UAlbany Magazine, 2007 March

CNSE student Ming Di with
instructor Richard Moore
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UAlbany
University at Albany Magazine
Spring 2007, Volume 16, Number 2
Features
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The Nano Revolution
The College of Nanoscale Science and
Engineering and its founder, Alain Kaloyeros,
are transforming the Capital Region – and 
the global marketplace.
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Marc Kramer, B.A.’77: 
Tabloid Warrior
A self-described “news junkie” leads 
his Daily News troops into battle in 
New York City’s Tabloid Wars. 
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A Time to Refocus
Professor William D. Danko, co-author of 
the best-selling The Millionaire Next Door,
reflects on his career, his life and the future. 
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Sister Act
Four siblings revisit their UAlbany years – 
and talk about their lives today.
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UAlbany’s Uptown Campus: 
A Work of Art
Edward Durell Stone’s “dazzling” design 
still impresses.
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Second Chance at the Dance
Head Coach Will Brown talks about the 
Danes’ success this year and next.
Departments
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From the Podium and Beyond
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Gifts at Work
24
Vital Volunteers
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Ask Geoff
31
Paw Prints (Sports)
33
Alumni News and Notes
52
The Last Word
Contents
Second Chance ~ Page 28
Courtesy the Times Union
Gary Gold '70
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Herbst Is Officer in Charge
Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of
Political Science Susan Herbst is serving as the
University at Albany’s officer in charge. State University
of New York Chancellor John R. Ryan announced the
appointment in October, two months after the death of
former University President Kermit L. Hall. 
Herbst came to UAlbany in September 2005 from
Temple University, where she was dean of the College of
Liberal Arts. A graduate of the University of Southern
California and Duke University, she has also completed
advanced research and study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 
McElroy Reappointed 
Lee A. McElroy has been reappointed vice president for Athletic Administration
and director of Intercollegiate Athletics for an additional five-year term.  
Since McElroy joined the staff in 2000, UAlbany has
won 19 conference championships and made NCAA
appearances in men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse,
women’s volleyball, softball, and men’s and 
women’s track and field. 
McElroy has led the way in developing a master 
plan to upgrade the University’s athletic and 
recreational complex. 
Wilcox Promoted 
Kevin Wilcox, who served as UAlbany’s deputy controller from 1999 to 2006,
was named assistant vice president and controller Jan. 2.
In that capacity, Wilcox manages the offices of State
Accounting; Institutional Services; Parking and Mass
Transit Services; Sponsored Funds Financial
Management; and the SUNY Student Loan Service
Center. He also provides broad leadership and policy
guidance for a range of fiscal and administrative topics.
Wilcox succeeds Leo Neveu, who has retired.  
Women’s Studies Program Celebrates 35 Years
UAlbany’s Department of Women’s Studies is marking its 35th anniversary
with a yearlong series of events.
The observance began Nov. 30 with the fifth annual Women’s Studies 
Student Conference, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Celebrating 35 Years 
of Women’s Studies.” Special events planned during 2007 include a faculty
exhibit of department history through the College of Arts and Sciences. 
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From the Podium
And Beyond
By Carol Olechowski
Photos by Mark Schmidt
The UAlbany community and SEFCU and SUNY 
officials celebrate the naming of SEFCU Arena.
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Thanks to a $2.75 million commitment
from SEFCU, the University’s former
Recreation and Convocation Center
(RACC) has a new name.
SEFCU, the Capital Region’s largest credit
union, made a 10-year commitment last
November to name the SEFCU Arena.
Located on the uptown campus, the
arena has a seating capacity of 4,538 
and is the home of UAlbany’s men’s 
and women’s basketball teams. 
MDA Awards Grant to 
UAlbany Researcher
Zhen Huang has received a $135,000 grant from 
the Muscular Dystrophy Association to identify
RNA aptamers that are potential candidates for
developing new drugs for amyotrophic lateral 
sclerosis (ALS) therapy.  
Huang, a postdoctoral fellow, works with Professor
of Chemistry Li Niu. The researchers are studying 
a special family of proteins crucial to such brain
functions as memory and learning. Abnormal 
functioning of these proteins has been implicated 
in stroke, epilepsy and ALS. 
Zhen Huang (standing) works 
with Amy Novakovic in Professor 
of Chemistry Li Niu’s lab.  
University doctoral programs in social 
welfare, educational administration and
criminal justice are among the best in the
nation, according to a new index for rank-
ings prepared by Academic Analytics. 
The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity
Index ranks 7,294 individual doctoral 
programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institu-
tions; institutions in broader categories, 
such as the humanities and biological 
sciences; and institutions as a whole.
UAlbany’s social welfare program was 
No. 5 in its discipline; the educational
administration and criminal justice 
programs were No. 7 and No. 10 in 
their respective disciplines. 
Index ratings were published in the 
Jan. 12 issue of The Chronicle of 
Higher Education.
A New Name for the RACC: SEFCU Arena
Three Graduate Programs Ranked in Top 10
From the Podium
And Beyond
SSW Students Help New Orleans to Rebuild
Nine School of Social Welfare graduate students spent part of their
winter break assisting with efforts to repair New Orleans homes
ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005.
Jennifer Lathrop; Jwakyum Kim; Rosalyn Galvan; Debra Miesing;
Lauren Jacobs, Miriam Nalweyiso; Aline Miraglia; Lindsay
Homenick; and Elizabeth Howard spent a week in January 
gutting homes in the devastated 9th Ward. Their work allowed
other teams to begin the reconstruction process. 
The experience, observed Lathrop, “provided the opportunity to
move our education from the classroom to the real world.”
State Funding Boosts Elder Network
The Elder Network of the Capital Region (ENCR), based at
UAlbany’s School of Social Welfare, will use $800,100 in New York
State funding to forge sustainable, aging-prepared communities
that will serve as models to augment the state’s long-term care 
policy reform initiatives.
Created from a partnership of the University’s Center for Excellence
in Aging Services and the state Office for the Aging, ENCR works to
enhance the health, well-being, quality of life and independence of
seniors, and reduce their reliance on out-of-home care.
DOJ Grant Will Enhance Forensic Services
UAlbany’s Northeast Regional Forensic Institute (NERFI) will use a
$100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of
Community Oriented Policing Services to improve its services.
Through its collaboration with the New York Prosecutors Training
Institute, NERFI is establishing a link to enhance communication
between forensic laboratories and state prosecutors, ensuring 
timely and accurate information on the status of cases and
approved forensic reports required for court proceedings.
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Kim Named Woodrow
Wilson Fellow  
Minjeong Kim, a doctoral candidate in sociology, is
one of only seven Ph.D. students nationwide to be
designated a 2007 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation
Fellow in Women’s Studies.
A native of Korea, Kim was recognized for her 
dissertation Gendered International Marriage
Migration under Globalization. Her interest in the
subject was piqued by a Korean television docu-
mentary focusing on the Filipina wives of Korean
farmers. She spent a year in two South Korean
rural communities studying the experiences of the
women and their husbands.
Kim, who received a bachelor’s degree in women’s
studies from The Ohio State University, earned a
master’s in the same field at UAlbany. Her $3,000
Wilson Fellowship will enable her to disseminate
the results of her research to both the academic
community and the public.
Northeast Regional Forensic Institute Director W. Mark Dale, U.S. Rep. Michael
McNulty and Officer in Charge Susan Herbst announce a new IT initiative for NERFI. 
From the Podium
And Beyond
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CARD’s New Home
UAlbany’s Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) opened its doors
at 1535 Western Avenue in Albany Feb. 1 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and 
an open house. 
Director Kristin Christodulu noted that the new location “is easily accessible for
the many parents and children who utilize our programs.” Christodulu and her
staff serve Capital Region families living with autism spectrum disorders. 
CARD was created in response to pleas from school districts in New York State
and throughout the U.S. concerned about the increasing numbers of children
diagnosed with
autism. Centers
for Disease
Control data indi-
cate that preva-
lence rates range
from one child in
500 to one in 166
diagnosed with an
autism spectrum 
disorder.
NYSTAR Supports CNSE-Vistec Initiative
A $750,000 grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and
Academic Research to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will
support a joint research initiative with Vistec Lithography Inc. 
The CNSE-Vistec Center for Nanolithography Development will accelerate
development and commercialization of the company’s E-beam lithography 
technology. Vistec is targeting a host of emerging business applications, 
including nano- and bioelectronics, telecommunications, aerospace and 
defense markets, currently valued at $400 million worldwide.
UAlbany: A Great Start
One went on to a distinguished career in U.S. Intelligence. Another worked 
for the U.N. for years, feeding the world’s hungry. A third went on to head 
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Two others – twin entrepreneurs – 
have operated several highly successful businesses. Still another applies 
nanotechnology to pharmaceutical research.
Although Maureen Baginski, Catherine Bertini, Thomas Constantine, Lisa and
Debbie Ganz, and Jack Henion have gone on to vastly different careers, they 
have two things in common: Each graduated from the University at Albany 
and exemplifies the ideal “Reaching Higher, Achieving More.”
They are among the dozen alumni now featured on a series of posters at
University Hall touting UAlbany as a great starting point for career success. 
New rounds of posters are planned for each academic year.
Begley Receives 
NIEHS Award 
Assistant Professor of
Biomedical Sciences
Thomas J. Begley of
UAlbany’s Cancer
Research Center has
been awarded an
Outstanding New
Environmental Scientist Award from the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The honor is presented to “exceptionally talent-
ed and creative new scientists who are pursuing
careers in environmental health research,” says
David Schwartz, M.D., NIEHS director.  
Begley will use the $2.2 million award to 
continue his research on molecular pathways
activated by such cancer-causing agents as
cigarette smoke and pesticides.
Hollings Scholarship
Awarded to Komaromi
UAlbany junior William
(Will) Komaromi has
received the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Ernest F.
Hollings Scholarship
Award in Atmospheric
Science.
The scholarships, which honor the former South
Carolina senator, are presented annually to
approximately 100 college juniors majoring 
in oceanic, environmental, biological, social, 
physical and atmospheric sciences; mathemat-
ics; engineering; and related fields. Each award
provides academic assistance for full-time 
study during the student’s junior and senior
years, as well as a 10-week, full-time summer
internship at NOAA or a partner facility.
Komaromi, a Presidential Scholar with a 
double major in atmospheric science and
physics, plans to earn master’s and 
doctoral degrees in atmospheric science. 
Director Kristin Christodulu (second from right) officiates 
at the CARD ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 1. 
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Emeritus Center Opens
A project 37 years in the making came to fruition Nov. 1 as a standing-room-
only crowd gathered in University Administration Building 134 for the opening
of Emeritus Center.
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Reese took the idea for a place where
retired faculty could continue to pursue research, teaching and community activ-
ity to UAlbany President Kermit L. Hall shortly before Hall’s death last summer.
The president’s response was, “That’s a great thing; let’s do it,” noted Officer in
Charge, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Susan Herbst,
who officiated at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the center. 
Reese, Emeritus Center president, was ill and unable to attend the ceremony.
Professor Emerita of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Toby Clyman, the 
center’s vice president, read a statement from him lauding the opening.
A plaque recognizes Hall for instituting “this long hoped for Emeritus Center.”
Journalism Lecture Series Débuts 
A $25,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to the
College of Arts and Sciences’ journalism program is supporting visits to campus
by leading science writers and journalists. 
NPR science correspondent Richard Harris was the first guest lecturer for the
series, which commenced Feb. 8. Other speakers have included Dan Shapley,
environment editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal; John Allen Paulos, author of
Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper; and Laurie Garrett,
author of the Pulitzer prize-winning The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust:
The Collapse of Global Public Health.
Allen Makes History as 2006
Turing Award Recipient
IBM Fellow Emerita
Frances E. Allen, B.A.’54,
became the first woman
in the 40-year history of
the A.M. Turing Award
ever to receive the 
computer science field’s
most prestigious honor.
Presented annually by the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), the Turing
Award recognizes recipients for their tech-
nical contributions to the computing com-
munity. Named for an English mathemati-
cian, it carries with it a $100,000 prize. 
Allen, who majored in mathematics at 
the former New York State College for
Teachers, went on to earn a master’s from
the University of Michigan. She intended
to become a math teacher but instead
accepted a job offer from IBM in 1957. An
active member of the National Academy of
Engineering, Allen founded the Theory of
Program Optimization. In the 1980s, she
established the Parallel Translation Group
(PTRAN), recognized as one of the top
research groups in the world dealing with
parallelization issues. Allen was the first
woman to be designated an IBM Fellow,
the highest technical honor the firm 
confers. She retired in 2002 from IBM’s
T.J. Watson Research Center.
A member of the Women in Technology
International Hall of Fame, Allen is also 
a recipient of the Anita Borg Award for
Technical Leadership and the ACM’s
Special Interest Group on Programming
Languages’ Achievement Award. The
University at Albany honored her with a
Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.
Emeritus Center Vice President Toby Clyman (left) visits with 
retired faculty Ray Ortali and Findlay Cockrell at the opening of the center.   
For more details about these and 
other UAlbany stories, please visit
http://www.albany.edu/news/index.shtml.  
From the Podium
And Beyond
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What’s purple and gold and green
all over? The University at Albany.
In October, the University com-
munity kicked off UAlbany Goes
Green, a comprehensive environ-
mental initiative designed to
encourage conservation, recycling
and beautification of the campus
and the environment. At the Go
Green Festival held on the uptown
campus, Indian Quad took the
prize in a campus-wide recycling
competition. For collecting and
recycling 15 cubic yards of glass,
metal and plastic in a two-week
period, quad leaders received a
trophy: a Great Dane crafted of
recycled metals. 
Altogether, the quads collected a
total of 60 cubic yards of recycla-
ble materials during the two-week
challenge.
Indian Quad students claimed 
the trophy last October for 
winning a recycling 
competition on campus.  
Going Green!
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I
magine a world in which clothing resists water,
stains and wrinkles. Socks don’t smell. Golf
balls fly straighter. Cosmetics and sunscreens
smooth skin and protect it against UV rays. Paint
makes car finishes more durable. Bandages help
wounds heal faster. A joint or stent implanted in
the human body enhances the device’s effectiveness
– and improves the patient’s quality of life.
There’s no need to imagine. All of these advances
are already on the market, thanks to nanotechnolo-
gy. And the students, faculty, scientists, researchers
and technicians at UAlbany’s College of Nanoscale
Science and Engineering (CNSE) are pioneering
more high-tech innovations every day.
Leading the next 
industrial revolution
In the cluster of sleek, modern buildings on the
western edge of the uptown campus, the next
industrial revolution is under way.
“Nanotechnology is truly the enabling science and
technology of the 21st century,” says Alain E.
Kaloyeros, Ph.D., CNSE’s vice president and chief
administrative officer. “Its applications are driving
advances in every segment of the global market-
place,” including electronics, energy and environ-
ment, health care, defense, software, media and
telecommunications.
Already, nanotechnology is incorporated into 
$100 billion in manufactured goods. In its October
2004 report “Sizing Nanotechnology's Value
Chain,” Lux Research, an industry research and
advisory firm, estimated that sales of products
incorporating emerging nanotechnology will rise 
to a total of $2.6 trillion in 2014. The percentages
of goods manufactured using nanotechnology, and
the number of employees creating those products, 
will also grow exponentially.
As the first college in the world devoted exclusively
to the research, development and deployment of
nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanobioscience and
nanoeconomics concepts, CNSE is uniquely posi-
tioned to address this burgeoning growth. And
CNSE's Albany NanoTech complex – a $3.5 billion,
450,000-square-foot facility that has attracted more
than 250 global corporate partners – is the most
advanced research and education complex of its
kind at any university in the world. 
Merging education, R&D and
economic development 
CNSE has merged education, research and develop-
ment, and economic outreach, creating a positive
ripple effect throughout New York’s Tech Valley –
and beyond. Its people, tools and resources attract
companies seeking to conduct cutting-edge
nanoscale research and development, including
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Vistec
Lithography. 
In June 2006, AMD announced its selection of 
the Luther Forest Technology Park in Malta, due
primarily to its proximity to CNSE, for its new 
$3.2 billion chip fab, a world-class semiconductor
manufacturing facility that will create more than
1,200 new high-tech jobs and thousands of others
indirectly. Then, last October, Vistec revealed it
would become the first high-tech equipment suppli-
er to move its entire operation to the Capital Region.
The company, which is relocating from Cambridge,
A bunny-suited staff 
member works in 
a cleanroom.
Gary Gold '70
The Nano 
Revolution
Pioneering high-tech innovations at UAlbany’s College 
of Nanoscale Science and Engineering 
By Cynthia Nagle
Alain Kaloyeros
The Driving Force Behind CNSE 
As professor of nanoscience, vice president and chief administrative
officer of UAlbany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
(CNSE), Alain E. Kaloyeros, Ph.D., wears many hats. He is perhaps
proudest, however, of his role as driving force behind the creation 
of CNSE, ranked the nation’s No. 1 college for nan-
otechnology and microtechnology by Small Times
magazine in May 2006.   
Kaloyeros joined UAlbany in 1988 after earning his
Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics
from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In
the mid-1990s, at his urging, the University was
designated as the Interconnect Focus Center-New
York, a partnership with Stanford University, Georgia
Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
other institutions; it was funded by the nanoelec-
tronics industry and the federal government to per-
form long-term nanochip research. The center was housed at 
the 75,000-square-foot Center for Environmental Sciences and
Technology Management building, which, under Kaloyeros’s leader-
ship, has grown into the 450,000-square-foot, $3.5 billion Albany
NanoTech complex. An expansion currently under way will increase
the size of the complex to over 750,000 square feet, including more
than 80,000 square feet of Class 1 cleanroom space. By the end 
of 2008, Albany NanoTech will house more than 2,000 scientists,
researchers, engineers, students and faculty.
The author or co-author of more than 150 articles and a contributor
to seven books, Kaloyeros holds 13 U.S. patents and has graduated
more than 30 doctoral and 50 master’s students. He has received
awards from numerous institutions, including the National Science
Foundation and the Research Foundation of the State University of
New York. Kaloyeros has been instrumental in convincing state 
political leaders and technology companies, such as IBM Corp. and
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), to conduct research at and
invest in the Albany NanoTech complex. He also helped to persuade
AMD to select the Luther Forest Technology Park as the site for its
$3.2 billion chip fab facility.
