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10 Hofstra Happenings

6 Letter From Alumni Organization President

16 Faculty News 42 Class Notes

spring 2012 events calendar Visit

hofstra.edu/events for more information.

The Gray Wig presents The Manhattan Dolls – Sentimental Journey

“Great Writers, Great Readings” Series presents Alice McDermott

January 27-29 516-463-6459

February 29 516-463-5410

Hofstra Club of Los Angeles Afternoon Reception

63rd Annual Hofstra Shakespeare Festival presents Much Ado About Nothing

Venice, CA January 28 516-463-5538

Winter Blast February 3-5 516-463-6636

Alumni Hoops Fest February 4 516-463-5339

Hofstra University Museum presents Barbara Roux: Environments February 7- April 5 516-463-5672

Hofstra Club of Washington D.C. Men’s Basketball v.

George Mason Pregame Reception February 8 516-463-6636

60 Alumni Roundup

64 Hofstra Athletics

March 1-11 516-463-6644

14th Annual Irish Experience Festival March 11 516-463-6582

Black/Hispanic Alumni Association Annual Scholarship and Recognition Dinner April 21 516-463-6636

Hofstra Cultural Center presents The 50th Anniversary of the New York Mets April 26-28 516-463-5669

16th Annual Hofstra Gala (Black Tie Preferred) May 3 516-463-5284

Scholarship Luncheon March 14 516-463-5284

29th Annual Dutch Festival May 6 516-463-6582

The Gray Wig presents Rhapsody in Gershwin March 23-25 516-463-6459

The Bronx Opera Company presents Hansel and Gretel

Hempstead for Hofstra Scholarship Dinner

May 18 and 19 516-463-6644

March 29 516-463-5339

Hofstra University Museum presents Yonia Fain: Remembrance

Class of 1962 Reunion May 20 516-463-6636

April 19-August 3 516-463-5672

Hofstra Magazine is published two times each year by Hofstra University. Our goal is to provide the Hofstra community with exciting and informative news about Hofstra University and its alumni, students, faculty and staff.

Hofstra University is committed to extending equal opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, marital or veteran status in employment and in the conduct and operation of Hofstra University’s educational programs and activities, including admissions, scholarship and loan programs and athletic and other school administered programs.

Letters to the Editor Please send address changes and class notes to: Editor, Hofstra Magazine Libby and Joseph G. Shapiro Alumni House 150 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549-1500 Phone: 516-463-6636 Fax: 516-463-5897 E-mail: Alumni@hofstra.edu

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President Stuart Rabinowitz Vice President for University Relations and Publisher Melissa Kane Connolly ’89 Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Alan J. Kelly Assistant Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Meredith H. Celentano Assistant Vice President for University Relations and Executive Editor Karla Schuster Executive Director for Alumni Affairs Robert Saltzman Director of Public Relations and Editor Ginny Ehrlich-Greenberg ’90 Executive Director of Design and Production Francis A. Rizzo III ’99 Creative Director Kelvin Fonville Manager of Editorial Services Linda Merklin Graphic Artist Denise Sarian Contributors Lindsey Calabrese ’04, ’09 Jacqueline Carlson Lisa Comegna Kristen Ehrling Billy Finnegan ’14 Mary Fuchs Adam Heavey ’12 Nicole Piampiano Amy Reich Neena Samuel Veronica Silghigian ’13 Leonard Skoros Morgan Smith ’13 Carole Trottere Gwendolyn Armstrong Wade Contributing Photographers Brian Ballweg ’77 Rychard Curtiss Steve DiMaio Mark Getman ’94 Martin Heitner Kathy Kmonicek Phil Marino John McKeith Janette Pellegrini ’98 Heather Walsh University Archivist Geri Solomon

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features

8 Hofstra Chosen to Host 2012 Presidential Debate

14 Med School Students Receive First Responder Training

22 2011 Fall Festival Highlights

24 Campus Takes Part in 9/11 Remembrance

28 Teach for America

30 Tom McGowan: The Wizard in Wicked

33 2011 Alumni Awards

40 Garden Dedicated to Ellie Greenwich ’62

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Council of Presidents

Frederick E. Davis, Jr. ’85 President Robert Salvatico ’95 Vice President for Programs Tanya Levy-Odom ’90 Vice President for Services Michelle Robey ’93, ’99 Secretary Kathleen Stanley ’91 Parliamentarian/Historian Laurie J. Bloom ’95 Immediate Past President

William R. Agresti ’78 Paul W. Bartels ’59* Laurie Bloom ’95 Daniel DeStefano ’69, ’72 Gary Diana ’80 Eleanor Haley Drayton ’65 James Drayton ’65 Madelyn E. Leibowitz ’64

2004-2006 1983-1985 2008-2010 1998-2000 1989-1991 1981-1983 1977-1979 1993-1995

John G. McAlonan, Jr. ’69* Linda Rose Obedzinski ’88 Alan R. Plotz ’58 Thomas Santucci, Esq.’93 Harriet Schiff Serota ’64 Terence E. Smolev, Esq. ’66 Joseph Sparacio ’89 Barbara Walsh-Dreyer ’80 E. David Woycik, Jr., Esq. ’77, ’80

1991-1993 1995-1996 1979-1981 2002-2004 1996-1998 1987-1989 2006-2008 2000-2002 1985-1987

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Alumni Assembly Janeita Bellamy ’08 Jean Benincasa ’02 Dean Bennett ’91 Jared Berry ’10 Kenneth Bianco ’09 Christian Braunlich ’75 Kenneth Brown ’79 Dennis Camancho ’95 Edward Carp ’88

Christopher Caruso ’97, ’00 Todd Cohen ’00 Martin Cohn ’81 Andrew Corrado ’92 James Cusack ’90, ’97 Veronica Davis-Barkley ’04 Danielle Dellilo Berardi ’01 Gerianne De Rosa ’96 Regis Doucette ’75

Marie-Linda Eboukle ’07, ’08 Anita Ellis ’88, ’90 Christopher Falvo ’04 Sarah Falvo ’05 Paul Farinella ’69, ’74 Paul Flora ’68 Veronica Gerosimo ’08 Jeremy Gussick ’98, ’00 Joseph Hoffman ’00

Kenneth Horowitz ’86 Roger Hughes ’64 Mary Alice La Giglia-Gans ’88 Margaret Laibach ’80 Vincent Lopes ’01 Benjamin Malerba, III ’01, ’05 Takita Mason ’01 Susan Mingelgreen ’73 Jeffrey Minihane ’96

Jeanine Narita ’89 Hillary Needle ’89 Vanessa Parent ’04, ’06 Carl Petersen ’72 Edwin Raagas ’10 Brian Rabinovitz ’90 Arisleyda Riehl ’94 David Sarnoff, Esq. ’90 Ilene Schuss ’80, ’84

Kirk Sinclair ’95 Thomas Toy ’91 Lee Warner ’94 Christina Whitehurst ’02 Marc Wiener ’76 David Zuniga Matthew Zvolensky ’91

President’s MESSAGE

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n July New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asked me to co-chair the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council, one of 10 such groups in New York state, which brought together entrepreneurs, business leaders, academics and government officials. Our purpose was to create a cohesive, workable plan for the Long Island region, which would leverage our assets, strengthen our infrastructure and help create jobs, both in the short term and for future generations.

Not surprisingly, what we realized was that innovation in the sciences and in engineering would be one of the most significant ways we could ensure that our area’s economy would continue to grow. Earlier this year, Hofstra partnered with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, and The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research to create Accelerate Long Island, a partnership that will create start-up companies through the commercialization of research performed at our institutions.

Through the Regional Council, we continued to look at how research and partnerships with businesses and government could transform Long Island, for the betterment of our region and especially for our young people, our graduates and our students. For example, Hofstra and Stony Brook partnered on a program called EngINE, designed to increase the number of Long Island engineering graduates from our institutions each year to 750, more than double the current amount.

After months of work with myriad committees and working groups and hundreds of people, including many Hofstra scholars and administrators, the Long Island region was named one of the state’s four “Best Plan” winners at a statewide ceremony presided over by Governor Cuomo. More than 60

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programs, including the groundbreaking EngINE program, were awarded state funding. In growing our capabilities in the sciences and leading the charge for smart economic development, Hofstra partnered with some of the nation’s leading research institutions and has begun the hard work of developing academic excellence and research in the sciences. This will allow Hofstra’s reputation, resources and academic strengths to grow further.

For example, in late July we welcomed the first class of 40 students to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.

The students, who come from 33 excellent academic institutions, are trailblazers, studying from an innovative curriculum that blends traditional study with real experiences and case studies – all from the first day.

Among their first experiences was to be certified as emergency medical technicians (EMTs). You can read more about their pioneering experience in medicine in this issue of Hofstra Magazine.

We also announced the formation of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

While we’ve had excellent engineering and computer science programs for years, both have been relatively small. The formation of a school allows us to recruit internationally for a dean to lead the school and develop a cutting-edge curriculum. Having a school also helps us create an innovative program that connects students to the growing opportunities that science and engineering offer.

Our commitment to innovation and experience does not stop with the sciences.

In November we were very fortunate to announce that the Commission on Presidential Debates would be returning to Hofstra in 2012 for the second presidential debate.

Hofstra is one of only two schools ever to host two consecutive presidential debates. While

Festival and Out Loud (our comedy show).

We’re looking forward to hosting these events again next year. As Hofstra continues to grow, we are working hard to create and encourage the strengthening of traditions that bring our community together, where we can enjoy and network and celebrate everything that is great about the Hofstra family. We continue to create other programs and events, such as our new Winter Blast in February, which promises to be an eclectic mix of basketball, Mardi Gras, Carnival, blues and jazz, and fun indoor attractions.

On the social side, several thousand students, families and alumni came together for our newest tradition, Fall Festival, which this year included Parent and Family Weekend, Homecoming, and Reunions, plus the Homecoming Parade, Vibe Live Music

Sincerely,

President’s MESSAGE

we are pleased about the attention the debate brings to Hofstra stories and initiatives, we are even more thrilled to witness another class of students watch history unfold and participate in a real way in the 2012 presidential election process. In 2008 students volunteered with campaigns, interned with the media, helped with logistics and hospitality, produced events, spoke at town hall events and registered to vote in record numbers.

We hope to improve on that experience in 2012 and bring our community together for another superb experience, including lectures by renowned commentators, political thinkers and journalists; conferences and symposia on the election; and some interactive and social events.

Thank you for all you do for the Hofstra community. I hope to see you on campus again soon.

Stuart Rabinowitz President

Featuring: e First Friday e Pre La Fete – This indoor celebration includes rides, food and activities for all ages. e Alumni Hoops Fest e Men’s Basketball Game – Cheer on the Hofstra Pride as they take on Georgia State University. e Mardival – A taste of Mardi Gras and Carnival comes to Hofstra.

Visit hofstra.edu/winterblast for details and updates to the frosty schedule.

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Dear Hofstra Alumni: On Friday, September 23, 2011, Hofstra University and the Alumni Organization hosted the Alumni Awards Dinner – unquestionably one of the highlights of the University’s event schedule and an amazing way to kick off the annual Fall Festival.

With a filled ballroom at The Garden City Hotel, we honored nine individuals whose professional accomplishments and service to Hofstra University make them role models for all 120,000+ Hofstra alumni around the world.

We all have opportunities to be role models; in fact, you can visit hofstra.edu/alumni to view the listing of the more than 750 alumni volunteers who offered up their time this past year. These men and women came back to campus to speak with students, to review students’ resumes and help them hone their interviewing skills, or to help plan class and special interest group reunions for their fellow alumni. Away from campus, alumni helped recruit students, organize regional get-togethers and host receptions at their work sites. While volunteering gives alumni a feeling of connectivity to Hofstra, it also expands professional networks and opens doors to new business or personal opportunities. The possibilities are endless, and “service” need not require you to spend hours at Hofstra organizing or planning. The goal of volunteering is creating an experience that is both meaningful to you and helpful to the University community.

Throughout the past year, the Office for Alumni Affairs – in partnership with the Alumni Organization – has created better programming that allows for greater networking opportunities, and, as a result, we have seen an increased number of recent graduates attending events and volunteering within their alumni affinity groups. In fact, there are more networking opportunities for all alumni – through academic alumni associations like those of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business and the School of Communication, through regional events like the NYC Alumni Holiday Party, and through the celebration of special occasions like Alpha Theta Beta’s 75th Anniversary Weekend, just to name a few.

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Additionally, this year the Alumni Organization has recognized the establishment of new alumni groups, including my own fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. Doing so increases alumni visibility among students and fosters lifelong bonds with Hofstra University.

I’m proud to report that alumni philanthropic giving to Hofstra increased this past year – both in terms of contributors and dollars raised. For national rankings, such as the rankings of U.S. News & World Report, the size of one’s gift is less important than the act of giving. It is so easy to make a secure contribution and/or to set up a monthly payment arrangement online at hofstra.edu/giving.

Through the expansion of social media, Hofstra alumni are connecting with each other more than ever. There are more than 200 Hofstra alumni-related groups on LinkedIn and Facebook. I urge you to join us at “Alumni of Hofstra University” on LinkedIn and “Hofstra University Alumni” on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter at #HofstraAlumni.

When news happens at Hofstra – whether it’s the announcement of a presidential debate, excitement over a successful athletic competition or the creation of a new academic program – we want to keep you informed.

When you learn about the campus happenings and can relay them to relatives, neighbors or co-workers, you become a natural ambassador for Hofstra University. Please go to hofstra.edu/alumni to update your email address.

If you would like to become more involved, we can help.

Alumni Organization volunteer leaders as well as members of the Alumni Affairs staff will be glad to meet with you to discuss the possibilities. Please contact the Office for Alumni Affairs at 516-463-6636 with any questions you may have.

I sincerely wish you and your families a happy, healthy and prosperous holiday season and a wonderful 2012.

Yours for Hofstra,

Frederick E. Davis, Jr. ’85 President, Hofstra University Alumni Organization

BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE

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The Fund for Hofstra University today and make a difference.

For more information about The Fund for Hofstra University, please contact: Mary Fuchs, Director for Annual Giving 102K Hofstra Hall 101 Hofstra University Hempstead NY 11549-1010 Telephone: 516-463-6336 Fax: 516-463-4867 Email: thefund@hofstra.edu

The Fund for Hofstra University is a vital source of unrestricted funds that help the University attract the best and brightest students through scholarships and financial aid, expanded academic offerings, recruitment and support of accomplished faculty, and classroom and other campus facility enhancements. Annual gifts to The Fund ensure that the University can continue to provide the highest level of academic excellence possible.

Hofstra has experienced extraordinary success over the past 10 years, and it is through the vision and investment of our alumni and friends that we have been able to achieve so much. Unrestricted funds are critical to the University’s future, and we hope you will join those who have already given this year. Thanks to your support, gifts to The Fund have grown 28 percent over the past two years!

Please visit hofstra.edu/giving to make a gift online.

Whether your gift is $10 or $1,000, your commitment is important to the University and to generations of Hofstra students. You can choose to make a one-time gift or sign up for our monthly giving program. Make Hofstra University your philanthropic priority, and help us achieve even greater success.

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Hofstra Chosen to Host

2012 Presidential Debate “ I am absolutely delighted that the Commission has chosen to return to Hofstra University for one of America’s most important political events. ...

It was an extraordinary experience for our students and faculty in 2008 and allowed our community to witness, firsthand, the democratic process.”

— President Stuart Rabinowitz

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he Commission on Presidential Debates announced on October 31, 2011, that it had chosen Hofstra University for the site of its October 16, 2012, presidential debate, which will be in the “town meeting” format. The Commission on Presidential Debates, a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation, has sponsored and produced every presidential and vice presidential debate since 1988. The Commission’s selection of Hofstra has made the University one of only two schools to host back-to-back presidential debates. Hofstra University hosted the third and final presidential debate of the 2008 election cycle, between then-Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, on October 15, 2008.

every academic discipline,” said President Rabinowitz. “We will use our experience and every opportunity to involve students, faculty and the community in this historic event.”

“I am absolutely delighted that the Commission has chosen to return to Hofstra University for one of America’s most important political events,” said Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz. “It was an extraordinary experience for our students and faculty in 2008 and allowed our community to witness, firsthand, the democratic process. I am so pleased that another generation of Hofstra students will be able to witness history and become involved in an active and meaningful way.”

Hofstra University will again use the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex as the venue for the debate, and the adjoining Mack Physical Education Center as home for the media center, which will host hundreds of journalists from around the world and all the major networks, as well as support services for the Commission on Presidential Debates. Other Hofstra University facilities have been selected for support services for media and visitors. The University once again received unanimous support from local, regional, statewide and federal officials, as well as all local and regional public agencies.

The University will again host an election-themed event series to inspire and engage students. “During the last presidential election, Educate ’08, our award-winning event series, gave students the opportunity to learn from some of our country’s greatest political minds and journalists, to travel to primary sites, or to volunteer or intern with political or media organizations; and it touched students and faculty in almost

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President Rabinowitz also announced that David S. Mack ’67, Hofstra alumnus and secretary of the Board of Trustees, has made a commitment to help underwrite the cost of hosting the 2012 presidential debate. “The generosity of David Mack allows us to host an event of this magnitude, benefitting thousands of students and showcasing our great University, without using tuition dollars. We are grateful for his leadership and commitment to Hofstra and the democratic process.”

Coverage of the 2008 debate at Hofstra may be found at hofstra.edu/debate. Information about the 2012 debate schedule and site selection process may be found at the website for the Commission on Presidential Debates at debates.org.

Paul G. Kirk, Jr. (left) and Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. (right), of the Commission on Presidential Debates, joined Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz in welcoming guests to the 2008 presidential debate at Hofstra.

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HAPPENINGS impeccable integrity and with a deep commitment to academic and professional excellence. He was a brilliant student and is a distinguished alumnus and valuable advisor, trustee and chair emeritus of the Board of Trustees.”

Recently, Deane made a $20 million commitment to the School of Law, which will be dedicated to enhancing the school’s academic quality. Previously, he endowed a distinguished professorship in constitutional law, as well as a Law School scholarship with his wife, Barbara. He has participated in the Alumni Mentor Program and served on committees for a number of key events, including Hofstra’s 75th anniversary and the annual Gala Ball.

Plant Department staff put up signage signaling the dedication of the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.

Hofstra Names School of Law for Maurice A. Deane Hofstra University recently named its law school the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University to honor a distinguished alumnus with a unique 30-year commitment to Hofstra that was forged when he embarked on the pursuit of a law degree after a career as a successful business executive.

Maurice A. Deane’s story is defined by distinction in both business and in academics. During his 26-year career with Endo Laboratories, he helped build the firm into one of the largest privately held pharmaceutical companies in the nation and facilitated its eventual sale to DuPont. After the sale, Deane was named president of the company, until his retirement eight years later. He continued to serve on Endo’s board of directors for several years after his retirement.

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At the age of 50, Deane enrolled at Hofstra School of Law and graduated first in his class. He was a mentor and personal and professional role model to his classmates. At the 1981 commencement, he received awards for constitutional law and evidence. The award currently bestowed on the Law School valedictorian each year at graduation is named in his honor.

Over the next 30 years, Deane’s bond with Hofstra and the Law School deepened as he contributed to the University community in new and exciting ways, serving as both adviser and benefactor. As a University trustee and then chair, he guided the University with particular attention to academic excellence. In 2008 he was named chair emeritus.

“Maurie holds a very special place in the history and the development of the Law School,” Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz said. “He is a person of

Naming the school for Deane seems a fitting way to close out the Law School’s 40th anniversary year, said Dean Nora V. Demleitner. “It is a privilege to be dean at such an important moment in our school’s history,” she said. “This naming serves as the perfect bridge between a proud past and a promising future.”

Hofstra Launches School of Engineering and Applied Science Hofstra University will establish a School of Engineering and Applied Science with a co-op education program that will partner with a network of industry leaders to offer students substantial work experience before they graduate. The new school signals Hofstra’s goal to be at the forefront of science and engineering education, and to act as an incubator for research and development that prepares students for a complex marketplace.

The new school will combine and expand Hofstra’s existing Departments of Engineering and Computer Science to develop a curriculum that emphasizes high-tech research, practical work experience and interdisciplinary study, integrating resources and faculty from

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Members of the University administration and the Time Capsule Committee prepare to bury the capsule in front of Hofstra Hall.

other parts of the institution, including the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business.

Time Capsule Tells the Story of a 75-Year-Old Hofstra by Billy Finnegan ’14

Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz said, “Establishing a School of Engineering and Applied Science will make Hofstra only the third university in the New York metro area to have schools of law, medicine and engineering (the others are Columbia University and New York University).”

The Hofstra community came together on May 11, 2011, to commemorate 75 years of growth and success by presenting and burying a time capsule in front of Hofstra Hall.

