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The  Judges  seems  an  appropriate 
name  for  the  athletic  teams  of 
a  university  named  for  a  Supreme 
Court  justice.  The  student 
newspaper,  the  Justice,  follows  the 
same  model.  When  I  was  a 
freshman,  The  Supremes  gave 
a  concert  in  the  gym,  but  I  think 
that  was  just  a  coincidence. 
Still,  there  is  an  obvious  theme 
here  into  which  owls  do 
not  readily  fit.  Yet,  an  owl  is  our 
University's  mascot. 

Owls  are  wondrous  birds, 
able  predators  without  whom 
we  would  easily  be  up  to 
our  collective  eyeballs  in  rodents. 
I  know  how  well  they  control 
the  mouse,  vole,  shrew,  and  rat 
populations — the  squirrel, 
rabbit,  and  skunk  populations, 
too,  to  a  lesser  degree — because 
I  have  often  taken  inventory 
of  the  contents  of  their  pellets, 
an  activity  much  akin  to 
a  small-scale  archaeological  dig. 

Large  owls,  like  the  great  horned 
owl  and  the  barred  owl,  both 
common  to  our  area,  tend  to 
swallow  their  smaller  prey  whole. 


Their  digestive  systems  dissolve 
and  absorb  the  edible  parts,  while 
the  hair  and  bones,  cleaned  to 
perfection  and  packed  into  thumb- 
sized  pellets  called  castings, 
are  regurgitated  about  eight  hours 
later.  Piles  of  castings  near  the 
base  of  a  large  tree  will  reveal  not 
only  an  owl's  favored  roost,  but 
a  menu  of  available  prey  species. 
Entire  disarticulated  skeletons, 
skulls  and  all,  are  to  be  found 
within  the  castings  and  provide 
incontrovertable  evidence  of 
each  owl's  prodigious  pest-control 
contribution  and  its  inap- 
propriateness  as  a  household  pet. 

Owls'  flight  feathers  are  built  for 
silent  flight.  Their  prey,  even 
the  most  keen  of  hearing,  are  deaf 
to  the  dire  approach.  The  night 
vision  of  owls  is  exceptional; 
their  eyes  take  up  an  extraordinary 
proportion  of  their  skull  cavity. 
They  are  admirable  birds,  but  they 
are  undeserving  of  their  reputation 
for  wisdom  and  intelligence. 
On  the  avian  roster  of  prodigies, 
they  fall  pitifully  far  below  ravens, 
crows,  and  jays.  They  are  not 
nearly  as  smart  as  wild  turkeys. 

So,  how  is  it  that  an  owl  came 
to  be  the  mascot  of  Brandeis 
University?  One  might  easily 
assume  that,  despite  the 
exposition  of  some  smarty-pants 
editor,  owls  are  traditional 
symbols  of  wisdom,  as  are  judges. 


and  since  it  is  far  easier  to 
graphically  represent  an  owl  than  a 
judge,  the  owl  is  a  logical  choice. 
But  while  that  may  be  true,  it  is  not 
the  reason. 

The  origin  of  the  owl  as  our  mascot, 
legend  has  it,  goes  back  to  the 
very  infancy  of  Brandeis  University 
when  the  relics  of  Middlesex 
University  were  still  warm  to  the 
touch.  One  such  relic  was  a  wishing 
well  (see  this  issue's  "Then  and 
Now")  in  which  hung  a  caged  owl. 
Early  students  considered  the 
bird  as  something  of  a  Campus  pet 
until  local  authorities  got  wind 
of  the  whole  thing  and  quickly  put 
an  end  to  that  flagrant  violation 
of  the  Migratory  Bird  Act. 
After  the  owl  flew  the  coop,  as  it 
were,  it  was  decided  to  memorialize 
it  in  caricature.  Thus  was  born 
our  mascot.  Any  first-hand 
validation  of  this  account  will  be 
greatly  appreciated. 

Be  sure  to  look  on  page  3  for 
the  details  of  a  highly  pertinent 
contest  that  could  well  be 
dubbed  an  artistic  "talon  show." 

Cliff 


Brandeis  Review 


Editor 

Cliff  Hauptman  '69, 
M.F.A,  73 

Vice  President  tor 
Public  Affairs 

Michal  Regunberg  72 

Assistant  Editor 

Audrey  Griffin 

Editorial  Assistant 

Veronica  Blacquier 

Alumni  Editor.  Class  Notes 

Catherine  R  Fallon 

Staff  Writers 

Stephen  Anable 
Marjorie  Lyon 


Design  Director 

Charles  Dunham 

Senior  Designer 

Sara  Beniaminsen 

Design  Assistants 

Tammy  Larck 
Lynn  Simoncini 

/?ei//eiv  Ptiotographer 

Julian  Brown 

Staff  Ptiotographer 

Heather  Pillar 

Student  Interns 

Edwaref  Bruckner 
Jenny  Oh 
Heather  Swidler 


Brandeis  Review 
Advisory  Committee 

Gerald  S  Bernstein 
Sidney  Blumenthal  '69 
Irving  R  Epstein 
LoriGans'83.  MM.H.S. 
Theodore  S.  Gup  72 
Lisa  Berman  Hills  '82 
Michael  Kalafatas  '65 
Karen  Klein 
Laurie  Ledeen  '83 
Donald  Lessem  '73 
Susan  Moeller 
Peter  L  W,  Osnos  '64 
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Elaine  Wong 


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On  the  cover: 

The  west  facade  of  the 

new  Beniamin  and  Mae 

Volen  National  Center  for 

Complex  Systems  at 

Brandeis 

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Brandeis  Review, 
Volume  15 
Number  1.  Fall  1994 
Brandeis  Review 
(ISSN  0273-7175) 
IS  published  by 
Brandeis  University 
PO  Box  9110 
Waltham,  Massachusetts 
02254-9110 
with  free  distribution  to 
alumni.  Trustees,  friends, 
parents,  faculty,  and  staff. 

Office  of  Publications 
©1994  Brandeis  University 
Printed  on  recycled  paper 


Fall  1994 


Brandeis  Review 


Volume  15 


Number  1 


Brainstorming 


The  new  Volen  National  Center 
for  Complex  Systems  presents 
a  new  way  of  doing  science 


Cliff  Hauptman  '69,  M.F. A.  73       18 


Dino  Don  '73 


The  founder  of  The  Dinosaur 
Society  roamed  Brandeis 
more  than  two  decades  ago 


Marjorie  Lyon 


24 


Beats  and  Bytes 


Interactive  Kerouac  in 

the  artistry  of  Fran  Forman  '67 


Cliff  Hauptman  '69,  M.F.A.  12,       28 


Catskiil  Culture 


A  sociologist  and  former 

hotel  waiter  serves  up 

a  history  of  "the  Borscht  Belt" 


Phil  Brown,  Ph.D.  '79 


34 


Five  members  of  the 
early  science 
faculty  in  Ford  Fiall, 
February  1953. 
Back  row,  left  to 
right:  Robert  L. 
Edwards,  instructm 
in  zoology; 
Carl  J.  Sindermann, 
instructor  in 
biology;  Samuel  f. 
Golub,  assistant 
professor  of  biology. 
Front  row,  the 
owl,  title  unknown; 
Albert  G.  Olsen, 
instructor  in  biology. 


Students 


Faculty  and  Staff 


Benefactors 


2     Books 


40 


5      Then  and  Now 


44 


16     Alumni 


46 


Class  Notes 


48 


students 


Liz  Fassler  '95 
Well-oriented 


There's  a  secret  each  year  at 
Brandeis  that  is  kept  as 
guarded  as  the  formula  for 
Coca  Cola  or  Queen 
Elizabeth's  private  tele- 
phone number.  And  Liz 
Fassler,  the  coordinator  of 
orientation  at  Brandeis,  was 
one  of  the  few  people  to 
know  it. 

Fassler  headed  a  committee 
in  charge  of  welcommg  new 
students  that  was  180- 
members  strong.  She  was 
inspired  to  volunteer  for 
this  demanding  assignment 
by  her  own  freshman 
orientation  experience. 

"I'm  a  triplet,"  says  the 
Portland,  Connecticut, 
native.  "One  of  my  sisters 
went  to  Penn  and  the  other 
came  with  me  to  Brandeis. 
But  we  agreed  that  we'd 
have  separate  lives  at 
college,  so  when  she  left  my 
room  for  her  own  dorm  that 
first  day  here,  I  felt 
completely  alone.  We'd 
been  best  friends;  we'd 
never  been  separated  for 
more  than  two  weeks. 


That's  when  the  orientation 
team  made  such  a  difference 
for  me.  They  stopped  me 
from  being  lonely  by  getting 
me  involved  in  activities 
and  introducing  me  to 
campus  life.  They  were  just 
wonderful,  so  helpful  and  so 
positive." 

Fassler  wanted  to  replicate 
that  warm,  accepting  feeling 
for  the  members  of  the  new 
freshman  class.  "For  me, 
now,  volunteering  for 
orientation  is  a  great  way  to 
give  back  to  the  University. 
Each  year,  the  color  of  the 
shirts  the  volunteers  wear  is 
different  and  is  kept  secret 
until  it's  time  for  the 
program  to  begin.  This  year 
it  was  yellow.  It's  really  fun 
to  wear  that  orientation 
staff  shirt  for  that  whole 
week,  to  help  people 
become  accustomed  to 
Brandeis." 

Orientation  started  the 
Sunday  before  Labor  Day. 
(Earlier,  there  were  special 
programs  for  minority 
students.)  Two-hundred 


Liz  Fassler  (far  right) 
with  some  members  of  her 
Orientation  team 


people  applied  for  the  1 80 
volunteer  slots  to  help  with 
the  program.  "We  had  to 
turn  volunteers  away," 
Fassler  laughs.  Fassler 
recently  attended  a  regional 
conference  for  orientation 
directors,  where  she  picked 
up  some  new  ideas, 
including  some  interactive 
events.  "One  of  the  most 
successful  things  we  did 
this  year  was  to  hold  a 
scavenger  hunt  around 
Boston,"  Fassler  says. 
"Students  had  to  retrieve 
things,  like  five  napkins 
from  five  different 
restaurants  at  Quincy 
Market — and  learn  bits  of 
obscure  information,  like 
the  names  of  famous  artists 
carved  into  the  wall  of  the 
Boston  Public  Library.  It 
was  a  great  way  to 
introduce  students  to  the 
city!" 

Fassler  is  a  psychology  and 
history  major.  Her  ties  to 
Brandeis  began  when  her 
older  brother  enrolled  at 
the  University.  Later  she 
participated  in  Summer 
Odyssey,  a  Brandeis  science- 
study  program  for  gifted 
high  school  students,  held 
on  campus.  Fassler  took 
marine  biology  and  creative 
writing  and  discovered 
that,  unlike  the  rest  of  her 
family,  she  was  not  a 
scientific  person,  but  she 
was  attracted  to  the  course 
offerings  and  small  size  of 
Brandeis  and  was  impressed 
by  the  University's 
reputation  and  the 
friendliness  of  the  campus. 

The  academic  experience 
has  proven  as  stimulating  as 
she's  expected.  History 
Professor  David  Hackett 
Fischer's  courses — The 
American  Revolution  and 
Slavery  and  the  American 
Civil  War — have  been 


especially  intriguing  to 
Fassler  "because  of  the  way 
he  makes  history  come  alive 
with  the  anecdotes  he  tells 
about  the  past." 

Fassler  takes  full  advantage 
of  the  cultural  opportunities 
of  the  Boston  area,  going  to 
the  ballet,  the  Museum  of 
Fine  Arts,  and  Quincy 
Market.  She  also  ventures 
north  to  ski. 

After  Brandeis,  Fassler  hopes 
to  enter  the  "Teach  for 
America"  program.  She  says, 
"It's  a  new  organization  that 
was  started  by  recent  college 
graduates,  a  kind  of  teachers' 
Peace  Corps  for  the  United 
States.  They  train  new  people 
with  bachelor's  degrees,  then 
place  them  in  school  districts 
that  really  need  teachers, 
places  like  East  L.A.  They 
pay  you  a  beginning  teacher's 
salary  and  while  you  work, 
you  earn  your  teaching 
credentials." 

Eventually,  Fassler  would 
like  to  attend  law  school, 
then  work  as  an  advocate  for 
the  rights  of  disabled 
children.  She  discovered  her 
talent  for  working  with 
children  when  she  was  16.  "I 
took  a  job  with  handicapped 
kids  at  a  summer  camp.  It 
gave  me  a  great  feeling, 
knowing  that  I  was  helping 
them.  Helping  people  is  a  big 
part  of  what  makes  me  tick — 
helping  them  succeed  and 
feel  good  about  themselves." 

To  stay  involved  with  the 
younger  generation,  Fassler 
works  on  campus  at  the 
Lemberg  Children's  Center. 
She  says,  "Watching  kids 
grow  and  learn  is  a  great 
feeling.  If  I  can  teach  one 
thing  to  one  kid,  that  makes 
me  feel  terrific,  just  knowing 
that  I've  had  some  part  in 
making  someone  grow." 


2  Brandeis  Review 


Record 

Applications  Yield 
Impressive  Results 


A  student  from  California 
traveled  to  the  Dominican 
Republic  to  help  build  a 
much-needed  hospital 
outside  Santo  Domingo. 
One  from  Maine  produces 
bare  bones  budget  horror 
films  in  his  spare  time. 
Another  from  California  has 
won  awards  for  both  figure 
and  freestyle  skating.  They 
are  this  fall's  freshmen 
students — the  Brandeis 
Class  of  1998— and  they 
break  the  mold  of  the 
"Generation  X"  myth  by 
being  aware,  creative, 
and  involved. 

They  were  selected  from  the 
largest  applicant  pool  in  the 
University's  history.  They 
represent  37  states  and  40 
foreign  countries.  Many  are 
from  New  England  and  the 
Middle  Atlantic  states,  but 
increasing  numbers  are 
from  the  West,  particularly 
California.  The  seven 
percent  of  international 
students  come  from  all  over 
the  world — from 
Argentina  to  Nepal,  from 
Sri  Lanka  to  Ghana. 

Their  academic 
achievements  are  impres- 
sive. A  Justice  Brandeis 
Scholar  from  California  will 
be  the  first  person  in  his 
family  to  attend  college. 
This  son  of  Mexican 
immigrants,  who  partici- 
pated in  summer  science 
enrichment  programs  at 
Brandeis  and  Phillips 
Academy,  has  done 
extensive  laboratory 
research  on  AIDS.  Another 
Californian  is  a  Bible 
scholar  who  placed  second 
in  a  national  Bible  contest, 
then  went  on  to  represent 
the  United  States  in  an 
international  competition 
held  m  Israel.  A  young  New 
York  woman  studied 
butterfly  behavior  at  a 
summer  science  program  at 
the  University  of  Texas 
zoology  department.  And  a 


Pennsylvania  native  won 
her  state's  Junior  Academy 
of  Science  State  Fair  for  her 
research  on  the  effect  of 
rainwater  pH  levels  on  the 
roots  of  food  crops. 

Many  incoming  students 
have  performed  outstanding 
acts  of  community  service. 
A  young  man  from 
California  won  the  Los 
Angeles  Times  Volunteer  of 
Distinction  Award  for 
contributing  1,450  hours  of 
community  service;  he 
donated  the  award's  $5,000 
prize  to  the  American  Red 
Cross.  A  young  woman 
from  Washington,  D.C., 
headed  the  committee  that 
organized  SHADES 
(Students  Helping  to 
Advance  Diversity  and 
Ethnic  Understanding),  a 
conference  with  workshops 
on  violence  in  the  streets, 
African-American  culture, 
and  race  relations.  And  a 
young  man  from  Iraq,  a 
Kurd  exiled  by  the  fighting 
in  his  country,  volunteered 
with  the  United  Nations 
Commission  for  Refugees. 

An  impressive  collection  of 
athletes  arrives  with  the 
Class  of  1998,  including  an 
Illinois  woman  who  is  the 
number  one  foil  fencer  in 
her  state,  among  the  top  10 
in  the  Midwest,  and  ranks 
30th  in  the  nation.  A 
student  from  Missouri  won 
a  gold  medal  in  the 
National  Russian 
Olympiada.  And  a  Martha's 
Vineyard,  Massachusetts, 
native  was  halfback  on  a 
state  championship  football 
team  while  serving  as  editor 
in  chief  of  a  nationally 
recognized  high  school 
literary  magazine. 

Student  interest  in  the  arts 
runs  high.  A  Missouri 
vocalist  sang  in  the  St. 
Louis  Children's  Choir  for 
nine  years,  appearing  with 
the  St.  Louis  Symphony  in 
Carnegie  Hall  and 
throughout  Europe.  A 
Florida  actor  won  numerous 


awards  after  honing  his 
skills  at  the  Northwestern 
University  High  School 
Institute  for  Drama  and  the 
Williamstown  Theater 
Festival  at  Williams 
College.  Musicians  include 
a  bassoonist  from  New  York 
who  played  for  the 
Manhattan  Symphony  Pre- 
College  Orchestra  and  a 
young  man  from  Vermont 
who  was  principal  violist 
for  both  the  Vermont  Youth 
Orchestra  and  the  All-State 
Orchestra. 

Students'  hobbies  and 
avocations  vary.  A  young 
man  from  Maryland  won 
first  place  in  a  worldwide 
competition  for  developing 
his  human-powered 
submarine.  A  New  York 
computer  whiz/ 
entrepreneur  created  an 
electronic  bulletin  board 
serving  over  150  users  in  14 
states  and  several  foreign 
countries.  A  young 
Nebraskan  served  as  a  cadet 
commander  in  the  Civil  Air 
Patrol,  competing  in 
national  competition  on  the 
military  drill  team  and 
earning  the  prestigious 
Earhart  Award.  And  a  New 
Jersey  environmental 
activist  was  the  leader  of 
her  school's  environmental 
group  and  worked  as  an 
intern  at  the  National 
Marine  Fisheries 
Laboratory. 

This  is  a  small  sampling  of 
the  diverse,  talented  group 
of  young  men  and  women 
who  unpacked  their 
belongings  this  fall  to  begin 
their  four  years  at  Brandeis 
as  the  Class  of  1998. 
Congratulations  to  all — and 
welcome! 


Update  the  Owl 


Brandeis  Proiect  Prideis 
sponsoring  "Design  Our 
Mascot,"  a  contest  to  create  a 
new  design  of  the  University 
mascot  for  the  Brandeis 
community.  Open  to  all 
Brandeis  alumni,  Trustees, 
faculty,  staff,  and  students, 
creations  should  be  based  on  an 
owl,  and  the  winner  will  be 
displayed  on  clothing  and  on  a 
banner  in  the  sports  center. 

Entries  must  be  received  by 
December  21,  1994. 

JFor  more  information,  the  rules 
^f  the  contest,  and  an  entry 
form,  please  contact  Senator 
lanet  Lipman  at  the  Brandeis 
[Student  Senate,  Usdan  38, 
|p.O.  Box  9110,  Wahham, 
Massachusetts  02254-91 10,  or 
call  617-736-3760. 


3  Fall  1994 


Boston  Globe  Cites 
Heller  as  Straight  Path 
to  Jobs 


Applications  open 
for  Mortimer 
Hays-Brandeis 
Traveling  Fellowships 


The  Heller  School's 
Master's  in  Management  of 
Human  Services  Program 
was  lauded  as  a  sure  way  to 
secure  higher-level  and 
better-paying  jobs  in  a 
recent  Boston  Globe  Living 
With  Work  column. 

In  September,  the  program 
started  evenmg  courses 
offering  the  same  degree  and 
almost  the  same  curriculum 
as  the  full-time  program. 
"Students  can  now  continue 
earning  while  learning," 
said  column  writer  Juliet  F. 
Brudney,  who  interviewed 
many  of  the  program's  1992 
graduates.  She  wrote: 

"Andrew  Roberts  dropped 
out  of  college,  took  an 
entry-level  job  working 
with  emotionally  disturbed 
teenagers.  'It  made  me  feel 
good,  but  after  three  years  I 
realized  I  needed  a  college 
degree  to  get  anywhere.'" 


After  earning  a  B.A.  from 
Brandeis,  he  entered  the 
Heller  program. 

"Several  months  before 
completing  the  program 
Roberts  was  hired  as  a  part- 
time  research  assistant  by 
Join  Together,  his  current 
full-time  employer,  a 
national  foundation/ 
resource  center  for 
communities  fighting 
substance  abuse.  He's  now 
assistant  to  the  director. 
'Heller's  the  East  Coast 
social  welfare  Mecca.  The 
part-time  job  came  from 
telling  faculty  I  was 
interested  in  substance 
abuse  policy.  They  said  talk 
to  an  adjunct  professor.  He's 
now  my  boss.'" 

Roberts  started  Harvard 
Business  School  this  fall  for 
an  M.B.A.  Other  graduates 
told  Brudney  the  Heller 
program  applies  technical 
knowledge  to  practical 
situations,  an  invaluable 
combination. 


Completing  the  evening 
degree  takes  two-and-a-half 
to  four  years,  compared 
with  15  months  for  the  full- 
time,  daytime  program.  A 
bachelor's  degree  and 
"significant  work 
experience  and  a 
commitment  to  human 
services"  are  required. 

An  employment  consultant 
and  author,  Brudney  said, 
"daytime  students  have 
included  work  force 
reentries,  up-the-ladder 
aspirants,  career-changers 
from  the  profit  to  nonprofit/ 
public  sector,  and  the 
unemployed,  or  soon-to-be. 
About  two-thirds  are 
women.  A  substantial 
number  are  minorities." 


Class  of  1995  of  Brandeis 
are  invited  to  make 
application  for  the 
Mortimer  Hays-Brandeis 
Traveling  Fellowship 
program.  Three  fellowships 
in  the  amount  of  $12,000 
each  are  awarded  annually 
to  students  wishing  to 


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.  eiiGwsnips  are  awaraea  to 

one  year  beginning  July  I, 

1 995,  and  ending  June  30, 

1 996.  The  application 
deadline  is  January  31, 
1995.  To  be  eligible  an 
individual  must  have 
received  an  undergraduate 
degree  no  more  than  thrci 
years  prior  to  the  start  o* 


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4  Brandeis  Review 


Faculty  and  Staff 


Senior  Development 
Vice  President  Named 


Nancy  Kolack  Winship 


Husband  and  Wife  to 
Teach  Against 
Domestic  Abuse 


President  fchuda  Remharz 
has  announced  the 
appointment  of  Nancy 
Kolack  Winship  as  senior 
vice  president  for 
development  and  alumni 
relations.  Formerly  the  vice 
president  for  endowment 
and  development  at  the 
Comhined  lewish 
Philanthropies  (CIP), 
Winship  assumed  her  duties 
at  Brandeis  in  October. 


During  her  tenure  at  CJP, 
Winship  IS  credited  with 
building  an  endowment, 
planned  giving,  and  donor 
research  department,  and 
helping  to  raise  several 
seven-figure  gifts  for  the 
first  time  in  the 
organization's  history.  She 
also  serves  as  a  fundraismg 
consultant  to  many  Boston- 
area  organizations, 
including  the  Rashi  School, 
Temple  Israel,  Harvard 
Hillel,  and  Hebrew  College. 
She  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Committee  on 
Planned  Giving  and  the 
Planned  Giving  Group  of 


New  England.  Winship  has 
a  B.A.  degree  from  the 
University  of  Massachusetts 
and  was  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
at  Harvard  University  in 
Sociology. 

She  fills  the  position  held 
by  Daniel  J.  Mansoor,  who 
resigned  in  May  to  become 
the  executive  vice  president 
of  the  American  Friends  of 
Hebrew  University.  At  the 
Brandeis  Development 
Office,  total  voluntary 
support  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  30  was  more 
than  $33.2  million. 


A  husband-and-wife  team  are 
teaching  a  group  of  Brandeis 
students  how  to  stop 
domestic  abuse  against 
women  and  children.  Bonnie 
Zimmer  and  (ames  Ptacek 
have  dedicated  their  lives  to 
preventing  domestic  abuse. 
Zimmer  is  a  clinical  social 
worker  with  a  background  in 
women's  health.  Ptacek  is  a 
sociologist,  university 
lecturer,  and  group 
counselor.  They  are  a  marital 
balancing  act;  Ptacek  works 
mainly  with  male  batterers 
and  Zimmer  concentrates  on 
victims  and  survivors. 

The  Women's  Studies 
Program  at  Brandeis  offers 
the  course/internship  on 
preventing  domestic  violence 


against  women  and 
children.  In  addition  to 
classroom  sessions,  the  15 
students  will  spend  about 
10  hours  a  week  in  the  field. 
They  are  putting  in  time  at 
programs  for  men  who 
batter,  battered  women's 
shelters,  rape  crisis  centers, 
courts,  child  assault 
prevention  programs,  and 
hospital-based  programs 
linking  services  to  abused 
children  and  women. 

"It's  a  time  of  life  when 
students  are  really  open  to 
learning  about  social 
problems,"  Zimmer  said. 
"The  lessons  of  domestic 
abuse  are  that  violence 
knows  no  class  boundaries, 
from  the  wealthiest  to  the 
poorest  of  us,  women  are 
being  beaten  and  killed." 
Ericka  Tavaies 


James  Ptacek  and  Bonnie 
Zimmer 


5  Fall  1994 


New  Tenure-Track 
Appointments 


New  Data 
Support  Link 
Between  Aluminum 
and  Alzheimer's 


Gerald  Fasman,  Louis  and 
Bessie  Rosenfield  Professor 
of  Biochemistry,  and  his 
colleagues  have  recently 
discovered  new  data  that 
supports  a  possible  link 
between  aluminum  and 
Alzheimer's  disease  (see 
Spring  1992  issue  of  the 
Brandeis  Review,  Toward  a 
More  Gentle  Night:  Seeking 
a  Cure  for  Alzheimer's).  The 
research  led  the  group  to 
conclude  that  limiting 
human  exposure  to  high 
aluminum  concentration 
might  reduce  the  incidence 
of  Alzheimer's  disease  and 
other  aluminum-related 
neurodegenerative  diseases. 

"Our  research  gives 
credence  to  the  proposition 
that  aluminum  plays  a  role 
in  Alzheimer's  disease," 
Fasman  says.  "Minimizing 
aluminum  intake  or 
removing  it  from  the  body 
may  serve  as  a  preventive 
measure  in  reducing 
Alzheimer's."  As  a  result  of 
acid  rain,  aluminum  is 
found  in  drinking  water 
today  at  levels  at  least  20 
times  higher  than  20  years 
ago.  Limiting  exposure  to 
aluminum  is  a  difficult 
task,  but,  according  to 
Fasman,  a  medicine  may  be 


developed  that  will  remove 
It  from  the  body  and  reduce 
the  probability  of  the  aged 
developing  Alzheimer's 
disease. 

The  group  synthesized 
portions  of  brain  cell 
proteins  most  affected  by 
Alzheimer's.  Using  calcium 
and  aluminum  ions  for  the 
experiment,  Fasman 
determined  that  aluminum 
may  play  a  role  in  the 
formation  of  tangles, 
insoluble  proteins  that  are 
characteristic  of  the 
neurodegenerative  disease. 
More  importantly,  the 
changes  in  the  protein  shape 
caused  by  the  calcium  ions 
could  be  chemically 
reversed,  and  the  effects  of 
the  aluminum  ions  could 
not. 
Traci  Massaio 


In  a  hiring  season  that 
University  administrators 
are  calling  extraordinarily 
fruitful,  nearly  20  new 
faculty  members  have  been 
appointed  to  tenure-track 
positions. 

Susan  Birren,  assistant 
professor  of  neurobiology 
and  Volen  National  Center 
for  Complex  Systems, 
received  her  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  California-Los 
Angeles.  Birren  is  a 
molecular  biologist  whose 
research  attempts  to 
understand  the  genes  and 
growth  factors  that  play 
roles  in  the  determination 
of  cell  fate  during  the 
development  of  the 
mammalian  peripheral 
nervous  system.  She  has 
been  a  U.S.  Public  Health 
Service/NRSA  Predoctoral 
Trainee  and  was  a  Damon 
Runyon-Walter  Winchell 
Cancer  Research  Fund 
Postdoctoral  Fellow  at  the 
California  Institute  of 
Technology  before  coming 
to  Brandeis. 

Gianni  De  Nicolo,  assistant 
professor  of  economics, 
received  his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Minnesota. 
De  Nicolo's  expertise  is  in 
the  areas  of  monetary 
theory,  financial  economics, 
and  empirical  finance.  His 
dissertation  was  a 
contribution  to  studies  of 
contractual  arrangements 
between  banks  and 
depositors  which  provide  an 
optimal  allocation  of  risk 
and  guarantee  stability  of 
banking  systems.  For  the 
last  three  years,  he  has  been 
a  research  assistant  at  the 
European  University 
Institute  and  a  lecturer  at 
the  University  of  Rome. 

Dana  Gordon,  assistant 
professor  of  chemistry,  is  an 
organic  and  synthetic 
chemist  with  expertise  in 
carbohydrate  chemistry.  He 
received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Oxford  University.  After 
being  a  National  Science 
Foundation  Predoctoral 


Fellow  and  University 
Fellow  at  Oxford,  he  held  a 
two-year  National  Cancer 
Institute  Postdoctoral 
Fellowship  at  Harvard 
University  before  coming  to 
Brandeis. 

Arthur  Holmberg, 
instructor  in  theater  arts, 
received  his  M.A.  from 
Harvard  University  and  is  a 
doctoral  candidate  in 
comparative  literature  at 
Harvard.  His  expertise  is 
American  drama  and  theory 
of  drama  with  an  interest  in 
Hispanic  and  Latin 
American  theater  and  ritual. 
The  author  of  An  Eye  with 
a  Mind  of  Its  Own:  The 
Theater  of  Robert  Wilson 
and  U.S.  editor  of  World 
Encyclopedia  of 
Contemporary  Theater, 
Holmberg  is  former  director 
and  dramaturge  of  the 
American  Repertory 
Theater  and  a  theater  critic 
and  former  editor  of  ART 
News.  Upon  receipt  of  the 
Ph.D.,  he  will  assume  the 
rank  of  assistant  professor. 

Paul  Jankowski,  who  has 
been  a  lecturer  in  the 
history  department  for  the 
past  four  years,  has  just 
successfully  competed  for 
the  tenure-track  position  in 
20th-century  French  history 
and  been  named  assistant 
professor  of  history.  He 
received  his  D.Phil,  from 
Oxford  University.  A 
historian  of  modern  France 
between  the  two  World 
Wars,  he  is  the  author  of 
Communism  and 
Collaboration:  Simon 
Sabiani  and  Politics  in 
Marseille  1919-1944.  His 
work  has  been  supported  by 
the  National  Endowment 
for  the  Humanities, 
American  Philosophical 
Society,  American  Council 
of  Learned  Societies,  and 
the  Centre  National  de  la 
Recherche  Scientifique. 
Jankowski  is  currently 
working  on  a  book  about 
the  nature  and  function  of 
scandal  in  French  politics 
and  society  during  the  Third 
Republic. 


6  Brandeis  Review 


Michael  Kahana,  assistant 
professor  of  psychology  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  received 
his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Toronto. 
Kahana  is  a  cognitive 
psychologist  with  interests 
in  human  memory  and 
learning  and  mathematical 
modeling.  He  has  just 
completed  a  postdoctoral 
fellowship  at  Harvard 
University  supported  by  a 
National  Institutes  of 
Health  Individual  National 
Research  Service  Award. 

Ann  Koloski-Ostrow, 
assistant  professor  of 
classical  studies,  received 
her  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Michigan. 
Koloski-Ostrow,  who  has 
been  a  lecturer  at  Brandeis 
since  1985  and  recipient  of 
the  1988  Louis  Dembitz 
Brandeis  Prize  for 
Excellence  in  Teaching,  has 
just  successfully  competed 
for  the  tenure-track  position 
in  classical  archaeology. 
Her  special  interests  are 
Roman  and  Greek  art  and 
archaeology  and  Latin  and 
Greek  language  and 
literature.  She  is  the  author 
of  The  Sarno  Bath  Complex, 
a  comprehensive  study  of  an 
enormous  Pompeian 
apartment  complex-cum- 
bath  consisting  of  over  100 
rooms  on  six  levels.  In 
1992,  she  received  a  Marion 
and  jasper  Whiting 
Foundation  Grant  and  is 
currently  a  Trustee  of  the 
Vergilian  Society  of 
America.  Koloski-Ostrow 
has  just  won  a  Bunting 
Fellowship  to  pursue  her 
research  on  social  customs 
related  to  matters  of  health 
and  sanitation  in  antiquity. 


Melissa  Moore,  assistant 
professor  of  biochemistry 
and  Rosenstiel  Basic 
Medical  Sciences  Research 
Center,  received  her  Ph.D. 
from  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology. 
Moore  researches  the 
molecular  mechanisms  of 
mammalian  pre-mRNA 
splicing,  an  essential  step  in 
gene  expression.  Her 
research  has  been  supported 
by  a  National  Science 
Foundation  Predoctoral 
Fellowship  and  a  Helen  Hay 
Whitney  Postdoctoral 
Fellowship.  Moore,  who 
comes  to  Brandeis  after  four 
years  as  an  American 
Cancer  Society  Postdoctoral 
Fellow  at  the  MIT  Center 
for  Cancer  Research,  has 
just  been  named  a  Searle 
Scholar. 

Yitzhak  Nakash,  assistant 
professor  of  modern  Middle 
Eastern  studies  in  the 
Department  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies,  received 
his  Ph.D.  from  Princeton 
University.  A  historian  of 
the  modern  Middle  East, 
Nakash  has  just  published 
The  Shi' is  of  Iraq.  The  first 
comprehensive  work  on  this 
subject,  it  challenges  the 
widely  held  belief  that  the 
culture  and  politics  of  Iraqi 
Shi'is  reflect  Iranian  Shi'ism 
and  illustrates  the  power  of 
the  modern  state  to  shape 
and  control  even  such  basic 
social  phenomena  as 
religious  identity  and  its 
expression.  Nakash's 
research  was  supported  by 
Rothschild,  Fulbnght,  and 
DAAD  fellowships  and  a 
grant  from  the  American 
Historical  Association. 

Sacha  Nelson,  assistant 
professor  of  biology  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  is  a 
neurobiologist  whose 
expertise  is  in  cellular 
systems  and  computational 
neurobiology.  He  received 
his  M.D.  and  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Califorma-San 
Diego.  His  research  interest 


is  understanding  the 
cellular  and  circuit-level 
properties  that  underlie  the 
stimulus  specificity  of 
single  neurons  in  the 
mammalian  visual  cortex. 
He  comes  to  Brandeis  after 
being  a  National  Institutes 
of  Health  Postdoctoral 
Fellow  at  MIT.  Nelson 
assumes  a  halftime 
tenure-track  assistant 
professorship. 

Michael  Randall,  assistant 
professor  of  French  and 
comparative  literature, 
received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Princeton  University. 
Randall's  expertise  is  the 
I6th  century,  with 
particular  interest  m  logic, 
theology,  and  literature  of 
the  late  medieval-early 
French  Renaissance.  He  is 
completing  Back  to  the 
Future:  Analogical 
Discourse  in  the  Early 
French  Renaissance,  which 
uses  the  works  of  three  late 
medieval-Renaissance 
authors  to  illustrate  how 
contemporary  nominalism 
undermined  possibilities  for 
substantive,  essential 
allegorization  as  it  had  been 
practiced  in  the  I3th  and 
I4th  centuries. 

Ruibao  Ren,  assistant 
professor  of  biology  and 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Sciences  Research  Center, 
received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Columbia  University.  After 
training  as  a  physician  at 
Beijing  Medical  University, 
Ren  pursued  graduate 
studies  in  molecular 
biology.  His  interest  is  the 
mechanism  of  signal 
transduction  in  regulating 
cell  growth  and 
differentiation,  especially 
the  analysis  of  intra-cellular 
signalling  pathways  that 
result  m  cancerous  cell 
growth.  He  comes  to 
Brandeis  supported  by  the 
Howard  Hughes  Medical 
Institute  after  completing  a 
postdoctoral  fellowship  at 


Rockefeller  University 
supported  by  the  Cancer 
Research  Institute. 

Faith  Smith,  instructor  in 
African  and  Afro-American 
studies  and  English  and 
American  literature, 
received  her  M.A.  from 
University  of  Wisconsin. 
She  is  a  doctoral  candidate 
at  Duke  University,  writing 
a  dissertation  examining 
19th-century  Caribbean 
intellectual  life  with  special 
reference  to  constructions 
of  Africa;  Pan-African 
nationalism;  the 
relationship  to  Victorian 
ideologies  of  race,  nation, 
and  gender;  and  the 
recontextualization  of 
20th-century  post-Colonial 
writing.  Smith  will  assume 
the  rank  of  assistant 
professor  in  both 
departments  upon  receipt 
of  the  Ph.D. 

Gina  Turngiano,  assistant 
professor  of  biology  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  received 
her  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  California-San 
Diego.  She  is  a 
neurobiologist  whose 
expertise  is  in  cellular 
systems  and  computational 
neurobiology.  She  has  been 
a  National  Institutes  of 
Health  Postdoctoral  Fellow 
at  Brandeis  since  1990.  Her 
research  interest  is  to 
determine  the  molecular 
mechanisms  by  which 
activity  is  able  to  regularize 
the  intrinsic  electrical 
properties  of  neurons  and  to 
understand  how  such 
activity-dependent 
processes  help  to  shape  the 
activity  of  intact  neural 
circuits.  Turrigiano  assumes 
a  halftime  tenure-track 
assistant  professorship. 


7  Fall  1994 


Three  Promoted  to 
Full  Professorships 


The  Board  of  Trustees 
announced  the  promotions 
of  Arthur  Lewbel,  Dagmar 
Ringe,  and  Malcohn  Watson 
to  the  position  of  full 
professor. 

Professor  of  Economics 
Arthur  Lewbel's  research 
has  established  him  as  the 
leader  of  the  current 
generation  of  demand- 
system  economic 
researchers.  He  works  in 
three  general  areas: 
econometrics,  or  the 
statistical  methods  used  for 
analyzing  economic  data; 
consumer  demand  theory, 
which  deals  with  how 
people  allocate  their 
budgets  into  large  categories 
such  as  food  versus 
clothing;  and  aggregation 
theory,  which  concerns  the 
links  between  aggregate 
data  and  data  on  individual 
firms  and  people,  and  how 
the  behavior  of  individuals 
translates  into  aggregate 
data  over  time.  Much  of  his 
work  involves  designing 
sophisticated  computer 
models  for  the  analysis  of 
economic  data. 


Lewbel  received  grants  from 
the  National  Science 
Foundation  for  his  research 
and  funding  from  the 
Department  of  Health  and 
Human  Services.  He 
received  his  Ph.D.  from 
MIT.  He  has  published 
dozens  of  articles  on 
economic  theory  and  is 
associate  editor  of  three 
economics  journals, 
including  the  Journal  of 
Applied  Economics. 

Dagmar  Ringe,  professor  of 
biochemistry,  chemistry, 
and  Rosenstiel  Basic 
Medical  Sciences  Research 
Center,  is  a  structural 
biologist  and  protein 
crystallographer  whose  area 
of  expertise  is  the  solution 
and  interpretation  of  crystal 
structures  pertinent  to 
enzyme  mechanisms.  Her 
path-breaking  work  in 
determining  the  atomic 
structure  of  proteins  and 
designing  active  site- 
directed  inhibitors  led 
Ringe  to  develop  a  method 
of  mapping  the  complete 
binding  surface  of  any 
crystalline  protein.  Her 
work  has  been  published 
widely  in  scientific 
journals,  and  has  been 


supported  by  the  National 
Institutes  of  Health,  the 
Cystic  Fibrosis  Foundation, 
the  National  Science 
Foundation,  and  Procter  and 
Gamble. 

She  was  the  first  recipient 
of  the  Margaret  Oakley 
Dayhoff  Award  for 
Outstanding  Performance  in 
Research  from  the 
Biophysical  Society  and  has 
published  dozens  of  articles, 
two  book  chapters,  and 
translated  a  chemistry 
volume.  Ringe  received  her 
Ph.D.  from  Boston 
University. 

Professor  of  Psychology 
Malcolm  Watson  is  a 
developmental  psychologist 
whose  research  with  young 
children  ranges  from  the 
value  and  use  of  toys  to  the 
comfort  children  find  in 
fantasy.  He  is  especially 
interested  in  children's 
individual  development  as 
influenced  by  outside 
factors  such  as  family 
events  and  parenting  styles. 
Recently,  his  research  has 


Dagmar  Ringe 
Malcolm  Watson 
Arthur  Lewbel 


focused  on  antecedents  of 
aggression  in  children. 
Along  with  two  former 
students,  he  conducted  the 
first  study  to  assess  the 
relationship  between  long- 
term  toy  gun  play  in 
preschoolers  and  aggression 
(see  Summer  1994  issue  of 
the  Brandeis  Review.  Toy 
Gun  Play  and  Aggression). 
Watson's  work  on 
preschoolers'  reactions  to 
divorce,  sexual  abuse,  and 
family  conflict,  supported 
by  the  MacArthur 
Foundation,  spans  areas 
such  as  social  psychology, 
clinical  psychology,  and 
aesthetic  development.  He 
recently  received  a  grant 
from  the  National  Institute 
of  Health  and  Human 
Development  to  study 
antecedents  of  aggression  in 
children. 

Watson  received  his  Ph.D. 
from  the  University  of 
Denver.  In  1982  he  was  the 
first  recipient  of  the 
Michael  L.  Walzer  '56  Prize 
for  Excellence  in  Teaching. 
He  is  coauthor  of  New 
Directions  for  Child 
Development:  Children's 
Perspectives  on  the  Family. 
and  10  chapters  in 
psychology  books,  as  well  as 
numerous  articles  and 


8  Brandeis  Review 


Robert  Manners 
Honored  by 
Colleagues 


On  October  13th,  friends, 
students,  and  family 
members  joined  colleagues 
in  paying  tribute  to  Robert 
A.  Manners,  professor 
emeritus  of  anthropology, 
for  his  many  years  of 
service  to  the  University  as 
well  as  his  scholarly 
contributions  to  the  field  of 
anthropology. 