“We are very fortunate to have Alain Kaloyeros as head of our
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering,” notes UAlbany
Officer in Charge Susan Herbst. “We are extraordinarily proud of 
him and of all that he has brought to our campus, the Capital Region
and the State of New York. He is highly valued at the University at
Albany as a leader in the campus scientific mission, and he has, in
addition, made enormous contributions to our innovation economy.
Alain Kaloyeros’s initiatives will be critical to the advances America
will see in cancer prevention and treatment, education, homeland
security, and many other fields over the coming years, and we 
look forward to seeing him carry out this mission at the 
University at Albany.”
– Cynthia Nagle
Gary Gold '70
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England, to the Arsenal Campus in Watervliet, N.Y., will
establish joint R&D operations at CNSE under a newly
created Center for Nanolithography Development. 
Vistec and AMD join an impressive lineup of industry
leaders, all working under one roof at CNSE, that
includes IBM, International SEMATECH, Tokyo
Electron Ltd. (TEL), SONY, Toshiba, Honeywell and
Applied Materials. 
Tokyo Electron's main goal in establishing its TEL
Technology Center, America LLC, at CNSE was to 
work more directly with the chip manufacturers that
are its customers. Participating in the center, says TEL
Chairman and CEO Tetsuro Higashi, will allow the
Japan-based firm to “shorten the time required 
to bring critical technology from the research lab 
to the production floor.” 
A number of publicly and privately funded programs
and research centers, including New York State’s Center
of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) and the Center
for Semiconductor Research (CSR), a $500 million
partnership with the leading companies in the 
semiconductor industry, also thrive at CNSE.
The Albany NanoTech factor 
Albany NanoTech is a major factor in CNSE’s 
success. The complex features the most advanced
200mm/300mm wafer facilities in the academic world,
including more than 60,000 square feet of Class 1 
capable cleanrooms equipped with 300mm wafer 
processing tools. It also incorporates state-of-the-art
R&D and prototype manufacturing infrastructure 
for a variety of nanotechnology applications.
And the site continues to grow. In August 2006, CNSE
took delivery of the world’s first extreme ultraviolet
(EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Valued at $65 million,
the tool represents a critical step in the development
and commercialization of EUV technology, and is vital
to the future of nanoelectronics manufacturing.
Albany NanoTech’s impact on the region’s economy is
equally impressive. Between 1997 and 2004, its Center
for Advanced Technology in Nanomaterials and
Nanoelectronics (CATN2) alone created 1,104 high-
tech jobs and retained another 384, resulting in a total
economic impact of $1.12 billion during that time.
Total employment at the complex has increased tenfold
in just four years, with more than 1,600 scientists and
researchers currently on site.
Ph.D. student Chaffra Awo-Affouda 
is pictured in CNSE’s spintronics lab.
The Nano Revolution
Gary Gold '70
NanoTalk: a brief glossary
chip: a miniaturized, integrated electronic circuit, consisting mainly of 
semiconductor devices, that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin 
substrate of semiconductor material. Chip areas range from a few square 
millimeters to around 250mm2, with up to 1 million transistors per mm2.
chip fab: a facility specifically designed for the fabrication of semiconductor chips.
cleanroom: an ultra-clean room in which the air is highly filtered in order to 
keep out impurities. Workers there wear “bunny suits,” which keep them from 
contaminating the atmosphere.
Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography: a form of optical lithography that uses
ultrashort wavelengths (13.5nm) and is widely considered the most promising 
next-generation lithography technique.
nano: from the Greek word for “dwarf,” a unit of measurement indicating 10-9 
or one-billionth. One nanometer (nm) is one-billionth of a meter. A human hair 
is approximately 80,000nm wide.
quantum dot: a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of electrons
in all three spatial directions. Because of their superior transport and optical proper-
ties, quantum dots are being researched for use in diode lasers, amplifiers, and 
biological sensors; blue quantum dot lasers are already used in many consumer 
electronics items such as the new PlayStation 3 and high-definition DVD players.
wafer: a thin slice of semiconducting material, such as a silicon crystal, upon 
which microcircuits are constructed by doping (for example, diffusion or ion 
implantation), chemical etching, and deposition of various materials. Two common
wafer sizes are 300mm (12 inches) or 200mm (8 inches) in diameter. Each can
hold hundreds of semiconductor chips.                                      
– Cynthia Nagle
Attracting the best and the 
brightest 
Eager to take their places among the next generation of 
scientists, researchers, technicians and educators, students
from all over the world are enrolling at CNSE. 
Chimaobi Mbanaso, a Ph.D. candidate from Nigeria, is
delighted to have an opportunity “to be part of an environ-
ment that encompasses research and development not only
from an academic perspective, but also from an industrial
outlook.” CNSE, Mbanaso observes, “provides a complete
and well-rounded educational experience which 
surpasses any other.”
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John J. Sullivan
Promoting Innovation and Imagination
UAlbany’s nanotechnology campus has
changed a lot in the past decade and a
half, as John J. Sullivan can attest. In
1992, he was vice president of Marketing
and Technology Management for MKS
Instruments in Andover, Mass. His then-
supervisor, the company president, met
Alain Kaloyeros at the University and told
Sullivan, “I want you to go up to Albany
and meet this professor of physics.” 
Sullivan did – and was just as impressed
as his boss had been. The Boston native
recalled that the entire nanotechnology
operation at the time comprised “Alain, his
secretary and six graduate students. Now
there are hundreds of people here, work-
ing in a million square feet of space. Alain
is quite a guy. He’s made some very good
connections with New York State and
companies like IBM.”
In his early years at UAlbany, continued
Sullivan, a microelectronics expert whose
prior work experience includes research 
in plasma physics and ultra-high vacuum
technology for the U.S. Army, “we [MKS]
started to do some research funding,
$250,000 a year to assist graduate 
students. I used to come up here once
every six weeks. When I retired fr0om 
MKS in late 2000, Alain wanted me 
to come more often.”
So, just about every week for six years,
Sullivan has taken a bus or flown from his
home in Boston to work in his calibration
laboratory at NanoFab 200. There, he cali-
brates vacuum instrumentation, vacuum
gauges and mass flow controls, and con-
ducts other research that will make new
nanotechnology advances possible. He
explained: “I’m trying to build up the sys-
tem for vapor pressure measurement of
different materials. Some of the materials
being used in deposition of materials in
semiconductor processing atomic layer
deposition (ALD) are liquids with very low
pressures, so you have to heat the materi-
als to create a gas vapor, then flow them
into the processing tool in order to design
the instruments to control the flow of the
vapor. These thin films are important in
developing faster transistor gates for 
next-generation microprocessors.”
In the time he’s spent at UAlbany, Sullivan,
who is also an adjunct professor, has got-
ten to know many of the students who
have graduated. “Some of them are back
here now with IBM,” he observed. Inspired
by their dedication and hard work, Sullivan
donated MKS stock valued at nearly
$750,000 to establish the John J. 
Sullivan Graduate Fellowship Fund.
Asked what the future holds for nanotech-
nology – and for the young scientists 
honing their skills in the field at the
University’s College of Nanoscale Science
and Engineering – Sullivan smiled. 
“It’s limitless,” he replied. “It’s just 
what people can imagine.”            
– Carol Olechowski
Mark Schmidt
The opportunity to work alongside top industry partners “is something
that many graduate students would envy solely for the networking capa-
bilities it offers,” notes Mary Graham, a doctoral student from Wingdale,
N.Y. “Doing research that actively pertains to a real industrial problem…
provides us with the vital skills and knowledge crucial for success in
industry. And I believe that many of the companies our students apply 
to after graduation recognize that fact, as well.”
IBM is one example: The firm hired China native Yu Zhu, Ph.D.’06, to
work at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.,
last winter. Zhu is grateful for the “teamwork environment and industry-
style management” CNSE offered its students.
Another IBM engineer, Filippos Papadatos, M.S.’02, Ph.D.’06, appreciates
the “key partnerships and collaborations” he forged at CNSE. Now
employed at IBM’s East Fishkill, N.Y., facility, Papadatos, a native of
Greece, describes his CNSE experience as “truly one of a kind.”    
For more information, please visit CNSE’s Web site at
http://cnse.albany.edu.
The Nano Revolution
Gary Gold '70
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Student Rashi Garg
works in the lithography
lab at CNSE. 
NanoProducts 
Here are a few more examples of 
consumer products manufactured 
using nanotechnology:
non-stick frying pans
antibacterial food containers
glare-reducing eyeglass coatings
rechargeable batteries
air-conditioning filters
toothpaste for sensitive teeth
flash drives (memory sticks or 
portable USB drives)
car tires
tennis rackets and 
tennis balls
baseball bats
ski wax
– Cynthia Nagle
UAlbany alumni 
Marc Z. Kramer 
(seated) and 
Dean Chang are 
colleagues at the 
New York Daily News.
Robert Sabo/Daily News
MARC Z. KRAMER, B.A.’77: 
Tabloid Warrior
By Paul Grondahl, M.A.’84
SPRING 2007
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H
e’s got one of the toughest jobs in journalism, 
yet Marc Z. Kramer, B.A.’77 is not actually a
journalist. As chief executive officer of the 
New York Daily News, he’s a general in the Tabloid Wars,
leading his troops in battle against the paper’s longtime
archrival, the New York Post.  
Kramer is up to the challenge. He brings to his manage-
ment position with “New York’s Hometown Newspaper” 
a law degree, extensive experience as a labor relations
attorney, keen business acumen – and an abiding passion
for newspapers inherited from his dad, Ben, a 92-year-
old retired accountant who still reads both The New 
York Times and the Daily News.
Kramer began his studies at SUNY-Buffalo, but family ties
drew him east after his freshman year. “I felt too far away
from family in Buffalo,” he recalled, “but I found Albany
comfortable and pleasant.” 
The history major and future tabloid warrior lived off
campus and bought the Daily News, The Times and 
the Albany Times Union each morning. “I’d scan the 
headlines on my way to class and, I’ve got to admit, 
I sometimes continued to read the papers after the 
lecture began,” Kramer conceded. 
There was another sign that the self-described “news
junkie” from Port Washington, Long Island, was destined
for a career in the newspaper business: He preserved – 
in plastic – historic front pages documenting such events
as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and 
the 1969 moon walk. 
Kramer read the Albany Student Press but didn’t work 
for the paper. Instead, he set his sights on a legal career;
cousins and an uncle were attorneys, and “law school
seemed like a natural place to go after college.” 
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After earning a J.D. from New York Law
School, Kramer embarked on a highly suc-
cessful career that included five years with
then-Mayor Ed Koch’s Office of Labor
Relations and several more with the presti-
gious Manhattan law firm of Proskauer,
Rose. He represented Robert Maxwell when
the British media mogul acquired the Daily
News in 1991, then was retained by publish-
er Mortimer B. Zuckerman, who bought the
paper following Maxwell’s death. Impressed
with the young attorney’s work, Zuckerman
brought him to the Daily News in 1993 to
oversee labor relations and labor strategy.
Kramer remained there until 1998, when
The New York Times recruited him as vice
president for labor relations. He was 
subsequently promoted to senior vice 
president for circulation.
Early in 2006, Zuckerman enticed Kramer,
51, back to the Daily News. “Mort has been 
a great partner and is very supportive of
what I want to do,” the CEO said. 
That support is vital at a time when newspa-
pers are facing financial strains resulting
from shrinking circulations, declining rev-
enues and increased competition from the
Internet. According to a September 2006
report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations,
an organization that verifies newspapers’
publication figures, the Daily News’
Monday-through-Friday circulation for the
preceding six months increased by 1 per-
cent, to 693,423. The New York Post’s average
weekday circulation for the same period,
704,011, reflected, in large part, growth out-
side the New York metropolitan market, and
bumped the Daily News from its standing as
fifth-largest paper in the United States to
sixth place. Within the New York metro
area, the News retains the lead, with average
Monday-Friday circulation of 652,832 to the
Post’s average of 603,871. Overall Sunday
circulation for the Daily News is 779,348
versus the Post’s 427,265, with New York
metropolitan breakdowns of 732,073 and
333,694, respectively. The Tabloid Wars 
continue to rage.
Despite the challenges of the industry, 
“a lot of people still want to own newspa-
pers because they make money,” Kramer
explained. “We deliver a daily product that
our readers need. If you want to find out
what’s going on in New York City, you’ve 
got to read the Daily News.” 
As one example of his commitment to read-
ers in the five boroughs, Kramer introduced
three new weeklies last May and August. The
Brooklyn News, the Queens News and the
Bronx Boro News focus on news, sports, fea-
tures and other information specific to each
borough. “Our city-centric strategy enables
us to provide full value to readers and
advertisers,” observed Kramer. “We believe
we are one of America’s best local newspa-
pers, and we are convinced that local cover-
age is becoming more and more important.”  
Kramer, a member of UAlbany’s Journalism
Advisory Board, also has his own coterie of
trusted advisers with University connec-
tions. They include his wife, Dinah (Gole)
Kramer, B.A.’79; and Daily News Controller
Amy Strauss, B.S.’85; Director of
Communication Jennifer Mauer, B.A.’95;
and Metro Editor Dean Chang, B.A.’87, a
former political science major, journalism
minor and ASP editor-in-chief who fre-
quently works 12-hour days in the news-
room. “I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t love it. 
I got used to long hours at the ASP,” said
Chang, who met his wife, Heidi Gralla,
B.A.’87, while working on the student 
newspaper. Gralla, also a former ASP
editor-in-chief, is a stay-at-home mother 
of three and a freelance writer.
“My goal running the ASP and my goal 
now is to put out the best newspaper 
possible every day,” Chang noted. “I like 
the fact that I’m working for a fellow
UAlbany grad. Marc is sharp, and he has 
a sense of humor and a strong sense of
where the Daily News has been and 
where it needs to go in the 21st century.”
Tabloid Warrior
Marc Z. Kramer, B.A.’77
Robert Sabo/Daily News
Courtesy the Daily News
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Q. Tell me about yourself. How did your parents define 
the person you’ve become?
A. My parents gave me a spiritual grounding; I’m a practicing
Catholic. I learned from them that we’re here to serve. My dad, a
World War II U.S. Navy veteran, later worked for General Electric
and was a union leader with IUE Local 301. He was 38 when he
died of multiple sclerosis in 1957; I was five. My mom was a 
wonderful role model for my two brothers, my sister and me. 
For 30 years, until she died in 1998, she took care of my brother
Tony, who also has MS. I take care of him now.
To honor my parents, I established the Milton and Mary M.
Danko Golden Rule Award. It provides a $750 scholarship every
year to a School of Business junior who has shared with others
his or her most precious resource – time – and a matching
amount to an approved not-for-profit organization that assists
the hungry and the homeless.
Q. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
A. As a kid, I was always intrigued by astronauts. I still have an
autographed picture of Gordon Cooper. As an undergraduate at
UAlbany, I took a lot of science electives – biology, chemistry –
but got Bs and Cs. I knew I’d never get into medical school,
although I did have that aspiration, too!
a time 
to refocus
By Carol Olechowski
As he prepares to retire, 
or “refocus,” Associate Professor 
and Chair of Marketing 
William D. Danko, B.S.’74, 
M.B.A.’76, Ph.D. — co-author 
of the best-selling The Millionaire 
Next Door — talks about his 
career, his post-UAlbany 
plans and his life.
Gary Gold '70
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Q. Doctors and astronauts both explore
exciting new worlds, and marketing is a 
fairly new field, isn’t it?
A. No. I tell my students that marketing 
is the world’s oldest profession. When it’s done
correctly, you really understand why somebody
would want to exchange his or her money for the goods or services
you have to offer. 
Q. What have you most enjoyed about teaching?
A. It’s rewarding to deal with students – and to keep in touch
with them after they graduate. One of my former students, Dwight
Larimer [B.S.’79], owns a company that makes specialty paints.
Another, Larri Broomfield [B.S.’85], went to Harvard Law School
and is now a partner at a law firm in Wisconsin. You never know
where successful alumni will go in their careers. 
Q. Speaking of success, were you prepared for the reaction to 
The Millionaire Next Door, which you co-authored with former
School of Business faculty member Thomas J. Stanley?  
A.  It was surprising because there was no significant marketing
budget to propel the book. The Wall Street Journal did a feature on
The Millionaire Next Door in November 1996. After that, it took
off, and The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Money,
Forbes and Fortune all ran stories about it. The book has stood
the test of time for more than 10 years and is still a Business Week 
long-term bestseller!
Q. What’s the subject of your next book?
A. Richer Than a Millionaire, a solo effort for me, will focus 
on how behavior and outlook relate to a subjective measure of 
happiness for 1,400 people from all walks of life who represent 
two groups: net-worth millionaires and “near millionaires,” 
those with a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million. 
Q. Are there many millionaires in the United States?
A. A millionaire lives in about one in 15, or around 7 percent, 
of all U.S. households. To keep this in perspective, the median 
net worth of U.S. households is approximately $100,000.
Q. Are you a millionaire?
A. [laughing] I’ll tell you, but you can’t print the answer!
Q. What’s in store for you as you “refocus?” 
A. I’ll spend time with Connie, my bride of 32 years; my three
kids; my grandkids; and my brother. I’ll enjoy the great outdoors.
“Refocusing” is about cultivating relationships with others and 
nurturing the next generation. I’ve enjoyed a prosperous career,
and I have a huge debt of gratitude to all those who made it 
possible. Now, I’d like to bring my life to the next level.  
a time to refocus
The Millionaire Next
Door, co-authored by
Danko and Thomas
Stanley, has become
a part of American
pop culture.  
Gary Gold '70
HI & LOIS © KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
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T
hey live in different parts of the Empire
State, but for Michele (B.S.’98,
M.P.H.’00), Sharlene (B.S.’01, M.P.H.’03),
Alicia (B.S.’03, M.P.A.’06) and Marcia
(B.S.’05) Persaud, Albany is still home base.
It’s the place “where our parents reside,
memories remain, and we return for holi-
days and school breaks. It’s the only place to
get good home-cooked meals for free, and
pampering we all enjoy,” observed Sharlene. 
The sisters also claim another close tie with
New York’s Capital Region: Each attended
the University at Albany.
MICHELE entered UAlbany
through the Early Admission Program to
study biology; she also participated in the
Charles Drew Science Club and volunteered
with Middle Earth. After earning her mas-
ter’s, Michele worked for a year as a senior
research associate with an institute in New
York City, but was “looking for a new expe-
rience.” She completed the New York City
Teaching Fellows Program, received a mas-
ter’s in science education from Lehman
College (CUNY) and is now a high school
science teacher. “I had a very good educa-
tional experience at UAlbany, which is 
one reason I work in education,” 
remarked Michele.  