The plan for the new school was crafted with the help of an advisory panel of industry leaders and alumni whose members will act as mentors for students and help Hofstra build a network of business partners to participate in the cooperative education program.

Hofstra already has three programs – mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and engineering science – that are accredited by the international Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), as well as a popular concentration in computer entrepreneurship for students interested in launching their own high-tech startups.

Coordinated by the Student Committee of the 75th Anniversary, it is hoped that the time capsule will provide the future

Hofstra community with an accurate picture of what the campus was like in 2011. Assistant Dean of Special Collections and University Archivist Geri Solomon offered an overview of the items inside: there were news clips (some Hofstra news, some general current events) and Hofstra memorabilia, such as an alumni mug and a Charles Jenkins basketball jersey. Perhaps the most unusual item was donated by science faculty members: a beaker of 2011 atmospheric gas. There was also a pair of flip-flops, a Blackberry phone, and a Greek organization windbreaker.

“We wanted the items to say, ‘Hofstra,’ but we also wanted to include specific cultural things, icons of the time,” Dean Solomon said.

Dean Solomon, who oversaw the preservation of the items in the capsule, worked closely with Peter Libman, dean of students and chair of the Student Committee. Dean Libman was glad to organize such a project. “[The Time Capsule Committee] was a great group to work with ... everyone worked well putting the event together. We had a lot of fun doing it.”

Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz and Vice President for University Relations Melissa Connolly, who served as chair of the 75th Anniversary Committee, spoke at the ceremony and helped the Time Capsule Committee and the Plant Department bury the capsule.

A sampling of items that were buried in the time capsule.

The time capsule will be excavated in 2036, when Hofstra University celebrates its 100th anniversary. The committee is looking forward to returning for the opening.

“I’m very excited about being there for the ceremony when they open it,” Dean Libman said optimistically. “We’ve all made a commitment to come back.”

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Zarb School Featured in The Princeton Review’s Best 294 Business Schools The Princeton Review, an education services company, featured the Frank G. Zarb School of Business in the 2012 edition of Best 294 Business Schools.

“It comes as no surprise to us that Zarb is featured in The Princeton Review’s Best 294 Business Schools: 2012 Edition,” said Dr. Patrick Socci, dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business.

“Throughout all Zarb School of Business programs, the importance of lifelong education, ethics in business, an awareness of global issues and concern for the environment are emphasized.

While pursuing their studies at our school, students are able to participate in a wide variety of activities and cultural events on campus, as well as take advantage of the rich diversity of activities and business opportunities available on Long Island and Manhattan, which makes this school not only a great place to achieve an excellent education but also to experience life.”

The Frank G. Zarb School of Business is one of 67 schools in the book (22 percent of the 294) that appear on one or more of the book’s ranking lists. It is ranked in the top 100 in the Academics, Professors Interesting, Professors Accessible, Career Rating, and Admissions Selectivity categories.

Off-B’way Shines Spotlight on Hofstra Alumni and Faculty Talents

Alumni and faculty from Hofstra University’s Department of Drama and Dance collaborated on an ambitious off-Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s one-act plays Footfalls and Not I. This limited engagement, titled A Stain Upon the Silence, was performed at the 45th Street Theater in New York City, from October 6 to 16, 2011. Both plays explore two conflicted and isolated women as they struggle to express their humanity.

Marci Skolnick ’01 in a scene from A Stain Upon the Silence.

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Cara Castronuova ’04 (center), a recent trainer on The Biggest Loser, with Hofstra students Andrea Ordonez and Ashley Freeman, both Class of 2013.

A Stain Upon the Silence was produced by James Monahan, who graduated from Hofstra’s Department of Drama and Dance in May 2011. His production company, Studio 216 Productions, brought in director Jean Dobie Giebel, sound designer Rychard Curtiss, and scenic designer James Hart – all professors in the Department of Drama and Dance.

Leading actress Marci Skolnick is a Hofstra alumna from the Class of 2001.

For more information on future Studio 216 projects, visit Studio216Productions.com.

Golden Gloves Champion Cara Castronuova ’04 Speaks to First-Year Students Cara Castronuova ’04, a former nationally ranked boxer turned certified personal fitness trainer, health writer, boxing commentator and journalist, actress and judge on the NBC reality show The Biggest Loser, returned to Hofstra on September 3, 2011, to speak to first-year students about healthy living, overcoming obstacles and making the most of college life.

“Hofstra provided a great foundation for me to push myself to do better things in my life,” said Castronuova, who graduated with a degree in communications. “It means a lot to me to meet students and give them strategies for fulfilling their potential, because I was in their place once. With all the changes occurring for freshmen, fitness and exercise can help you adapt and keep you physically and mentally strong.”

The event was part of Hofstra’s annual Welcome Week, which consists of a variety of academic programs, trips, guest speakers, and social and educational activities designed to cultivate relationships and immerse new students in the Hofstra community.

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Dr. Dana Brand

Dana Brand was a former chair

of the English Department and taught all genres and periods of American literature. He had been on the Hofstra faculty since 1989. Dr. Brand was the author of The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge, 1991) and numerous articles on topics in English, American, and French literature, philosophy, and film. He was also a personal essayist and the author of 2007’s Mets Fan, a collection of essays about his experiences as a baseball fan.

He wrote a second book about baseball fandom in 2009 titled The Last Days of Shea. Professor Brand was particularly active in Hofstra’s Honors College, where he taught in Culture and Expression.

At the time of his passing, Dr. Brand and Dr. Richard Puerzer, associate professor and chair of the Department of Engineering, were in the midst of working with the Hofstra Cultural Center on a 2012 conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets. The April 26-28 conference will be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Brand. For more information on the conference, visit hofstra.edu/Mets.

Shortly after the spring 2011 semester ended, the Hofstra community was shocked and saddened by the passing of two distinguished faculty members: Professor of English Dana Brand in May and Associate Professor of Psychology Vincent Brown in August. In September there was more sadness when Hofstra learned of the loss of Professor Emerita Lenore Sandel (M.S. ‘63, Ed.D. ‘70).

Vincent Brown had been on the

Hofstra faculty since 2001, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in cognitive psychology, research methods, and statistics. He was previously an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and a visiting assistant professor at Clarkson University and the University of Richmond. From 2008 to 2010, he served as program director in perception, action, and cognition at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Brown was co-principal investigator, with Hofstra Associate Professor of Computer Science Simona Doboli, of a National Science Foundation grant on neural network models of individual and group brainstorming.

Dr. Vincent Brown

Dr. Lenore Sandel

Lenore Sandel was one of three

people to receive Hofstra’s first doctoral degrees in 1970, and she was inducted into the Hofstra Honor Roll in 2010. She had joined the Hofstra faculty in 1964 after earning a master’s degree in reading in 1963. Prior to that, her first full-time position, as a clinician/ diagnostician in the Reading/Writing Learning Clinic, was created for her by the director of the Reading/Writing Learning Clinic, Dr. Miriam Schleich.

Dr. Sandel’s love of education began with student teaching, more than 65 years ago, and included years of substitute teaching in all grades and subjects, and almost 30 years at Hofstra University. She retired in 1992 after a long and illustrious career at the University, but continued to work as an adjunct professor. In 1994 she was named professor emerita, a tribute to her “long and meaningful service as an accomplished member of the faculty.”

In 2000 Dr. Sandel made a donation of her historically valuable collection of children’s books to the Special Collections Department of the Hofstra Library. She continued to contribute to the Reading/Writing Learning Clinic for many years as a reviewer of children’s and professional books.

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Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine students take part in an antiterrorism training exercise at a simulated subway station on Randall’s Island.

Fiore Mastroianni tags a mannequin victim.

Med School Students Receive

First Responder Training The air was humid and thick with smoke in the subway station. Groans from injured passengers seemed to come from everywhere, their twisted bodies splayed across the platform. In one subway car, a young man appeared to have lost an arm. Nearby, another passenger was trapped between the car and the platform.

A bomb, very likely the work of terrorists, had just ripped through the largest subway system in the world.

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he 10 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who arrived at the scene had their work cut out for them. They had to count the number of victims and report back to their medical branch director. They had to set up a triage, move patients to a safe area (even if it meant carrying them up eight flights of stairs), and determine if there were any secondary bombs in the area that could explode and cause further injuries.

It was chaos, but the attack wasn’t orchestrated by terrorists – it was an exercise put together by the members of the Fire Department of the City of New York at the department’s Training Academy on Randall’s Island, where more than 2,000 firefighters and EMS personnel are trained each year.

On this September day, the FDNY was giving Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine students intense training as first responders to a simulated terrorist attack. The students’ EMT training is a core element of the first 100 weeks of the medical school’s groundbreaking curriculum and gives the students their first exposure to the clinical practice of medicine. The course uses the standard New York State Department of Health EMT curriculum, as well as more advanced scientific and clinical concepts. The day at Randall’s Island, essentially the culmination of the students’ nine-week EMT training, offered a unique opportunity for them to gain hands-on, realistic experience – right down to encountering fire, smoke and seriously wounded victims.

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“By putting the students in these mass casualty incidents, they not only learn emergency response, but more important, they learn how to work as a team while dealing with a situation that is fraught with chaos, urgency and emergency,” said Dr. Lawrence Smith, founding dean of the medical school.

The exercise included a subway catastrophe and a bus bombing. Every student performed as an EMT, as well as playing the role of a victim. Prior to the reenactments, FDNY Deputy Medical Director Dr. Douglas Isaacs gave the students a lesson in the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment, or START, system – that EMTs use when working a mass casualty incident. They also heard from Captain Anthony Sannella, who explained the “physics of bomb blasts” and from Division Medical Director Dr. Bradley Kaufman, who went over how to classify and prioritize injuries and warned that first responders must remain keenly aware of their surroundings during a mass casualty incident.

“Tunnel vision happens when you arrive at a scene, because you tend to focus in on the victims,” said Dr. Kaufman, “but this can cause you to miss something important, like a secondary device or a suspicious person. So when you arrive, you need to take in the whole scene.”

The students learned how to “package” a victim in a flexible, plastic sled, called a “sked,” and how to use a triage tag system that helps first responders sort and prioritize treatment of

patients during a disaster. These tags are not only important for “grading” a victim, but also for keeping track of victims.

Meanwhile, medical students who played victims took their roles seriously as well. They cried out in pain, screamed for help and wandered off – anything to create more chaos and confusion for their colleagues. Jonathan Mallen was assigned to play a 20-year-old man with multiple injuries. In a bit of improvisation, he even faked losing an arm.

“Most of the seriously injured victims were mannequins, so I thought I would make it more interesting,” Mallen said FDNY personnel also demonstrated the rescue of a “space case” (a victim who has fallen between the subway car and the platform), by using a hydraulic lift to push the train away from the platform.

After a short break, the students moved on to the bus bombing exercise – with this warning: be on the lookout for people or objects that may seem out of place. For example: Is someone wearing a heavy jacket in the middle of the summer, or maybe, amid the chaos a backpack or bag placed a little too neatly against a lamppost?

Then it was time for casting. “Who wants to be a female with a broken arm?” “Second degree burns? A gash on the forehead?”

FDNY EMS instructors Rick Marrone and Jason Acevedo were the special effects experts who, using putty and fake blood, created gruesome gashes, wounds and protruding bones. Student Niki Sheth was dusted with black soot to make her appear like a burn victim. Classmate Branson Sparks threw himself into the role of a 60-year-old man with respiratory problems, suffering mental confusion after the blast. Sparks wandered off, again and again, forcing one of the EMTs to run after him.

“In a ‘daily emergency,’ such as a car accident, you have all the resources you need,” Dr. Isaacs said. “But in a mass casualty

incident, your victims overwhelm your resources, and an EMT’s goal must be to do the greatest good for the greatest number of victims.”

The Hofstra North Shore-LIJ medical students worked quickly and efficiently, clearing the scene of people who could walk to safety, and then forming a triage for the remaining patients.

Victims were whisked between the scene and the safe areas, but no one noticed the dummy dressed in a bulky jacket that was hiding a pipe bomb – the secondary device at the scene that Dr. Kaufman had warned everyone about. Eventually, the students were “tipped off” by one of the victims.

Student Travis Doering, at the debriefing later, said: “Everyone worked well together. But we missed the pipe bomb.”

Classmate Bin Yang described the day at Randall’s Island as an “amazing experience.” “I was quite taken aback by the simulations and by how much thought went into creating the mass casualty incidents,” he said. “It exceeded my expectations.”

Mallen noted how difficult it was to balance the needs of the victims with the need to stay alert to the surroundings and potential threats.

“It’s hard not to have tunnel vision,” Mallen said. “When you arrive at the scene, it’s chaos and you tend to focus on helping people.”

While the students had participated in simulations before, the Randall’s Island exercise was invaluable because of its scale, said Dr. Thomas Kwiatkowski, assistant dean of education/ simulation and the EMS course director. “Randall’s Island was a special event in a very special environment,” he said. “It allowed students to experience a large-scale disaster, a nearrealistic environment and an opportunity to practice their EMT skills in the rescue, triage and treatment of patients.”

Med students Asaph Levy (left) and Travis Doering (right) prepare to take a mannequin victim to safety.

EMTs are busy at work attending to victims of a simulated bus explosion.

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FacultyNews William McGee

Professor Reveals Troubling Truths About the Airline Industry William McGee’s book Attention All Passengers: The Truth About the Airlines will no doubt stir up some turbulence for the airline industry when it is published by HarperCollins this spring. McGee, an adjunct associate professor of English at Hofstra and Class of 1984 graduate, is also the travel editor for Consumer Reports. During his tenure at the well-respected magazine, he has covered a multitude of shortcomings and even dangerous practices involving airline maintenance, security measures, and safety guidelines, as well as passengers’ annoyance with the multitude of fees charged for baggage handling and other services.

McGee’s successful writing career has not been without its own bumps in the road. “I was not a good student before I came to Hofstra,” he admits and adds that Hofstra was the third college he attended. “Before I discovered writing, I never considered myself a good student, but coming to Hofstra turned my life around. Within one year I was on the dean’s list, won a creative writing scholarship, and the Eugene Schneider Fiction Award.”

He gives a lot of credit to his faculty mentors, Tom DeHaven and Julia Markus (who still teaches on the English faculty).

“They convinced me I wasn’t crazy and that I had talent. They also encouraged me to pursue an M.F.A. in creative writing.”

McGee isn’t shy about sharing his academic experiences with his own students. “I believe there are a lot of other people like me out there who might be confused about their direction in life and discover themselves in college.”

Following graduation, Professor McGee was eager to be free of the classroom for a while. He did not feel ready to dive into an M.F.A. program, which he did eventually pursue and complete at Columbia University. But first, he says, he began freelance writing, and “I wanted to travel. I took a job with a small airline working on charter flight operations.” He stayed in the industry for seven years and traveled around the world.

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His experiences in that job prompted him to focus his writing on travel and aviation.

Eventually he landed a position as the editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter.

Professor Bill McGee’s book Attention All Passengers: The Truth About the Airlines will be published this spring.

Working with Consumer Reports was unlike any other writing assignment he’d ever experienced. “It gave me a lot of discipline. They’re very strict about fact checking – you can’t be sloppy about your research because every detail is vetted.

If I didn’t have the experience of working at Consumer Reports, I wouldn’t have been able to write my book,” which needed the same level of attention to detail and carefully documented research.

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Consumer Reports pushed McGee into the public spotlight as a media expert.

While other magazines and newspapers held back on criticizing airline security because of the risk of losing big name advertisers, Consumer Reports – which is not-for-profit and doesn’t accept advertising – was not worried about sharing unsettling information about air travel and security.

Post-9/11, McGee says, “I was in a media vacuum. People had stopped flying and no one wanted to address what was happening. At Consumer Reports we sat down and started talking about what consumers wanted and expected the airlines to do.”

Because of his continued coverage of the airlines, McGee was appointed in 2010 to serve on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Future of Aviation Advisory Committee.

The aim of the committee was to provide information, advice and recommendations to Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood on ensuring the competitiveness of the U.S. aviation

passengers’ rights, and addressing concerns about airline maintenance outsourcing, which remains a critical threat to safety.

In the course of writing his book Attention All Passengers, McGee traveled on 15 different domestic airlines over an eight-month period, and even spent some time at an airline call center in India. He expects that the book will expose some details about airline operations that consumers will find disturbing, but he hopes the issues he raises will prompt positive action and policy.

Bill McGee in 1986, during his days of working in the airline industry.

industry and its capability to address the evolving transportation needs, challenges and opportunities of the U.S. and global economy. McGee was the only representative on the 19-person committee representing the rights of consumers.

Among the panel’s recommendations was a proposal to educate parents and caregivers about the dangers of flying with young children in their laps, rather than seating them in child restraint systems. The committee asked the DOT to update the economic and safety data around the issue and consider a rule requiring all children under 2 to be in safety seats. Additional recommendations include urging the DOT to enforce airline

Not too long ago, McGee reminisces, flying was an exciting and special adventure for people. He even cites the new television program Pan Am, which evokes the glamour air travel once held. “Along the way,” he says, “flying became a commodity, not a service industry. People are more brand loyal to supermarket products than they are to airlines. That’s the whole reason the frequent flyer programs were started – to promote brand loyalty. Consumers need to know that the airlines don’t all have the same safety records, they don’t have the same hiring standards and safety training for pilots – they’re not all equal. Car companies compete on safety – the airlines do not.”

Back on the ground at Hofstra, McGee serves as a thesis advisor for students enrolled in the English Department’s new M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. He also advises the Hofstra Writers Club and teaches creative writing and prose writing, which, ironically, is the same course that inspired him as a student. He says his work at Hofstra is healthy for his off-campus endeavors. “Your writing is going to be better if you’re teaching writing, critiquing writing. Constantly reading and thinking about the craft spills over into my own writing.”

Attention All Passengers: The Truth About the Airlines will be available in bookstores in May 2012.

G. Stuart Smith

Journalism Professor’s New Book and Course Meet a Growing Industry Need In the black of night, the camera focuses in on a pair of legs wading through the knee-deep, murky waters of a remote swamp before it pans out to an image of armed police officers in pursuit of drug smugglers. Thus began a news story reported, filmed and edited entirely by G. Stuart Smith, who in the 1970s was a young journalist working for the NBC affiliate near Charlotte County, Florida. As a one-person bureau, he covered his beats alone, taking on the roles of both reporter and cameraman.

Little did he know then that 35 years later, he’d be writing about those experiences in Going Solo: Doing Videojournalism in the 21st Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), a cutting-edge book aimed at training a digital generation of aspiring journalists how to singlehandedly create all the

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FacultyNews elements of a broadcast or Web video story. Smith, an associate professor of journalism at Hofstra since 2003, also uses his book to teach a new required course called Multimedia Journalism Video, preparing students to meet the growing need in a money-strapped industry for “backpack” journalists who can do it all.

Professor Smith, who has produced two documentary films and won more than two dozen awards over the years for his work as a videojournalist, had initially considered becoming a lawyer or going into the military as a teen growing up in Albion, Indiana. But in the late 1960s, when he was a junior in high school, his interests changed as he began to question the government’s role in the Vietnam War. “I didn’t trust government, and I understood even as a young person that they were telling us lies during the war, so I really wanted to speak truth to power,” he says. “Over the years as I worked as a reporter, I found that there are a lot of honest people in government, but there are also others who are in public service for the wrong reason. I’ve tried to point out both in my work.”

As a reporter for the college paper at Ball State University, Smith started to understand the power of the written word: “I really started seeing that I could have an influence. When I write something, people react to it.” Feeling his strengths lay more on the broadcast side, Smith minored in radio/TV along with a double major in journalism and political science, and would later go on to complete graduate studies in broadcast journalism at the University of Missouri, home to the country’s first-ever collegiate journalism school.

His first professional job was at WCTW-WMDH, a small AM/FM radio station in New Castle, Indiana, where he was reporter, then news director. “My beat was the county courthouse, and I’d go down there every day looking for news, talking to public officials in the various county offices or covering meetings,” Smith recalled recently. “And I began to see, over and over, that some people during the election season would be working on campaign materials in their offices, which was blatantly illegal. So I reported on that.”

The move left him ostracized, but he didn’t regret it. “I was serving the public, and officials should not have been working on campaigns during public time. This is why I got into journalism, and it took time but people eventually respected my work and saw that what I was reporting was true and right.”

Smith’s commitment to unbiased reporting helped him break a story during the Watergate scandal. “I was in Indiana, far removed from Washington, D.C., but our congressman, David Dennis, was on the House Judiciary Committee, which was investigating the impeachment of President Nixon.” Anytime Smith saw something on the newswires about the Judiciary Committee, he’d call Dennis, a staunch Republican and Nixon

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loyalist, for comment. When the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to release the tapes and Dennis saw the damning evidence, he called Smith to tell him that he was now voting against the president. “He called me – I didn’t call him – because I had built up that contact with him over many months, and he trusted me to tell the truth about his perspective,” says Smith. His exclusive with the only Indiana official on the Judiciary Committee won his small local station some impressive statewide coverage.