The  occasion  was  marked 
by  a  conference  in  the 
afternoon  during  which  two 
of  Manners'  former  students 
delivered  papers  on 
anthropological  topics. 
Herbert  S.  Lewis  '55,  who  is 
currently  professor  of 
anthropology  and  director  of 
the  African  studies  program 
at  the  University  of 
Wisconsin-Madison,  spoke 
"On  the  Parlous  State  of 
Anthropology  Today"  and 
Lawrence  Rosen  '63, 
currently  professor  and 
chair  of  the  anthropology 
department  at  Princeton 
University,  spoke  on 
"Defending  Culture;  The 
Law's  Use  of  'Culture'  and 
the  Cultural  Defense  Plea." 

In  the  evening,  after  a 
reception  and  dinner 
attended  by  almost  100 
persons  from  various  parts 
of  the  United  States  as  well 
as  Puerto  Rico,  several 
friends  and  colleagues 
offered  informal 
recollections  of  Manners' 
career  and  contributions  to 
the  discipline.  He  was  then 
presented  with  a  bound 
volume  of  selections  from 
his  writings.  The 
establishment  of  the  Robert 
A.  Manners  Award  was 
announced  by  Robert  N. 
Zeitlin,  chair  of  the 
anthropology  department. 
The  evening  concluded  with 
some  remarks  by  Professor 
Manners. 


Manners  came  to  Brandeis 
in  1952,  the  year  of  the  first 
graduating  class.  At  the  time 
there  were  no  departments 
at  the  University,  only  four 
schools.  As  the  University 
grew,  departments  were 
established,  first  a  combined 
anthropology-sociology 
department  and  later,  in 
1958,  a  separate 
anthropology  department 
over  which  Manners 
presided  as  the  department's 
first  chair.  This  was  one  of 
several  stints  as 
departmental  chair.  It  was 
under  his  guidance  that 
graduate  studies  in 
anthropology  were 
inaugurated  in  1959. 


professional  journals.  He 
has  done  field  research  in 
Puerto  Rico,  among  the 
Indians  of  the  American 
Southwest,  in  the  British 
Caribbean,  and  among  the 
Kipsigis  of  East  Africa.  He 
served  as  editor  in  chief 
of  the  American 
Anthropologist,  the  official 
journal  of  the  American 
Anthropological 
Association,  from  1973  to 
1975  and  was  president  of 
the  Northeastern 
Anthropological 
Association  in  1978-79.  In 
addition  to  the  many  years 
he  taught  at  Brandeis, 
Manners  was  also  a  visiting 
professor  at  various  other 


Bob  Manners  (right) 
jokes  with  Director 
of  the  Transitional 
Year  Program 
Tony  Williams  at  the 
reception. 


Manners  was  always  one  of 
the  most  popular  classroom 
teachers  in  the  department. 
His  effectiveness  as  an 
educator  received 
recognition  when  the  Class 
of  1955,  at  one  of  its 
Reunions,  selected  him  as 
the  most  outstanding 
teacher  they  had  had  during 
their  days  at  Brandeis. 
Professionally,  Manners  has 
published,  singly  or  in 
collaboration,  nine  books 
and  numerous  articles  in 


institutions,  among  them 
Harvard  and  Columbia 
Universities. 

Manners  became  an 
emeritus  in  1979.  He  has, 
however,  maintained  an 
office  at  Brandeis  and 
continues  to  be  active  in 
departmental  and  University 
affairs. 


9  Fall  1994 


New  Faculty 
Appointed 


Resurrecting 
Revolutionaries  for  a 
Modern  Day  Movie 


A  handful  of  Brandeis 
graduate  students  has  been 
resurrecting  the  dead  this 
summer.  Their  professor, 
award-winning  historian 
David  Hackett  Fischer, 
asked  them  to  research  the 
lives  of  various 
revolutionaries  in  his 
acclaimed  nonfiction 
bestseller  Paul  Revere's 
Ride  to  round  out  how  they 
will  be  portrayed  on  the 
silver  screen;  Paramount 
Pictures  and  Kennedy/ 
Marshall  bought  the  feature 
film  rights  to  the  book. 

Graduate  student  Martha 
Gardner  of  Brookline, 
Massachusetts,  has  been 
researching  Prudence 
Cummings  Wright,  the  wife 
of  a  leading  Pepperell, 
Massachusetts,  townsman. 
When  the  men  of  Pepperell 
marched  off  to  battle,  the 
women  organized 
themselves  into  a  military 
company  and  elected 
Wright  captain.  Dressed  in 
their  husbands'  clothing, 
they  guarded  a  bridge  and, 
at  gunpoint,  captured  a  Tory 
named  Captain  Leonard 
Whiting. 


Another  female 
revolutionary  being 
researched  is  Rachel  Walker 
Revere.  Like  a  detective, 
graduate  student  Jenny  Hale 
Pulsipher  of  Belmont, 
Massachusetts,  searched 
state  and  city  archives, 
historical  and  genealogical 
societies,  and  church 
histories  to  uncover  clues 
about  Paul  Revere's  second 
wife.  "I  found  out  that  she 
was  just  as  ardent  a  patriot 
as  Paul  Revere  was.  She's  in 
Boston,  he's  on  the  outside, 
and  he's  trying  to  get  her 
and  the  family  out," 
Pulsipher  said.  "He's 
bribing  British  officers, 
sending  veal.  She's  taking 
beer  and  wine  to  the  junior 
officers." 

Graduate  student  Jeffrey 
Kahana  of  Somerville, 
Massachusetts,  is  looking 
into  Paul  Revere's  legal 
dealings  and  has  uncovered 
several  incidents,  including 
a  fist  fight  with  a  neighbor, 
while  fellow  student 
Nicolas  Bloom  of 
Watertown,  Massachusetts, 
is  tracking  down  leads  on 
African- American 
participation  in  the  war. 
Fischer  said  some  of  the 
students  had  uncovered 
important  details  and 
stories  that  would  be  useful 
for  the  film.  "This  job 
encourages  them  to  think  in 
terms  of  presenting  history 
to  a  large  public." 
Ericka  Tavaies 


Among  the  new  faculty 
appointed  this  fall  are  a 
scholar  of  German,  a  former 
associate  dean  of  Bryn 
Mawr  College,  and  an 
expert  on  the  teaching  of 
writing. 

Stephen  Dowden,  associate 
professor  of  German, 
received  his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  California- 
Berkeley.  Dowden  comes  to 
Brandeis  after  spending  the 
year  in  Germany  on  a 
Humboldt  Fellowship  and 
nine  years  as  a  member  of 
the  Yale  faculty,  where  he 
was  Director  of  the  Summer 
German  Language  Program 
and  Director  of  Graduate 
Studies  in  the  German 
Department.  He  is  the 
author  of  Sympathy  for  the 
Abyss:  A  Study  in  the 
Novel  of  German 
Modernism,  Understanding 
Thomas  Bernhard, 
Hermann  Broch:  Literature, 
Philosophy,  Politics,  and  is 
currently  at  work  on  The 
Origin  of  German 
Modernism:  From  Goethe 
to  the  Modern  Novel. 

Richard  Gaskins,  professor 
of  American  studies  and 
director  of  legal  studies, 
received  his  Ph.D.  and  J.D. 
from  Yale  University. 
Gaskins  designed  and 
implemented  a  successful 
Law  and  Social  Policy 
Program  at  Bryn  Mawr 
College  for  10  years,  where 
he  also  served  as  Dean  of 
the  Graduate  School  of 
Social  Work  and  Social 
Research.  He  comes  to 
Brandeis  after  acting  as 
Associate  Dean  at  the  New 
School  for  Social  Research. 


His  range  of  interests  and 
knowledge  include  law, 
public  administration, 
economics,  and  social 
welfare.  He  is  the  author  of 
Environmental  Accidents: 
Personal  Injury  and  Public 
Responsibility  that 
discusses  the  limits  of  the 
American  legal  system  with 
respect  to  victims  of 
environmental  disasters  and 
Burdens  of  Proof  in  Modern 
Discourse  that  analyzes 
rules  of  litigation  and  the 
implications  of  such  public 
policy  issues  as  race  and  sex 
discrimination. 

Victor  Luftig,  associate 
professor  of  English  and 
American  literature  and 
director  of  University 
writing,  received  his  Ph.D. 
from  Stanford  University. 
After  administering  the 
Freshman  English  Program 
at  Stanford  University, 
Luftig  was  codirector  of  the 
Bass  Writing  Program  and 
director  of  the  Writing 
Intensive  Program  at  Yale 
University.  Based  on  his 
experience  designing  and 
administering  traditional 
first-year  English  courses  as 
well  as  writing  courses  that 
are  both  discipline-specific 
and  cross-disciplinary,  he 
has  recently  authored 
Writing  for  College  Courses: 
Disciplinary  Modes  and 
Models.  Luftig's  Seeing 
Together:  Friendship 
between  the  Sexes  in 
English  Writing  from  Mill 
to  Woolf  is  a  study  of 
heterosexual  friendship  in 
19th-  and  20th-century 
British  literature.  Luftig 
coedited  a  special  issue  of 
the  fames  foyce  Quarterly 
and  is  currently  at  work  on 
Poetry  and  Idiom  in 
Contemporary  Culture: 
Irish  Instances. 


10  Brandeis  Review 


Faculty  Notes 


Jeffrey  Abramson 

professor  of  politics,  had  his 
book,  We.  the  Jury:  The  fury 
System  and  The  Ideal  of 
Democracy,  published  by 
Basic  Books. 

Pamela  Allara 

assistant  professor  of  fine 
arts  and  Petrie  Term 
Assistant  Professor,  had  her 
article,  "Mater  of  Fact: 
Alice  Neal's  Pregnant 
Nudes,"  published  in 
American  Art,  the  scholarly 
journal  of  the  National 
Museum  of  American  Art, 
Smithsonian  Institution. 

Bernadette  Brooten 

Myra  and  Robert  Kraft  and 
Jacob  Hiatt  Associate 
Professor  of  Christian 
Studies,  co-led  a  conference 
at  the  Protestant  Academy 
of  Hofgeismar,  Germany, 
addressing  the  problem  of 
feminism  facing  anti- 
Semitism  especially  in  the 
German  churches. 

David  Buchsbaum 

professor  of  mathematics, 
was  appointed  to  the 
Berenson  Chair  in 
Mathematics.  The  Berenson 
Chair  was  established  in 
1984  by  the  Theodore  W. 
and  Evelyn  G.  Berenson 
Charitable  Foundation  for 
an  academician  in  the 
mathematics  department 
"widely  known  and  well 
respected  in  academic 
circles  and  by  members  of 
his  or  her  scholarly 
discipline." 

James  Callahan,  Ph.D. 
'68 

human  services  research 
professor  and  director. 
Policy  Center  on  Aging, 
received  a  25-year 
membership  award  from  the 
American  Society  for  Public 
Administration  at  its 
National  Training 
Conference,  Washington, 
D.C.,  for  management  of 
the  Massachusetts  Medicaid 
Program  at  the  Department 
of  Elder  Affairs  and  the 
Department  of  Mental 
Health. 


Eric  Chasalow 

assistant  professor  of 
composition,  was  awarded 
the  International  Society  for 
Contemporary  Music  Prize 
for  1994  for  his 
composition,  First  Quartet, 
for  string  quartet.  The 
piece,  premiered  last 
November  by  the  Lydian 
String  Quartet,  will  be 
performed  in  New  York 
City  during  the  concert 
season.  This  Way  Out  for 
tape  was  performed  during 
the  First  Annual  Brazilian 
Symposium  on  Computer 
Music.  Also,  two  other 
works.  Over  the  Edge  for 
flute  and  tape  and  Fast 
Forward  for  percussion  and 
tape  were  released  on  two 
CDs  by  the  Society  for 
Electro-Acoustic  Music  in 
the  United  States. 

Jon  Chilingerian 

associate  professor  of 
human  services 
management,  was  elected 
chair  of  the  Health  Care 
Division  of  the  Academy  of 
Management. 

Jacques  Cohen 

Zayre/Feldberg  Professor  of 
Computer  Science  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  was  the 
invited  panelist  m  a 
conference  organized  by  the 
National  Science 
Foundation  m  Snowbird, 
UT,  congregating  the 
principal  investigators  of 
large  equipment  grants 
awarded  by  the  foundation. 
Cohen  and  James  Storer 
professor  of  computer 
science  and  Volen  National 
Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  were  the  co- 
principal  investigators  in  a 
one  million  dollar  grant 
awarded  to  Brandeis  for  the 
purchase  of  supercomputers 
to  be  used  in  the  Volen 
Center. 


Peter  Conrad 

Harry  Coplan  Professor  of 
Social  Sciences,  presented 
"Emergency  Medicine  as 
Community  Medicine"  at 
the  World  Congress  of 
Sociology  in  Bielefeld, 
Germany.  Also  he  presented 
"Has  the  Gene  for 
Alcoholism  Been 
Discovered  Three  Times 
Since  1980?  A  News  Media 
Analysis"  at  the  meetings  of 
the  Society  for  the  Study  of 
Social  Problems  in  Los 
Angeles.  He  was  also 
elected  president-elect  of 
the  Society  for  the  Study  of 
Social  Problems. 

David  Eisenbud 

professor  of  mathematics, 
has  been  selected  as  a  co- 
director  of  a  semester-long 
program  on  Riemann 
Surfaces^  hosted  by  the 
Centre  Emile  Borel,  a 
mathematics  research 
institute,  of  the  Institut 
Henri  Poincare  in  Paris 
while  he  is  on  sabbatical  for 
the  1994-95  year. 

Edward  Engelberg 

professor  of  comparative 
literature  and  European 
cultural  studies,  received 
the  1994  Brooklyn  College's 
Distinguished  Alumnus 
Award  of  Honor. 

Gordon  Fellman 

associate  professor  of 
sociology,  delivered  two 
papers:  "On  the  Adversary 
Compulsion,"  at  the  annual 
meetings  of  the  Consortium 
on  Peace,  Research,  and 
Education  Development  in 
Minneapolis  and  "On  Peace 
Studies  and  Activism"  at 
the  War  and  Peace  section 
of  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  American  Sociological 
Association  in  Los  Angeles. 
He  was  also  one  of  the 
facilitators  at  the 
innovative  ASA  Presidential 
address/discussion.  He 
published  an  op-ed  piece, 
"The  Sins  of  Kirkpatrick," 
in  The  Boston  Globe  which 
was  reprinted  in  The  Jewish 
Journal  oj  Greater  Los 
Angeles. 


William  Flesch 

associate  professor  of 
English  and  American 
literature,  wrote  the 
chapter,  "De  Man  and 
Idolatry"  in  Tainted 
Greatness:  Antisemitism 
and  Cultural  Heroes, 
published  by  Temple 
University  Press. 

Gregory  L.  Freeze 

professor  of  history, 
directed  a  National 
Endowment  of  Humanities 
"Summer  Seminar  for 
College  Teachers"  held  in 
Moscow  that  provided  an 
opportunity  to  research 
newly  declassified  archives. 
He  is  also  the  chief  editor  of 
the  "Russian  Archive 
Series,"  which  has 
published  guides  to  secret 
archives  and  secret  files  for 
Stalin,  Molotov,  Beria,  and 
other  leaders. 

Lawrence  H.  Fuchs 

Meyer  and  Walter  Jaffe 
Professor  in  American 
Civilization  and  Politics, 
testified  as  vice  chair  of  the 
U.S.  Commission  on 
Immigration  Reform  before 
the  Senate  Judiciary 
Committee  regarding 
immigration  policy.  Prior  to 
that,  the  Commission  met 
in  Washington  for  executive 
sessions  and  held  public 
hearings  in  Lowell,  MA.  His 
work  on  immigration  policy 
was  mentioned  in  the  New 
York  Times,  U.S.A.  Today. 
the  Los  Angeles  Times,  the 
Washington  Post,  and  other 
newspapers.  His  article 
"Immigration, 
Multiculturalism  and 
American  History" 
appeared  in  The  National 
Forum  and  his  review  of 
Douglas  Massey's  American 
Apartheid  appeared  in  The 
American  Journal  of 
Sociology.  He  helped  to 
design  a  new  National 
Endowment  of  Humanities 


11  Fall  1994 


program  entitled  "A 
National  Conversation: 
What  does  It  Mean  to  Be  an 
American'"  to  be  launched 
nationally.  He  was  the 
keynote  speaker  at  the 
Hubert  Humphrey  Institute 
Policy  Forum  in 
Minneapolis  speaking  on 
"The  American 
Community:  Melting  Pot  or 
Boiling  Point:"  and  he  also 
spoke  at  the  National 
Symposium  on  Civil  Rights 
at  the  Balch  Institute  m 
Philadelphia  on  "The 
Changing  Meaning  of  Civil 
Rights:  1964-1994." 

Andrew  Hahn,  Ph.D.  '78 

associate  dean  for  external 
affairs,  human  services 
research  professor  and 
director,  Program  on 
Innovations,  was  elected 
chair  of  the  advisory  board 
to  the  new  International 
Center  for  Residential 
Education,  a  Washington- 
based  group  promoting 
healthy  youth  development 
through  residential 
education. 

Milton  Hindus 

emeritus  professor  of 
humanities,  has  been 
named  editor  of  The  Library 
of  Conservative  Thought  by 
Transaction  Publishers;  the 
board  of  editors  of 
Humanitas;  and  a 
contributing  editor  of 
Modern  Age. 

Barbara  Hyams 

lecturer  with  rank  of 
assistant  professor  of 
German,  is  contributing 
coeditor  of  a  collection  of 
scholarly  articles  entitled, 
Jev\^s  and  Gender: 
Responses  to  Otto 
Weininger.  In  addition  to 
coauthoring  the 
introduction  and  translating 


two  articles  on  "Weininger 
and  the  German  novel"  and 
"Weininger  and  Kafka," 
Hyams  wrote  an  article  on 
"Weininger  and  Nazi 
Ideology." 

Morton  Keller 

Samuel  I.  and  Augusta 
Spector  Professor  of 
History,  delivered  a  paper 
on  "American  Liberalism, 
1865-1940"  at  the  annual 
convention  of  the 
Organization  of  American 
Historians,  Atlanta.  He 
served  as  member  of  the 
National  Council  for 
History  Standards, 
overseeing  preparation  of 
national  standards  for  World 
and  U.S.  History  in  primary 
and  secondary  schools.  His 
book.  Regulating  a  New 
Society:  Public  Policy  and 
Social  Change  in  America, 
1900-1993,  was  published 
by  Harvard  University 
Press. 

Thomas  King 

assistant  professor  of 
English  and  American 
literature,  delivered  a  talk 
on  the  castrato  Farinelli, 
"'Divine  Ravishment'  or 
'Unmeaning  Motion'-: 
Aristocratic  Melancholy 
and  the  Sweet  Pipes  of 
Eunuchs,"  at  the 
Association  for  Theatre  in 
Higher  Education  in 
Chicago.  He  published 
"Performing  'Akimbo'; 
Queer  Pride  and 
Epistemological  Prejudice" 
in  The  Politics  and  Poetics 
of  Camp  edited  by  Morris 
Meyer. 


Marty  W.  Krauss,  Ph.D. 
'81 

associate  professor  and 
director,  Starr  Center  for 
Mental  Retardation, 
coedited  Life  Course 
Perspectives  on  Adulthood 
and  Old  Age  published  by 
the  American  Association 
on  Mental  Retardation, 
Washington,  D.C. 

Mary  Lowry 

artist-in-residence  in  voice, 
spent  a  residency  at  the 
Barter  Theater  in  Virginia 
playing  the  role  of  Birdie  in 
The  Little  Foxes  and 
originating  the  role  of  Ruth 
Cole  in  the  premiere  of 
Three  To  Get  Ready. 

Melissa  J.  Moore 

assistant  professor  of 
biochemistry,  was  named  a 
Searle  Scholar  by  the 
Chicago  Community  Trust. 
Brandeis  will  receive  a 
three-year  grant  of  $180,000 
to  support  her  research. 

Paul  Morrison 

associate  professor  of 
English  and  American 
literature,  wrote  the 
chapter,  "lewspapers":  Ezra 
Pound,  Poststructuralism, 
and  the  Figure  of  the  Jew  in 
Tainted  Greatness: 
Antisemitism  and  Cultural 
Heroes,  published  by 
Temple  University  Press. 

Jessie  Ann  Owens 

associate  professor  of 
music,  was  awarded  a 
National  Endowment  of 
Humanities  Summer 
Seminar  grant  for  her  course 
on  analyzing  early  music. 

Marilyn  Ranker 

Saltzman  Visiting  Artist  in 
Fine  Arts,  had  her  work 
entitled,  "The  Sculpted 
Image,"  shown  at  the  Millis 
Gallery  of  the  Boston 
Center  of  the  Arts  in  the 
South  End  of  Boston.  She 
was  the  recipient  of  a 
Sachar  Grant,  which 
supported  in  part,  the 
creation  of  her  new  work. 


Benjamin  Ravid  '57 

(ennie  and  Mayer  Weisman 
Professor  of  Jewish  History, 
presented  a  paper  on 
"Inquisition  and  Martyrdom 
on  the  Renaissance  and 
Early  Modern  Iberian  and 
Italian  Peninsulas"  at  a 
symposium  on 
"Martyrdom:  Past  and 
Present,"  at  Smith  College. 
Also,  he  has  been  appointed 
assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Association  for  Jewish 
Studies. 

Shulamit  Reinharz,  M.A. 
'69,  Ph.D.  '77 

professor  of  sociology  and 
director.  Women's  Studies 
Program,  delivered  the 
following  invited  lectures: 
"Faye  Berger  Karp: 
Synthesizer  Par  Excellence" 
for  the  Social  Psychology 
Section  and  "Gender  Issues 
in  Sociological  Methods"  at 
the  Sex  and  Gender  Section 
Preconference  Workshop  of 
the  American  Sociological 
Association  at  the  annual 
meetings  in  Los  Angeles; 
"Combining  Jewish  Studies 
and  Women's  Studies"  and 
"Overcoming  Inaccuracies 
in  Contemporary  Writing 
on  Manya  Wilbushewitz 
Shohat"  at  the  Workshop  on 
Contemporary  Jewish 
Civilization  at  the 
International  Center  for 
University  Teaching  of 
Jewish  Civilization  in 
Jerusalem.  She  has  been 
appointed  chair  of  the 
National  Commission  on 
American  Jewish  Women. 
In  addition,  she  has  raised 
sufficient  funds  to  launch 
an  Internship  Program  in 
the  Prevention  of  Violence 
against  Women  and 
Children  that  is  part  of  the 
Women's  Studies  Program 
and  uses  both  work  in  the 
field  and  classroom 
lectures. 


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Nicholas  Rodis 

professor  of  physical 
education,  attended  a 
meeting  of  the  Sports 
Regulations  Commission  of 
the  International  University 
Sports  Federation  in 
Brussels  to  discuss 
regulations  for  the  World 
University  Summer  and 
Winter  Games  and  other 
World  University  Sports 
Championships. 

Myron  Rosenblum 

Charles  A.  Breskin  Professor 
of  Chemistry,  traveled  to 
Israel  and  to  Moscow, 
where  he  lectured  at  the 
Haifa  Technion,  the 
Weizmann  Institute  of 
Science,  Tel  Aviv 
University,  and  the  Russian 
Academy  of  Sciences- 
Nesmeyanov  Institute  of 
Organoelement  Compounds 
on  "Face-To-Face 
Metallocenes:  Synthesis, 
Structure  and  Properties." 

John  Schrecker 

associate  professor  of 
history,  was  invited  to  the 
Third  International 
Symposium  on  Sino- 
German  Relations  in  Berlin 
where  he  presented  a  paper, 
"The  First  Chinese  Embassy 
to  Germany;  The 
Burlmgame  Mission  in 
Berlin,  1869-70." 

James  H.  Schuiz 

Ida  and  Meyer  Kirstein 
Professor  for  Planning  and 
Administration  of  Aging 
Policy,  presented  a  series  of 
lectures,  sponsored  by  the 
World  Bank,  on  "aging, 
pensions,  and  social  policy" 
to  the  Ministry  of  Social 
Protection  in  Belarus. 


Barry  Snider 

professor  of  chemistry,  was 
selected  by  the  American 
Chemical  Society  to  receive 
the  1995  Arthur  C.  Cope 
Scholar  Award,  a  $25,000 
unrestricted  research  grant, 
m  recognition  of  his  work 
in  organic  chemistry. 

Gary  Taylor 

professor  of  English  and 
American  literature,  wrote 
the  program  notes  for  the 
Royal  Shakespeare 
Company  production  of 
Henry  V. 

David  Wilson 

artist-in-residence  in 
lighting  and  sound,  spent 
his  fifth  year  as  resident 
lighting  designer  at  the 
Central  City  Opera,  Central 
City,  Colorado.  The 
productions  included 
Manon.  La  Boheme.  and 
The  Vagabond  King.  He 
also  developed  and 
organized  the  first 
educational  design  seminar 
for  Varilite  moving  lighting 
fixtures,  which  took  place 
at  Spingold  Theater  with 
lighting  technicians  and 
designers  from  across  the 
country. 

Staff 

Harris  Faigel,  M.D. 

director  of  health  services, 
was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  College  Health 
Association  at  its  annual 
meeting.  He  was  recognized 
for  his  contributions  to  the 
association  and  to  college 
health.  Faigel,  the  author  of 
numerous  articles  on  issues 
affecting  the  health  of 
college  students,  chairs  an 
ACHA  committee  on 
national  health  care  reform, 
and  has  been  a  leader  in  its 
response  to  federal 
proposals  that  could  impact 
health  services  for  college 
students. 


Carolyn  Locke 

associate  dean  of  arts  and 
sciences  for  graduate 
education,  served  as  the 
chair  of  the  Massachusetts 
State  Planning  Committee 
of  the  American  Council  on 
Education  National 
Identification  Program  for 
the  Advancement  of 
Women  in  Higher 
Education  Administration. 

Ann  C.  Schaffner 

assistant  director  for  the 
Science  Library,  has  been 
appointed  cochair  of  the 
Association  of  College  and 
Research  Libraries  Science 
and  Technology  Section's 
Publisher/Vendor  Relations 
Committee  and  also  serves 
on  the  Library  Advisory 
Board  for  the  Institute  of 
Physics.  Her  article,  "The 
future  of  scientific  journals: 
lessons  from  the  past," 
appeared  in  Information 
Technology  and  Libraries. 

Judith  Sizer 

associate  general  counsel, 
was  appointed  the  new 
chair  of  the  College  and 
University  Law  Group  of 
the  Boston  Bar  Association. 


Brandeis  University 

inauguration  of  the 
President 


;ommunity  in  celebra^ 
the  inauguration  of  Jeh 
Reinharz,  Ph.D.  72,  as  the 
seventh  President  of 
Brandeis  University. 

Hold  the  Date 

Sunday,  April  9,  1995 

3:00-4:30  pm 

Brandeis  University 
Waltham,  Massachusetts 


A.  reception  will  follow  the 
ceremony. 


13  Fall  1994 


The  Very  Model 

of  a  Teacher  Professorial 


by  John  F.  C.  Wardle 

(with  apologies  to  W.  S. 
Gilbert) 

It  is  a  little  known  truth 
that  physicists  will  burst 
into  song  at  the  least 
provocation.  Such  was  the 
case  at  a  retirement  party 
held  in  October  1993,  to 
celebrate  the  career  of  Jack 


S.  Goldstein,  professor, 
dean,  astrophysicist, 
colleague,  friend,  and 
teacher  extiaoidinaiie. 
Colleagues,  past  graduate 
students,  and  wives  joined 
boisterously  in  the  chorus. 


led  by  the  chairman  of  the 
department's  thin  baritone, 
and  accompanied  fairly 
accurately  by  Professor  Larry 
Abbott  on  the  piano. 


solo 

He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 

He  propagates  his  knowledge  at  both  lecture  and  tutorial 

He  knows  his  stellar  structure  and  the  data  spectroscopical 

And  lectures  on  disasters  from  both  long  ago  and  topical.' 

He's  very  good  at  calculus  and  problems  different-i-al 

And  solves  Maxwell's  equations  for  the  vector  of  potent-i-al 

At  many-body  problems  he's  both  clever  and  quite  practical 

With  answers  that  explain  to  us  the  shape  of  things 

galactical.- 

chorus 

with  answers  that  explain  to  us  the  shape  of  things 

galactical 

with  answers  that  explain  to  us  the  shape  of  things 

galactical 

with  answers  that  explain  to  us  the  shape  of  things  galactic- 

actical... 

solo 

He  carried  out  with  skill  and  verve  the  office  of  the  deanery' 
And  his  bow  ties  did  beautify  the  academic  scenery.^ 
In  short,  in  matters  clerical  and  in  all  things  sartorial, 
He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 

chorus 

In  short,  in  matters  clerical  and  in  all  things  sartorial. 
He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 


solo 

His  mastery  of  English  bears  no  cliche  or  verbosity. 

He  riddles  all  his  writing  with  linguistic  virtuosity; 

His  book  on  Zacharias  is  profound  and  quite  definitive," 

With  ne'er  a  dangling  partic'ple  nor  single  split  infinitive. 

He  lectures  on  how  things  go  wrong  in  cases  real  and 

mystical. 

Enticing  students  into  math  and  arcana  statistical, 

'bout  falling  bridges,  Chernobyl,  and  other  things 

impractical'' 

In  ways  that  entertain  but  in  a  manner  quite  didactical. 

chorus 

In  ways  that  entertain  but  in  a  manner  quite  didactical 
In  ways  that  entertain  but  in  a  manner  quite  didactical 
In  ways  that  entertain  but  in  a  manner  quite  didactic- 
actical... 

solo 

He  was  the  chairman  two  times  of  the  physics  professoriate. 

And  kept  the  peace  between  us  all  in  ways  we  had  to  glory 

at. 

In  writing  memoranda  and  in  things  conspiratorial. 

He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 

chorus 

In  writing  memoranda  and  m  things  conspiratorial. 
He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 


14  Brandeis  Review 


solo 

He  shoots  a  lot,  his  photos  hang  up  in  the  science  lihrary,-' 

He  hkes  a  beer  and  holds  quite  dear  occasional  imbibery. 

He  welcomes  new  ideas  without  nerves  or  fretting  tizzycal; 

He's  learning  still,  with  eager  will,  things  radio 

astrophysical.'^ 

And  when  he  knows  just  what  we  mean  by  radio  flux 

density, 

And  studies  quasars  with  his  mathematical  propensity, 

And  when  he's  learnt  alt-azimuth  from  mountings 

equatorial," 

We'd  say  there  never  was  a  better  teacher  professorial. 

chorus 

We'd  say  there  never  was  a  better  teacher  professorial 
We'd  say  there  never  was  a  better  teacher  professorial 
We'd  say  there  never  was  a  better  teacher  professori-orial... 

solo 

Yet  still  his  search  for  knowledge  is  both  plucky  and 

adventury; 

His  wisdom  reaches  far  beyond  the  finish  of  this  century; 

And  in  all  matters  vegetable,  animal,  and  mineral, 

He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 

chorus 

And  in  all  matters  vegetable,  animal,  and  mineral, 
He  is  the  very  model  of  a  teacher  professorial. 


J^ 


Footnotes 


2. 


PHSC  7b,  Technology  and 
Public  Risk,  PHSC  9a.  The 
Dilemma  of  the  Nucleus: 
From  X-rays  to  Chernobyl, 
see  the  Bulletin  for  further 
information. 

One  of  his  major  research 
mterests  has  been  stellar 
dynamics  and  the  evolution 
of  clusters  of  stars. 


3.  Dean  of  Graduate  School. 
1972-74:  Dean  of  Faculty, 
1974-81. 


4.  Still  wears  them. 

5.  A  Different  Sort  of  Time: 
the  Life  of  lerrold  R. 
Zacharias.  bv  fack  S. 
Goldstein,  MIT  Press,  1992. 


6.  See  footnote  1. 

7.  There  is  one  in  the  Museum 
of  Fine  Arts,  too. 

8.  The  author  of  this  doggerel 
is  still  hoping  to  collaborate 
with  the  subject  on 
research  in  radio 
astronomy. 

9.  Different  ways  of  building  a 
radio  telescope. 


John  F.  C.  Wardle  is  a 
professor  of  astrophysics 
at  Brandeis  University 
who,  while  displaying  the 
often  remarkable 
versatility  common 
to  a  large  percentage  of 
Brandeis  faculty,  has 
been  frequently  advised 
not  to  quit  his  day  job. 


15  Fall  1994 


Benefactors 


Alumni,  Parents, 
Friends  Help 
Launch  Drive  for 
Science  Library 
Expansion 


Three  hundred  alumni, 
parents,  students,  staff,  and 
friends  of  Brandeis  have 
helped  the  Brandeis 
University  National  Women's 
Committee  get  off  to  a 
roaring  start  on  its  program 
to  fund  the  expansion  of  the 


Attendees  of  the  dedication 
ceremony  search  the 
Science  Library  courtyard 
for  the  names  of  loved  ones. 
At  right,  BUNWC  President 
Belle  furkowitz  '55 
(left)  and  Eleanor  Shuman. 
national  chair  of  the 
Pathways  program,  cut  the 
ribbon  at  last  summer's 
dedication  ceremony. 


16  Brandeis  Review 


Gerstenzang  Science 
Library.  The  Women's 
Committee  honored  these 
charter  members  of  its 
"Pathways  to  the  Future" 
program  at  a  special 
ceremony  last  summer. 

For  a  gift  of  $1,000  donors 
can  designate  a  name  to  be 
engraved  on  a  brick  in  the 
courtyard  that  links  the 
new  Benjamin  and  Mae 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems  to  the 
Science  Library.  Many 
contributors  to  "Pathways" 
have  used  this  opportunity 
to  permanently  link  their 
names  to  Brandeis  or  to 
honor  or  memorialize  a 
spouse,  parent,  child, 
'grandchild,  or  other  family 
member  or  friend. 
Donations  will  endow  the 
purchase  of  scientific 
research  journals  and  create 
a  state-of-the-art  electronic 
resource  center  in  the 
Science  Library. 

\11  parts  of  the  Brandeis 
lamily  joined  in  the  effort  to 
make  this  program's  first 
year  a  success.  Among  first- 
year  donors  were  alumni 
Jehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72, 
President  of  Brandeis,  and 
National  Women's 
Committee  President  Belle 
Jurkowitz  '55.  Others 
included  University 
Trustees,  members  of  the 
administration,  and  parents 
of  students — from  recent 
graduates  to  incoming  first- 
year  students. 

One  donor  used  "Pathways" 
to  honor  a  dear  friend  who 
died  recently.  Another  made 
three  gifts  in  her  name  and 
the  names  of  her  two 
sisters,  and  these  three 
bricks  are  together  in  the 
Brandeis  courtyard.  Many 


groups  are  pooling 
donations  to  honor  friends 
or  family  members  who 
have  a  strong  connection  to 
Brandeis. 

In  its  first  year,  "Pathways" 
raised  $260,000,  contribut- 
ing to  the  record  $3,313,928 
collected  through  the  wide 
variety  of  programs  that 
the  National  Women's 
Committee  sponsors. 

The  second  year  of  the 
program  is  off  to  a  strong 
start,  with  plans  for  a 
second  dedication  ceremony 
during  the  Women's 
Committee's  national 
conference  next  June. 
Actual  construction  on  the 
multi-phased  expansion  of 
the  Science  Library  is 


scheduled  to  begin  in  the 
spring  of  1995.  Describing 
expansion  plans.  University 
Librarian  Bessie  Fiahn  said, 
"We  have  strong  collections 
and  a  tradition  of  service, 
but  we  have  outgrown  our 
facility.  The  science  library 
was  built  at  a  time  long 
before  computers  came  into 
our  daily  lives.  The 
requirements  of  a  science 
library  are  very  different  in 
the  new  electronic  age.  To 
meet  the  needs  of  our 
world-renowned  scientists, 
we  must  design  a  state-of- 
the-art  library  that  will 
facilitate  their  work." 

Information  on  "Pathways" 
is  available  from  the 
National  Women's  Com- 
mittee at  617-7364160. 


r dfi.B.  K       S'lBOV 


Dedication  of  the 
Hazel  and  Joseph 
Schwartz 
Conference  Room 


The  Hazel  and  Joseph 
Schwartz  Conference  Room 
in  the  University's  newest 
science  facility,  the  Benjamin 
and  Mae  Volen  National 
Center  for  Complex  Systems, 
was  dedicated  on  Sunday, 
September  11,  in  a  late 
afternoon  ceremony.  As  sun 
filtered  through  the  half 
moon  cascade  of  windows,  a 
plaque  was  unveiled  naming 
the  Hazel  and  Joseph 
Schwartz  Conference  Room. 

Some  75  friends  and  family 
members  filled  the  room  to 
capacity,  listening  intently  to 
a  short  program  including  a 
speech  by  President  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  and  comments  by 
Linda  Rosenbaum,  the 
Schwartz's  daughter,  and 
Rabbi  Michael  Menitoff  of 
Congregation  Mishkan  Tefila 
of  Newton. 


Labor  Department 
Awards  $2  iViiliion 
in  Contracts  to 
Center  for  Human 
Resources 


"Joe  Schwartz,  together  with 
his  beloved  wife  and 
helpmate.  Hazel,  has  always 
taken  to  heart  the  biblical 
injunction  to  love  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself.  The 
presence  here  today  of  so 
many  of  Joe  and  Hazel's 
friends  and  family  is 
testimony  to  the  love, 
affection,  and  respect  which 
all  of  you  feel  for  Joe,  and 
the  warm  and  loving 
memory  in  which  Hazel  is 
held,"  said  President 
Reinharz.  He  presented  Joe 
Schwartz  with  an  engraved 
bust  of  Louis  D.  Brandeis. 
Also  to  honor  the  occasion, 
Reinharz  announced  that  Joe 
and  Thelma  Linsey,  close 
friends  of  the  Schwartz's 
who  attended  the  ceremony, 
made  a  gift  of  a  "paver"  in 
memory  of  Hazel  Schwartz 
to  the  National  Women's 
Committee.  A  reception 
followed  in  the  lobby  outside 
the  conference  room. 


Endowed 
Scholarship 
Brochure  Now 
Available 


The  Office  of  Development 
and  Alumni  Relations,  in 
conjunction  with  the 
Office  of  Publications,  has 
recently  produced  an 
elegant  brochure  entitled 
Expanding  Possibilities. 

The  piece  features  written 
profiles  of  several  valued 
benefactors  accompanied  by 
the  stunning  photographic 
portraiture  of  Gabriel 
Amadeus  Cooney. 
The  brochiu-e  also  lists  the 
Endowed  Scholarships, 
Endowed  Fellowships,  and 
Named  Endowed  Library 


WorF 

available  to  Brandeis     ' 

undergraduate  and  graduate 

students  and  provides 

information  on  how  to 

create  one  of  these  vital 

scholarships. 

For  a  complimentary  copy 
of  Expanding  Possibilities, 
call  the  Office  of 
Development  and  Alumni 
Relations  at  617-736-4000. 


Brandeis's  Center  for 
Human  Resources  has  been 
awarded  $2  million  in 
contracts  from  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Labor  to 
evaluate  its  national 
summer  youth  employment 
program  and  to  provide 
technical  assistance  to 
cities  in  the  department's 
Youth  Fair  Chance 
Initiative.  The  principal 
investigator  for  both 
projects  is  the  Center's 
director,  Susan  P.  Curnan. 


To  evaluate  the  summer 
program,  the  Center  will 
work  with  SPR  Associates, 
the  lead  contractor  and  a 
nationally  recognized 
research  firm  in  Menlo  Park, 
California.  The  three-year 
initiative  will  include  a 
study  of  the  impact  of  the 
summer  program  on  the 
academic  and  work-related 
skills  of  the  young  people  in 
the  program,  ages  14  to  21.  It 
will  include  case  study 
analysis  of  the  design  and 
operation  of  programs  at  30 
selected  sites.  This 
evaluation  will  draw  heavily 
on  the  Center's  experience 
in  a  related  project.  Summer 
Beginnings,  which  is  a  12- 
city  network  of  summer 


work  and  learning  programs 
the  Center  created  and 
managed  under  a  separate 
Labor  Department  contract. 

To  provide  training  and 
technical  assistance  to 
cities  in  Youth  Fair  Chance, 
the  Center  for  Human 
Resources  will  work  with 
lead  contractor  KRA  Corp. 
of  Washington,  and  Abt 
Associates  Inc.,  of 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 
Youth  Fair  Chance  is  a  $50 
million,  16-city  program  to 
establish  comprehensive, 
community  based  education 
and  employment  strategies 


for  low-income  youths  ages 
16  to  29.  For  five  years,  the 
Center,  KRA  Corp.,  and  Abt 
Associates  will  provide 
assistance  to  each  city's 
local  governing  boards, 
program  management,  and 
staff  on  program  design  and 
local  governance  issues. 

The  Center  is  one  of  the 
nation's  leading  research, 
training,  and  policy 
development  organizations 
in  the  fields  of  youth 
development,  employment, 
and  education.  As  part  of 
The  Heller  Graduate 
School,  the  Center's 
mission  is  to  improve  the 
quality  of  employment  and 
education  services. 