SHARLENE graduated from
Albany High School a year early and 
enrolled at UAlbany as a pre-med student.
A biology major, she minored in chemistry
and computer science; did research in
Associate Professor Rabi Musah’s organic
chemistry laboratory; and “tutored other
undergraduates in general chemistry, organ-
ic chemistry and physics through the Career
Development Center. After graduation, I
followed in Michele’s footsteps – she is my
role model – and enrolled in the School of
Public Health.” Now a fourth-year medical
student at a school in downstate New York,
Sharlene is in the process of applying to 
residency programs.
ALICIA completed a double major in
business administration and information
science, graduating magna cum laude. She
returned to UAlbany to pursue her M.P.A.
from the Rockefeller College of Public
Affairs and Policy while working full time
in state government. Alicia credits “my fam-
ily, friends, mentors and teachers” for her
accomplishments. Like her sisters, she
attended Albany public schools and encour-
ages students currently enrolled there to
“keep focus” and persevere in their studies.
Youngest sister MARCIA, now a sec-
ond-year law student at Cornell University,
had a double major in business admini-
stration and economics, and a minor in
Spanish. “The University is unique, 
exemplifying a rich, close-knit community
of students, professors and administrators. 
I established a sound academic foundation
that has given me an advantage over other
law students who struggle to understand the
business concepts that form the framework
of legal issues. The work ethic and research
skills I acquired through the Ronald E.
McNair Program have provided me with
essential skills necessary to succeed in the
legal field,” Marcia stated.
The Persauds appreciate the encouragement
and attention they received from their “life-
long mentor and friend,” Associate Vice
President for Academic Affairs and
Associate Dean Carson Carr, who directs
the Equal Opportunity Program, as well as
from numerous UAlbany faculty, including
professors Stephen Brown (now retired);
Mary Applegate; Louise-Anne McNutt;
Shamshad Ahmad; Rabi Musah and Paul
Morgan. They also praise faculty and staff
at Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and
Technology (TOAST), Hackett Middle
School and Albany High School for provid-
ing a “quality educational experience.”  
Most of all, the sisters are grateful to their
mother, Angela Persaud. “Without her tire-
less encouragement, guidance and support,”
said Michele, “none of us would have
achieved our goals.” 
– Carol Olechowski
Sister Act
Meet the Persauds, four siblings who make UAlbany proud. 
The Persaud sisters, 
from left: Michele,
Sharlene, Alicia 
and Marcia
UAlbany’s Uptown Campus 
a work 
of art
New generations of 
admirers discover the 
beauty and genius in 
Edward Durell Stone’s design.
By Greta J. Petry, M.A.’01  
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“Dazzling.” “One-of-a-kind.”
Those are adjectives author Thomas A. Gaines
used to describe the University at Albany’s uptown
campus in his book The Campus as a Work of Art.
And it appears that Gaines speaks for many other
admirers in assessing the beauty of the campus
designed by renowned American architect Edward
Durell Stone (1902-78) and regarded as an impor-
tant example of modernist architecture.   
In the 40 years since construction was completed,
the campus’s design has often elicited stronger –
and less flattering – reactions. The wind tunnels
that make frigid temperatures feel even colder
cause walkers to wonder if the design was intend-
ed for a warmer climate or a foreign country.
Critics comment about the “cold” appearance of
the concrete that shapes buildings and columns,
walkways and roofs. 
But Stone believed that great architecture
should “lift the spirit, feed the soul and
transport people out of themselves,”
according to Paul Heyer in Architects
on Architecture. With its soaring
colonnades, reflecting pool and
pierced overhanging roofs, Stone’s
design seems to achieve those aims. It
also exemplifies the signature style he
used in his major projects between 1954
and 1970, including the United States Embassy
in New Delhi, India; the Hotel Phoenicia in
Beirut, Lebanon; the Church of All Souls, First
Unitarian Society of Schenectady, N.Y.; the John 
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington, D.C.; and the Aon Center, originally
the Standard Oil Building, in Chicago.
Prior to 1954, Stone was known for his
International Style of architecture, characterized
by clean lines and simplicity. That was before he
met his second wife, Maria Elena Torchio, who
greatly influenced his later work. (Please see 
sidebar, page 20) By the time he designed
UAlbany in 1961-62, Stone was a world-
renowned modernist heading a large con-
sulting firm that specialized in designing
major public buildings, campuses and 
corporate headquarters. 
Stone’s grand design for Albany comple-
mented then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s
dynamic plans for the growing State
University of New York system. Designing
a spacious new campus at Albany, initially
intended for just 7,500 students, required
a leap of imagination. The plan would
expand access to quality education for greater
numbers of veterans, women, students of color
and post-war babies. Stone was the man for the job.
Al Marshall, Rockefeller’s former secretary,
recalled how strikingly different the design was.
Anthony Adinolfi, Ph.D., who directed the State
University Construction Fund, brought in a
model of Stone’s proposed design one day.
Marshall thought it looked like an ancient Greek
university. “I said: ‘Get that thing out of here,
Tony. That’s terrible.’” Adinolfi left the model 
with Marshall, saying it wasn’t so bad. 
A few minutes later, Rockefeller himself walked
into Marshall’s Capitol office, took one look at the
model and said: “Oh my God. What is this? This is
wonderful.” The governor got down on his knees
to get a better look. “This is the greatest thing,” 
he repeated. Marshall replied, “I think it stinks.”
Rockefeller, who knew a great deal about architec-
ture and art, had the last word. He told his secre-
tary: “You’ve got no taste. You don’t understand
this.” (Marshall stayed at the governor’s mansion
for a time – but couldn’t stand Rockefeller’s
collection of modern art, which covered
its walls. “The governor used to tell 
me all my taste was in my mouth,” 
he remembered.)
And so Stone’s plan was
chosen for Albany; other
leading architects were com-
missioned to design other SUNY
campuses. “By October 1963, nearly
two dozen designs, including a scale
model of the Albany campus on 
display in the lobby of the Capitol,
had been presented to the trustees 
of the State University,” noted 
Samuel E. Bleecker in The Politics 
of Architecture, A Perspective 
on Nelson A. Rockefeller. 
Marshall said Stone didn’t go out of his way to 
be controversial, “but his product was certainly
different than that of most of the architects.
Maybe that’s what grabbed Rockefeller.”
Rockefeller’s grand vision for the State University
of New York system built on the existing state
normal schools and created four “university cen-
ters.” The most dramatic expansion would be at
Albany, which was intended to be a flagship center
in the state capital. Stone’s model was a white 
canvas on which the painting of the University 
at Albany could be created. For example, as the
Edward Durell Stone
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A Work of Art
late UAlbany historian Kendall A. Birr
pointed out in his history of the
University, “the College had to plan
space for an anthropology department
when there was not yet a single
anthropologist on the faculty.”
Since its opening, the campus has
evoked strong responses. As University
at Albany Professor of English and art
critic Thomson Littlefield noted in the
Times Union in 1967: “The place is so
huge, so imposing, so beset with illu-
sion, so far out of this world, that peo-
ple are blinded to the actual, at least
until they have looked assiduously for
a very long while. A glance at the
University is like a glance at the sun.”
As recently as September 2006,
UAlbany student Nicholas M.
Fahrenkopf defended his campus in a
letter to the editor of the Times Union.
“The entire campus is a work of art –
and I am not the artsy type,” he wrote
in response to the opinion that the
campus is unsightly.
Stone told the Albany Student Press in
the Jan. 12, 1965, edition, “When all of
the wonderful landscaping plans are
fulfilled, I think this campus will com-
pare to Versailles, where there is also
great formal architectural composition.”
The podium on which Stone clustered
the academic buildings brought the
disciplines together in a unified way,
giving them all the same architecture
and connecting them through stair-
ways and walkways. Living and learn-
ing went hand in hand, with dormito-
ries built within walking distance of
classroom spaces. In the original
design, automobiles were relegated 
to the perimeter of the campus. 
Stone also took Albany’s climate 
into consideration, revealing that 
he intended to protect students from
rain and snow with a concrete canopy.
When the campus was new, he told
reporters, “This compact plan also
allowed us to dispel the idea that a stu-
dent should have to put on an overcoat
and overshoes and struggle through a
blizzard from a lecture on biology to 
a lecture on English.”
Though unique in its scale and archi-
tectural style, UAlbany’s design had
traditional elements, as well. In 1966,
Stone wrote that “many colleges were
started on the quadrangle plan, which
I consider an ideal grouping for 
educational buildings. The traditional
quadrangle, like those at Oxford and
Cambridge, is in effect an outdoor
room that unified a group of build-
ings, even though they differed in
architectural design.”
Shortly after the UAlbany campus was
constructed, one columnist called it
“the crown jewel of a growing state
educational system.” Many years later,
it remains a testament to Edward
Durell Stone’s signature style.
Stone’s Muse
Behind every great
man, it’s said, 
is a great woman.
Edward Durell 
Stone would 
probably agree. 
In the early 1950s,
the Arkansas-
born architect met the stunning,
sophisticated Maria Elena Torchio 
on an airliner. He proposed to 
her before they landed. 
“Stone married Maria in Beirut 
in 1954, when he was working on 
the Hotel Phoenicia design,” said
Professor of Planning, Geography and
Public Policy Ray Bromley, an expert
on Stone. “They honeymooned in
north India while he was working 
on the New Delhi Embassy project.”
Beautiful and stylish in her European
tastes, Maria – Stone’s second wife –
undoubtedly influenced his work. His
designs became more ornate, reflect-
ing what Bromley called “his Oriental
Style – part Venetian, part Byzantine,
part Mughal – a sort of
Mediterranean/Islamic Modernism.
And Ed was lucky because many
Middle Eastern rulers wanted 
modern architecture with an Islamic 
flavor, so he got lots of contracts,
especially for Islamabad.”
Alas, the couple later divorced, and 
in 1972, Stone married again. His
third wife, Violet Campbell Moffat,
worked with Stone in his business
and remained with him until his
death in 1978.  
Still, the impact Maria Elena Torchio
had on her husband’s work was 
undeniable.
Stone’s employees noticed her influ-
ence, too, according to Bromley, who
also serves as interim vice provost 
for International Education. “I love
the nickname his staff gave to the 
U.S. Embassy in New Delhi: ‘the 
Taj Maria.’” 
– Greta J. Petry, M.A.’01 
Times Union
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning III and 
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (center) view Stone’s
model of the uptown campus in 1962.  
Courtesy University of Arkansas Libraries
Looking Ahead – and
Preserving the Past
A
s is the case with any physical property, time,  
age, weather and use have left their marks 
on the uptown and downtown campuses. 
A $25 million provision in the 2006-07 New York
State budget, however, will enable the University 
at Albany to address some crucial revitalization
needs in the near future. 
The plan calls for “combining priority maintenance
needs with projects that will provide a high quality-
of-life impact and improvement in campus recruit-
ment and retention,” notes John Giarrusso, associate
vice president for University Facilities Operations.
Funding has been earmarked for:
Interior sign improvements and replacements:
Capital dollars were recently invested in creating a
standards manual for all campus signs, and imple-
menting a program for installation of a new exte-
rior signage and wayfinding system. The current
phase will focus on replacing and upgrading inte-
rior signage, with the downtown campus and such
high-traffic uptown sites as the Campus Center 
the first priorities for installation.  
Lighting: The University has launched a compre-
hensive study of interior and exterior lighting fix-
tures and lighting levels. A standards manual and 
an upgrade plan will be created to address energy
efficiency, safety, architectural preservation and
maintenance considerations. Once they are 
completed, UAlbany will begin replacement 
and upgrades of lighting.
Grounds and site improvements: Funds will 
be directed to improve pedestrian walkways,
enhance landscaping and address general 
beautification of the grounds on both the 
uptown and downtown campuses. 
Podium canopy, window wells and entries:
This work will repair the concrete canopies on the
podium, and seek to install additional sky domes
(similar to those over the entrances to the Campus
Center and the PAC) over the stairwells at the
Humanities and Chemistry corners of the podium.
Improvement of doorways and entries to other
high-priority areas will also be addressed.
Downtown building envelope: These funds 
will address potential window replacements on 
the downtown campus, and cover repairs to the
exterior masonry at Page Hall and refurbishing 
of its clock tower. 
– Carol Olechowski
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Gifts at Work
By Carol Olechowski
M
arjorie Ferrugio Delmar, B.A.’58, M.A.’63, definitely
chose the right profession. “I love young people,” says
the Huntington, N.Y., resident, who spent 35 years in the
classroom, teaching social studies and psychology to her
charges at Oceanside High School in Long Island. 
“I enjoy that whole atmosphere of learning.”
Although she retired 15 years ago, Delmar is still promoting
education. She remains active with Oceanside activities and
events. And through the bequest intentions she has made at
the University at Albany, she maintains a strong connection
with the institution she attended when it was known as the
New York State College for Teachers.
At State, Delmar majored in social 
studies – and earned a reputation as a
painfully shy young woman. Professor
of Education Wallace Taylor noticed the
shyness and suggested that the aspiring
teacher audition for a part in the 1956
State College Revue, “It’s a Social
Thing.” To her surprise, she won the
role of Hilda, and 
it changed her life: 
“I wasn’t shy 
anymore.”
Now, her generosity
is helping others to
realize their dreams.
Delmar, who had
already set up one bequest to benefit the University’s 
Center for Jewish Studies and another to endow two 
graduate fellowships to support students intending to 
teach secondary school, has increased each to $500,000. 
She recently added a third bequest, also in the amount of
$500,000, to support UAlbany’s Cancer Research Center 
and memorialize her husband, M. Michael Delmar, M.D.,
who died of cancer in 1998. 
In addition, Delmar has donated an extraordinary 
collection of her husband’s books – many of which “are 
out of print but have educational and historic value” – 
and videos to the Center for Jewish Studies. The Marjorie
Ferrugio Delmar ’58 and M. Michael
Delmar, M.D., Collection of Jewish
Thought and History was recently 
dedicated at the center.
Delmar enjoys continuing her involve-
ment with both her former employer
and her alma mater. “I feel like I’m still 
a part of what’s going on,” she observes.
“It’s a wonderful thing. I never 
really left.”
Helping Others to 
Realize Their Dreams
Yoel Hirschfeld (standing at right),
assistant director of the
University’s Center for Jewish
Studies, and students (clockwise
from lower left) Justin Hirsch,
Alexandra Newman, Zakhar
Berkovich, Rachael Worren and
Kimberly Wolk are pictured with
the Delmar Collection.
Marjorie Ferrugio Delmar,
B.A.’58, M.A.’63
Mark Schmidt
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D
uring the years he attended the New York State College for
Teachers, Clinton Ray Carpenter, B.S.’57, M.S.’58, Ph.D.’73,
witnessed an institution in transition. The peaceful post-World
War II years, the opening of the uptown campus, the turbulent
1960s, and State’s evolution from college to university center
each left a mark on the institution that is now the University at
Albany. More recently, the nanotechnology era has arrived at
UAlbany – and Carpenter is so impressed with the College of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) that he plans to
support community college graduates who enroll there.
This year, the physics professor emeritus will establish the
Clinton Ray Carpenter Nanotechnology Scholarship Fund, 
which will eventually total $300,000.
Preference in awarding the scholar-
ships will be given to students who majored in engineering 
science and/or physics at Mohawk Valley Community College 
in Utica, N.Y., where Carpenter taught for more than 20 years.
Retired since 2000, he also supports the Clinton Ray Carpenter
Community College Physics Teachers Scholarship Fund, which
provides fellowships to UAlbany graduate students who 
plan to follow in his footsteps, and a Department of Physics 
lecture fund.
Carpenter, the first alumnus to establish an endowment to sup-
port UAlbany’s nanotechnology program, achieved another dis-
tinction 50 years ago: At 20, he was the Class of 1957’s youngest
male graduate. The son of farmers, he had enrolled at the New
York State College for Teachers at 16 – and paid his first year’s
tuition with money he had earned raising chickens.
Gifts at Work
Nanotechnology Advocate
Clinton Ray Carpenter, 
B.S.’57, M.S.’58, Ph.D.’73
Unlocking New
Opportunities for 
High-Tech Growth
KeyBank and Key Foundation are
supporting CNSE’s efforts to fur-
ther high-tech growth throughout
the Capital Region and New York
State. A $250,000 contribution
from KeyBank will be used to
launch NEXSTEP (Nanotech-
nology Explorations for Science,
Training and Education
Promotion), a collaborative 
program spearheaded by CNSE’s
NanoEconomics Constellation. 
In keeping with its special
emphasis on children, citizens
and community, NEXSTEP will
afford high school students
unique opportunities to explore
educational and career options.
The program will also offer busi-
ness, government and not-for-
profit leaders insight into the
dynamic forces that are trans-
forming business and the econo-
my both regionally and statewide. 
Christine McKnight
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Vital Volunteers
Mark Schmidt
Kimberly Welsh, M.B.A.’89 To the Top
O
ne of those things you need to do before you die” is how
Kimberly Welsh, M.B.A.’89, describes cycling up New
Hampshire’s Mount Washington, a feat she’s accomplished four
times since 1999. Each August, the best cyclists in the world ride “up
the rockpile.” A cloudless 70 degree morning at the base turns ugly
at the summit: 30 degrees, 50 mph winds and sleet. To make it to the
top requires training, endurance and the will to remain on your bike
when your fellow riders are getting blown off by high winds.  
Welsh has also made it to the top in municipal investment banking.
As managing director of UBS Investment Bank Municipal Securities
Group in Boston, she works with state housing finance agencies
across the country. “I feel very lucky to be in this industry,” she 
says. “I get to work each day with clients who value me.”
In the 1980s, faculty at UAlbany and at Boise State University, where
she earned a B.B.A. in finance, were quick to recognize Welsh’s tal-
ent and potential. Alan Frankle, who taught at UAlbany’s School of
Business before moving to Boise State, referred her to his former
colleague, Professor of Finance (now emeritus) Ronald W. Forbes.
Welsh became a graduate assistant to Forbes; worked with Paul A.
Leonard, who is now School of Business dean; and enjoyed learning
in a team setting. 
Her first taste of municipal finance came during her UAlbany
internship, in the “sexy” world of airport financing. Welsh was
excited to be involved in one of the biggest airport deals of the
time, at Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, and her enthusiasm
paid off: Joseph Lhota, then managing director with PaineWebber,
later deputy mayor of New York City under Rudy Giuliani, offered
her a job. “The good news is that we need you. The bad news is, we
don’t have room in the transportation group. You’ll be in housing,”
Lhota told her. 