During 17 years as a reporter, videographer and special projects producer in Fort Myers, Smith interviewed sources and shot video on subjects that ranged from important community issues (contaminated drinking water, harmful pesticides) to the quirky and offbeat (a Big Foot sighting).

Then, as a senior reporter during the recession of the 1990s, he agreed to work for a while with a pay cut and fewer hours before turning his sights north and on teaching. It was time for a change, he says.

At Hofstra, Smith was encouraged by Carol Rich, then chair of the Journalism Department, to beef up the broadcast classes, which had up to that point been designed by professors with print backgrounds. “After I was there about a year, I told my colleagues that we’ve got all the pieces here for a converged newsroom. We needed to have a place where students could work and feel like they were producing an actual news product and not just doing class projects, so in the fall of 2004, I made a proposal for what eventually became NewsHub,” Hofstra’s state-of-the-art newsroom and multimedia classroom. He credits colleague Sybil DelGaudio, at the time dean of the School of Communication, for much of NewsHub’s success. “I thought we would just convert one of the existing classrooms but once she got hold of the idea, she really made it into something bigger and greater than I had ever conceived,” he notes.

One of Smith’s goals over the years at Hofstra was to make sure journalism students learned how to not only write and report the news, but also shoot and edit video, a task that had been handled by students in the Radio, Television, Film (RTVF) Department. “My colleagues in RTVF agreed with this also, and slowly we’ve absorbed more and more of what the RTVF students were doing for broadcast journalism students.”

In fact, starting this year, the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations has done away with “broadcast” or “print” tracks, instead requiring all journalism students to learn basic multimedia skills along with other core classes such as reporting, law and ethics. Students still have the flexibility to study and master one area such as magazine

writing, broadcast journalism, online journalism or information graphics.

Next up, Smith hopes that journalism students will soon have the ability to produce a daily television newscast. “We’re doing that now with WRHU, which is such a wonderful tool for students. They do 24/7 broadcasting, including a lot of news reporting, and it’s a great deadline-driven experience.

I’d love to see something similar on the TV side to help us get to the next level.”

Professor Smith is now working on a book and documentary project about his great aunt Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her husband, William Friedman, who were pioneer code breakers for the American government.

Kaushik Sengupta

Bringing Hofstra’s M.B.A. Program Online Dr. Kaushik Sengupta is the director of Hofstra’s newly launched online M.B.A. program, New York’s first distance learning program in strategic business management. Hofstra Magazine talked to Dr. Sengupta about the development of the program and its place in Hofstra’s academic community.

Dr. Sengupta acquainted himself with the online students. He said, “We did not want this to be an online program only ... Right from the beginning, we had the objective that these online M.B.A. students should feel they are a part of the Hofstra community.”

What was the driving force behind Zarb deciding to create a fully online M.B.A. program?

We have been offering online courses at both the B.B.A. and M.B.A. levels for about five years now. There is a core group of full-time faculty members who are quite adept at teaching online. We figured that this program would be the next natural step in the evolution of our graduate programs. In addition, we have had requests from prospective students and alumni that they would like to earn an M.B.A. from Hofstra, but could not do so because of schedule and logistical issues, having to come to campus two to three evenings during the week. This program allows working professionals to get an outstanding education without leaving their current location.

What were some of the issues or concerns that came about when creating the program?

We really had a very short time for developing and promoting the program. A program like this usually takes a year, sometimes more, to develop. We conceptualized the structure

of the program over the 2010-2011 academic year, but really started putting it together only in February and March of 2011, with actual promotion beginning in April. That was the main concern – do we have sufficient time to do everything to get a cohort going in the fall? Thankfully, everything worked out great in the end, although we surely had some anxious moments over the summer.

What are some of the elements of the program that set it aside from others like it?

In terms of the structure and recognition, this program is no different from our on-campus M.B.A. offerings. For instance, the degree and transcripts do not indicate this is being delivered online. This program is also AACSB accredited.

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FacultyNews However, there are several components that make this program unique – the residencies in New York that allow the students to come together as a group for a few days and interact with faculty members and industry leaders; the global practicum, which consists of an international trip to supplement the global focus of the program; the availability of campus services, including The Career Center; and an outstanding quality of distance learning courses taught only by full-time faculty members, most of whom are experienced at teaching online. The strategic business management concentration is also new and unique for this program, and it was designed again with an eye toward the type of students we thought would be attracted to this program – students with several years of work experience, looking at a more general, strategic focus in their M.B.A., while anchored in the functional basics and a global setting. I think all these elements together set the program apart.

Tell us a little bit about the first class of students?

Our first cohort has 18 students – a really diverse group.

Geographically, we have folks from Utah, Arkansas, Bermuda, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. We have several who live and work in Manhattan who wouldn’t have joined a Hofstra M.B.A. program if it wasn’t online. About 30 percent of the group are Hofstra alumni, including people who have earned master’s degrees and J.D.s from Hofstra. A few of the students are already doing really well in their respective careers, and all of these people looked at the program as a way to increase their knowledge and to be even better in their professional roles. For example, we have a person who is the CFO of a major hospital system, another who is the senior vice president and general counsel of his company, several students who are in the financial sector in New York, and a few who have their own businesses. So, it is quite an eclectic and mature group.

enhanced nature of learning that takes place in these courses.

One of the things we developed during the admission process was to create a sample course for prospective students to view – this also helped them get a feel for how these courses would be taught.

The students are required to complete a residency program at the beginning of the semester – why make this a requirement, and how did the first residency go?

We did not want this to be an online program only, with no connection to the excellent, physical campus setting that we have. Right from the beginning, we had the objective that these online M.B.A. students should feel they are a part of the Hofstra community and, therefore, we needed to build this residency component. It was also important for the group to interact with the faculty members, administrators and other on-campus services. In addition, because we were doing this in New York, we designed a component where the students interacted with a few industry leaders. Therefore, the residency component was designed as an integral part of the program – this is not a correspondence course type of program. It is a program that brings much more value to the students, and the residency is a big part of it.

The first residency was outstanding. Over four days in August, we met at the Glen Cove Mansion and on the Hofstra campus. There were interactive sessions with senior administrators, faculty members and industry leaders. We had two excellent visits with Capital One and with Bank of New York Mellon. The students really came together as a group, and they deemed the interaction with faculty members as invaluable. For instance, the group met with each of the faculty members teaching the courses in the first semester in

In your opinion, what seems to be the driving force behind these students deciding on a fully online degree program?

I had extensive interactions with each of these students during the admission process. I think the major driving force is that all of them felt a need to further their education to progress in their careers. However, because of hectic work and family schedules, none really were in a position to be in a program that required them to be on campus every week. So, the online delivery was definitely a key factor in their deciding to join the program. This and the fact that they knew the quality of the programs that come out of Hofstra helped them decide to enroll.

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Students had the opportunity to mingle with one other, Hofstra faculty and industry insiders during the residency component of the online M.B.A. program.

Professor of Marketing and International Business Barry Berman (far right) speaks to the online M.B.A. students at the Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room.

separate sessions – this was treated as an introduction to the courses and really helped the students get a sense of the course and instructor expectations. We feel this will continue to be a key component of this program and may actually end up having a slightly larger role in the future.

Please explain the global practicum requirement at the end of the first year.

As we all know, most business decisions and strategies today are devised in a global context. The concentration in strategic business management in this program has courses looking at the global perspectives of various business decisions. The global practicum is an integral part of this aspect. This would consist of an international trip to one or two countries where the students would interact with industry leaders and practitioners in those countries. Our experiences with such a component in other programs have shown that students come back with many new ideas and insights as to what it takes to succeed globally.

You are now into the first semester – how is everything going? How are students adjusting to the online curriculum?

Everything is going great so far. The students, I think, are still going through a period of adjustment, as many of them have not taken a formal set of courses in a long time. But I think they are doing fine overall and will do great in the program.

These online courses really have quite a bit of interaction among the students and with the instructor. Students interact through discussion forums, videos and online case discussions

(L to r) Zarb School Dean Patrick J. Socci, Hofstra Online M.B.A. Program Director Kaushik Sengupta, and Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Herman A. Berliner at the online M.B.A. orientation luncheon.

– I don’t think the students are having any issues with this aspect. This is where the first residency in August really helped – these students already came to know one another as part of being together for four days; they also came face to face with the instructors. So, when they started the online courses, they already knew everyone, and this has significantly helped the interaction.

Tell us where you would like to see this program go in the future? Additional majors? Growth potential?

I would like to see this program develop further with additional majors and options. The potential is limitless, as the online delivery mechanism frees up the campus-focused constraints. We also strive to engage corporate clients, as the online medium of delivery allows corporations to have employees in various locations be a part of the program.

While we think of expanding the program, we will be careful in deciding the exact path of future expansion. Our oncampus programs are the key to our success as a business school and will remain so for the foreseeable future. As I discussed before, the online program takes advantage of the available technology – the degree and transcripts are the same as in the regular M.B.A. Therefore, any subsequent developments in the program will happen with respect to the overall strategy for program development in the school. We are having discussions on adding new majors (such as health care) and providing an option for students to marry the on-campus majors with the online offering in a more hybrid option. These are still in discussion, but I think the program will have additional options in the near future.

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Campus Takes Part in

9/11 Remembrance

The Circle of Remembrance allowed members of the Hofstra community to plant a flag in commemoration of the 9/11 anniversary.

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ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was presented at Hofstra on Monday, September 12, 2011. The commemoration was held at the Court of Courage on the South Campus, in front of C.V. Starr Hall. President Stuart Rabinowitz and others spoke to a crowd of students, faculty members and staff, as well as the family members of some of the victims of the 9/11 attacks who were part of the Hofstra community.

“In the aftermath of 9/11 we mourned the loss of nearly 3,000 victims, and we especially grieved the loss of 27 members of the Hofstra family – 26 alumni and a student. And we will honestly never be the same,” said President Rabinowitz.

“But along with the pain and the sorrow and the fear, let us continue to honor the memories of those we lost by living our lives as we did in the immediate aftermath of the tragedies. That is by caring about each other, caring for each other and by helping those who are in need.”

Within the Court of Courage is the Hofstra Labyrinth and artist John Safer’s sculpture “Phoenix,” which was commissioned by the University and dedicated in 2003. The sculpture, a stainless steel flame, rests on a black granite base, adorned with a plaque that lists the names of the Hofstra community members who perished on 9/11.

On the other side of California Avenue, in the quad in front of Calkins Hall, Hofstra’s Office of Student Leadership and Activities sponsored a Circle of Remembrance and invited passersby to plant a flag in commemoration of the 9/11 anniversary.

The perimeter of the flags formed an outline in the shape of the United States.

In addition to a number of other events, Hofstra University’s Department of Special Collections presented an exhibition of 18 photographs titled Hope and Healing at the Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall on the 10th floor of the Axinn Library.

The display featured images of the devastation and destruction in New York City, as well as photos of memorials set up around Long Island and artistic and community projects done in response to the events of that day.

The intended effect of the images was to not only have the viewer reflect on that day, but also propel him or her toward a more hopeful future. “While we shouldn’t lose sight of what happened, the exhibit reminds us how far we’ve come in 10 years and the important role that art has played in our healing process,” said Geri E. Solomon, Hofstra assistant dean of special collections and university archivist.

Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz addresses the campus community in front of the sculpture “Phoenix.”

“ In the aftermath of 9/11 we mourned the loss of nearly 3,000 victims, and we especially grieved the loss of 27 members of the Hofstra family – 26 alumni and a student. And we will honestly never be the same.”

— President Rabinowitz

The Axinn Library has an extensive collection of 9/11 materials that is available to the visiting public. An online exhibit of more than 500 photographs of 9/11 memorials set up all around Long Island can be viewed at hofstra.edu/911collection.

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9/11 and Learning at Hofstra

Randy Hillebrand

Coordinator of Facilities Training and Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, Film

I remember I had a 9:30 a.m. class on 9/11, and of course by that time we knew something major was taking place. The students didn’t know how to handle it, and I wasn’t sure how to handle it, but I suggested that we hold class and try to work our way through the morning. By the time class ended around 11, we could see on the news and on peoples’ faces the magnitude of what was taking place.

I think there was a part of my mind that was evaluating the coverage – the professor in me was interested in that. We were all looking at it from a critical point of view until such time as that became unimportant – which wasn’t too far in. This was a historic time for television. I think research will eventually come out that shows 9/11 was a defining moment for television news. It reminded everyone, even with the emergence of the Internet, that there still isn’t anything like television to bring communities together.

What impact did this have long term? Certainly our journalism program has expanded tremendously this last decade. I don’t know if we can say that 9/11 is a root cause of this, but it certainly had to play some part.

Doris Mardovich plants a flag at the base of “Phoenix” in memory of her son, Ed Mardovich ’83.

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11 prompted thought on how that day impacted the faculty of Hofstra – how they teach and what they teach. Hofstra Magazine asked some faculty members to share their thoughts.

I don’t think we had an opportunity to see how students would react to another crisis situation until the Virginia Tech campus shootings happened.

This time, the RTVF 164 Television Production students producing the Hofstra Television News & Views student newscast [led by Kenny Pelczar, now an Emmy Award-winning photojournalist] realized they had an opportunity to not just report the news, but provide viewers with perspective and context. They became more aware through 9/11 and Virginia Tech that they live in a world where bad things happen. As journalism students, they have the ability to respond proactively, productively and in a way that can help them and their viewers process critical information.

Watch News & Views coverage of Virginia Tech at: www.htvinteractive.com/index.php/Archive/2007/News-Views.html

Maria Fisher-Timson, sister of Andrew Fisher ’83, who perished on 9/11, is interviewed by Hofstra Video Productions Producer/ Director Leonard Thon and Assistant Producer Brian Potts.

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Andrea Libresco

Associate Professor of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership

We certainly address how to approach the subject of teaching 9/11 in our Elementary Education Methods class. Teachers need to be ready to deal with children’s questions about 9/11. We talk about what young children might know – some children have an idea of what happened, but they may have questions, too.

I think the most important thing we try to teach our students is that, when broaching the subject of 9/11, you have to come at it from where the kids are and not where you are – just because it’s foremost on your mind, doesn’t mean that it will register with your students in the same way. For those of us who lived through the day, it may be incredibly important. But today’s children were not alive 10 years ago. Unless their families were directly affected by the day, 9/11 may not be a big part of their lives. It may never mean as much to them as it does to us.

The day after the 10th anniversary of September 11, I participated in a panel discussion, organized by Dr. Warren Frisina, titled “Changes in American Conversation Since 9/11.” The panel consisted of faculty from all different areas of the University. The best thing about the event was that the students carried on the discussion for more than an hour after the faculty finished speaking. Sometimes, students’ voices are not heard enough at university-wide discussion events. Of course, there was some back and forth, but the students spoke intelligently and thoughtfully. It was a remarkable conversation.

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Prior to 9/11 I can remember my frustration that students weren’t more involved and engaged in what was happening around the world. After the attacks, there was definitely a surge in the number of students who wanted to major in political science and take classes in our department. Before 9/11 our department was focused heavily on American politics – for some time, we hadn’t had a full time faculty member available to teach about the Middle East. We have since brought in Dr. Stefanie Nanes, who has made a great contribution to bringing to the University a greater understanding of the politics of the Arab and Muslim worlds.

We also have Dr. Paul Fritz, another fulltime faculty member, who specializes in security issues and teaches the political ramifications of defense policies. Our curriculum changed, and interest in student clubs – such as Model UN and political party clubs – has increased. The energy of that time was definitely behind the drive and excitement to bring the 2008 presidential debate to our campus.

We were stunned on 9/11. Students were extremely upset – many of them had family and friends who were working at the World Trade Center.

We had an adjunct faculty member working there who was able to make it out.

At a recent alumni event I attended in the city, there was a group of graduates talking about 9/11, and some were finding parallels between that day and the assassination of President Kennedy.

During both times, our department was in a place to help make sense out of what happened. It’s been a long, difficult road, but I think we’ve been able to shine a brighter light on the future. To work in a classroom environment where people are able to speak frankly and explore the important issues facing our world is a precious opportunity.

Our student body since 9/11 has become more international, more diverse. Students are concerned about the kinds of jobs they’re going to get after they graduate.

They’re very career oriented, and our Career Center has become much more developed. Students are very interested in internships and networking. I don’t know if this is because of 9/11, but it has definitely been a trend since that time.

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Associate Professor of Finance

The Zarb School’s Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room opened not long after 9/11, and initially we saw it as a place where people could work if there was another crisis in New York City’s financial district. Unfortunately, this would be impossible as regulatory requirements are so tremendous.

However, 9/11 forced companies to start thinking about and planning for disaster. Before, we saw ourselves as invulnerable. The Zarb School curriculum shifted a little bit.

Students are now interested in risk management – what happens when financial institutions shut down, how to restart business operations off-site.

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Teach for America Sparks Alumni Interest in Educational Equality

Jill Reinholt

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– Laura Wesely

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Wesely is a Spanish teacher for Teach for America (TFA), a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate educational inequity by recruiting competitive college students, called corps members, to teach for two or more years in low-income communities throughout the United States. After completing five weeks of summer training, which TFA calls “summer institute,” Wesely began teaching at Edna Baugh Middle School in Oakland, California, as part of the Bay Area corps. Today, one of the most difficult parts of her job is managing diversity.

“Diversity is good and bad,” said Wesely, who majored in Spanish and German and minored in sociology. “I love that I can see and talk to people from many different backgrounds; it leads to rich discussion. But when you bring together children with completely different stories, expectations and parents, managing that environment is quite a task.”

ambitions. But after completing a number of business internships, Reinholt, a marketing and management major, felt uninspired and began looking for work at a nonprofit. She landed a position at the United Way of Long Island.

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Wesely is one of 14 Hofstra alumni who have participated in TFA in the last five years. Wesely said she never expected to get in. In 2011 The Washington Post reported that TFA accepts 11 percent of applicants. With her passion for educational reform, though, Wesely seems to be a perfect fit for the organization.

“I have strong convictions about addressing the social issues in our schools,” said Wesely, who attributes much of this enthusiasm to Sociology of Education, a class she took at Hofstra with William Mangino, associate professor of sociology. “I think it’s wrong that kids in certain zip codes get a poorer education than children in others. TFA’s philosophy aligned with mine. It sees itself as part of that movement to improve education, and I want to be part of it.”

While Laura Wesely aspired to a career in teaching, Honors College alumna Jill Reinholt had different

“In my second week, I was charged with organizing the Stuff A Bus campaign, a major event for which area businesses donate school supplies for high-needs schools,” Reinholt said. “When I delivered the school supplies to the children, I saw the joy and thankfulness on their faces. It was on that day that I knew I wanted to be in education in some way.”

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Reinholt joined the New York City TFA corps in 2011 as a fourth grade teacher at PS 18 in the Bronx.

Although the major societal issue TFA aims to address is the achievement gap, Reinholt insists that to combat this problem as a teacher, she must ignore it.

“In my experience at institute, I learned that kids are kids,” said Reinholt, who was surprised by the amount of parental involvement at her school. “Labeling them perpetuates that gap even more. As an educator you can’t go in there and say, ‘these kids are from low-income communities.’ You have to treat all kids like they can learn, and more often than not, they can.”

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Pay Attention to the

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Actor Tom

McGowan ’81 Is Having a Magical Time Playing the Wizard in Wicked

Tom McGowan wows audiences as the Wizard of Oz. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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For nearly two and a half years, character actor Tom McGowan ’81 has been starring in the wildly successful musical Wicked.

In the national tour and now on Broadway, McGowan has filled the large green shoes of the Wizard, who is not quite so wonderful in this story about the witches of Oz. McGowan’s show business breakthrough came in 1991 when he received a Tony Award nomination for La Bête.

Afterward he began appearing in television sitcoms, starting with the Fox comedy Down the Shore, and later in recurring roles in Frasier as Kenny the station manager, and then in Everybody Loves Raymond as Ray’s buddy Bernie. More recently McGowan has been seen on the small screen in Desperate Housewives, Hot in Cleveland and Curb Your Enthusiasm. His film credits include Sleepless in Seattle, As Good As It Gets, Heavyweights, Ghost World, Bad Santa, The Family Man and The Birdcage.

Hofstra Magazine had the opportunity to speak with McGowan about his successful career and his advice for students pursuing careers in the performing arts.

What is it like taking on the role of the Wizard of Oz – a character people love and probably think they know going into the theater?

TM: It’s fun to play a part where people assume you will be one way and then find out that the story is quite different – and that’s a lot of what this play is about. People think they are coming to see a version of The Wizard of Oz. They are primed to love the Wizard, and then during the course of the story, they find out things about him that they’re not thrilled about.