17  Fall  1994 


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ss^lready  attracting  the  worldVVii^K 

brightest  students  and  faculty,  Brandeis's 
new  Volen  Center  is  recognized  by 
scientists  around  the  world 
as  a  cutting  edge  institution,  transforming 
the  way  we  think  of  science. 


by  Cliff  Hauptijian  '69, 


ists,  all  trying  to  figure 
ut  how  the  human  brain 
jorks.  Imagine,  though,  that 
lach  of  them  is  approaching 
he  subject  from  a  different 
ingle.  Each  has  a  unique 
Mispecialty.  Each  has  a  world- 
class  mastery  of  some 
singular  aspect  of  the 
^^-^immensely  complex  subject. 

J/  Appreciate,  too,  if  you  can, 
the  enormity  of  the  concept 

I      that  the  smallest  new 
observation  and  insight  of 
each  scientist  is  almost 
certain  to  be  of  some 
importance,  is  likely  to  open 
yet  farther  some  small 
window,  may  even  serve  as  a 
significant  leap  in  at  least 
one  other  scientist's  work 


think  about  how  essential  it 
would  be  to  ensure  the 
greatest  possible  opportunity 
for  communication  among 
those  scientists,  how 
desperately  important  it  is 
that  they  interact  and  share 
expertise.  Imagine  \ti^ 
extraordinary  possibim; 
foment  hew  ideas.  Imagine 
the  potential  for 
breakthrough  knowledge. 

The  Benjamin  and  Mae  Volen 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems  is  such  a  place.  It  | 
has  already  spawned  dozeris 
of  stories  of  whlQh  this. 


l|i^^-^:S 


I^ibriefly,  is  but  one:  a 
neuroscientist  who  studies 
the  brain  at  the  most  basic 
level,  a  level  that  deals 
with  single  molecules jind 
how  they  send  sigmj 
to  their  neighbors,  olserved 
an  interesting  property  in 

one  of  the  molecules  he  was 

Studying.  Out  at  the  water 
fountain  in  the  hall  outside 
his  lab,  he  ran  into  a  fellow 
scientist,  a  biologist, 
who  studies  neural  networks 
^on  a  theoretical  level.  In 
other  words,  he  creates 
.^computer  models  of  bunches 

„,bf  cells,  which  themselves 
are  groups  of  the  molecules 
studied  by  the  neuro- 
scientist. The  neuroscientist 
told  the  biologist  about  his 
'Observation,  not  necessarily 
because  he  thought 
it  would  be  of  any  specific 
use  to  him,  but  because 

4^ they  both  happened  to  be  the 

'^'participants  in  a  chance 


meeting  of  two  intellectually 
vigorous  scientists  with 
a  common  interest  in  the 
workings  of  the  brain,  and 
they  were  both  thirsty  at 
the  same  time.  The  biologist 
carried  that  bit  of  information 
back  to  his  lab  and 
passed  it  along  to  another 
neuroscientist  with 
whom  he  worked.  She  is 
an  experimentalist  in  the  area 
of  neural  networks,  which 
means  that  she  often 
creates  experiments  in  which 
the  biologist's  theoretical 
models  can  be  tested  on 
living  tissue.  She  observed 
the  same  phenomena  in  a 
neural  network  that  the  other 
neuroscientist  observed 


on  the  molecular  level.  Then, 
a  post-doctoral  student  froni 
that  same  lab  began  talkl""- 
about  the  observation  wli,,  ^ 
yet  another  biologist  whose^:)^^ 
interest  is  in  the  nature  c 
memory,  and  they  discusse 
the  implications  of  the 
observation  and  how  Jt  miflj 
lead  to  models  of  shf^^v^ 
term  memory.  That  biologis 
discussed  with  a 
psychologist  in  the  building  ''^.- 
the  studies  that  had  been 
done  in  the  field,  prompt^ 
the  psychologist  to  explore,  ^ 
from  the  top  down,  an  : 

idea  whose  seed  had  grown^ 
from  the  bottom  up.  Within 
a  matter  of  only  months,gfl 
an  idea  went  from  the  ^ 
study  of  a  single  moleculV 
to  studies  involving  a  huma 
subject.  There  was  a  ^ 
seamless  flow  of  ideas.  Tjil 
Center  worked  as  planneoR 


och  a  place,  available  not  only  for 
e  work  of  established  scientists 
but  also  for  the  teaching  of  students, 
Professor  of  Psychology  Arthur 
Wingfield,  a  member  of  the  Center 
whose  research  in  speech  recognition 
has  led  him  into  an  exploration  of  the 
effects  of  aging  on  memory,  as  well 
as  insights  that  may  lead  to  a  better 
understanding  of  such  diseases 
of  the  elderly  as  Alzheimer's,  has  this 
to  say:  "I  think  for  our  undergraduates 
fto  see  this  easy  interaction  among 
faculty  whose  parent  disciplines 
are  experimental  psychology  or 
physics  or  biology,  interacting  and 
talking  meaningfully  about  common 
topics,. ..is  teaching  them  the 
valuable  lesson  that  science  goes 
or  should  go  where  the  questions 
are  and  not  be  bounded  by  arbitrary 
departmental  lines." 

Brandeis  is  truly  producing  a  new 
breed  of  scientist,  unfettered  by  the 
more  traditional,  department-based 
disciplines.  Real  life,  after  all,  is 
not  so  neatly  divided.  It  is,  rather, 
^rn\A/HoH  intn  tho  fuzziness  of  edges. 


Ecologists,  in  fact,  will  recognize 
in  the  innovative  composition 
and  orchestration  of  the  Volen  Center, 
a  most  enticing  analog  to  the 
natural  world. 

Ecologists  are  familiar  with  a  concept 
known  as  edge  theory.  It  reveals  a 
more  diverse  aggregation  of  lifeforms 
at  the  margins  of  an  environment  than 
within  the  pure  environment  itself. 
More  importantly,  it  exposes  a  greater 
biodiversity  at  edges  where  two 
distinct  environments  meet  than  in  the 
two  environments  separately.  The 
edge  where  a  meadow  abuts  a  marsh, 
for  example,  contains  species  from 
the  meadow,  the  marsh,  and  species 
unique  to  marsh/meadow  edges. 
In  other  words,  something  new 
is  created  at  the  interface,  something 
made  possible  wholly  through  the 
act  of  interfacing.  A  potent  application 
of  intellectual  edge  theory  is  alive 
and  thriving  in  the  Volen  Center. 

The  Center  is  the  brainchild  of  Arthur 
Reis,  associate  provost  of  Brandeis 
University.  Reis  had  developed,  in  the 
early  1980s,  a  series  of  lectures 
on  Campus  for  high  school  students. 
"And  many  of  the  faculty  in  the  School 
of  Science,"  recalls  Reis,  "talked 
to  students  for  an  hour,  an  hour  and 
a  half,  brought  them  back  to  their 
laboratories,  showed  them  what  they 
did.  And  I  noticed,  because  I  was 
highly  involved  in  that  series,  that 


many  of  the  faculty  on  this 
campus  were  involved  in  areas  of 
neuroscience  and  advanced 
computation,  and  many  of  them 
did  not  know  what  others  were 
doing,  even  though  we  are  a  very 
small  campus." 

In  1986,  Reis  was  asked  by  then 
President  Evelyn  E.  Handler  to 
suggest  new  initiatives  in  the  School 
of  Science,  and  realized  that  he 
had  come  upon  an  area — specifically 
that  of  neuroscience,  linguistics, 
cognitive  science,  as  well  as 
advanced  computation— in  which 
scientists  might  benefit  merely  by 
somehow  getting  together  and  talking 
to  each  other.  Initially,  the  Center 
took  shape  in  the  form  of  retreats  and 
seminars,  informal  luncheons  at 


20  Brandeis  Revi'e? 


y^  -^^i 


which  faculty  members  from  different 
disciplines  could  share  their  work.  At 
the  same  time  came  a  formal  proposal 
to  the  federal  government  followed 
by  a  group  to  work  on  architectural 
plans  for  the  construction  of  a  major 
new  scientific  center  on  Campus, 
in  which  that  basic  idea  of  maximized 
communication  across  disciplinary 
lines  could  become  a  working  reality. 

On  May  15,  1994,  the  Benjamin  and 
Mae  Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems  officially  became 
a  physical  reality.  Faculty  from  seven 
different  disciplines — biology, 
biochemistry,  chemistry,  physics, 
computer  science,  psychology,  and 
cognitive  science  and  linguistics — 
now  share  laboratories,  lunchrooms, 
water  fountains,  conversation,  and 
ideas  within  its  60,000  square  feet. 

"The  building  itself  is  designed  in  a 
fashion  unlike  any  other  building 
around,  as  far  as  I  know,"  says  Reis. 
"First,  it's  a  place  where  people 


from  all  these  different  disciplines  are 
housed.  But  then  they  actually  share 
laboratories.  Four  or  five  departments 
share  a  floor.  There  are  areas 
within  the  building  where  people  have 
to  bump  into  each  other.  There  are 
boards — light  boards,  chalkboards — 
in  hallways,  seating  areas  in  hallways, 
integration  of  laboratories,  conference 
rooms,  and  offices." 

The  result,  as  any  visitor  to  the  Center 
wandering  the  halls  can  easily 
observe,  is  that  people  do  talk  to  each 
other,  constantly.  The  chalkboards, 
conveniently  located  in  lunchrooms, 
at  water  fountains,  and  near  other 
places  where  a  chance  meeting  might 
occur,  are  covered  with  the 
provocative  hieroglyphics  of  point 
and  counterpoint.  The  labs  are  hives 
of  activity.  The  lunch  area,  its  large 
bay  windows  providing  a  lofty  vista 


of  Chapels  Field  and  the  wooded 
hills  beyond,  buzzes  with  discussion. 
"We  just  walk  out  the  door,  and 
we're  smack  into  each  other  in  the 
hallways,"  says  Dan  Oprian,  associate 
professor  of  biochemistry  whose 
laboratory  is  studying  a  family 
of  proteins  in  the  human  retina. 
"What  I  found  is  that  we  spend  much 
more  of  our  time  talking  about 
science,  just  off  the  cuff,  just  having 
an  idea  and  bumping  into 
somebody  and  talking  about  it..." 

Irving  Epstein,  provost,  senior  vice 
president  for  academic  affairs,  and  a 
Center  member  whose  work  in  j 

oscillating  chemical  reactions  closely 
ties  into  the  behavior  of  electrical 
potentials  in  nerve  cells,  concurs:  "In 
the  Center,  the  people  you're  likely  to 
run  into  in  the  hall  or  in  the  restroom 
are  people  who  are  working — perhaps 
in  a  different  discipline — on  problems 
that  are  so  closely  related  to  yours 
ttiat  if  you  tell  them  about  the  results 


you've  just  uncovered  in  your  lab,  they 
might  well  say,  That's  really 
fascinating  because  last  week  I  did 
this  experiment,  and  I  found  such  and 
such.  And  it  sounds  like  it  really 
reinforces  what  you've  just  found.'" 

The  work  going  on  in  the  Center  is 
as  exciting  as  the  concept  itself.  Reis 
likes  to  explain  it  this  way:  "Close 
your  eyes  and  I'll  ask  you  to  do  certain 
things.  I  will  ask  you  to  remember 
a  familiar  face:  a  brother,  sister, 
or  a  grandmother.  I  will  ask  you  to 
actually  experience  what  roast 
chicken  smells  like  baking  in  an  oven. 
I  will  ask  you  to  hear  the  clanging 
of  a  bell,  or  I  will  ask  you  to  feel  what 
sandpaper  is  like.  And  then  I'll 
ask  you  to  open  your  eyes,  and  I'll 
say,  'How  did  you  do  that?  How  did 
you,  as  a  living  biological  entity,  have 
these  wonderful,  complex  memories 
of  something  that  you've  seen  or 
smelled  or  heard  or  felt?  You're  not  a 
computer  chip.  How  did  you  do  that?'" 

The  people  in  the  Volen  Center  are 
trying  to  answer  that  question  at  every 
level,  from  the  molecular  level  of 
ion  channels,  a  series  of  specialized 
proteins  that  generate  the  electrical 
signals  basic  to  all  signaling  in  the 
brain,  to  how  ion  channels  are  packed 
into  cells,  how  those  cells  are  packed 
together  to  form  neural  networks, 
how  the  neural  networks  form  units 
of  the  brain  and  nervous  system, 
and,  finally,  how  those  units  manifest 
themselves  in  such  human  behavior 
as  the  acquisition  of  language 
and  the  generation  of  memories  and 


emotions.  Those  explorations  are  then 
taken  one  step  farther  in  the  Center 
by  trying  to  duplicate  what  we  know  of 
the  living  system  into  the 
computational  world  of  artificial 
systems. 

Irwin  Levitan,  director  of  the  Volen 
Center  and  the  Nancy  Lurie  Marks 
Professor  of  Developmental 
Neuroscience,  studies  ion  channels, 
the  properties  of  which  are 
fundamental  to  understanding  how  the 
brain  takes  in  information,  acts  on 
that  information,  and  then  generates 
output  in  the  form  of  behavior.  "We 
study  ion  channels  by  a  combination 
of  biochemical,  molecular,  biological, 
and  electrophysiological  approaches," 
says  Levitan.  His  work  puts 
him  in  close  contact  with  Dan  Oprian, 
Larry  Abbott,  Eve  Marder,  and  John 
Lisman,  among  others. 


Dan  Oprian,  mentioned  earlier,  whose 
work  with  the  light-absorbing 
proteins  in  the  retina  has  led  him 
into  the  related  areas  of  color 
perception  and  misperception,  finds 
himself  incidentally  shedding  new 
light  on  the  molecular  basis  for 
retinitis  pigmentosa,  a  devastating 
degenerative  disease  of  the 
retina.  Oprian's  work  keeps  him 
in  close  contact  with  John  Lisman. 

John  Lisman,  professor  of  biology, 
has  a  long-standing  interest  in 
the  study  of  vision  on  the  most  basic 
level,  but  in  ways  that  differ  from 
Oprian's  area  of  expertise.  Yet,  both 
scientists  have  recently  found 
that  their  research  has  implications 
for  the  understanding  of  disease. 
Says  Lisman:  "It's  been  very  exciting 
to  see  that  one's  hope,  namely  that 
basic  science  will  eventually  relate 
to  the  understanding  of  disease,  turns 
out  to  be  very  real."  Most  recently, 
Lisman  has  turned  his  attentions 


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to  the  study  of  memory.  His  laboratory 
is  working  in  the  areas  of  iong- 
and  short-term  memory,  specifically. 
"What  is  it  that  physically  changes 
in  the  mind  or  in  the  brain  that 
would  encode  a  long-term  memory?" 
That  area  of  study  creates  an 
interface  not  only  with  the 
psychologists  and  computer  scientists 
in  the  Center,  but  also  with  Larry 
Abbott  and  Eve  Marder. 

The  combined  specialties  of  Larry 
Abbott,  professor  of  biology,  and  Eve 
Marder,  Victor  and  Gwendolyn 
Beinfield  Professor  of  Neuroscience, 
allow  them  to  collaborate  on 
understanding  how  nervous  systems 
worl< — how  they  process  information 


and  how  they  adapt  to  different 
situations.  Abbott,  a  theorist,  does 
modeling  and  computational  studies, 
while  Marder,  an  experimentalist, 
works  with  the  living  systems. 
Basically,  the  working  relationship 
involves  Abbott's  taking  Marder's 
data  and  trying  to  incorporate  it  into 
his  computer  models  while 
suggesting  ways  for  Marder  to  test  his 
models  in  her  laboratory.  They  have 
actually  succeeded  in  wiring  a 
computer  model  into  a  living  neural 
network  so  that  changes  in  the  living 
part  of  the  network  can  be 
observed  as  a  result  of  controlled 
changes  in  the  computer  model. 

James  Storer,  professor  of  computer 
science,  is  working  not  only  on  the 
problems  of  parallel  computing — 
large  numbers  of  processors  working 
simultaneously — but  also  on  data 
compression  and  storage.  In 
explaining  the  interface  of  computer 
science  to  the  life  sciences  in  the 
Center,  Storer  says  that  "it's  more 
than  just  computer  applications.  We're 
talking  really  about  the  actual 
computer  science  interacting  with  the 
other  departments,  not  just  the  fact 
that  the  other  departments  are  making 
use  of  computers  as  tools.  Computer 
scientists  ask,  'How  can  we  make 
computers  as  smart  as  brains?' 
And  people  studying  the  brain  often 
ask,  'How  can  we  use  computers 
to  model  what  we  think  might  be  going 
on  in  the  brain?"' 


Bob  Sekuler,  Lois  and  Frances 
Salvage  Professor  of  Psychology, 
studies  the  perception  of  moving 
targets  and  the  parts  of  our  nervous 
systems  that  are  specialized  for 
helping  us  see  moving  targets 
and  judging  their  direction  and  motion, 
as  well  as  their  likely  impact  on 
our  bodies  when  they  hit  us  or  we  hit 
them.  "My  studies  are  primarily 
behavioral  measurements,"  he  says. 
"We  develop  special  stimuli,  patterns 
presented  on  computer  displays 
that  are  designed  to  probe  the  visual 
system  in  various  ways  to  challenge 
it.  And  we  make  measurements, 
usually  with  normal  human  observers, 
sometimes  with  people  who  have 
had  various  kinds  of  brain  damage 
that  specifically  effects  their  ability 
to  judge  motion." 

Those  faculty  members  and  their 
projects  are  but  a  sampling  of  the 
scientists  connected  with  the  Volen 
Center.  Yet  it  takes  no  great  effort 
to  see  the  ready  opportunities  for 
the  expertise  of  each  to  productively 
impact  the  work  of  the  others. 

Arthur  Reis  says  that  the  goals  of 
the  Center  are  three;  "One  is  to  really 
understand  the  brain,  intelligence, 
and  advanced  computing.  The  second 
is  to  take  what  we  learn  on  a  very 
basic  level  and  to  transfer  it  to 
understanding  areas  of  medicine 
and  disease  and  areas  of  developing 
new  computers  and  new  software. 
And  third  is  to  train  students  in  a  truly 
new  manner."  In  its  first  six  months 
of  occupancy,  the  Volen  Center 
has  already  begun  accomplishing 
each  of  its  goals,  which  should  come 
as  no  great  surprise  to  students 
of  edge  theory.  As  Arthur  Wingfield 
states,  "If  the  interactions  continue 
at  this  rate  the  way  they  have  been  in 
this  short  time,  in  10  years  from 
now  I  can't  imagine  where  we'll  be."B 


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Meandering  like 
a  IVIesozoic  river, 
the  career  path 
of  America's 
foremost  authority 
on  dinosaur 
hunters  proves 
the  value 
of  a  Brandeis- 
style  liberal 
arts  education. 


The  quintessential  Brandeis 
graduate  might  be  someone 
who  keeps  his  life  open 
to  choices,  understanding  and 
reveling  in  the 

interconnectedness  of  different 
disciplines.  He  would  be 
creative,  of  course,  relishing 
the  process  of  breaking 
through  to  new  ways  of  seeing 
things  and  then  implementing 
the  new.  Obviously  he 
would  be  a  lifetime  seeker  of 
knowledge,  never  content  with 
the  status  quo,  challenging 
with  questions  and  answering 


with  research  and  discovery. 
And  he  would  strive  to 
have  a  positive  effect  on 
others,  teaching  them,  perhaps 
profoundly  altering  their 
perceptions,  opening  them 
to  new  horizons.  Indeed, 
he  would  strive  to  provide 
them  with  a  gift  as  basic 
and  powerful  as  fuel  for  love 
of  learning. 

Before  you  say  "Aw,  c'mon, 
nobody  is  like  that,"  meet  Don 
Lessem. 


24  Brandeis  Review 


by  Marjorie  Lyon 


Come  visit.  Th^kont  vestibule, 
filled  with  soccergfejes, 
sports  equipment— RHls 
stuff  in  disarray— herald  the 
ambiance  inside.  This  is 
a  comfortable  house,  complete 
with  fluffy  little  gray  and 
white  yapping,  jumping  dog. 
Hike  up  steep  stairs  to  the 
attic  office,  and  it  is  exactly 
as  you  might  imagine: 
slanted  ceilings,  cluttered, 
computer  perched  amid 
piles  of  papers,  books,  and 
strange  objects. 


Lessem  is  a  truth-teller  who 
wants  to  clean  up 
misconceptions  and  set  the 
records  straight,  while 
building  new  discoveries.  He 
focuses  on  those  intriguing 
creatures  that  have  captivated 
children  for  a  long  time — 
dinosaurs.  He  holds  up  what 
looks  like  a  piece  of  a  huge 
bone,  smoothed  by  time,  the 
shape  of  a  rib,  rounded 
on  one  side,  flat  on  the  other. 
He  picks  up  another  jagged 
remnant,  its  edge  dotted 
with  tiny  holes,  like  bubbles. 


"One  way  you  tell  the  fossils 
besides  the  shape  is  the 
little  holes— the  bones  are 
spongy,"  he  says. 

Professor?  Adventurer? 
He  seems  a  little  of  each. 
Bushy  mustache,  tousled  dark 
brown  hair,  tall  and 
slender,  he  is  casually 
dressed,  relaxed,  soft-spoken 
with  quiet  panache- 
imagine  Hollywood  meshed 
with  a  computer  whiz  kid. 


"A  researcher  would  lick  the 
fossils,"  he  is  explaining, 
"and  see  if  his  or  her  tongue 
got  stuck  in  all  the  little  holes. 
Then  it  was  clear  that  it 
was  a  bone  and  not  a  rock."     i^ 
He  picks  up  a  shiny  greenish 
rock  embedded  with  a  teardrop 
pattern.  "The  skin  doesn't 
get  saved,  but  the  animal  gets 
mummified  and  presses 
down  into  sand,  which  hardens 
into  rock,  and  thus  the 
imprint,"  he  says.  The  fossils 
come  from  places  like  China, 


25  Fall  1994 


Mongolia,  Arctic  Alasl<a,  Nova 
Scotia,  and  Montana, 
and  Lessem  found  most  of 
them  himself. 

"You  goto  a  desert,  where 
there's  erosion.  It  keeps  wiping 
away  into  layers,  and  actually 
if  you  go  back  to  the  same 
site  10  years  later,  and  you've 
run  out  of  bones  the  first  time, 
erosion  would  have  exposed 
a  whole  new  set  of  bones. 
Intact,  a  lot  of  new  dinosaurs 
are  found  by  going  back 
to  old  places.  Or  going  to 
the  basement  of  the  museum, 
where  nobody  figured 
out  what  it  was  they  dug  up," 
Lessem  explains. 

"They  find  a  new  kind  of 
dinosaur  every  seven  weeks — 
a  whole  new  kind,  not  just 
a  different  specimen.  So  in  the 
last  20  years,  since  we  were 
kids,  we  have  twice  as  many 
dinosaurs.  Now  we've  only 
found  300.  We're  talking  about 
animals  that  ran  the  earth  for 
150  million  years.  So  odds 
are  there  are  probably  several 
thousand.  They  have  certain 
qualities  in  common,  but  they 
can  certainly  be  bizarre.  For 
example,  one  was  just  found 
with  kind  of  a  double  mane 
down  its  back,  like  a  horse  but 
bony.  And  they  just  found  in 
South  America  what  is 
probably  the  biggest  dinosaur 
of  all.  So  every  kid  learns  about 
the  biggest  dinosaur  from  a 
book,  and  the  books  are  very 
quickly  wrong,"  he  says. 

Few  people  have  fashioned  a 
job  like  Lessem's.  Put  yourself 
in  his  place:  focus  on  65 
million  years  ago.  Pick  the  far 
corners  of  the  earth — and  go 
there.  Sit  in  a  teepee  in  the 
middle  of  the  Badlands.  Get 
your  hands  dirty,  digging. 
Wear  whatever  you  want.  Sleep 
overnight  out  in  the  wilderness 
with  incredibly  interesting  and 
eccentric  characters.  "A  lot  of 
dinosaur  researchers  are 
serious  and  concerned 
scientists,"  explains  Lessem, 
"but  it  also  attracts  a  lot  of 
mavericks  that  have  remnant 


26  Brandeis  Review 


childlike  interest— showmen 
and  dreamers  and  lost  boy 
scouts."  Teach  children  about 
a  subject  they  are  already 
drawn  to,  and  amplify  their 
fascination,  in  short,  go  back 
to  those  years  as  a  child  when 
you  were  enthusiastic  and 
curious  and  relive  it  as  an 
adult,  this  time  with  the  ability 
to  find  the  answers  yourself. 

Even  more  than  the  adventure 
of  the  search,  a  psychological 
component  is  compelling. 
Says  Lessem,  "There's  such 
a  regular  reinforcement  in 
finding  fossils,  it's  like  a 
gambling  addiction.  You  go  out 
and  you  never  know  what 
you're  going  to  find.  And  then 
one  day  you  find  this 
humongous  jackpot.  It's 
a  wonderfully  rewarding  thing. 
And  it  is  like  a  treasure  hunt, 
a  scavenger  hunt — how 
are  you  going  to  get  all  the 
pieces?  How  do  you 
put  it  back  together  again?" 

A  plethora  of  false  and 
superficial  recycled  sloppy 
information  about  dinosaurs 
floods  the  marketplace,  says 
Lessem,  and  he  set  out 
to  create  an  antidote.  Founding 
a  nonprofit  organization 
called  The  Dinosaur  Society, 
his  goal  was  to  raise  money  for 
dinosaur  research,  supporting 
a  small  band  of  some  50 
people  worldwide  who 
dig  dinosaurs.  "There's  a  huge 
disparity  between  the 
commercialism  of  dinosaurs 
and  the  real  information,  which 
is  being  parroted  and 
oversimplified,"  Lessem  says. 
"These  were  real  animals, 
why  not  bother  to  portray  them 
the  way  they  really  were?" 
Tailored  for  an  amateur  with  an 
intense  interest.  The  Dinosaur 
Society  gives  2,000  adult 
members  a  quarterly 
newsletter  with  the  current 
news  before  it  gets  published 
in  scientific  journals,  reports  of 
what's  going  on  in  the  field, 
a  list  of  the  accurate  books  and 
the  good  products,  a  catalogue 
of  products  approved  by 
scientists,  and  information  on 
digs  that  the  whole  family  can 
go  on. 


For  The  Society's  8,000 
members  who  range  in  age 
from  preschool  to  14,  Lessem 
publishes  Dino  Times, 
a  monthly  newsletter.  He  sees 
it  as  a  way  to  cultivate  and 
amplify  in  children  a  love  of 
scientific  exploration.  "I  think  it 
can  be  a  powerful  vehicle  to 
build  a  foundation  for  a  lifelong 
interest  in  science.  Instead 
of  presenting  science  in  a 
stultifying  way,  we  can  give  the 
kids  a  chance  to  explore. 
How  about  going  out  on  a  dig? 
That's  the  kind  of  thing 
that  makes  a  lifelong  devotee." 

He  has  a  direct  line  to  some 
1 ,000  youngsters  each  year 
who  write  to  Dino  Don, 
responding  to  his  column  in 
Highlights  for  Children 
magazine  and  Dino  Times. 
"Certain  questions  come  up 
often.  Why  did  they  die  out? 
What  color  were  they?  A  lot  of 
these  questions  are  not 
known— or  knowable."  But  that 
is  what  he  enjoys.  "I  still  like 
the  aspect  of  not  knowing 
everything  about  it.  It's  far 
more  interesting  to  me  that  it 
has  at  least  a  patina  of  mystery 
to  it,  and  that  you  can  never 
know  all  the  answers.  I'd  rather 
imagine  something  that  once 
was,  and  that  might  have 
been,  than  something  that  is." 

To  make  that  fantasy  more 
authentic,  Lessem  was  asked 
by  Steven  Spielberg  to  join  the 
movie  Jurassic  Park  as  a 
consultant.  There  he  sat,  next 
to  the  director,  telling  him  how 
to  make  the  dinosaurs 
scientifically  correct.  Then  in 
one  inspired  moment,  he 
engineered,  as  he  describes  it, 
"the  biggest  revenue  generator 
for  dinosaur  science  ever." 
At  the  end  of  Jurassic  Park,  he 
asked  Spielberg  if  he  could 
have  all  the  props — full  life- 
size  dinosaurs  with  elaborate 
jungle  sets — to  make  an 
exhibit  to  benefit  The  Dinosaur 
Society.  The  answer  was 
"sure."  The  resulting  Dinosaur 
Society's  1 1 ,000  square-foot 
international  traveling  exhibit. 


Lessem  (left),  Steven  Spielberg 
(center),  and  dinosaur 
hunter  Jack  Horner  (right)  on  the 
se/o/Jurassic  Park. 


"The  Dinosaurs  of  Jurassic 
Park,"  broke  attendance 
records  for  museums.  Original 
props  from  Jurassic  Park 
are  accompanied  by  monitors 
to  dramatize  the  dinosaurs  "in 
action"  with  the  use  of  actual 
movie  footage.  And — leave 
it  to  Lessem — the  exhibit  is 
more  than  just  Hollywood  glitz. 
It  is  an  educational  experience 
as  well.  Fossils,  cast 
specimens,  and  a  computer 
activity  center  challenge 
visitors  to  learn  more.  More 
than  one  million  visitors  to  date 
have  been  captivated. 

It  is  hard  to  imagine  a  time 
when  Lessem  had  nothing  to 
do  with  dinosaurs.  Although  a 
dinosaur-obsessed  6-year-old, 
Lessem,  growing  up  in 
Scarsdale.  New  York,  had 
turned  to  other  interests  by  age 
8.  It  would  be  30  years  before 
he  returned.  A  transfer  student 
at  Brandeis  from  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  and  Columbia, 
Lessem  studied  oriental  art 
history,  not  thinking  much 
about  a  career  at  the  time,  he 
says.  In  fact,  being  a  color- 
blind art  historian  was  not  such 
a  good  idea.  But  "it  was  the 
seventies,"  he  says,  summing 
up  his  freewheeling  days. 

"I  liked  the  idea  of  the  freedom 
that  I  felt  Brandeis  offered— 
I  could  do  a  lot  of  different 
things.  I  wrote  the 
homecoming  play  with  my 
roommate  (Marshall  Herskovitz 


f^iy'l 


73.  executive  producer, 
"thirtysomething"  and 
currently  co-producer,  "My  So- 
Called  Life").  I  was  in  the 
football  club  and  on  ttie  track 
team.  Academically  I  could  try 
other  things  besides  art 
history,"  he  says. 

After  a  job  in  the  admissions 
office  at  Brandeis,  Lessem 
decided  to  go  to  graduate 
school,  earning  a  master's 
degree  in  biobehavioral  studies 
from  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  in  Boston. 
"Gorilla  society  had  a  lot  of 
appeal  to  me — I  was  still  an 
idealistic  youth.  I  was  attracted 
by  what  I  imagined  as  these 
gentle,  misunderstood 
vegetarians,"  he  remembers, 
admitting  that  he  probably  felt 
some  kinship. 

While  discovering  that  gorillas 
were  not  quite  so  kind,  he  also 
found  a  field  that  suited  him.  "I 
realized  that  I  didn't  like  doing 
the  research  as  much  as  I  liked 
learning  about  everybody  else's 
research.  I  didn't  really  have 
the  discipline  to  stay  in  one 
place.  As  a  journalist,  you  learn 
a  little  about  everything.  It  was 
less  the  writing  that  appealed 
to  me  than  the  learning. 
The  writing  was  just  a  way  to 
make  a  living  at  it."  He  began 
working  as  a  volunteer  for  what 
had  been  an  adjunct  to  the 
Smithsonian  and  became  a 


nonprofit  group  called  the 
Center  for  Short  Lived 
Phenomenon.  They  would 
gather  scientist's  reports  on 
"sort  of  the  odd  lots  and 
remainders  of  science,  like  rain 
frogs  in  Sumatra,"  he  says. 

Writing  a  newsletter  for  kids 
about  endangered  species,  and 
a  children's  book  [Ute  is  No 
Yuk  for  the  Yak),  which  after 
much  effort — 1 9  tries — he  was 
able  to  sell,  solidified  his 
writing  career.  After  several 
floundering  years  as  a 
freelancer,  now  married  with 
two  daughters,  he  went  to 
work  for  a  weekly  newspaper 
called  Worcester  Magazine. 
"doing  investigative  reporting 
for  three  years  with  a  plan  in 
mind  that  this  time  I  would  go 
back  to  freelancing  with  a  set 
number  of  assignments  so  that 
I  could  make  a  living  at  it." 

His  plan  and  a  personality  he 
describes  as  "pushy."  paid  off. 
"I  always  like  to  aim  very  high 
and  was  willing  to  take  the 
many  rejections,  instead  of 
working  the  other  way  around," 
he  says.  Freelancing  for  the 
Boston  Giobe  and  the 
Smithsonian,  Lessem  was  able 
to  go  back  to  working  for 
himself  more  successfully. 

A  Knight  Fellowship  in  science 
journalism  in  1988  (he 
attended  classes  at  MIT  and 
Harvard)  gave  him  a  chance  to 
step  off  the  treadmill  and  take 


stock,  once  again.  "The  idea  is 
you  go  back  to  your  newspaper 
refreshed  and  informed.  The 
reality  is  that  often  you  explore 
a  new  career  and  don't  go 
back,  which  was  the  case  for 
me."  A  growing  realization  that 
he  was  tired  of  being  an  instant 
expert  on  a  different  subject 
each  week,  that  he  wanted  to 
probe  one  area  in  depth,  ran 
smack  into  opportunity. 
"Coincidentally.  the  Globe 
/Wagazme  asked  me — I  didn't 
ask  them— to  go  out  and  do  a 
story  about  dinosaur  diggers.  I 
hadn't  really  thought  much 
about  it  since  I  was  a  kid." 
Lessem  loved  everything  about 
the  assignment.  And  a 
champion  of  popular 
understanding  of  dinosaur 
science  was  born. 

Lessem  is  the  author  of  eight 
books  on  dinosaurs.  He  reveals 
a  lot  about  himself  when 
he  says  that  after  taking  the 
highest  bid  for  a  book 
proposal,  he  chafed  at  what  he 
called  the  publisher's  "interest 
in  a  starkly  oversimplified  view 
of  the  science."  At  intellectual 
loggerheads,  he  gave  back 
all  of  the  advance  and  sold  the 
book  for  a  lot  less  money. 
"But  I  got  the  book  I  wanted," 
he  says. 

True  to  his  theme  of  accuracy, 
his  children's  books 
"communicate  current  scientific 


information,"  he  explains, 
"instead  of  recycling  erroneous 
information."  With  the  same 
mission,  Lessem  writes  and 
hosts  NOVA  programs,  lectures 
at  universities,  museums, 
and  schools,  has  developed 
16  educational  vignettes 
for  Microsoft  Dinosaurs, 
a  software  program,  creates 
documentaries  for  CD-ROM 
technology,  and  is  working  on 
a  TV  series  for  kids  (an 
antidote  to  Barney,  the  portly 
purple  dinosaur  who  romps 
and  sings).  He  has  plans  for  a 
novel  whose  characters  are 
true  to  what  dinosaur  behavior 
was,  "which  in  itself  makes 
for  a  great  mythic  story," 
he  says.  Also  in  the  pipeline  is 
taking  exhibits  out  of  the 
museums  and  bringing  them  to 
where  the  people  are — the 
shopping  malls,  for  example. 

Sounds  busy?  He  enjoys  it. 
Finding  himself  with  some 
extra  time  last  summer, 
Lessem  wrote  a  screenplay — 
about  baseball.  Yes,  he  intends 
to  head  in  new  directions. 
But  where?  The  guintessential 
Brandeis  graduate  would 
leave  it  open,  without 
limits,  dancing  with  ideas, 
actions,  serendipity,  and  fate. 
When  asked  what  he  will 
be  doing  in  five  years, 
Lessem  hesitates,  then  laughs, 
delighted  that  he  doesn't 
really  know.  ■ 


27  Fall  1994 


n    d 


by  Cliff  Hauptman  '69, 

M.F.A.  73 

Art  by  Fran  Forman  '67 


28  Brandeis  Review 


Fran  Forman  '67,  social 
worker,  photographer, 
collagist,  animator,  and 
graphic  designer,  has  had 
the  extraordinary  good 
fortune  of  having  her  formal 
education,  work  experience, 
and  substantial  talent  all 
come  neatly  together  in  a 
small,  quietly  whirring  box 
on  her  desk.  Yet  it  is  only 
quite  recently  that  computer 


hardware  and  software  of 
adequate  sophistication  and 
memory  have  allowed  that 
to  happen. 

In  the  mid-sixties,  a 
pervasive  attitude  that  a 
career  in  art  was  a  bit  too 
narcissistic  for  the 
community-minded,  buoyed 
by  a  pragmatic  sense  of  the 
need  to  make  a  living. 


Merging  artistic  talent 
and  high  tech,  a 
Brandeis  alumna  is  on 
the  road  to  defining  the 
aesthetics  of  a  new 
literary  multi-medium 


impelled  Forman  into 
sociology  as  a 
concentration  at  Brandeis 
and,  eventually,  into  social 
work  as  a  profession.  After 
six  years  in  a  promising 
occupation  that  included  a 
master's  degree  in 
psychiatric  social  work  and 
advising  in  a  drug  treatment 
program,  Forman  turned 
down  a  post-master's 


fellowship  in  the  field  of 
substance  abuse  to 
establish  a  full-time  career 
in  art,  a  significant  interest 
that  had  been  relegated  to 
the  margins  of  her  life. 

She  studied  every  medium 
from  stone-carving  to 
photography,  not  finding 
any  one,  alone,  that  fit. 
Then  she  discovered 


graphic  design,  a  field  that 
not  only  offered  real 
opportunities  for  earning  a 
livelihood,  but  one  that 
combined  Forman's 
disparate  skills  and 
manifold  talents.  As  a 
member  of  one  of  Boston 
University's  first  graduate 
classes  in  graphic  design, 
she  earned  another 
master's  degree  in  1977. 


29  Fall  1994 


She  has  designed 
numerous  corporate 
identities.  She  created  the 
banners  for  the  North 
and  South  Market  buildings 
at  Boston's  renowned 
Faneuil  Hall  Marketplace, 
plus  kiosks,  lighting 
schemes,  and  signage. 
She  has  designed  class 
banners  for  Brandeis,  and 
she  attained  brief  national 


notoriety  for  having 
created  a  flag  for  the  island 
of  Martha's  Vineyard 
during  its  short-lived  threat 
of  secession  from 
Massachusetts  in  1977. 

Although  she  flourished 
in  architectural  and 
small-scale  retail  design — 
graphics  within  a  three- 
dimensional  space — the 


rapid  advancements  in 
computer  technology, 
especially  breakthroughs  in 
memory-size  and  the 
sophistication  of  graphics 
and  multi-media  vehicles, 
ultimately  allowed  Forman 
to  carve  out  an  artistically 
satisfying  and  pioneering 
niche.  Indeed,  it  seems 
as  if  her  distinct  blend  of 
aptitudes  and  artistic 


leanings  lay  waiting  for  just 

the  right  industry 

to  be  invented  for  them. 

Forman's  works  on  these 
pages  were  never  intended 
to  see  print — in  fact,  many 
have  been  somewhat 
changed  in  character  by  the 
process  of  reproducing 
them  on  paper.  They  are, 
rather,  facsimiles  of  the 


30  Brandeis  Review 


electronic  pages  of  a  CD- 
ROM  book,  created  on 
a  computer  and  meant  for 
viewing  on  a  computer. 

A  Jack  Kerouac  Romnibus'". 
produced  and  directed  by 
Ralph  Lombreglia  and  Kate 
Bernhardt,  is  scheduled  for 
release  momentarily.  The 
CD-ROM  contains  the  entire 
text  of  Kerouac's  novel 


The  Dharma  Bums; 
portions  of  his  Mexico  City 
Blues.  Tlie  Town  and  the 
City.  Visions  of  Cody,  and 
Vanity  of  Duluoz.  all  linked 
as  text  annotations  to 
the  novel:  archival  materials 
from  the  Jack  Kerouac 
estate  and  the  collection  of 
Ann  and  Sam  Charters, 
including  correspondence, 
journals,  photographs. 


paintings,  and  memorabilia: 
digitized  audio  of  the  music 
of  the  era  and  recordings 
of  Beat  writers  reading 
their  own  and  Kerouac's 
work:  digitized  film  footage: 
excerpts  from  Kerouac: 
A  Biography  by  Ann 
Charters:  a  historical 
timeline:  biographical  notes 
about  people  in  the 
books:  a  portrait  and  art 


gallery:  a  documents 
archive:  and  a  number  of 
other  features  that 
are  still  in  development. 
In  short,  the  program 
is  effectively  like  having 
an  entire  reference  library 
of  related  materials 
at  your  disposal  while 
reading  a  novel,  but 
the  appropriate  references 
are  instantly  accessed 


31  Fail  1994 


;'-:^ 


'■V" 


Hopping  a  freight  out  of  Los  Angeles  at 
high  noon  one  day  in  late  September  1955  I 
got  on  a  gondola  and  lay  down  with  my 
duffel  bag  under  my  head  and  my  knees 
crossed  and  contemplated  the  clouds  as  we 
rolled  north  to  Santa  Barbara.   It  was  a  local 
and  I  intended  to  sleep  on  the  beach  at  Santa 
Barbara  that  night  and  catch  either  another 
local  to  San  Luis  Obispo  the  next  morning 
or  the  firstclass  freight  all  the  way  to  San 
Francisco  at  seven  p.m.   Somewhere  near 
Camarillo  where  Charlie  Parker'd  been  mad 
and  relaxed  back  to  normal  health,  a  thin  old 
little  bum  climbed  into  my  gondola  as  we 
headed  into  a  siding  to  give  a  train  right  of 
way  and  looked  surprised  to  see  me  there. 
He  established  himself  at  the  other  end  of 
the  gondola  and  lay  down,  facing  me,  with 
his  head  on  his  own  miserably  small  pack 


mmmmmsm 


fty^i^!>^<Si^*v^'?^-^'*i*-<''l'r*'*^«^*''^****^' 


electronically,  simply  by 
touching  a  word  in  the 
text  or  a  spot  on  the  page. 