That was 18 years ago. The switch from airport to housing finance
was a good move for Welsh, who remained with PaineWebber
through its transition to UBS and its relocation from New York 
City to Boston. Her many accomplishments include facilitating the
largest multi-family refunding in the municipal market: $1 billion
for MassHousing. She also structured the first-in-the-nation, state-
sponsored securitization of HUD capital funds for the Maryland
Department of Housing and Community Development.  
Welsh resides in Winchester, Mass., with her husband, Kenji
Freedman, a stay-at-home dad and chef, and 8-year-old daughter
Kassidy. She is a member of the Mayor of Boston’s Economic
Development Advisory Group, the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Housing
Panel – and a fan of Manny Ramirez and the Red Sox. 
– Michele B. Flynn
“
UBS Managing Director Kimberly A. Welsh, M.B.A. ’89, chatted with Stacy J. Kanter, B.S.’79, left, and 
Joan D. Rosenthal, B.S.’76, right, at the third annual Women of Excellence Networking Reception in New York
City. Kanter, partner at Skadden Arps, hosted the Feb. 13 reception at her firm; Rosenthal, a director of 
The University at Albany Foundation Board, founded the event. Welsh was the guest speaker.
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A
s a high-level officer with a well-known financial services firm,  
you’d think Daniel Nolan, B.S.’74, would be more at home in
his Albany corporate office or in a boardroom than he would be 
at a Great Danes football or basketball game. 
But you’d be wrong.
Nolan is one of the Danes’ biggest fans. And although he didn’t
play sports as a University at Albany student in the 1970s, he’s 
now a very important part of the team – a key player in Project
2010, a two-part plan to upgrade UAlbany’s athletic facilities. 
The Ayco Company, L.P., senior vice president is particularly inter-
ested in the effort to build a new outdoor football stadium for the
Danes. To that end, he has taken the lead in “moving the ball up the
field,” volunteering to serve on the Capital Region Steering
Committee, which is making plans and raising money for Project
2010. (There is also a New York City Steering Committee.) In addi-
tion, Nolan has made a six-figure gift to support the project.
With construction of all-weather lacrosse and field hockey fields
begun in 2004, Project 2010 is well under way. The second phase, 
to begin shortly, will involve completion of environmental impact
studies and site analysis so that the best location for the stadium, 
to be built at an estimated cost of
$50 million, can be determined.
Nolan, who majored in business
administration and went on to
earn a J.D. at Albany Law School,
is delighted with the “remarkable”
progress the University has made
“in all areas, including our
Division I athletics program,” in
recent years. However, he notes, “we need facilities that match the
quality of our programs.”
He feels that a football stadium that combines a seating capacity 
of 10,000 with space for student academic services; a training
room; offices for staff and coaches; meeting rooms; luxury boxes;
and other amenities will raise the profile of UAlbany’s already
impressive athletics program. 
Nolan also sees the stadium as a means of “connecting alums to the
University.” Athletics, he observes, “is a powerful way to continue
that progress.”
– Carol Olechowski
S
teve Zelin’s father, a C.P.A. who became a chief financial officer
and then a chief executive officer, told him, “You start in account-
ing and get good training, and from there, you will have many career
options.” Zelin took his father’s advice and carried his accounting
education into the world of investment banking.
As a freshman, Zelin walked into his first accounting class and
found “Hal Cannon, the most influential accounting professor 
of his time,” at the podium. “Consistent with his reputation, his
approach and style made his class a great learning experience. 
He was a down-to-earth, gritty professor who made accounting
interesting. I will never forget him.”  
Zelin started his career as an auditor at a Big Eight accounting firm.
(Since then, mergers have whittled the Big Eight to the Big Four.)
Ernst & Whinney (E&W), Ernst & Young’s predecessor, was just 
the beginning for him, but “continuing as an auditor was not my
long-term career goal.” So in September 1987, he began attending
business school at night at New York University.
The following month, Black Friday hit. Zelin transferred from
E&W’s Audit Department to its Restructuring & Reorganization
Advisory Group, established by partner Art Newman a few years
earlier. The group worked with companies and creditors in dis-
tressed situations on strategies to recapitalize firms in Chapter 11
transactions. The business grew as leveraged buyout transactions
began to experience significant stress, in part due to the contrac-
tion of the capital markets beginning in October 1987.
As the need for restructuring skills
intensified, investment banks rec-
ognized the service opportunity
and began expanding into the
business. In January 1998, Zelin
left Ernst & Young as a partner
and joined The Blackstone Group,
a global investment and advisory
firm, where a few years earlier
Newman had moved to start a
restructuring advisory business. Today, Zelin is senior managing
director in Blackstone’s Restructuring & Reorganization 
Advisory Group.
Though Zelin no longer works directly in the discipline, he notes:
“Accounting is still a good profession. My UAlbany education 
provided me a job opportunity in what was then the Big Eight. 
The school is recognized and has a reputation for delivering 
quality accounting students.” 
Raised in Brooklyn, Zelin lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with his 
wife, Joy, and children, Jordan, 14, and Danielle, 11. A member 
of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the School of Business and the
Executive Board of New York University, he frequently lectures 
on restructuring issues.
– Michele B. Flynn
Dan Nolan, B.S.’74
Winning One for the Team
Gary Gold '70
Steve Zelin, B.S.’84  Like Father, Like Son
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Q. What’s in a school name?
A. My last column on the University’s
name changes since its founding in
1844 prompted a number of follow-
up queries – and some additional
investigation on my part! One 1988
graduate told me that the wording
on his diploma reads State University
of New York, University Center at
Albany. I asked our registrar, Robert
Gibson, what is currently on our
diploma. Bob told me that in 1999,
the practice of putting University
Center at Albany on the diploma was
discontinued, and the wording was
changed to State University of New
York, University at Albany. He added
that the form of the name on the
diploma is always approved by
SUNY Central.  
In answering this question, I discov-
ered that we do not have a complete
file of diplomas – just a hit-or-miss
archival collection covering the peri-
od from 1846 to the 1930s. So, my
questions to you are: What is the
wording your diploma? and When
did you receive it? I am particularly
interested in the wording on diplo-
mas conferred in the early and mid-
1960s, the late ’90s and the early 21st
century. Did the diploma ever read
just State University of New York?
When was University Center at
Albany adopted and discontinued?
When did the first diploma say State
University of New York, University at
Albany – 1999,  2000 or 2001?
Q. When did our names change
during the period 1959-62?
A. Norman Kiner ’65 questioned my
Fall 2006 timeline for name changes
during the period 1959-63. He
remembered the changes as having
taken place in 1960, 1962, and 1963. 
I went back and checked the SUNY
Board of Trustees minutes and our
school catalogs. I discovered that
each time the SUNY Board of
Trustees approved a name change
(June 18, 1959; Oct. 21, 1961; and
June 14, 1962), it was too late in the
year to incorporate it into the school
catalog. The catalogs for 1959-60,
1961-62 and 1962-63 all carried the
old name of the school, State College
for Teachers, State University College 
of Education at Albany, and State
University College at Albany into 
the new academic year. 
Q. You noted that “University 
at Albany” is the “unofficial”
name. Why is that so, who 
can make it official, and 
how is that done?  
A. This question came to me from
Charles LaFontaine ’58. The brief
answer is that only the SUNY Board
of Trustees has the right to name a
State University of New York school.
University at Albany, approved by
then-Chancellor D. Bruce Johnstone
in 1993, was probably first used in
1976 to distinguish us from the 
State University of New York System
Administration, which is also 
located in Albany.
Q. Was our uptown campus 
originally intended for India 
or another warm-weather 
location?
A. James Close ’75 wrote that he’s heard
“different variations on just how this
particular design came to be
UAlbany’s uptown campus – and all
of them revolved around the notion
that the campus, with its large open-
air podium, was originally designed
for a balmier place.”
I can state unequivocally that the
uptown campus was not designed for
a warmer climate; in fact, beginning
on page 18 of this issue, you can read
about architect Edward Durell
Stone’s style and how he applied it to
the University (“A Work of Art” by
Greta Petry, M.A.’01). During an
impressive career, Stone evolved
from the International Style of the
1930s – he was an architect on the
team that designed the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City – 
to a much more eclectic one 
Ask Geoff
By Geoffrey Williams, 
University at Albany Archivist
Copyright Wayne Lorentz/Artefaqs Corporation www.ChicagoArchitecture.info
Chicago’s 83-story Aon Center, designed by 
Edward Durell Stone, bears a striking resemblance 
to UAlbany’s high-rise dorms.  
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To submit a question for 
“Ask Geoff,” e-mail
gwilliams@uamail.albany.edu. 
that borrowed from southern European
and Middle Eastern architectural tradi-
tions. After his second marriage in 1954,
he traveled extensively in, and studied
the architecture of, those regions. While
it is true that Stone designed a number
of buildings for the Middle East and for
warmer climates in the U.S., he also
planned – for climates similar to (or
worse than) UAlbany’s – buildings that
share the architectural elements of the
uptown campus. Chicago’s 83-story
Standard Oil Building, now the Aon
Building, dates from 1969 and looks
remarkably like our high-rise dormito-
ries, as does the 27-story UMass Library,
completed in 1972. Stone’s 1962 plan 
for the Atwood Center at Alaska
Methodist University (now Alaska 
Pacific University) in Anchorage bears 
a strong resemblance to our Campus
Center, University Library and
Performing Arts Center.
One of Stone’s earliest innovations called
for employing broad overhangs, first
used on the A. Conger Goodyear house
on Long Island in 1935, to shelter a
building. There, he also hid automobiles
from view by keeping them behind walls
– just as he exiled cars and trucks from
the center of the uptown campus by
designing a raised podium inaccessible 
to motor vehicles. Other design elements
you see on the uptown campus include
floating stairs similar to those used in 
the Museum of Modern Art; and covered
passageways between buildings and roofs
supported by tall columns (University of
Arkansas Fine Arts Center in Fayetteville,
1949). The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi,
India (1954), set on a wide, raised podi-
um, also boasts very prominent water
features and a wide overhang supported
by columns. Cutouts on the perimeter of
the flat roof allow light through exactly
as those on UAlbany’s uptown campus
do. Stone repeated this feature again 
and again in his architecture. 
If you plan to be at UAlbany this
spring, please visit University Hall 
to see the major permanent exhibit
Professor Ray Bromley is mounting 
on Stone’s architecture. In addition,
you may want to stop by the Science
Library entrance to see the exhibit 
of Stone’s design for our campus; 
it’s on display until June. You’re also 
welcome to visit the M.E. Grenander
Department of Special Collections and
Archives, located on the top floor of
the Science Library, to read The
Evolution of an Architect, published 
in 1962, and Recent and Future
Architecture (1967), two books Stone
wrote about his architecture. 
Courtesy Alaska Pacific University
The columns and overhanging roofs Stone planned for the uptown campus are features he also 
incorporated into his design for the Atwood Center at the former Alaska Methodist University. 
Mark Schmidt
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Second Chance 
at the Dance
By Carol Olechowski
Second Chance 
at the Dance
By Carol Olechowski
Left: Coaches, players and Will Brown’s
son posed for pictures after the Danes
won the America East title – and an
NCAA tournament berth – for a 
second consecutive year.
Brian Jenkins
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W
ill Brown, head coach of the men’s 
basketball team, analyzes the America
East Conference championship game, the NCAA
tournament – and the Danes’ prospects for
another invitation to the dance in 2008.
On the March 10 game that saw the Great Danes
edge the University of Vermont Catamounts 60-59
to claim a second consecutive America East
Conference title for UAlbany: “It was the conference
tournament championship game, and we were on the
road in Burlington. We had never won as a program in Burlington in the his-
tory of the championship tournament. In the finals, the better seed had won
21 of 23 games. The odds were stacked against us, but I had a confident and
experienced group who had done great things the year before. It helped that
we had 600 UAlbany people in attendance, as well. We knew the competition
was tough, but we executed the game plan and won.” 
On the March 16 tournament action that pitted the Danes against 
the University of Virginia Cavaliers, who posted an 84-57 victory:
“We were excited to be back in the NCAA tournament. Virginia is with the
Atlantic Coast Conference – one of the two or three best conferences in the
country – and the Cavaliers have two of the best players, J.R. Reynolds and
Sean Singletary. We knew we’d have to play very well to have a chance to win.
In that game, we lost the first 11 shots. Before we knew it, we were down 
19-2, and I think our guys were absolutely shocked; they couldn’t believe it.
The slow start we got off to really dictated the outcome of the game.” 
Above: Fans and players celebrate after the 60-59 victory over Vermont.
Right: Head Coach Will Brown watches the championship game. 
Brian Jenkins
Brian Jenkins
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On filling the team roster for the 2007-08 season: 
“This year, we lose three seniors: Jamar Wilson, the best player in the school’s
history; Jason Siggers; and David Bauman. We’ve recruited two new players
and still need to bring in one more. We have 10 returning players, a nice
nucleus that includes Brian Lillis and Brent Wilson. The guys coming back
need to continue to work hard and improve. They’ve really gained a lot of
experience the last two years.”
On the chances for another championship season:
“I think the future is bright. Our goal is to compete for an America East
championship every single year, and I think we have a chance to be in it again
next year. Over the years, this University
and this community have really impressed
our basketball team. Attendance at home
and away games is up, and we’re grateful
to the faculty, administration, students
and the entire University. Hopefully, 
we’ll continue to grow together.”
Second Chance at the Dance
Above left and center right: Danes fans and the
Pep Band support their favorite team during the
UAlbany-Virginia game. Center left: Carl Ross
attempts a basket. Below: Team members and
students react to the news that the Danes are 
the No. 13 seed for the NCAA tournament.
Courtesy the Times Union. Visit http://www.timesunion.com/sports/ualbany/ for more photos of the 2006-07 basketball season.
Courtesy theTimes Union
Jamie Mullen
Jamie Mullen
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Fall 2006
Women’s Volleyball
UAlbany (19-13) won its second America East Conference
championship in the last three years by rallying to defeat
UMBC in the final. Ashley DeNeal was named the champi-
onship’s most outstanding player. Blair Buchanan was chosen
the America East player and setter of the year for the third con-
secutive season. Joining Buchanan and DeNeal as first-team all-
conference members were Shelby Goldman and Ashley
Crenshaw. UAlbany hosted the first and second rounds of the
NCAA Tournament at University Gymnasium, marking the first
time the school has been a site for Division I postseason play.
Football
The Great Danes, who finished in a tie for second in the
Northeast Conference standings, posted a 7-4 record, including
a 17-10 upset over No. 11 Delaware. Colin Disch, the NEC
Defensive Player of the Year, became the third UAlbany player
to be named to the AFCA All-America squad. Disch has 103
tackles for a defense that ranked fourth nationally among
Division I-AA teams in points allowed. In addition to Disch,
defensive end Andre Coleman; offensive tackles Jacob
Anderson and Jacob Hobbs; defensive tackle Michael Dungey;
and punter Chris Lynch were voted to the all-league first team.
Field Hockey
The Great Danes earned a share 
of their first-ever America East
Conference regular-season title 
with a 12-7 record. Michelle
Simpson, the conference’s offensive
player of the year, was selected to 
the ECAC Division I All-Star Team.
She led the league with 14 goals and
seven assists for 35 points. Arlette
Westdorp was named the A-East
defensive player of the year.
Men’s Soccer
UAlbany made its third consecutive postseason appearance
before losing a double-overtime match in the America East
Conference quarterfinal round. Yan Gbolo earned second-team
all-conference recognition after scoring three game-winning
goals. Brian Gordon was voted to the America East all-rookie
squad. Stephan Hall, a senior midfielder, was a member of the
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America national first team
for the second straight year. 
Paw Prints
By Brian DePasquale
Photos by Bob Ewell
Top right: Colin Disch
Bottom right: The women’s volleyball 
team celebrates its second America East 
Conference championship in three years.   
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Women’s Soccer
UAlbany reached several milestones in head coach Mary-
Frances Monroe’s first season. The Great Danes won five 
matches – their highest win total as a Division I program – and
recorded their first victory in America East Conference play
since 2002.  Freshman Jacklyn Rosada, who had six goals and
two assists, was named to the conference’s all-rookie team.
Men’s Cross Country
Ricardo Estremara earned all-conference recognition after
placing seventh at the America East championship meet with a
time of 24:58.70. Estremara also finished second at the IC4A
meet, bettering his previous year’s performance by 44 positions.
Winter 2006-07
Women’s Cross Country
Jessica Ortman and Jenna Ortman finished sixth and eighth,
respectively, at the America East Conference meet in earning
all-league honors. Jessica’s time of 17:36.60 was just 13-plus 
seconds better than her twin sister’s. Jenna was fourth at the
ECAC championship; Jessica ended up fifth. 
Women’s Basketball
UAlbany showed improvement from the previous season. Head
coach Trina Patterson has two of the better freshman players in
the conference, with Britney McGee and Charity Iromuanya
working in the backcourt. Kristin Higy, a 6-foot-1 junior, and
senior Amanda Ward each scored in double figures throughout
the year. Gia Sanders, who was among the league leaders in
blocked shots, is one of America East’s top defenders.
Men’s Indoor Track
The Great Danes won the America East Conference champi-
onship for the fourth time in the last five years with a meet-
record 203.5 points. David Parker set a UAlbany record in win-
ning the heptathlon with 3,914 points, and finished fourth in
the pole vault. Other conference champions were Freddie Wills
(long jump), Mike McCadney (triple jump), Pat Weider (200-
meter dash), and Jean Juste (55m-hurdles). Weider was also a
member of the first-place 4x400 relay. Wills, who won the long
jump with a leap of 23 feet, 6 inches, scored in four events,
including a second-place showing in the high jump.
Women’s Indoor Track
Jessica Ortman was named the most outstanding track per-
former of the meet in leading UAlbany to second place at the
America East Conference championship. Ortman won the
1,000-meter run in a school-record 2:50.74 and was first in the
mile. She also anchored the first-place 4x800 relay that shattered
both the conference and school standards with a time of
9:02.66. Kamilah McShine posted a pair of wins in the 55-hur-
dles and pentathlon, an event in which she registered a school-
record 3,594 points. Alyssa Lotmore was a double-winner in
the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs, while Brenna Militello
captured the high jump title. 
