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1940-2002
Notes
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Zelda Fields is
a volunteer in the Peace Education Project, an organization
that teaches about discrimination and fosters cooperation and
conflict resolution in Santa Barbara’s elementary schools.
47
Since retiring to Florida with her husband, Irving, Muriel
Steinberg Friedland has taught adult education
courses, worked for a CPA firm, and enjoyed tennis and bridge.
She is currently active in an organization supporting medical
research at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
56
Rosalyn F. Wolf,
a retired New York City high school teacher, is now involved
in
volunteer work and is a member of the Baruch Benchmark Society.
59
Stephen D. Seger
(MBA ’71) is a partner in the CPA firm Popper Seger
& Popper, LLP.
61
Peter A. Korn
recently retired as city manager of New Rochelle, N.Y., after
40 years
in government work. He is beginning a second career in labor
arbitration and mediation.
64
Jerome Allan Landau
practices law, mediation, and arbitration from his home
in Arizona. He also presents workshops on dispute resolution,
stress and balance, and aikido.
65
Ronald A. Weber
(MPA) retired after 26 years with the National Transportation
Safety Board. An engineering graduate of Cooper Union and Yale
University, he recently founded National Highway Safety Associates,
a consulting firm in highway accident reconstruction.
68
Suzan C. Brauwerman
is an immigration judge in the Executive Office for Immigration
Review of the United States Department of Justice. She has
received a Medal of Honor from the Daughters of the American
Revolution for her pro bono
citizenship project.
71
In November, Nick Toscano
was promoted to VP (from assistant VP) in the Danbury, Conn.,
office of First Union National Bank.
72
Jonas Taub is
a school psychologist and research associate at the New Hampshire–
Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, managing the outcome
study for a children’s services project.
73
In November, John Crary
(MPA) left his 17-year post as deputy village manager of Scarsdale,
N.Y., to become administrative officer for the Town of Darien,
Conn.
74
In April, William E. Oakley
(MBA) received the 2003 Management Division Award from the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The award is named
for the late Robert L. Jacks
(’76), who was a classmate of Oakley’s at Baruch.
75
Len Eisenstein
(MBA) recently joined Larscom, Inc., as VP of worldwide sales
and is responsible for international sales revenue, focusing
on the telecommunications industry. After graduating from Baruch,
Barry Shalen
obtained an MA in criminal justice. He worked in social services
for 12 years, then moved to California, got married, and attended
law school. He is now working as an attorney in Phoenix.
77
Catherine M. Perebinossoff
(MPA) is the president of www.newyorkcity-tours.com and the
co-founder of www.nohony.com, a luxury goods e-commerce business.
In 2002, Phillip Vassallo’s
book The Art of On-the-Job Writing was published
(Society for General Semantics). The book explores writing
in the business world. Vassallo, who lives in Sayreville,
N.J., has developed communication training programs for professionals
in the corporate, government, and academic worlds and has
taught writing classes at several colleges.
78
After 23 years on Wall Street, most recently as an associate
director at Bear Stearns, Anthony
Cassano is enrolled in college for another degree
and actively seeking employment. In January, Robert
P. Jones joined TMP Worldwide (human resources
supplier and owner of Internet career portal Monster.com®)
as VP of investor relations. Previously, he was senior managing
director and CEO of FD Morgen-Walke Associates. Regina
Rochford (MPA ’80), a professor at Queensborough
Community College, has published her second college textbook,
entitled Getting Your Act Together: A Guidebook. It
is designed to help remedial students throughout CUNY pass the
ACT Writing Skills Test.
80
Annette Catino
(MBA) is president and CEO of QualCare Inc., a managed health
care company she founded in 1991. The Piscataway, N.J., company
has contracts with 80 hospitals and over 16,000 health care
providers. Ron Nash
has been elected chairman of Jeffreys Henry International,
an association of accounting firms with over 80 members in
40 countries. Samuel E. Obukwelu
recently retired from the U.N. after working in Iraq, Cambodia,
and Afghanistan as a finance officer.
81
Jane Malecki was
recently appointed VP of international assignment solutions
at Weichert Relocation Company in Morris Plains, N.J. Most recently,
she was a partner in international assignment planning at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In January, Anthony Rotunno
was named principal of John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx.
Previously, the Bronx native was the high school district’s
first deputy superintendent of school security.
82
Craig Bailey
is the staff photographer at Northeastern University in Boston.
He also works as a freelance photographer through his own
business, CBE Photo. New Jersey–based Momentum Resource
Solutions (formerly the Javorsky Group) recently announced
the appointment of Albert A.
