CLASS NOTES Because of limited space, class notes are edited to include as many as possible. For the complete listing, please visit the Boston University School of Law Web site at www.bu.edu/law/alumni.
JD Program 1951: Edward J. Bander was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the New England Law Librarians in 2007. 1955: Barbara Evans has a trusts and estates practice in McLean, VA, and recently celebrated her 50th anniversary with Larry Evans (’54). John N. Samaha retired in 1990. 1956: Charles E. Bennett has been retired for over 11 years and lives in Florida. 1957: Raymond L. King retired but remains active in public service. He looks forward to his 50th Reunion. 1959: Lewis L. Whitman took early retirement and is in Osterville, MA, most of the year and Naples, FL for the winter. He is also teaching one course at BU Law. 1961: Armand Arabian retired from the California Supreme Court in 1996 and became an active participant in alternative dispute resolution, as well as the practice of law. Ray Brearey continues to serve as president of Cambridge Appleton Trust, N.A. Sam Faulise retired in 2004 from his private criminal practice. 1964: Burt Peltz is working part-time and spending as much time as he can at his house on the Cape. 1966: Martin Kantrovitz maintains an active practice and has five children, one of whom is in law school. Sherwood R. Spelke is still practicing law in his hometown of Stamford, CT. 1967: Lee Berk retired in 2004 as president of Boston’s Berklee College of Music and moved to Santa Fe, NM, with his wife, Susan. Joel S. Cohen closed his practice after 30 years and now spends summers in Germany and winters in Seattle. Harley Smith retired in 2006 from Emerson Electric in St. Louis, MO, after 22 years. Jeffrey R. Whieldon retired from federal government service and joined Fish & Richardson’s office in Washington, DC. 1969: Michael Wheeler continues to teach and write in Gloucester, MA. 1971: Gary W. Holmes has practiced law in the same small town since graduation but expanded his second career as an estate-planning attorney with a state-wide practice. James A. Neuberger left the law in 1980 and is now working on a dissertation in mathematics education at Rutgers. Erica Levine Powers is a counsel at Tarshis, Catania, Liberth, Mahon & Milligram PLLC in New York. 1976: Jeffrey M. Aresty started a bar association on the internet. Nancy Barton retired in 2002 and spends most of her time volunteering for local charities and traveling. Elaine Friedman is married to Barry Bassik, also a lawyer in general practice in Great Neck, NY. Mark S. Granger practices in product liability and toxic tort defense work at Morrison Mahoney LLP in Boston. Larry Hyman is practicing in the San Francisco office of a 175-lawyer firm specializing in IP. Larry Magid is a partner at Allens Arthur Robinson
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in Sydney, Australia. Hugh Mo runs his own firm in New York City. Carol E. Nesson started her own practice in Boston and spends free time volunteering for Rosie’s Place. David W. Slaby lives in Napa Valley and owns Slaughterhouse Cellars Vineyard. 1977: Cheryl Fay Coon lives in Portland, OR, and works to conserve and protect oceans, fish and wildlife. Maurice Alan Libner is a member of the board of Congregation Beth Israel, Bath, ME, and a member of the Brunswick, ME, 3.0 U.S.T.A. men’s and seniors tennis teams. Joanne M. Neale started a landscape design business, Garden Mentor, serving the Metrowest area of Boston, MA. 1981: Jay Fialkov is deputy general counsel and an executive producer at WGBH in Boston. Elizabeth Palmer Higgins works for the IRS in its large case (LMSB) group. Robert M. Lippman was elected president of the Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York. 1982: Matthew D. Baxter practices immigration law in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Mark T. Broth is chair of his firm’s labor and employment law department and was elected to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Daniel Donovan founded Donovan & Rainie, LLC in 2002, with BU Law ‘83 grad Denny Rainie. Edward M. Kilbane is currently in charge of the disease surveillance program at the Navy’s research unit in Cairo, Egypt. Brant Maller recently joined the international law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a partner and the Chair of both its New York Real Estate Department and its firm-wide Alternative Investments Team. 1983: Carol L. O’Riordan is based in Washington, DC, and provides consulting services to governmental and non-governmental entities. 1986: William Henry Cook teaches 7th & 8th grade orchestra in South Orange and Maplewood, NJ. Alan Fanger has a solo practice in Needham, MA. Joe D. Jacobson is partner at Green, Jacobson & Butsch in St. Louis. Margaret C. (Peggy) Jenkins works at home, writing briefs for attorneys in the Northwest and far West and lives in Moscow, Idaho. Gay Rineberg Schreiber cofounded McCormack Schreiber Legal Search and lives in Chicago. Paul H. Spitz bought a franchise called The Great Frame Up. 1987: Melencio S.Sta.Maria is a full-time professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. 