Men’s Lacrosse
This spring, the Great Danes got off to their best start since
1993, posting victories over Johns Hopkins (8-7); crosstown
rival Siena (21-8); Delaware (13-7); Massachusetts (10-9, in
overtime); and Drexel (16-13). At press time, UAlbany had 
one of the top scoring offenses in the nation at 13.59 goals 
per game and retained the No. 2 spot in the U.S. Intercollegiate
Lacrosse Association (USILA) coaches’ poll, just behind 
top-ranked Cornell.
Paw Prints
Frank Resetarits of the men’s lacrosse team  
A Note from Class
Councilor Carolyn Viall: 
Harold Shapiro’s wife, Betty, had a
bad fall in May. She needs to have con-
stant care, so Harold moved into a differ-
ent apartment in the same building. 
Harold’s address is: Apartment 3223,
5240 Shalom Park Circle, Aurora, 
CO 80015-2270.
Class Councilor: Carolyn Fonda Viall
The recipient of the Class of
1937 Scholarship, William Meredith,
wrote a letter thanking the Alumni
Association for his award. Upon comple-
tion of his undergraduate career, William
hopes to enroll in UAlbany’s teacher cer-
tification and educational administration
concentrations. William is a junior from
Walton, N.Y.
A Note from Class
Councilor Jim Spence: Nicole Kelly, 
one of the two recipients of the Class of
’39 Scholarship, wrote about her grati-
tude for the award. She plans to finish
her senior year and continue to study for
her master’s degree. With degrees in
global public health and physician’s
assistant studies, “I aspire to do
AIDS/HIV work around the world as well
as within the United States,” Nicole
noted. In a letter, our second awardee,
Zakhar Berkovich, also expressed his
appreciation. His family emigrated from
Minsk, Belarus, five years ago, and he
now has senior standing going into his
third year of college. Zack writes: “I
thank you for your interest in supporting
young people like myself. I promise you
that your money will not be wasted.” 
We sadly note the death of Dottie Cain
Muggleton in late June. Dottie, who
married Joe Muggleton in ’41, was
almost like a member of our class, and
many will be grieved by her passing.
Joe Leese passed away last July, 
leaving his wife of 64 years, Flossie
Nelbach Leese ’38.
Class Councilor: James Spence,
spence7@juno.com
A Note from Class
Councilor Eleanor Alland: As we
look forward to our 60th reunion, you
are all being asked for input. A reunion
planning committee is needed, so please
consider volunteering for this job by
contacting one of the class councilors.
Under consideration by the Alumni
Association and the University is a
change in the model for reunions; more
to come on that. Currently, there are
about 170 members of our class 
with good mailing addresses. Of 
these, I reach only 27 by e-mail. 
Please send your e-mail to 
ealland214b@nycap.rr.com so that 
we have your latest info. You will 
find a newly redesigned Web site at
www.albany.edu/alumni/. This site 
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Alumni Association board members attended The University at Albany Foundation’s Citizen Laureate dinner.
Proceeds from the event supported student scholarships. Left to right: Sean Maguire ’00, ’04; 
Arthur Collins ’48; Anthony Giardina ’81; Christine Bouchard ’73, ’87; 
Jill Rigney-Delaney ’96; Brian Fessler ’06; and Kay Hotaling ’67
Carillon
Alumni News and Notes
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contains great resources and information
on the Alumni Association chapters and
regional events. It is also possible for 
a class to have its own Web page.
Remember to designate your contribu-
tion to the Annual Fund for the Greatest
Generation Fund for the University
Libraries.
Class councilors: Eleanor Holbig Alland:
ealland214b@nycap.rr.com; 
Gari Deliganis Paticopoulos:
Gdp529@msn.com; Charlotte Goldstein
Koblenz: (518) 482-7618
A Note from Class
Councilor Joe Zanchelli:
Congratulations to Robertson Baker
and Isabel on the birth of their first
great-grandchild, Tyler Vorman, Aug. 26,
2006. Dick Zeller continues to keep in
touch with ’49ers. He and his sister have
met several times for lunch with
Annette Gardiner DeLyser and
Julian. In October, Dick visited Larry
Appleby and they had a blast in Buffalo.
Richard Foster is enjoying living in a
very active Sarasota retirement commu-
nity. He plays bridge; sings; and has
enjoyed traveling around South America,
along the Rhine and Moselle rivers, and
on the Mississippi Delta. Jean Ineson
Ebbert and husband Leah have finally
settled in their permanent residence,
9046 Belvoir Woods Parkway, Fort
Belvoir, VA 22060. In November, Bob
Kittredge and wife Diana celebrated
their daughter’s 50th birthday by taking
10 members of their family on a seven-
day Mexican Riviera cruise. Bob and
Diana took eight weeks of line dancing
in preparation for the cruise! In
December 2006, they took a two-week
trip to northern India accompanied by
their 21-year-old granddaughter, a junior
at San Diego State University. Abe Trop
continues his worldwide travels. In
November, he returned from Morocco,
where he had gone to look over
prospects for work and do some touring.
Abe states that the most enjoyable part
of the trip was spending several days in
the Sahara in a tent camp with numerous
Tuaregs and Berbers. He worked on 
Habitat for Humanity houses in January
and February in his home city of
Bakersfield, Calif. Bob Kaiser and wife
Mary Ann had a wonderful trip in
September to Greece and the neighbor-
ing islands. When they returned, they
shared their experiences with Joe and
Joyce Zanchelli in Saratoga Springs.
Bonnie Totten Adkins and husband
Lee celebrated Lee’s 80th birthday in
November. They combined this celebra-
tion with a “chain-saw” party. With seven
chain saws, two splitters and 16 people
in all (grandchildren, spouses, and
friends) they managed to cut and store
2.5 full cords of wood to keep them
warm in 2006-07. Bonnie and Lee are in
the midst of planning another trip to
Ireland to work at the reconciliation min-
istry in Belfast. Bob Kloepfel reports
that he and wife Shirley have been mar-
ried for 55 years and have three sons
and two grandchildren. Bob’s comments
on his NYSCT experience represent the
thinking of many veterans who attended
NYSCT when we were there. He noted:
“Many of us who were Class of '49 had
also been members of the Armed Forces
during World War II. Many of us were
lucky to have the GI Bill paying our
expenses. Best of all, though, were the
wonderful days at Albany State with
some of the greatest faculty of all time
and with so many new-found friends.
Yes, we were very lucky.” Bob, that says
it all! Congratulations to Annette
Gardiner Delyser and Julian on the
birth of their great-grandson, Brendan
Andrew Morgan, Nov. 30, 2006. And
now for an ending plea. Our Class of ’49
news is from a few people because I
have just a few e-mail addresses. I
would really appreciate it if many of you
would send me your e-mail address so I
can contact you for news for future edi-
tions. I need help! Thanks. 
Class Councilors: Joe Zanchelli,
jjzanch@Yahoo.com; Annette Gardiner
DeLyser, (518) 392-4683
Former New York Gov. George
Pataki appointed Brigadier General 
F. David Sheppard, commander of the
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Today’s Achievements:
Built on Yesterday’s
Success
One year ago, Small Times magazine
ranked UAlbany’s College of Nanoscale
Science and Engineering the top school
in the nation for nanotechnology. This
remarkable announcement occurred
less than two months after UAlbany
earned national attention by becoming
the first team from the SUNY system to
earn a spot in the NCAA Division I
Men’s Basketball Tournament. Without question,
these two extraordinary accomplishments raised the
profile of the University in two very distinct ways:
one showing the academic quality of our students
and faculty, and the other displaying excellence 
in athletics.
While many alumni have celebrated these accom-
plishments, some may feel somewhat out of touch
with today’s University. However, I look on today’s
achievements as an extension of the great accom-
plishments of the alumni, students and faculty of the
past. UAlbany’s tradition of strong programs in the
hard sciences provided the foundation for the
NanoCollege. The success of the basketball team con-
tinues the tradition of excellence built over 40 years
and with more than 700 victories by Head Coach
Richard “Doc” Sauers. 
To feel a disconnect between your time here and
UAlbany’s endeavors today is normal. In fact, I imag-
ine many of your deeds as students created the same
reaction in the alumni who predated you. But in fact,
what is happening here now is a result of not only the
tireless efforts of those who excel today, but of all the
alumni, students and faculty who have prepared this
institution for its current greatness.
Lee Serravillo, Executive Director
Alumni News and Notes
New York Army National Guard's 53rd
Troop Command in Westchester County,
the state’s Homeland Security director.
A Note from Class Councilor 
Joan Barron: Bob Donnelly spent a
week in August in Santa Fe, N.M.,
attending the 50th anniversary festivities
of the Santa Fe Opera, where he worked
on the technical staff for four summers
in the late 1950s and early to mid-1960s.
He was surprised to see how the place
had expanded since he was there. He
then went to California to spend a week
visiting his nephew in the Monterey Bay
area. Jean Greenshields Burns
reports how touched she was to read Joe
Persico’s reflections in the alumni maga-
zine. Some of Joe’s favorite teachers
were hers, too, with Dr. Harry Price 
“topping the list.” She has been in touch
with other ’52ers, attending Marilyn
Smith and Patrick Mackey’s 50th
wedding anniversary and seeing
Marilyn Lewis Harrison in October
when they discussed our 55th reunion in
’07. See you there! Marilyn Johnson
VanDyke was the recipient of the presti-
gious DeWitt Clinton Masonic Award for
Community Service, which was present-
ed by Neal Bidnick, grandmaster of
Masons in New York. Helen Pilcher
Terrill writes: “September proved to be
an exciting reunion time for six of us
’52ers plus spouses. Joyce Leavitt
Zanchelli and Joe opened their home
in Saratoga for Jeanne Seymour
Earle, Joan Bennett Kelly and
Charlie, Jean Faville Smith and
Smitty, and my husband and me. One
day we visited Ruth LaGraff Phillips
and Dick in Loudonville. What a
serendipity! We make several yearly
rounds to favorite fishing spots (espe-
cially Cape Cod and Nantucket) and to
as many of our 11 grandchildren’s events
as we can in Ohio, Tennessee and
Virginia. Life is good, and I feel so grate-
ful for so many close relationships,
including those with our own Albany
classmates. Love to each.” Jean
Faville Smith writes that the best thing
that happened to her and husband Smitty
was the mini-reunion at Joyce and Joe’s.
Eunice Baird Whittlesey, B.A.’44:
Keeper of Veterans’
Memories 
Ask Eunice Baird Whittlesey, B.A.’44, for her e-mail address, and she’ll
laughingly respond that she doesn’t have time to use a computer. She 
and her husband, Joseph, put it in storage because they spend so 
much time volunteering.
One of Whittlesey’s favorite causes is her alma mater: The former 
New York State College for Teachers English major lends a hand at
UAlbany wherever and whenever she can. A past president of the 
Alumni Association and onetime chair of the Annual Fund, she 
served on the Benevolent Association from 1982 to 2006. 
Several years ago, Whittlesey appointed herself the task of creating a 
Wall of Honor to recognize the 3,000 University at Albany men and
women who have served in the nation’s armed forces in both war and
peacetime. The effort grew out of her desire to honor World War II 
veterans — a number of them her own former classmates — with State
College connections. She enlisted volunteers, including Helen Brucker
Martin, B.A.’44, and the group spent two years working in the archives,
contacting veterans’ families and collecting photographs. The nine-panel
wall is now located in the University Library on the uptown campus.
The project, says Whittlesey, a mom and grandmother, was “very 
rewarding. I felt we made a contribution because those people 
won’t be forgotten.”
— Carol Olechowski
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They also enjoyed their Grand Circle trip
from Amsterdam to the Black Sea and
then to Bucharest and Sinaia. Joan
Bennett Kelly tells us that she and
Charlie have moved twice and now live
in Bonita Springs, Fla., for the cold
months and in Lake Bomoseen, Vt., for
the warm months. The Vermont location
is within driving distance of all 13
grandchildren, who all spend time there.
Joan is still playing tennis and golf and
Charlie will get back to those activities
when he recovers from back surgery.
Their Bible studies, which they love, are
going strong. They were able to visit
family in England and rave about the
Tattoo in Edinburgh, where they were
privileged to see the queen and the
Marine Band. Which was more of a thrill,
Joannie? Her e-mail address is
KellyFLVT@aol.com, and she would like
you to get in touch with her if you’re in
her vicinity. Jeanne Seymour Earle
reports that she is working at Putnam
Valley Library and subbing in neighbor-
ing school districts. She was just in the
city and saw “Les Miserables” and
“When the Lights Go On Again,” which
was set during WWII and had many of
the old songs we all remember. Vickie
Eade Eddy sent a lengthy update on her
family. Son Christopher, a colonel in the
Air Force, lives in Coral Gables, Fla.,
and has a boy nearly a year old; daugh-
ter Pamela, Ph.D, is a teacher at Central
Michigan University; daughter Maria is a
physical education teacher in Olean,
N.Y.; son Brian is a marketing director of
a non-profit; and daughter Lisa is in the
budget department of the Department of
Justice. All of her children are married
and have children, which makes Vickie a
grandma to 11. Vickie winters in Yuma,
Ariz., returning there even after her hus-
band Leon died in February 2004. She
has seen Mary Borys Coro and Evie
Kamke Johnson and corresponds by
e-mail with former roommate Pat
Devitt Kavanaugh. Al Stephenson
tells us that he is involved with the
$500,000 planning to upgrade the TV
facilities at his college to digital and
Chianti in a Tuscan Villa
June 10-18, 2007
The UAlbany Alumni Association and AHI
International proudly present this 
exciting travel experience:
• Experience the charm and romance of Italian
country living in an authentic Tuscan villa
situated in the heart of the Chianti region.
• Explore Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance
and home of the world’s greatest art and 
architectural treasures.
• Learn about wine making at the Castello di
Monsanto.
• See the iconic Leaning Tower of Pisa and 
the impressive architecture of the ancient 
city of Lucca.
• Travel with UAlbany Professor Maria Giuliana
Keyes, a native Italian and experienced lecturer 
on all things Italian!
China and the Yangtze River
October 15-27, 2007
• Begin your journey in Beijing, where you 
will visit Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden
City and the Temple of Heaven.
• View the Ming Tombs and the amazing expanse 
of the Great Wall.
• Explore the home of the remarkable Terra Cotta
Warriors in Xi’am.
• Cruise the Yangtze River and marvel at the 
magnificent Three Gorges.
• Conclude your Asian
odyssey amid the
bustling excitement 
of Shanghai.
• Travel with an expert on
China from UAlbany’s
Department of East
Asian Studies.
For additional informa-
tion, contact the 
Alumni Association at 
1-800-836-ALUM or visit us on 
the Web at www.albany.edu/alumni/travel.
Explore the   
wonders…
The UAlbany Alumni Association proudly 
presents two exciting opportunities to 
explore the magic of Italy and China.
wide screen. It will be in operation for
Fall 2007. He has kindly volunteered to
take photos of our reunion in June and
would be happy to hear from you at
ALStevsonj@aol.com. Ruth LaGraff
Phillips, who was the victim of a per-
sistent infection, is well on the road to
recovery and enjoyed the visit from her
classmates. The biggest news of all is
that we will be celebrating our 55th
reunion June 1-3, 2007. You will have
received a full schedule of events by the
time this news arrives, so we hope you
will already be planning to attend, have
notified friends with whom you will
share memories, and maybe even have
already made reservations. If you are
sure you are coming, please notify either
Joan or me so that we can begin making
final plans for the big weekend. We are
hoping to see many of you there. Let's
continue the reputation that the Class of
'52 has – the one with the most spirit! I
would appreciate receiving news from
any of you and know that our classmates
would enjoy that, too. Perhaps you can
send me your e-mail address so that we
can keep in touch, and I can send
reminders when I need news for the
magazine. Thanks in advance.
Class Councilors: Joan Roeder Barron,
(518) 765-4603; Joyce Leavitt Zanchelli,
jjzanch@yahoo.com
Naoshi Koriyama, an inter-
nationally acclaimed poet, recently trans-
lated 170 Chinese poems from the Tang
Dynasty (618-907) into his native
Japanese. He is now translating the
Chinese poems in the Soon Dynasty
(960-1279.) Several of his best-known
poems, notably “Unfolding Bud” and
“Jetliner,” are found in schoolbook
anthologies in the United States,
Canada, Australia and South Africa.
A Note from Class
Councilor Arnold Newman: Marilyn
Zelsnack DeBonis is enjoying her
current occupation of housewife, care-
taker and babysitter for her five grand-
children. In her spare time, she enjoys
sewing, crafts and golf. Elizabeth
“Betty” DeSimone retired from
General Electric. Betty now spends win-
ters in Marco Island, Fla., and enjoys
traveling, golf and volunteer work at her
church. Susan Garrett Dimon consid-
ers her present title “lazy person.” She
quilts, plays the piano and enjoys spoil-
ing her three grandchildren. Aileen
Cochrane Dower retired from a career
as a high school librarian. In her spare
time, Aileen does recording for the blind
and volunteer ushering for the
Washington Shakespeare Theatre. Aileen
belongs to two book clubs and enjoys
traveling. Anne Benedik Dupuy has
retired from her career as a guidance
counselor. Barbara Gitlow Edge
recently retired from a career as a high
school French teacher and a grant devel-
oper at two community colleges. She
and her husband, John, plan to move to
France to join their son, daughter-in-law
and two grandchildren. Linda Niles
Faber plays tennis regularly, sings with
the Bard Symphonic Chorus and fund
raises for Planned Parenthood. She is
currently writing a memoir for her chil-
dren about her early life in St. Lucia,
West Indies. Merle Friel has retired
from the Humboldt State University of
California Mathematics Department. She
volunteers at the Humboldt County
Library and enjoys bridge, travel and
movies. James Gallas is now retired.
He enjoys playing golf and participating
in a dart league at the Elks Club. Marie
Devine Galyean is currently a free-
lance writer, reviewer and food colum-
nist. She has performed in plays in every
community theatre in the Boise-Nampa,
Idaho, area and has won several awards.
Class Councilor: Arnold Newman,
fish7Hill@aol.com
A Note from Class
Councilors Sheila and Ben: Fifty
years! WOW! Let’s party! A committee of
classmates has been meeting to plan our
big 50th reunion. There will be some
really special events for you. Plan to be
with us June 1-3 to celebrate! We hope
you’ve received the class newsletter out-
lining plans for class activities. We are
planning to have a new directory of our
classmates, so be sure to return the
information survey so your news can be
included. Please put the dates on your
calendar and try to attend. We want to
make this the best 50th class reunion
ever! Watch for the invitation from the
Alumni Association so you can register
and participate in dinners, tours and
general “catching up.” Send Ben and
Sheila any ideas or plans you would like
to have included over the weekend.