In this play the Wizard is really there to help the witches, Elphaba and Glinda, tell their story. My impetus as an actor is, What can I do to help these actresses tell the story they need to tell? They’re such fantastic parts, and the Wizard is very key, especially to Elphaba’s story. Both times these characters meet one another, she comes in with one expectation and leaves a different person.

People who come to Wicked expecting some light children’s fare are probably surprised at how deep and emotional the story is.

TM: Audiences really respond to it. When I was on tour with Wicked, I got the sense that people came in thinking, “This is a kids show.” It’s not that way at all – it’s for everybody. If you like comedy, if you like a great story, if you like beautiful music, if you like the sheer spectacle of live theater, you’ll love Wicked.

Performing on Broadway has been very special. I’ve enjoyed being back on the East Coast. A lot of my Hofstra friends and my friends and family from New Jersey have come to see me.

What are the challenges of working on such a huge and technically complex production?

TM: I’ve never worked for any theatrical production that was near the scale of this.

It’s really awe inspiring. I did the second national tour of Wicked for a year and performed it in San Francisco for a year. Just the thought that there are multiple huge sets like this traveling the country is amazing.

It’s really so impressive what they do – the lights, the sets, the costumes. The show is done on a huge, old-fashioned Broadway scale. The Wizard appears late in Act I, so at some point I usually watch some of the musical numbers from the side of the stage.

With all that is going on with the sets and costume changes, I always have to be careful that I don’t get run over by a huge piece of scenery. (continued on page 32)

The company of Wicked.

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You’ve done theater, film and television. Do you prefer one genre over the others?

TM: Creatively, there’s nothing like the theater. I love rehearsing. I love choosing how to present the play. I love performing in front of a live audience. With that said, I also love doing television. I’m still not quite comfortable with film, but I haven’t had the same types of roles in film as I’ve had in television.

Working on Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond were just fantastic experiences.

I love the sitcom format. It’s great for having a family life. You get to go home at night and see your kids. I feel really lucky that I’ve been able to do a little of everything.

To what do you attribute the longevity of your career as a character actor?

TM: At Hofstra I had a couple of leading roles, but I seemed to gravitate toward the parts as the best friend or the uncle. I actually like those parts – they are usually meatier and funnier, and they can be darker to play.

After Hofstra I spent a few years waiting tables, doing little shows here and there, and then I got into the Yale School of Drama. About five years after graduating from Hofstra I got my first agent. He said, “We really like you, but you’re probably not going to be working for a few years.

Once you hit your 40s your career will really start.” And I just got lucky.

I started working right away. La Bête was

one of the big breakthroughs, but before that I had done three years of regional theater, and I worked at the Public Theater doing Shakespeare.

I leave myself open to opportunities and whatever seems interesting at the time.

All through the years I was doing Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond, I would spend my summers doing regional theater and kept my name out there as someone who loves working in the theater.

Phil Rosenthal ‘81, executive producer and creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, was your close friend and classmate at Hofstra. What was it like being a part of that show?

TM: Phil and I are great friends. We moved to the city together after Hofstra.

I’ve known him since I was 18. The first television show I did was a sitcom that he was a writer for, Down the Shore.

When Raymond happened – well, you just never know what’s going to click.

Phil and Ray [Romano] just really connected, and Phil really fought to get the best cast possible. I think I was in three of the first six episodes, and you could tell right away there was something special there. Ray was a better actor than they could have hoped for. He and Patricia Heaton had great chemistry.

Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle were great. And Brad Garrett was this incredibly funny character. Very few of the writers left, which is unusual, because typically when a show is successful, the writers get new deals and leave.

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I did about 20 episodes over the course of the years. There was always great camaraderie on the set.

What’s ahead for you?

TM: The word is there will be a lot of television pilots shooting this spring, so I’m hoping I’ll be able to get back into television, because I’ve been away for a couple of years. Wicked has been a spectacular job. I love it, and I hope I can come back to it in the future.

My daughter is a junior in high school, so I’d like to be home [on the West Coast] so I can see her through the rest of high school and get her settled into college.

I have a son at U.C. Santa Cruz. So it would be nice if some television work would keep me home for a while.

What advice would you share with current drama students and recent alumni about succeeding in the performing arts?

TM: I would say the No. 1 thing is to be nice to everybody – an underrated quality in show business. There just aren’t enough people being nice to each other.

I would also suggest continuing to study and to work on anything you can to get experience.

Another piece of advice Phil and I followed: if you want to be an actor and work in New York or L.A., move there the day after you graduate. Don’t go home. If you go home, the summer goes by, six months go by, a year goes by, and what do you have to show for it? Phil and I had a couple of hundred dollars for an apartment, and we moved into the city and got terrible jobs. Then we got slightly less terrible jobs. But we were in the city pursuing our careers from the day after graduation.

Tom McGowan (right) with Kathryn Kaufman and his longtime pal Phil Rosenthal in the 1980 Hofstra Shakespeare Festival production of Twelfth Night.

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Meet the

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Alumni Award Winners Hofstra University and the Alumni Organization hosted the 2011 Alumni Awards Dinner at the Garden City Hotel on September 23.

Alumni and friends celebrated the personal and professional accomplishments of nine distinguished alumni and friends of Hofstra University.

(L to r) Gerard N. Giovaniello, Irwin E. Redlener, Jack A. Weisbaum, Marilyn B. Monter, Reginald AndrĂŠ, Nancy F. Kaplan, and Andrew F. Corrado. (not pictured: Tejinder Bindra, Diana E. Lake)

Alumnus of the Year

Young Alumnus Award

The Alumnus/Alumna of the Year Award is given in recognition of exemplary career achievement and/or outstanding service to Hofstra University or the Alumni Organization.

First presented in 1996, the Young Alumnus Award is given to alumni who, within 10 years of graduation from Hofstra, have achieved significant accomplishments in their professional lives or rendered outstanding service to Hofstra University or the Alumni Organization.

Award for Alumni Achievement The Award for Alumni Achievement is given to Hofstra alumni who have distinguished themselves in their chosen fields of endeavor and/or rendered exemplary service to Hofstra University.

Honorary Alumnus Award First awarded in 1977, the Honorary Alumnus/Alumna Award is given to friends of Hofstra in recognition of outstanding service to the University or the Alumni Organization.

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Alumna of the Year

Marilyn B. Monter, J.D. ’76

Marilyn Monter recently completed her term as chair of the Board of Trustees at Hofstra University. Her tenure has been marked by many milestones in Hofstra history, including the accreditation of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine from its accreditation, the entrance of its first class this past fall and the recent announcement of a new School of Engineering and Applied Science. “I accept this award not for what I have accomplished, but for what President Rabinowitz and the Board have accomplished these last few years.”

Ms. Monter is executive vice president of The Holiday Organization, Inc., a Westbury-based real estate development company, founded by her father, Gerald Monter, in 1951. The Holiday Organization is the developer of the various Hamlet communities on Long Island, as well as several Colony communities in South Florida. In addition, the company developed three golf course communities on Long Island, which include one private and two public facilities.

After earning a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law (now the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University), Ms. Monter served as assistant dean of the law school, and then became an in-house attorney for Allied Chemical Corporation (now Honeywell International, Inc.). She joined The Holiday Organization in 1984.

She is vice president of the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center, and vice chair of Planned Parenthood of Nassau County. In addition, she is a member of the board at The INN, and has served on the boards of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine.

She is a former trustee of Friends Academy. In 2005 Ms. Monter was named a “Woman of Distinction” by Distinction magazine, and in 2008 and 2009 she was honored by Long Island Business News as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women.

Honorary Alumnus Award

Tejinder Bindra

Tejinder Bindra is a member of the Hofstra University Board of Trustees and CEO of Jeetish Group of Companies. He co-founded Jeetish, an import company, in 1979 along with his father and brother. Later Jeetish diversified into other businesses but remained under the umbrella of Jeetish Group of Companies, with interests in apparel, export/import and real estate.

He is the founder and president of the Sikh Art & Film Foundation, an organization that has been at the forefront of promoting Sikh heritage, art and culture in the United States. Mr. Bindra sponsors the annual Vaisakhi celebrations at the Consulate General of India. He also partnered with the Jewish Community Relations Council to co-host “Connecting Building Bridges,” an event that was inaugurated jointly by Consul Generals of India and Israel. Mr. Bindra is also the founder and president of the Sikh Organization of New York and has led two very successful delegations to the state government, on behalf of the SikhAmerican community. These efforts resulted in Vaisakhi being recognized as a “Sikh American Day” by the state government, and in the introduction of an assembly resolution for the freedom to wear turbans by state police and other state employees.

Sardar Ishar Singh Bindra, Mr. Bindra’s father, endowed the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies at Hofstra University and also established the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize to promote religious tolerance.

Mr. Bindra is the recipient of the 2011 Ellis Island Medal of Honor and has been honored many times by various Indian and American organizations for his work in the community.

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Andrew F. Corrado, M.B.A. ’92

Andrew F. Corrado is Nassau County market president at Capital One Bank. In this role, he focuses on improving customer experience, growing revenue, leveraging market opportunities, and overseeing and coordinating resources that impact local communities.

Mr. Corrado also serves as senior vice president heading Capital One’s Professional Services and Private Banking Division across the country and is a longtime community advocate. He currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Maurer Foundation for Breast Health Education. He was previously secretary and treasurer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island and continues to serve on that organization’s scholarship committee. In 2010 he was recognized as Man of the Year by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island.

Mr. Corrado graduated from Hofstra with a Master of Business Administration. He is president of the Zarb School of Business Alumni Association and was recently asked to join the advisory council board for the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University.

In conjunction with Hofstra’s Zarb School of Business and Capital One Bank’s Community Development Group, Mr. Corrado helped develop the Campus Entrepreneurial Challenge, a unique program that provides coaching and mentoring opportunities to Zarb School students and also provides a financial grant in the form of seed money for a business startup. This program also includes coaching and mentoring opportunities for business students from Uniondale High School.

During his Alumni Awards acceptance speech, Mr. Corrado said, “Over the last several years I have had the pleasure of working with Hofstra in many ways, and every time I do it, I feel I get something out of it. It’s such a great feeling to give back to the community.”

Alumni Achievement

Gerard N. Giovaniello, B.A. ’64

Gerard “Jerry” N. Giovaniello is senior vice president of government affairs and chief lobbyist of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), the nation’s largest professional association, representing more than 1 million members involved in the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Mr. Giovaniello manages the association’s government affairs staff and serves as NAR’s chief lobbyist for members of Congress from California, Washington, Nevada, Hawaii and Oregon.

Before joining NAR in 1981, Mr. Giovaniello was chief of staff for two members of Congress from California: Rep. Jerry Pettis (R-Calif., 1972-1976) and Rep. Jim Lloyd (D-Calif., 1976-1981). During those nine years, he also taught political science for the Washington, D.C. Semester Program of The Claremont Colleges in California.

Mr. Giovaniello has been a policy analyst and writer for National Journal, a weekly magazine covering the federal government and public policy issues. After earning a graduate degree in history from New York University, he fulfilled an ROTC commitment to the U.S. Army. He served as an officer in Vietnam and Washington, D.C., from 1968 through 1970.

“I don’t think I’d be standing here if Hofstra didn’t award me a scholarship as a student,” he said upon accepting the Alumni Achievement Award. “Hofstra prepared me to be extremely flexible, and when I look back on the milestones of my career, Hofstra gave me the ability to accomplish them all.” He also thanked his sisters, who took on his responsibilities at home, allowing him to focus on his education.

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Alumni Achievement

Nancy F. Kaplan, B.A. ’73; M.A. ’91; Ph.D.

In her acceptance speech, Nancy F. Kaplan reminisced about working as a waitress at the Hofstra University Club, working on Program Board and on Don Kirschner’s In Concert series at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse, as well as her years on WVHC, then the campus radio station.

She changed her major seven times before finding her niche in media communications. “My love for learning was instilled at Hofstra, and I chose to give back.”

She is associate professor in the Department of Radio, Television, Film in Hofstra University’s School of Communication, and her research interests include media literacy, new and interactive media, entertainment education, and media accessibility for individuals with disabilities. Dr. Kaplan is founder and faculty adviser of the Hofstra chapter of the Association for Women in Communications (AWC).

Dr. Kaplan is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (NAMAS), New York State Communication Association, and Broadcast Education Association (BEA). She has worked as a producer, director, writer, associate director, stage manager and journalist in both studio and field production for commercial television (ABC, CBS), public television (WLIW), and corporate and educational media, encompassing more than 1,500 shows at the network level and more than 4,000 productions on the local level, including work at WWOR, WSNL, WCBS and cable. Some of her network production credits include Good Morning America, One Life to Live, All My Children, SportsBeat with Howard Cosell, As the World Turns, and PrimeTime Live. She has served as a judge for the New York International Film and Television Festival, the Emmy Awards, and the Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival.

She produces and facilitates the Annual Jewish Film Festival in Bellmore, New York. Dr. Kaplan is the co-author of the book Student Television in America: Channels of Change (1998), and she also wrote “Multimedia: Information, Knowledge, and Converging Technologies,” a chapter in the book Les Medias et L’information aux Etats-Unis de 1945 a Aujourd’hui (published by Universite Paris — Sorbonne 1997).

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Diana E. Lake, B.A. ’68; M.D.

“I decided to become reacquainted with Hofstra, after talking with an associate who was also a Hofstra graduate, and learning about plans for the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine,” Dr. Diana E. Lake explained when accepting her Alumni Achievement Award. After that she became involved in the University’s Women in Leadership initiative, a professional resource and powerful network for both Hofstra alumnae and current students.

Dr. Lake is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), with a practice that is devoted solely to the care of patients with breast cancer. Dr. Lake’s research interests involve all areas of breast cancer but focus mainly on the development of new therapies, prevention of cancer recurrence following surgery, and treatment of recurrent disease.

Working in conjunction with colleagues on the Breast Cancer Medicine Service at MSKCC and as the liaison in breast medicine to the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (a national clinical trial cooperative research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute), Dr. Lake is involved in clinical trials to develop better hormonal therapies and improved medical approaches for all stages of breast cancer.

She is a member of the Advisory Council to the National Institute of Nursing Research. She has been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Scientific Review Committee, and has previously served on the NIH Cooperative Group Review and the Cancer Education Committees.

Dr. Lake holds a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Hofstra University and a Doctor of Medicine from Chicago Medical School.

Her hematology/oncology fellowship training was at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Lake is presently a clinical associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Irwin E. Redlener, B.A. ’64; M.D.

Dr. Irwin E. Redlener is president and co-founder (along with singer-songwriter Paul Simon) of the Children’s Health Fund, a philanthropic initiative created to develop health care programs in some of the nation’s most medically underserved urban and rural communities. He is also director of The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and recently served as one of 10 members of the federally appointed National Commission on Children and Disasters.

“I came to Hofstra 50 years ago,” Dr. Redlener said in his acceptance speech. He says his experience in Hofstra’s New College “was a time of profound insight and learning in a new way that influenced the rest of my life.” In a 2010 interview with Hofstra Magazine he had said, “The professors were uniformly remarkable and inspiring. They helped us not only grasp individual topics, but also relate them to larger concepts, and see how different issues and ideas are interconnected.”

Dr. Redlener has published, spoken and testified extensively on the issues of health care for homeless and indigent children, child abuse and neglect, and national health policy. Recognized as a national expert on a range of issues, Dr. Redlener also speaks and writes extensively on national disaster preparedness policies, pandemic influenza, the threat of terrorism in the United States, and the impact and consequences of major natural disasters and related issues.

Dr. Redlener worked extensively in the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina and helped establish ongoing medical and public health programs. He also organized medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 and has had disaster management leadership experience internationally and nationally. He is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now, published in August 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. The nationally acclaimed New York Children’s Health Project, one of the country’s largest health care programs for homeless and disadvantaged children and their families, was developed in 1987 by Dr. Redlener. In 1993 Dr. Redlener served as a member of the White House Task Force on Health Reform, under President Clinton.

From 1997 through 2003, Dr. Redlener also had a lead role in the development of The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, where he served as president and chief spokesman. The hospital remains one of the most advanced and innovative facilities of its kind in the world.

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Dr. Irwin E. Redlener earned the M.D. from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, with pediatric training at Babies and Children’s Hospital of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, University of Colorado Hospital and the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He holds an honorary Doctor of Science from Hunter College of the City University of New York, among numerous other awards and honors.

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Alumni Achievement

Jack A. Weisbaum, B.B.A. ’64

Jack A. Weisbaum has been employed in public accounting for more than 50 years. He is currently CEO of BDO USA, LLP, a position he has held since 2003, and previously served as chairman of the board.

He also served as national leader for the firm’s specialized services business line, where he focused on bankruptcy and restructuring. Mr. Weisbaum has been a trusted advisor to hundreds of businesses, ranging from small private companies to major corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He has been honored by various organizations for his contributions to the business community, including the American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith, and New York Institute of Credit.

He is professionally affiliated with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, serves on the board for the Center for Audit Quality, and serves as associate chair for the Catalyst Awards annual reception.

In addition to his leadership roles at BDO, Mr. Weisbaum and his wife, Mary, are very active in local and national charities. He has received awards of recognition from various charities, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Since earning a B.B.A. from Hofstra in 1964, Mr. Weisbaum has maintained a strong connection to the University. He is currently a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, and he also established the Jack Weisbaum ’64 Endowed Scholarship.

Young Alumnus

Reginald André, B.B.A. ’04

Upon receiving the Young Alumnus Award, Reginald André thoughtfully thanked Hofstra faculty “who make a difference in students’ lives” and his parents “who dragged me, kicking and screaming, from being a brat to someone who can win an award from a prestigious university.”

Mr. André is vice president of the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group at Goldman Sachs and Co. in New York City, where he is co-business unit manager for the Risk Management & Analytics teams across the AIMS businesses. Mr. André focuses on leading the capital management, cash and credit management, and communications management functions as well as new business development and infrastructure within the AIMS Private Equity Group. He also serves as deputy diversity champion for the Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division.

Mr. André joined Goldman Sachs and Co. as an analyst in 2004.

While earning a B.B.A. in finance at Hofstra’s Zarb School of Business, Mr. André served as student president of the Financial Management Association (FMA), a pre-professional organization with the purpose of preparing students for careers in finance. Since graduation, he has maintained a strong connection to the FMA and has applied much of what he learned there to his roles within the Zarb School of Business Alumni Association.

In 2008 Mr. André was asked to help structure and lead the Zarb School of Business Alumni Association’s Career Networking and Advisement Committee. He accepted and went on to sponsor a number of networking events and develop several successful studentfocused programs designed to engage Zarb alumni, the Hofstra Career Center and student-leaders. Many of these programs have run every semester, bringing dozens of Zarb alumni back to campus and reaching hundreds of Zarb students.

In 2010 Mr. André was elected to his current role as the Zarb School of Business Alumni Association’s first vice president.

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Garden Dedicated to Music Legend

Ellie Greenwich ’62

Ellie Greenwich was Hofstra’s Spring Queen in 1961.

The garden dedicated in memory of Ellie Greenwich is located outside the New Academic Building on the South Campus.

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Songwriting legend Ellie Greenwich, who passed

away in 2009, was a Hofstra alumna whose hit songs defined an era of American music. “Be My Baby,” “Chapel of Love,” “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Then He Kissed Me,” “Do Wah Diddy,” and “River Deep, Mountain High” are just a few of the hit songs she either wrote or co-wrote. On October 30, 2011, Hofstra University dedicated a garden on campus to this musical “Leader of the Pack” (another of her songs!).

The tranquil space is located just outside Hofstra’s New Academic Building, home to the Department of Music.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame credits Greenwich as one of the most successful songwriters of modern pop music.

Her songs, which have sold in the tens of millions, earned her 25 gold and platinum records and more than 33 BMI Awards, as well as numerous civic and Hofstra alumni citations.

Greenwich wrote her first song when she was 13 and formed an all-girls group called The Jivettes. Her sister, Laura Weiner, who attended the garden dedication, spoke extensively about Greenwich’s love for creativity.

After graduating from high school in 1957, Greenwich attended Queens College for one year as a music major.

In an informal autobiographic essay, titled “All About Me,” she remembered a discouraging experience that led her to

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transfer to Hofstra. “I made (wrote and sang) a record for RCA and proudly brought it to my music class – only to have my professor play it for the class, while holding his arm on the handle, causing the needle to scratch and ultimately warp my record – telling me and the rest of the class (I was humiliated) that’s what he thought of this kind of music and that I’d better get really serious ... and so on and so on ...