Compitello as chief operating officer. Formerly,
he was COO of BT Holdings, Inc.
85
Montford D. Naylor, Jr.
(MSEd) is an ordained Roman Catholic deacon serving at St.
Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y., since 1994.
87
In February, Paul Goldberg
(MPA) was hired as president and CEO of the Snug Harbor (Staten
Island) Cultural Center. Previously, he was director of development
for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, based in Manhattan.
Michael Nash
(MBA), CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner, recently accepted a
position as an investigator in the U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Fraud Section. He is a former private investigator (Investigative
Group International) and computer security specialist with the
Department of Justice.
88
Mary Beth Grover
(MBA) worked in business journalism, most recently at Forbes
magazine, before starting her own business, MBG Productions.
90
Mary Ann Bross
(MS), formerly the director of human resources at Somerset
Medical Center, was recently promoted to VP of that department.
She lives in Flemington, N.J. After owning her own executive
search firm for over 11 years, E.
Elizabeth Carter-Gosselin (MBA) has created
the Falcon Resource Group, which specializes in providing
customized research for the job seeker (www.falconresourcegroup.com).
91
Renee Kozak-Hellberg
was recently commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard
Reserve. At the ceremony, held at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
in New London, Conn., Kozak-Hellberg was also awarded the
Coast Guard Achievement Medal for her outstanding performance
at the USCG MSO Group Philadelphia
between 2000 and 2002.
92
Sterling Rauseo
(MBA) runs a coaching and change consulting business, which
is based in London and operates internationally.
93
In June 1998, Philip Susi
founded Arsenal Scaffold, Inc., which has grown into a business
with annual sales of about $2 million. Susi is currently a
member of the National Republican Business Advisory Committee.
94
In February, Felix Perez
was appointed general manager of WUNI-TV in Boston and WUVN-TV
in Hartford by Entravision Communications Corporation. Perez
was previously VP of marketing at Advertising and Marketing
Solutions, Inc.
95
Shao-lin Chang
(MBA) runs a consulting firm and a design company in Taiwan.
96
Richard Ansar Bond
(MPA), a supervisor at the Administration for Children’s
Services (ACS), received a full scholarship from ACS to attend
Columbia University School of Social Work and recently graduated
with an MSSW. Mansoor A. Khan
is the director of information systems and data management
for the New York Institute of Technology. Linda
Lawson (MBA ’92, MPA ’96) was
recently promoted to CFO at the New York Society for the Deaf.
97
Karen Faulding
(MS) made a career change two years ago from real estate accounting
to systems training and troubleshooting at Donovan Data Systems.
Shahid Saddiqi
is the owner of M&S Violations, a company that provides
solutions for businesses and homeowners faced with violations
in New York City. In January, Loren
Marcy Susser (MBA) was married to Brandon Charles
Palmer in New York City.
98
Donald Mason
is a revenue management analyst for Royal Caribbean Cruise
Line Ltd.
01
Nogiomwan Aigbogun,
former president of Baruch’s Nigerian Club, is currently
employed as an analyst in the equity derivative middle office
of Lehman Brothers. He plans to enroll in the MBA program
soon. Alexander Burekhovich
currently attends Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and hopes
to receive his JD in 2004. Melissa
Madera teaches high school social studies
and is working on her master’s at Pace University. Sal
Vaccarino played Gus Phillips in the 2000–2001 season
of the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns. He also
teaches acting part time and produces and directs plays at
the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
02
In January, Niaz Khan,
an auditor at Ernst & Young, became a naturalized U.S.
citizen. Khan, who came to New York from Bangladesh in 1997,
resides in the Bronx. Maria
F. Nazur is employed in public relations and
sales for Costa Cruise Line. She has traveled to the Caribbean,
Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and Mexico. Currently working as the
New York correspondent for the Sing Tao Daily, a
Chinese-language newspaper based in Hong Kong, Xiaoqing
Rong (MA) was one of 14 young journalists
recently honored with the first Ethnic Press Fellowships of
the Independent Press Association. She received a $7,000 stipend
and is participating in a 10-month program of training workshops
on urban affairs. Rong, who came to Baruch’s Master’s
Program in Business Journalism on a Reuters Fellowship, had
previously worked in China at a radio station specializing
in arts coverage. A large portion of her master’s thesis,
on how the boom in Chinese immigration to the U.S. created
an industry of lawyers who cater to the Chinese community,
was published this spring in Dollars & $ense,
Baruch’s student-run business magazine. Jasmine
Vega is working as a paralegal and will be
starting law school in the fall. Richard
Washington (MPA) is a contract officer for
the New York Department of Homeless Services.
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