We eagerly look forward to seeing 
you in June.
Class Councilors: Sheila Bamberger,
hsbamb@verizon.net; Ben Lindeman,
bhlind@aol.com
Marion (Bunny) Silverstein
Calabrese was made associate profes-
sor emerita upon her retirement from
Sacred Heart University on Sept. 1,
2006. Nancy Marie Ryan has now
had 25 books of her poetry published.
Doris Hische Brossy recently attended
her 50th high school reunion in Old
Saybrook, Conn. 
Pixie Carole Engel-
Wilbourn is an animal behaviorist in
Manhattan. Pixie has authored seven
books on cat behavior, is often seen on
TV, and has been on “Live with Regis
and Kelly.” A recent feature was done on
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Alumni News and Notes
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her in National Geographic. You 
can check her Web site at
www.TheCatTherapist.com.      
A Note from class 
councilor Sheril McCormack: Elena
Rabine-Halady visited her niece, who
was studying in Seville, Spain, in May
2006. Travels took them to Gibraltar,
Tarifa and Madrid. Elena taught in the
summers of '05 and '06 at New Jersey
Institute of Technology. She has co-
authored a math book, Honing Algebraic
Skills in a Calculus Setting. She contin-
ues to be the school accountant at Forest
Hills High School and teaches math in
the GED program at Queensborough
Community College Continuing
Education Program. Ballroom dancing 
is her primary passion several times a
week. Bob Sweeney and Phyllis
Lindsey ’77 celebrated their 28th
anniversary. He met Phyllis when trying
to fill a position of assistant to the direc-
tor of Great Lakes Lab at Buffalo State.
Her outstanding Albany education made
her the best candidate, and the rest is
happy history. Sheril Joan
McCormack had a birthday bash for
her 65th in September. There was an
Albany contingent table consisting of
Gene Altman, Shelley Altman ’65,
Mack Mobray, Hannah Schnitt-
Rogers, Elena Rabine-Halady,
Susan Blank, Linda Bosworth,
Helen Arcuri-Stoloff and Pixie
Carole Engel-Wilbourn ’61. Sheril’s
brother came in from the Philippines and
MC’d the event at George Washington
Manor in Roslyn.
Class Councilors: Sheril Joan
McCormack, vanillastar202@yahoo.com;
Helen Arcuri Stoloff, stolohel@hvcc.edu;
Gene Altman, stolohel@hotmail.com
P.S. Sheril encourages other classmates
to e-mail her news. There are lots more
of you out there! 
The Board of Education has
appointed Dr. Francis Banta interim
principal of Garden City High School in
New York.
Bob Badger, who worked for
radio station WPTR while at UAlbany,
returned in the '70s to manage local
radio station WABY for nine years and
then returned to his Florida roots. In July
2006 he retired from his duties manag-
ing the State of Florida's yacht broker
licensing and compliance components.
He now plans to work in the security
field. Yellowjackets, please send us
news!
Carole Potts Bruno, 
CaroleWithAnE@hotmail.com; 
Piret Kutt Kelly, Piretk@aol.com
A Note from Class
Councilor Judy Madnick: Anthony
Adamo is enjoying life in Tampa, Fla.,
working as the chief development officer
of a large orphanage serving abused,
neglected and abandoned children and
playing a fair amount of golf. Anthony
recently celebrated his 50th high school
reunion from Valley Stream High School.
Dick Custer delivers daylong 
programs on personality type for the
educational component of the Schoharie
“Welfare to Work” program, and attends
workshops and seminars to expand his
knowledge of personality type and
Jungian psychology. Dick is also a co-
presenter in private-sector staff develop-
ment. He continues to deliver commer-
cial vehicles about the country to
indulge his passion for travel. In May
2006, Dick completed a doctorate, pre-
sumably for the sheer joy of learning,
because he has no plans to pursue any-
thing resembling a full-time position.
George Laribee retired from teaching
at Carthage Central School and Jefferson
Community College, where he was an
adjunct professor. George is the father of
three wonderful children – college grad-
uates who are now married with chil-
dren. In 2001, George married Wendy
Coon, a ’66 UAlbany graduate who
taught at Guilderland High School. Both
George and Wendy were French/Spanish
majors and French/Spanish teachers.
They enjoy being grandparents to his 11
grandchildren, most of whom are located
in the Lowville, N.Y., area, where they
live. George Matthews is a volunteer
in a neighborhood planning effort as a
facilitator for a Syracuse local planning
council. George also serves as district
representative in a citywide advisory
committee on community development.
In the summer and fall of 2005, he man-
aged his wife's successful campaign to
serve on the Syracuse City Board of
Education. George continues to teach
mathematics at Onondaga Community
College. Co-councilor Ira Paul
Rubtchinsky, having worked in law for 
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Pictured from left, front row, are Aralynn Abare McMane '73, Ruth Sibley Parker '74, Mindy Sheldon Shult '73;
top row from left are Christine Ryan '73, Jeanne Jonientz Merulla '73, and Mary Bean Cunningham '73
Alumni News and Notes
over three decades, has taken on the
responsibility of fund-raising chair of the
Albany Collegiate Interfaith Center’s 40th
Anniversary Fund Drive. The Chapel
House is used by hundreds of students a
week and is an important center for
interfaith dialogue. 
Class Councilors: Judy Koblintz Madnick,
jmadnick@alumni.albany.edu; 
Ira Paul Rubtchinsky,
irapaul@yahoo.com
UAlbany Class of 1965 Web site:
www.albany.edu/~class65/ 
Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney
died July 10, 2006, after a long struggle
with cancer. Dorothy was president of
Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa., 
at the time of her death. 
Robert N. Gottfried, a part-
ner in Hodgson Russ LLP’s Immigration
Practice Group, was a faculty speaker at
“Employment and Immigration Law:
Overlaps, Conflicts, and Intersections,” a
New York City Bar Continuing Legal
Education program. Timothy Abeel
has been elected to serve on the
Executive Committee of Rawle &
Henderson LLP in Philadelphia, Pa. Ken
Johnson will be the Boston Globe’s new
art critic. Since 1988, Ken has written for
Art in America magazine, which named
him a contributing editor in 1990. His
reviews have appeared in The New York
Times since 1997; he also has written
for Vogue, New Art Examiner and Art
New England. Jill Kanin-Lovers has
been appointed to the board of directors
of First Advantage Corp., a global risk
mitigation and business solutions
provider.
Jeanne Jonientz Merulla is
teaching English as a second language
at Morgan Road Elementary in Liverpool,
N.Y. Jeanne has three children: a son in
college and twin daughters in high
school. In July 2006, Jeanne enjoyed a
reunion (after 33 years!) with fellow 
’73 SUNYA friends Mary 
Bean Cunningham, 
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fter earning a bachelor’s in criminal justice  
from Northeastern University, Albany
native Michael Weintraub, M.A. ’79 accepted a
position with the San Francisco public
defender’s criminal investigative division and
worked as a private investigator. Still, “I
yearned for a greater knowledge base that
would enable me to gain a better understand-
ing and appreciation of the whole criminal
justice field so that I could ultimately make a
contribution to it. I researched some of the
programs throughout the country, and the
University at Albany’s School of Criminal
Justice seemed to be a natural choice because
of its program, its reputation and its proximi-
ty to my home.” 
His year at UAlbany taught him “how to think
and write critically and creatively, and collect
and analyze data,” said Weintraub, who also
worked with the Criminal Justice Research
Center – now the Michael Hindelang Center –
and later earned a law degree from Suffolk
University. “Professor [Leslie T.] Wilkins 
challenged us to think about how all this 
information could create a vision for tomor-
row. The University gave me the advanced sta-
tistical knowledge I needed to ask the right
questions, the opportunity to apply the con-
cepts I learned and the confidence I needed to
do whatever I chose.”
Weintraub ultimately chose real estate. After
graduation, he worked as a researcher with the
New York State Department of Corrections, 
then as director of security for a large multi-
use residential community in the Boston area.
He is now a vice president with the New York
City-based Millennium Partners, an interna-
tionally known real estate developer of mixed-
use luxury properties. Weintraub, who has
been with Millennium for more than five
years, manages the firm’s Boston portfolio,
serves on its Washington and Georgetown
condominium boards, and is also “helping to
transition our newest property, Millennium
Tower Residences in New York’s Battery Park
City.”
Weintraub, who is “blessed with a wonderful
wife and daughter, good health and a wonder-
ful job,” supports the School of Criminal
Justice. “Like most educational institutions,”
he noted, “the University needs and deserves
alumni support so it can remain competitive,
maintain excellence, provide value to its cur-
rent and former students, and be an integral
part of the surrounding community, as well as
of the larger academic world. The School of
Criminal Justice, in particular, has provided its
alumni with outstanding educational oppor-
tunities and a proud history. We have an obli-
gation to give back to those who will succeed
us in the future.”
— Carol Olechowski
Michael Weintraub, M.A. ’79:
Knowledge, Confidence, Vision – 
and a Career in Real Estate
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Mindy (Sheldon) Schult, Christine
Ryan, Aralynn (Abare) McMane and
with Ruth (Sibley) Parker ’74. She
would love to hear from anyone –
Jeanne_Merulla@liverpool.k12.ny.us.
Rick Ginsberg has been named dean
of the School of Education at the
University of Kansas. Stephen
Goldstein joined Transport Topics
Publishing Group in May 2006 as
deputy news editor of Transport Topics,
the weekly trade newspaper of American
Trucking Associations of Alexandria, Va. 
Timothy Carey, president and
chief executive officer of
the New York Power
Authority, has been
appointed to the 2007
board of directors of the
U.S. Green Building
Council (USGBC). The
USGBC is the nation’s foremost coalition
of leaders from every sector of the build-
ing industry and works to encourage
development of buildings. Michael
Daugherty has been named executive
director of CAPTAIN Youth and Family
Services after serving 12 years as chief
executive and president of
Family and Children’s
Services of the Capital
Region. William Bluhm
is slated to be the next
president of the American
Academy of Actuaries, the
public information organization for the
actuarial profession in the United States. 
David Fleming, director of
global health strategies for the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, has been
named to take over as director of Public
Health of Seattle & King County. David,
who also teaches at the University of
Washington School of Public Health, has
worked for the Gates Foundation, the
world’s largest philanthropy, since 2003.
Columbia Business School has appoint-
ed Clifford Cramer director of its new
MBA Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
Management Program. Damon & Morey
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t UAlbany, Tony Smith, B.S.’80, found 
“a place to fit in”: the Educational
Opportunity Program. Today, he’s giving
back by helping to establish EOP & Friends, 
a constituent group that will benefit students
while giving alumni a chance to “share
remembrances.”
Smith enrolled at the University “to establish
my independence but still get home to see
my family.” The Brooklyn, N.Y., native played
varsity football during his freshman and
sophomore years but dropped the game to
focus more on his studies. Acceptance by the
School of Business, he recalls, required “56
credits and a 3.5 grade point
average.” 
A business
administration
and marketing
major, Smith
enjoyed partici-
pating in EOP. 
He fondly remembers
Vernon Buck, who
directed the program
then, and counselor Brad Biggs, who advised
him to continue his studies after his dad
died, “because that was what my father would
have wanted.” Smith still keeps in touch with
Biggs, and with current EOP director Carson
Carr and counselor Abdul Jarvis. 
Smith, an account executive with SourceOne
Healthcare Technologies, maintains a hectic
travel schedule – his territory covers hospitals
and cancer centers throughout the Northeast
– but the Roselle, N.J., resident still makes
time to promote the EOP. In 2006, President
Kermit L. Hall, Vice President for Student
Success James Anderson and Vice President
for University Development Deborah A.W.
Read endorsed his “vision” for the program.
He organized a team – fellow alumni Staton
Winston, Earl Thomas, Tim Ridgeway,
Maritza Vega, Karen Williams, Rosena
Heyward and others – to help plan an EOP
reunion in Atlanta. The “fantastic” program
last July 28-30 attracted participants from
around the country. 
The team also put together a Web site
(www.sunya-eopreunion.com) to introduce
visitors to the EOP and recap the reunion;
another, www.albany.edu\~eopa, will launch
shortly to invite alumni and friends to join
the constituent group. A clip
of the reunion
is available on
both sites,
which also will
offer for pur-
chase a full DVD
of the three-day
program.
EOP & Friends currently has 30-plus mem-
bers, but by the EOP’s 40th anniversary in
2008, “we would like to see membership
reach at least 1,000,” says Smith, the con-
stituent group’s vice president, “so that 
we can underscore our commitment to 
outstanding achievement. That spirit of
inclusiveness has made it possible for the
University to become what it is today. We
would like to reach across all cultural bound-
aries to bring everybody into the fold.”
— Carol Olechowski
William Bluhm
Timothy Carey
Tony Smith, B.S.’80:
Promoting EOP
Guests enjoy themselves
at the EOP reunion 
in July 2006.
attorney Patrick Curran
has been admitted to The
Federation of Defense
and Corporate Counsel.
David Taffet has
appeared in several
episodes of “Prison Break” this season
on Fox. He also was seen in “Inspector
Mom,” a new series on Lifetime TV that
ran in November with a two-hour movie,
followed by 10 episodes and a second
movie tentatively set to air in April.
Patricia Tosney has been
named director of finance for the
Lighthouse Center of the Arts in
Tequesta, Fla. A note from Class
Councilor Nate Salant: Councilors
Nate Salant and George DeLuca
were delighted to see Doug and Jean
Lewanda (look great!), Andy
Baumann, Ken Cobb, Stu and Maria
Klein, Bob Williams and others at the
Homecoming and Reunion events. Those
who had not seen Nate since graduation
did not recognize him (short hair, contact
lenses, slimmed down), although he
picked out everyone as soon as they
arrived. Nate, Doug and Jean headed up
to Saratoga Harness after the football
victory over St. Francis, where, rumor
has it, Nate won five of the eight races
he bet on, including a $112.50 exacta,
and then won a few dollars on the slot
machines, too. It is hard to believe that
30 years have come and gone! David
Lipkowitz just celebrated his 30th year
with Jews for Jesus in June 2006. David
is currently serving as the office manag-
er of the international headquarters in
San Francisco, Calif.
Class councilors: Nate Salant,
gulfsout@ix.netcom.com; George
DeLuca, georgede54@yahoo.com
RHR International Company, a
world leader in executive and organiza-
tional development, announced the elec-
tion of Thomas Saporito as president.
He will be responsible for the global
operations of the company. SPARTA Inc.
has named Maureen Baginski presi-
dent of its National Security Systems
Sector. Maureen has a long and distin-
guished career in the U.S. Intelligence
community, where she served for 27
years.
Ceridian Corp. has appointed
Kathryn Marinello, an executive at GE
Commercial Finance
Fleet Services, as its
president and chief
executive. Ceridian is
a $1.4 billion human-
resources outsourcing
company. Marinello will be one of six
women heading companies in the
Pioneer Press 100, an annual survey of
Minnesota’s largest publicly traded com-
panies. Cynthia Ryan Huether has
been appointed president of the
Rochester Rehabilitation Center in
Rochester, N.Y. Cynthia is married and
has two children and can be reached at:
chuether@rochester.rr.com. 
Sadly noted is the death of
Rev. Anthony Maione on May 23,
2006. Anthony served in Albany, N.Y., 
for many years, transferring to Florida
five years ago. Catherine Riordan,
vice provost for academic affairs since
2004, has been named interim vice pres-
ident and executive director for Central
Michigan University’s off-campus pro-
grams. Maureen Helmer, former
chairwoman of the New York State
Public Service Commission, will join the
Syracuse law firm of Green & Seifter
Attorneys PLLC, and head its new
Albany office. Maureen is a member of
the Harvard Electricity Policy Group and
the Foundation Steering Committee of
the School of Criminal Justice at
UAlbany. She was also a founding mem-
ber and former president of Women in
Communication and Energy.
James Schorr
announced the formation
of Cezanne Resources,
LLC, a recruitment firm
specializing in the
nation’s top sales execu-
tives and impact players for office equip-
ment, printing, publishing, telecom and
wireless. Casey Crabill became the
first woman president to lead the Raritan
Valley Community College in North
Branch, N.J. Richard C. Bulman, Jr.,
Esq., recently traveled to London,
England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, to
speak at a seminar, “Doing Business in
Florida for Biomedical and Life Sciences
Companies,” on behalf of the Executive
Office of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
and Enterprise Florida. Richard is a Fort
Lauderdale shareholder in the national
law firm of Akerman Senterfitt. Frank
Ciervo, a long-time media representa-
tive for the New York State Bar
Association, has been named director of
bar services. Ciervo will be responsible
for the association’s outreach and collab-
oration with the American Bar
Association and with 160 local, specialty
and minority bar associations through-
out New York. 
Scott Bohling, branch man-
ager of Marshall & Sterling’s Utica
Business Park Office, was selected to
join the insurance company’s Producer
Council, which is limited to the 
company’s top 10 production 
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Alumni News and Notes
Patrick Curran
Kathryn Marinello
Legacy families joined the Alumni Association and University leaders for a reception during Homecoming 2006.
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professionals. Scott also was recently
recognized for running one of the com-
pany’s fastest growing and most prof-
itable offices during the last four years.
Eric Loukas has been promoted to
executive vice president and chief oper-
ating officer of MGI PHARMA in
Minneapolis, Minn. Donna Ferrara,
former state assemblywoman from Long
Island, was designated by former Gov.
George Pataki chairwoman of the New
York State Worker’s Compensation Board
in July 2006. Dendrite International
announced the appointment of Carl
Cohen as president of its marketing
solutions division. In November’s elec-
tion, Michael Arcuri won the 24th
District Seat for Congress representing
the Ithaca, N.Y., area.
The Alumni Association sadly
notes the death of Scott Kunen on Nov.
13, 2006. As councilor for his class,
Scott always showed a deep commitment
to UAlbany and dedication to the council
and his class. Diane Podolsky is a
professional dog trainer and owner of
The Cultured Canine. Diane credits alum
Jay Gissen for the name of her busi-
ness, located in White Plains, N.Y. Diane
writes, “while this is not a career that
UAlbany offers specific studies for (i.e.,
canine behavior or behavioral analysis
with a focus on animal learning),” many
of the skills she learned at the University
helped her while studying at the San
Francisco Academy for Dog Trainers,
where she graduated valedictorian of her
class. The following composers have set
Paul Turner’s poems and lyrics to
melodies in classical, jazz or folk genres:
Alan Dickson; Paula J. Diehl; Stephen
Feigenbaum; Eric Funk and Larry 
Alan Smith. You can reach Paul at
paulturner1@comcast.net. Naomi
Somerstein Kreutzer is a social work-
er at Saint Barnabas Hospice & Palliative
Care Center in West Orange, N.J. 
