of Health and has taught business management at Baruch, Touro College, and St. John's University. He holds a doctorate in business administration from Newport University. 77 Herbert H. Friedman (MBA) is a nursing home administrator at Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center in Commack, N.Y. He has worked at the facility since its inception in 1985. In December, Maryann Ingenito was elected first VP in New York Life Insurance Company's agency department. Also CFO of distribution, Ingenito oversees financial reporting for the company's Agency and Advanced Markets Network distribution systems. 79 Michael Choi is managing director of his recently formed CPA firm. Retired from the NYPD after 20 years, Leopold Gimignani resides in Orlando, Fla., with his wife and daughter and is deputy sheriff of Orange County. An employee of Ampal-American Israel Corporation since 1984, Alla Kanter ('79) has served as VP of accounting since 1995. She is a CPA in New York State and a member of both the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Society of Certified Public Accountants. Kanter lives and works in New York City. 80 George Aprile is responsible for the restoration of 75 Murray Street in New York City, a landmark building designed by cast-iron construction pioneer James Bogardus. After working in finance for several years, Francilla Moore is now an elementary school teacher completing postgraduate work as part of a special cohort between SUNY Stony Brook and the United Federation of Teachers. In February, Branko Krmpotic ('84) (MBA) was appointed managing director and senior credit analyst of Technology Investment Capital Corp.'s investment advisor, Technology Investment Management LLC. Before joining the Greenwich, Conn.-based TICC, Krmpotic was a principal and co-founder of the Bank of New York's Mezzanine Group. He began his career at NatWest PLC in New York. 87 Howard Ackerman (MBA) is director of mortgage sales for Harris Trust and Savings Bank, a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal. He is also active in the Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association as a member of the education and political action committees. In 2003, Dennis Friedrich ('88) was appointed president of Brookfield Properties Corporation's U.S. commercial operations. He has been COO of the New York-based firm since 2001. Friedrich oversees Brookfield's commercial space in New York, Boston, Denver, and Minneapolis. Prior to joining the company, he was co-head of Jones Lang LaSalle's tenant advisory practice in New York. He is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York. 89 After retiring from CUNY, where she was a professor of human resources, Esmeralda Reyes Allen relocated to Long Beach, Calif., where she pursued a career in fine arts. In 2002 she married and moved to Corvallis, Oreg., where she is a member of the local chapter of the Association of University Women, Association of Retired Public Employees, and the NAACP. 94 Human resources professional Ingrid Abreu recently joined IBM's Global Executive and Organizational Capability organization as a program manager. She is active in LatinNet, IBM's Hispanic diversity networking group, as well as the junior advisory board of the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families. Early this year, Gary Lewis ('94) (MS) joined Amper, Politziner & Mattia in New York as a manager in the tax department. With 15 years of experience in tax compliance, he is responsible for review of corporate, partnership, individual, and fiduciary returns; tax research; planning techniques; and client representation before tax examinations. He is a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. 96 Anthony Yandoli (MS) is a happily married CPA. 97 In February, Pirawan ("Patty") Tamsuriyamit, a marketing manager for Lucent Technologies in Whippany, N.J., was married to Steven Wong ('98), who operates a Queens-based Internet business called Digitronix. The couple met in 1987. Marisa Kabasinskas ('97) (MBA) was recently named VP for customized services at Telmar, a supplier of computer-based advertising media information services. Previously, she was a media infrastructure consultant for IBM Consulting, a sales management consultant with TV Guide Media Sales, and also worked with Time Inc. She has held media planning and supervising positions at FCB/True North, Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer/ EURO RSCG, and CME KHBB Advertising. 98 In March, Bree Alexandra Birnbaum (MS) was married to John Frederick Bullingham. They both work at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, where she is a human resource generalist. In February, Jacqueline Hernandez-Fallous (MBA) was named publisher of People en Español, the Spanish-language monthly. Previously, she was VP of global account development at Turner International. Hernandez-Fallous is also first VP of the International Advertising Association. 00 Sharon Politis-Golan has been a human resources coordinator for BBC Worldwide Americas since February 2003. 01 Columbia University administrator's assistant Junior Benjamin is currently enrolled in the master's program in political science and international relations. He also plans to pursue a PhD. 02 Sepia Owens-Villas is the Queens regional director for MHRA MIC Women's Health Services and also works part time as a computer laboratory technician at Queensborough Community College. 03 Momoko Yamamoto is currently studying for a PhD in mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center.