CLASS NOTES

Alumni In The News

Judith Shulman Weis ‘58 had nominated the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary to “Mission Blue” (Sylvia Earle’s organization) to be designated a “Hope Spot” last year. The estuary has been announced as chosen as the “Hope Spot.”

Richard G. Fromewick ’60 has been celebrated for 50 years of practice in the Nassau County Bar Association.

David Glass ’77 is the Vice President of Research at a local biotech company, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He has recently written a play, Love + Science, which is going to be staged Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Company.

Miriam Silverman ’96 won a Tony Award for best featured actress in a play for her performance in “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.” She was previously profiled in the New York Times for her nomination.

Eleanor Coufos ’99, President of the Bronx Science Foundation, has been selected as an honoree at City & State’s Above & Beyond Innovators Ceremony. As an awardee, Eleanor is celebrated as one of the 40 most influential and thought-provoking innovators in New York.

Robert Samuels ’02 received a Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category. The award honored “His Name is George Floyd,” a Washington Post book which tells the story of Floyd’s life, death and his legacy.

Hersh Parekh ’05 and Kenny Burgos ’12 were both recognized under City & State’s Albany 40 Under 40.

Alumni Authors

Eva (Steiner) Moseley ’49 has had a memoir, Skirting History: Holocaust Refugee to Dissenting Citizen, published by Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group. Its main themes are absent fathers, effects of public events on private lives, and changing meanings of Jewishness. It includes a chapter on Bronx Science, an unsolved murder, and much else against the background of World War II and the Cold War, plus some relevant jokes and dated recipes. The book’s cover shows the Steiner family about to board the ship Hamburg to sail to New York in February 1939.

Richard Hardack ‘81 has recently published a book titled, Your Call is Very Important to Us: Advertising and the Corporate Theft of Personhood. He shares, “the text is a wide-ranging study of the pernicious idea that corporations are people. It recontextualizes the inordinate influence of corporations and corporate advertising in the U.S. as a legal, political, psychological and sociological phenomenon. In timely ways, the book also examines how corporations in figurative and specific political contexts achieved “superpersonhood,” in another kind of zero-sum game, at the expense of African Americans.” Please find more information here.