W. Francis Keating has
been named dean of Arts and Sciences
at Luzerne County Community College
in Pennsylvania. David Beck is presi-
dent of Classic Business Solutions, a
Manhattan printing and graphic design
firm servicing businesses throughout the
United States. David also is president of
WineDoggyBag.com, which sells tamp-
er-proof, take-home wine bags to restau-
rants. Paul Grondahl received the Dr.
James M. Bell Humanitarian Award from
the Parsons Child and Family Center in
Albany last October. Paul, an award-win-
ning reporter for the Albany Times
Union, is the author of several books,
including Now is the Time: The History
of the Parsons Child and Family Center.
The book chronicles the 175-year history
of the center.
Lt. Col. Joseph P. Sullivan
III of Green Island, N.Y., has received a
Bronze Star and a Joint Service
Commendation Medal for meritorious
performance in Afghanistan. He earned
the awards while he was a plans officer
with the Combined Joint Special
Operation Task Force – Afghanistan, 7th
Special Forces Group. Caryn Miske, an
attorney pursuing a doctorate at the
University of Montana School of
Forestry, has been hired as executive
director of the Flathead Basin
Commission. Caryn’s background
includes work as a lawyer for the U.S.
Bureau of Land Management and the
National Park Service. Ellen Schaeffer 
Brody has three daughters, ages 14, 11
and 8. She and her husband own and
operate a conference company, ibreak-
fast.com, which holds a monthly net-
working seminar in New York City for
executives. Ross Abelow is a partner
in Abelow & Cassandro LLP, with offices
in Manhattan and Jericho. He also is a
co-owner, along with fellow alum Mitch
Schuster, of the Green Goblin
Restaurant in Manhattan. Ross has a
wife and three children. John Labate is
executive editor of Treasury & Risk, a
monthly magazine for finance executives.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and
two children. Phil Lewis teaches
Sociology at Queens College and serves
as a senior analyst to the New York City
Department of Finance. Phil and his
wife, Rose, have been married for seven
years. Patty Lovell’s well-regarded
children’s book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou
Melon, has been reissued in a special
“Modern Gems” edition by Penguin
Books. Sharon (Epstein) and Craig
Nessel lived in Belgium for five years
and are now in New Jersey. Craig is with
Exxon Biomedical Services and Sharon
is program director for the Mount
Freedom Jewish Center in Randolph,
N.J. She also has a ladies accessory
business called “Accessorize.” Their
three children are Aaron, Amanda and
Zachary. Sheira Brayer Rosenberg is
a songwriter and, with her husband, pro-
duces the “Sheira and Loli’s Dittydoodle
Works” show on PBS. They will soon
launch a live tour and merchandising
program. They live in Dix Hills, N.Y.,
with their daughter, Ayden, and son,
Liam. Paul Schaffer is controller for
Citigroup’s Commercial Business Group,
specializing in corporate lending and
leasing solutions. Paul has been with
Citigroup for nearly 17 years. He and his
wife, Brigid, have two daughters, Sarah,
8, and Amber, 6. Paul is also the treasur-
er for the Danbury Westerners, a not-for-
profit baseball team that competes in the
summer New England Collegiate
Baseball League. Eric Schwartzman
and his family just moved to New York
City’s Roosevelt Island. Eric will be 
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Richard Golubow ’85, left, and Joseph Zumbo, director of Student Legal
Services, chatted at the Student Association Reunion open house in October.
Mark your calendars!
Homecoming/Family Weekend
October 12-14, 2007
Featuring the Class Reunions of ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02, ’07
celebrating 10 years this Spring at Geller
& Company LLC, a provider of financial
outsourcing solutions, where he is the
manager for indirect taxes. Sal
Perednia is a technology risk manager
for Citigroup and lives with his wife, Eva,
and his two children, Samantha, 6, and
Kyle, 2, in Garwood, N.J. Sal enjoyed
seeing his former classmates at the 20th
reunion. Michael O’Connor is an
institutional equity trader at an invest-
ment firm in Albany and has a wife and
three beautiful children. Debi Boyer is
married and has two daughters, 15 and
13. She has worked at Bausch and Lomb
for 14 years.
Class councilors: Mike Miller,
rellim7@optonline.net; Paul Schaffer,
pschaffer@snet.net; Larry Goodman,
lbgesg@aol.com
Manuel Ossers, professor of
Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-
Whitewater, received the 2006 College of
Letters & Sciences Award for Excellence
in Service. Manuel also received the uni-
versity’s 2005 Latinos Unidos
Recognition Award “For his Support to
Latinos Unidos & Latino Student
Programs.” Ilene Farash Avallone
has joined the National Technical
Institute for the Deaf as a marketing
communication specialist. Ilene previ-
ously served as marketing communica-
tion manager with Stantec Consulting
Services. Maureen Simmons received
her MBA in marketing from Iona College
in New Rochelle, N.Y., and is currently a
communications manager with
Citigroup's Commercial Business Group
in New York City. She has been with
Citigroup for 10 years.
The board of directors of the
American Motorcyclist Association
(AMA) has selected Robert Dingman
as the next president. Robert previously
served the AMA as its Washington, D.C.,
representative. More recently, he served
as assistant commissioner for
Transportation Safety for New York
State’s Department of Motor Vehicles,
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At the end of his freshman year at UAlbany, Garry McCarthy,
B.A.’81, had a decision to make. The University had recruited him
to play football, but the linebacker had also begun playing baseball.
So he sat down with the coaches for the two sports, Bob Ford and
Bob Burlingame, respectively, and decided to continue with the
baseball team. “It was probably one of my worst decisions,” laughs
McCarthy, adding that he still hasn’t gotten football out of his 
system and continues to play the game today at age 47.
The history major was also weighing career options. “I was thinking
about law school, but my dad was a New York City detective, and I
wanted to be a police officer, too. When I graduated, I took the law
boards and a test for the New York Police Department. I joined the
NYPD, intending to study law at some point. I got promoted up
through the ranks and threw myself into my career. I got married,
had two kids, bought a house – and never got back to thinking
about law school.”
Ultimately, he made the right career choice. McCarthy started with
the NYPD in The Bronx, “where I was born and raised,” as a patrol
officer in 1981, working his way up to sergeant and captain, and
holding various positions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including 
a post with the Internal Affairs Bureau. He spent 25 years with 
the NYPD, leaving as deputy commissioner of operations last
October to accept the post of director with the Newark, N.J., 
police department.
As director – a position equivalent to that of commissioner in
other police departments – McCarthy oversees a force that includes
1,300 uniformed officers and 400 civilians. Newark, he notes,
“ranks tenth in the nation in murders per capita,” so his focus will
be on “preventing crime instead of just reacting to it.” His strategy
will combine “quality of life enforcement – what’s known as the
‘broken windows theory,’ where we take care of small things before
they become big problems – and intelligent policing. We used this
model in New York, analyzing trends so we could stop crime before
it occurred.” 
For McCarthy, the director’s position presents “an opportunity to
do something special. It’s a perfect time to be part of a turnaround
in Newark.”
McCarthy remains close to the University, visiting each year to get
together with fellow alumni. “I got a great education and met a lot 
of good friends there,” he says, adding that he had “a whole table of
friends from Albany,” including Richard Cardillo, Glen Titan and
Arnold Fischler, at his swearing-in ceremony last fall. He also still
keeps in touch with former schoolmates Ted Anderson and Evan
“Zoot” Zahn.
— Carol Olechowski
Garry McCarthy, B.A.’81:
Leading a Turnaround in Newark
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Safety Committee. The international law
firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP
announced the appointment of Valerie
Grey as director of the Governmental
Affairs Department in the Albany office.
Prior to joining the firm, Valerie served
as vice president of Americhoice of New
York in the Department of Government
Affairs and Regulatory Compliance.
Marijo Murphy has been promoted to
vice president in the Agency Department
of New York Life Insurance Company.
Marijo currently resides in Yorktown
Heights, N.Y., with her husband, Patrick,
and their three children. Ellen Reavis
Gerstein is a marketing director for
John Wiley & Sons publishing in
Hoboken, N.J.
Boca Raton resident William
Cea, a shareholder and attorney with the
law firm of Becker & Poliakoff, was
granted certification in the area of con-
struction law by the Florida Bar
Association. Dana Pellizzari has
joined the Wilmington, N.C., office of
Smith Moore LLP. 
Scott Gutmanstein has
signed on as an attorney with Bracewell
& Giuliani LLP as part of the Broker-
Dealer and Market Regulation Practice
Group in its New York City office.
Robert Tamburri and his daughter,
Emily, 6, reside in Dunwoody, Ga. Robert
works for the wealth management firm
GV Financial Advisors as vice president
of Finance & Investments. Robert has
recently appeared on Bloomberg TV to
discuss the firm’s 2007 stock market
outlook. Malverne resident James
Callahan III has been appointed com-
missioner of the Nassau County Office of
Emergency Management. James earned
the 2005 New York Emergency Manager
of the Year award in October 2005. The
Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc.
announced the appointment of Jill
Kronenberg as senior vice president,
general merchandise manager in
Secaucus, N.J.
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Lisa Lillien, B.A.’87, is not a doc-
tor, a nutritionist or a dietitian.
Instead, she calls herself a
“foodologist.” Why? “Because 
I obsess over food,” she says. 
“I learn about it, read about it,
research it, dream about it.”
Three years ago, Lillien, 39, turned her passion —
and all she has learned about food in a lifelong
struggle with 20 extra pounds — into a friendly,
informational service called Hungry Girl. 
Each weekday, she sends out – mostly to adult
women – a free e-mail describing how to eat well
and stay trim. In three years, her e-mail circle has
swelled from about 200 to 200,000 subscribers,
and it is growing by 500 to 800 people a day.
Lillien, who has appeared in People magazine,
recently landed her own Sunday column in the
New York Daily News and expects to bring in
$250,000 in revenue this year from advertisers 
on her Web site, www.hungry-girl.com.
Lillien grew up in North Woodmere on Long
Island, and majored in communications and
minored in business at UAlbany. She headed to
Los Angeles in 1995 for a producer’s job at
Nickelodeon, then moved to Warner Brothers
Telepictures as vice president for New Media. 
She left the corporate world behind to launch
the Hungry Girl brand in 2004.
In her 20s and
well into her
30s, Lillien, a
petite woman,
was a yo-yo
dieter, losing or
gaining 10 to 20
pounds. Then, about half
a dozen years ago, something snapped. She
began eating healthier and exercising, and lost
over 20 pounds. “I found guilt-free ways of 
satisfying cravings without dieting,” she says. 
She often shares those methods in her e-mails.
For example, if you’re craving a Burger King
Whopper, which carries 760 calories and 47
grams of fat, Lillien recommends her Whopper
Swapper – a Boca burger with fat-free cheese 
and light Miracle Whip. The price? Only 240
calories and three grams of fat.
The common sense also comes with a topping of
humor. Hungry Girl’s tag line is “Tips and Tricks
. . . For Hungry Chicks!” Lillien is also an invet-
erate punster, as revealed in the titles of some of
her e-mails: “I Only Have Fries for You,” “Against
the Slaw!” and “The Taco the Town.”
Despite all she’s learned, and all the advice she
gives, the cravings persist. “When I want to be
bad, I go to Grandma’s in Albany and have a slice
of coconut cream pie,” she says. “But that doesn’t
happen too often.”
— Dennis Gaffney
Lisa Lillien, B.A.’87: 
Common Sense Advice about Food,
Topped with Humor
Andrea Hoffer completed her
MBA at Georgia State University in
December 2006. Andrea is the
owner/operator of a Lake Worth, Fla.,
Massage Envy massage clinic scheduled
to open in March 2007. More 
information can be found at www.mas-
sageenvy.com. Integrium, a leading con-
tract research organization in the cardio-
vascular and metabolic areas,
announced the promotion of Richard
Caroddo to director of Business
Development. Richard will lead
Integrium’s activities establishing and
expanding service relationships with
biopharmaceutical clients. He has been
with the company for four years and was
previously the associate director of the
business
develop-
ment group.
Doug
Kruse was
promoted
to vice
president
for Advancement at New England
College in Henniker, N.H., after working
as director of Development there since
2004. His 13-year fund-raising career
began in 1993 at UAlbany, where he
worked as assistant director of annual
giving for three years. Doug is serving
his second term on the Manchester
school board and chairs its finance com-
mittee. He also is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership
Greater Manchester Class of 2006. Doug
and his wife, Cathleen Cole Kruse,
live in Manchester, N.H., with their sons,
William, 6, and Nicholas, 3. A former
librarian at Hesser College in
Manchester, Cathleen has been a full-
time mom since 2000. Monica Britton
was named director of marketing and
publicity at the Brooklyn, N.Y., house of
worship, St. Paul Community Baptist
Church. Previously, Monica worked for
more than 14 years in the entertainment
industry in marketing at EMI Music,
Virgin Records and Universal/Motown
Records Group. Beth Bjerregaard has
been honored as a finalist for the 2006
Bank of America Excellence in Teaching
award, which was presented by the
University at North Carolina. Former
Hollywood talent agent Jamie Gold
bluffed his way to victory at the World
Series of Poker by taking home the
grand prize of $12 million. The tourna-
ment was held in Las Vegas, Nev. 
Past Student Association presi-
dent Bill Weitz continues as New York
chief of staff and campaign manager for
Congressman Elliott Engel of the state’s
17th Congressional District. Scott
Hughes started his new position as
director of the Trenton, N.J., Public
Library in October. Shannon Ritter
started as a clinical statistician at
Novartis in East Hanover, N.J., in
October. Derek Westbrook is an
adjunct Black Studies professor and
administrator at The Sage Colleges in
Troy, N.Y.
Thomas Begley, an assistant
professor of biomedical sciences at
UAlbany’s Gen*NY*Sis Center for
Excellence in Cancer Genomics, was
selected by the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences to
receive an Outstanding New
Environmental Scientist Award.
Lawrence Force, professor of psy-
chology at Mount Saint Mary College,
Newburgh N.Y., and his colleague 
Jeffrey Kahana were responsible for
securing the college’s first National
Institute of Health award. The two-year
award will enable Force and Kahana to
research the scope and quality of servic-
es provided by Area Agencies on Aging. 
Ralph Marino Jr., former
superintendent of the Hunter-Tannersville
Central School District, has become the
superintendent of Horseheads Central
School District in New York.
David
Hennessy, associate
professor and chair of
the Business and Law
Department, was pre-
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Alumni News and Notes
Picture Perfect!
We’d like to fill “Class Notes” with pictures of alumni – on vacation, at work, at home. 
Send your photos and news to Kathy Gaddis at alumniassociation@uamail.albany.edu 
or University at Albany Alumni Association, Alumni House, 
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222.
David Hennessy
Doug Kruse, right, talks with
former Gov. George Pataki 
in May '06.
Alums enjoyed the Great Danes Great Bash at WT’s during Homecoming/Reunion 2006.
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sented with the first Schenectady County
Community College Foundation Award
for Excellence in Faculty Service.
Theresa Russo was named a partner at
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman &
Dicker LLP. She will be directing the
newly launched lobbying compliance
practice at the Albany, N.Y., office.
Timothy Lance of Cornwall
on Hudson, N.Y., has been named assis-
tant professor of mathematics at Francis
Marion University in Florence, S.C. 
Eric Roth has been named
executive director of
the Huguenot
Historical Society of
New Paltz, N.Y. Helen
Petrozzola is the
associate country 
director of the U.S. Peace Corps pro-
gram in Ukraine. Prior to assuming this
assignment in 2004, Helen worked for
the United Nations Development
Program with programs in Ukraine,
Belarus and Moldova. 
Amber Arvon has joined the
staff of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials in
Washington, D.C. James Hendry won
his election bid in the Second Ward for
the Republican Party in Port Jervis, N.Y.
James practices law as an associate in
the law firm of Victoria B. Campbell PC
in Port Jervis.
Mike Oliva has been named
head baseball coach and facilities coor-
dinator at Maritime College in Throgs
Neck, N.Y. Theresa Thayer Snyder
has been named new deputy superin-
tendent in charge of curriculum and
instruction of the Brunswick Central
School District in Troy, N.Y. Christy
Schwartz Carey is a reading teacher in
the Holland Patent Central School
District in Stittville, N.Y.
Attorney
Sean Ragusa has
joined the law firm of
Sholes & Miller LLP in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Actor Brandon Jay
McLaren’s latest role
is in “She’s The Man,”
opposite Amanda
Bynes. Brandon made
his feature film debut
in “Scooby Doo 2:
Monsters Unleashed.”
He also was seen in the television 
movies “Perfect Romance” and “D.C.
Sniper: 23 Days of Fear,” and had star-
ring roles on the television series
“Secret Central” and Disney’s “Power
Rangers SPD.” 
Paul Casado has opened a
restaurant, Wrapsody Grill, in New Paltz,
N.Y. Gregg Anthony Pinto has
received his juris doctor degree from
Brooklyn Law School. He was a member
of the Moot Court National Honor
Society and received the PINTO
Thompson Trial Advocacy Award. Gregg
has accepted a position as assistant dis-
trict attorney in the Brooklyn district
attorney’s office. Kellee Henn is a
school social worker for the Sussex-
Wantage School District in Wantage, N.J.
The U.S. House of
Representatives passed a bill to rename
the Pitcher Street Post Office in Utica,
N.Y., the Capt. George A. Wood Post
Office Building. U.S Army Capt.
George Wood died three years ago
while serving in Iraq. George was 33
years old and is survived by his wife,
Lisa, and daughter, Maria.
Jamie Cohen is the new
assistant principal of East Greenwich
High School of Rhode Island.
Crystal
Smith has become
public relations coor-
dinator of Latorra,
Paul & McCann,
located in the historic
University Building in Syracuse, N.Y.
Griffin DuBois will be featured in the
Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble of 
“Much Ado About Nothing” this 
spring at the Alvina Krause Theatre 
in Bloomsburg, Pa.
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Alumni News and Notes
For class councilor information, go to:
www.albany.edu/alumni/
council_of_classes
or call the Alumni Association 
at (518) 442-3080.
1st Lieutenant Eric Torrado ’97, right, shared his UAlbany spirit 
with his company while stationed in Afghanistan last October.
