Congratulations to the Classes ending in 4's and 9's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2014-2015 school year!
RIVERDALE ALUMNI
Please send your news to your Class Correspondent(S) before MAY 1, 2015. 1975 Jonathan J. Beitler jjbeitl@emory.edu Lisa Turgell Friedland lisa.friedland09@gmail.com Jeffrey J. Russell jjrussell@clearbridgeadvisors.com
1976 Daniel Easton mashfly007@aol.com
1977 Be a QUAD Class Correspondent*
1978 William McGowan bill@claritymediagroup.com
From Celia McGerr Regan: “This is Thomas Richard Wiggin (aka Tommy and many other love names), born July 4th to my daughter Maggie Regan Wiggin and my son-in-law David Wiggin (see photo below). Everyone is flourishing! Tommy is an ardent Mets fan at the tender age of 12 weeks.” Several 1974 classmates—along with one from the Class of 1972— got together for a summer BBQ at Ralph Petrillo’s place in South Hampton, NY (see photo below).
1975
Class Correspndent Jonathan Beitler sent congratulations to psychologist John Gross. “His son Robert is a wonderful relief pitcher and helped Emory to win the runner-up spot for the national title in Division III baseball.”
1978
From Class Correspondent Bill McGowan: “Eileen Price is now pursuing a dream that began taking shape while she was at Riverdale: She is attending graduate school to get her master’s degree in social work. While she has dedicated herself to the issue of battered women for 20 years as a service provider, philanthropist, and board member, she feels her impact can be even more significant with an MSW degree.
Thomas Richard Wiggin, grandson of Celia McGerr Regan ’74. 44 | QUAD WINTER 2015
“Lisa Kraus Goldfinger is up to something truly scrumptious— she’s a food blogger. Her site, Panning the Globe (http://www. panningtheglobe.com), shows followers how to enjoy global cuisine at home. Lisa discovers great recipes from every country in the world and shares them on the blog (and her Pinterest boards are out of this world, too). I dare you to look at her amazing photos and not grow famished!
“During the past 22 years, Gene Ferriter has composed, played, and recorded extensively with The Conundrum, an LA-based, multigenre jam band. Finding time for music may be more challenging now that Gene’s just been recruited by i95dev, an e-commerce/ERP software integration company, to be the U.S. sales manager. He currently lives in Santa Monica, CA, with his wife, third-grade daughter, and Boston terrier.
“Lester Sills is proving that any time is a good time to flash entrepreneurial spirit. After years of building a reputation as one of the finest veterinarians in the metropolitan area, Les recently launched his own animal hospital in Eastchester, NY, called Petchester. One visit to the website (http://www. petchesterveterinary.com) shows that he is every bit as passionate about animal health today as he was when we were his classmates at RCS.
“Now officially an empty nester, Theodore Casparian is steering off ‘the Daddy Track’ to turn his attention to inspiring individuals to affect what he calls ’positive environmental and social change through the sustainable allocation of capital resources.’ His goal is to have his website, www. sustainableinvesting4all.com, become a primary source for information in these areas.
“In the performing arts world, Lisa Goldstein Kaminir, who has been thriving in her TV acting for years, guest starred this year on Criminal Minds, Rizzoli & Isles, Revenge, and The Mentalist. “Keith Levenson will be conducting the new national tour of Annie, which launched September 26 in Detroit. For more information on the 37-city tour, visit http://www.anniethemusical.com.
“Wayne Salazar spent five weeks traveling across 25 states to shoot a portrait of the way we live now. He is making a book and exhibiting it with framed photos. Called Pictures from America, it’s his MFA thesis project at Hunter. At press time the show was slated to open December 11, 2014. “During his MVP football season senior year, Russell Jackson was known to his teammates as the Man of Steel. Not only did he seem
From left: David Sherman’72, Pam Finnegan’74, Ralph Petrillo’74, and Roger Sherman’74 at a summer BBQ in Long Island.