While  the  original 
interactive  aspects  and  the 
astonishing  complexity 
of  cross  references  give 
the  program  its  remarkable 
educational  potential, 
it  is  Fran  Forman's  graphic 
design  and  illustration 


that  define  its  look,  its 
character,  its  visual 
interface  with  the  user. 

"Fran  is  a  brilliant  designer," 
says  Grant  Kornberg  '80, 
executive  producer  of 
the  project.  "This  product  is 
on  the  cutting  edge,  so 
it  is  actually  defining  a  new 
medium.  Fran  is  helping 
to  invent  the  aesthetic  for  a 


literary  multi-medium. 
How  often  do  you  get  to  do 
something  like  that? 
The  last  new  aesthetic  was 
probably  the  one  for  rock 
and  roll,  before  that,  TV, 
and  before  that,  movies." 
Kornberg's  marketing  firm, 
Largely  Literary  Design, 
places  literature-related 
products  in  bookstores.  The 
company  is  perhaps  best 


known  for  its  ubiquitous 
T-shirts  adorned  with 
the  caricatures  of  famous 
authors.  Kornberg  and 
Forman  were  unaware 
of  each  other's  connection 
to  Brandeis  until 
this  article  was  started. , 


32  Brandeis  Review 


■Jmm 


At  left  is  a  typical  page 
layout  showing  the 
interface  illustration, 
text  scroll,  and 
boldfaced  annotation 
links.  The  top  button 
is  used  to  access 
the  Help  feature.  The 
middle  button 
accesses  Preferences. 
And  the  bottom  button 
brings  up  the  Main 
Menu.  The  slider  bar 
along  the  bottom  is  the 
page  turner  This 
interface  illustration  is 
from  Chapter  One; 
other  chapter 
illustrations  are  shown 
throughout  the  article. 


ST* 


33  Fall  1994 


Catskiil  Culture 


Raised  within  tlie  hotel 
milieu  of  "the  Mountains," 
a  sociologist  explores  the 
significance  of  a  resort 
area  that  has  touched  the 
common  consciousness 
of  American  Jews 
for  more  than  a  century 


by  Phil  Brown.  Ph.D.  79 


A  hundred  miles  northwest  of  New  York  City  lies 
a  magic  land,  enveloped  in  a  rich  legacy  and  a 
rampant  mythology.  The  "Borscht  Belt" — the 
Jewish  resort  area  in  the  Catskiil  Mountains — 
was  the  playground  of  Jews,  mainly  from 
metropolitan  New  York,  of  all  classes  and 
occupations.  They  went  as  guests  to  hotels, 
bungalow  colonies,  and  cultural  camps.  They 
went  as  workers  to  eke  out  a  living,  and.  for 
younger  people,  to  work  their  way  through 
college  and  professional  school.  They  went  to 
preserve  cultural  and  religious  affinities,  to 
escape  the  drudgery  of  the  year's  hard  work, 
and  to  find  romance  and  marriage.  Without  truly 
knowing  it.  they  were  creating  a  unique 
environment  that  would  linger  in  powerful 
memories  long  after  it  declined  in  the  1970s. 

Ultimately,  the  Catskills  represent  a  unique 
Jewish-American  experience  of  the  leisure-time 
and  workaday  activities  of  the  first  generations 
of  20th-century  Jews  in  this  country.  This 
reverberated  in  music,  humor,  business  ethics, 
and  teenage  coming-of-age  dramas.  Because 
Catskiil  culture  was  a  major  facet  of  the  Jewish 
experience,  it  has  also  influenced  a  larger, 
secular,  cosmopolitan  culture — at  least  of  the 
East  Coast. 


For  most  people  who  experienced  the  Catskills, 
it  was  not  the  Grossinger's  mock-up  from  Dirty 
Dancing  or  the  Concord  of  singles  weekends  in 
the  1980s  and  1990s.  A  few  books  have 
appeared  over  the  last  decade  and  a  half, 
focusing  largely  on  the  mega-resorts  and  major 
celebrities,  but  they  do  not  do  justice  to  the 
ordinary  guests  and  staff  who  populated  the 
'Jewish  Alps."  Too  often  people  remember  the 
least  significant  parts  of  this  phenomenon,  for 
instance  Jackie  Mason's  roots  there.  It  is  truly 
less  important  which  comedians  (most  of  them!) 
got  their  start  there.  It  is  much  more  interesting 
how  many  teachers,  doctors,  lawyers,  and  other 
professionals  got  their  start  as  busboys  and 
waiters,  chauffeurs,  musicians.  And,  the 
grandeur  of  the  Concord  Hotel  has  a  different 
meaning  for  those  who  vacationed  there  than  for 
the  guests  who  patronized  the  multitudes  of 
smaller  resorts. 

The  heart  of  the  Mountains  was  a  hefty  number 
of  small-  and  medium-sized  hotels,  laced  with 
bungalow  colonies.  Strung  mainly  through  Ulster 
and  Sullivan  Counties,  the  Catskills  were  not 
even  the  "real"  Catskiil  Mountains  but  merely 
foothills  to  the  legendary  Rip  Van  Winkle 
topography.  The  tallest  hills  around,  in  Ulster 
County,  are  the  beautiful  Shawangunk 
Mountains  in  whose  valley  Ellenville  nests. 


34  Brandeis  Review 


The  familiar  Catskills  are  gone,  with  only 
handfuls  of  very  large  hotels  remaining.  Smaller 
ones  were  burned  for  insurance,  sold  to  Hasidic 
groups,  redone  as  Zen  meditation  centers, 
converted  to  drug  rehab  programs,  or  just  left  to 
fall  apart;  bungalow  colonies  were  divided  up  as 
summer  condos.  Many  people  who  were  guests, 
and  a  good  number  who  were  staff,  have  passed 
away  or  are  very  old.  While  there  are  still 
enough  old-timers  to  reflect  and  remember, 
there  remains  time  to  bridge  the  gap  between 
those  who  knew,  and  those  who  only  know  of, 
the  Catskills, 

Arthur  Adams,  author  of  The  Catskills:  An 
Illustrated  Historical  Guide  with  Gazetter.  tells  us 
that  the  definition  of  what  is  in  the  Catskills  has 
always  changed.  The  original  appellation 
referred  to  the  area  in  Greene  County  west  of 
the  town  of  Catskill.  As  hotels  developed  in  more 
southern  areas,  they  sought  through  their 
promotional  activities  to  be  included  in  the 
Catskills  geographical  grouping.  Officially,  the 
New  York  Temporary  State  Commission  to 
Study  the  Catskills.  established  in  1973. 
includes  Greene,  Delaware,  Sullivan,  Ulster, 
Schoharie,  Otsego,  and  part  of  Albany  County, 
an  area  of  nearly  4  million  acres  and  373,000 
people.  This  is  an  area  dozens  of  times  larger 


than  the  "Jewish  Alps,"  a  250  square  mile 
enclave  which  includes  not  even  the  whole  of 
Sullivan  and  Ulster  Counties. 

As  early  as  the  1 820s.  Jews  had  dreams  of 
living  in  the  Catskills.  as  a  rural  refuge.  Mordecai 
Noah,  journalist  and  diplomat  whose  father 
fought  in  the  Revolution,  considered  such  a 
move.  Faced  with  warnings  of  poor  tilling  and 
disputes  over  land  claims,  he  opted  instead  for 
an  upstate  tract  near  Buffalo,  which  never  got 
underway.  The  1837  Depression  put  an  end  to 
another  attempt,  by  the  Society  of  Zeire  Hazon 
(Tender  Sheep).  That  same  year.  Robert  Carter 
leased  several  hundred  acres  in  Wawarsing. 
Ulster  County,  and  took  five  families  to  create 
the  colony  of  Sholem  (Peace):  12  more  families 
joined  the  next  year.  After  four  years  of 
capmaking,  quill  production,  and  clothing 
peddling,  the  Sholem  settlers  went  bankrupt  and 
left. 

The  more  modern  Jewish  presence  into  the 
Catskills  began  with  Charles  F.  Fleischmann,  an 
Ohio  senator  famous  for  yeast  and  distilleries 
who,  in  1883.  bought  60  acres  in  Ulster  County 
and  established  a  town  with  his  name  where  he 
set  up  an  elaborate  family  resort  compound. 
Jews  had  begun  summering  in  the  Catskills  in 
the  1870s.  but  the  massive  Eastern  European 


35  Fall  1994 


Phil  Brown  received  his 
Ph.D.  degree  in  sociology 
from  Brandeis  in  1979. 
He  is  Professor  of 
Sociology  at  Brown 
University.  This  article 
includes  material  from  a 
book  in  progress,  and  is 
supported  in  part  by 
grants  from  the  Lucius 
N.  Littauer  Foundation 
and  the  Brown 
University  Dean  of 
Research.  Brown  is 
working  with  a  group  of 
Catskill  residents  and 
veterans  to  organize  a 
multidisciplinary 
conference  on  the 
Catskills,  probably  to  be 
held  in  New  York  City. 
The  group  is  actively 
seeking  foundation  and 
private  support  for  this 
effort. 


immigration  was  met  with  nativist  and  anti- 
Semitic  policies.  Faced  with  loss  of  entree  to 
Gentile-owned  hotels  and  boarding  houses, 
Jews  started  their  own.  Simon  Epstein  started  a 
Jewish  boarding  house  in  Saxton  in  1889,  but 
was  faced  with  an  anti-Semitic  riot.  By  1899,  ads 
appeared  for  Jewish  boarding  homes  providing 
kosher  food.  Several  of  the  larger  hotels  began 
at  this  time — Grossinger's,  Morningside, 
Tamarack,  Flagler,  and  Esther  Manor. 

Jewish  overcrowding  on  the  Lower  East  Side 
played  a  big  role.  Tuberculosis  was  rampant, 
and  clean  air  the  best  prescription.  Faced  with 
expected  exclusion  from  the  J. P.  Morgan- 
financed  Loomis  sanitarium  in  Liberty,  Jews  built 
their  own.  The  Workmen's  Circle  sanitarium 
opened  in  1910.  and  was  followed  by  other 
welfare  societies  and  unions  who  sent  members 
to  Catskill  boarding  houses.  Many  of  these 
houses  had  already  been  established — in  the 
first  decade  of  the  century,  over  a  thousand 
farms  had  been  sold  to  Jewish  families,  mostly 
near  Ellenville,  with  the  bulk  of  them  used  as 
boarding  houses.  The  Triangle  Shirtwaist  Fire  of 
191 1  even  figured  in — an  ILGWU  project  to 
improve  working  conditions  led  the  union  to  start 
the  Unity  House  resort  for  workers  to  recuperate 
in  the  Mountains. 

In  the  first  few  years  of  the  century,  leading 
Jewish  cultural  figures  added  to  the  Catskill 
origins.  The  celebrated  Yiddish  stage  actor, 
Boris  Thomashevsky,  built  a  resort  with  an  800- 
seat  outdoor  theater  and  a  500-seat  indoor  one. 
With  plays,  bands,  and  poker  games,  he  started 
the  cultural  and  entertainment  traditions  that 


HIGH  VlFu, 


Memorabillia  provided  by  Bemie 
Cohen  and  the  Catskills  Enlertammeni 
Hall  of  Fame  S  Museum 


would  dominate  Catskill  culture.  Abraham 
Cahan,  founder  of  the  Jewish  Daily  Forward, 
penned  a  series  of  essays  on  the  Mountains' 
virtues.  In  his  novel.  The  Rise  of  David  Levinsky, 
he  described  the  1910  hotel  atmosphere,  which 
would  be  familiar  a  half  century  later — weekend 
husbands,  grand  meals,  fancy  dressing. 

Many  Catskill  hotels  began  as  boarding  houses 
on  operating  farms,  including  Tamarack, 
Grossingers,  and  the  Nemerson.  The  Nevele 
was  a  working  farm  until  1938.  Leba  Sedaka, 
daughter  of  the  owner  of  Esther  Manor  and  wife 
of  Neil  Sedaka,  whom  she  met  when  his  band 
played  there,  recalled  her  sorrow  at  giving  up 
her  pet  calf  when  the  expanding  hotel  ended  its 
agricultural  activities.  Hotels  quickly  ceased  their 
pastoral  enterprise  when  they  saw  more  money 
was  to  be  raised  from  housing  visitors.  The 
Jewish  Agricultural  Society  constantly  sought  to 
encourage  Jewish  farmers  rather  than  tourism, 
but  this  never  became  a  major  force.  Some  of 
the  failed  farmers  turned  to  business,  and  the 
major  towns  of  Liberty,  Monticello,  and  South 
Fallsburg  developed  a  large  number  of  Jewish 
enterprises. 

For  those  who  could  not  afford  the  hotels,  there 
were  kuchaleyns  (cook-alones),  boarding  homes 
where  people  shared  a  kitchen  for  preparing 
their  own  meals.  This  term  remained  after  such 
facilities  departed  the  scene,  being  used  to 
describe  bungalow  colonies,  which  first  had 
shared  kitchens  but  later  all  stand-alone  units.  In 
a  bungalow,  you  still  cooked  and  you  were  not  a 
guest,  and  in  that  sense  you  remained  different 
from  the  vacationers  in  hotels  who  were  served 
by  others.  Generally,  bungalow  dwellers  were  far 
lower  down  the  class  ladder  than  hotel  guests, 
though  sometimes  people  who  could  afford  two 
weeks  in  a  hotel  opted  for  the  two-month 
bungalow  for  the  same  price. 

Hotels  with  a  full  range  of  facilities  and 
entertainment  did  not  spring  up  overnight.  Early 
hotels  had  few  amenities,  and  only  developed 
them  when  they  worried  that  competitors  were 
taking  away  their  guests.  Many  staff  worked 
multiple  jobs.  In  the  "mature"  years  of  the 
Catskills,  it  was  mostly  only  the  small  "shiock 
houses"  that  maintained  the  practice  of  multiple 
jobs.  In  most  places  my  parents  or  I  worked, 
there  was  a  social  director — often  called  the 
social  macher— who  organized  calisthenics, 
arranged  and  announced  special  trips  or 
activities,  emceed  shows  and  other  nighttime 
entertainment,  and  sometimes  sang  or  joked  on 
stage.  But  there  were  special  staff  for  most  other 
tasks — lifeguards,  bellhops,  camp  directors, 
camp  counselors,  chauffeurs,  waiters,  busboys, 
chambermaids,  kitchen  help,  and  maintenance 
staff. 

One  area  where  multiple  jobs  remained 
important  was  in  hotel  basketball  teams,  which 
played  in  an  informal  intramural  league.  Large 
resorts  like  Young's  Gap,  Kutshers',  Brickman's, 
Klein's  Hillside,  and  the  Ambassador  hired 


36  Brandeis  Review 


college  players  for  the  dining  room.  Criteria  for 
the  job  were  basketball  rather  than  dining  room 
skills,  and  players  like  Bob  Cousy  and  Wilt 
Chamberlin  were  among  the  recruits.  Betting 
pools  resulted  in  point  shaving,  and  racketeers 
recruited  players  in  the  Catskills  for  regular 
college  season  game  fixing. 

Expansion  moved  slowly  for  most  hotels,  which 
lacked  the  ready  capital  of  the  large 
entrepreneurs.  The  early  hotels  had  guests 
sharing  rooms  with  strangers.  Private  rooms 
came  later  and  were  often  smaller  than  the 
average  motel  room,  even  though  a  family  of 
four  might  sleep  there.  Bathrooms  were  shared 
in  most  smaller  hotels,  with  a  smaller  number  of 
higher-priced  rooms  containing  baths  and 
telephones.  Things  stayed  this  way  even  until 
the  last  years  of  the  small  hotels  in  the  1970s. 

Despite  the  long  legacy  of  the  Catskills  as  a 
Jewish  resort  area,  most  of  the  legend  is  mainly 
a  postwar  phenomenon.  The  1950s  and  1960s 
were  the  heyday  of  the  borscht  circuit.  The 
postwar  economic  boom  allowed  for  hotel 
expansion  and  widespread  car  ownership,  and 
more  people  could  afford  vacations.  In  1957,  the 
Route  17  Quickway  was  completed,  making  the 
Catskills  only  90  minutes  away  from  New  York 
City.  The  Ontaho  and  Western  Railroad  stopped 
running,  but  car  and  bus  transportation  became 
more  popular.  This  led  to  a  new  boom  in  hotels, 
with  expansion  of  pools,  nightclubs,  sports 
facilities,  phone  wiring,  and  new  deluxe 


Mountain  Memories 


accommodations.  Then  in  1958,  Monticello 
Raceway  was  built,  a  harness  track  funded  by  a 
consortium  that  included  many  top  hotel  owners. 
Memories  of  the  simpler  days  could  still  remain, 
while  the  greater  amenities  of  the  later  period 
coddled  guests  more.  This  was  a  supernova 
period — the  Catskills  grew  large  and  bright 
before  exploding. 

One  thing  that  made  the  1950s  and  1960s  so 
special  is  that  these  Jews  were  playing, 
vacationing,  relaxing,  at  a  time  of  fresh  and 
piercing  memories  of  the  Holocaust.  The  escape 
to  the  Mountains  was  in  part  an  escape  from  that 
horror,  when  many  of  their  family  and  fnends 
were  killed  by  the  Nazis,  The  resurgence  of 
religiosity  so  widely  discussed  also  led  Jews  to 
seek  their  Jewish  cultural  roots  in  the  Yiddishkeit 
of  the  Catskills. 

Catskills  clientele  had  become  increasingly 
middle-aged  and  elderly.  These  guests  died  or 
grew  infirm.  For  young  adults  and  older 
divorcees  seeking  romance,  singles  bars 
became  available  in  the  city  for  meeting 
spouses.  The  very  style  of  the  resorts — gross 
overeating,  ethnic  entertainment,  self- 
deprecating  humor — seemed  embarrassing. 
Cheaper  air  travel  and  the  development  of  more 
exotic  vacation  areas  drew  people  away.  In  the 
1970s,  business  conventions  became  a  major 
staple  of  the  hotel  industry.  Special  weekends 
were  run  for  other  ethnic  groups.  Church 
organizations  had  meetings  in  the  remaining 
mega-resorts.  Singles  weekends  and  sports 
sessions  were  more  frequently  offered.  By  the 
1980s,  just  12  large  hotels  survived. 


Q' 


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I  grew  up  in  a  family  of 
mountain  rats, "  parents 
who  lived  and  worked  in 
the  "The  Mountains" 
most  of  their  lives. 
Shortly  before  I  was  born, 
they  began  as  owners  of 
a  small  hotel,  Brown's 
Hotel  Royal,  on  White 
Lake.  When  the  chef  quit 
at  the  start  of  the  season, 
my  mother  took  over,  and 
never  left  the  kitchen 
again.  After  the  business 
failed  two  years  later  she 
spent  most  of  the  rest  of 
her  working  years  as  a 
chef  In  other  hotels.  My 
father  worked  variously 
as  a  maitre  d',  clerk/ 
chauffeur  for  an 
employment  agency,  and 
operator  of  small 
"concession "  coffee  shops 
rented  for  the  season 
from  hotels  or  bungalow 
colonies. 


When  I  was  13,  a  busboy 
missing  at  the  last 
moment  late  in  the 
season  gave  me  the 
opportunity  of  a  lifetime — 
I  grabbed  a  cutaway 
jacket  and  went  to  work 
full-time.  The  next 
season,  at  14, 1  only 
needed  a  year  of  the 
busboy  apprenticeship, 
and  at  15  was  a  waiter.  I 
worked  the  mountains 
every  summer  until  the 
end  of  college. 

Serving  lunch,  and 
especially  dinner,  the  key 
thing  was  to  get  on  the 
'main  line"  early,  where 
waiters  ordered  and 
picked  up  main  dishes. 
Guests  may  have 
leisurely  drifted  in  and 
eaten  appetizers  and 
soups,  easy  items  to  pick 
up  in  the  kitchen.  If  you 
didn't  get  caught  by  an 


irate  owner  who  felt  the 
waiter  should  be  doing 
the  serving,  you  could 
even  pick  the  food  up  and 
hand  it  immediately  to 
your  busboy,  poised 
beside  you.  But  not  main 
dishes — the  chef,  steward 
(who  ran  the  kitchen),  and 
owners  might  be 
lackadaisical  on  soups 
and  appetizers,  but  they 
got  deadly  serious  with 
mains,  wfiich  were  more 
costly  and  were  truly  the 
waiter's  job.  Mains  were 
large,  and  unlike  soup, 
could  not  be  stacked  on 
your  tray  in  sufficient 
quantity  to  serve  your 
whole  station  at  once.  If 
you  were  at  the  head  of 
the  line  for  your  first  trip, 
you'd  be  back  quickly, 
pleasing  your  customers 
with  quick  service. 


You  could  get  'hung  up  " 
during  any  course,  but 
once  you  were  late  with 
mains,  you  completely 
lost  control  of  the  meal, 
and  got  through  too  late 
to  have  an  evening  out. 
Some  waiters  routinely 
got  hung  up  because  they 
let  guests  send  them  into 
the  kitchen  too  often.  The 
trick  was  to  not  make 
extra  trips  for  a  single 
request,  since  you'd 
never  stop  running.  You 
bided  time  until  several 
requests  were  pending,  or 
until  you  had  finished 
serving  the  current 
course.  Waiters  prone  to 
getting  hung  up  never 
learned  to  manage 
themselves  or  others.  It 
was  pathetic  to  see  the 
frenzy  of  a  hung  up 
waiter.  They  would  be 
running  around,  dripping 
sweat,  asking  other 


37  Fall  1994 


In  addition  to  the  author's 
experiences,  material  in  this  article  is 
drawn  from  the  following  sources' 

Adams.  Arthur  G    1990   The 
Catskills:  An  Illustrated  Historical 
Guide  with  Gazetteer 
NY  Fordham  University  Press 

Berger,  Joseph   1993  "New  Accents 
for  Old  Ritual:  Vacationing  in  the 
Catskills  "  New  York  Times  My  12, 
1993 

Cahan,  Abraham.  1917   The  Rise  of 
David  Levinksy  NY:  Harper 

Kanfer.  Stefan   1989  A  Summer 
World  The  Attempt  to  Build  a  Jewish 
Eden  in  the  Catskills.  From  the 
Early  Days  of  the  Ghetto  to  the  Rise 
and  Decline  of  the  Borscht  Belt  NY 
Farrar,  Straus.  Giroux 

Frommer.  Myrna  Katz  and  Harvey 
Frommer,  1991    It  Happened  in  the 
Catskills:  An  Oral  History  in  the 
Words  of  Busboys.  Bellhops.  Guests. 
Proprietors.  Comedians.  Agents,  and 
Others  Who  Lived  It  NY  Harcourt 
Brace  Jovanovich 

Goldman,  Ari  L.  1993  "Thruway  Rest 
Stop  Provides  Place  for  Jews  to 
Pray  "  New  York  Times  My  25.  1993 


Not  only  does  the  Concord  now  have  ethnic 
weekends  of  every  stripe,  but  even  Spring  Break 
for  college  students  who  dance  to  grunge  bands 
and  stage-dive  as  in  a  mosh  pit.  Korean 
businessmen  have  bought  four  Sullivan  County 
hotels,  including  the  venerable  Grossingers. 
which  had  been  closed  for  some  years. 

Hasidim  and  other  Orthodox  Jews  have  brought 
many  changes  to  the  land.  As  thousands  make 
their  way  up  to  the  bungalows  they  now 
dominate,  they  stop  and  pray  the  late  afternoon 
Mincha  service.  At  first,  this  was  at  the  shoulder 
of  the  New  York  State  Thruway,  a  dangerous 
undertaking.  Highway  authorities  then  set  aside 
a  marked  "Mincha  area"  at  a  regular  rest  stop 
where  as  many  as  200  worshippers  are  found  at 
once.  One  participant  offered  that  "In  my 
opinion,  if  the  tVlessiah  is  going  to  come,  it  is 
going  to  be  right  here  on  the  Thruway." 

One  way  we  can  look  at  the  specialness  of  the 
Catskills  is  to  envision  a  living  theater  with 
multiple  stages  upon  which  are  played  the 
gamut  of  social  roles,  relations,  and 
entertainments.  In  picking  up  on  this  approach, 
Stefan  Kanfer.  in  his  social  history  of  the 
Catskills,  concludes  that: 


theater:  hustlers  and  gangsters,  basl<etball  stars 
and  basketball  fixers:  waiters  and  busboys  who 
were  later  to  run  hospitals  and  serve  on 
appellate  courts:  and  audiences  who  saw  It  all 
from  the  beginning. 

Many  veterans  and  commentators  have  focused 
on  the  coming-of-age  theme.  Norman  Hanover, 
a  CUNY  historian,  recounts  his  years:  "What  I 
learned  I  learned  there.  Whether  it's  sex, 
whether  it's  business,  whether  it's  the  wise  guy- 
ness  of  that  character  charging  in  the  tearoom, 
or  the  brutality  of  some  of  the  guests,  whether 
it's  the  jokes,  the  getting  along,  the  fabulous 
Mountain  earnings  giving  me  the  means  to  get 
an  education  and  make  it — to  all  of  us  who 
worked  there  as  young  people,  going  up  to  the 
Catskills  was  an  awakening  of  unbelievable 
proportions." 

Catskill  culture  was  for  many  people  a  (if  not. 
the)  fundamental  social  realm.  Musician  Elliot 
Finkel  recalls  that  "Growing  up  in  the  1950s,  I 
could  name  at  least  200  hotels  in  the  Mountains 
the  way  kids  could  name  baseball  players  and 
batting  averages. "  This  resonates  with  my 
experience.  Because  my  parents  knew  so  many 
people  in  the  Catskills.  because  my  father  spent 


There  has  never  been  a  domain  like  It  in 
America:  with  performers  who  shaped  the  taste 
of  a  nation,  men  and  women  who  affected  the 
operations  of  film  studios  and  the  commercial 


BROWN'S  HOTEL  ROYAL,   White  Lake,  N.  Y.  —  Telephone  White  Uke  120 


waiters  for  any  extra 
dishes  of  food  they  might 
have,  whining  at 
their  busboys  to  cover 
for  them. 

The  best  thing  was  to 
train"  your  guests.  You 
didn't  want  them  to  send 
you  back  and  forth  to  the 
kitchen  for  little  side 
dishes,  so  you  told  them 
that  it  would  be  easier  to 
ask  for  everything  at 
once.  To  preclude  their 
choosing  from  too  many 
possible  selections,  you 
brought  out  what  you 
thought  would  be  the 
oreferred  soup  and 
simply  started  serving.  If 
they  wanted  the  other 
choice,  you  told  them  that 
it  would  mean  waiting 
until  you  could  get  back 
to  the  kitchen  after  you 
served  the  rest  of  the 


38  Brandeis  Review 


so  many  years  working  for  the  employment 
agency,  and  because  I  often  went  withi  him  on 
his  rounds  delivering  staff.  I  saw  a  lot  and  heard 
endless  stories  about  what  was  going  on  at 
many  hotels.  Collecting  hotel  stories  and  seeing 
hotels  in  operation  was  truly  my  kind  of 
childhood  pastime.  My  most  commonly  recurring 
dream  to  date  is  getting  dressed  to  wait  tables, 
only  to  find  my  black  bow  tie  missing  and 
nowhere  to  buy  or  borrow  one  in  time  for  the 
meal.  The  Catskills  have  taken  up  residence  in 
my  unconscious  and  have  given  me  a  way  to 
manifest  some  fundamental  anxiety  concerning 
being  unprepared  in  life. 

Looking  through  a  larger  sociological  lens,  the 
Catskills  are  a  deep  channel  through  which  flow 
the  major  currents  of  modern  American  Jewish 
culture.  In  It  Happened  in  the  Catskills.  the 
Frommers  write  that  the  evolution  of  the 
Catskills  "mirrored — even  crystallized — a  twofold 
process:  the  Americanization  of  the  Jewish 
population  on  the  one  hand,  and  the  impact  of 
Jewish  culture  on  America  on  the  other."  It  was 
Americanization  in  that  the  idea  of  vacationing 
was  new  for  most  Jews  of  the  time.  It  imparted 
Jewish  culture  from  the  comedians  who 
"delivered  their  particular  view  of  life — with  its 
pathos,  irony,  self-mockery,  sarcasm,  and 
vulgarity — that  would  via  radio,  movies,  and 
television  reach  the  nation  at  large.  So  was 
America  informed  about  the  Jewish  mother,  the 
insatiable  Jewish  appetite,  the  anxieties,  foibles, 
and  feats  of  the  American  Jew." 


Beyond  the  Frommers'  notion  of  conveying 
stereotypes  and  images,  I  view  the  Catskills  as  a 
central  vehicle  for  Jews  of  Eastern  European 
descent  to  become  Americanized  while  keeping 
Jewish.  Orienting  themselves  to  the  business 
and  professional  worlds  of  America,  they  needed 
to  also  play  like  Americans.  Adult  camps  and 
resort  hotels  let  them  do  that,  while  keeping 
varying  levels  of  y/dd/s/i/(erf  culture  and  Jewish 
observance. 

All  ethnic/religious  groupings  need  symbol  sets 
to  demarcate  their  unique  experience.  Basically, 
the  Jews  needed  a  cultural  location  to  symbolize 
what  had  transpired  for  them:  their  growth  into 
the  middle  class,  their  ability  to  replace  some 
anxiety  with  relaxation,  their  particular  brand  of 
secularizing  their  religion  while  still  preserving 
some  religiosity  in  their  secular  life.  New  York 
City  was  the  essential  urban  cultural  location  of 
American  Jewry:  could  it  be  otherwise  that  the 
New  York  Jews'  resort  area  would  play  its 
cultural  role?  The  Catskills  were  so  special 
because  everything  happened  there.  And  the 
abrupt  fall  of  the  Borscht  Belt  likewise  is  so 
dramatic  because  it  represents  the  fear  that  so 
much  of  our  normal  cultural  symbolism  can  so 
readily  be  lost.  ■ 


guests  at  the  table  (who 
were  behaving  by 
accepting  your  choice).  It 
was  common  practice  at 
breakfast  to  stockpile  an 
assortment  of  plates  of 
lox,  pickled  herring, 
stewed  prunes,  and 
grapefruits.  When  a  guest 
requested  something,  you 
retrieved  it  quickly, 
saving  a  trip  and 
impressing  him  or  her 
with  your  speed.  This 
method  was  termed 
"speculating";  bosses 
and  stewards  hated  it 
because  food  often  got 
messed  up  from  being 
piled  up  in  your 
sidestand.  Worse,  still,  if 
no  one  ordered  the 
speculated  food,  you 
were  likely  to 
conveniently  ditch  it  in 
the  busbox  rather  than 
return  it  to  the  kitchen 
where  you'd  get  yelled  at 
for  speculating. 


Another  big  sin  was 
"scarfing,"  eating  guest 
food,  especially  at  your 
sidestand.  At  breakfast, 
while  waiting  for  guests 
to  amble  in,  you  could 
move  a  chair  beside  your 
sidestand  so  that  it  was 
hidden  from  the  view  of 
the  maitre  d',  and  eat  in 
peace.  If  time  was  short, 
you  just  stooped  down 
and  gobbled  up  a  whole 
honeydew  slice  in  a  big 
gliding-mouthed  swallow. 
Scarfing  was  also 
possible  on  the  way  from 
the  kitchen  to  the  dining 
room,  when  you  passed 
through  anterooms 
containing  toasters,  egg- 
boiling  machines, 
breadboxes,  and 
bathrooms.  We  scarfed 
because  the  staff  food 
was  so  bad,  though  I'm 
sure  we  would  have  done 


it  even  If  that  had  not 
been  the  case.  They 
served  us  leftovers,  but 
often  they  were  dishes 
we'd  have  rejected  even  if 
fresh — tike  flanken,  boiled 
short  ribs  of  beef  whose 
grey  color  made  you  think 
of  putrefaction. 

If  you  worked  the 
teenage  station, "  you 
had  it  made  because  you 
could  even  get  one  kid  at 
each  table  to  take  orders, 
and  you  could  dish  out 
food  for  everyone  to  pass 
around.  Busboys  could 
get  a  whole  table's  dishes 
collected  and  stacked 
without  lifting  a  finger 
until  the  pile  reached  the 
end  of  the  table  nearest 
the  busbox.  Teenagers 
had  the  added  feature  of 
mostly  not  liking  soup 
and  appetizers,  so  there 
was  a  lot  less  to  serve. 


They  also  enjoyed 
helping  you  set  up  tables 
after  the  meal.  On  the 
romance  end,  "working 
teenage "  meant  you 
usually  got  the  first 
opportunity  to  meet  new 
arrivals  on  Friday  night 
and  make  a  date  for 
afterward.  This,  plus  the 
ease  of  non-complaining 
guests,  made  it  worth  the 
lower  tips. 

Where  else  could  you 
make  this  kind  of  money 
as  a  teenager?  Even 
spending  freely  on 
entertainment,  you 
returned  home  in 
September  with  at  least 
$1,000  of  your  own 
money.  For  a  teenager  in 
the  1960s,  that  was  a  lot. 


39  Fall  1994 


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stamps.  It  explores  how 
these  decisions  have 
changed  state  and  national 
policies  and  how  other 
institutions — especially 
Congress — have  reacted  to 
them.  Although  these  three 
programs  differ,  in  each 
instance  court  action  has 
expanded  program  benefits 
and  increased  federal 
control  over  state  and  local 
governments.  The  author 
ties  trends  in  statutory 
interpretation  to  broader 
political  developments, 
including  the  expansion  of 
the  agenda  of  national 
government,  the  prevalence 
of  divided  government,  and 
the  resurgence  and  decent- 
ralization of  Congress. 


Silvan  S.  Schweber 

Professor  of  Physics  and 
Richard  Koret  Professor  in 
the  History  of  Ideas 

QED  and  the  Men  Who 
Made  It:  Dyson,  Feynman, 
Schwinger.  and  Tomonaga 
Princeton  University  Press 

In  the  1930s,  physics  was  in 
a  crisis.  There  appeared  to 
be  no  way  to  reconcile  the 
new  theory  of  quantum 
mechanics  with  Einstein's 
theory  of  relativity.  In  the 
post-World  War  II  period, 
four  eminent  physicists  rose 
to  the  challenge  and 
developed  a  calculable 
version  of  quantum 
electrodynamics  (QED). 
This  formulation  of  QED 
was  pioneered  by  Freeman 
Dyson,  Richard  Feynman, 
Julian  Schwinger,  and  Sin- 
Itiro  Tomonaga,  three  of 
whom  won  the  Nobel  Prize 
for  their  work.  In  QED  and 
the  Men  Who  Made  It,  the 
author  tells  the  story  of 
these  four  physicists, 
blending  discussions  of 
their  scientific  work  with 
biographical  sketches. 


Constance  M.  Morgan, 
Mary  Ellen  Marsden,  and 
Mary  Jo  Larson 

Morgan  is  a  research 
professor,  Marsden  is  an 
associate  research  professor, 
and  Larson  is  a  senior 
research  associate  at  the 
Institute  for  Health  Policy 
in  The  Florence  Heller 
Graduate  School  for 
Advanced  Studies  in  Social 
Welfare. 

Substance  Abuse:  The 
Nation's  Number  One 
Health  Problem — Key 
Indicators  for  Policy 
The  Robert  Wood  Johnson 
Foundation 

Reducing  harmful  effects 
of  alcohol,  illegal  drugs, 
and  tobacco  is  one  of  three 
major  goal  areas  of  the 
Robert  Wood  Johnson 
Foundation.  The  Foundation 
selected  Brandeis  University 
to  monitor  changing  trends 
in  substance  abuse  by 
developing  leading 
indicators  on  problems 
related  to  alcohol,  drugs, 
and  tobacco.  This  report 
depicts  the  extent 
of  substance  abuse  and 
patterns  of  use,  the  medical, 
social,  and  economic 
consequences  of  substance 
abuse,  and  measures  which 
have  been  taken  to  address 
the  problem. 


Brandeis 
University  Press 
Series 


The  Brandeis  Series  in 
American  Jewish 
History,  Culture  and  Life 
Jonathan  Sarna  '75,  M.A. 
'75,  editor 

These  Are  Our  Children: 
lewish  Orphanages  in  the 
United  States,  1880-1925, 
by  Reena  Sigman  Friedman. 
The  large  influx  of  Jewish 
immigrants  into  the  United 
States  during  the  late  19th 
and  early  20th  centuries 
signaled  a  dramatic  change 
not  just  in  American  society 
as  a  whole,  but  also  in  the 
existing  American  Jewish 
community.  As  the 
population  of  Eastern 
European  Jews  grew,  so  did 
the  need  to  care  for  their 
orphaned  and  destitute 
children.  The  author  studies 
three  representative 
orphanages — New  York's 
Hebrew  Orphan  Asylum, 
Philadelphia's  Jewish  Foster 
Home,  and  Cleveland's 
Jewish  Orphan  Asylum — 
that  were  hailed  nationwide 
for  their  progressive 
policies.  This  recognition 
came  at  a  price,  however: 
while  they  all  reflected 
traditional  Jewish  teachings, 
the  same  philosophies  that 
enabled  children  to  embrace 
life  in  the  New  World 
frequently  caused  estrange- 
ment from  their  natural 
parents  and  the  Old  World 
cultures  of  their  families. 

The  Tauber  Institute  for 
the  Study  of  European 
Jewry  Series 
Jehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D. 
'72,  editor 

Breaking  the  Silence:  The 
German  Who  Exposed  the 
Final  Solution,  by  Walter 
Laqueur  and  Richard 


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Breitman,  is  the  story  of  the 
powerful  German 
industriaUst  who  first 
warned  the  West  of  Nazi 
plans  for  the  mass  murder 
of  Jews.  Through  historical 
detective  work,  Laqueur  and 
Brietman  reveal  the  tale  of 
Eduard  Schulte,  the  Breslau 
business  leader  who  risked 
his  life  to  gather 
information  about  such 
Nazi  activities  as  the 
revised  date  of  the  German 
attack  on  Poland  and  the 
Nazi  plan  for  mass 
extermination  of  European 
Jews.  First  published  in 
1986,  Breaking  the  Silence 
is  now  being  reissued  with  a 
new  foreword  and  afterword 
by  the  authors. 

Between  Mussolini  and 
Hitler:  The  lews  and  the 
Italian  Authorities  in 
France  and  Tunisia,  by 
Daniel  Carpi,  is  a  study  of 
the  forces  shaping  Fascist 
Italy's  policies  toward  Jews 
in  occupied  territories 
during  World  War  11.  Carpi 
depicts  the  fate  of  some 
5,000  Jews  in  Tunisia  and  as 
many  as  30,000  in 
southeastern  France,  all  of 
whom  came  under  the  aegis 
of  the  Italian  Fascist  regime 
early  in  the  war.  While  the 
Fascist  regime  disagreed 
with  Hitler's  Final  Solution 
for  the  "Jewish  problem,"  it 
also  saw  actions  by  Vichy 
French  police  or  German 
security  forces  against  Jews 
in  Italian-controlled  regions 
as  an  erosion  of  Rome's 
power.  Thus,  although  these 
Jews  were  not  free  from 
oppression,  the  author 
shows  that  as  long  as  Italy 
maintained  control  over 
them,  its  consular 
officials  were  able  to  block 
the  arrests  and  mass  deporta- 
tions occurring  elsewhere. 


Alumni 


Nancy  J.  Chodorow,  M.A. 
'74,  Ph.D.  '75 

Chodorow  is  professor  of 
sociology  at  the  University 
of  California. 

Femininities,  Masculinities, 

Sexualities:  Freud  and 

Beyond 

The  University  Press  of 

Kentucky 

In  this  treatment  of 
sexuality  and  love,  the 
author  addresses  questions 
that  continue  to  trouble 
feminists,  gay  and  lesbian 
theorists,  cultural  and 
historical  critics,  and 
contemporary 

psychoanalysts.  Drawing  on 
a  close  reading  of  texts 
beginning  with  Freud  and 
on  her  own  clinical 
experience,  Chodorow 
argues  that  psychoanalysis 
has  yet  to  disentangle  male 
dominance  from 
heterosexuality.  She 
demonstrates  also  the 
paucity  of  psychoanalytic 
understanding  of 
heterosexuality  and  the 
problematic  polarizing  of 
normal  and  abnormal 
sexualities.  She  contends 
that  psychoanalysis  must 
pay  attention  to  individual 
specificity  and  personal, 
cultural,  and  social  setting. 
Such  a  methodology  entails 
a  plurality  of  femininities 
and  masculinities  and 
enables  us  to  understand  a 
variety  of  sexualities. 

Mark  R.  Cohen  '64 

Cohen  is  professor  of  Near 
Eastern  studies  at  Princeton 
University. 

Under  Crescent  et)  Cross: 
The  Jews  in  the  Middle  Ages 
Princeton  University  Press 


The  exacerbation  of  Arab- 
Israeli  conflict  at  the  time 
of  the  Six-Day  War  in  1967 
gave  birth  to  a  radical 
revision  of  Jewish-Arab 
history.  At  stake  was  the 
myth  that  Jews  living  under 
the  crescent  enjoyed  greater 
security  and  a  higher  level 
of  political  and  cultural 
integration  than  did  Jews 
living  under  the  cross. 
The  author  offers  an  in- 
depth  explanation  of  why 
medieval  Islamic- 
Jewish  relations,  though  not 
utopic,  were  less 
confrontational  and  violent 
than  those  between 
Christians  and  Jews  in  the 
West.  Cohen  presents  a 
systematic  comparison  of 
the  legal,  economic,  and 
social  situations  of  Jews  in 
medieval  Islam  and 
Christendom  and  also  the 
differences  in  theology  that 
helped  influence  the  way 
Muslims  and  Christians 
treated  Jews. 

