CLASSNOTES
1969
Martin Palumbos was recently honored by the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation. A scholarship, the Martin Palumbos Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation Scholarship, will be given annually to a Fisher student. The scholarship was named after Palumbos in honor of his retirement from the board of directors and in celebration of his 11 years of dedication and service to the organization as co-founder and longtime committee chair. Palumbos was instrumental in starting RABEF more than 11 years ago with cofounder Alan Ziegler.
1970
Charles DiSalvo has authored a biography of Mahatma Gandhi’s life as a lawyer. See “Aluminations” below. Ray Martino and his public relations and advertising firm, Martino Flynn L.L.C., received one of three ETHIE Awards, given to Rochesterbased companies who show an executive commitment to business ethics. Martino Flynn won in the medium-sized business category.
Carolina. Starks and four others were the first members of the Order in forty years to be knighted in the United States. Starks has also been awarded an Emmy for a TV series he produced on the local NBC affiliate, WCNC, called “Don’t Be a Victim!”
1972
Howard Root published his first historical fiction piece, Among the Mohegans. See “Aluminations” below.
Dan Starks was invested into the Sovereign Order of Cyprus during a knighting ceremony on January 12, 2013 in North
Aluminations
Looking for a good biography, or maybe some fiction or historical fiction? When you’re ready to curl up by the fire with a good book this fall, see what Fisher alumni have been authoring. M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma, written by Charles DiSalvo ’70 and published this fall by the University of California Press. Published to great reviews in India in 2012, it is the first book to chronicle the famous peace activist’s life as a law student in Britain and a lawyer in India and South Africa. DiSalvo, himself a lawyer, is the Woodrow Potesta Professor of Law at West Virginia University. Among the Mohegans was published in July, 2013, and is a historical fiction novel that follows a young Puritan on his journey to the New World where he befriends a Mohegan ally. Author Howard Root ’72 has received the Editor’s Choice and Rising Star awards from the book’s publisher, iUniverse. Root is a retired advertising and marketing executive, and an avid reader of history.
Why Can’t I Be You is the second novel by Allie Larkin ’02. Larkin’s debut novel, Stay, reached #8 on the Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Romance list in 2010. Why Can’t I Be You follows Jenny Shaw as a woman that impulsively jumps into the life of another person, and what she learns about herself in the process.
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