I did ... I QUIT!” Greenwich majored in English and minored in secondary education at Hofstra. Weiner said, “Ellie had some of her best experiences at Hofstra.” Greenwich wrote, “During my years at Hofstra, I was in Wreath & Foil sorority where I was honored as the most active and most beloved sister in the same year. I performed in some of the musicals done at the Hofstra Playhouse. I was Outstanding Senior Woman and, unbelievably, voted Spring Queen in 1961.” Also in 1961, she met co-writer Jeff Barry, whom she later married, and they experienced much success, working with music leaders such as Phil Spector and the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

“Ellie was a woman before her time,” said Weiner. “It wasn’t accepted for a woman to be connected in that end of the business; it was a man’s world.” However, gender inequality did not stop Greenwich during these years. She seized the charts as one of New York’s top demo/session singers and vocal arrangers, working with artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Blondie, Jim Croce, Dusty Springfield, Lesley Gore, Electric Light Orchestra, Bette Midler, The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby Darin and even Cyndi Lauper, on her hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” She is also credited with discovering Neil Diamond and was a frequent collaborator, singing background on his hit songs “Cherry, Cherry” and “She Got the Way to Move Me,” among others. Diamond told Rolling Stone after her death, “If I hadn’t met Ellie Greenwich I wouldn’t have had a career.”

In 1985 The Leader of the Pack, a show about her life and music, opened on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Musical category. In May 1991 Greenwich was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 2010 she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

(L to r) Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Alan J. Kelly; Director of Grounds Fred Soviero; Ellie Greenwich’s sister and brother-in-law, Laura and Bob Weiner; and Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Herman A. Berliner.

“Despite her fame, Greenwich was very humble and good spirited,” said Weiner. “Her passion was for music and creating, not fame and glory. She was a comedian and always knew how to make everyone laugh, but never understood the impact she had on people.”

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Peter Fraser (M.S.Ed.) of Port Washington, NY, has written More Curious Than Cautious Book II: Trekking Around Australia and Beyond, 1957-1958. The book, Peter Fraser ’52 published by Dog Ear Publishing, chronicles the adventures had by Fraser during his time in Australia, South Asia, and the Near East.

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Robert Kurzman (B.A.) of Scarsdale, NY, has been selected as a Super Lawyer in the field of estate planning, estate administration, and estate litigation. Mr. Kurzman is a founding partner of Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever and a MartindaleHubbell AV-rated attorney.

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William H. Johnson Jr. (B.A.) of Albuquerque, NM, was recently inducted into the New Mexico Business Hall of Fame.

Mr. Johnson is former CEO of The University of New Mexico Hospital, and was a cabinet secretary, human services, for the state of New Mexico.

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Joe Gaddone (B.S.Ed., M.S.Ed. ’70) and his wife, Suzanne Mueller Gaddone Joe Gaddone ’59 and (B.A. ’57), Richard Hickey ’58 along with Richard Hickey (B.A. ’58) and his wife, Judith, met for lunch in Sarasota, FL, to catch up on their activities after graduation.

Both men were members of Tamadachi Fraternity 54 years ago.

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John R. Canzanella (B.A.) of Chapel Hill, NC, has written the book Innocence and Anarchy, which offers a brilliant fictionalized portrayal of the tension John R. between the established Canzanella ’61 order and attempts at social reform in 19th-century Russia. The story follows the career of the aristocrat Nikolai Ivanovitch Bobrikov from the Caucus to Finland, as he rises to preeminence in the despotic czarist regime and becomes governor of Finland ...

Theodore Kraut (B.B.A.) of Weston, FL, is chief executive officer and partner of Corner Creek Distilling Co., which distills Corner Creek Reserve Bourbon Whiskey, and has also partnered with Accelerated Brands, a major supplier to the distilled spirits industry. Mr. Kraut is an active volunteer with 40 years of experience in youth baseball and soccer, serving as a coach in the community.

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Judith Beckman (B.A.) of Merrick, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business.

1963

Andrea (Penson) Block (ALND) of Candler, NC, is vice president of Insurance Specialties, Inc. and, alongside her husband, David, has developed the successful firm into one that reflects Andrea (Penson) her core values of Block ’63 integrity, service, and ingenuity. The North Carolina Board of Commissioners has appointed Ms. Block to serve on the Nursing Home Community Advisory Board for a one-year term ...

Michel Hersen (M.A.) of Portland, OR, has been appointed as a member of the board of trustees for Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.

He is former dean of the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University ...

Ray McGrath (M.B.A.) of Boynton Beach, FL, has been retired for the past 12 years and is currently living the best of two worlds, spending his summer on Long Ray McGrath ’63 Island and winter in Florida. Mr. McGrath is co-founder of Fleetwood Student Sales, Inc., and in the span of a 25-year career sold many products to the Hofstra Bookstore. After 10 years of service in the U.S. Air Force he reached the rank of major ... Howard Safir (B.A.) of Manhattan, NY, is a former trustee of Hofstra University and currently CEO of Bode Technology and Safir Rosetti, both companies of Global Options Group, Inc. ...

Professor Elliott Sclar (B.A.) of Larchmont, NY, has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist award to take part in a new educational exchange between the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Columbia University. Professor Sclar is the director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute; he is a professor of urban planning in Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

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Donald W. Gotterbarn ’64

Donald W. Gotterbarn (B.A.) of Johnson City, TN, received the 2010 INSEIT/Joseph Weizenbaum Award for his contributions to the field of information and computer ethics.

Mr. Gotterbarn has been

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catching up with Dr. Joseph Nowinski, a prominent family psychologist, has co-authored a book with Dr. Barbara Okun, titled Saying Goodbye. The book deals with how advances in modern medicine have resulted in extending life after a terminal diagnosis. As the nature of death and dying has changed, so has the way people grieve – it is a challenging and complex process.

But according to Dr. Nowinski and Dr. Okun’s book, it can be one of the richest and most meaningful periods a family will ever share.

What was your major at Hofstra?

Were you involved in any extracurricular activities on campus?

I majored in engineering at Hofstra and went on to work for Grumman Aerospace for four years before deciding to change course and pursue a career in psychology. I was involved in the Engineering Club but also took advantage of many activities.

Did you enter Hofstra with the goal of being a psychologist? What attracted you to this field?

Although I enjoyed science and was enthusiastic about the notion of working as an aerospace engineer, I also very much enjoyed the liberal arts electives I was able to take at Hofstra. There was a clear emphasis on having students emerge from Hofstra with a wellrounded education.

Did you have a favorite Hofstra professor or a professor who mentored you?

I remember an English teacher by the name of Sam Toperoff who was

1966

Dr. Eric J. Dietrich-Berryman (B.A.) of Virginia Beach, VA, has co-authored a book titled Passport Not Required U.S. Volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941. The book tells the fascinating tale of 22 forgotten heroes – Americans who volunteered for the Royal Navy in the dark early days of World War II.

1968

Dolores E. Cross (M.S.Ed., HND ’92) of Atlanta, GA, wrote Beyond the Wall: A Memoir. She has more than 30 years of experience in higher education; she advocated for multicultural education, championed equal education access for all students, and blazed trails as the first

Dr. Joseph Nowinski ’67 somewhat unconventional, a bit intimidating, and very popular with his students. Sam had just had his first short story published in The Atlantic, followed by a novel. He challenged me several times in class, and as a result I became much more interested in literature. He inspired me to try my hand at writing, and I had a short story published in a Hofstra publication called The Word.

lot in common with dealing with an addiction. They both represent long-term problems that involve the patient as well as the patient’s family and loved ones.

What psychological issues or conditions interest you most or do you consider your specialty, and why?

When people talk about the growing elderly population, it’s usually in the context of how it’s impacting the health care system and the economy. Your book deals with the emotional toll on patients and family members who may be facing terminal illness. What general advice would you give people in terms of preparing for this stage of life?

I have been involved extensively in research in the area of addiction, and the majority of my publications are in that area. I am the principal author of Twelve Step Facilitation Therapy, which has undergone extensive peer review and is listed in the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.

I first became interested in this area when I was director of mental health services at the University of Connecticut and became aware at that time that mental health professionals were not well prepared to understand and help people with substance abuse and addiction problems.

Getting to the new book, what was the impetus for co-writing this? Are you seeing a lot of clients dealing with endof-life issues with regard to a parent or spouse? What are the mistakes or missteps you see most often – both by the caregiver and the loved one who needs care?

Saying Goodbye came about because Dr. Okun and I decided that we wanted to write a book that we each wish we’d had when loved ones were diagnosed with cancer. Coping with a terminal or potentially terminal illness actually has a

What we set out to do, based on extensive interviews with patients and families who were facing or had faced terminal illness, was to create a “road map” that people can use as a guide when they find themselves faced with a terminal diagnosis. Today such a diagnosis typically represents the beginning of a protracted process that is stressful and confusing to all involved.

Whereas modern medicine is focused on extending life, our focus in the book is on helping patients and their families make sense of what is going on, what they can expect to deal with as time goes on, and what they can do to make this prolonged crisis more manageable.

What are some other projects you are working on?

I am currently working on a book that presents a new way of looking at addiction that will be co-published by Harvard and Hazelden next spring.

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African American female president of Chicago State University and the first female president of Morris Brown College ...

Benedict V. Scannella (B.A., M.A. ’73) of New York, NY, recently took part in the Hofstra Cultural Center’s Italian American Experience Lecture Series as a guest speaker.

Mr. Scannella is currently a teacher emeritus of humanities and Italian American studies at Benedict V. Copiague High Scannella ’68, ’73 School and the publisher of L’Esperienza Italian American Magazine. The informal lecture series was based on Benedetto Croce’s idea that history is not dead but rather the “reliving of the past in the present mind,” using a combination of live vocal performance, key ideas, lecture and – video segments from historical films.

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Martin R. Press (B.B.A.) of Fort Lauderdale, FL, was recently appointed to the board of trustees at Nova Southeastern University. Mr. Press has done exceptional work with Nova Southeastern University’s School of Law.

1970

Alan L. Codkind (B.S.) of Voorhees, NJ, recently founded Visioneering Sports Products, a worldwide sports accessory business, after inventing The CoverGuard, a golf cover tethering system to prevent accidental loss of head covers. Mr. Codkind is CEO and CMO of the company. He is also a part-time speaker at the Center for Entrepreneurship at The Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.

1971

Honorable Norman B. Coleman (B.A.) of St. Paul, MN, has joined the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP as a senior government advisor in its Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Coleman is a former United States senator, representing Minnesota from 2003 to 2009.

Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, he was mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1994 to 2002 ... William F. Schreck (B.A.) of Philadelphia, PA, was recently promoted to chief operating officer for Lannett Company, LLC. Previously Mr. Schreck held a number of senior management positions, including senior vice president of logistics ...

Ann Wall (M.S.Ed.) of Westminster, CO, is retired from teaching elementary school and currently volunteers as a host at Winter Park Ski Resort and a docent at the Denver Zoo ...

Sami Weir (B.A.) of Scottsdale, AZ, is retired and enjoying life in sunny Scottsdale.

1972

Lynne Remedios (B.B.A.) of Wyckoff, NJ, was recently honored at Berkeley College’s Faculty of the Year Awards Dinner. The honorees received awards for excellence in teaching as recognized by students and colleagues ... Susan T. Spencer (M.A.) of Maplewood, NJ, is an entrepreneur and award-winning author of the new book Briefcase Essentials: Discover Your 12 Natural Talents for Achieving Success in a Male-Dominated Workplace. In the book Ms. Spencer provides the reader with insight into the business environment for women, and uses her experiences to guide those who are interested in pursuing their business interests, from owning a company to starting a new business. Ms. Spencer is also a lawyer, and former minority owner, general manager, and vice president of the Philadelphia Eagles football franchise. Ms. Spencer has spent the last 25 years owning and running her companies in exclusively male-dominated industries after leaving the corporate world.

1973

Kevin Walker (B.B.A.) of Charlotte, NC, has joined SCBT Financial Corp.’s board of directors. He is a founding partner of Greer & Walker, the largest Charlottebased accounting firm with more than 80 employees.

1974

Andrea Feinberg (B.A.) of Port Jefferson, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ...

William J. Hendrick Andrea (B.A.) of Lynbrook, NY, Feinberg ’74 was recently appointed mayor of the Incorporated Village of Lynbrook ... Professor Chester H. Schnepf (M.A.) of New Haven, CT, recently held an art exhibit displaying Three Generations of Schnepf Art ... Maire Simington (B.A.) of Scottsdale, AZ, was installed as a Regent for the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), representing the state of Arizona. Mrs. Simington is the senior director of Care Management Services for Banner Health, an integrated health delivery system based in Phoenix, Arizona, that operates 23 hospitals in seven states.

1975

Christian N. Braunlich (B.A.) of Alexandria, VA, was appointed to the Board of Education by Governor Robert F. McDonnell. Mr. Braunlich is vice Christian N. president of the Thomas Braunlich ’75 Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and currently serves on the board of College Access Fairfax and the Fairfax Partnership for Youth. He also leads the Hofstra Club of Washington, D.C. ...

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for managers, small business owners, and human resource personnel; and author of the book Let Me Stop You Right There and 28 Other Lines Every CEO, Manager, and Supervisor Should Know. Dr. Straker has more than 25 years of experience as a mental health and management professional.

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Barry A. Kastner (B.A.) of Syosset, NY, has joined the executive team at Keltic Financial Services. Mr. Kastner holds the title of executive vice president, corporate development, and is responsible for corporate growth through strategic planning and acquisitions. Mr. Kastner joined the firm as a seasoned professional with more than 35 years of experience in commercial banking and asset-based lending with roles in field examination, portfolio management, business development and senior management ... Robert Kuchner (B.B.A.) of Westfield, NJ, was honored with the prestigious Max L. Heine Humanitarian Award in November 2011 from The Blue Card, which helps destitute Holocaust survivors.

1977

David Baronfeld (B.A.) of Huntington Beach, CA, is general manager of KLAA AM 830, the flagship station of Angels Baseball ... Joseph P. Borg (J.D.) of Montgomery, AL, was featured in an article for The Wall Street Journal for his 95 percent conviction rate ... James E. Olivo (M.B.A.) of North Merrick, NY, was elected president of the New York State Government Finance Officers’ Association for its 2011-2012 term. Mr. Olivo is the village auditor for Garden City, James E. Olivo ’77 and his election was

historic as he is the association’s first president to be elected from a village ...

Leo B. Schoffer, Esq. (J.D.) of Margate City, NJ, was appointed to the board of trustees of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He is the founder of Schoffer Enterprises, which specializes in industrial and commercial real estate development.

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Derrick G. Arjune (J.D.) of Brooklyn, NY, has written The Mailbox Syndrome. The book, published by Xlibris, takes a look at the family unit, one of the pillars of America, which is slowly being crushed in the minority community ... Jay G. Baris, Esq. (J.D.) of Bellport, NY, has become a partner of Morrison & Foerster, LLP in its New York office and leads the firm’s investment management practice ...

James Crandell (M.B.A.) of Chatham, NJ, is managing director and global head of oil field services research for Dahlman Rose & Company, LLC ... Donna Marie Cullen (B.B.A., M.B.A. ’79) of Wildwood, MO, is the president of Treasure Rooms, a baby and children’s furniture store, in Chesterfield, MO ... Alan D. Gaines (M.B.A.) of Los Angeles, CA, was appointed by Strategic American Oil Corporation as the new chairman of the board. Mr. Gaines also serves as a member of the board of directors ... Thomas J. McAteer (B.B.A., M.B.A. ’81) of West Islip, NY, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of Lakeland Industries ... Dr. Eugene G. Porcelli (B.A.) of Garden City, NY, was recently installed as the 64th president of the Nassau County Dental Society. Dr. Porcelli is currently in private practice in Garden City ... Charles C. Russo (J.D.) of Port Jefferson, NY, was the recipient of the 2008 Root/Stimson Award, which honors a lawyer who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to community service ...

Wayne C. Siebner (B.B.A.) of Farmingdale, NY, was hired by SKCG

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Elizabeth Morgan ’75

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Patricia A. Gottesman (B.A.) of Locust Valley, NY, was elected to WWE’s board of directors. Ms. Gottesman is currently president and chief executive officer of Crimson Hexagon, a social media monitoring and analysis company ...

Joseph R. Rainone (B.B.A.) of Alpharetta, GA, was recently appointed senior vice president and Atlanta branch manager of Alterra Specialty ... Mary Beth PanzecaWright (B.A.) of South Salem, NY, is publisher of the National Enquirer.

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Anthony N. Dalessio (B.B.A.) of Sands Point, NY, is managing partner at the Melville office of KPMG ... Patricia Galteri (B.B.A., J.D. ’83) of Kings Park, NY, was elected chair of the Long Anthony N. Dalessio ’80 Island Community Foundation’s board of advisors. Ms. Galteri is a board member of the Nassau County Estate Planning Council and the North Shore- LIJ Health System’s Gift Planning Advisory Committee ... Stuart U. Goldfarb (J.D.) of Weston, CT, was appointed to the board of directors for WWE and also serves as a member of the audit committee. Mr. Goldfarb is the chief executive officer at Atrinsic, Inc. and is also on the board of directors for Atrinsic and Vitacost.com ...

Kenneth Hollenbach (B.A.) of Lancaster, PA, retired in January 2008 as a domestic captain of American Airlines. He is currently seeking new professional

opportunities and has three children with whom he enjoys spending time ...

Dr. Richard Nauheim (B.A.) of Merrick, NY, was selected by The Consumers’ Research Council of America for its 2011 edition of the Guide to America’s Top Ophthalmologists. Dr. Nauheim is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is currently a clinical assistant professor of surgery at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine ...

Honorable Jeffrey S. Sunshine (J.D.) of Brooklyn, NY, was officially inducted as an elected justice of the bench of Kings County.

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Robin Gorman Newman (B.S.) of Great Neck, NY, is associate producer for the Off-Broadway show Motherhood Out Loud.

Ms. Newman has published two books, How to Meet a Mensch in NY and How to Marry a Mensch, and is the founder of MotherhoodLater.com ... Katherine N. Lapp (J.D.) of Cambridge, MA, has been named to the Fairfield University board of trustees ... Scott M. Manson (B.B.A., J.D. ’84) of Bainbridge Island, WA, is chief financial officer and general counsel at Ideal Financial Solutions, Inc., a provider of various financial products and services for businesses and individuals ...

Karen (Kaufman) Orloff (B.A.) of Hopewell Junction, NY, has written the children’s book Talk, Oscar, Please! The book, published by Sterling Publishing, is a funny and sweet story of a boy who begs his dog to talk and gives the young reader a glimpse into what life might be like if dogs could crack jokes, chat on the phone, and sing lullabies.

1982

Laurence Ballereau (B.S.Ed.) of Hicksville, NY, received one of the 2010 Music Educator of Note Awards from the Long Island Music Hall of Fame ...

James M. Beidler (B.A.) of Leesport, PA, has begun to produce From the Penn to the

Present, a book and album that include a narrative and images of key documents and maps associated with a property. Mr. Beidler is a columnist for German Life magazine and is editor of Der Kurier, Laurence Ballereau ’82 the quarterly journal of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society ...

Diane Giordano (B.B.A.) of Melville, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... Dr. Joseph O’Connor (Ed.D.) of Freeport, NY, was recently in New Zealand with his wife during an earthquake and was rerouted to Auckland. Dr. O’Connor visited Christchurch, where his plane was used to evacuate visitors.

1983

Thomas H. Astore (B.B.A.) of South Burlington, VT, is currently the tax director of Rodman & Rodman, P.C. and has been appointed to lead the Green Team in helping alternative energy and clean technology businesses determine the financial viability of their renewable energy projects and assist with the complexities of the various federal and state tax credits and incentives Christopher ... Christopher Deziel Deziel ’83 (B.A.) of Tarrytown, NY, was recognized by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide. Mr. Deziel is currently a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group at Vishnick McGovern Milizio, LLP ...

Marc L. Hamroff, Esq. Marc L. Hamroff ’83 (J.D.) of Merrick, NY,

Robin Gorman Newman ’81

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Dr. Joseph Sanacore (Ed.D.) of Northport, NY, is a professor in the College of Education and Information Sciences at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He teaches graduate courses in special education and literacy, and he has published more than 100 book chapters and articles in national and international peerreviewed journals ...

Andrea Scalisi (B.B.A.) of Merrick, NY, has been appointed senior vice president and team Andrea Scalisi ’83 leader for Private Client Services with City National ...

Philip S. Welt (B.B.A.) of Stamford, CT, is senior vice president for W.R. Berkley Corporation. Mr. Welt has oversight responsibility of the company’s operating units. Mr. Welt began his career at W.R. Berkley in 2004 and served as vice president-senior counsel ... Bari Jane Wolfe (J.D.) of Massapequa, NY, is managing director, head of regulatory relations for the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation.

Ms. Wolf and the Bari Jane Wolfe ’83 regulatory relations team work in conjunction with DTCC’s government relations group to maintain

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seamless communication with regulators and lawmakers ... Ira Wolk (B.A.) of Kew Gardens Hills, NY, was recently appointed the Long Island representative for W & E Baum.

1984

Marlon R. Braccia (B.A.) of West Hollywood, CA, has written the book The Enlightened Cook: Protein Entrees, which encourages people to eat healthy.