Helen Petrozzola
Brandon McLaren
Sean Ragusa
Crystal Smith
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1978 – Terry M. Kuflik, and husband David Orgel, 
a daughter, Rachel Paige, July 23, 2006
1988 – Ellen Reavis Gerstein and husband Michael, 
a son, Jordan Beckett, Sept. 7, 2006
1990 – Laurie Lieman and husband Mike, a daughter, 
Shayna Quinn, Nov. 12, 2006
1991 – Bill Braine and Claudia Depkin ’93, 
a daughter, India Rosalind, July 26, 2006
Evan Levy and wife Tracey, twin boys, Ethan 
and Daniel, March 13, 2006
1992 – Bill Weitz and wife Bellanne, a son, 
Bennett Chaim, Sept. 8, 2006
Scott Hughes and wife Jill, a son, 
Coleman Langston, July 2006
1996 – Andrew Casella and wife 
Nicole Plambeck ’97, a son, 
Cole Robert, Dec. 14, 2005 
1997 – Lisa Morton Cone and husband Stephen, 
a girl, Siena Noelle, Jan. 26, 2006
1999 – Gregory Wahl and wife Abby, a son, 
Isaac Karmi, Oct. 26, 2006
2000 – Cristy Schwartz Carey and husband Aaron, 
a daughter, Fiona Suzanne, June 17, 2006
Births
Weddings
1984 - Todd Cherches and Karin
Sibrava, Oct. 22, 2006
1991 - Carrie Michele Girgenti 
and Gregory Scott Sheps, 
Sept. 30, 2006
1996 - Emily Prawda and Andrew
Weiss, Feb. 20, 2005 
2003 - Robert Stabile and Jaime
Degina, July 22, 2006 
Kellee Henn and Sean
Yakupcin, Oct. 7, 2006
Patricia Albarino and Craig
Yustein, June 25, 2006
2004 - Kristin Elizabeth and
Lawrence Philip Anderson, 
July 5, 2005
2005 - Angela Rose Levy and
Domenic Andrew Gagliano,
Aug. 12, 2006
Shayna Quinn Lieman
Cole Robert Casella
Isaac Karmi Wahl
Jordan Beckett Gerstein
India Rosalind Braine
Siena Noelle Cone
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Robert L. Tucker, B.A.’49,
M.A.’52, of Fort Myers, Fla.,
has published Poems. The
retired teacher’s collection of
16 poems includes the works
“The Wise Man,” “True Love”
and “The Late-Blooming Poet.”
Shirley Dunn, B.A.’50, M.A.’87,
has researched and written two
books on the Mohican Indians
of the Hudson Valley and west-
ern Massachusetts: The first
was The Mohicans and Their
Land 1609-1730; her second is
The Mohican World 1608-1750.
Both books are unusual in their
reliance on land deeds as a
source for historical and cultur-
al information about Native
Americans. Dunn is also co-
author of Dutch Architecture
Near Albany: The Polgreen
Photographs. The book contains
unique photographs of area
Dutch-style houses as they
looked in the 1930s, as well 
as text about architectural
developments. 
John Sullivan, B.A.’61, has
written Gatekeeper: Memoirs 
of a CIA Polygraph Examiner.
Sullivan was a polygraph exam-
iner with the CIA for 31 years,
during which time he conduct-
ed more tests than anyone in
the history of the agency’s pro-
gram. Here, Sullivan describes
his methods, emphasizing the
importance of psychology and
the examiner’s skills in a suc-
cessful polygraph program. 
But Gatekeeper is more than
Sullivan’s memoirs. It is also a
window to the often acrimo-
nious and sometimes alarming
internal politics of the CIA. 
Carl Cusato, M.B.A.’66, has
published a hilarious memoir,
Bucky Told Me to Put the Stick in
the Door … and Other White Lies
to Live By. Included in the book
is a section about college life in 
the ’60s at the University. The
book is available at www.ama-
zon.com; www.barnesandno-
ble.com and at UAlbany’s main
library. Cusato
owns Cusato
and Company, a technology
integration company in
Malibu, Calif.
Mary Schoenecker, M.S.’70, has
authored Four Summers Waiting,
her debut novel. Published last
July, the Civil War epic was
chosen by the publisher as the
July No. 1 Editor’s Choice.
Authentic letters and diary
excerpts weave a tale of history,
terror and romance through
four summers of the war. 
Rev. Pam Sheppard, M.S.W.’73,
has written Faces of the Religious
Demon: Freedom Through
Deliverance Counseling, a step-
by-step guide to spiritual truth
by exposing the error and
deception around whether or
not demons can possess a
Christian in spirit, soul and
body. A textbook on spiritual
warfare and deliverance, the
author says the main purpose
of this book is to unmask the
true nature of the spiritual bat-
tle as it pertains to exposing
religious counterfeits. 
John Amodeo, M.A.’73,
has written Voices of
Hell’s Kitchen. After the
events of 9/11,
Americans found a new
level of respect for the
citizens of New York and the
heroes who emerged in a time
of crisis. Amodeo’s first novel
gives readers an original and
intimate glimpse into the lives
of the everyday heroes who
have made Manhattan home
for years. 
Marjorie Altman Tesser,
B.A.’74, has co-edited Bowery
Women: Poems. Bowery Women
is a unique anthology that fea-
tures a signature poem from
each of 76 contemporary
female poets, ranging from
national treasures like Anne
Waldman, Ana Castillo,
Sapphire, Wanda Coleman and
Marie Ponsot, to Def Jam poets
Suheir Hammad and Ishle
Park, to international slam
winners such as Celena Glenn,
to emerging artists. The book
also features Tesser’s own
poem, “The Important Thing 
is … Card Game.” For more
information, visit www.bow-
erypoetry.com/bowerywomen. 
Bill Alexander, B.A.’74, has
been named a finalist for the
prestigious Quill Book Awards
for his critically acclaimed
memoir The $64 Tomato: How
One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity,
Spent a Fortune and Endured an
Existential Crisis. Alexander also
was invited to the National
Book Festival hosted by Laura
Bush and the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C.,
in September 2006. 
Marie Mance, B.S.’76, has co-
authored Creative Leadership,
Skills that Drive Change. The
book demonstrates how cre-
ative thinking is an essential
element of leadership. The
authors provide a unique com-
bination of conceptual argu-
ments, practical principles, and 
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proven tools to enhance future
leaders’ effectiveness in creating
and managing change. 
Jeanne Shub, B.A.’63, Ph.D.’78,
has co-authored Ready to Learn
How to Overcome Social and
Behavioral Issues in the Primary
Classroom. The authors have
created a classroom program
that helps teachers address stu-
dents’ social and behavioral
problems and creates a sup-
portive classroom community.
Interplay teaches self-control,
social skills and problem-solv-
ing strategies. This skill-train-
ing program helps integrate
special-needs students into reg-
ular classrooms but actually
benefits all the students.
Nancy Levine, B.A.’82, has
released her newest book,
Letters to a Young Pug, the third
adventure book featuring Wilson
the Pug. Levine is a former staff
photographer for the Elmsford,
N.Y., Humane Society. She has
had extensive experience in
theater and stand-up comedy,
and her commentaries have
been broadcast in the San
Francisco area on NPR 
affiliates.
Joseph Heithaus, B.A.’85, has
had five poems published in
the latest edition of El
Adelantado de Indiana. Heithaus
contributes “After Light,” “The
Angels at My Brother’s Death,”
“Bad Translation,” “Husband's
Apology” and “Taking It.” The
poems are in both English and
Spanish, with translation pro-
vided by Emilia del Río
Martínez. El Adelantado de
Indiana, an online literary jour-
nal, is published as a collabora-
tive effort between a group of
Segovian writers and artists
and their counterparts at 
universities in the Americas
and beyond. 
Julie Blattberg, B.A.’91, has
published Backstage with
Beth and Trina: A Scratch
and Sniff Adventure. The
work, a novelty/humor
book for adults, tells the
story of two groovy rocker
chicks whose goal is to get
backstage at the rock shows
and hang out with the
band. The scents range
from cherry lip gloss to
smoke to latex to vomit, in
true rock and roll style. For
more information, visit
mmeyer@hnabooks.com or
www.bethandtrina.com.  
Steven Wolfgram, Ph.D.’05, has
published Global Development
and Remote African Villages. This
study explores the relationships
among tropical biodiversity
conservation, economic devel-
opment and local cultures
within the context of two
provinces in the Central
African nation of Cameroon.
Wolfgram has been working on
human development projects
and environmental conserva-
tion efforts and conducting
research in Cameroon over the
past 15 years. He is the presi-
dent of the Cameroonian
American Foundation. 
Alumni News and Notes
Calendar
More than 600 Great Danes fans enjoyed the biggest pregame 
party of the season before the Big Purple Growl, Feb. 3, 2007.
April
19 School of Business Networking 
Reception, NYC
22 Fountain Day
May
19 Legacy Family Celebration, Albany
19-20 Commencement Weekend
June
1 Alumni Association Excellence Awards Gala
1-3 Alumni Weekend
4 14th Annual Great Danes Scholarship Golf
Classic, Albany Country Club
For more information, visit the UAlbany Web 
calendar at www.albany.edu/todayualbany/
or call (518) 442-3080.
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Deaths
20s
Ida Argersinger Maybe '28 
Ruth Bates Shillinglaw '29, Aug. 10,
2006
30s
Louise Trask Torrance '30, 
Jan. 19, 2004
Mildred Larson '31, March 18, 2006
Ellis Kolodny '32, Oct. 5, 2006
Marylou Walther Canessa '34, 
Jan. 14, 2000
Maybelle Stewart Schere '34, 
Oct. 27, 2006
Laura Enders '35, Sept. 13, 2006
Jean Diblasi Cotugno '36, Oct. 1,
2006
Marjorie Howe '36, Nov. 1, 2005
Marion Tymeson Pendleton '36,
July 7, 2005
Marion Cole Fischer '37, March 12,
2006
Eleanor Dubois Huba '38, 
Feb. 9, 2006
Dorothy Cain Muggleton '38, 
June 23, 2006
Galen Plumb '38, Nov. 30, 2006
Alice Tedford Whelan '38, 
Sept. 13, 2006
Kurt Blixt '39, June 12, 2006
Joseph Leese '39, July 25, 2006
Leslie Wiley '39, Sept. 29, 2006
40s
Charlotte Ventimiglia '40, 
March 5, 2006
Bernard Arbit '42, Aug. 30, 2006
John Tibbetts '42, Oct. 14, 2006
Ira Freedman '43, Nov. 6, 2006
Hannelore Schoen Hoose '44, 
Aug. 29, 2006
Evelyn Crabtree Chapman '48,
March 16, 2006
Robert Hill '48, April 14, 1998
Bernice Shapiro Kahn '48, 
July 22, 2006
Florence Smith Westover '49, 
Sept. 9, 2006
50s
Martin Lewenstein '50, Nov. 17, 2005
Daniel Ganeles '51, Nov. 8, 2006
Margaret (Meg)
Stewart 
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita of Biology Margaret (Meg) Stewart 
passed away at her New Scotland, N.Y., home Aug. 2, 2006, after a lengthy battle 
with pancreatic cancer. She was 79.
Stewart graduated from Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, now
known as UNC-Greensboro; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and
Cornell University. She taught at the New York State College for Teachers and its suc-
cessor, the University at Albany, from 1956 until 1997, returning after her retirement
to assist in developing the program in Biodiversity, Conservation & Policy, a multi-
disciplinary master’s program that prepares students for careers requiring knowledge
of both ecology and public policy.
A renowned herpetologist, Stewart studied reptiles and amphibians, including frogs
of the Adirondacks, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. One African frog, Phrynobatrachus
stewartae, or Stewart’s puddle frog, which she first collected, was named for her. She
also wrote extensively about her work; her numerous publications included the book
Amphibians of Malawi. 
In 2005, Stewart – the first woman president of the American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists – received the ASIH’s Robert K. Johnson Award for
her service to the society and the Henry S. Fitch Award for long-term excellence in
the study of amphibian and/or reptile biology. The many other honors accorded her
during her lifetime included the University at Albany’s 1987 Citizen Laureate Award.
Stewart is survived by her husband, University at Albany Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics George E. Martin; a brother, John M. Stewart; two nieces and two
nephews. 
Gifts in her memory may be made to the Margaret Stewart Biodiversity Fund
through The University at Albany Foundation, UAB 226, 1400 Washington Ave.,
Albany, NY 12222. 
Alumni News and Notes
Gary Gold '70
George Lampman '51, 
April 30, 2006
Glen Armitage '52, 
March 16, 2006
Jeanne Hamilton '52, 
July 4, 2006
Patricia Purcell Ryder '52, 
July 20, 2006
Katherine Monsees Gaudreau
'57, April 4, 2006
Margaret Johnston '59, 
Oct. 20, 2000
60s
Anita MacMaster Fekete '60,
April 22, 2006
Susan Roderick Stafford '61,
June 30, 2003
Terrance Hyland '64, 
Oct. 13, 2006
Ronald Raphael '64, 
June 19, 2006
Carol Ricotta Drake '66, 
July 20, 2006
Ann Barry Sullivan '66, 
June 14, 2006
Susan Steindorff '67, 
July 29, 2006
Brian Hart '68, Sept. 19, 2002
Edmund Klee '68, Aug. 20, 2006
Katharine Housel Loughney '69,
Dec. 8, 2002
Edwin Szczepanik '69, 
Dec. 7, 2001
70s
Rosemary Barton '70, 
Jan. 9, 2006
Nancy Dunn Ortiz '70, 
March 4, 1999
Jean Figarsky Reiner '70, 
Aug. 26, 2006
Bruce Ferguson '72, 
March 20, 2004
Deborah Natansohn '74, 
Oct. 24, 2006
Roger Roth '75, Aug. 25, 2006
Patrick O’Neil '77, Oct. 7, 2006
Nydia Stein '78, Jan. 30, 2005
David Berger '79, Jan. 16, 2006
Steven Grumet '79, March 1, 2006
Anthony Maione '79, 
May 23, 2006
80s
Thomas McDonald '80, 
Sept. 11, 2006
Scott Kunen ’82, Nov. 13, 2006
Carol Milano '82, July 10, 2006
Anne Reding '88, May 14, 2005
90s
Eric Weiss '99, June 19, 2006
00s
Logan Cresap '03, Aug. 20, 2006
The University at Albany 
community mourns the loss of 
U.S. Army Staff 
Sgt. Kyu H. Chay ’95
in Afghanistan Oct. 28, 2006. 
He was a linguist with the 1st
Battalion, 3rd Special Forces
(Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Faculty 
and Staff
Clarence Bergeson, 
April 6, 2004
Floyd Brewer, Nov. 8, 2005
Burton Gummer, 
Professor, Social Welfare, 1977-02,
June 30, 2004
Alfred Levitas, Professor Emeriti,
Physics, July 28, 2006
Hugh Maclean, Professor,
English, 1963-1986, Dec. 15, 1997
Joseph Norton, Professor,
Education
Janet Perloff, Professor and
Associate Dean, Social Welfare,
Aug. 29, 2004
Michael Ramundo, Information
Technology, July 19, 2006
Kay Shaffer, Librarian and
Bibliographer, Sept. 16, 2006
Margaret Stewart, Aug. 2, 2006
Suzannah Tieman, 
Professor, Biological Sciences, 
Oct. 15, 2006
Leonard Wright, March 12, 2002
Bring Together UAlbany 
Alumni in Your Neighborhood
Help us bring a touch of UAlbany to your neck of the
woods. The Alumni Association is looking for alumni
across the country and the world to become Regional
Volunteers.  Regional Volunteers act as contacts for their 
cities – welcoming new alums moving into the area or 
providing advice on the perfect spot for the University’s
next event. Please contact the Alumni Association at 
1-800-836-ALUM to learn more.
Scott Kunen B.S.’82
Scott Kunen, a member of the Council of Classes, 
passed away Nov. 13, 2006. Scott became a 
class councilor in 1987, serving as a link from 
his class to the Alumni Association and the 
University. While at UAlbany, Scott served as 
assistant controller for the Student Association. 
His energy and enthusiasm for the 
University will be sorely missed.
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The Last Word
A
fter graduating from the University, I traveled around the U.S. as a   
journalist. In the 1990s, I was in Albany working as a reporter, and
then as business editor, at the Times Union. I occasionally visited campus
to attend events, conduct interviews and do some reporting.
But I maintained a professional distance and never made an effort to
connect emotionally with the campus and the life there. What I saw did
concern me, though: The physical infrastructure seemed to be deteriorat-
ing, and the air seemed one of defensiveness and hunkering down.
It was only after I moved away from Albany again – this time to Israel –
that I began to feel an emotional tug to Albany and, particularly, the
University. From time to time, I have run across UAlbany graduates who
have made their lives in Israel. I hired one to work with me at The
Jerusalem Post; then it turned out that a friend of his from UAlbany
worked with my wife. By rough estimates, there are at least 50 UAlbany
graduates in Israel. We occasionally talk about organizing ourselves into 
a true Alumni Association chapter, but we haven't gotten there yet.
That strong connection with the University drew me back to campus last
fall to lecture to students in the newly accredited degree-granting jour-
nalism program directed by Professor William Rainbolt. When I was a
student, the journalism program, run by the late Professor William
Rowley, was a small subset of the English department. A hidden gem was
William Kennedy, an instructor who was still getting established as an
author. I have carried his lessons, Rowley's and those of my future Times
Union colleague Fred LeBrun with me throughout my career.
Before I spoke to the students that day, I took a guided stroll around the
campus, and I was pleased to see it looking so good. The burst of new
construction in the last 10 years has invigorated the place, and regular
maintenance seems to have improved. The new buildings blend in well
with the original architecture, and Edward Durell Stone's design is aging
more gracefully than I would have imagined.
The students at my lecture were also impressive: up to speed on current
events in Israel and the Middle East, and savvy about media in general. 
It was a great pleasure to see the energy of current ASP members who
attended my talk, and of the journalism program itself. 
If you’ll have me, I'll be back.
Back to the Future:
A visit to UAlbany evokes memories, smiles
By Alan D. Abbey, B.A.'75
Editor’s Note: In this issue of UAlbany, 
we are delighted to introduce a new column, 
“The Last Word,” an opinion piece focusing on a
graduate’s strong connection with the University. 
Alan D. Abbey, president of Abbey Content 
Services, Ltd., an outsourced content services
provider to businesses and organizations, 
penned the first installment. Abbey lives in 
Jerusalem with his wife and three children.
Christine McKnight
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