John  J.  Courtney  '85 

with  Rob  Dodson 
Courtney  teaches  in  the 
English  Language  Center  of 
Assumption  University, 
Bangkok. 

Ticket  to  Thailand:  a  study 
of  tourism 

Assumption  University 
Press 

Tourism  is  the  largest 
industry  in  the  world  with 
the  gross  output  being  about 
$3.5  trillion  in  1992-over  12 
percent  of  all  consumer 
spending.  Ticket  to 
Thailand  is  in  response  to 
the  growing  share  of  arrivals 
to  the  Asian  and  Oceanian 
regions.  The  authors  explore 
the  composition  of 
constructive  touristic 
forces.  Has  tourism 
benefited  society  at  large. 


Crescent 

CROSS 


The  Jews 

in  the 

Mddle 
Ages 


Mark  R.  Coli< 


particularly  developing 
countries;  Can  it  bring 
equitable,  economic 
results — a  more  even 
distribution  of  resources — 
and  also,  m  Pope  John  Paul 
II's  words,  "become  a  real 
force  for  peace?"  Focusing  on 
Thailand,  the  book  seeks  out 
the  philosophic  and 
pragmatic  parameters  and 
directions  of  tourism. 

Nancy  Foner  '66 

Foner  is  professor  of 
anthropology  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York, 
Purchase. 

The  Caregiving  Dilemma: 
Work  in  an  American 
Nursing  Home 
University  of  California 
Press 

Along  with  increasing  life 
expectancy  comes  the 
knowledge  that  many 
Americans  will  one  day 
enter  nursing  homes.  Who 
are  the  people  who  will  care 
for  us  or  for  our  relatives? 
Foner  provides  a  study  of 
institutional  care  that 
focuses  on  the  strains  and 
contradictions  facing  nursing 
aides.  Aides  are  asked  to 
look  after  patients  with 
kindness  and  consideration, 
but  nursing  home 
regulations  and  bureaucratic 
forces  can  hinder  even  the 
best  efforts  to  offer 
consistently  supportive  care. 
In  their  relations  at  work, 
race,  ethnicity,  and  gender 
also  play  a  role,  at  times 
exacerbating  tensions  with 
different  groups  in  the 
nursing  home.  The  author's 
description  and  analysis  of 
caregiving  dilemmas 
contribute  to  the  study  of 
work,  bureaucracy,  health 
care,  and  the  future  of  an 
aging  American  population. 


41  Fall  1994 


Gloria  Goldreich  '55 

Goldreich  is  the  author  of 
Yeats  of  Dreams.  Mothers. 
Leah's  Children,  and  other 
novels. 

That  Year  of  Our  War 
Little,  Brown  and  Company 

That  Year  of  Our  War  is  a 
nostalgic  story  about  the 
final  year  of  World  War  II 
and  its  profound 
consequences  for  a  young 
woman  and  her  extended 
family.  For  Sharon 
Grossberg,  1944  was  a  year 
of  death  and  a  year  of  birth. 
It  began  with  D-Day,  the 
day  Sharon's  mother  died 
after  a  painful  battle  with 
leukemia.  With  Sharon's 
father  in  Europe  serving  as 
an  army  doctor,  she  is  left 
in  the  care  of  her  aunts  and 
uncles.  It  is  a  year  during 
which  birth  and  death 
converge,  hope  trmmphs 
over  despair,  and  the 
national  tragedy  of  world 
war  and  the  yearning  for 
peace  dommate  thought  and 
dream. 

Robert  I.  Lerman  '65 

and  Theodora  J.  Ooms,  eds. 
Lerman  is  professor  of 
economics  at  American 
University. 

Young  Unwed  Fathers: 
Changing  Roles 
and  Emerging  Policies 
Temple  University  Press 

While  public  attention  has 
focused  almost  solely  on 
unwed  mothers,  there  is  an 
emerging  new  interest  in 
unwed  fathers.  New 
research  is  presented  that 
examines  the  patterns, 
causes,  and  consequences  of 
unwed  fatherhood.  The  16 
essays  in  this  book  bring 
together  a  wide  and 


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balanced  array  of  research 
perspectives  on  unwed 
fatherhood:  describing 
unwed  fathers' 
characteristics  and  behavior, 
examining  policies  to  enforce 
child  support,  assessing 
programs  designed  to  help 
unwed  fathers  assume 
parental  responsibility,  and 
discussing  the  legal  and 
ethical  rights  and  obligations 
of  unwed  fathers. 

Harold  Livingston  '55 

Livingston  is  the  author  of 
seven  novels  and  lives  in  Los 
Angeles  where  he  writes 
screenplays. 

No  Trophy.  No  Sword:  An 
American  Volunteer  m  the 
Israeli  Air  Force  During  the 
1948  War  of  Independence 
edition  q,  inc. 

Livingston  was  one  of 
an  eclectic  group  of  former 
World  War  II  aviators, 
mainly  Jews,  who  in  early 
1948  volunteered  to  fly  arms 
and  fighter  planes  to  Israel. 
The  infant  nation  possessed 
little  or  no  modern  military 
equipment  and  not  a  single 
fighter  plane  to  defend  itself 
against  relentless  enemy 
aerial  attacks.  The  volunteer 
flyers  were  on  a  "Mission 
Impossible":  flying  war- 
weary  C-46  transport  planes 
smuggled  out  of  the  United 
States  and  circumventing  the 
British  blockade  of  the 
Palestine  coast.  These 
volunteer  flyers  were  crucial 
to  the  success  of  Israel's  war 
for  independence. 
No  Trophy.  No  Sword  is 
Livingston's  personal  story, 
but  it  is  framed  within  the 
events  of  a  far  more 
important  story:  the  creation 
and  survival  of  the  State 
of  Israel. 


Unwed 
Fathi 

Ch:ingine  Rutes" 
and  Emcniing  P< 


Edited  by  Ruben  i.  Lfnniui 
and  Thcodiira  J  Oonu 

Ian  S.  Lustick  '71 

Lustick  is  the  Richard  L. 
Simon  Professor  m  the 
Social  Sciences  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Unsettled  States,  Disputed 
Land:  Britain  and  Ireland. 
France  and  Algeria.  Israel 
and  the  West  Bank-Gaza 
Cornell  University  Press 

Lustick  seeks  to  answer 
such  questions  as  why  state 
expansion  is  common  while 
contraction  is  relatively 
rare;  why  some  major 
changes  can  be 
accomplished  peacefully 
whereas  disputes  about 
smaller  territories  may 
produce  violent  struggles,- 
and  why  changes  in  the 
shape  of  states  are  often 
associated  with  changes  in 
the  character  of  their  ruling 
regimes.  By  examining  two 
cases  in  which  the 
sovereign  territories  of 
modern  European  states 
have  shrunk — Britain's 
relationship  with  Ireland 
and  France's  relationship 
with  Algeria — the  author 
advances  a  comprehensive 
theory  of  state  expansion 
and  contraction.  He  then 
deploys  both  theory 
and  history  to  illuminate 
Israel's  evolving 
relationship  with  the  West 
Bank  and  Gaza  Strip — 
territories  it  has  controlled 
since  1967. 

Norma  Marder  '56 

Marder's  stories  and  essays 
have  appeared  in  the 
Georgian  Review  and  the 
Gettysburg  Review.  This  is 
her  first  novel. 

An  Eye  For  Dark  Places 
Little,  Brown  and  Company 


This  novel  uses  fantasy  as  a 
common  language  to  tell 
the  story  of  a  woman's 
liberation.  Like  a  prophetic 
and  realistic  dream,  it  draws 
us,  through  strangely 
familiar  visions,  into  a 
world  that  is  surprisingly 
recognizable.  England  in  the 
future  is  ruled  by  a  faceless 
Triangle.  Elections  and 
religions  have  disappeared. 
Anarchy  lies  at  the  heart  of 
order.  Sephony  Berg-Benson, 
obedient  but  at  odds  with 
her  time,  is  plagued  by  a 
persistent  hunger  for  a  life 
far  beyond  what  her  world 
can  provide.  One  afternoon, 
a  hole  appears  in  her  pantry 
floor  and  an  unusual  man 
invites  her  to  descend.  She 
begins  a  voyage  of  spiritual 
and  emotional  awakening 
that  challenges  everything 
she  thought  she  knew 
before. 

Marilyn  Reuschemeyer, 
Ph.D.  '78,  ed. 

Reuschemeyer  is 
professor  of  sociology  at  the 
Rhode  Island  School  of 
Design  and  adjunct 
professor  of  sociology  at 
Brown  University. 

Women  in  the  Politics  of 

Postcommunist  Eastern 

Europe 

M.E.  Sharpe,  Inc. 

This  volume  focuses  on  the 
political  scene,  on  what  has 
happened  to  women  during 
the  various  stages  of 
transition  from 
communism  to  a  market 
economy  and  a  multiparty 
political  system,  to 
societies  in  which 
nationalism  has  increasing 
appeal  and  legitimacy  or 
where  the  church  has 
gained  in  power.  The  new 
policies  that  are  emerging 
in  the  postcommunist 


42  Brandeis  Review 


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Feeble  iVIiiul 


I 

societies  of  Eastern  Europe 
are  neither  simply  reprises  of 
precommunist  procedures 
nor  new  imitations  of  the 
West.  They  also  reflect  the 
changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  these  societies  since 
World  War  II.  Therefore,  an 
assessment  of  the  position  of 
women  in  communist 
societies  is  crucial  for  our 
understanding  of  what  is 
happening  now. 

Paul  Salstrom  '88 

Salstrom  teaches  West 
Virginia  history  at  West 
Virginia  University. 

Appalachia's  Path  to 

Dependency:  Rethinking  a 

Region's  Economic  History 

1730-1940 

The  University  Press  of 

Kentucky 

In  this  book,  Salstrom 
examines  the  evolution  of 
economic  life  over  time  in 
southern  Appalachia. 
Moving  away  from  the 
colonial  model  to  an  analysis 
based  on  dependency,  he 
exposes  the  complex  web  of 
factors  that  has  worked 
against  the  region.  The 
author  argues  that  economic 
adversity  has  resulted  from 
three  types  of  disadvantages: 
natural,  market,  and 
political.  Whereas  other 
interpretations  of 
Appalachia's  economy  have 
tended  to  seek  social  or 
psychological  explanations 
for  its  dependency,  this  work 
compels  us  to  look  directly 
at  the  region's  economic 
history. 


Christina  Hoff  Sommers, 
Ph.D.  '79 

Sommers  is  an  associate 
professor  of  philosophy  at 
Clark  University. 

Who  Stole  Feminism:  How 

Women  Have  Betrayed 

Women 

Simon  &  Schuster 

Sommers  has  exposed  a 
disturbing  development: 
how  a  group  of  zealots, 
claiming  to  speak  for  all 
women,  are  promoting  a 
dangerous  new  agenda  that 
threatens  our  most 
cherished  ideals  and  sets 
women  against  men  in  all 
spheres  of  life.  In  case  after 
case,  the  author  shows  how 
these  extremists  have 
propped  up  their  arguments 
with  highly  questionable 
but  well-funded  research, 
presenting  inflammatory 
and  often  inaccurate 
information  and  stifling  any 
semblance  of  open  scrutiny. 
The  author  maintains  such 
a  breed  of  feminism  is  at 
odds  with  the  real 
aspirations  and  values  of 
most  American  women  and 
undermines  the  cause  of 
true  equality. 

Ron  Sun,  Ph.D.  '92 

Sun  is  assistant  professor  of 
computer  science  at  the 
University  of  Alabama. 

Integrating  Rules  and 
Connectionism  for  Robust 
Commonsense  Reasoning 
John  Wiley  &  Sons,  Inc. 

One  of  the  most  difficult 
problems  facing  researchers 
in  artificial  intelligence  has 
been  the  inability  of 
traditional  models  to 
capture  the  flexible  and 
robust  nature  of 
commonsense  reasoning. 
The  author's  work  takes  a 
new  approach  to  this 


persistent  problem  by 
explaining  and  modeling 
commonsense  reasoning 
with  a  combination  of  rules 
and  similarities,  all  under  a 
connectionist  rubric.  The 
book  surveys  areas  of  rule- 
based  reasoning,  and 
introduces  a  new 
framework  and  a  novel 
connectionist  architecture 
for  modeling  commonsense 
reasoning  that  synthesizes 
many  of  these  areas. 

Carol  Tavris  '66 

Tavris  is  a  social 
psychologist,  writer,  and 
lecturer. 

The  Mismeasure  of  Woman: 
Why  women  are  not  the 
better  sex.  the  inferior 
sex,  or  the  opposite  sex 
Simon  &  Schuster 

In  The  Mismeasure  of 
Woman,  Tavris  challenges 
the  false  assumptions  that 
govern  how  we  think  about 
women  and  men:  that 
women  are  more  passive, 
more  peaceful,  or  more 
emotional  than  men,-  that 
they  are  less  logical, 
competent,  and  sexual  than 
men;  and  that  their 
hormones,  brains,  and 
psyches  are  fundamentally 
different  from  men's.  The 
author  concludes  that  her 
point  is  not  to  replace  a 
view  of  woman-as-problem 
with  one  in  which  men  are 
the  problem;  rather,  she 
moves  the  discussion 
beyond  "us-them"argu- 
ments  entirely,  and  asks  us 
to  think  anew  about  how 
women  and  men  together 
can  create  the  lives,  the 
loves,  and  the  society  we 
most  want. 


James  W.  Trent,  Jr.,  Ph.D. 
•82 

Trent  is  associate  professor 
of  sociology  and  social  work 
at  Southern  Illinois 
University  at  Edwardsville. 

Inventing  the  Feeble  Mind: 

A  History  of  Mental 

Retardation  m  the  United 

States 

University  of  California 

Press 

Half-wits,  dunces,  dullards, 
and  idiots:  though  often 
teased  and  tormented,  the 
feebleminded  were  once  a 
part  of  the  community,  cared 
for  and  protected  by  family 
and  community  members. 
But  in  the  decade  of  the 
lS40s,  a  group  of  American 
physicians  and  reformers 
began  to  view  mental 
retardation  as  a  social 
problem  requiring  public 
intervention.  For  the  next 
century  and  a  half,  social 
science  and  medical 
professionals  constructed 
meanings  of  mental 
retardation,  at  the  same  time 
incarcerating  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  Americans  in 
institutions  and  "special" 
schools.  The  author  uses 
public  documents,  private 
letters,  investigative  reports, 
and  rare  photographs  to 
explore  our  changing  per- 
ceptions of  "feeble  minds." 


43  Fall  1994 


Then  and  Now 


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44  Brandeis  Review 


Having  already  raised 
the  memory  of  the  wishing 
well  in  the  "Dear  Reader" 
column,  it  seems 
appropriate  to  revisit 
it  visually  here.  The  portrait 
of  the  well  (top  left)  was 
probably  made  by  Ralph 
Norman  in  the  very  year  of 
Brandeis's  founding,  1948. 
The  caged  owl  is  strangely 
absent. 


In  1956,  the  Kalman  Science 
Building  (bottom  left)  took 
its  place  upon  the 
hill,  providing  an  imposing 
backdrop  for  the  wishing 
well,  which  remained 
a  much-loved  Campus 
landmark  until  1965  when, 
as  we  see  by  the  photo 
below,  made  recently  by 
Campus  Photographer 
Julian  Brown  for  this  "Then 
and  Now,"  the  wishing 
well  was  razed  and  the  site 
paved  over  to  create 


Parking  Area  K,  serving  the, 
then,  new  Gerstenzang 
Science  Quadrangle. 
The  southernmost  end  of 
Kalman  can  still  be 
seen  here,  peeking  out 
from  behind  the  Edison- 
Leeks  Chemistry  Building. 
There  is  no  sign  of  the 
owl  in  this  photo,  either. 


In  addition  to  keeping  you 
current  on  physical  changes 
to  Campus,  "Then  and 
Now"  is  intended  to 
stimulate  a  bit  of  nostalgia. 
If  a  specific  location 
on  Campus  holds 
particular  meaning  for  you, 
please  send  us  a  short, 
personal  anecdote, 
and  we  will  try  to  reprint 
it  along  with  a  photo 
of  the  spot,  then  and  now. 


45  Fall  1994 


Alumni 


Brandeis  Alums 
Capture 
Press  Awards 


Second  Class  of 
Inductees  Enter 
Sports  Hall  of  Fame 


Arthur  Levine  '70 
President 
of  Teachers 
College,  Columbia 
University 


Brandeis  alumni  were  well 
represented  among  the 
winners  of  the  American 
Jewish  Press  Association's 
Rockower  Awards  for 
Excellence  in  Jewish 
Journalism  this  year.  Rabbi 
HiUel  Goldberg,  M.A.  72, 
Ph.D.  '78,  editor  of  Denver's 
Intermountain  Jewish  News 
(IJN),  was  honored  with  the 
association's  Joseph 
Polakoff  Award  for  ex- 
emplary service  to  the  field 
of  Jewish  journalism.  It  was 
easy  to  see  why:  the 
IJN  won  seven  Rockower 
awards  this  year,  including 
awards  to  Goldberg  for  edit- 
orial and  feature  writing. 

Freelance  writer  Michele 
Chabin  '81  was  cited  for  her 
1992  article  describing  the 
harrowing  evacuation  of  350 
Jewish,  Serbian,  and 
Moslem  residents  of 
Sarajevo,  the  besieged 
capital  of  Bosnia- 
Herzegovina.  Adam  H. 
Katz-Stone  '88,  assistant 
editor  of  the  Minneapolis 
American  Jewish  World. 
was  also  honored  for 
international  reporting  for 
his  piece  on  the  Jewish 
community  of  Austria. 

The  B'nai  B'rith 
International  Jewish 
Monthly,  which  is  edited  by 
Jeff  Rubin  '81,  received  five 
Rockower  Awards, 
including  first-place  honors 
in  the  photography  and  arts 
categories.  Rubin's  most 
recent  production  is  Samuel 
Jordan  Rubin,  his  third  son. 


Brandeis  University  and  the 
Friends  of  Brandeis 
Athletics  have  announced 
the  second  class  of 
inductees  into  Brandeis's 
Athletic  Hall  of  Fame.  The 
induction  ceremonies  were 
held  on  Saturday,  April  16, 
1994,  at  the  Gosman  Sports 
and  Convocation  Center. 

Bill  Orman  '57,  chair  of  the 
Hall  of  Fame  selection 
committee  commented,  "I 
felt  that  the  number  and 
quality  of  the  nominations 
that  we  received  showed  us 
how  distinguished  and 
exceptional  Brandeis's 
athletic  accomplishments 
have  been.  We  received  a 
vast  collection  of  student 
athletes  who  have  since 
become  leaders  in  their 
professional  lives.  Our 
committee  was  dedicated  to 
making  intelligent  choices 
and  as  our  deliberations 
carried  on,  we  came  up  with 
a  group  that  we're  very  proud 
of.  It's  a  second  step  for  the 
Hall  of  Fame  and  there  has 
been  tremendous  excite- 
ment around  the  country." 


Members  of  the  Brandeis 
Athletic  Hall  of  Fame 
initiated  in  1994  standing 
left  to  right  are  Manuel 
(Manny)  Rivera  '74,  Marry 
Stein  '58,  Steve  Finnegan 
'79,  Fran  Beauregard  '81, 
and  John  Perry  '74;  seated, 
left  to  right,  are  Dorothy 
Stein  and  Carol  Stein- 
Schulman  '70,  widow  and 
daughter,  respectively,  of 
the  late  Brandeis  coach, 
Harry  Stein,  who  was 
inducted  posthumously. 
Claudia  Jaul  '84.  Joseph 
Linsey,  and  Nicole  Fogarty- 
Fossas  '89. 


"The  inaugural  Hall  of 
Fame  Dinner  was  an 
enormous  success  and  the 
most  significant  action  yet 
taken  by  the  Friends  of 
Brandeis  Athletics,"  said 
FOBA  president  Ruth  Porter 
Bernstein  '57.  "We  view  it 
as  a  fitting  honor  for  all 
those  associated  with  the 
program  and  a  potential 
rallying  point  for  all 
alumni.  The  purpose  of  the 
Hall  of  Fame  is  to  annually 
recognize  and  honor  those 
who  have  distinguished 
themselves  as  competitors 
in,  or  in  the  development 
of,  intercollegiate  athletics 
at  Brandeis  University." 

The  new  members  of 
Brandeis  University's 
Athletic  Hall  of  Fame  are: 
Fran  Beauregard  '81,  soccer; 
Steve  Finnegan  '79, 
baseball;  Nicole  Fogarty- 
Fossas  '89,  cross  country 
and  track;  Claudia  Jaul  '84, 
soccer,  softball,  and 
baseball;  Joseph  Linsey, 
contributor;  John  Perry  '74, 
basketball;  Manuel  Rivera 
'74,  cross  country  and  track; 
Harry  Stein,  basketball 
coach  and  assistant  football 
coach;  and  Morry  Stein  '58, 
football  and  baseball. 


"I  grew  a  mustache  while  I 
was  at  Brandeis  to  look  older. 
A  year  ago  in  September,  I 
looked  in  the  mirror  and 
noticed  it  had  flecks  of  grey. 
That's  old  enough,  I  said,  and 
shaved  it  off." 

Arthur  Levine  '70  has  left 
behind  the  mustache  and  the 
sixties  radicalism.  But  his 
mission — unwavering  and 
passionate — has  remained  the 
same  since  he  graduated:  to 
reform  education. 

Now  he  has  an  opportunity 
to  have  a  profound  impact. 
Last  July,  Levine  became 
president  of  Teachers 
College,  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, the  world's  oldest, 
largest,  and  most  comprehen- 
sive private  graduate  school 
of  education.  Levine  is  the 
ninth  president  in  Teachers 
College's  107  year  history. 

He  has  a  way  of  laughing  at 
his  mistakes  and  green  years, 
forming  theories  and  taking 
action  based  solidly  on  first- 
hand research,  pushing 
forward  huge  projects  with 
unyielding  tenacity,  and 
tossing  off  major 
achievements  with  an  affable 
shrug.  Levine  has  advised 


46  Brandeis  Review 


more  than  250  colleges  and 
universities  on  curriculum 
and  other  academic  affairs 
issues.  "Higher  education  is 
a  very  small  world,  and 
after  you  speak  enough  and 
do  enough  consulting  and 
write  enough,  you're  offered 
all  kinds  of  jobs  for  which 
you're  highly  unqualified," 
he  chortles. 

At  Brandeis,  fresh  from  the 
elite  Bronx  High  School  of 
Science,  he  majored  in 
biology,  something  he 
realized  he  "didn't  like  and 
wasn't  very  good  at.  I  didn't 
think  the  humanities  were 
real,  and  I  had  no  idea  why 
someone  studied  the  social 
sciences."  Then  came  one 
of  those  moments  when  he 
made  a  choice,  flippantly, 
almost,  and  it  profoundly 
changed  the  rest  of  his  life. 
Levine  spent  his  senior  year 
as  one  of  two  student 
members  of  the  Brandeis 
University  educational 
policy  committee,  a 
curriculum  review  board. 
He  argued  passionately,  he 
recalls,  that  "the  fate  of  the 
world  depended  on  dropping 
certain  course  requirements 
from  the  curriculum." 

After  graduating  with  a 
degree  in  biology,  Levine 
teamed  up  with  a  fellow 
student,  John  Weingart  '70, 
spending  the  next  two  years 
using  minimal  grant  funds 
("foundations  felt  sorry  for 
us,  and  we  got  pity  money") 
interviewing  faculty  and 
students  at  26  colleges  and 


universities  around  the 
country  to  see  how 
undergraduate  education 
actually  worked.  "It  was  a 
huge  project,  but  we  were 
naive,"  he  says  now,  "two 
crazy  kids  who  didn't  know 
how  to  write." 

During  that  time,  while  also 
substitute  teaching  in  the 
Boston  schools,  Levine  says, 
"I  kept  trying  to  figure  out 
what  I  wanted  to  do  when  I 
grew  up.  I  was  a  poster  boy 
for  the  Educational  Testing 
Service — I  took  the  med 
boards,  the  law  boards,  the 
business  boards,  the  GREs, 
personality  testing,  the  civil 
service  exam — you  name 
the  test,  I  took  it." 

After  44  publishers  rejected 
the  book  that  came  out  of 
their  research,  a  little- 
known  publisher  named 
Jossey-Bass  said  yes. 
Published  in  1973,  Reform 
of  Undergraduate 
Education  won  the  1974 
"Book  of  the  Year  Award" 
from  the  American  Council 
on  Education.  And  Levine 
was  given  recognition  that 
was  to  escalate  steadily. 
"Ultimately  what  happened 
was  the  study  which  grew 
out  of  the  educational 
policy  committee  is  what 
made  my  life.  Whatever  I'm 
doing  now  I  really  owe  to 
Brandeis,"  he  says. 


Arthur  Levine 


Earning  a  dual  Ph.D.  in 
education  and  sociology 
from  the  State  University  of 
New  York  at  Buffalo  in  1977, 
Levine  was  also  a  senior 
fellow  at  the  Carnegie 
Foundation  and  the  Carnegie 
Council  for  Policy  Studies  in 
Higher  Education  from  1975 
until  1982,  writing  books 
about  curriculum.  He 
yearned  to  put  his  well 
researched  theories  into 
practice,  and  got  the  perfect 
opportunity  when  he  applied 
(along  with  250  other 
candidates)  for  the  job  of 
president  of  Bradford 
College,  a  400-student,  four- 
year  liberal  arts  college  in 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  "I 
wanted  that  job  more  than 
anything  in  my  life,"  he 
remembers. 

To  the  great  benefit  of 
Bradford,  he  got  it.  Levine  is 
credited  with  leading  the 
revival  of  Bradford  College 
through  creation  of  a 
practical  liberal  arts 
curriculum,  which  became 
known  as  the  "Bradford 
Plan."  After  six  years,  in 
1988  he  became  the  chair  of 
the  Institute  for  Educational 
Management  at  Harvard 
University's  Graduate 
School  of  Education. 

Recently  moved  back  to 
New  York  with  his  wife  and 
two  daughters,  Levine  has 
come  a  long  way  from  his 
childhood  in  a  housing 
project  in  the  South  Bronx, 
the  son  of  a  housewife  and  a 
mailman  who  dreamed  the 
American  Dream  for  him. 
The  author  or  editor  of  nine 
books  and  more  than  50 
articles,  he  is  one  of  the 
nation's  best  known  com- 
mentators on  trends  in 
education.  And  now,  at  the 
helm  of  Teachers  College, 
Columbia  University,  his 
vision  will  further  influence 
reality. 


Season  Premieres 
Put  Alumni 
in  Prime  Time 


Brandeis's  nationally  ranked 
theater  arts  department  has 
turned  out  some  of 
Hollywood's  hottest 
producers  and  writers  over 
the  years.  Two  new  shows 
making  their  prime-time 
debut  this  fall  were  created 
by  Brandeis  alumni. 

Marshall  Herskovitz  '73, 
David  Crane  '79,  and  Marta 
Kauffman  '78,  are  the 
creators  of  the  two  most 
anticipated  new  shows  this 
fall,  "My  So-Called  Life" 
and  "Friends." 

Herskovitz  is  the  co- 
producer  of  "My  So-Called 
Life,"  the  story  of  the 
highs  and  lows  of  growing 
up  as  seen  through  the 
eyes  of  15-year-old  Angela 
Chase.  It  began  August  25, 
and  will  air  Thursdays  at 
8:00  pm  on  ABC.  The 
show  marks  Herskovitz's 
return  to  television  after 
the  legendary 
"thirtysomething,"  which 
won  14  Emmys  by  the 
time  it  ended  in  1991. 

Kauffman  and  Crane's 
"Friends,"  the  story  of  six 
young  adults  living  together 
in  New  York,  is  the  latest 
of  many  projects  by  the 
duo  that  formed  at  Brandeis. 
The  show  won  the  coveted 
8:30  pm  NBC  time  slot 
on  Thursdays  before  the 
hit  show  "Seinfeld"  and 
after  "Mad  About  You." 
"Friends"  began  its  season 
on  September  22. 


47  Fall  1994 


Class  Notes 


'53 


'59 


Norman  Diamond,  D.D.S.,  Class 
Correspondent,  240  Kendrick 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02158 

Sanford  A.  Lakoff  has  published 
an  article  entitled  "The  Mind  and 
Faith  of  Max  Lerner"  m  the 
September  1994  issue  of  Social 
Research,  the  quarterly  published 
by  the  New  School  for  Social 
Research.  The  paper  was  first 
presented  at  Brandeis  in  1993. 

'55 

ludith  PauU  Aronson,  22371  Cass 
Avenue,  Woodland  Hills,  CA 
91354-3042 

Risa  Hirsch  Erlich  returned  to 
education  by  joining  the  staff  of  a 
new  New  York  City  public  high 
school  based  on  the  principles  of 
the  Coalition  of  Essential 
Schools.  She  describes  it  "as  hard 
work,  but  fascinating,  and  an 
opportunity  to  try  and  bring  to 
the  high  school  level  the 
principles  1  had  practiced  as  head 
of  a  pioneering  math  lab  years 
ago."  In  1983  she  loyfully  became 
the  mother  of  two  by  adopting  a 
brother  and  sister,  now  14  and  15. 
Nancy  Wolkenberg  Greenblatt  is 
a  therapist  in  Manhattan.  She  is 
involved  in  historical  research  for 
Congregation  B'nai  leshurin 
where  she  grew  up  and  is  still  an 
active  member.  She  invites 
Brandeis  alumni  who  may  have 
personal  memories  or  artifacts  of 
that  congregation  to  share  or  lend 
to  contact  her.  Julian  Smith 
announces  that  his  youngest 
daughter  Sonya  Joy,  has  been 
accepted  at  Brandeis.  She  has 
delayed  her  matriculation  until 
September  1995  and  will  spend 
the  year  studying  at  B'not  Torah 
Institute  in  Jerusalem.  His  son 
was  graduated  magna  cum  laude 
from  Brooklyn  College  last  year, 
and  his  daughter  is  a  senior  at 
Barnard.  He  reports  that  "my 
darling  wife,  Sharon,  my  life 
partner  of  27  years,  still  keeps  me 
laughing  and  is  as  feisty  as  ever. 
We  are  both  very  grateful  for  all 
our  many  blessings." 

'56 

Leona  Feldman  Curhan,  Class 
Correspondent,  366  River  Road, 
Carlisle,  MA  01741 

Rena  Shapiro  Blumberg, 

Brandeis's  first  trustee  emerita, 
was  honored  in  Cleveland  at  a 
Brandeis  Night  event  in  lune.  She 
is  CEO  of  Rainmakers  Inc.,  a 
Cleveland-based  corporate 
advisory  organization  in  the  areas 
of  media,  business,  politics,  and 


health.  She  is  also  community 
relations  director  for  a  local  radio 
station,  a  radio  talk  show  host, 
and  author  of  an  uplifting  memoir 
describing  her  successful  battle 
with  cancer.  Blumberg  was  the 
first  female  secretary  of  the 
Brandeis  Board  of  Trustees,  and 
chaired  the  University's  honorary 
degree  committee  from  1985-91. 


Rena  Shapiro  Blumberg 

'57 

Wynne  Wolkenberg  Miller,  Class 
Correspondent,  14  Larkspur  Road, 
Waban,  MA  02168 

Richard  Bergel  was  named 
chairman  and  chief  executive 
otficer  ot  Lechmere  Corporation, 
the  housewares  and  electronics 
retailer.  He  was  previously  the 
vice  chairman  of  Montgomery 
Ward  dJ.  Company.  Bergel  lives  in 
Illinois  with  his  wife,  Myrna 
(Mimi)  Kaplan  Bergel  Moriel 
Schlesinger  Weiselberg  is 
enjoying  retirement  after 
becoming  acclimated  to  life  on 
Long  Island  by  remaining  very 
active  in  the  community.  She  is 
involved  with  the  Massapequa 
Philharmonic,  the  Northport 
Chorale,  chamber  music  groups, 
and  giving  and  taking  viola 
lessons.  She  still  finds  time  to 
teach  copperplate  calligraphy  for 
an  adult  education  program,  to  be 
a  hospice  volunteer,  and  take 
classes  with  a  cantor  and  rabbi. 
She  is  considering  studying  for  a 
Bat  Mitzvah  and  enjoyed  a  recent 
trip  to  the  Pacific  Northwest  with 
her  husband,  Howard. 

'58 

Allan  W.  Draehman,  Class 
Correspondent,  115  Mayo  Road, 
Wellesley,  MA  02181 

Marjorie  Greenfield  is  employed 
as  an  environmental  activist  after 
more  than  three  decades  of 
running  hospital  libraries  and 
working  in  bookstores.  She  has 
been  published  in  various  genres 
under  the  name  Marjorie  Morgan 
and  remains  committed  to 
lesbian,  feminist,  peace,  and 
justice  advocacy. 


Sunny  Sunshine  Brownrout,  Class 
Correspondent,  87  Old  Hill  Road, 
Westport,  CT  06880 

Subhi  Abugosh,  Ph.D.,  is  director 
of  the  Sharia  Courts  in  Israel. 
Previously,  he  taught  in  the 
political  science  department  at 
the  University  of  Tel  Aviv.  Alicia 
S.  Ostriker  participated  in  a 
popular  Reunion  panel  on 
feminism  at  Brandeis  in  May  and 
recently  published  another  book. 
The  Nakedness  of  the  Fathers,  in 
which  she  rereads  the  Bible  from 
the  perspective  of  a  20th-century 
Jewish  woman.  She  was  thrilled 
at  the  arrival  of  her  first 
grandchild,  Abigail  Jean,  in  April. 
Larry  Selinker,  the  first  Baring 
Foundation  Chair  and  professor  of 
applied  linguistics  at  Birkbeck 
College,  University  of  London,  is 
working  on  interlanguage  and 
computational  linguistics 
research. 

'60 

Joan  Silverman  Wallack,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Linden  Shores, 
Unit  28,  Branford,  CT  06405 

Burton  L.  Raimi  moved  to 
Sarasota,  FL,  and  opened  a  new 
law  firm  specializing  in  corporate, 
securities,  and  bank  regulatory 
law.  The  firm,  McCaffrey  & 
Raimi,  PA.,  has  offices  m 
Sarasota  and  Naples  which 
consume  much  of  his  time.  Raimi 
comments,  however,  that  he  is 
close  to  being  able  to  "enjoy  some 
of  what  I  |have|  been  working  for 
over  the  past  30  years  since 
graduation  from  law  school."  He 
adds  that  he  hopes  his  new 
lifestyle  in  Florida  will  include 
"golf,  fishing,  other  healthy 
outdoor  pursuits,  and  just  plain 
enjoying  our  beautiful  new 
surroundings." 

'61 

Judith  Leavitt  Schatz,  Class 
Correspondent,  139  Cumberland 
Road,  Leominster,  MA  01453 

Arthur  Green,  Ph.D.,  is  the 
Phillip  W.  Lown  Chair  in  Jewish 
Thought  at  Brandeis.  Previously 
he  was  president  of  the 
Reconstructionist  Rabbinical 


College  where  he  received  the 
Keter  Shem  Tov  award  ("the 
Crown  of  a  Good  Name").  Green 
has  written  numerous  books  and 
various  shorter  studies  on  a 
variety  of  topics,  Zina  Jordan  is 
assistant  provost  for  faculty 
personnel  at  Brandeis.  Leo 
Spitzer,  professor  of  history  at 
Dartmouth  University,  has  been 
awarded  a  1994  Guggenheim 
Fellowship  that  will  support  his 
study  of  Central  European  Jewish 
emigration  to  Bolivia  during 
World  War  II.  Spitzer's  own 
parents  fled  Nazi-dominated 
Austria  for  Bolivia,  where  he  was 
born  and  raised  until  he  came  to 
the  United  States  at  age  10.  The 
study  will  produce  a  book  which 
he  has  tentatively  titled  Surviving 
Memory:  An  Emigration  to  the 
Edge  of  the  Holocaust,  in  which 
Spitzer  says  he  will  have  a  double 
voice — that  of  historian  and 
participant. 

'62 

Ann  Leder  Sharon,  Class 
Correspondent,  13890  Ravenwood 
Drive,  Saratoga,  CA  95070 

Benjamin  Lerner  has  joined  the 
Philadelphia  law  firm  of 
Dilworth,  Paxson,  Kalish  & 
Kauffman  as  counsel  to  the  firm. 
He  continues  to  concentrate  his 
practice  in  areas  of  complex  civil 
litigation  and  white  collar 
criminal  defense  matters.  Lindy 
Levy  Peck  is  professor  of  history 
at  the  University  of  Rochester 
and  a  winner  of  a  1994 
Guggenheim  Fellowship  for  her 
research  in  early  modern  British 
history.  The  grant  will  help 
support  a  project  titled  "Britain  in 
the  Age  of  the  Baroque,"  which  is, 
she  says,  a  "study  of  17th-century 
British  culture  and  the  impact  of 
continental  material  culture  and 
political  thought  on  England, 
Scotland,  and  Ireland  m  the  17th 
century."  Peck  is  a  fellow  of  the 
Royal  Historical  Society,  a 
member  of  the  advisory  board  of 
the  Yale  Parliamentary  Diaries 
Center,  a  NEH  fellow  at  the 
Folger  Shakespeare  Library  and 
the  Huntington  Library,  and  a 
fellow  at  the  National 
Humanities  Center.  Stephen  J. 
Solarz  was  appointed  by  President 
Clinton  to  head  the  new  Central 
Asian-American  Enterprise  Fund, 
designed  to  promote  investments 
m  the  former  Soviet  republics  of 
Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan, 
Uzbekistan,  Tajikistan,  and 
Turkmenistan.  The  United  States 
plans  to  provide  $150  million  in 
capital  for  the  fund  over  the  next 
three  to  four  years,  making 
investments  and  loans  and 
offering  technical  assistance  for 
private  companies  and 
entrepreneurs. 


Arthur  Green 


48  Brandeis  Review 


News  Notes 


'63 


Miriam  Osier  Hyman,  Class 
Correspondent,  140  East  72nd 
Street,  #16B,  New  York,  NY 
10021 

Joyce  C.  Doria  has  been  elected  to 
the  board  of  directors  of  Virginia- 
based  Booz,  Allen  &  Hamilton, 
Inc.,  a  management  and 
technology  consulting  firm.  A 
vice  president,  she  has  been  with 
the  firm  since  1979  and  is  a 
recognized  expert  in 
organizational  improvement, 
change,  and  total  quality 
management. 

'64 

Rochclle  A,  Wolf,  Class 
Correspondent,  113  Naudain 
Street,  Philadelphia,  PA  19147- 
2406 

Marilyn  Berthelette  is  minister  of 
music  at  St,  James  Episcopal 
Church  in  Greenfield,  MA,  and  an 
award  winning  needleworker.  She 
is  on  the  executive  board  of  the 
Diocese  of  Western 
Massachusetts  Episcopal  Church 
Women  and  has  three  grown  sons. 
Howard  G.  Foster,  Ph.D.,  is 
associate  dean  for  academic 
programs  at  the  School  of 
Management  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York  at 
Buffalo.  He  lives  m  WiUiamsville, 
NY,  with  his  wife,  Laurie  Lookner 
Foster  '66.  They  have  a  grown  son 
and  daughter  who  work  and 
reside  m  Durham,  NC,  and 
Boston,  respectively.  Peter  Z.  Zoll 
is  head  of  the  portfolio 
management  group  at  Chase 
Manhattan  Private  Banking  m 
Geneva,  Switzerland.  He  has  four 
daughters  and  one  son,  mcludmg 
Natalie  Zassenhaus  Brader  '85 
who  IS  a  computer  programmer  m 
San  Antonio,  TX. 

'65 

Joan  L.  Kalafatas,  Class 
Correspondent,  95  Concord  Road, 
Maynard,  MA  01754 

Martin  Fassler  is  an  attorney  in 
the  legal  department  of  the 
California  State  Department  of 
Industrial  Relations.  He  was 
previously  in  private  practice, 
representing  teachers  and  other 
plaintiffs  in  employment  cases. 
He  is  happily  married  and  lives 
with  his  wife,  Kathryn,  a 
daughter,  Emma,  age  7,  and  a  son, 
Jared,  age  4.  Sidney  H.  Golub, 
Ph.D.,  executive  vice  chancellor 
at  the  University  of  California  at 
Irvine,  specializes  m  cellular 
immunology  and  immunobiology 
of  cancer  and  is  a  past  recipient  of 
the  Jonsson  Prize  for  Research 
presented  by  the  California 
Institute  for  Cancer  Research, 
Formerly  interim  dean  of  the 
UCLA  School  of  Medicine,  he 
chairs  the  Howard  Hughes 
Medical  Institute  Advisory 


Committee,  sits  on  the  board  ot 
directors  of  the  Drew  University 
School  of  Medicine  and  Science  in 
Los  Angeles,  and  serves  on  the 
University  of  California  Taskforce 
on  Primary  Care.  Ellen  Gordon, 
president  of  Tootsie  Roll 
Industries  Inc.,  was  named 
number  17  on  this  year's  list  of 
the  Top  50  Women  Business 
Owners  that  is  researched  and 
published  by  Working  Woman's 
Magazine.  Robert  I.  Lerman,  chair 
of  the  Department  of  Economics 
at  American  University,  was 
honored  with  the  university's 
Award  for  Outstanding 
Contributions  to  Academic 
Development.  He  reports  that 
fellow  Brandeis  alumna,  Naomi 
Baron  '68,  who  served  as  associate 
dean  of  the  College  of  Arts  and 
Sciences,  helped  him  achieve  this 
honor.  Lerman  recently  coedited  a 
book  that  was  published  by 
Temple  University  Press,  Young 
Unwed  Fathers:  Changing  Norms 
and  Emerging  Policies.  Donald 
Lubin  is  well  known  as  a  fern 
enthusiast;  in  fact,  he  grows 
about  25  species  in  his  garden  in 
Allston,  MA.  He  has  been  hunting 
ferns  on  the  Blue  Hills 
Reservation  to  update  the  Flora  of 
1896.  in  celebration  of  the  100th 
anniversary  of  the  reservation. 
Lubin's  "pre-Jurassic  Yard"  and 
his  love  for  his  community  have 
attracted  recent  coverage  in 
several  newspapers,  including  The 
Boston  Globe.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Neighborhood  Advisorv 
Committee  in  Allston  and  reports 
that  "we  try  to  educate  the 
community  while  holding  the 
CDC  [Community  Development 
Corporation)  accountable  to  the 
neighborhood."  Barbara  S.  Penny 
is  a  massage  practitioner  in 
Garherville,  CA,  where  she  lives 
with  her  partner,  Kristi.  She  was 
reunited  this  year  with  her 
daughter,  Ruth,  whom  she  had 
not  seen  in  28  years.  "We  are  very 
happy  to  have  found  each  other," 
she  reports. 