Ms. Braccia subscribes to ancient wisdom that says eating fresh, pure food is the only way to supply your body with the energy upon which it truly thrives ...

Alan Gelman (M.B.A.) of Las Vegas, NV, has joined IncrediMail’s board of directors.

Mr. Gelman is CFO and CEO of Bezeq, LTD ... Honorable Edward P. Mangano (B.A., J.D. ’87) of Bethpage, NY, attended the 2011 Commencement for the graduating class of Briarcliffe College as the keynote speaker. Mr. Mangano is currently Nassau County executive. He assumed the position in January 2010, bringing more than seven years of experience as a county legislator for the 17th Legislative District ...

Robert T. Spiotto (B.F.A.) of Holbrook, NY, is the artistic director of performing and community arts programs, Hofstra Cultural Center; executive producer of Hofstra Entertainment; and entertainment producer of Hofstra’s International Festivals.

1985

Scott A. Berger (J.D.) of Westport, NY, joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner in the Real Estate Practice group of the New York office. Mr. Berger was previously the global head of White & Case’s Real Estate Practice group. Mr. Berger has broad experience representing equity investors, investment funds, developers, lenders and owners in deals, including joint ventures, capital market transactions, financings, acquisitions, development, leasing, and disposition of all types of

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commercial, hospitality, mixed-use, industrial, and residential properties ...

Margaret B. Bermel (M.B.A.) of Bellport, NY, has written The Cancer Odyssey: Discovering Truth and Inspiration on the Way to Wellness. The book chronicles Ms. Bermel’s journey, searching for truth about the cancer industry and for inspiration about the purpose of life. This is the blueprint to help others overcome the fear of cancer and return to wellness ... David A. Crichlow (B.A.) of Upper Montclair, NJ, was selected by the Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) as Private Practitioner of the Year.

Mr. Crichlow is currently a managing partner of Pillsbury’s New York office ...

Laurel Kretzing (J.D.) of Huntington Station, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ...

Bernard A. Krooks (J.D.) of Chappaqua, NY, was selected by his peers Bernard A. Krooks ’85 for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 in the field of elder law. He was also named

by Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in New York for 2011 ...

John J. Leone (B.F.A.) of Maplewood, NJ, starred in his one-man John J. Leone ’85 show, Songs My Father Loved: A Tribute to the Great Italian American Singers, at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency ... Kevin Thomas O’Brien (M.B.A.) of East Northport, NY, was appointed CEO and new president of IMUA. Mr. O’Brien has more than 30 years of business and insurance experience ...

Stuart Shinske (B.A.) of Poughkeepsie, NY, has been honored with the President’s Ring

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by Gannett Co., Inc. for leading the Poughkeepsie Journal newsroom through a series of content additions and improvements that transformed the newspaper and its websites, increasing readership and revenue.

Mr. Shinske is executive editor and director of content and audience development for the Poughkeepsie Journal. The President’s Ring is given each year to a select group of Gannett executives.

1986

Michael Cardello (B.B.A., M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’96) of Plainview, NY, was appointed by the Nassau County Bar Association to serve as chair of the Commercial Litigation Committee ...

Michael Cardello ’86, ’89, ’96 Maria A. Grasso (B.B.A.) of Smithtown, NY, received the 2011 Outstanding Executive Award. Ms. Grasso is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Flushing Savings Bank ... John Hoffman (B.A., M.B.A. ’93) of Cranford, NJ, was appointed by Northern Trust as president of its New York Personal Financial Services business. Mr. Hoffman manages all aspects of Northern Trust’s New York Personal Financial Services business, including client service and new client development ... Russell Kane (B.A.) of Bellerose, NY, has written Fighting the Long Sorrow: A Journey to Personhood. The book, published by Outskirts Press, chronicles the story of Theodore “Teddy” Fitzgerald’s experience as a student during the Deaf President Now movement in 1988 ... Ellen Kessler (J.D.) of Woodmere, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... Brian M. Brian M. Laibach ’86 Laibach (M.B.A.) of

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Judith A. Wild (J.D.) of Manhasset, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... Adam Wysota (B.S.) of Weston, CT, joined The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation as managing director and chief technology officer ... Marc Zaretsky (B.B.A., J.D. ’91) of Garden City, NY, was promoted to vice president by Hill International in New York City.

1987

Priscilla Almodovar (B.A.) of New York, NY, heads Chase’s national community development real estate lending business, which extends $4.3 billion in financing to 75 community development organizations and more than 900 affordable housing and economic development projects across the United States ... Janice Gable Bashman (B.A.) of Dresher, PA, was nominated for a 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction for her book titled Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil (co-authored by New York Times bestseller author Jonathan Maberry). The novel deals with the struggle of good vs. evil in film, comics, pop culture, world myth, literature, and the real world. It includes interviews with Stan Lee, Charlaine Harris, Peter Straub, and many more, and is fully illustrated by top horror, comics, and fantasy artists ... Tanya Carter (B.A.) of Greenville, MS, received the 2010 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. The award recognizes the achievements of individuals or organizations who have worked diligently to prevent crime, drug, and gang violence ...

James V. Mahon (J.D.) of Apex, NC,

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recently became a partner of Andrews Kurth, LLP ... William A. Munck (B.S., J.D. ’92) of McKinney, TX, was named by D Magazine as one of the top lawyers in Dallas and was also recognized William A. Munck ’87

by Best Lawyers in America’s list of Texas Best Lawyers. Mr. Munck is the co-founder of Dallas technology-based law firm Munck Carter ...

Christine Newins (B.S.) of Levittown, NY, was inducted into Hofstra University’s 2011 Athletic Hall of Fame ... Lisa M. Ricciardi (B.B.A.) of Massapequa, NY, has been selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... Steven G. Rogers (B.B.A.) of Merrick, NY, is president and managing director of First American Title Insurance Company’s New York division ... Rita Williams-Garcia (B.A.) of Jamaica, NY, was awarded the Coretta Scott King Award for her 2010 middle grade book One Crazy Summer, which was also named a John Newbery Honor Book ... Honorable John F. Zoll (B.A., J.D. ’91) of Long Beach, NY, has been appointed as an interim civil court judge of the Civil Court of New York City and currently serves in Family Court.

1988

Kristin Cohen (B.A.) of West Orange, NJ, was named vice president for enrollment management at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, in April 2011. She anticipates earning a Ph.D. in higher education administration from New York University in May 2012 ... Michael Giannelli (B.S.) of Okatie, SC, is senior vice president, design for The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. ...

Howard Ginsberg (B.B.A.) of Roslyn Heights, NY, was named Genworth Financial top advisor for the seventh consecutive year.

Mr. Ginsberg is one of only two individuals

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in New York to ever achieve this honor for seven years. He is currently the financial director of Ginsberg Wealth Management, LLC ... Honorable Douglas Hayden (J.D.) of Floral Park, NY, was re-elected to his fourth term as village justice of Floral Park.

P. Joseph Campisi Jr. (J.D.) of Princeton, NJ, was promoted to the position of vice president and associate general counsel, transactional practice group, of BristolMyers Squibb Company ... Joseph Deguardia (J.D.) of Bronx, NY, a longtime fight promoter and head of STAR Boxing, recently promoted the first of five Punchin’ at the Paradise fight cards at Loew’s Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY. Mr. Deguardia previously served as assistant district attorney to Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson ... Emily F. Franchina (J.D.) of Huntington, NY, has become vice president of the 10th Judicial District by the New York State Bar Association ... Gary Friedman (M.B.A.) of Port Washington, NY, recieved the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island’s Rising Star award ...

Scott A. Gordon (B.B.A.) of Cupertino, CA, has joined ForeScout’s management team as vice president of worldwide marketing ... Frank Nappi (B.A.) of Massapequa, NY, will have his second novel, The Legend of Mickey Tussler, re-released along with the sequel, Sophomore Campaign, in April 2012. The Legend of Mickey Tussler was adapted as the film A Mile in His Shoes, which was aired nationwide on GMC TV on September 25, 2011. In addition to writing novels, Mr. Nappi maintains a full-time teaching position at Oceanside High School ...

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Joseph R. Paretta (B.A., M.A. ’96) of Jim Thorpe, PA, has written Mastering the Card: Say Goodbye to Credit Card Debt Forever. The book, published by Balboa Joseph R. Paretta ’89 Press, takes a positive, motivational approach to overcoming debt ...

Michael P. Pasternack (B.A.) of Plainview, NY, recently joined the firm Farrell Fritz, P.C. Mr. Pasternack’s practice includes the representation of hospitals, nursing homes, Michael P. Pasternack ’89 home care agencies, health facilities, rehabilitation agencies, and physicians ... Pamela Anthony Pincus (B.A., M.S.Ed. ’91) of Downingtown, PA, is currently a special education teacher for the Chester County, Intermediate Unit in Chester County, Pennsylvania ...

Michelle A. Riklan (B.A.) of Marlboro, NJ, is the managing director of Riklan Resources, LLC, and was recognized as the third Michelle A. Riklan ’89 place winner of the Best Creative Resume Award. This award was acknowledged at the annual Toast of the Resume Industry awards hosted by Career Directors International.

1990

Leslie A. Berkoff (J.D.) of Commack, NY, was recently named by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) as co-editor in chief of its Healthcare Bankruptcy Manual, Second Edition. She moderated the panel discussion “Hear the Preferences and

Christine Cunneen ’90

Thoughts of Judges and Trustees” at the National Business Institute’s Bankruptcy Judicial and Trustee Forum at the Long Island Hilton Hotel in Melville. Ms. Berkoff is a partner at Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP, where she also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Litigation and Bankruptcy practice groups. She concentrates her practice in the areas of bankruptcy and restructuring litigation and corporate workouts ...

Christine Cunneen (B.B.A.) of Johnston, RI, was elected secretary to the board of directors of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS). She is currently chief executive officer of Hire Image LLC, a nationwide background screening and drug testing company ... Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (B.A.) of Glen Cove, NY, was nominated by the Nassau County Democratic Committee to run for the vacant position that will be left by Diane Yatauro in the county’s 18th legislative district in November 2012. Mrs. Whitton has served on the Glen Cove City Council and is the daughter of former Glen Cove Mayor Donald DeRiggi. Mrs. Whitton currently works for a company that helps clients lower their taxes on real estate transactions, and is on the board of the Diabetes Research Institute ... Claudio A. De Vellis (B.B.A.) of Howard Beach, NY, recently joined Smith, Gambrell, and Russell LLP’s estate planning and wealth protection practice in New York. ... Brad Kovnat (B.A.) of Houston, TX, was promoted to vice president of operations for Acro Energy Technologies Corp., a leading U.S. residential solar energy integrator.

1991

Honorable Samantha (Ruiz) Cohen (J.D.) of Miami Beach, FL, was formally sworn in as a Miami Dade circuit judge. Judge Cohen is the former Miami Dade prosecutor and a university professor ... Michelle Fleishman (J.D.) of Basking Ridge, NJ, currently serves as J.H. Cohn’s associate counsel. J.H. Cohn LLP, one of the leading audit, tax, and

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catching up with Steve Denker earned a B.B.A. in marketing at Hofstra, where he was involved with the Hofstra chapter of the American Marketing Association and was a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. Today, Denker, a Pennsylvania native, lives in Atlanta, GA, and is co-founder and COO of Beach.com, a website launched in November 2011.

Do you have a favorite Hofstra memory?

I had a great experience at Hofstra and met many of my lifelong friends there.

Spring weekend at Hofstra my senior year was a great memory. I remember perfect weather, live music, a ton of people out having a good time, and knowing that it was all ending soon so I really took it in. The Hofstra alums from back then who I’ve remained close to include David Wolfson [’93], Mark Pinocci [’91], Howard Brill [’91], Mitch Weinstein [’92] and John Mikes [’91], to name a few. We were all ZBT brothers.

How did you come to relocate to Atlanta?

I had an offer from the Aramark Corporation prior to graduation. There were opportunities with the company in Atlanta, Denver and San Jose. With the 1996 Olympics coming to Atlanta, I thought it would be a strategic career move to head down south and not only work as hard as I could to learn their business, but also align myself with as many large brands as possible. As it turns out, my next career move was to The Coca-Cola Company, directly related to relationships made during my time with Aramark.

How did the idea for Beach.com come about?

With the global interest in beachrelated travel, as well as the millions of people living in beach destinations, there was a need for a complete beach portal providing local content, innovative products and expert technology.

Steve Denker ’93 What differentiates your website from other similarly themed sites?

Who do you see as your audience?

Beach.com’s unique local content is derived from both local destination experts and consumer-generated opinions. There are social applications to solicit friends’ opinions as well.

Consumers can weigh all this information to make informed decisions as to the vacation destination, hotel or vacation rental, restaurants, and activities. Beach.com manages all plans on a proprietary platform that can be shared with friends and family, with updates and reminders sent through a choice of preferred communication options.

The content is managed through our global distribution network. We have partnered with the top sites in many destinations to write original content, provide local recommendations, and answer questions through our destination forums. While some of these distributors, like St. Barth Properties and HiltonHead.com, do have a strong local presence, it’s in all of our best interests to provide the most objective content available.

Beach.com is a lifestyle site, not just a vacation booking engine. The compelling value to users is the ability to search global destinations, research accommodations and things to do, select and book hotels or vacation rentals, ask questions and seek expert local advice, receive customized local deals and offers, and share the experience. Beach.com offers its business partners the opportunity to increase traffic, revenue and branding from a targeted and loyal consumer base.

What are the challenges of starting a new business in this economy? Also, why do you see this as a good time to take a chance on offering this new travel/lifestyle service?

I believe the challenge in any economy is not just coming up with a strong idea that fills a void in the current marketplace, but having the ability to execute that business plan. Today’s

largest challenge for start-ups is capital raising. Surrounding yourself with an experienced management team with a track record of success is the key to meeting this challenge. While some may say that the existing competition in the online travel market would make any positive disruption nearly impossible, we look at it as a tremendous opportunity. Beach.com has the ability to become a destination site independent of major search engines, deliver the best value proposition to users from beach destinations around the world, and create sustaining value to its shareholders.

What advice would you offer current Hofstra students or recent graduates who are hoping to succeed in business and possibly start their own companies?

My advice would be to seek experience in the core functional areas of business before immediately going out on your own. I worked at different companies prior to co-founding Beach.com, including positions in operations and management, marketing and planning, sales and advertising, and most recently business development and finance. All of the experience, including exposure to great managers and poor ones, helped shape my approach to how Beach.com will become a global travel and media company.

Be accountable in everything you do, always negotiate, never compromise your integrity, and return all calls and emails – you’ll be amazed how appreciated it is and how few people do it.

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Andrew Posner (B.A.) of Randolph, NJ, was promoted to vice president-managing director of the Residential Management Division of Brown Harris Stevens in New York, NY ... Victor Ricciardi (B.B.A.) of Towson, MD, is an assistant professor of financial management at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland ... Andre Spitzer (B.A., M.A. ’92) of Fairfield, CT, is director of finance & administration for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine ...

Joseph Talamo (B.B.A., M.B.A. ’00) of New Canaan, CT, is vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer at NeoStem, Inc. ...

Wayne H. Wink, Jr. (B.A.) of Roslyn, NY, has joined Gerstman Schwartz, LLP, a Nassau County-based law firm, as partner. The firm officially changed its Wayne H. Wink, Jr. ’91 name to Gerstman, Schwartz & Wink, LLP. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Wink currently serves as a Nassau County legislator ... Matthew S. Zvolensky (B.A.) of Manorville, NY, has

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been appointed executive minister of the North Shore Christian Church in Riverhead, NY. In this position he is responsible for all aspects of church business, management of church staff and programs, including many partnerships with the eastern Long Island community.

1992

Keith S. Ernst (B.E.) of Westbury, NY, has been selected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as associate director for consumer research and examination support in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection. He joined the FDIC from the Center for Responsible Lending in North Carolina, a nationally recognized research and policy organization, where he was the director of research ... Freida D. Foster (B.A.) of Harlem, NY, was recently appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the Panel for Educational Policy. Ms. Foster also is a commissioner on the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board ... Caryn Lilling (J.D.) of East Norwich, NY, was selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... David C. Potter (B.A.) of Fort Myers, FL, has joined Fowler White Boggs’ statewide Labor and Employment practice.

1993

Ben Abramovitz (B.B.A.) of Brooklyn, NY, works as a senior analyst for Kaufman Bros., L.P. He covers the telecommunications and data services sector ...

Michael Bond, Esq. (B.A.) of New York, NY, recently started his own law practice, the Law Office of Michael Bond.

Mr. Bond serves clients from New York and New Michael Bond ’93 Jersey, and primarily focuses on estate planning, residential real estate, contract review and negotiation, and

Miguel Alexander Pozo ’94

elder law ... Lucy Cates (B.B.A.) of Wantagh, NY, currently works at the Bank of America of Amherst Securities Group LP. Mrs. Cates previous worked for Bear Stearns for more than 15 years as an associate director in fixed income sales, where she acquired her Series 7 and 63 ... Chris D. Ellinas (M.B.A.) of Nicosia, Cyprus, is the region solution sales director – payment and imaging solutions for NCR Corporation, based at the NCR Area Head Office for the Middle East and Africa, in Cyprus ... Jean McCormick (B.A.) of Bethpage, NY, was chosen to perform at a holiday concert for The Community Club of Garden City and Jean McCormick ’93 Hempstead in December of 2010.

1994

Jacquelyn Ghedine (B.A.) of Bellmore, NY, is associate publisher of Advertising Age ... Jeffrey L. Hecht (M.B.A.) of Jericho, NY, joined Ernst & Young LLP’s Financial Services Office as a partner within its Tax Practice. In this position, he leads tax services for private equity clients ...

Gregory Hlibok (J.D.) of Elliot City, MD, is head of the Federal Communication Commission’s disability rights office. As a deaf man, Mr. Hlibok is the first chief of the office with a disability ... Miguel Alexander Pozo (B.A.) of Roseland, NJ, was selected as the new national finance director for the Hispanic National Bar Association ... Peter Shevell (ALND) of New York, NY, joined Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate as vice president. While at Hofstra, he worked at Glen Cove Racquetball & Health Club, which he eventually purchased, making him the youngest owner and operator of a health racquet club in the Northeast at that time ...

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1995

Lorraine Aycock (B.A., M.B.A.) of Jericho, NY, was selected as one of Long Island’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business ... Diane R. Hatton (M.B.A.) of Southampton, NY, was appointed by Photon Sciences Directorate as its chief operating officer.

She provides oversight of operating activities ...

Kostas Koutsoubis (B.A.) of Bayside, NY, Diane R. Hatton ’95 recently opened a new office, New York Physical Therapy Sports Rehabilitation ... Susan K. Scafard (B.B.A.) of Sparta, NJ, was recently hired by Agile OAK LLC, a Sparta-based international management consultancy, to take over the company’s finance and accounting function ... Mathew B. Tully (B.A.) of Niskayuna, NY, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel by the New York Army National Guard ... Joseph A. Vanella (M.B.A.) of Smithtown, NY, was appointed

by Wells Fargo & Co. to its regional Small Business Administration lending network for Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. He operates from the bank’s Melville, NY, office.

1996

Bethany Goedecke (B.S.) of South Euclid, OH, is now the HR manager for the North American Region of OM Group, Inc. ...

Scott R. Gurba (M.B.A.) of Melville, NY, has been promoted by the Federal Reserve

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Christopher A. Johnke (B.S.) of San Francisco, Scott R. Gurba ’96 CA, joined the UGL Services San Francisco office as senior vice president. Mr. Johnke brings extensive tenant representation experience from his previous position with Grubb & Ellis Company ...

Honorable Anna P. Pereira (J.D.) of Newark, NJ, was sworn in as the city of Newark’s first Portuguese-American corporation counsel ... Christopher Porzio (J.D.) of New York, NY, was promoted general counsel of Phoenix Partners Groups with offices in New York, London, and Paris ... Sunil Sachdev (B.B.A.) of Mount Sinai, NY, was recently hired by Fiserv, Inc., as a country manager for India’s markets. Mr. Sachdev is responsible for business development in India ... Robert Scott (J.D.) of Dallas, Texas, spoke at the Annual Conference of the Council on Litigation Management in March 2011.

1997

Laura Granelli (J.D.) of Garden City, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 under 40 Class of 2011 ...

Adam H. Green (B.S.) of Los Angeles, CA, is a writer/director of horror films, including Coffee & Donuts, Hatchet, Spiral, and Frozen ... Thomas Leigh (M.A.) of Queenstown, MA, was hired by CREB Conservancy to serve as its full-time Miles-Wye riverkeeper ... David C. Scileppi (B.B.A.) of Palm Beach, FL, was promoted from associate to group leader, scecurities & corporate governance at Gunster ...

