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Last month we finally had that opportunity. Laurie came to San Francisco to visit her son, who is working out here. I have been living near San Francisco since 1992. We had a great day catching up and decided we wouldn’t let another 40 years pass until our next visit.” Kathy Hughes Baird ’75 with her niece, Shannon Hughes ’15, and brother, Garry Hughes ’79
Jill Wegenstein ’76 and Laurie Calmus Kritzer ’76
This fall, Len Solomon and Peter Milski ’66 both appeared in the musical “Sweeney Todd” at the Orleans Academy Playhouse in Cape Cod.
Multivar, LLC, which offers management and technical consulting services to the construction and power industries worldwide. He has also served as the New York representative for the International Accreditation Service since 2011.
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women at Union, that 40 years to the day, I would have a niece graduating from my alma mater. Or, that I would (38 years later) finally marry my college sweetheart and move to the same city as my freshman roommate, Rita Morandi Harper! Loved being back on campus and meeting up with friends and faculty from back in the day.”
Dr. Marc Maller writes, “I am a practicing geriatrician and the medical director of the community living centers for the Veterans Administration Healthcare of Western New York, which operates facilities in Buffalo and Batavia. I am also a member of the teaching faculty of the physician assistant training program at RIT in Rochester and Le Moyne College in Syracuse. My wife, Cathy, my daughter, Brandi, and my granddaughter, Ana Rose, all live in Rochester. My son Aaron, an architect, lives in Dallas.”
Estelle Cooke-Sampson was recently featured in a USA Today story about babies given up after the Korean War. Cooke-Sampson, like many others, was a mixedrace baby born in Korea and given up for adoption. A radiologist at Howard University Hospital, she is working with Me & Korea, an organization looking to help reunite adoptees with their American G.I. fathers. Estelle serves on Union’s Board of Trustees.
Lawrence J. O’Connor was recently elected president of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, an organization that advocates licensure, promotes the ethical, competent and lawful practice of engineering, and enhances the image and interests of its members and the engineering profession. He is managing director of
Kathy Hughes Baird writes, “All in one weekend (and two weeks after my 40th ReUnion), I retired after 38 years with the same company and attended the Union graduation of my niece Shannon Hughes, Class of 2015, with her dad, my brother Garry Hughes, Class of 1979. I never imagined when I set foot on campus in 1971, in the second class of
Frank Allocca ’73 and John Donohue ’73 attend the wedding of their niece, Katie Allocca, in Marietta, Ga.
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1978 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jeff Laniewski Jlaniew1@maine.rr.com
1976 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Jill Schneier Wegenstein 228 Lexington Dr. Menlo Park, C.A. 94025 jwegenstein@gmail.com (650) 464-0083
Beta Theta Pi graduates spotted in Saratoga this past summer included Harry Hayes, John Mayer ’77, John Fildes ’77, Pete McManus ’78, Fran Sullivan ’78, A.J. Audet ’78, Martin Tagliaferro, Christian Rausch and Tom Carrig. Sullivan and McManus prevailed in the Irish Open at the Saratoga Spa Course. The seventh annual Beta Theta Pi Open will be held in Myrtle Beach in April 2016. Jill (Schneier) Wegenstein writes, “Laurie Calmus Kritzer and I reconnected a few years ago via Facebook. We had gone to school together from kindergarten on but hadn’t seen each other since Union graduation.
1979 Dr. Matthew S. Kayne and Dr. Steven J. Tuckman ’82 practice dentistry at Clifton Dental Associates in Clifton, N.J. Both earned doctorates in medical dentistry from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, and have been recognized in New Jersey Monthly as “Top Dentists of 2004-2005,” selected among America’s Best Dentists 2004-2005, and voted as top dentists by the Consumers’ Research Council of America.
1980 CLASS CORRESPONDENT
Richard Budd Stefan Zavodnika 25 971 01 Prievidza, Slovak Republic buddwick@hotmail.com
The 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America recognized Brooks Pierce attorney Mack Sperling as a leader in commercial litigation law. Mack, who earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, works in the firm’s Greensboro, N.C. office. Linda Klein, the managing shareholder in Baker Donelson’s Georgia offices, assumed the role of presidentelect of the American Bar Association recently. She will