'66 

Kenneth  E.  Davis,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Mary  Chilton 
Road,  Needham,  MA  02192 

Berhanu  Abebe  started  a  public 
share  commercial  farm 
development  company  called 
Agri-Mech  and  organized  a 
development  consultancy  firm, 
Development  Studies  Associates, 
which  undertakes  economic 
studies  for  international, 
bilateral,  and  nongovernmental 
organizations.  He  was  previously 
vice  minister  of  trade  in  Ethiopia. 
Abebe  lives  with  his  wife,  Nancy 
Hafkin  '65,  and  their  two 
children,  Rebecca,  age  15,  and 
Michael,  age  9.  Phyllis  Nichamoff 
Segal  was  confirmed  by  the 


United  States  Senate  to  a  five- 
year  term  as  a  member  of  the 
Federal  Labor  Relations 
Authority.  President  Clinton 
designated  her  Chair  of  the 
Authority.  Prior  to  this 
appointment,  she  was  senior 
mediator  and  director  of 
Employment  Dispute  Resolution 
Services  at  ENDISPUTE,  Inc.,  a 
national  dispute  resolution 
business  providing  mediation, 
facilitation,  arbitration,  dispute 
system  design,  and  training 
services.  Before  ioining 
ENDISPUTE,  she  practiced  law 
for  18  years  m  the  public  and 
private  sectors.  She  served  as 
deputy  attorney  general  of  the 
Massachusetts  Attorney  General's 
Office,  General  Counsel  of  the 
Massachusetts  Executive  Office 
of  Transportation  and 
Construction,  legal  director  of  the 
NOW  Legal  Defense  and 
Education  Fund,  and  litigator 
with  the  New  York  firm  of  Weil, 
Gotshal  and  Manges. 

'67 

Anne  Reilly  Hort,  Class 
Correspondent,  4600  Livingston 
Avenue,  Riverdale,  NY  10471 

Ahmad  S.  Djudzman  is  a 
computer  systems  consultant  at 
Kaiser  Permanente  in  Walnut 
Creek,  CA.  During  the  week,  he 
lives  in  Moraga,  CA,  rather  than 
facing  a  daily  76-mile  commute 
from  Sacramento,  where  he  and 
his  wife  live.  Barbara  Ernst- 
DiGennaro  has  been  awarded  a 
Conant  Fellowship  from  the 
Harvard  School  of  Education 
where  she  is  a  doctoral  candidate 
in  the  Teaching,  Curriculum,  and 
Learning  Environments  Program. 
She  has  been  working  in  the 
Boston  Public  Schools  for  the  past 
10  years  and  is  a  published  author 
whose  professional  goal  is  to 
"break  down  the  barriers  between 
universities  and  schools  to  help 
create  a  world  where  education  is 
honored  as  a  central  focus  of 
community  life."  Deborah  Dash 
Moore  is  a  professor  at  Vassar 
College  and  just  published  a  new 
book  titled  To  the  Golden  Cities: 
Purchasing  the  American  lewish 
Dream  in  Miami  and  LA.,  which 
is  the  "fruit  of  seven  years  labor." 
She  has  two  sons,  Mordecai,  who 
was  graduated  from  Oberlin  this 
year,  and  Mikhael,  who  is  a 
sophomore  at  Vassar;  they  both 
chose  to  major  in  history  "like 
their  mom."  Alan  P.  Sager,  Ph.D., 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
professor  at  the  Boston  University 
School  of  Public  Health  where  he 
teaches  health  care  finance, 
regulation,  and  administration  as 
well  as  working  on  a  study  that  is 
looking  at  the  access  and 
affordability  of  health  care  in 
Massachusetts.  He  and  his  wife. 


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Sandra  A.  Bornstein  '69,  have  two 
sons,  Joshua  and  Matthew. 
Howard  D.  Scher  was  named  to 
the  management  committee  at 
Montgomery,  McCracken,  Walker 
S.  Rhoads  m  Philadelphia,  where 
he  has  won  significant  victories 
for  both  plaintiffs  and  defendants 
in  many  types  of  complex 


beyond  compliance,  to  see  value 
in  getting  themselves  to  a  point 
where  they  can  market 
themselves  as  'green'  companies." 

'69 

Nancy  Sherman  Shapiro,  Class 
Correspondent,  9437  Reach  Road, 
Potomac,  MD  20854 


Howard  D-  Scher 

business  litigation.  He  serves  as  a 
trustee  of  the  Federation  of  Jewish 
Agencies  of  Greater  Philadelphia, 
vice  president  and  a  director  of 
the  Jewish  Employment 
Vocational  Service,  a  board 
member  of  the  Akiba  Hebrew 
Academy,  and  a  member  of  the 
President's  Council  at  Brandeis. 

'68 

Jay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  One  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  021 73 

Roberta  Marke  Hunter  received 
an  independent  study  grant  from 
the  Council  for  Basic  Education 
to  study  relationships  among 
women  in  Jane  Austen's  novels. 
She  is  also  a  student  of  Alan  Stein 
'58,  a  teacher  consultant  and  staff 
developer  at  the  Lehman  College 
Writing  Consortium.  J.  Mark 
Kravitz  is  a  practicing  general 
litigation  attorney  in  Delaware 
County  and  Philadelphia,  PA,  and 
was  married  last  year  to  Margaret 
E.  Griffin,  Ph.D.,  director  of  the 
Early  Childhood  Initiatives 
Settlement  Music  School  &. 
Kaleidoscope.  They  have  an 
infant  son,  Ethan  Daniel,  whom 
Dad  describes  as  "alert,  active, 
and  healthy,  with  a  calm 
disposition."  [ay  R.  Kaufman,  an 
environmental  consultant,  and 
candidate  for  the  state  house  of 
representatives  from  Lexington 
and  Lincoln,  MA,  is  also  an 
ombudsman  for  the 
Environmental  Assistance 
Service,  of  the  Small  Business 
Association  of  New  England, 
which  helps  small  businesses 
meet  and  exceed  federal  and  state 
environmental  regulations. 
"We're  not  just  compliance 
driven,"  he  said.  "We  want 
companies  to  see  opportunities 


Richard  G.  Curran 

Richard  G.  Curran,  Ed.D  ,  was 
appointed  as  editor  of  the  Boston 
Catholic  Directory  for  the 
Archdiocese  and  has  received  a 
certificate  from  the  National 
Catholic  Educational  Association 
to  acknowledge  his  contributions 
to  Catholic  education  in  North 
America.  Father  Curran  also 
reports  that  he  had  the 
opportunity  last  year  to  interview 
Chris  Burke,  star  of  Life  Goes  On, 
and  his  family,  for  a  cable  show 
that  aired  last  Thanksgiving. 
Sharyn  T.  Sooho  has  formed  the 
Law  Offices  of  Sharyn  T.  Sooho  in 
Newton,  MA. 

'70 

Charles  S.  Eisenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  4  Ashford  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Marilyn  Kanrek  Cranney  has  been 
promoted  to  first  vice  president 
and  assistant  general  counsel  of 
Dean  Witter  Intercapital,  Inc.,  a 
branch  of  Dean  Witter  that 
handles  investment  management. 
Cranney  specializes  in  corporate 
and  securities  law.  Arthur  E. 
Levine  was  named  president  of 
Teachers  College  at  Columbia 
University.  The  College  trains 
professionals  in  education, 
psychology,  and  health  services. 
Levine  is  well  known  in  the 
educational  community  as  a 
commentator  and  writer  on 
trends  in  education;  he  has 
written  nine  books  and  advised 
more  than  250  colleges  on 
academic  issues.  Previously  he 
chaired  the  Institute  for 
Educational  Management  at 
Harvard  University's  Graduate 
School  of  Education,  and  served 
as  president  of  Bradford  College 
from  1982-89.  Robert  Nayer  is 
chief  financial  officer  at 
Cheyenne  Mountain  Zoo  in 


Colorado  Springs,  CO.  Mary  E. 
O'Connell  is  a  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Northeastern 
School  of  Law,  teaching  courses 
on  family  law,  the  law  and 
children,  and  the  basic  course  in 
contract  law.  Her  recent 
publications  in  the  Tulane  Law 
Review  and  The  American 
Prospect  have  focused  on  our 
shrinking  fringe  benefit  system 
and  the  impact  of  this  trend  on 
women.  She  lives  with  her 
husband,  Terrence  M.  Troyer,  two 
children,  Margaret  Troyer,  age  13, 
and  Russell  O'Connell,  age  8, 
'and  a  very  badly  behaved  dog, 
Tinkerbelle,  age  I."  Robert  F.  X. 
Sillerman,  chairman  and  CEO  of 
the  Sillerman  Companies  and  SEX 
Broadcasting,  Inc.,  and  chancellor 
of  Long  Island  University's 
Southampton  College  since  1993, 
was  honored  in  May  in  New  York 
City  at  a  celebration  of  the 


interface  for  a  videodisk-based 
intelligent  tutoring  system 
funded  by  the  United  States  Air 
Force.  Cohen  holds  a  patent  for 


Robert  F.  X.  Sillerman 

College's  30th  anniversary. 
Southampton  College  is  dedicated 
to  protecting  and  improving  the 
environment  through  its 
nationally-recognized  Marine 
Science  Program.  Brenda 
Wineapple,  professor  of  English  at 
Union  College,  was  named  to  the 
Irving  Chair  in  May.  She  is  a  past 
recipient  of  a  prestigious 
fellowship  from  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Humanities 
to  write  Genet:  A  Bibliography  of 
Janet  Planner  and  a  Guggenheim 
Fellowship  to  support  her 
research  on  Gertrude  and  Leo 
Stein.  She  has  also  been  named  a 
Fellow  at  the  Institute  for  the 
Humanities  at  Indiana  University. 

'71 

Mark  L.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Devens  Road, 
Swampscott,  MA  01907 

Wendy  Cohen,  senior  designer  at 
Siegel  &  Gale,  a  communications 
firm  in  New  York,  specializes  in 
electronic  interface  design.  She 
was  previously  interface  designer 
and  senior  programming  analyst 
at  the  Educational  Testing  Service 
m  Princeton,  NJ,  where  she 
created  the  graphical  user 


Wendy  Cohen 

one  of  the  interfaces  she 
developed  in  Princeton.  Thomas 
S.  Crow,  Ir.  has  had  his  work 
published  in  four  comic  books. 
He  is  negotiating  with  a  well 
known  comic  book  publisher  to 
move  into  the  mainstream  press. 
Dvora  Yanow,  associate  professor 
at  California  State  University, 
received  the  first  "Breaking  the 
Frame"  award  for  best 
contribution  to  the  first  two 
volumes  of  the  Journal  of 
Management  Inquiry.  She 
collaborated  with  her  husband, 
Scott  Cook,  in  writing  the 
prizewinning  essay  entitled 
Culture  and  Organizational 
Learning,  that  appeared  in  the 
December  1993  issue. 

'72 

Marc  L.  Eisenstock,  Class 
Correspondent,  Plastics 
Unlimited  Inc.,  80  Winter  Street, 
Worcester,  MA,  01604 

Marc  L.  Eisenstock  is  president  of 
Plastics  Unlimited  in  Worcester, 
MA,  an  officer  of  the  Friends  of 
Brandeis  Athletics,  and  a  member 
of  the  Brandeis  Hall  of  Fame 
Selection  Committee.  He  has  two 
sons,  Jordan,  age  18,  and  Lee,  age 
15.  Eisenstock  has  resumed  his 
golf  after  suffering  a  heart  attack 
in  June.  Rosalie  Gerut  appeared  as 
Mrs.  Shlemiel  in  the  Cambridge- 
based  American  Repertory 


Rosalie  Cciut 


50  Brandeis  Review 


Theater  production  of  Shlemiel 
The  First.  She  also  tounded  her 
own  recording  company,  Blue  Hill 
Recordings,  and  has  composed 
and  released  several  full  length 
albums,  including  her  latest, 
Sleep  My  Child.  As  the  daughter 
of  Holocaust  survivors,  she 
remains  active  in  human  rights 
groups  and  Holocaust  survivors 
organizations  and  has  recently 
been  invited  to  assist  with  a 
medical/therapeutic  team  for 
survivors  of  recent  atrocities  in 
Zenica,  Bosnia. 

'73 

John  E.  Edison  organizes  legal 
services  tor  people  with  AIDS  and 
administers  a  private  trust.  In  his 
free  time,  he  likes  to  travel  to  the 
arctic,  climh  mountains,  watch 
birds,  and  fish,  iVlarshall 
Herskovitz  is  producer  of  his  new 
ABC  television  series  "My  So- 
Called  Life"  which  premiered  in 
August.  It  is  a  provocative  new 
drama  aimed  at  younger 
audiences  which  looks  at  the  life 
of  a  teen-age  girl.  Herskovitz  is 
well-known  for  producing  the 
popular  television  series 
"thirtysomething. "  Lome  Prupas 
has  a  small  clinical  psychology 
practice  and  is  a  staff  psychologist 
at  Simon  Fraser  University  in 
Burnahy,  British  Columbia,  where 
he  earned  his  Ph.D. 

'74 

Elizabeth  Sarason  Pfau,  Class 
Correspondent,  80  Monadnock 
Road,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Michael  Allosso  directed  /  Hate 
Hamlet  at  the  New  Repertory 
Theater  in  Newton,  MA,  and  Into 
the  Woods,  the  inaugural 
production  at  the  Worcester 
Forum's  new  outdoor  theater.  He 
also  directs  the  Young  Arts 
Program  at  the  Wang  Center  in 
Boston  and  a  program  in  advanced 
directing  at  the  Boston 
Conservatory.  Kenneth  M.  Raskin 
made  his  Broadway  debut  this 
season,  portraying  Letou  in  Walt 
Disney's  "Beauty  and  the  Beast." 
Last  year  he  was  featured  as  the 
lead  clown  in  the  world-famous 
Cirque  du  Soleil's  NouvcUe 
Experience.  He  is  an  artist  m 


residence  at  Emory  University  in 
Atlanta,  where  he  directs  and 
teaches  physical  comedy  and 
Commedia  del  Arte, 

'75 

Barbara  Alpert,  Class 
Correspondent,  272  First  Avenue 
#4G,  New  York,  NY  10009 

Since  leaving  Bantam  Books  last 
fall  after  nearly  13  years,  Barbara 
Alpert  has  edited  Susan  Powter's 
The  Pocket  Poivter,  written  a 
cookbook  newsletter,  found  an 
agent  to  market  her  book 
proposals,  worked  as  a 
ghostwriter,  composed  her  750th 
piece  of  romance  cover  copy,  and 
taught  lunior  Great  Books  to 
fourth  graders  in  the  New  York 
City  School  Volunteer  Program. 
Now  if  someone  would  offer  to 
publish  her  Antarctica  photos...! 
David  H.  Baum  was  named  a 
Fellow  in  the  Academy  of 
California  Adiiptum  Lawyers. 
Lydia  Baumrind  juggles  work  and 
family  in  Brookline,  MA,  where 
she  is  a  psychologist  in  private 
practice,  specializing  in  working 
with  couples.  Writing  from 
Moshav  Zipori,  a  rural  settlement 
in  the  Galilee,  where  she  works 
in  lewish  education  at  a  non- 
religious  regional  school  and  is 
actively  involved  in  Arab-|ewish 
activities,  Roberta  Bell-KIigler 
notes  that  "things  are  always 
lively  with  4  children,  horses,  a 
dog,  birds,  and  a  fig  orchard  to 
tend."  Diagnosed  two  years  ago 
with  breast  cancer,  Roberta  says 
she  feels  the  worst  is  behind  her, 
and  hopes  for  health  and  peace.  A 
psychologist  in  private  practice  in 
Toronto,  Robert  Besner  is  also  a 
candidate  in  psychoanalytic 
training  at  the  Toronto  Institute 
of  Contemporary  Psychoanalysis. 
Leah  Bishop  and  Gary  Yale 
survived  the  LA.  earthquake,  as 
did  their  daughters,  Elizabeth,  age 
8,  and  Rebecca,  age  6.  Gary  works 
for  the  Seiko  Time  Corporation, 
while  Leah  is  a  tax  partner  at 
O'Melveny  &.  Myers,  specializing 
in  estate  planning  and 
administration  and  the 
representation  of  tax-exempt 
organizations.  She  was  recently 
elected  as  a  Fellow  of  the 
American  College  of  Trust  and 
Estate  Counsel.  Luigi  Burzio  has 
been  promoted  to  professor  at  The 
lohns  Hopkins  University.  He  has 
been  a  faculty  member  in  the 
Department  of  Cognitive  Science 
since  1991  and  is  well  known  for 
his  studies  in  syntactic  theory, 
especially  of  the  Italian  language. 
His  most  recent  book.  Principles 
of  English  Stress,  challenges  the 
prevailing  wisdom  in  phonology. 
Brian  Cassie  reports;  "I  spend  a 


lot  of  my  time  teaching  children 
about  nature.  When  1  was  10, 
grown-ups  'trashed'  nature,  often 
literally.  Today,  kids  consider  our 
national  heritage  extremely 
important.  I  think  we  have  our 
generation  to  thank  for  that.  It  is 
going  to  get  better."  Sandra 
Charton  is  a  labor  lawyer  working 
for  a  union  that  represents  public 
sector  employees.  Married  to  tax 
lawyer,  Tom  Collins,  she  has 
three  children:  Samantha,  age  10; 
Greg,  age  7;  and  Nicole,  age  4;  and 
a  great  dog.  Storm.  Gail  Chmara 
Chartoff  works  in  the 
administrative  computing 
department  of  the  Massachusetts 
College  of  Art.  A  senior  vice 
president  m  State  Street  Bank's 
credit  &  risk  management  area, 
Joseph  P.  Chow  earned  a  master's 
degree  in  city  planning  and 
management  from  MIT  before 
joining  Bank  of  Boston,  where  he 
worked  from  1981-1990.  Married 
since  1981  to  Selina  lung,  he  has 
three  children;  Joanna,  age  7; 
)ason,  age  5;  and  Kathryn,  age  1 . 
He  describes  his  life  as  "a 
balancing  act — but  a  very 
satisfying  experience.  I  can't 
imagine  it  any  other  way."  On 
sabbatical  this  past  year  from 
teaching  at  Sonoma  State 
University.  CA,  Faye  Pollock 
Cohen  writes  from  Jerusalem, 
where  she  is  a  full-time  working 
mom,  raising  two  daughters,  ages 
3  and  6,  with  her  Israeli  building 
contractor  husband,  and 
employed  as  an  agent  for  CNN 
and  other  cable  programming.  She 
writes,  "My  thoughts  are 
preoccupied  with  peace — would 
that  It  were  only  possible! — and 
very  mundane,  everyday  things, 
like  getting  some  sleep.  Right 
now  I'm  watching  Disney  movies 
with  my  kids  and  feeling  very 
content."  For  the  past  10  years, 
Phyllis  Brenner  Coburn  has 
headed  up  the  Alumni 
Admissions  Council  in  the 
Washington,  DC.  area.  Feeling 
very  much  a  part  of  the  Brandeis 
community  even  nearly  20  years 
after  graduation,  Phyllis  notes 
that  "the  future  of  the  University 
IS  in  very  good  hands.  These  kids 
are  as  bright,  as  committed,  and 
as  'off-center'  as  we  all  were  at 
that  age."  Lynn  Cominsky  has 
been  doing  research  in  particle 
astrophysics  at  the  Stanford 
Linear  Accelerator  Center, 
working  on  designs  for  a  new 
generation  of  space-based  high- 
energy  gamma-ray  detectors.  She 
and  husband  Garrett  Jernigan 
enjoy  riding  horses  through  the 
beautiful  Mann  County  parks 
near  their  home.  Currently  chief 
economics  correspondent  for  The 
New  York  Times  and  based  in 


Washington,  D.C.,  Thomas  L. 
Friedman  has  joined  the  Brandeis 
Board  of  Trustees  after  winning 
two  Pulitzer  Prizes  and  receiving 


Kenny  Raskin 


Thomas  Friedman 

an  honorary  degree  from  Hebrew 
Union  College  last  spring.  David 
Glasser,  Ann  Blonston,  and  "two 
goofy  dogs"  live  in  Springfield, 
VA,  where  David  is  owner  and 
chief  engineer  of  AIRSHOW, 
INC.,  a  digital  audio  editing  and 
CD  mastering  facility  that  "most 
likely  germinated  over  20  years 
ago,  late  at  night,  stoned,  at 
WBRS."  Proud  to  report  that  CDs 
mastered  at  AIRSHOW  received 
seven  Grammy  nominations  and 
one  Grammy  award  this  year,  he's 
also  thrilled  and  gratified  to  be 
working  and  collaborating  with 
many  of  the  musicians  he's 
enjoyed  listening  to  in  the  past, 
including  Doc  Watson,  Peter 
Rowan,  Sweet  Honey  in  the  Rock, 
Jerry  Douglas,  and  Beausoleil. 
David  adds,  "Sandoz,  campus  dog 
and  trusty  companion,  passed 
away  in  1986  at  the  age  of  15.  I 
know  some  of  you  out  there 
remember  him."  Chief 
disciplinary  counsel  for  the  West 
Virginia  State  Bar  m  charge  of 
lawyer  discipline,  Sherri  D. 
Goodman  reports  she's  still 
working  on  the  hard  stuff — 
growing  up  and  struggling  with 
how  conservative  Judaism  treats 
women  Peter  Grossman  is 
manager  of  network  software 
development  at  Boston 
Technology,  which  sells  voice 
application  platforms.  Married  to 
Susan  Berger,  he's  the  father  of 
Shelby,  age  9,  and  Jeffrey,  age  7. 
Assistant  professor  of 
neuropathology  at  Kansas 
University  Medical  College  (after 
residencies  and  fellowships  that 
took  him  to  Milwaukee,  Chicago, 
and  New  York),  iHichael  S. 
Handler,  M.D.  lives  in  Kansas 
City,  where  he  also  runs  the 
regional  Alzheimer's  and 
Parkinson's  Diseases  Brain  Bank. 
He  is  married  to  medical 
malpractice  attorney  Gabrielle, 
with  whom  he  has  two  children,  a 
daughter,  Stacy,  age  4,  and  a  son. 


51  Fall  1994 


David,  age  2,  Michael  says,  "We 
all  love  living  in  Kansas  City, 
where  we've  been  for  five  years 
now."  After  years  of  living  and 
acting  in  New  York  City,  Katie 
McDonough  Herzog  returned  to 
school  and  got  her  paralegal 
certificate.  When  she  and  her 
actor-husband,  John  Herzog, 
moved  to  Los  Angeles,  she 
worked  as  assistant  director  of 
International  Distribution  at 
Twentieth  Century  Fox  before 
moving  to  The  Welk  Group  (yes, 
Lawrence  Welk),  which  handles 
records  and  resorts.  Katie's 
daughter,  Molly,  recently  turned 

3.  Managing  editor  of  Multimedia 
Today  as  well  as  running  a 
successful  high-tech  marketing 
business,  Mindy  Littman  Holland 
is  married  to  software  engineer 
and  jazz  musician  Grant  Holland, 
and  has  one  stepson  and  three 
stepgrandchildren.  "I  definitely 
don't  feel  old  enough  to  be  20 
years  out  of  college,  but  being  a 
grandmother  is  really  pushing  it!" 
Active  as  a  member  of  the  adjunct 
faculty  at  the  University  of 
Houston  Graduate  School  of 
Social  Work,  and  the  University 
of  Texas  Medical  School  at 
Houston,  and  as  guest  lecturer  at 
Baylor  College  of  Medicine, 
Sondra  Kaplanwald  has  a  private 
psychotherapy  practice  and  enjoys 
teaching  adults  about  lewish 
feminism  at  local  synagogues  and 
temples.  She  founded  and  serves 
as  Houston  area  director  of 
Adoption  Affiliates,  a  nonprofit 
pro-choice  adoption  agency. 
Married  almost  10  years,  she  has 

a  daughter,  Hanna,  born  in  1984, 
and  adopted  shortly  after  birth. 
Practicing  urology  in  Miami,  FL, 
Mark  R.  Kaufman,  M  D  ,  has  two 
children  and  has  been  happily 
married  for  18  years.  His  first 
book,  an  ecofeminist  novel  called 
The  Teiraformeis,  is  under 
contract  with  a  literary  agent. 
Now  in  his  fifth  year  as  an 
independent  health  data  analysis 
consultant,  Matthew  Klionsky  is 
doing  business  as  Managed  Care 
Analysis.  He  and  wife,  Susan 
Rosenberg,  have  three  children; 
Gideon,  age  5  1/2;  Abigail,  age  2 
1/2;  and  infant  Naomi.  In 
Shanghai,  China,  since  July  1992, 
where  she  did  economic  reporting 
in  her  capacity  as  foreign  service 
officer,  Lisa  Jean  Shapiro  Kubiske 
returned  to  Washington,  D.C.,  in 
July  to  take  an  assignment 
working  on  monetary  issues  in 
the  former  Soviet  Union.  Her 
husband,  Dan,  is  a  journalist,  and 
sons,  Philip,  age  7,  and  Adam,  age 

4,  are  "professionals  at  play." 
Now  the  father  of  three,  two  sons 
Jeremy,  age  6,  Brett,  age  3,  and  an 
infant  daughter,  Shaine,  Steven 
Leibowitz,  M.D.,  continues  his 
private  practice  in  ophthalmology 
and  ophthalmic  plastic  surgery  in 


Beverly  Hills  and  at  UCLA,  in 
addition  to  recently  opening  an 
office  in  Las  Vegas.  Arlette  R. 
Liebgatt-Twersky  earned  a 
master's  degree  m  music  therapy 
from  Hahnemann  University  and, 
while  raising  lour  children, 
Joanie,  Avital,  Naomi,  and  Joshua, 
continues  to  pursue  her  interests 
in  singing  anci  teaching  folk 
dancing.  Haris  A.  Makkas  moved 
from  New  York  to  Athens  last 
year  and  is  now  country  treasurer 
and  deputy  general  manager  for 
Bank  of  America — Greece.  He  and 
his  wife,  Mary,  had  a  daughter, 
born  in  1993  and  are  "enjoying 
Greece  for  the  moment,  but  have 
our  sights  set  on  San  Francisco  in 
a  few  years."  A  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Virginia  Law  School 
'79,  David  Markell  is  now 
teaching  environmental  law  at 
Albany  Law  School.  He  and  his 
wife,  Mona  Jacobs,  are  proud 
parents  of  two  daughters, 
Rebecca,  age  2,  and  infant,  Jenny. 
Busy  raising  her  three  wonderful 
children,  two  sons,  ages  1 1  and  9, 
and  one  daughter,  age  6,  Pamela 
Gaudet  Marsocci  keeps  her  hand 
m  theater  activities  by 
performing  and  directing  with 
local  theater  groups  and  directing 
for  area  high  school  drama 
programs.  Adoption  and  school 
issues  consume  much  of  her  time 
and  thoughts,  she  comments,  but 
"life  IS  full  and  fun!"  Risa 
Hochbaum  Miron  and  her 
husband,  Robert,  and  son  James, 
age  6,  vacationed  with  Frances 
Goldstein  and  her  husband, 
Jonathan  Bloom  '76,  and  son, 
Jacob,  age  7,  at  the  Polynesian 
Resort  at  Walt  Disney  World.  Risa 
reports  that  "Frances  was 
outstanding,  having  memorized 
the  entire  unofficial  guide  to 
Disney — we  did  not  miss  one 
thing  over  the  five  days!"  After 
receiving  an  M.S.  degree  at 
Oregon  and  a  Ph.D.  degree  at 
Cornell,  David  F.  Mitchell,  Ph  D., 
returned  to  New  England  to  work 
in  lake  assessment  and 
restoration.  Now  a  senior 
ecologist  with  ENSR,  he  lives  in 
Sturbridge,  MA,  with  his  wife, 
Carol,  and  son,  Matthew,  where 
they  "en)oy  the  historical 
ambience  between  commutes." 
Margaree  King  Mitchell's  first 
children's  book.  Uncle  fed's 
Barbershop,  which  was  published 
by  Simon  S.  Schuster  in  1993, 
won  the  Coretta  Scott  King 
Honor  Award  for  Illustration  and 
was  named  an  American  Library 
Association  Notable  Children's 
Book.  Melanie  Terner  Pinkert  has 
returned  to  school  full-time, 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in 
music  education  and  certification 
in  music  teaching.  "I've  been 
teaching  music  on  many  different 
levels  to  many  different  age 
groups  for  years  and  decided  to 


make  it  official!"  Also  the  happy 
but  tired  mom  of  Anna  Eleanor, 
age  9,  and  Alan  Isaac,  age  4, 
Melanie  is  married  to  Marvin 
Pinkert  '74  and  conducts  off- 
campus  interviews  for  the 
Alumni  Admissions  Council. 
Peretz  Rodman  is  working 
overtime  as  a  translator,  educator, 
and  administrator  m  order  to  live 
m  Jerusalem — "exactly  the  city  I 
most  want  to  live  in,  in  exactly 
the  neighborhood  I  most  want  to 
live  in.  I  never  expected  to  have 
my  life  directed  so  much  by  place 
instead  of,  say,  career,  but  this  is 
home."  A  veteran  of  13  years  in 
the  Bronx,  New  York's  District 
Attorney's  Office,  and  deputy 
chief  for  the  past  7  years  of  a  trial 
division,  Paul  Rosenfeld  enjoys 
trying  murder  and  major  felony 
cases.  "It's  exciting  and 
challenging — I  love  going  to  work 
each  day!"  Married  to  Jamie 
Hoffman-Rosenfeld,  a 
pediatrician,  and  father  of  Kira 
and  Asner,  Paul  still  finds  time  to 
run  half-marathons  and 
triathlons,  is  active  on  the  Board 
of  Directors  at  his  synagogue,  and 
teaches  Israeli  folk  dancing  "once 
in  a  while!  "  Patti  Kriger  Schaffer 
IS  director  of  marketing  at  Bristol 
Myers  Products  |the  consumer 
division  of  Bristol  Myers  SquibbI, 
married  to  Michael  Schaffer  since 
1987,  and  the  mother  of  one  son, 
Jordan,  age  4.  She  keeps  in  touch 
with  Susan  Etra,  Joyce  Leifer,  and 
Nancy  Spinner.  "Are  we  having  a 
Reunion:"  she  asks.  You  better 
believe  it!  Michael  A.  Schwartz  is 
assistant  attorney  general  in  the 
Civil  Rights  Bureau  of  the  New 
York  State  Attorney  General's 
office  and  is  married  to  Patricia 
Moloney.  Seth  W.  Silverman, 
M.D.,  continues  as  medical 
director  of  The  Silverman  Group 
in  Houston.  He  is  the  proud 
father  of  Charlotte,  age  2,  and 
infant  Spencer  Phyllis  Witzel 
Speiser,  M.D.  has  been  appointed 
chief  of  the  Division  of  Pediatric 
Endocrinology  at  North  Shore 
University  Hospital  of  the 
Cornell  University  Medical 
College.  Public  health  dentist  for 
the  Maricopa  County  Department 
of  Health  Services,  Pauline  Tom- 
Yee,  D.M.D.,  lives  in  Scottsdale, 
AZ,  with  her  anesthesiologist 
husband.  Dr.  Bruce  Yee,  and  three 
children,  Catherine,  age  12, 
Stephanie,  age  9,  and  Christopher, 
age  6.  Executive  vice  president 
and  owner,  with  her  husband, 
Ron  Zimmerman,  of  The 
Herbfarm  in  Fall  City,  WA,  (lust 
outside  Seattle),  Carrie  Van  Dyck 
oversees  a  fast-growing  family 
business  that  includes  a  top-rated 
restaurant  (one  of  only  five 
nationwide  receiving  29  points 
out  of  30  from  Zagat!)  featuring 
herb-inspired  cuisine,  a  country 
store,  17  herbal  theme  gardens. 


more  than  300  classes  (on  herb 
gardening,  cooking,  crafts, 
basketry,  and  herbal  medicine), 
and  a  mail-order  catalog  of 
products  shipped  all  over  the 
United  States.  Director  of  Public 
Affairs  for  the  New  Israel  Fund, 
husband  to  Simha  Rosenberg  '76, 
and  daddy  to  Adin  Zakkai,  age  4 
1/2,  Simkha  Y.  Weintraub  is 
editing  Healing  of  Spirit.  Healing 
of  Body,  soon-to-be-published  by 
Jewish  Lights  Publishing,  a 
collection  of  "bridges"  to  10 
Psalms  from  the  Book  of  Psalms 
which  the  Hassidic  master,  Reb 
Nahman  of  Bratslav,  designated 
Psalms  of  Healing.  Featuring  a 
foreword  by  Bill  Cosby,  Terrie 
Williams's  book.  The  Personal 
Touch:  What  You  Really  Need  to 
Succeed  m  Today's  Fast-Paced 
Business  World,  was  launched 
with  a  lO-city  tour  in  September 
by  Simon  &.  Schuster.  A  leading 


Terrie  Williams 

public  relations  entrepreneur  and 
president  of  her  own  firm,  Terrie 
has  represented  such  clients  as 
Eddie  Murphy,  Janet  Jackson, 
Hammer,  Sally  Jessy  Raphael, 
Essence  Communications,  and 
AT&T.  Her  philosophy:  "People 
do  business  with  people  they  like, 
so  know  that  your  reputation  for 
dealing  with  people  is  important. 
When  you  meet  people,  get  to 
know  what's  important  to  them." 
Roger  Zeitel  works  as  Senior 
Computer  Programmer  for  the 
Skadden,  Arps  law  firm  in  New 
York  City  Pamela  Zickler- 
Rikkers  is  producing  a  video 
documentary  on  a  controversy 
over  a  new  comprehensive 
curriculum  for  sexuality 
education  in  Newton,  MA,  and 
watching  her  four  wonderful 
daughters  "develop  into 
interesting  young  women."  Gary 
Winter  is  enrolled  in  a  master's 
degree  in  social  work  program  at 
Boston  University  after  working 
for  an  international  cost-of-living 
research  firm  in  Cambridge  for  16 
years.  As  part  of  a  final-year  work 
placement  program,  he  is  working 
at  the  Cambridge  Hospital 
Outpatient  Psychiatric 
Department.  Living  in  Seattle 


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Births 


since  1985,  Dan  Petegorsky  is 
married  to  Roberta  Delaney.  They 
have  a  daughter  Nicole,  age  6,  and 
are  expecting  their  second  child 
late  in  1994.  For  the  past  seven 
years,  he  has  hecn  regional 
director  ot  the  Peace 
Development  Fund,  active  in 
social  change  philanthropy,  and  a 
volunteer  on  the  hoard  of  the 
Western  States  Center,  which 
supports  progressive  community 
organizations  and  elected  officials 
in  eight  western  states.  "Our 
longue-in-cheek  motto  is  'riding 
the  range  for  social  change.'"  Dan 
writes  that  in  late  spring  1994  he 
attended  a  Western  States 
conference  where  he  was 
introduced  to  a  new  program 
officer  from  the  Colorado-based 
family  foundation,  the  Needmor 
Fund^and  was  pleased  to  run 
into  Isabel  Olivera-Morales.  "The 
last  time  1  remember  seeing  Isabel 
was  at  Brandeis  in  the  seventies, 
when  we  worked  together 
organizing  against  the  Vietnam 
War.  Now  here  we  were,  20  years 
later,  never  having  been  in  touch 
in  between,  but  brought  together 
by  our  common  work  of  building 
a  more  just  and  equitable  future. 
This  incident  underscored  lust 
how  strong  and  enduring  the 
values  were  that  led  us  to 
decisions  we  made  20  years  ago 
about  how  we  wanted  to  live  our 
lives."  Dan's  letter  echoed  what 
so  many  of  our  class  felt  back 
then  and  still  feel:  "Since  my  days 
at  Brandeis,  it's  been  a  constant 
tor  me — the  desire  to  look  myself 
in  the  face  each  day  and  feel  that 
what  I'm  doing  amounts  to  more 
than  simply  bringing  home  a 
paycheck.  That  work  is  never 
really  done;  the  present  always 
holds  out  the  challenge  of  a  better 
future,  and  that  challenge  can 
elicit  despair  or  cynicism  just  as 
easily  as  hope  or  perseverance.  So 
It's  always  gratifying  when  I  run 
into  others  from  the  'good  old 
days'  who  have  resisted  giving 
way  to  cynicism  and  have  stayed 
young  by  keeping  hope  alive." 

'76 

Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Parkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  55416 

Ellen  Feinberg  Blitz  writes  of  her 
concern  over  the  whereabouts  and 
well-being  ol  Wien  classmate, 
(ames  Sawalla  Guseh  of  Liberia, 
and  asks  anyone  with  news  of 
him  to  contact  her  or  the 
University.  He  held  an  important 
government  position  before  the 
current  civil  war  and  has  been  out 
of  touch.  After  completing  a  two- 
year  State  Department  tour  as 
commercial  attache  at  the 
American  Embassy,  Nassau, 
Bahamas,  Scott  Edelman  left  for 
even  more  sun  and  sand  on 
special  assignment  as  a  civilian 


observer  with  the  mixed  military- 
civilian  multinational  force 
which  patrols  the  Sinai  to 
monitor  compliance  with  the 
Israel-Egypt  peace  treaty.  He 
invites  fellow  alumni  in  Israel  or 
Egypt  to  visit  the  MFO  North 
Camp  at  El-Goreh,  a  tormer 
Israeli  air  force  base  near  Rafiah. 
Benjamin  Gomes-Casseres,  Ph.D., 
is  an  associate  professor  at 
Harvard  Business  School  where 
he  teaches  courses  in 
international  strategy  and  the 
international  political  economy 
for  the  M.B.A.  degree  program.  He 
lives  with  his  wife,  Susan  Wexler, 
and  their  daughter,  Rachel.  Eve  L. 
Kaplan  is  a  portfolio  manager  in 
charge  of  fapanese  equities  at 
Robeio  Group  in  Rotterdam,  The 
Netherlands.  She  and  her 
husband,  Andrei,  have  a  son, 
Ariel,  age  5  Beryl  M.  A.  Khabeer 
is  instructor  of  philosophy  at 
Cuyahoga  Community  College  in 
Cleveland.  She  is  the  writer  of 
experimental  dramas  including 
The  Way  They  Play  House,  The 
Souls  of  Men,  and  The 
Battleground.  Khabeer  was 
presented  the  Editor's  Choice 
Award  from  the  National  Library 
of  Poetry  for  her  poem  "To  My 
Dearly  Departed  Child."  Morris 
(Moshe)  E.  Kranc  is  director  of 
software  development  for  News 
Datacom,  a  lerusalem-based 
subsidiary  of  the  News 
Corporation,  which  specializes  in 
encryption  and  scrambling 
systems.  He  lives  in  the  Talpiot 
neighborhood  of  lerusalem  with 
his  wife,  Elise,  and  four  children, 
Aaron  lonah,  age  8,  Hannan  Ariel, 
age  4,  Tehilla  Hannah  Haya,  age 
2,  and  infant  Jacob  loel. 

'77 

Fred  Berg,  Class  Correspondent, 
150  East  83rd  Street,  Apt.  2C, 
New  York,  NY  10028 

Donald  Bumiller  is  a  partner  in 
the  trial-piactice  law  firm  of 
Leavitt  and  Bumiller  and 
chairman  of  the  Essex  County  Bar 
Association's  section  on 
litigation  John  R.  Caban,  a 
certified  public  accountant,  lives 
in  Bedford,  MA,  with  his  wife, 
Deborah,  and  their  children, 
Sarah  and  Jennifer.  Veronica  A. 
Williams  is  founder,  principal  and 
managing  director  of  ACT,  Inc.,  a 
marketing  consulting  firm  that 
provides  marketing  services  and 
mobile  computing  solutions  to 
companies  in  the  information 
management  industry.  She  has 
published  several  articles  and 
participated  in  panels  on  wireless 
communications.  Williams  has 
traveled  extensively  to  South 
America  and  the  South  Pacific, 
and  is  an  avid  scuba  diver.  "I  am 
still  enioying  the  single  life  and 
visit  other  Brandeis  alumni  from 
time  to  time,"  she  reports. 


Class   Brandeis  Parent(s) 


Child's  Name 


i%,7 

Fredric  Hayward 

Kl 

February  9,  1994 

i96S 

J.  Mark  Kravitz 

Ethan  Daniel 

December  28.  1993 

1974 

Ninon  Kafka 

Kimberly  Sarah  Veklerov 

May  3.  1994 

1975 

Matthew  Klionsky 

Naomi 

February  4,  1994 

Harold  A.  Lancer.  M.D. 

Blair  Leigh 

June  22.  1993 

Roger  Zeitel 

Spencer 

February  26.  1994 

1976 

Joan  Pitzele  Sacks 

Rachel  Shira 

January  18,  1994 

1977 

Mark  C.  Leyner 

Gabrielle  Pinto 

June  26,  1993 

1978 

Elyse  Goldstein 

Micah  Benjamin 

January  19,  1994 

Julian  E.  Hyman 

Benjamin  Ari 

Aprils.  1994 

Harry  A.  Lebowitz.  M.D. 