Snehal D. Thakkar (B.E.) of Brooklyn, NY, was honored by the United States Small Business Administration as Small Business

Person of the Year in New York City. Mr. Thakkar founded Charter School Business Management Inc., with annual sales of $700,000 ... Louisa Tsang (B.B.A.) of New Hyde Park, NY, is sales director within the Chinese sector of LT Trading Group. She works to establish and develop a proficient operations base for Resource Exchange of America ... Anthony L. Zuco (B.A.) of Brooklyn, NY, was promoted to controller at Owl Creek Asset Management L.P., a global event-driven hedge fund. He recently adopted a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, with his partner of six years, Ricky.

1998

Eric Knopf (B.A.) of Fair Lawn, NJ, works as a graphic designer at Maximum Impact, a sales promotion company ... Samuel Krause (J.D.) of Northridge, CA, joined the downtown Los Angeles office of Snell and Wilmer as counsel ... Barbara A. Lukeman (B.A., J.D. ’00) of New York, NY, joined the international law firm Nixon Peabody LLP as a partner. Ms. Lukeman’s practice primarily focuses in the areas of products liability, mass tort defense, and complex business disputes ... Richard A. Mele (B.A.) of Farmingville, NY, was hired by Definition 6, a unified marketing agency, as senior editor in the New York office. He began his career in theatrical editing, and has worked on a number of trailer finishes for comedies, dramas, and documentaries.

He has worked with clients such as FOX, ABC, MTV, FX, Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel, SyFy, and A&E ... Carle-Marie P. Memnon (M.A.) of Milford, CT, recertified her Fellow status with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) this past spring. She originally joined ACHE as a student associate in 1998, while enrolled in Hofstra’s Health Administration Program and first earned her Fellow credential in 2008 ... Jennifer Rodriguez (B.B.A.) of Beverly Hills, CA, was nominated for the 2011 Latino Business Award, which was

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Jeremy J. Wolk (J.D., M.B.A. ’99) of Brighton, NY, was elected president of the Jewish Community Center in Rochester, where he is responsible for leading the board in its activities and for serving as the principal liaison between management and the board.

1999

Gianni C. Ottaviano (M.B.A.) of Massapequa, NY, was promoted to senior vice president, structured finance by Arbor Realty Trust. He previously held the title of

catching up with What are you doing now?

For a little over a year now, I’ve been an account associate at Emanate PR, which is a sister agency to Ketchum. I love working in an agency culture because I’m learning so much and getting a broad range of experience. Most of my time is focused on Bank of America’s online, mobile and fraud claims division; we work with the bank’s internal media team and executives on projects such as product launches (including ClearXchange, as well as the iPad, Android and Windows 7 apps), executive positioning, influencer relations, and media relations (both traditional and social). Right now I’m working on issues such as the regulatory environment and other tactical elements for several programs that will launch in 2012. Never in a million years did I think I would be working in financial services when I graduated from Hofstra, but I find the emerging technologies, innovation and changing environment in the banking industry to be really interesting.

I also closely support Stiefel, a GlaxoSmithKline company that develops skin care products, and am working on overall global positioning for some of its brands. Most of my current focus is on MaxClarity, an acne product. We work with several other agencies in order to integrate all the marketing, direct response and public relations efforts for their internal

vice president, structured finance. In his new position, he is responsible for structured finance production management, including the screening process and oversight of team members, as well as deal management on a more comprehensive level.

2000

Jason Kurland (J.D.) of East Meadow, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 ... Lauren Ruotolo (B.A.) of New York, NY, spoke in March at Hofstra’s “Night of Networking and Communication” and recently published a

book, Unstoppable in Stilettos: A Girl’s Guide to Living Tall in a Small World ...

Christina Schimmel (B.A.) of Margate, FL, has relocated from Huntington, NY, and is now living in South Florida. She is a multimedia sales consultant with the Sun-Sentinel specializing in real estate online marketing and advertising.

2001

Ivan Hakimian (B.B.A.) of Great Neck, NY, a broker who specializes in off-market commercial deals, has started his own firm, Hakimian Properties ... Benjamin Malerba

Carolyn Gierer ’10 communications, social media, customer engagement, and traditional media relations. We want to make sure we’re implementing new and engaging ways to reach and connect with our teen audience.

How did Hofstra prepare you for your career?

I loved that Hofstra offered public relations as a specific major; in many other schools, you get just a broad communications degree. It was also great that we had so many adjunct professors – they were working professionals who could share firsthand experience of all the changes that the PR field was going through. In fact, every career opportunity I’ve had has been through a Hofstra connection.

First, I gained two internships, one at WPIX-11 and another at NBC Universal, through the School of Communication.

Then, after graduation, I was looking for work and attended a networking event at Bryant Park, and met Torsten Gross, who was also a Hofstra alumnus. He made a few calls and helped set up some interviews, and I ended up with two job offers, including the one from my current employer.

How has your Hofstra connection helped you in giving back?

Well, Torsten and I, along with two others, founded a nonprofit called Host For Good (HostForGood.org), which is a

new charity model that offers everyone, everywhere, the tools to host charity events at home in order to enforce the idea of doing good for the sake of good.

We’re creating a movement that’s changing how people and organizations view their priorities for donating. The mission of Host For Good is to remove the bias and stress from giving. We believe that charity should be about the selfless act of giving and hope, to spread the message that anyone can make a difference, regardless of how much money is raised by individual events.

I’m also the director of communications for the group, and we’re very excited about launching the organization in 2012.

What do you remember most about your time at college?

I transferred to Hofstra as a sophomore from Indiana University and am so grateful for the friends that I made in my three years there. I was a member of Sigma Delta Tau and was on the cheerleading team, and met so many amazing people whom I still speak to and see regularly. I really miss having my best friends be just a door away and love going back to see everyone.

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(J.D., M.B.A. ’05) of Bellmore, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 ... Melissa Negrin-Wiener (J.D.) of Lake Grove, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 ...

Jermaine Warren (B.B.A.) of Malverne, NY has been promoted from senior associate to vice president for ICV Partners.

2002

Bernard Ralph Cleophat (M.B.A.) of Hempstead, NY, and Tony Manzolillo, collectively known as Berton Vending Solutions, have partnered with HUMAN Healthy Vending to Bernard Ralph Cleophat ’02 ensure that residents in Nassau County communities have convenient access to vending machine foods and drinks that meet a high caliber of nutritional standards.

2003

Michael Hanley (B.B.A.) of Kings Park, NY, was named Kings Park’s 2010 Person of the Year. After founding his own accounting firm and moving to Kings Park in 2004, Mr. Hanley has made a tremendous impact on the Kings Park community. He has served on the board of directors of the Kings Park Chamber of Commerce for the past several years, is a founding member and current president of the Irish Business Network, president of SmithtownKings Park Ancient Order of Hibernians, and has been involved in many fundraising activities in the Kings Park community ...

Christopher J. Kutner ’03 Christopher J. Kutner

(M.B.A.) of Rockville Centre, NY, was recently appointed to New York Hospital Queens Community Advisory Council ...

Christine L. Moran (B.S.Ed.) of Holtsville, NY, was awarded Teacher of the Year by the Nassau County Zone of the New York State Assoication for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Ms. Moran currently teaches elementary physical education in Wantagh and coaches three sports there. Ms. Moran’s years of commitment to teaching children and young people about sports, fitness, and teamwork have been marked by numerous achievements and countless hours of dedication and attainment in the field of teaching ... Keith Waryold (M.B.A.) of Great Neck, NY, was appointed by HumiSeal, a leading vendor of conformal coatings, to the position of global business unit director.

2004

Cara Castronuova (B.A.) of Elmont, NY, starred on NBC’s The Biggest Loser as a new female trainer. She was Hofstra’s Alumna of the Month in May ...

Cara Castronuova ’04 Erin Hallahan (B.A.) of Long Beach, NY, and David Shaw (B.A.) are pleased to announce their engagement. A June 2012 wedding is planned. Ms. Hallahan is currently employed with St. George University as the communications and publications coordinator ... Brian Michels (B.B.A.) of Miller Place, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 ... Renauld Williams (B.B.A.) of Uniondale, NY, has joined the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League.

2005

John P. Brazel (B.A.) of East Meadow, NY, was named an assistant coach for Hofstra University’s men’s lacrosse team ...

Tiffany E. Dixon (B.A.) of Brooklyn, NY, has been selected as one of the new faces for Procter & Gamble’s national campaign “My Black Is Beautiful”... Denise Fehrenbach (M.A.) of Amityville, NY, directed The Laramie Project, a docu-drama by Moises Kaufman, which opened on February 15, 2011, at Adelphi University’s Performing Arts Center ... Corinna Anna Ferrini (B.A.) of Dedham, MA, is an associate at Tully Rinckey PLLC in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. She represents federal employees on a range of employment and labor issues ...

Gisella Rivera (J.D.) of Mineola, NY, is an associate in the corporate law group at Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitston in Mineola.

2006

Stephen Bowen (B.A.) of Frisco, TX, signed a five-year contract with the Washington Redskins, after playing the last five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys ...

William Colon (B.A.) of Bronx, NY, re-signed a five-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers, after playing for the Steelers for the last five years ... John S. Orsen (B.B.A.) of Laurel Hollow, NY, has joined Marquette University’s varsity men’s lacrosse program as an assistant coach ...

Leslie Ann Snyder (B.A.) is the media and corporate communications manager for CCS, a fundraising, consulting, Leslie Ann and management firm Snyder ’06 based in New York City.

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Stephanie Bushey (Ph.D.) of Melville, NY, has been named vice president for institutional research and assessment at Hofstra University ... Michael Fedun (B.B.A.) of East Quogue, NY, has been

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catching up with Throughout her student years at Hofstra, Emily Miethner was recognizable as “the face of Hofstra Pride.”

Her image was on many of Hofstra’s promotional brochures, the website and even a commercial campaign.

However, there is much more to Miethner than a pretty face – her academic achievements and extracurricular involvement as a student were not only admirable, but dizzying! She was very involved in the Fine Arts/ Art History Department, where she concentrated in graphic design. She co-founded and served as president of the Hofstra Association of Graphic Artists (HAGA), which presented a number of student art exhibitions in Calkins Hall, and she helped develop an annual networking event, “Not All Artists Are Starving,” which continues to bring fine arts alumni and professionals to campus to offer advice and career guidance to students. She also interned at The Knitting Factory, +1 Records, Time Out New York and Gawker.

Miethner is currently serving as the community manager at RecordSetter.com and co-founder and president of NY Creative Interns, a group dedicated to helping college students and recent graduates find internships, mentors, and inspiration through networking and meetups.

Emily Miethner ’10 What is RecordSetter.com?

We’re like the Wikipedia of world records. Our philosophy is that everyone is the best at something, and this is a way for people to show off their unique achievements. Our only requirements are that the records submitted be quantifiable and have media evidence. We currently host over 10,000 records from over 50 different countries.

We’re also really excited; our first book comes out in November.

As community manager I work on social media and outreach. We’re a small company of about 10 people, and it’s a fun environment. Before I started, I was interning and working for them as a freelance designer, so I knew the team was really talented before I came on board.

What are some of your favorite records?

My all-time favorite is the longest headspin – 14 minutes performed by an 11-year-old. I also love the largest cardboard fort built by a group of Harvard University students, and the most bites taken out of an apple while juggling an apple, a bowling ball and a flaming torch.

What inspired you to co-found NY Creative Interns?

Basically, I knew I wanted to help students and recent graduates learn the importance of meeting people and finding mentors. Students who major in things like accounting or science, for instance, have more traditional career paths. But students who want to get into creative careers have much less of a defined path – they need to surround themselves with mentors and inspiring creatives, learn how to market themselves, and be entrepreneurial.

I founded NY Creative Interns with another Hofstra grad, Reb Carlson [‘10]. The organization is less than a year old, and we’ve become the largest and most active intern group

in New York, having thrown over 20 different events totaling more than 1,000 attendees. [Also on the board of NY Creative Interns are Hofstra alumni Jaime Hoerbelt and Dani Newman, and contributors include alumni Phil Robibero, Marise Montrose, Amber Young, and current students Gennifer Delman and Nick Schweers.]

In a previous interview for the Hofstra website, you said your dream was to work in graphic design for the music industry. Have your goals changed? What have you learned about yourself in the year and a half since you graduated?

I’m really happy I majored in graphic design because of the amazing environment and support I received from the department; I use the skills I learned at Hofstra every day. But yes, my goals have definitely changed. I really enjoy running my own business (NY Creative Interns) and would like to continue in this capacity in the future. That’s why I love my job at RecordSetter; I’m learning a ton about growing something from nothing.

What is your advice for current students majoring in fine arts?

Stay happy by challenging yourself and make an effort to get more out of your classes and work experiences. At my first job [at Sterling Publishing] I filled a new role as the social media coordinator. My bosses were always super supportive so I was able to take it upon myself to learn and find new opportunities because the job had yet to be completely defined. Practice taking initiative; don’t always sit back and wait for instructions.

Hofstra alumni living in the New York metropolitan area can find more information about NY Creative Interns at nycreativeinterns.com.

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elected to the board of trustees for the nonprofit company Partnership in Philanthropy. He is senior auditor at Sobel & Company in Livingston, New Jersey ... Lawrence Keigwin (B.A.) of New York, NY, Michael Fedun ’07 is the choreographer of the returning Broadway hit Rent ... Kenneth Pelczar (B.A.) of Calverton, NY, has joined Ventana, in New York City. Mr. Pelczar is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including a New York Emmy Award nomination, two Edward R Murrow regional awards for investigative and hard news reporting, two Associated Press awards, three Press Club awards, and a deadline award from the Society of Professional Journalists ... Christopher Vaccaro (B.A.) of Holtsville, NY, is set to release his fifth book, Hofstra Athletics, in January 2012.

The book captures nearly 200 images of student-athletes, coaches, administrators, facilities and many other aspects of the Hofstra athletics community.

2008

Michael Aharoni (B.A.) of Great Neck, NY, currently works for Penn Mutual’s Economic Planning Group in the financial services industry ... Kyle Arrington (B.A.) of Accokeek, MD, made his first NFL start for the New England Patriots. The cornerback had previously been on the special teams since his arrival in New England ...

Dr. Jacquelyne M. Cody (Ed.D.) of Brooklyn, NY, has written the book How to Be Happy: A Guide to Finding True Purpose

and Self-Empowerment, a step-by-step guide for teenagers and young adults to help them understand their purpose in life and to show them how to set and reach their goals ...

Kristin R. Creighton (B.A.) of Brooklyn, NY, has started her own freelance design company. Ms. Creighton previously worked for 1800FLOWERS.com as assistant photography manager ... Lance Leighton (B.B.A.) of Bellmore, NY, currently works as assistant director for Studley in Manhattan ... Christine Perrucci (J.D.) of Holbrook, NY, was recently hired by Roe Taroff Taitz & Portman as an associate. Ms. Perrucci concentrates her practice in residential real estate transactions and trusts and estates ... Michael A. Saracino (B.B.A.) of Stoughton, MA, received a Juris Doctor cum laude from New England Law School in Boston, MA, during the 100th commencement ceremony. He also received the New England Law Service Award.

2009

Hans D. Walters (M.S.) of Broad Channel, NY, is an animal department supervisor and a shark researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium, on Coney Island ... Erin Veltman (B.B.A.) of Arlington, VA, currently works for the Republican State Leadership Committee as the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee program director.

2010

Brian Herrington (J.D.) of Islip, NY, was nominated for Long Island Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2011 ...

Gregory Kalikow (J.D.) of Old Westbury, NY, has been appointed vice president of the

Kalikow Group, a family-owned real estate development and investment organization for retail, multi-family, condominiums and single-family properties ... Michael S. Leslie (B.A.) of Ballston, NY, is Gregory Kalikow ’10 currently ABC 40 and Fox 6’s sports anchor and sports reporter ...

Bettina Mianulli (B.S.Ed., M.S. ’11) of Caldwell, NJ, is a physical education and health teacher at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark, NJ.

2011

Michelle L. Contino (J.D.) of Port Washington, NY, is an associate at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP in East Meadow. Ms. Contino joined the real estate practice group after working for the financial department at Draftfcb Worldwide, an international advertising agency in Manhattan, for seven years ...

Kathleen Hertsch (B.S.Ed.) of Westminster, MD, was named to the roster of the 2011-2012 U.S. women’s national senior lacrosse team. She joined 36 other seniors from across the country in earning the prestigious honor ... Charles R. Jenkins (B.A.) of Rosedale, NY, was selected in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors ...

Louis J. Ruggirello (B.B.A.) of Walden, NY, was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America University Division Men’s At-Large third team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

A planned gift can help you:

v Generate income for life v Realize a substantial income tax deduction v Reduce the tax burden on your estate v Avoid large capital gains taxes Bequests, life-income gifts, charitable trusts, and gifts of real estate or life insurance can benefit you and, at the same time, support Hofstra University and its continued success.

To discuss any of these options, please contact Meredith Celentano at 516-463-6377 or Meredith.Celentano@hofstra.edu.

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Hofstra Cultural Center presents a conference

The

50th Anniversary of the

New York Mets This conference, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the New York Mets, will examine all aspects of the history and culture of the team. This will be the first multidisciplinary conference to consider every aspect of a Major League Baseball franchise.

Expected participants will include current and former members of the Mets organization; baseball executives, journalists, broadcasters, and analysts; baseball scholars, historians, and cultural critics; and writers, artists, filmmakers, cartoonists, bloggers, collectors, and fans.

This conference is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Dana Brand, professor of English at Hofstra and author of the books Mets Fan and The Last Days of Shea.

For more information, please visit hofstra.edu/mets or email the conference directors, Paula Uruburu at Paula.M.Uruburu@hofstra.edu and Richard Puerzer at Richard.J.Puerzer@hofstra.edu.

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Bianca Amelia Morgan born to Justin and Diana Peiren Morgan (B.A. ’93) Michael Parker Rubenstein born to Michael (B.S. ’02, M.A. ’04) and Kerri (Farrington) Rubenstein (B.S. ’01, M.S. ’02)

Emmeline Phae Gordon born to David and Dana Griffith Gordon (B.A. ’97)

Caila Dorothy Irene Whitehurst born to Ellis (B.B.A. ’02) and Christina (Spann) Whitehurst (B.B.A. ’02)

Andrew Doherty born to William Doherty (B.A. ’98) and Deborah Doherty Teaghan Lucia Hannafin born to James Brendan Hannafin (B.A. ’99) and Adaleza Michelena Eloise Wynne Ball born to Andy Ball (B.A.’92) and Bronwen Pardes

Emeline Kate Miller born to John Miller (B.B.A.’79) and Kate Miller Abigail Elizabeth Zuco adopted by Anthony Zuco (B.A. ’97) and Ricky Cortez.

in memoriam John Abbenante (M.S.Ed. ’61) Ernest F. Acheson (faculty) Gerard Achtellik (ALND) A. Charles Adams Jr. (ALND) Joseph C. Ammirati (friend of Hofstra) Helen O. Anderson (B.S.Ed. ’82) Howard L. Anderson (B.S. ’64) Amelia L. Antle (student) Eve Bailey (M.S.Ed. ’71) Dr. Paul F. Barbara (B.A. ’79) Frederick E. Beyer (B.S. ’49) Barbara B. Birnbaum (B.S.Ed. ’58) Perry Birnbaum (B.A. ’50, M.S.Ed. ’56) Beatrice L. Bomus (M.A. ’89) James E. Bourne (M.B.A. ’66) William K. Bradshaw (M.B.A. ’85) Donn S. Brady (B.B.A. ’59) Dana A. Brand (faculty) Lorraine Brem (M.S.Ed. ’62) Grace Brex (B.A. ’40) Lawrence Broughton (ALND) Dr. Vincent R. Brown (faculty) Robert J. Byrne (B.A. ’49) John J. Cain (B.S. ’67) Barbara E. Carrington (P.Dip. ’74)

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Douglas R. Carroll (B.S. ’51, former Hofstra trustee) Mary Carter (adjunct professor) John J. Cassidy (B.A. ’49) Timothy J. Cassidy (M.B.A. ‘83) Michael A. Cerussi (J.D. ’76) Howard B. Christensen (B.A. ’50) Sanford M. Cines (B.S. ’63) Anthony Coco (B.A. ’52) Robert T. Colino (B.A. ’57) George K. Console (B.B.A. ’57) Dr. Robert D. Corwin (B.A. ’51) Aymar Cutler (B.A. ’49) Daniel Daniels (B.A. ’51, M.B.A. ’65) Thomas E. Davis Jr. (B.S. ’58) Louie A. Dickinson (B.B.A. ’60) Virginia Dietrich (C.A.S. ’72) William M. Dobriner (B.A. ’48, Hofstra faculty) Catherine E. Dodd (M.S.Ed. ’89) John Donniacuo (B.B.A. ’57) Isabel Doolittle (B.A. ’82) George S. Downing (B.A. ’65) Robert Dubowsky (ALND) John (Dave) Faichney (B.A. ’68) Harry G. Farrell (M.S.Ed. ’53) Edward Freedman (M.B.A. ’59)

