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Class Notes

1940

Rodney Beard lives with his wife, Marion, on Stanford University's campus and enjoys going to his office in the medical center to meet with graduate students in epidemiology and to pursue interests on Medline. He meets friends at grand rounds and attends concerts and ballets in San Francisco with Marion.

1947

In June, Nicholas J. Fiumara received the Kenneth Kaplan Infectious Diseases Clinician Award, given annually by the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society. Nicholas is a clinical professor of dermatology at Tufts University School of Medicine; chief of the STD clinic at the New England Medical Center in Boston; and clinical professor emeritus at Boston University School of Medicine. He lives in Belmont, Massachussetts, with his wife, Sylvia.

1949

Hyman Israel writes that he is enjoying his 40th year of association with Group Health Inc. of New York. He is a dental consultant and chair of the Dental Board of Governors for the HMO.

1953

Rosemary MacIsaacs writes that being 80 years old is a new experience and an adventure. She is active in the Unitarian Universalist Church and is a teacher's aide for Great Books Classes. She is completing a class in medieval dancing and lives with her daughter and grandson in Austin, Texas.

1958

Dena Wagner is living in Sacramento and active on three nonprofit boards. Her most challenging project is the development of a park in the Sacramento Valley in Northern California.

After a career in developmental disabilities and geriatrics, Lewis B. Klebanoff switched to part-time private practice and consultation as a clinical psychologist. He recently returned from a trip with his wife to Florence, Italy, and is planning a tripto Japan. Lewis hopes to retire soon to Cape Cod and grow orchids and Japanese maple trees.

1959

Bonnie Malvea works as an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. He invites news and updates from his classmates.

1962

The fifth edition of Paul R. Torrens' textbook, Introduction to Health Services, was published this past summer.

1963

E. James Lieberman is in private practice and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Science. The German edition of his book, Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank, was recently published. He coauthored another book, Like It Is: A Teen Sex Guide, with his daughter Karen Lieberman Troccoli. He also wrote the introduction to a new translation of Rank's Psychology and the Soul, published this past spring.

1965

Lionel M. Lieberman is semi-retired but still active in nuclear medicine.

1966

David J. Lieberman, recently retired director of the Monroe County, Michigan, Health Department, was named this year's recipient of the Roy R. Manty Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Michigan Association for Local Public Health.

Selma Deitch, executive director of Child Health Services in Manchester, New Hampshire, established the city's first teen health clinic.

1972

Leslie and Philip Graitcer just sent their son Sam off to the Peace Corps in Malawi where he will work in aids education, while their daughter Kellane is following a different path, working in corporate America for Coca-Cola. Philip is retired from the cdc and now teaches injury prevention at the Rollins School of Public Health. Leslie directs the BellSouth Foundation and serves on the dean's advisory committee at Rollins.

1974

Richard W. Clapp analyzed a series of studies about cancer mortality in an article in a recent issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.

1978

Marshall B. Kapp's book, Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics, was recently published. He is a professor in the Departments of Community Health and Psychiatry at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, and director of the Office of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology there.

Charles P. Spickert is enjoying life in the Rockies with his wife, Diane, and sons Cameron and Andrew. He is managing a nationally accredited, nonprofit medical education organization he founded 10 years ago.

Walter W. Williams is the new associate director for minority health at the CDC.

1979

Phyllis Gestrin recently coauthored the book, Into Africa: Intercultural Insights, a practical guide to the dos and don'ts of interacting with Africans.

1981

Charles Levenstein writes that he is professor of Work Environment Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He has been the editor of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Policy for the past eight years. His book, Work, Health and Environment, Old Problems/New Solutions, was published last year, and he has coauthored The Point of Production, scheduled for publication next spring. Charles has also been administering the Work Environment Justice Fund, which provides grants to advocacy groups working with minority, immigrant, and low-wage workers in Massachusetts.

1987

After working many years in Philadelphia managing aids and std prevention and research projects, Jon Liebman attended the Yale School of Nursing as a National Health Service Corps scholar. He recently joined Holyoke Health Center in Massachusetts as an adult nurse practitioner. Jon writes that he looks forward to serving a practice entirely devoid of privately insured patients.

1989

Wallace J. Seay Jr. left the U.S. Army in March 1997 and worked in the emergency room at Medical Center Enterprise in Enterprise, Alabama, until June 1998. He is thoroughly enjoying his new position as medical director of Madison Medical Center.

1990

Howard Hu is the director of the residency program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the School. In April, he hosted the first reunion of alumni of the School's Occupational/Enviromental Medicine Program, which featured a panel discussion and tunes sung by Barry Levy, M.P.H.'70. Sixty-five graduates attended, including Professor John Peters, M.P.H.'64, S.D.'66. Howard encourages friends to keep in touch.

1994

Rex Chiu and his wife and son recently moved to Palo Alto, California. He writes that he is enjoying his new position on the faculty at Stanford Medical School.

Andrew R. Barnosky has joined the clinical faculty of the University of Michigan Health System as a clinical assistant professor in the emergency medicine section of the Department of Surgery. He is the new medical director of urgent care services for the University of Michigan Health System.

1996

Steve Marks and his wife, Kathleen, are living in an intergenerational, foster-adoption-centered community on a converted Air Force base outside of Chicago. Steve's position at Generations of Hope is funded by Ronald McDonald House Charities and focuses on training and evaluation of replication sites around the United States. He would like to hear from international graduates and faculty about how foster care, adoption, and orphanage systems work in their countries and from anyone who has used the Convention of Child Rights. He also invites news from friends and classmates.

1997

Anne Stohrer has an ob-gyn practice in rural Vermont and hopes to enter the field of international reproductive health in the next year or two.

Jay A. Zaslow is in clinical practice in family medicine and is teaching at the Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa Family Practice Residency, an affiliate of the University of California, San Francisco. He welcomes all personal contacts.


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