1988: Thomas Rechen was appointed to the Public Defender Services Commission of the State of Connecticut. Howard S. Weinberg is the Vice Mayor of Surfside, FL. 1989: Bryan Neft was elected partner at the law firm of Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon LLP in Pittsburgh, PA. 1991: Richard C. Conley teaches more and more and recently became a dad. Celina Gerbic is a fulltime mom in Washington, DC. Debra Grossbaum and her husband live in Dover with their four children. Foren L. Korr co-founded Katzman & Korr in south Florida. Larry Pliskin is director of compliance and in-house counsel for American Health Holding Inc. in Ohio. Michele (Miller) Silver resides in Glen Rock, NJ, with her husband and family. Donna (Ruberman) Shahrabani is a partner at Buckalew Frizzell & Crevina in Glen Rock, NJ. 1992: Jill (Beck) Gould and Steven Gould live in Maryland where Steve is a founding partner at Brown & Gould LLP, and Jill is a headhunter for National Partner Search, LLC. Rebeca C. Martinez moved permanently to San Antonio, TX, after 13 years of private practice. Hilary (Henkind) Plattus works at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass in New York City. 1994: Robert Anania rejoined the family business and lives in the Finger Lakes region of NY. Kelly Bates celebrated the fifth anniversary of Bates Consulting. Nicolas Jansen Calamita does research and teaches at Mansfield College in Oxford. Nicole Lawrence Ezer practices Immigration Law in the private sector in Texas. Julie E. Steiner joined the faculty of St. John’s
University School of Law. 1996: Gregory T. Casamento is a partner at Lord, Bissell & Brook in New York. Paul R. Cohen is a shareholder in the law firm of Baldi & Jenei PC in New Hope, PA. William J. Connolly was hired as State Street’s first in-house litigator. Dana Zartner Falstrom is an adjunct professor at USF Law School in San Francisco. Elizabeth A. Frohlich and Joe Salama live in Marin County, CA. Elizabeth is with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Joe is with Birnberg & Associates. Mario Greco leads The Mario Greco Group in Chicago. Katherine Ho works at Stanford University as associate director of the Office of Sponsored Research. Stephen A. Kaufman is the vice president of business planning of Lennar Homes, Inc. Steve Krause has a solo practice in Silicon Valley and is working on material for his second CD. Nina M. Sas works at the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office in New York. Ashley Stanley is a partner at Hartman, Simons, Spielman & Wood LLP in Atlanta. 1997: Joshua Goldstein has an immigration practice in Boston, MA. 1998: Alison Fee Crane was elected to partnership at Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel and Pedersen LLP. Dan Rhein works for the Port Authority of NY and NJ. Kenneth E. Rubinstein works with a 30-lawyer New Hampshire-based firm. Raisha Vaidya started her own law practice in Saugus, MA. Stephen D. Wilson was elected a partner at Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios LLP in Portland, ME. 1999: Douglas Marrano was named a 2007 “Rising Star” by Massachusetts Super Lawyers magazine. 2000: Leonard Herschberg joined Jones Day in New York. Monica Rodriquez practices in Akin Gump’s litigation section in San Antonio, TX. Sara K. Thompson is at Greenberg Traurig in Atlanta, GA. 2001: Pat Costello supervises two in-house clinics at the University of Idaho College of Law. Vanessa Moreno Franklin works at Shearman and Sterling LLP. Sarah E. Hancur is an associate in the trial department at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC. Kelly Koyama joined the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Corporate Legal Department as associate general counsel. Melissa Tonor Lozner and Josh Lozner live in Mendham, NJ. Alexander Lycoyannis is an associate with Rosenberg & Estis PC in New York. Timothy McIntyre is general counsel for Terracotta, a Java software company headquartered in San Francisco. Ernesto Pacheco is a deputy public defender in Palms Springs, CA. Michael Primo has joined the New York office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP. Jennifer Yen and Peyton Worley were married in Boston. Jennifer practices business litigation at Greenberg Traurig LLP and Peyton has a corporate practice at Sullivan and Worcester. 2002: Jonathan Israel Bakalarz practices commercial litigation in Miami, FL. Monica Cuan recently moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where she accepted an inhouse position at ALSTOM. Todd Alan McGee was elected to the city council for the city of Holyoke, MA. 2003: Gregory N. Blase relocated to Boston and is an associate at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham. Katherine C. Gehringer is an associate with Thompson Coburn LLP in Washington, DC. 2004: Orlando Cordero is a staff attorney at New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc. AJ Picchione is working in the tax department at the Boston office of WilmerHale. Jason Pollak has joined the Chicago Office of Deloitte Tax LLP. Margaret L. Weir began her own practice. Kang Tai (Kevin) Weng is a Global Equities Compliance associate at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Marc S. Wilson joined Stinson Morrison Hecker as an associate in the Financial Services Division in Kansas City. 2005: F. Jackson Stoddard is working as legal counsel to the California Public Utilites Commission.