Aleia  Mariel 

March  24.  1994 

David  Schneiderman 

Marco  Alec  Benson 

July  29.  1993 

Susan  Darman  Shwom 

Naomi  Ellen 

December  16,  1993 

1979 

Kenneth  C.  Fried 

Joseph  Edward 

June  16,  1994 

Allison  S.  Zaum 

Gregory  Robert 

September  15.  1993 

1980 

Gary  S.  Barker 

Morgan  Leigh 

lanuary  7,  1989 

Mitchell  Jordan 

March  30,  1990 

Brett  Taylor 

April  15.  1992 

Daniel  Berger 

Frederic  Lee 

May  4,  1993 

Nancy  Tobkes  hunt.  Ph.D. 

Evan  Tobkes  Lunt 

March  23,  1994 

Janet  Cohn  Perlman 

Benjamm  Aaron 

lanuary  20.  1994 

1981 

Stuart  Miller.  MD 

Emily  Nicole 

March  21,  1994 

Barry  J.  Moltz 

Ethan  Jeremy 

lanuarv  9,  1993 

Tamar  L.  Schriger 

Levona  Tova 

March  14.  1994 

Scott  D.  Schwartz 

Brooke  Elliot 

May  5.  1994 

1982 

Edy  Rosenson  Blady 

Emily  Ann 

December  31.  1993 

Marjorie  L.  Baros  and 

Ashley  Victoria 

February  8,  1994 

Philip  N.  Kabler 

Susan  Alexanian  Jacobsen 

Gabrielle  Molly 

May  11.  1994 

Karen  Pasternack  Straus  and  Gaily  Pasternack 

April  12,  1994 

Andrew  Straus 

Michael  Weinstein 

Spencer  Yael 

May  28,  1994 

1983 

Cheryl  Cutler  Azair 

Samuel  Jacob 

June  7,  1994 

Barry  J.  Barth 

Alexander  William 

March  20.  1994 

Deborah  Bornstein  Sosebee 

Isaac  Benjamin 

Iune22.  1994 

Martha  Lemer  Byrne 

Margot  Helena 

March  22.  1994 

Donna  Butler 

Benjamin  Nathaniel 

July  4,  1992 

Eliana  Kristal 

Aprils.  1994 

Terrence  J.  Cullen  and 

James  Michael 

March  20.  1994 

Lori  Hirsch  Cullen 

llene  Polly  Dulman 

Russell  Scott 

September  30,  1991 

Allison  Rae 

April  19,  1994 

Marian  Garber  Marlowe 

Jordan 

January  13.  1994 

1984 

Lori  Kaufman  Goodian 

Jeffrey  Daniel 

April  16,  1994 

Risa  Klein-Greene 

Jessica  Loren 

December  15.  1993 

Leslie  Antin  Levy  and 

Jacob  Ian 

June  29,  1993 

Bruce  Levy 

Amy  Palman  Price  and 

Samuel 

May  22,  1994 

Ira  M.  Price  '83 

1985 

Janice  Rovner  Feldman 

Matthew  Lawrence 

March  4,  1994 

Bruce  Merenstein 

Carter  Stephen 

March  14,  1994 

Deborah  Schwarz  Tallon 

Rachel  Leigh 

December  2.  1993 

1986 

Stephanie  Harte  Ankus 

Emily  Joy 

April  2.  1994 

Estelle  Milcbman  Davis 

Maxwell  Isaac 

May  23.  1994 

Michelle  Engel  Eckstein  and 

Arielle  Samantha 

April  28.  1994 

Neil  Eckstein 

Janice  Hochster  Martin 

Sydni Lynne 

December  23.  1993 

Michelle  Butensky 

Gabriel  Natan 

April  7,  1994 

Scheiathal  and 

Eitan  Ghaniel 

April  7,  1994 

Stephen  M.  Scheinthal.  M.D. 

Ari  Lee 

April  7,  1994 

Matthew  Weinberg  and 

Rebecca  laime 

Novembers.  1993 

Pamela  Flaum  '87 

Aileen  Walborsky-Josephs 

Jonathan  William 

May  17.  1994 

1987 

Michelle  D.  Cote 

Shane  Michael 

September  9.  1993 

Ross  Nadeau  and 

[ulia  Lynn 

November  22,  1993 

Debbie  Favreau-Nadeau 

Ryan  Matthew 

November  22.  1993 

Allison  Needle  McGlinchey 

Joseph  III 

Iulv3.  1994 

Mark  Miller 

Andrew  Jacob 

July  27.  1993 

Jeffry  T.  Waldman  and 

Rebecca  Sydney 

November  4,  1993 

Barbara  Nackmaa  Waldman 

1988 

Roni  Leff  Kurtz 

Ezra  Chanan  Kurtz 

lanuary  3,  1994 

Robert  A.  Cohen  and 

Michael  Evan 

May  16.  1994 

Michelle  Weisberg  Cohen  '85 

1989 

Karen  Kirychuk  and 

George  Kirychuck 

Haley  Elizabeth 

May  1.  1994 

GRAD  Jonathan  Yavner.  M.A.  89 

lean  Morris 

November  14.  1993 

53  Fall  1994 


'78 

Valerie  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

Mark  H.  Blecher,  M.D.,  was 
elected  president  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  of 
Ophthalmology.  He  lives  and 
works  m  Philadelphia  as  associate 
surgeon  at  Wills  Eye  Hospital, 
attending  surgeon  at  hoth  St. 
Agnes  and  Methodist  Hospitals, 
and  assistant  clinical  professor  at 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  [ulian 
E.  Hyman  is  vice  president  of 
fixed  income  sales  at  BayBank 
Boston.  He  lives  with  his  wife, 
Francine,  daughter,  Mara  liana, 
age  2,  and  infant  son,  Benjamin 
Ari.  David  F.  Schneiderman 
survived  the  floods,  earthquakes, 
and  recessions  that  California  has 
experienced  in  recent  years.  He 
lives  with  his  wife,  Julia,  and  son, 
Marco,  age  1,  in  Pacific  Palisades, 
CA.  He  continues  to  build 
Investech  Systems  Ltd.,  a 
technology  consulting  firm  that 
focuses  on  the  financial  and 
securities  industry  and  reports 
that  he  looks  forward  to  the  20th 
Reunion. 

'79 

Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angler  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02 173 

Pamela  K.  Anderson  is  area 
manager  of  the  Peace  Corps  m 
Chicago.  Laurence  M.  Cohen  is  m 

his  12th  year  as  practicing 
attorney  and  partner  in  the 
Kuvara  and  Cohen  Law  Firm.  He 
and  his  wife,  Jastell,  restored  their 
century  old  home  in  California. 
"If  you  ever  saw  The  Money  Pit, 
that  could  have  been  us,"  he 
comments.  Last  summer,  he  and 
his  wife  celebrated  their  10th 
wedding  anniversary  as  well  as 
the  7th  birthday  of  their  daughter, 
EUary,  and  the  5th  birthday  of 
their  son,  Spencer.  Richard  I. 
Jaffee  is  a  vice  president  and 
institutional  equity  salesman  and 
vice  president  at  Goldman,  Sachs 
&.  Company.  He  lives  in  Rye,  NY, 
with  his  wife,  Nancy,  and  two 
children,  Laura,  age  4,  and  Ben, 
age  3.  Seth  D.  Moldoff  works  in 
equity  investment  with  AIDC, 
Ltd.,  a  subsidiary  of  the 
Australian  Industry  Development 
Corporation.  He  invests  in  the 
infrastructure  and  natural 
resources  industries  in  Australia 
and  Asia  and  specializes  in 
investing  equity  funds  in  the 
power  industry.  He  lives  in 
Mosman,  Australia,  with  his  wife, 
Donna,  and  three  children:  David, 
age  5,  and  Phillip  and  Joshua, 
both  age  3.  He  reports  that  his 
family  is  "very  happy  m  Australia 
but  (we)  miss  our  family  and 
friends  in  the  United  States." 


'80 


Lisa  Gelfand,  Class 
Correspondent,  19  Winchester 
Street  #404,  Brookline,  MA  02146 

Susan  L.  Blumberg,  a  licensed 
clinical  psychologist  in  Denver, 
recently  bought  a  home  with  her 
husband,  Lewis  Getschel.  Scott 
Corwin  has  joined  the  New  York 
office  of  A.  T.  Kearney,  a  global 
consulting  firm  assisting 
corporate  clients  successfully 
implement  critical  strategic 
operational  and  organizational 
change.  Benjamin  D.  Fox, 
supervising  assistant  state 
attorney  in  Florida,  is  in  charge  of 
the  misdemeanor  and  domestic 
violence  divisions.  He  lives  in 
South  Daytona  with  his  wife, 
Regina  Sowards-Fox.  Nancy 
Tobkes  Lunt,  Ph.D.,  is  a  protein 
chemist  for  Regeneron 
Pharmaceuticals  and  is  married  to 
John  Lunt,  M.D.,  an  orthopedic 
surgeon.  They  live  in  Danbury, 
CT,  and  are  the  parents  of  a  son, 
Evan.  Elaine  Sachter,  M.D. 
practices  internal  medicine  at 
Virginia  Mason  Medical  Center 
and  lives  in  Seattle  with  her 
husband,  Michael  Newman,  and 
three  children,  Maya,  Tamar,  and 
Ari.  Steven  P.  Skulnik  practices 
law  as  a  partner  of  Pavia  &. 
Harcourt  in  New  York,  where  he 
specializes  in  commercial 
litigation  and  arbitration.  He  lives 
with  his  wife,  Lynn,  and  their 
daughter,  Cathy. 

'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  25  Hobart  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Aline  G.  Carriere  is  practicing 
general  law  in  Salem,  MA,  after 
graduating  from  Boston 
University  Law  School  in  1990 
and  serving  as  a  law  clerk  to  the 
Justices  of  the  Superior  Court  in 
Massachusetts.  She  and  her 
husband  live  with  their  year-old 
daughter,  Laura  Gisele,  in  a  home 
that  was  built  for  them  in 
Amesbury,  MA.  Michael  D. 
Eggert  lives  in  Newton,  MA,  with 
his  wife,  Carolyn  Shultz,  and  son, 
Benjamin.  He  is  practicing  real 
estate  law  with  a  Boston  law  firm 
and  reports  that  he  is  "thankful 
for  the  lifelong  friends  I  made  at 
Brandeis."  Diane  Ferber  is  vice 
president  in  charge  of  account 
management  at  Association 
Expositions  and  Services,  a  Reed 
Exhibition  company  that 
produces  trade  shows.  She  lives 
with  her  husband,  Albie  Collins, 
and  their  son,  Max,  in  Stamford, 
CT,  Robyn  E.  Gold  is  developing 
hei  own  communications 
consulting  company.  Gold  Chip 
Communications,  in  Belmont, 
MA.  Previously  she  was  a  product 
account  manager  for  ITT  Publitec 
in  The  Netherlands.  Stuart  D. 
Miller,  M.D.,  has  joined  the 


Stuart  D.  Miller 

orthopedic  surgical  staff  at  Union 
Memorial  Hospital  in  Baltimore 
upon  completion  of  his  fellowship 
in  foot  and  ankle  surgery.  Barry  J. 
Moltz  started  a  business  called 
SciTech  International  with  Ken 
Kornbluh,  husband  of  Ruth 
Richman  '82.  The  company 
distributes  scientific  and 
technical  software  worldwide. 
The  business  is  a  "raving 
success,"  he  says.  Marc  D. 
Schneider  and  Eileen  Merker 
Schneider  moved  to  Hillsdale,  NJ, 
where  he  is  assistant  vice 
president  of  planning  and  analysis 
at  Children's  Television 
Workshop  and  she  is  a  clinical 
social  worker  with  a  private 
practice  specializing  m  the 
treatment  of  children  with 
attention  deficit  disorder.  They 
have  two  children,  Michael,  age  7, 
and  Robin,  age  3.  Tamar  L. 
Schriger  and  her  family  live  in 
Mevasseret  Zion,  Israel,  and  are 
enjoying  her  extended  maternity 
leave.  Frank  A.  Segall  is  a  partner 
in  the  real  estate  department  of 
the  law  firm  of  Hinckley,  Allen  &. 
Snyder  where  he  specializes  in 
lending  and  workout  transactions. 
Scott  D.  Schwartz  is  managing 
and  developing  real  estate  as 
president  of  the  Spencer-Scott 
Real  Estate  Group  and  CEO  of  the 
Mika  Company  in  California.  He 
lives  in  Malibu  with  his  wife, 
Patricia,  and  three  children, 
Spencer,  age  7,  Justin,  age  4,  and 
infant,  Brooke. 

'82 

Ellen  Cohen,  Class 
Correspondent,  1 1738  Mayfield 
Avenue  #111,  Los  Angeles,  CA 
90049 

Betsy  Boms  is  in  her  third  season 
of  writing  and  co-producing 
ABC's  popular  television  show, 
Roseannc.  Last  year,  she  won  a 
Peabody  Award,  the  GLAAD 
Media  Award,  and  a  Golden  Globe 
Award  Dana  E.  Casher  of 
Krulewich  &.  Associates  in  Boston 
was  elected  to  serve  as  treasurer 
of  the  New  England  region  of  the 
Commercial  Law  League  of 
America,  the  nation's  oldest 


organization  of  commercial  and 
bankruptcy  law  professionals.  She 
received  her  J.D.  degree  from 
Suffolk  University  Law  School  in 
1987  Mark  Evan  Kutner  opened 
his  own  law  office  in  Houston, 
TX,  where  he  specializes  in 
personal  injury  law.  Lisa  Burke 
Simon  teaches  economics  at 
Cuesta  Community  College.  She 
iL ports  that  "teaching  the  same 
beginning  classes  that  Professor 
Barney  Schwalberg  taught  me 
brings  back  fond  memories  of 
Biandeis  and  the  challenge  and 
excitement  I  enjoyed  while 
studying  economics  there."  Debra 
P.  Stark,  an  assistant  professor  at 
The  John  Marshall  Law  School, 
teaches  courses  in  property, 
contracts,  and  real  estate 
transactions.  A  graduate  of 
Northwestern  University  School 
of  Law,  she  formerly  practiced 
real  estate  and  finance  law  with 
the  Chicago  firm  of  Katten, 
Muchin  ik  Davis.  Shelley  R. 
Tauber  is  a  manager  for  a  group  of 
computer  programmers  at  Chubb 
Insurance  Company.  Garthleen  E. 
Thomas  is  a  technical  writer  for 
the  Electronic  Data  Systems 
Corporation  in  Herndon,  VA.  Last 
spring  she  was  graduated  from 
The  Johns  Hopkins  University's 
Leadership  Development  Program 
for  Minority  Managers,  a  highly 
selective  program  that  is  designed 
to  prepare  outstanding  minority 
professionals  to  assume 
leadership  positions  in  both 
private  and  public  organizations. 
Michael  Weinstein  is  a  global 
telecommunications  consultant 
at  AT&T  Bell  Laboratories  who 
has  traveled  to  Europe,  Africa, 
and  Latin  America.  He  lives  in 
Tinton  Falls,  NJ,  with  his  wife, 
Robin,  and  two  daughters,  3-year- 
old  Aliyah  and  newborn,  Spencer. 
Benjamin  W.  Westervelt  received 
a  tenure  track  appointment  in 
European  History  at  Lewis  iS. 
Clark  College  in  Portland,  OR, 
after  earning  master's  and  Ph.D. 
degrees  m  history  from  Harvard 
University.  He  specializes  in  the 
Renaissance  and  Reformation,  as 
well  as  early  modern 
Catholicism. 

'83 

Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss,  456  9th 
Street  #30,  Hoboken,  NJ  07030 

Barry  J.  Barth  is  in-house  counsel 
at  J.  Baker,  Inc.,  in  Canton,  MA. 
He  lives  with  his  wife,  Fran,  in 
Sharon,  MA.  Adam  P.  Brown, 

M.D.,  is  completing  a  one-year 
fellowship  in  cerebrovascular  and 
skull  base  surgery  at  the  Barrow 
Neurological  Institute  in  Phoenix, 
AZ,  where  he  lives  with  his  wife, 
Darlene,  and  their  dog.  Bo.  Last 
spring.  Brown  completed  his 
residency  in  neurological  surgery 
at  Barres  Hospital,  which  is 


54  Brandeis  Review 


'85 


affiliated  with  the  Washington 
University  School  of  Medicine, 
St.  Louis,  MO.  Steven  E.  Cooper 
received  the  Associated  Press 
Avi'ard  for  Best  Coverage  of 
Breaking  News.  Terrence  J. 
CuIIen  IS  practicing  corporate  and 
securities  law  at  Goodwin, 
Proctor,  and  Hoar  in  Boston  while 
his  wife,  Lori  Hirsch  Cullen,  is 
busy  at  home  taking  care  of  their 
two  boys,  Terrence,  age  3,  and 
infant,  James.  Irene  Stern  Frielich 
is  assistant  vice  president  of 
training  and  development  and 
instructional  design  at  BayBank 
in  Waltham  after  earning  an 
M.B.A.  degree  from  Babson 
College  in  1991.  She  and  her 
husband,  Seth,  live  in  Sharon, 
MA,  with  their  two  sons,  Joshua, 
age  4,  and  infant,  Jonah.  She 
resumed  her  avocation  as  a 
flutist,  and  plays  with  the  Sharon 
Community  Band.  Samuel 
"Shoobie"  Gesten  has  joined  Sally 
&  Fitch  in  Boston  as  a  civil 
litigator  after  leaving  his  post  of 
deputy  attorney  general  with  the 
California  Department  of  Justice. 
Last  December,  he  and  former 
roommate,  Bobby  Lepson,  both 
became  parents.  Ironically,  their 
baby  girls  were  born  at  the  same 
hospital,  48  hours  apart,  and  the 
new  mothers  were  assigned 
adjacent  hospital  rooms  after 
their  respective  births.  Shoobie 
reports  that  it  "didn't  take  long 
for  him  to  feel  like  he  was  back  at 
Brandeis,  living  in  the  dorms." 
Lepson  works  as  a  financial 
planner  with  the  Chcsnut  Hill 
Financial  Group.  Daniel  B. 
Hellerstein  is  studying  the 
valuation  of  non-market  benefits, 
focusing  on  methodological 
issues,  for  the  USDA  Economic 
Research  Service  in  Washington, 
D.C.  He  lives  with  his  wife, 
Susan,  and  their  2-year-old  twins. 
Hellerstein  reports  that  he  owns 
his  house,  a  car,  and  a  kayak. 
"The  Potomac  keeps  me  sane,"  he 
writes  Phillip  J.  Lerner,  M  D  , 
enjoyed  being  an  economics 
major  at  Brandeis  hut  eventually 
pursued  a  career  in  medicine.  He 
is  employed  as  an  occupational 
health  physician  at  3M  in  St. 
Paul,  MN.  He  and  his  wife,  Sue, 
enjoy  living  in  the  Twin  Cities, 
although  the  "winters  are  a  bit 
cold."  David  J.  MuUer  and  his 
wife,  Joyce,  moved  to  Hamilton, 
Ontario,  where  their  children, 
Jacob,  age  5,  and  Rachel,  age  3,  are 
enrolled  at  the  Hamilton  Hebrew 
Academy.  They  also  moved  their 
business,  MuUer's  Meats,  to 
Kitchener,  Ontario.  Michael  S. 
Schwartz  is  a  resident  in  radiation 
oncology  at  Downstate  Medical 
Center  in  New  York.  Andrew  L 
Silfen  IS  a  senior  associate  at  the 
New  York  office  of  Ober,  Kaler, 
Grimes  &  Schriver.  Previously  he 
received  a  corporate  LL.M.  from 


the  New  York  University  School 
of  Law.  He  and  his  wife,  Merryll, 
have  a  daughter,  Jessica.  Brandon 
Toropov,  a  writer  and  editor  from 
Middleton,  MA,  was  selected  to 
attend  the  1994  Playwrights 
Conference  in  July.  His  new  play, 
^7}  Undivided  Heart,  concerns 
the  problem  of  priests  who  abuse 
children,  and  was  one  of  13 
projects  chosen  from  hundreds 
submitted  to  the  O'Neill  Theater 
Center  in  New  York  to  be  given  a 
script-in-hand  reading  at  the  1994 
conference. 


'84 


Marcia  Book  Adirim,  Class 
Correspondent,  211  East  18th 
Street  #5-G.  New  York,  NY  10003 

Leslie  Meltzer  Aronzon  is  vice 
president  at  Houlihan,  Lokey, 
Howard  &  Zukin,  Inc.,  in  Los 
Angeles,  where  she  advises 
companies,  creditors,  and  other 
interested  parties  on  matters 
ranging  from  restructuring  to 
financial  analysis  and  litigation 
support.  She  lives  in  Santa 
Monica  with  her  husband,  Paul. 
Marcia  Book  and  her  husband, 
Brad,  live  in  Manhattan,  where 
she  is  an  editor  at  Silhouette 
Books  and  he  is  an  executive 
recruiter  Scott  Carlin  is  an 
environmental  studies  instructor 
at  Long  Island  University  and 
lives  with  his  wife,  Victoria 
Fabish,  and  his  two  "beautiful 
kids,"  Stephanie  and  Deborah. 
Seth  Chasin  is  director  of 
business  planning  and  analysis  at 
loseph  E.  Seagram  6i  Sons  in  New 
York,  where  he  lives  with  his 
wife,  Bonnie  Goldfine,  and  son, 
Michael.  He  reports  that  he 
fulfilled  his  lifelong  dream  when 
he  attended  game  seven  of  the 
Stanley  Cup  finals  and  saw  the 
New  York  Rangers  win  the  cup. 
Bruce  Decter,  M.D.,  joined 
Cardiovascular  Consultants  of 
Long  Island  and  is  admitting 
patients  to  North  Shore 
University  Hospital,  Long  Island 
lewish  Medical  College,  St. 
Francis  Hospital,  and  Little  Neck 
Community  Hospital.  He  is  also  a 
clinical  instructor  in  medicine  at 
Cornell  University  Medical 
College.  Decter  lives  in  North 
Woodmere,  NY,  with  his  wife, 
Shan,  and  his  three  children, 
lacob,  Ashley,  and  Gabnelle. 
Steven  Fink  was  named  senior 
consultant  at  Arthur  D.  Little, 
Inc.,  where  he  has  been  for  six 
years.  Previously  he  earned  his 
M.S.  degree  in  management  at 
MIT's  Sloan  School  of 
Management.  He  lives  in 
Ashland,  MA,  with  his  wife, 
Barbara,  two  children,  fennifer, 
age  4,  and  Andrew,  age  2.  Caryn 
Schlecker  lives  in  Miami  with  her 
partner,  Anne,  and  their  two 
daughters,  Shamayim,  age  3,  and 
infant,  Haviva. 


lames  R.  Felton,  Class 
Correspondent,  5733  Aldea 
Avenue,  Encino,  CA  91316 

Lyone  S.  Fein  has  received  a 
University  of  Iowa  Stanley  Grant 
for  Scholarship  in  Foreign 
Language.  She  enrolled  in  the 
Hindi  Language  Program  at  the 
Landour  Language  Institute  in 
India  last  summer,  and  is 
currently  continuing  her  Ph.D. 
studies  in  Iowa,  concentrating  on 
the  history  of  Asian  religions. 
Seth  H.  Grae  frequently  travels 
overseas  in  his  capacity  as  general 
counsel  of  RTPC,  a  small 
company  in  New  York  in  a  loint 
venture  with  Raytheon.  Orna 
Hananel  received  her  M.D.  degree 
from  the  Technion  in  Haifa,  Israel 
in  1992.  She  is  completing  her 
residency  in  family  practice/ 
primary  care  at  UCLA  where  her 
main  interests  are  in  women's 
health  and  prenatal  care.  Her 
program  concentrates  on  the 
underserved,  uninsured  in 
Southern  Los  Angeles 
communities.  She  is  cochair  of 
the  Homeless  Outreach  Program 
in  the  South  Bay.  Samuel  G. 
Kaufman  works  for  a 
geodemographics  firm  in  software 
maintenance  and  support  for 
whom  he  developed  a  CRA 
compliance  tool  for  mortgage 
lenders.  In  his  spare  time  he 
enjoys  "bridge,  cycling,  music 
making,  travel,  and  being  a  quiet 
gay  activist."  lonathan  M. 
Mattana  has  been  trading  oil 
futures  for  the  past  nine  years, 
specializing  in  Number  2  heating 
oil.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Mercantile  Exchange 
since  1985,  was  married  in  1989, 
and  has  a  2-year-old  daughter, 
Zoe.  Geoffrey  A.  Negin,  M.D., 
completed  his  neuroradiology 
fellowship  training  at  the 
University  of  South  Florida 
College  of  Medicine  in  fune  and 
then  moved  to  Fort  Myers,  FL, 
with  his  fiancee,  Angelique 
Eaton,  to  join  a  hospital-based 
private  diagnostic  radiology  group 
practice.  Beth  Goldstein  Weiner  is 
a  marketing  manager  for  a 
publishing  company  in  Arlington, 
MA,  and  lives  m  HoUiston  with 
her  husband,  Mike,  and  daughter, 
lacqueline. 

'86 

Illyse  Shindler  Habbe,  Class 
Correspondent,  89  Turner  Street, 
Brighton,  MA  02135 

Jose  R.  Azout  is  president  of  a 
multinational  flower  export  firm 
in  Bogota,  Columbia.  Marcy 
Abelson  Bandick  works  in 
employee  relations  at  Eh  Lilly 
and  Company  in  Indianapolis,  IN, 
where  she  lives  with  her  husband, 
Michael.  Neil  Eckstein  is  a  fifth- 
year  associate  attorney  at  Willkie 


Parr  &  Gallagher  in  New  York, 
while  his  wife,  Michelle,  is  "busy 
playing  mom"  to  their  two 
children,  Matthew,  age  3,  and  his 
infant  sister,  Arielle.  Joel  F. 
Freedman  was  named  vice 
president  and  general  counsel  for 
Dial  Call  Communications,  Inc., 
a  specialized  mobile  radio 
subsidiary  of  Dial  Page,  Inc., 
located  in  Atlanta,  GA. 
Previously,  while  practicing  with 
Ropes  and  Gray  in  Boston,  he 
served  both  groups  as  outside 
corporate  counsel.  Todd  A. 
Goldstein  is  director  of  marketing 
at  Ruland  Manufacturing 
Company  in  Watertown,  MA, 
after  earning  his  M.B.A.  degree  at 
Babson  College  in  1993.  Richard 
S.  Klein  is  a  top  aide  to  Senator 
John  D.  Rockefeller  of  West 
Virginia,  working  on 
speechwriting  and 
communications.  He  recently 
traveled  to  Japan  as  a  member  of  a 
Congressional  delegation 
examining  U.S. -Japanese 
relations,  trade,  and  security 
issues.  When  he  is  not  working 
on  senatorial  matters,  he  is  busy 
m  his  role  of  director  of  the  Wild 
Goose  Brewery,  which  he 
founded,  it  is  located  in  Maryland 
and  produces  several  English-style 
ales  that  are  distributed 
throughout  the  East  Coast  from 
Boston  to  the  Carolinas.  Sonya 
Starr  was  graduated  from  the 
Reconstructionist  Rabbinical 
College  (RRCl  m  Wvncotc,  PA 


Sonya  Stan 

While  attending  RRC  she  assisted 
at  the  Hebrew  Association  of  the 
Deaf  in  Philadelphia  and  engaged 
m  Hillel  work  at  Bucknell 
University,  congregational  work 
at  the  Congregation  of  Fairbanks, 
AK,  and  organizational  work  in 
the  Jewish  Women's  Studies 
Project  at  RRC.  Matthew 
Weinberg  is  managing  director  at 
Smith  Barney  Shearson  in  New 
York  City  and  is  married  to 
Pamela  Flaum  '87  They  live  m 
New  York  City  with  their  infant 
daughter,  Rebecca.  Sharon  L. 
Weiner  is  working  for  a 
behavioral  medicine  system  at 
MetroWest  Medical  Center  in 


55  Fall  1994 


Frammgham,  MA.  She  received 
an  MBA,  degree  from  Boston 
University  in  1990.  Gary  S.  Zel 
moved  from  New  York,  where  he 
was  a  marketing  manager  at 
Time,  to  Miami,  where  he  started 
his  own  company  that  performs 
marketing  services  for  magazines. 
He  and  his  wife,  Antoinette, 
recently  bought  their  first  home 
in  Miami  Beach. 

'87 

Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  45  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  5H,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Russell  Abrams,  M  D.  is  a 

neurology  resident  at  the  Long 
Island  Jewish  Medical  Center.  He 
is  married  to  Racine  Zechowy  '89, 
M.D.,  a  pediatric  resident  at  Long 
Island  Jewish  Medical  Center. 
Alyse  Richman  Barbash  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in 
social  work  at  the  University  of 
Connecticut.  Daniel  Bigel  is  an 
equity  trader  at  Lipton,  Caston  & 
Company  in  New  York.  Bonnie 
Gittleman  Brensilber  is  working 
in  finance  at  Bickford  &  Partners, 
Inc.,  a  boutique  investment  bank, 
after  receiving  an  M.B.A.  from  the 
Columbia  University  Business 
School.  She  lives  in  New  York 
with  her  husband,  David  M. 
Brensilber  '86.  Andrew  Busch  was 
ordained  this  spring  at  Hebrew 
Union  College  in  Cincinnati  and 
was  appointed  assistant  rabbi  of 
Pittsburgh's  oldest  and  largest 
congregation,  Rodef  Shalom.  He 
looks  forward  to  developing  new 
programs  for  singles  of  all  ages 
and  for  younger  families.  His 
wife,  Dcbra  Pine,  is  also  assistant 
rabbi  at  the  same  temple.  Donna 
H.  Ezor  IS  senior  staff  writer  and 
editor  of  The  Arts  section  of  the 
MetroWest  Jewish  News  in 
Whippany,  NJ,  and  has  been 
honored  by  New  Jersey  Press 
Women  for  the  third  consecutive 
year  in  the  1994  State 
Communications  Contest.  She 
won  first-place  awards  for  a 
special  arts  and  entertainment 
article  and  for  a  section  she  edited 
for  a  fashion  supplement,  along 
with  a  second-place  award  in 
feature  stories  and  two  honorable 
mentions  for  page  layout  of  The 
Arts  and  for  a  personality  profile. 
Corrin  M.  Ferber  is  a  member  of 
the  New  York,  Virginia,  and 
District  of  Columbia  Bar 
Associations,  and  a  former  child 
welfare  attorney  for  the  City  of 
New  York,  but  she  will  not  be 
practicing  law  for  a  while  because 
her  husband,  Brian  C.  Abraham, 
was  appointed  assistant  country 
director  for  the  Eastern  Caribbean 
with  the  United  States  Peace 
Corps.  They  will  live  in  St.  Lucia, 
West  Indies,  until  December 
1996  Rina  Glatzer  Glickman 


received  an  outpouring  of  support 
from  Brandeis  alumni  when  her 
son,  Jacob,  age  2,  was  born  with 
biliary  atresia,  and  eventually 
required  a  liver  transplant.  She 
and  her  husband,  Steven,  had  to 
move  from  Vancouver,  WA,  to 
San  Fransisco,  CA,  for  2  1/2 
months  while  Jacob  was  treated 
at  the  California  Pacific  Medical 
Center.  During  that  time,  she 
writes,  her  family  was  "warmly 
welcomed"  by  several  Brandeis 
alumni  who  loaned  things  ranging 
from  holiday  hospitality  to  a  car. 
Glickman  added  that  "her  best 
roommate  ever,  Leah  Sullivan, 
also  took  time  off  from  work  to 
visit  and  offer  much  needed 
support."  The  family  is  back 
home  m  Vancouver  where  Rina 
teaches  kindergarten  half-time 
and  Steven  recently  received  his 
B.S.  degree  in  psychology  from 
Washington  State  University. 
Gary  J.  Golden  is  the  vice 
president  and  partner  (with  his 
father)  of  International  Marine 
Insurance  Services,  a  seven-year- 
old  brokerage  specializing  in 
insurance  for  yachts,  which 
means  "I  get  to  spend  my  days 
talking  boating  with  fellow 
boaters."  Joseph  A.  Hirsch  is  an 
attorney  at  law  in  Media,  PA, 
where  he  has  a  private  practice 
after  earning  his  J.D.  degree  from 
the  ViUanova  University  Law 
School  in  1992.  He  lives  in  Bala 
Cynwyd,  PA,  with  his  wife, 
Cassandra  J.  Krivy,  daughter, 
Ariel  Leila,  age  4,  and  son, 
Jonathan  Macabi,  age  2.  Melissa 
Klar-Magid  completed  her  M.S. 
degree  in  an  accounting  program 
at  Northeastern  University  and  is 
an  audit  manager  in  the  New 
York  office  of  Coopers  &  Lybrand. 
She  reports  that  she  "could  never 
have  imagined  that  Professor 
Evans's  course  in  managerial 
accounting  would  have  such  a 
profound  effect  on  (her)  life.  Reva 
Schlesinger  Mandelcorn, 
marketing  manager  at  the 
Massachusetts  Office  of  Business 
Development,  directs 
promotional  marketing  activities 
for  the  Commonwealth's 
domestic  and  international 
business  development  initiatives. 
She  received  her  M.B.A.  degree  in 
international  marketing  from 
McGill  University  in  1991. 
Mandelcorn  lives  in  Boston  with 
her  husband,  Howard  Mandelcorn 
'86.  Steve  Najarian  is  an  editor  for 
a  legal  publisher  in  Rochester, 
NY  Aimee  P.  Rudman  is 
primarily  practicing  estate  law  in 
Pennsylvania  after  receiving  her 
J.D.  and  M.B.A.  degrees  in  1991 
from  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh's  School  of  Law  and  its 
Katz  Graduate  School  of  Business. 
She  lives  in  Voorhees,  NJ,  with 
her  husband,  Alan.  Michelle 
Butensky  Scheinthal  was  teaching 


the  fifth  grade  at  the  Kellman 
Academy  in  Cherry  Hill,  NJ,  until 
she  gave  birth  to  triplets,  all  boys. 
Her  husband,  Stephen  M. 
Scheinthal  '86,  M.D  ,  is  a 
psychiatry  resident  at  the 
University  of  Medicine  and 
Dentistry  of  New  Jersey  in  the 
School  of  Osteopathic  Medicine. 
Deborah  Scheinthal  '94  is  among 
the  triplets'  godparents.  Matthew 
G.  Shulman  is  a  stockbroker  at 
Prudential  Securities  in  New 
York.  Jeffry  T.  Waldman,  M  D., 
completed  his  residency  in  family 
medicine  at  York  Hospital  in 
York,  PA.  He  and  his  wife, 
Barbara  Nackman  Waldman  live 
with  their  baby  daughter, 
Rebecca,  in  CenterviUe,  VA, 
where  he  is  part  of  a  private 
practice  and  she  has  taken  time 
off  from  her  regular  job  to  devote 
her  energies  to  family  life.  Pamela 
Flaum  Weinberg  owns  Hospitality 
Dynamics,  a  public  relations  firm 
in  New  York  City.  She  lives  in 
Manhattan  with  her  husband 
Matthew  Weinberg  '86  and  their 
daughter,  Rebecca. 

'88 

Susan  Tevelow  Feinstein,  Class 
Correspondent,  2201  Broughton 
Drive,  Beverly,  MA  0I9I5 

Aviva  Troobnick-Abeshaus  and 

her  husband,  Martin,  moved  back 
to  the  Boston  area  after  she 
received  her  M.S.W.  degree  from 
Marywood  College  in  July. 
Arianna  Licet  Ariza  is  enrolled  in 
a  film  and  video  graduate  program 
at  American  University  and  is 
concentrating  her  studies  on 
scriptwriting.  Earlier  this  year  she 
completed  a  three-week 
internship  in  the  press  office  at 
the  Cannes  Film  Festival  in 
Southern  France.  She  reports  that 
"it  was  amazing"  and  that  she  is 
planning  to  return  to  France  to 
work  on  films.  Edward  L. 
Benjamin  is  sports  director  at 
Cable  6  Television  in 
Middletown,  NY,  where  he 
conducts  the  weekday  sportscast, 
hosts  a  weekly  local  sports 
interview  show,  and  produces  and 
hosts  broadcasts  of  high  school 
and  college  football  and 
basketball  games.  David  E. 
Bernstein  is  a  research  fellow  at 
Columbia  Law  School  after 
graduating  from  Yale  Law  School 
in  1991  where  he  was  coeditor  of 
Phantom  Risk:  Scientific 
Inference  and  the  Law,  and 
numerous  law  review  articles. 
Robert  R.  Cohen  is  the 
Republican  counsel  to  the  United 
States  Senate  Small  Business 
Committee.  Elliot  M.  Felig  is  an 
associate  writer  for  Viacom, 
working  on  the  Beavis  e) 
Butthead  television  series. 
Deborah  Rosen  Fidel  is  enioying 
life  in  Pittsburgh  as  an  assistant 


district  attorney  in  Allegheny 
County,  a  position  that  she 
describes  as  both  "exciting  and 
challenging."  She  was  married  in 
March  and  bought  a  house  in  the 
same  neighborhood  in  which  she 
and  her  husband  were  raised. 
When  they  are  not  working,  "we 
play  lots  of  golf  together,"  she 
reports.  Beth  Gates  was  promoted 
to  a  senior  level  executive  with 
Macy's  East.  She  is  a  group 
merchandise  manager  at  Macy's 
Menlo  Park  in  Edison,  NJ,  and  is 
responsible  for  areas  including 
fine  jewelry,  women's  shoes, 
cosmetics,  accessories,  and 
sportswear.  Peter  Levin  is 
practicing  veterinary  medicine  at 
Ludwig's  Corner  Veterinary 
Hospital  in  Chester  Spring,  PA, 
after  graduating  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania 
School  of  Veterinary  Medicine. 
Lisa  Morse  Oren  moved  to  Berlin, 
Germany,  for  approximately  one 
year.  She  reports  that  she  "can't 
wait  to  travel  and  explore 
Europe  "  Ronald  K.  Reeves 
received  his  M.D.  degree  from 
Mayo  Medical  School  and  is  now 
enrolled  in  postgraduate  training 
m  physical  medicine  and 
rehabilitation  at  the  Mayo 
Graduate  School  of  Medicine  in 
Rochester,  MN.  Risa  L.  Rosen  is 
the  Northeast  Regional  Field 
Coordinator  for  B'nai  B'rith 
Women  for  whom  she  works  in 
development,  programming,  and 
expansion.  She  resides  in 
Trumbull,  CT,  with  her  husband, 
David  J.  Vine.  Karen  B. 
Rubenstein  is  working  as  part  of 
the  M.B.A.  Executive 
Management  Program  at  The 
Franklin  Mint  in  Philadelphia, 
having  earned  an  M.B.A.  degree  in 
marketing  from  the  Indiana 
University  Graduate  School  of 
Business.  Eric  L.  Schnur  is 
working  at  W.R.  Huff  Asset 
Management  in  Morristown,  NJ. 
She  received  an  M.B.A.  degree  in 
taxation  at  New  York  University's 
Stern  School  of  Business  and  is  a 
licensed  CPA,  and  a  candidate  for 
CFA  (Chartered  Financial 
Analyst). 

'89 

Karen  Gitten  Gobler,  Class 
Correspondent,  119Waltham 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02165-1331. 

David  Blatteis  is  an  associate 
attorney  at  Tompkins,  McGuire 
&  Wachenfeld  in  Newark,  NJ, 
after  graduating  from  the 
American  University  Law  School 
and  clerking  foi  a  New  Jersey 
judge.  Michelle  Weisberg  Cohen 
IS  a  second  year  associate 
attorney  with  Paul,  Hastings, 
Janofsky  &.  Walker  and  lives  with 
her  husband,  Robert,  and  infant 
son,  Michael  Evan,  in  the 
Washington,  D.C.  area.  Joseph  M. 