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Myron Fishkind (B.B.A. ’57) Rowena Follett (B.A. ’53) Helen Fortier (B.A. ’45) Eleanore Foti (M.S.Ed. ’65) Robert J. Freidah (B.B.A. ’52, M.S.Ed. ’63) Christa Fulton (B.A. ’44) Walton C. Gagel (B.A. ’55) Gail J. (Woods) Gallagher (ALND) Sabrina Leslie Garfield (M.S. ’06) Marguerite Gartrell (M.S.Ed. ’63) Carol Gildersleeve (M.S.Ed. ’77) Jean (Landon) Gilkes (ALND) Donna Marie Gilligan (J.D. ’75) Gazella F. Glowacki (retired staff) Howard H. Greenbaum (faculty) Ira W. Greenwald (B.S. ’54) Marvin C. Gutter (B.B.A.’72, J.D. ’76) Velta Haas (ALND) Bruce A. Hackford (B.A. ’50) Louise Hannaford (B.B.A. ’80) Paul F. Harper (professor emeritus) Albert M. Hauser (B.A. ’49) James T. Heller (ALND) Claire Herman (B.A. ’43) Jean Hinchey (M.S.Ed. ’71) Nannette S. Hoffman (B.A. ’50) Joanne Howard (B.B.A. ’75)

Robert B. Humphreys (B.B.A. ’57) Eric W. Hunt (B.S. ’48) Eric W. Johnson (B.A. ’88) Jean Johnson (M.B.A. ’84) Tonia L. Johnson (M.B.A. ’90) Robert B. Jones (B.B.A. ’57) Stella Katechis (ALND) Mary L. Kavazanjian (B.S.Ed. ’67) Miriam Kessler (M.S.Ed. ’71) Walter A. Klein (M.B.A. ’58) August Kohler (B.S. ’67) Frederick W. Korz (ALND) Reone Kraemer (B.A. ’62, M.S.Ed. ’67) Noelle Kriftcher (ALND) James T. Krowl (M.B.A. ’71) Miriam (Timberger) Label (B.A. ’53) Mary Elizabeth Gilbert Ligon (professor emerita) James Michael Laterza (ALND) John J. Leahy, Jr. (B.A. ’59) George Leggio (B.B.A. ’66) Edgar Lellbach (B.B.A. ’57) David Lennek (M.S.Ed. ’58) Robert C. Leonard (faculty) Esther M. Levine (friend of Hofstra) Walter H. Lewandowski (B.B.A. ’52) John Lieblang (B.S. ’54)

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Melanie (McAuliffe) Mardirossian (B.B.A. ’06, M.S. ’09) and Haig Mardirossian Frank Paul Pipitone (B.B.A. ’00) and Evelyn Paz Solis

Keith Brewer (B.A. ’04) and Laura Beth Huckle

Catherine Tricia Guerriere (B.S.Ed. ’06, M.S. ’11) and Suzanne Marie Fleming

William T. Malloy (B.S. ’57, M.B.A. ’65) Nicholas J. Marino (M.A. ’64) Harry M. Marks (B.A. ’68) Dr. Richard Mason (faculty) Henry J. Meyer (B.B.A. ’56) Dorothea E. (Reiffel) Minden (B.A. ’49) Albert A. Miller (B.S. ’50) Ester M. Miller (M.A. ’77) Lewis C. Miller (M.A ’54) David W. Milne (B.A. ’56, M.A. ’57) Dorothea E. Minden (B.A. ’49) Ernest S. Muro (B.B.A. ’55, M.S.Ed. ’57) Malcolm Musicante (B.B.A. ’53) Frederick Nau (B.A. ’56) Robert L. Nebeling (B.B.A. ’59) Lewis H. Newvine (B.A. ’61) Theodor C. Ohland (B.A. ’54, M.S.Ed. ’56) William P. Olden (B.S. ’58) Warren R. Omark (B.A. ’40) Francis C. Pace (B.S. ’50) Warren C. Page (B.A. ’65) Robert L. Payton (former Hofstra president) Eugene A. Pearsall (B.A. ’60) John L. Perry (ALND)

Mark Getman (B.A. ’94) and Lisa Litvak

Jessica K. (Powers) Gallagher (B.A. ’01, M.S.Ed. ’03) and Daniel T. Gallagher

Jan Robyn Borger (B.A. ’98) and Noah Maxwell Morris (B.B.A. ’98)

Stacy (Goldberger) Kay (B.A. ’91) and Harold B. Kay III

Dorotha H. Petersen (B.A. ’54) Francis M. Petrie (B.S. ’42) Robert W. Pfeiffer (B.S. ’43) Edwin Pfirman (B.S. ’42) Rudolph G. Poulin (ALND) Patricia Prendergast (M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’78) Malcolm H. Preston (faculty) Rosario S. Puleo (B.S. ’82) Richard Powers (B.A. ’51, M.S.Ed. ’53) Stephen B. Quackenbos (B.A. ’63) James Quigley (B.A. ’49) Charles Rockwell (B.A. ’53) Gene W. Rockwell (M.S.Ed. ’84) Lucille S. Rosenstock (M.S. ’59) Robert Ross (J.D. ’83) Beverly R. Sackstein (retired staff) Theodore Samuels (ALND) Dr. Lenore Sandel (M.S. ’63, Ed.D. ’70, professor emerita) Carol A. Santich (M.A. ’77) Emmett W. Sarsfield (B.B.A. ’55) James Scangis (B.A. ’65) Rudolph J. Schaefer III (B.B.A. ’55) Vincent A. Schaefer (B.A. ’44) George O. Schanzer (faculty)

Michael Jonathan Kern (B.A. ’00) and Laura Shapiro

George E. Schleiter (B.S. ’59) Eric J. Schmertz (HLLD, professor emeritus, dean of Hofstra Law School 1982-1989) Bruce Schmid (B.S. ’74) Alfred A. Schmidt (B.S. ’46) Stanley H. Schumacher (B.A. ’62) Gerard Senatore (B.E. ’86) Virginia E. Seymour (B.S. ’48) Peter W. Shafran (J.D. ’84) Donald Russell Sheldon (M.A. ’54) George F. Shipman (B.A. ’49) Herbert Shprentz (B.A. ’49) Helen S. Simpson (B.S.Ed. ’59) Philip S. Slonim (B.A. ’68) Philip C. Smith (B.S. ’49) Stephen V. Smith (B.B.A. ’60, M.B.A. ’63) William H. Smith (M.S.Ed. ’57) Mary (Kelly) Sohm (B.B.A. ’83) James T. Sorrentino (B.A. ’82) Leo Spandorf (J.D. ’82) Leslie E. Speed, Jr. (B.S. ’50) Edythe E. Spotts (M.A. ’75) Leondard Stark (faculty) Ann Steinger (friend of Hofstra)

Alfred Sternfeld (ALND) Thomas B. Stone (faculty) Herbert W. Sullivan (Ed.D. ’74) Arthur P. Swerdlove (ALND) Alan Tabakman (B.A. ’65) Robert Teich (M.S.Ed. ’60) Henry Toledano (faculty) Jane A. Toumanoff (staff) Kerry Ann (Nordmann) Treadaway (B.A.’88) John R. Tree (B.A. ’42) Harry W. Turner (B.A. ’72) Ralph W. Turner (B.S. ’48) Jimmie H. Warner (M.S.Ed. ’63 William (Bill) Weiner (B.A. ’63) Mark V. Weisenbloom (B.A. ’68) Donald W. Whalen (B.A. ’55) Richard S. Wimmer (faculty) Joseph J. Wittman (ALND) Douglas F. Wold (ALND) Edith M. Wolloch (M.S.Ed. ’63) Terese Gilligan Wood (M.S.Ed. ’68) Leatrice Yelman (B.A. ’49) Thomas Christoph Zangas (B.A. ’92) Robert J. Zawasky (B.A. ’56) William J. Zukowski (B.A. ’66)

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Hofstra Chronicle Alumni Reunion ROTC/Veterans Alumni

Hofstra Concerts The Hofstra Concerts Alumni Association and members of Hofstra Concerts visited The Recording Academy in June 2011 to learn about what goes into producing the Grammy Awards and received a surprise meet-and-greet with the band The Wrecking.

Hofstra ROTC active members and alumni gathered in front of Hofstra Hall after the May 2011 ROTC awards ceremony.

In April more than 70 former and current staff members celebrated the 75th anniversary of The Hofstra Chronicle.

(Standing, l to r) Brian Ballweg ’77, Ron Shandler ’78, Steve Bedney ’78, and Larry Jaffee ’80. (Seated, l to r) Sally Dedecker ’77, Ellen Frisina ’77, and Joan Verdon ’77.

George M. Estabrook Alumni Association

Alpha Theta Beta The alumnae and active sisters of Alpha Theta Beta celebrated 75 years on the Hofstra campus with a full weekend of activities in November.

Veterans Alumni Chapter President Paul Farinella ’69, ’74 (left) presented the 2010 Veteran of the Year award to MG Patrick Higgins ’80 at the Hofstra Club of Washington, D.C.’s summer barbecue in Fairfax, VA.

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Hofstra George M. Estabrook Alumni Association officers were sworn in for 2012. (L to r) Regis Doucette ’75; Dennis Dunne ’79; Robert Pachas ’68, ’75; Joan Natalie ’62; Bob Harrison ’75; Beth Goldberg ’95; John Budnick ’71, ’74; Sue Zizza ’87, ’95; and, officiating, Judge Richard Horowitz ’87.

WRHU and Hofstra Radio Alumni WRHU and the Hofstra Radio Alumni Association held a “Night at the Islanders” in February at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. WRHU has a special relationship with the Islanders, serving as its flagship station. WRHU is the only college radio station in the country to broadcast major league sports.

Hofstra GOLD Members of Hofstra GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) talked business at the NYC Summer Networking Party in June 2011.

Zarb Alumni Association The Zarb Alumni Association sponsored a fall networking reception in New York City in October.

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Port Charlotte, FL

School of Communication Alumni Association

The School of Communication Alumni Association’s steering committee enjoyed a day at sea aboard the Sprit of New Jersey in September 2011. The new SOCAA is dedicated to bringing alumni and students together through career and networking programs.

Alumni Hoops

Northern New Jersey

Alumni Organization Vice President for Programs Rob Salvatico ’95 presented the 2011 Alumni Hoops Fest trophy in February to members of this year’s tournament winner, Colors That End in Purple.

Watching (l to r) are Hofstra’s Executive Director for Alumni Affairs Bob Saltzman, Hofstra trustee and tournament sponsor Joseph Sparacio ’89, and Hofstra Alumni Organization President Fred Davis ’85.

Delta Chi Delta Delta Chi Delta alumnae gathered at Hofstra’s Fall Festival in September.

NYC Networking Event Washington, D.C.

Regional Clubs Celebrate Hofstra’s 75th Anniversary One of the highlights at all of this year’s regional events was the presentation of cakes in honor of Hofstra’s 75th anniversary celebration. Pictured here are gatherings in Boca Raton, FL (March); Port Charlotte, FL (March); Hackensack, NJ (April); and Washington, D.C. (May).

Alumni Celebrate the New Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine More than 100 Hofstra alumni on Long Island networked in June 2011 at a cocktail reception and enjoyed tours of the new Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University.

More than 150 Hofstra alumni and students attended a February 2011 networking reception in New York City that featured (l to r) Ajay Banga, president and CEO, MasterCard Worldwide, Inc.; Frank G. Zarb ’57, ’62, managing director and senior advisor, Hellman & Friedman LLC; and Steven J. Freiberg ’79, ’80, CEO, E*TRADE Financial Corporation. Their topic was “Leadership and Innovation in a Globally Interconnected World.”

Class of 1961 Members of the Class of 1961 returned to campus in May to celebrate their 50th anniversary reunion.

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Baltimore Alumni Alumni from the Baltimore, MD, area met in February 2011 to discuss future activities for their group.

You have the power to enhance the value of your Hofstra degree and the prestige of your alma mater.

The Alumni Book Club The Alumni Book Club celebrated its 10-year anniversary on Sunday, March 20, 2011, at Hofstra’s Shapiro Alumni House. The group meets every other month for discussions of books ranging from current best-sellers to classics.

For further information, please email Sandra.J.Lombino@Hofstra.edu.

HOW? v Make at least one gift – any size – to Hofstra each year. v Attend University events. v Encourage every Hofstra graduate you know to do the same.

WHY? v B ecause the more alumni who give, the higher the University climbs in college rankings, such as those of U.S. News & World Report. v Because even a small gift makes a huge difference. v Because your gift is a demonstration of your commitment to Hofstra.

YOUR GIFT ... YOUR CHOICE Hofstra Club of Southern Connecticut/Westchester County The Hofstra Club of Southern Connecticut/ Westchester County organized a lively winter reception in Stamford last February.

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We encourage you to give to The Fund for Hofstra University.

Your gift may be designated to any area or program you feel most passionate about.

HOFSTRA ALUMNI HAVE PRIDE – LET’S SHOW IT! Make a gift online today at hofstra.edu/giving.

Walk of Pride Celebrate a graduation.

Honor a loved one’s memory.

Demonstrate support.

Every year thousands of Hofstra alumni, students, and friends visit James M. Shuart Stadium and the adjacent Libby and Joseph G. Shapiro Alumni House. A distinctive feature of the Stadium Plaza is the proud pair of bronze lions. Surrounding the lions is the brick Walk of Pride, where many have left an enduring symbol of their support for Hofstra.

Now it is your turn! Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to demonstrate your support for Hofstra University and leave a permanent mark!

WHY CONTRIBUTE TO THE WALK OF PRIDE? • You will support students and educational programs at Hofstra University.

• Your brick will be a highly visible and permanent testimony of your loyalty to Hofstra.

• Your contribution to the Walk of Pride is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

HOW DO I PURCHASE A BRICK IN THE WALK OF PRIDE? Simply visit hofstra.edu/walkofpride to download the order form, print it out and mail to the address that appears on the form itself.

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Senior All-American goalkeeper Andrew Gvozden.

Hofstra Athletics Tessa Ziemba will return this spring. Last season she hit .335 with 10 doubles and 44 RBIs.

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Spring Sports Prepare for

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The Seth Tierney-led men’s lacrosse team graduated one of the best players in program history in All-American Jay Card, but the team does return seniors Brad Loizeaux (six goals, four assists) and Steve Serling (three goals, six assists in four games), and juniors Ian Braddish (16 goals, 17 assists) and Adrian Sorichetti (12 goals, one assist), among others on the offensive end. The defense is strong, led by Jill Maier tallied 37 goals juniors Cody Solaja, and three assists as a Mark Mullen and sophomore last season for Corey Caputo. The women’s lacrosse.

Pride also boast one of the nation’s top faceoff specialists in All-American John Antoniades and are solid between the pipes with the return of senior AllAmerican goalkeeper Andrew Gvozden.

The Pride women’s lacrosse team returns seven of its top eight scorers from 2011, led by All-CAA performer Jill Maier, who tallied 37 goals and three assists as a sophomore last season. Junior Clare Brady, who posted 15 goals and a team-best 17 assists, also returns and will be looked upon by Head Coach Abby Morgan to be a playmaker on the offensive end along with senior Maryann Miller. Miller had eight goals and five assists a year ago. Sophomores Jenn Ward, Lindsay McKinnon and Alex Mezzanotte, and junior Jackie Ardolino also provide the Pride with some scoring punch. Senior defenders Lizzie Zorovich and Chrissy Jones will anchor a relatively young defensive unit in front of keeper Jackie Pandolf, who returns for her senior season.

The baseball team, under Coach Patrick Anderson, has a solid nucleus of players returning, led by first team AllCAA selection Danny Poma. The senior outfielder batted .382 last season with 16 doubles, 28 RBIs and 20 stolen bases. Senior third baseman Joe Perez, junior first baseman Jared Hammer and sophomore catcher Matt Reistetter, who was a third team All-CAA selection last year, also return and should be regulars in the starting lineup. Perez led the team with nine home runs last season, while Hammer hit .358 to rank second on the team. Reistetter batted .270 as a freshman and also did a good job in handling the Pride pitching staff, which is anchored by junior David D’Errico and sophomore closer Bryan Verbitsky.

Baseball’s pitching staff is anchored by junior David D’Errico (pictured) and sophomore closer Bryan Verbitsky.

The softball team, led by Hall of Fame Coach Bill Edwards, will look to return to the top of the CAA after being upset in the CAA championship last season. The team is bolstered by the return of its two ace starting pitchers – junior Olivia Galati and senior Erin Wade. Galati has been the CAA Pitcher of the Year in each of her last two seasons and set Hofstra records last season for wins (29) and strikeouts (348). Wade won 11 games for the Pride in 2011 and added 109 strikeouts. Galati could also spearhead the Pride offense as she batted .343 a season ago. Juniors D.J. Slugh and Tessa Ziemba also return and will provide boosts on the offensive end. Slugh hit .338 last year, while Ziemba hit .335 with 10 doubles and 44 RBIs.

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Hofstra Athletics

he spring season at Hofstra features some of the University’s most successful teams. The men’s lacrosse program has been to the NCAA Tournament four consecutive seasons, a program-first, while the softball team is a perennial NCAA Regional participant. The women’s lacrosse team has been a contender for the conference title in recent years, while the baseball program is on the rise under Coach Patrick Anderson.

Arcadia Publishing and Author Chris R. Vaccaro ’07 to Release Book on Hofstra Athletics

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n collaboration with Arcadia Publishing, author Chris R. Vaccaro is proud to announce the forthcoming release of his fifth book, Hofstra Athletics, in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of Sports series.

Hofstra Athletics is set for release in mid- to late-January, and orders are now being accepted for presale.

The cost of the book is $21.99 plus $4 for shipping and handling (USPS Priority Mail). For bulk orders or for more information, please call 516-HOF-TIXX. The book may also be ordered online at GoHofstra.com.

Since its founding in 1935, Hofstra University has built a strong reputation in the collegiate sports world. Thousands of athletes have represented one of Long Island’s finest private universities, winning countless championships and helping to create a foundation of history that is remembered today. Hofstra Athletics strings together a pictorial

history of Hofstra’s well-known coaches and athletes, championship teams, and players who achieved success on the professional level.

This book captures nearly 200 images of student-athletes, coaches, administrators, facilities and many other aspects of the Hofstra community. With captions accompanying every image and photos dating back to the 1930s, this book is a must for any Hofstra fan. Hofstra Athletics features a foreword by Craig “Speedy” Claxton, one of the most prolific athletes to attend Hofstra. He was selected in the first round of the NBA draft in 2000 and spent 10 seasons in the league. He led the Pride to an NCAA tournament appearance, was inducted into the Hofstra Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011, and had his jersey number (10) retired.

Chris R. Vaccaro, an award-winning journalist from Long Island and a 2007 graduate of Hofstra University,

is the author of four previous books on Long Island sports history and has written for more than 100 publications nationwide. He is an editor with AOL’s Patch.com, adjunct professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and a board member for the Press Club of Long Island.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading local history publisher in the United States, with a catalog of more than 6,000 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year.

Established in 1993, Arcadia has blended a visionary management approach with the innovative application of state-of-the-art technology to create high-quality historical publications in small local niches.

Join Us in the Pride Zone for Home New York Islanders Games!

Hofstra students, staff and alumni with a valid HofstraCard, can attend an Islanders game sit in the Hofstra Pride Zone (section 336), plus get a $5 food voucher for only $17 per person – tickets are available day of event (limit of two tickets per HofstraCard).

More information is available at http://islanders.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=73809.

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Robert Saltzman, Executive Director for Alumni Affairs 516-463-4134 • Robert.Saltzman@hofstra.edu Contact Bob for information about Hofstra’s Alumni Organization.

Amy Reich, Director for Alumni Affairs 516-463-7580 • Amy.Reich@hofstra.edu Contact Amy for information on academic programming and events.

Gwendolyn Armstrong Wade, Associate Director for Alumni Affairs 516-463-6639 • Gwendolyn.A.Wade@hofstra.edu Contact Gwen for information on alumni networking for Booster Alumni, Gray Wig Alumni, Black/Hispanic Alumni Association, Veterans Alumni, and Q-8 Pershing Rifle Alumni.

Jacqueline Carlson, Associate Director for Alumni Affairs 516-463-7477 • Jacqueline.Carlson@hofstra.edu Contact Jackie for information on programming for Graduates of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.), fraternity and sorority affinity groups and events, and Senior Class Challenge.

For up-to-date information, visit hofstra.edu/alumni.

No matter where you are, you’ll always be a part of the Hofstra community – and the Office for Alumni Affairs is here to keep you connected. We offer a full range of general and school-specific programs to bring you together with classmates, friends and professors who were such an important part of your student days.

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