56  Brandeis  Review 


EUner  received  his  M.B.A-  from 
the  lohn  M.  Olin  School  ot 
Business  at  Washington 
University  in  St.  Louis  and  is  the 
head  of  corporate  sales  for 
Adelman  Travel  Systems  in 
Milwaukee,  where  he  lives  with 
his  wife,  Michele.  Anil  V.  George 
received  his  J.D.  degree  from 
American  University's 
Washington  College  of  Law  and  is 
a  trademark  attorney  at  the 
United  States  Patent  and 
Trademark  Office.  Philip  J. 
Goldstein  was  promoted  to 
managing  associate  in  Coopers  ^ 
Lybrand's  higher  education 
consulting  practice.  He  is  a 
candidate  for  an  M.B.A.  degree  in 
lune  199S  from  New  York 
University's  Executive  M.B.A. 
Program.  Goldstein  lives  m 
Stamford,  CT.  Michael  S.  Green  is 
a  computer  systems  business 
analyst  with  the  Department  of 
Housing  Preservation  and 
Development  in  New  York  City. 
He  lives  in  Rivcrdale  with  his 
CPA  wife,  Darcy  Trachtenherg. 
Alan  N.  Kamis  is  director  of  the 
Elizabeth  Township  Area 
emergency  medical  services  and 
is  currently  enrolled  m  a  dual- 
degree  master's  program  in 
business  and  health 
administration  at  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh.  He  and  his  wife, 
Hayley  Cagan  Kamis  '89,  live  in 
McKeesport,  PA,  with  their  two 
dogs,  Sam  and  Lexi.  Gail  Oxfeld 
Kanef  is  an  associate  with  the 
Newark  law  firm  of  Balk,  Oxfeld, 
Mandell  tf*.  Cohen  where  she 
specializes  in  labor,  employment, 
and  worker's  compensation  law. 
She  was  graduated  from  the 
Boston  University  School  of  Law 
in  1992  and  served  as  law  clerk  to 
a  New  Jersey  Superior  Court 
judge.  George  H.  Kirychuk 
teaches  Bible,  math,  and  English 
classes  at  Upton  Lake  Christian 
School  in  Clinton  Corners,  NY, 
where  he  lives  with  his  wife, 
Karen  Kirychuck,  and  daughters, 
Galina  Icy,  age  3,  and  infant 
Haley  Elizabeth.  Stephen  L. 
Lessnick  earned  a  Ph.D.  degree  in 
molecular  biology  at  UCLA  and 
began  his  third  year  of  medical 
school  there.  Shari  D.  Lurie 
received  her  M.D.  degree  from  the 
Hahnemann  University  School  of 
Medicine  in  Philadelphia  and  is 
completing  an  anesthesiology 
residency  at  the  Baystate  Medical 
Center  in  Springfield,  MA.  Karen 
L.  Marks  and  her  husband, 
Johannes,  moved  back  to  the  U.S. 
after  4  1/2  years  m  the 
Netherlands  Karen  G.  Roller  is  a 
survey  project  leader  at  Buck 
Consultants,  where  she  manages 
actuarial  studies  and  related 
projects.  She  is  simultaneously 
working  towards  an  M.B.A. 
degree  in  finance  at  Fordham 
University  and  reports  that  her 
economics  degree  from  Brandeis 


"certainlv  prepared  me  well." 
Julie  Leamon  Rosen  is  in  her 
second  year  at  Brooklyn  Law 
School.  Stephanie  L.  Schear  is 
attending  Harvard  Business 
School  this  fall.  Previously  she 
worked  in  investment  banking 
with  Alex,  Brown  &.  Sons  in 
Boston  where  she  specialized  in 
underwriting  and  strategic 
advisory  work  for  high-tech 
companies  in  Europe,  Israel,  and 
North  America.  She  formerly 
worked  on  U.S.-lapan  trade 
negotiations  for  the  Treasury 
Department.  Paul  I.  Walborsky  is 
a  Latin  American  Financial 
Specialist  in  New  York  City. 


'90 


Judith  Libhaber  Weber,  Class 
Correspondent,  66  Madison 
Avenue,  #9E,  New  York,  NY 
10016 

K.  Vasken  Babigian  was  graduated 
from  the  Massachusetts  School  of 
Law  earlier  this  year.  Rosalia 
Baiamonte  is  an  associate  with 
the  law  firm  of  DaSilva  ik  Keidel 
Esqs.  in  Garden  City,  NY,  after 
receiving  a  J.D.  degree  from  the 
Syracuse  University  College  of 
Law.  Stacy  Mara  Borans,  received 
her  M.D.  degree  from  the 
Hahnemann  University  School  of 
Medicine  in  Philadelphia  and  is 
completing  an  internal  medicine 
residency  at  Thomas  Jefferson 
University  Hospital  in 
Philadelphia.  Carla  Fernandez  and 
her  husband,  Leo  Starkman,  are 
living  in  Honduras.  Damon 
Gannon  is  a  guest  student  at  the 
Woods  Hole  Oceanographic 
Institution  in  Woods  Hole,  MA, 
as  part  of  the  M.A.  degree 
program  in  biology  at  Bridgewater 
State  College.  He  is  also  a 
research  associate  at  the 
Plymouth  Marine  Mammal 
Research  Center  in  Plymouth, 
MA.  He  was  the  recipient  of  the 
Louis  Carmel  Stearns  Award  at 
Bridgewater.  Scott  C.  Gladstone 
lives  in  Decatur,  GA,  where  he  is 
a  public  defender.  Brian  S.  Haftel 
was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Florida  College  of 
Medicine  and  will  be  completing 
a  preliminary  medicine  internship 
at  Long  Island  lewish  Hospital 
followed  by  an  anesthesiology 
residency  at  Mount  Sinai  Hospital 
in  New  York  City.  Elizabeth  A. 
Sheehan  Harvey  completed  New 
York  University's  Early 
Childhood  Special  Education 
Program  for  which  she  was 
selected  while  earning  her 
master's  degree  m  special 
education.  Wendy  C.  Lowengrub 
is  attending  law  school  at  Indiana 
University  at  Bloommgton. 
Previously  she  was  deputy  staff 
director  for  the  Subcommittee  on 
Civil  Service  in  the  United  States 
House  of  Representatives,  where 
she  helped  develop  policy  and 


legislation  on  matters  relating  to 
federal  employees.  Marc  A.  Moniz 
is  a  fifth  year  graduate  student 
studying  anthropological  sciences 
in  a  doctoral  program  at  SUNY 
Stony  Brook.  Jackie  L.  Perczek 
joined  the  law  firm  of  Entin, 
Schwartz  &  Margules  in  Ft. 
Lauderdale,  FL,  after  graduating 
cum  laude  from  Suffolk  Law 
School  this  year.  While  attending 
Suffolk,  she  was  the  editor  of  the 
Rhode  Island  Book  of  the  Law 
Review,  won  the  Goodwin 
Scholarship  for  best  trial  advocate 
and  the  Drinan  Fellowship  for 
dedication  to  the  criminal  justice 
system.  She  also  won  the 
Northeast  Regional  Trial 
Competition,  sponsored  by  the 
Association  of  Trial  Lawyers  of 
America,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  National  Trial  Team.  Andrew 
H.  Rubenstein  earned  his  master's 
degree  from  the  Lemberg  Program 
in  international  business  and 
finance  at  Brandeis  in  1993  and  is 
a  management  consultant  for 
Arthur  Anderson  in  Seattle. 
Dawn  M.  Zelmanowitz  is  an 
administrative  analyst  at  the  Jules 
Stein  Eye  Institute.  Earlier  this 
year  she  was  awarded  the  UCLA 
Medical  Center  "Employee 
Humanistic  Care  Award,"  that 
was  created  to  recognize 
individuals  who  provide 
exceptional  service  to  those  who 
use,  visit,  or  work  in  the  UCLA 
hospital. 

'91 

Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  165  Palmer 
Street,  Arlington,  MA  02174 

Yafitte  L.  Bendory  is  assistant 
press  consul  at  the  Israeli 
consulate  in  New  York.  Last 
summer  she  completed  a  master's 
degree  program  in  journalism  and 
Near  Eastern  studies  at  New  York 
University.  Nigel  J.  Cohen  is  an 
elected  member  of  the  student  bar 
association  in  his  third  year  at  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  School  of 
Law.  He  has  had  internships  in 
the  county  Public  Defender's 
office  in  Greensburg,  PA,  and  in 
the  federal  Public  Defender's 
office  in  Pittsburgh.  David  Max 
Dahan  was  graduated  from  Tulane 
Law  School  in  May.  T.  Noel 
Fadden  is  a  business  analyst  at 
the  State  Street  Bank  &  Trust 
Company  m  North  Quincy,  MA. 
while  he  atttends  Bentley  College 
as  a  1996  M.B.A.  degree 
candidate  Vanessa  Abbe  Ferbcr 
was  graduated  from  the  Bcniamin 
N.  Cardozo  School  of  Law  and  her 
fiance,  Erik  Kruger,  will  graduate 
from  the  Chicago  Medical  School 
next  year.  Brian  M.  Fox  was 
admitted  to  the  Georgia  Bar 
Association  after  graduating  from 
Emory  University  Law  School  in 
May.  Joshua  Glazer  teaches 
history  and  geography  to  students 


from  over  35  countries  at  the 
Tabeetha  School,  an  international 
high  school  in  Jaffa,  Israel.  He 
lives  in  Tel  Aviv,  Israel.  Susan  M. 
Goren  was  appointed  an  area 
coordinator  at  Mary  Washington 
College  in  Fredericksburg,  VA, 
after  graduating  from  the 
University  of  Georgia  with  a 
M.Ed,  in  student  personnel  in 
higher  education.  Allyson  P.  Guy 
was  graduated  from  Emory  Law 
School  and  passed  the  Georgia  Bar 
Exam  Robert  I.  Herman  is 
enrolled  in  the  M.B.A.  degree 
program  at  the  Weatherhead 
School  of  Management  at  Case 
Western  Reserve  University  in 
Cleveland  Pamela  L.  Heyer  is 
attending  the  Leonard  N.  Stern 
School  of  Business  at  New  York 
University.  Last  summer  she  was 
an  intern  in  the  corporate  banking 
division  at  the  Bank  of  Nova 
Scotia-New  York  Agency.  Julie  R. 
Hoffman  competed  in  August  at 
the  Ninth  World  Tae  Kwon-do 
Championships  in  Malaysia.  She 
IS  an  intern  at  the  Boulder  Daily 
Camera  in  Boulder,  CO,  where 
she  writes  environmental 
features.  Hoffman  congratulates 
her  classmate,  Rebecca 
Eppenstein,  on  her  recent  artwork 
exibit.  After  three  years  in 
Washington,  Rachel  A.  Kogan  is 
in  a  master's  program  in  public 
health  at  the  University  of 
Michigan.  Robert  I.  Lax  was 
graduated  from  the  Cardozo 
School  of  Law  at  Yeshiva 
University  m  June.  April  Minerd 
Leytem  is  pursuing  a  Ph.D.  degree 
at  North  Carolina  State 
University  after  working  as  senior 
planner  for  Delaware  County  in 
New  York.  She  is  married  to 
Sargeant  Michael  Laytem.  Alan 
H.  Martin  is  a  commodity  trader 
at  Dean  Witter  Reynolds  in  New 
York.  Katie  McCormick  went  to 
Kenya  for  three  months  this  year 
where  she  studied  wildlife 
management  and  ecology  with 
the  School  for  Field  Studies.  She 
previously  worked  in  the  biology 
office  and  labs.  Boi  C.  Nguyen 
lives  with  her  husband  in 
Rochester,  NY,  and  reports  that 
she  will  "either  go  back  to  school 
or  work  for  a  while  before 
increasing  family  size."  Nguyen 
previously  lived  in  Paris  and  was 
a  manager  at  Claus  Wickrath. 
Daniel  A.  Rabinowitz  is  an 
associate  at  the  New  York  law 
firm,  LeBoeul,  Lamb,  Greene  ^ 
MacRae  after  graduating  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  Law  School 
in  June.  Matias  A.  Ringel  is  an 
associate  in  Solomon  Brother's 
Latin  America  Group  working 
long  hours  and  traveling  a  fair 
amount.  He  reports  that  he  is 
very  happy  but  he  misses 
Brandeis  and  realizes  now  that 
"it's  hard  to  rewind  in  life." 
Michael  D.  Roth  is  senior 


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Rain  forests  are  being  destroyed  at  an  alarming  rate...  an  area 
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in  the  rain  forest. 

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financial  analyst  for  field 
operations  at  CBS  in  New  York, 
after  earning  his  M.B.A.  degree 
from  Columbia  University  in 
1993.  Lynn  Steiner  is  enrolled  in 
the  master's  degree  program  in 
social  work  at  the  Addams 
College  of  Social  Work  in  the 
University  of  Illinois,  Chicago. 
Eve  R.  Theurer  is  an  elementary 
school  counselor  in  Westchester, 
NY,  after  earning  her  M.A.  degree 
in  counseling  from  Boston 
College  in  1993.  She  lives  with 
her  husband,  Carl  Finger  '90,  m 
Jericho,  NY.  Kenneth  H.  Wong  is 
pursuing  a  Ph.D.  degree  in  the 
Joint  Program  in  Bioengineering 
sponsored  by  the  University  of 
California  at  San  Francisco  and 
the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley. 

'92 

Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Oak  Street, 
Harrington  Park,  NJ  07640. 

Leah  Froum  appeared  as  Dorothy 
in  a  national  children's  tour  of 
The  Wizard  of  Oz.  Last  summer 
she  performed  regional  theater  in 
New  England  Sherri  L.  Geller 
was  awarded  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Science  in  Public  Relations 
from  Boston  University.  She 
completed  an  internship  with  the 
public  relations  office  of  the 
Boston  Celtics,  which  she  reports 
was  a  "dream  job."  Lisa  A. 
Goldman  works  part-time  at 
Porter/Novelli,  a  public  relations 
iirm  in  Washington,  D.C.,  while 
attending  Georgetown 
University's  Post-Baccalaureate 
Premedical  Program.  Jacqueline 
Gordon  is  attending  Hofstra  Law 
School.  Previously  she  was  a  legal 
assistant  at  Skadden,  Alps,  Slate, 
Meagher  &  Flom.  Monica  Goryn 
IS  a  financial  analyst  for 
international  operations  for  a 
small  construction  company  in 
North  Carolina  doing  "everything 
m  the  company,"  including 
finance,  marketing,  and 
production.  Jason  L.  Haas  earned 
an  M.A.  degree  in  political 
science  from  Duke  University  in 
May.  Naomi  R.  Leeds  is  enrolled 
in  Brandeis's  new  Post- 
Baccalaureate  Premedical 
Program.  She  plans  to  study 
premedical  sciences  at  Brandeis 
for  one  year  and  then  attend 
medical  school.  Debra  Mandrel 
completed  her  first  year  of 
graduate  study  in  voice  at  the 
University  of  Texas  at  Austin. 
She  performed  in  scenes  from 
Gordon  Getty's  opera  Plump  Jack 
and  then  attended  the  AIMS 
Opera  Studio  in  Austria  last 
summer.  Kenneth  R.  Poudrier  is  a 
portfolio  administrator  at  State 
Street  Bank  and  Trust  Company 
in  Quincy,  MA.  David  E.  Schorr  is 


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completing  a  two-year  program  m 
international  relations  at  St. 
Anthony's  College  at  Oxford 
University  where  he  was  awarded 
an  overseas  resident  scholarship. 
Charles  H.  Tanowitz  received  a 
master's  degree  in  journalism  from 
Columbia  University  this  year.  His 
master's  project  was  a 
documentary  entitled  Mom.  Dad.  . 
.I'm  Gay  that  aired  on  the  New 
York  PBS  station  last  summer. 

'93 

Josh  Blumenthal,  Class 
Correspondent,  21  Goldenrod 
Circle,  Amherst,  MA  01002 

Joel  Bloch  received  M.B.A.  and 
M.S.  degrees  in  accounting  from 
Northeastern  University's 
Graduate  School  of  Professional 
Accounting  and  will  be  joining  the 
New  York  office  of  Deloitte  and 
Touche  m  January.  Michael  P. 
Bruckheim  is  in  his  second  year  of 
law  school  at  American 
University.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Law  Review  and  will  be  serving  on 
the  1994-95  Moot  Court  Executive 
Board.  "I've  been  very  busy,  but  I 
am  happy  with  the  school  and  my 
accomplishments,"  Bruckheim 
reports.  Eric  J.  DaRosa  is  a  fixed 
income  treasury  analyst  at 
Lehman  Brothers  in  New  York 
City.  Jacqueline  Jeruss  is  enjoying 
medical  school  at  the  University  of 
Vermont,  but  reports  that  she 
"misses  Brandeis  more  and  more 
every  day."  Deborah  A.  Leffert  is  a 
research  associate  on  the  Domestic 
Utility  Consulting  Staff  at  RCG/ 
Hagler,  Bailly  Inc.  Sue  Lindenblatt 
IS  spending  a  year  in  Europe  after 
"floating  around  Israel  learning 
things  on  a  Kibbutz  that  they 
forgot  to  teach  at  Brandeis,  such  as 
avocado  picking  and  baby 
feeding!"  Last  summer  she  created 
plays  with  American  teens  from 
all  over  the  United  States  who 
were  in  Israel  on  Jewish  tours. 
Joanne  Moore  is  studying  for  a 
Master's  of  Science  degree  in 
economic  development  at  the 
London  School  of  Economics.  Eric 
S.  Parker  is  enrolled  at  the  Boston 
Conservatory  pursuing  a  bachelor's 
of  music  degree  and  a  career  as  an 
opera  singer.  Joel  Rubin  is  teaching 
environmental  education  in  Costa 
Rica  on  a  two-year  assignment 
with  the  Peace  Corps.  Rachel 
Schroeder  is  living  in  Paris  and 
studying  mime  at  the  Ecole  de 
Mime  Corporel  Dramatique.  She  is 
also  studying  modern  dance, 
singing,  and  voice  production  for 
the  actor  and  reports  that  "Paris  is 
fab."  Robert  Scripp  worked  last 
summer  for  the  City  Manager  in 
Ocala,  FL,  near  Orlando,  where  he 
has  been  involved  in  most  of  the 
management  affairs  involving  the 
city  and  has  learned  a  lot  about 
government  and  management.  He 
has  a  graduate  assistantship  at  the 


58  Brandeis  Review 


Marriages 


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1987 


1988 


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1990 
1991 
1992 
1994 


Rachel  B.  Spevack  to  Clif  Kianish  May  22.  1 994 

Michael  Schwartz,  M-D.  to  October  2.  1994 
Daivn  Cohen.  M.D. 

Leslie  Meltzer  to  Paul  Aronzon  December  4.  1993 

Marcia  Book  to  Brad  Aduim  November  7,  1993 

Sharon  B.  Josephs  to  Charles  Shereff  '84  June  19.  1994 

Marcy  Abelsott  to  Michael  Bandick  May  8.  1994 

Sharon  Green  to  Robert  LeBoyer  August  8.  1993 

Russell  Agrams.  M.D.  to  March  19.  1994 
Racine  Becbowy  '89.  M.D. 

Daniel  Bigel  to  Marni  SuUam  February  19.  1 994 

Corrin  M.  terber  to  Brian  C.  Abraham  October  10,  1993 

Gary  J.  Golden  to  Ruth  Newman  Drake  March  8.  1994 

Alyse  Richman  to  David  Barhashj  May  29,  1994 

Reuben  D.  Rotman  to  Devorab  Silverman  June  19.  1994 

Aimee  P.  Rudman  to  Alan  H.  Vladimir  June  5.  1994 

David  Bernstein  to  Solveig  Singleton  October  1994 

Cheryl  Florence  to  Loren  Baron  '89  July  3,  1994 

Julie  Rosenblatt  to  Eric  Zieft  June  19.  1994 

Karen  Seaton  to  Robert  Hyams  August  8.  1993 

David  Blatteis  to  Carin  Wolfenson  June  12.  1994 

Debbi  Glickman  to  Aaron  Charles  June  19.  1994 

Michael  S.  Green  to  Darcy  Trachtenberg  October  17.  1993 

Julie  Leasnon  to  Ted  Rosen  November  7.  1993 

Karen  L.  Marks  to  Johannes  Trip  May  20,  1994 

Lori  Raff  to  Timothy  Harris  May  29.  1 994 

Ellen  Silberman  to  Philip  Shapiro  May  7.  1994 

Julie  Levinsohn  to  Joshua  Miiner  September  4.  1994 

Carta  I.  Fernandez  to  Leo  Starkman  January  8.  1994 

D.  Jeremy  Pressman  to  Audrey  J.  Sobel  May  29.  1994 

Eve  R.  Theurer  to  Carl  Finger  '90  August  28.  1994 

Beth  Manes  to  Jason  Kasler  June  4.  1994 

Lori  Ann  Goldsmith  to  Adam  Smith  May  22.  1 994 

Jennifer  S.  Cohen  to  Jason  Canel July  30.  1994 


Jean  Bethke  Elshtain  (Ph.D.  '73|  is 
Centennial  Professor  of  Political 
Science  and  professor  of 
philosophy  at  Vanderbilt 


University  of  Florida  and  will  be 
living  in  Gainesville  for  the  next 
year  as  he  completes  work  on  his 
M.B.A.  degree.  Eva  I.  Shafir  is  in 
her  second  year  at  the  University 
of  Houston  Law  Center,  and  is 
living  in  Fort  Worth.  Deborah  L. 
Shufrin  is  a  credit  analyst  at 
Morgan  Stanley  &  Company,  Inc. 
in  New  York,  Previously  she 
completed  an  internship  as  a 
market  research  analyst  at 
International  Data  Corporation. 
Ilan  E.  Simon  is  in  his  second 
year  at  Rutgers  Law  School  and 
worked  for  a  judge  in  the  federal 
district  court  in  New  Jersey  last 
summer. 

'94 

Sandy  Kirschen,  Class 
Correspondent,  512  Brandon 
Avenue,  Apt.  A-5,  Charlottesville, 
VA  22903 

Jennifer  B.  Lewin  was  among  only 
85  students  nationwide  to  receive 
a  Mellon  Fellowship,  which 
carries  a  512,730  stipend  and 
covers  full  tuition  and  fees  for  one 
year  at  the  school  of  her  choice. 
She  is  attending  Yale. 


Idsinui  M    \hlncr 
Julie  A.  Levinsohn 


Jean  Bethke  Elshtain 

University,  where  she  received 
the  highest  award  for 
undergraduate  teaching.  Her 
academic  interests  explore  the 
connections  between  society's 
political  and  ethical  convictions. 
She  has  written,  edited,  or 
coedited  about  a  dozen  books 
including  coauthoring  one.  But 
was  It  Just:  Reflections  on  the 
Morality  of  tile  Persian  Golf  War. 
Steven  H.  Gorin  |Ph  D   '83, 
Heller),  executive  director  of  the 
New  Hampshire  chapter  of  the 
~   itional  Association  of  Social 
.  I  irkers  was  one  of  47  health 
;  itessionals  who  were  asked 
ily-on  in  the  Clinton 
I  ministration  to  aid  the  White 
1'  luse  by  providing  feedback  on 
:!c  administration's  health  care 
plan.  Dan  S.  Honig  (Ph.D.  '72), 
principal  research  chemist  in 
paper  chemicals  at  Cytec 
Industries  in  Stamford,  CT,  was 
named  one  of  four  recipients  of 
the  1993  Circle  of  Excellence 
Award,  Cytec's  most  prestigious 
research  honor,  recognizing 
individuals  who  have  made 
significant  and  innovative 
contribution  to  the  company's 
research  efforts.  Susan  (Noah) 
Kitty  (J.C.S.  1988)  is  the  rabbi  at 
Shir  HeHarim  in  Brattleboro,  VT. 
She  was  graduated  from  the 
Recontructionist  Rabbinical 
College  (RRC)  in  Wyncote,  PA. 
While  attending  RRC,  she  worked 
at  Princeton  University  Hillel, 
Congregation  Adath  Shalom  in 
South  Philadelphia,  and 
Congregation  Beth  Israel  in 
Media,  PA.  fon  Christopher 
Nelson,  |M.FA.  '88,  Ph.D.  '91)  is 
the  recipient  of  a  1994 
Guggenheim  Fellowship  award 
which  will  help  support  research 
that  he  is  conducting  on 
contemporary  classical  music 
during  a  seven  month  stay  in 
Sweden.  He  is  assistant  professor 
of  music  theory  and  composition 
at  Florida  International 
University  and  has  also  been 


recognized  with  a  composition 
fellowship  from  the  National 
Endowment  of  the  Arts  for 
several  original  compositions 
combining  live  music  with 
electronic  and  computer  music. 
Judith  Becker  Ranlett  (M.A.,  '71, 
Ph.D.,  '74),  chair  of  the 
Department  of  History  at  the 
State  University  of  New  York  at 
Potsdam  since  1987,  was  named 
to  another  three-year  term  as 
department  chair  earlier  this  year. 
Michael  P.  Schulhof  (Ph.D.,  '70) 
was  elected  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Brookings 
Institution.  He  is  the  president  &. 
CEO  of  the  Sony  Corporation  of 
America,  as  well  as  a  director  of 
Sony  Corporation,  Japan. 
Schulhof  spearheaded  the 
development,  introduction,  and 
marketing  of  compact  discs,  and 
was  the  first  American 
businessman  to  be  appointed  to 


Michael  P.  Schulhof 

the  board  of  a  major  Japanese 
corporation.  He  is  also  a  Trustee 
of  Brandeis  University.  Jim 
Sherman's  (M.F.A.  '83)  play,  The 
God  of  Isaac,  was  performed  at 
Brandeis  in  October.  Roberta 
Ward  Walsh,  (Ph.D.  '89,  Heller)  is 
associate  professor  of  consumer 
studies  at  the  University  of 
Vermont  in  the  department  of 
Community  Development  and 
Applied  Economics.  Jonathan  A. 
Yavnet  |M.A.  '73)  is  the  software 
team  leader  for  the  Oxford 
Student  Dictionary  project,  a  line 
of  electronic  pocket  dictionaries 
of  English  with  annotations  in 
Hebrew,  Arabic,  Persian, 
Japanese,  Bulgarian,  German,  and 
Italian,  all  published  by  the 
Franklin  Company.  Yavner 
reports  that  "sometimes  I  feel 
like  a  juggler  with  far  too  many 
balls  in  the  air." 


59  Fall  1994 


Obituaries 


Ashley  A.  Boone,  Jr.  '60  died  on 
May  1  at  his  home  in  Beverly 
Hills  of  pancreatic  cancer.  He  had 
a  successful  career  in  motion 
picture  marketing  and 
distribution  for  United  Artists, 
20th  Century  Fox,  the  Ladd 
Company,  Columhia  Pictures, 
Lorimar  Pictures,  and  MGM.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  President's 
Council  at  Brandeis,  and  is 
survived  by  two  sisters  and  a 
brother,  his  companion,  Mark 
Bua,  and  his  father.  The 
University  has  been  notified  that 
Francine  Nison  Brown  '64  of 
Toronto  passed  away  on  April  9, 
1994,  after  a  long  illness.  Stanley 
Glickman  '58  died  suddenly  at  his 
Newton  Centre,  MA,  home  of  a 
heart  attack  on  August  3,  1994.  A 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of 
Cherwin  and  Glickman  m 
Newton,  he  was  a  former 
president  of  the  Boston  Chapter  of 


Stanley  Glickman 


the  Brandeis  Alumni  Association 
and  a  member  of  the  President's 
Council  at  Brandeis.  An  avid 
theatergoer  and  theater  "angel," 
he  coproduced  the  musical  revue 
"All  Night  Strut!"  and  invested  in 
many  Broadway  productions.  He 
leaves  his  wife  of  35  years,  Sally 
Marshall  Glickman  '59,  a 
daughter,  a  son,  and  three 
grandchildren.  Contributions  in 
his  memory  may  be  made  to 
Brandeis  University.  Felice 
Samuel  Greene  '60  died  on  May 
29,  1994,  m  Bethesda,  MD.  She  is 
survived  by  two  sons,  Neal 
Steven  and  leffrey,  her  father,  and 
a  brother.  Lenore  Kodner  Israel 
'57  died  on  luly  4,  1994,  after  a 
five  year  battle  with  cancer.  For 
30  years  she  taught  English  at 
Lawrence  High  School  in 
Lawrence,  NY,  where  she  is 
remembered  by  fellow  teachers 
and  students  as  an  educator  who 
inspired  and  cared  for  everyone 


she  met.  She  is  survived  by  her 
husband  Philip,  two  sons,  Lavey 
and  Daniel,  her  mother,  and  a 
brother.  Stephen  L.  Karp  '72,  a 
retired  public  relations  executive 
in  New  York,  died  on  July  15, 
1994,  of  AIDS.  He  leaves  his 
companion,  Barry  Lewis,  his 
mother,  Evelyn  Winter,  and  two 
brothers.  Marcia  Loskove  Stiefel 
'58  of  Ardsley,  NY,  passed  away 
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Dear  Reader 


I  have  been  watching  crows,  on 
most  days  this  winter,  from  our 
editorial  offices  on  Ridgewood 
Terrace.  Early  in  the  day,  various 
small  feeding  flocks  stop  by  to 
check  out  the  dumpster  and  the 
area  around  the  cottages,  but 
towards  the  end  of  the  day,  other 
groups  come  by  to  briefly  occupy 
the  skeletal  oaks.  For  a  while,  they 
cavort  among  the  trees,  calling  and 
tumbling,  spreading  the  finger-like 
primaries  at  the  tips  of  their  wings 
in  such  a  way  as  to  make  even  a 
calm  day  seem  wild:  tattered  rags 
in  a  gale.  Then  they  are  off  to  join 
other  flocks,  collecting  brethren 
on  their  way  to  the  communal 
winter  roost  for  the  night. 

When  I  was  a  graduate  student,  I 
lived  on  the  side  of  a  densely 
wooded  hill  in  Waltham.  On 
winter  afternoons,  the  crows 
poured  in  like  bats,  small  groups, 
mostly  from  the  south  and  west, 
arriving  in  a  constant  flow  for  an 
hour  before  dusk.  Hundreds 
gathered  there,  blackening  the 
hillside  with  their  throng,  rending 
the  deepening  dusk  with  excited 
communication.  My  hillside  was  a 
preroosting  site,  a  place  of 
convergence  where  numerous 


flight  lines  intersected  and 
provided  a  relatively  unpeopled 
place  in  which  small,  individual 
feeding  flocks  that  had  spent  the 
day  in  the  cornfield  stubble  and 
rowen  fields  of  outlymg  suburbs 
could  gather  into  one  of  the  major 
sub-flocks  before  heading  off  to 
the  primary,  communal  roost  yet 
farther  east. 

A  primary  roost  can  contain 
thousands  of  crows.  All  crows 
within  about  a  20-mile  radius 
spend  the  night  together  there. 
The  closest  roost  to  Brandeis  is 
currently  in  the  area  of  the  former 
Shopper's  World  in  Framingham.  It 
has  been  in  that  general  area  for  a 
decade  or  two  and  by  midwinter 
may  hold  nearly  10,000  crows.  It  is 
thought  by  naturalists  that  such 
communal  roosts  give  mdividuals 
and  feeding-groups  a  chance  to 
exchange  information,  to  share 
what  they  have  learned  about  the 
flush  places  and  the  lean  places 
and  the  places  of  danger  and 
safety.  The  utterances  of  which 
crows  are  capable  are  known  to  be 
varied  and  complex,  and  it  is 
certain  that  crucial  data  of 
remarkable  sophistication  are 
being  shared.  Thus,  a  small  group 
that  has  found  a  meager  menu  in 
Medford  may  be  apprised  of  a 
bonanza  in  Brookline  and,  so,  head 
off  in  a  whole  new  direction  the 
next  morning. 


What  instills  awe  in  those  of  us 
who  study  such  things  is  that 
crows  bother  to  act  like  this  at  all. 
They  are  not,  after  all,  like  bees. 
The  communal  roost  is  nothing 
like  a  hive.  Individual  crows  can 
survive  quite  nicely  alone,-  they 
are  the  smartest  of  birds,  clever, 
artful,  remarkably  resourceful.  It  is 
as  though  crows  help  each  other 
simply  because  they  have  an 
inherent  understanding  that 
ensuring  the  welfare  of  the  entire 
species  is  in  the  best  interest  of  its 
individuals.  Generally,  I  hate 
anthropomorpnism,  but  you  can 
learn  volumes  about  community 
by  watching  crows. 

You  can  also  learn  volumes  about 
a  university  by  weighing  its  sense 
of  community.  Note  the  general 
themes  throughout  the  feature 
articles  of  this  issue;  human  rights 
and  dignity;  service  to  the  local 
and  global  community;  in  short, 
an  active  concern  for  humankind 
and  its  future.  Those  are  matters 
about  which  Brandeis  University's 
faculty,  students,  and  most 
certainly  its  eponym  have 
traditionally  held  deep  and 
enduring  convictions.  It  is  the 
thing  that  makes  me  most  proud 
of  my  association  with  this  place. 

Cliff 


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Editor 

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Brandeis  Review. 
Volume  15 

Number2,  Winter  1995 
Brandeis  Review 
(ISSN  0273-7175) 
IS  published  by 
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Waltham,  Massachusetts 
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On  the  cover: 
Drying  pawpaw  at 
Grenfruit  Women's 
Cooperative, 
photographed  by 
Heather  Pillar 


Winter  1995 


Brandeis  Review 


Volume  15 


Number  2 


The  View  from  Cairo 

A  biologist  looks  at  world 
population  trends  and  fears  what 
he  sees 

Lawrence  J.  Wangh  '68 

22 

Creating  a 

Human  Rights  Culture 

Even  the  "Land  of  the  Free"  is 
sorely  limited  in  its  guaranties  of 
human  rights 

Joseph  Wronka,  Ph.D.  '92 

28 

"Life  is  Not  Hard;  It  is  a 
Struggle":  Women  and  Work 
in  a  Rural  Cooperative 

From  Grenada,  text  and  photos 
show  what  initiative  and 
determination  will  build 

Dessima  Williams 

32 

Mending  the  World 

For  25  years,  Brandeis's  TYP  and 
Waltham  Group  have  been 
bettering  people's  lives 

Marjorie  Lyon 

38 

Pick  the  Winner 

A  flock  of  finalists  await  your  vote 
in  the  "Design  our  Mascot"  contest 

48 

Shortly  after  its  founding  in  1966.  the 
Waltham  Group  sponsored  Children 's 
Day.  held  on  December  10,  1967.  Motl 
than  200  children  participated,  as  did 
nearly  as  many  Brandeis  students,  among 
them  Don  Aptekar  '69,  shown  here 
having  his  portrait  done  by  a  budding 
vniini'  orti^t 


Letters 


2      Benefactors 


Founders'  Weekend  1994 


3      Books 


18 
42 


Students 


4     Alumni 


Faculty 


8     Class  Notes 


46 
49 


Letters 


Birds  of  a  Feather 

Dear  Cliff, 

Where  do  these  rumors  come 
from??  As  a  member  of  the 
first  class  ('52),  I  enjoy 
reading  the  occasional  article 
about  my  era.  Thus,  I  was 
mystified  by  your  account  of 
the  owl  in  the  cage.  I 
remember  the  wishing  well, 
but  an  owl?  Thmkmg  maybe  I 
was  having  a  memory  lapse,  I 
interviewed  my  ex-roommate 
('52),  and  next  door  neighbor 
('53),  neither  of  whom  had 
any  memory  of  such  a  thing. 
From  what  we  can  remember, 
the  mascot  was,  hohum, 
because  of  the  judge.  Sorry  to 
debunk  your  story,  but  all  of 
us  were  astounded  by  it. 

Sincerely, 

Miriam  (Smith)  Miller 

Lexington,  Massachusetts 


Dear  Cliff: 

Legend  has  it,  my  Aunt 
Fanny!  Cliff,  I  think  you 
made  up  the  whole  owl  story. 
I  realize  that  we  old  geezers 
can't  remember  what  we  had 
for  breakfast  this  morning, 
but  things  that  happened 
almost  50  years  ago 
(omigawd)  are  still  fresh  in 
what's  left  of  our  mmds.  In 
the  good  old  days,  before  you 
young  whippersnappers  were 
even  prenatal  gleams,  we  had 
the  pleasure  and  great  fun  of 
creating  instant  history,  and 
there  warn't  no  owl.  And, 
even  if  there  was  one, 
Norman  Grimm  would  have 
made  Shepherd's  Pie  or  leg  of 
mutton  out  of  it.  And 
knowing  him,  it  would  have 
served  all  107  of  us,  plus 
whoever  of  the  faculty  had 
the  guts  to  eat  in  The  Castle 
cafeteria! 


The  Justice  was  easy  to 
name,  the  nickname  "The 
Judges"  was  obvious,  but 
where  in  tarnation  did  the 
damned  owl  come  from? 

Laurence  M.  Nigrosh  '52 
Randolph,  Massachusetts 

Don't  you  think  you  folks 
from  the  Class  of  1 952  are 
taking  this  "Truth  Even 
Unto  Its  Innermost  Parts" 
business  a  bit  too  far?  If  you 
keep  debunking  all  our 
sacred  Brandeis  legends,  all 
we'll  have  left  are  the  dozen 
or  so  former  U.S.  presidents 
and  Nobel  laureates  among 
the  alumni,  the 
extraterrestrials  discovered 
living  in  the  basement  of 
Ford  Hall,  the  time  Elvis 
played  Cholmondeley's.  and 
Leonard  Bernstein's  having 
written  West  Side  Story  in 
The  Castle.  The  owl  story, 
by  the  way,  came  directly 
from  Ralph  Norman. 
-Cliff 

You  Can't  Tell  a  Book  by 
Its  Coverage 

Dear  Cliff  Hauptman: 

As  a  Brandeis  alumna,  I  was 
shocked  by  the  shoddy 
summary  of  Christina  Hoff 
Sommers's  book  Who  Stole 
Feminism  that  you  printed 
on  page  43  of  the  Fall  1994 
issue  of  the  Brandeis 
Review.  True  you  state  in 
small  print  inside  the  cover 
that  opinions  are  those  of 
the  author,  but  no  author  is 
cited  for  the  book 
summaries.  Given  the 
outright  lies  in  this 
summary,  I  can  only  guess 
that  it  was  written  by 
Christina  Hoff  Sommers 
herself. 

"In  case  after  case,"  the 
summary  reads,  "the  author 
shows  how  these  extremists 
have  propped  up  their 
arguments  with  highly 
questionable  but  well-funded 
research,  presenting 
inflammatory  and  often 
inaccurate  information  and 
stifling  any  semblance  of 
open  scrutiny." 


Numerous  things  are  wrong 
with  this  statement. 

1.  Christina  Hoff  Sommers' 
$164,000  funding  from  the 
right  wing  Olin,  Bradley  and 
Carthage  Foundations  and 
her  six-figure  advance  from 
Simon  and  Schuster  are  far 
greater  funding  than  feminist 
researchers  receive. 
{Democratic  Culture,  Vol.  3, 
number  2,  Fall  1994,  p.  17.) 

2.  The  charge  of  inaccuracy 
is  more  likely  to  stick  on 
Christina  Hoff  Sommers 
than  on  the  feminists  she 
criticizes.  Nina  Auerbach, 
professor  of  English  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania 
pointed  out  numerous 
inaccuracies  in  her  review  of 
Who  Stole  Feminism  for  the 
New  York  Times  Book 
Review  (June  12,  1994).  John 
K.  Wilson,  a  graduate  student 
at  the  University  of  Chicago, 
has  pointed  out  others  in  his 
articles  in  Democratic 
Culture,  1994.  These  include 
misrepresenting  Blanche 
Weisen  Cooke's  careful 
research  on  Eleanor 
Roosevelt  (p.  20),  Ann 
Peterson's  research  of 
adolescent  girls  (p.  144), 
Claire  Renzetti's  research  on 
lesbian  violence  (p.  199), 
Mary  Koss'  research  on  rape 
(p.  201),  the  history  of  the 
rule  of  thumb  (p.  204),  and 
distortions  of  the  AAUW 
study  Shortchanging  Girls. 

I  find  your  mouthing  of  her 
lies  all  the  more  startling 
because  they  appear  on  the 
same  page  as  a  summary  of 
Carol  Tavris's  wonderful 
book  The  Mismeasure  of 
Woman  and  two  pages  away 
from  Nancy  Chodorow's 
Femininities.  Masculinities. 
Sexualities.  These  major 
authors  in  the  field  of 
women's  studies  are  Brandeis 
graduates.  In  fact,  a 
disproportionately  large 
number  of  prominent 
feminists  scholars  today  are 
Brandeis  alumnae.  To  attack 
them  (or  us)  in  your 
magazine  without  any 
opportunity  for  rebuttal  is 
unscholarly  and  downright 
insulting. 


I  expect  to  read  my  letter 
and  others'  in  your  next 
issue  of  the  Brandeis 
Review  and  to  see 
authorship  of  the  book 
summaries  noted  routinely 
in  the  future. 

Sincerely, 
Eleanor  Linn  '67 
Associate  Director 
Center  for  Sex  Equity 
in  Schools 

Apparently,  the  role  of 
the  "Books"  department 
of  our  magazine  needs 
clarification:  we  regularly 
run  "Books"  as  a  means  of 
informing  our  readers  of  the 
prolific  authorship 
activities  of  Brandeis' s 
faculty,  staff,  and  alumni. 
The  texts  that  accompany 
the  author,  title,  and 
publishing  information  are 
not  reviews  (nor,  even, 
summaries);  the  sizes  of  our 
staff  and  budget  preclude  a 
thorough  reading  of  each 
work.  Recognizing, 
however,  that  some  hint  of 
each  book's  contents  and 
subject  may  be  helpful, 
we  include  promotional/ 
marketing  materials 
gleaned  from  the  books' 
dust  jackets  or  from 
information  provided  by 
the  author  and/or  publisher. 
Under  the  circumstances, 
that  is  the  fairest  way  of 
giving  each  author  equal 
publicity.  We  of  the 
Brandeis  Review  cannot  and 
do  not  make  decisions 
about  the  aptness  or 
accuracy  of  each  book's 
promotional  materials.  If, 
however,  enough  of  our 
readers  feel  that  this 
policy's  danger  of 
misleading  or  offending 
outweighs  the  benefits  of 
the  information  it  provides, 
we  will  consider  dropping 
the  blurbs  and  simply 
listing  the  books'  authors, 
titles,  and  publication  data. 
We  welcome  your 
comments. 
-Cliff 


2  Brandeis  Review 


Founders'  Weekend 
1994 


More  than  200  students, 
faculty,  staff,  and  guests 
includuig  Congressman 
Edward  Markey  attended  the 
official  dedication  of  the  new 
Benjamin  and  Mae  Volen 
National  Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  held  during 
Founders'  Day  Weekend, 
October  20-22,  1994. 

Festivities  began  with  a  two- 
day  scientific  symposium 
and  continued  throughout 
the  weekend  with  a  dinner 
and  panel  discussion  titled 
"Remembering 
Grandmother's  Face:  How 
Memory  Functions"  Friday 
evening,  and  a  formal 
luncheon  followed  by  the 
official  dedication  ceremony 
on  Saturday,  October  22, 
1994. 

During  the  ribbon-cutting 
ceremony  in  the  Volen 
Center  courtyard.  President 
lehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72, 
Associate  Provost  Arthur 
Reis  Jr.,  Center  Director  and 
Nancy  Lurie  Marks  Professor 
of  Developmental 
Neuroscience  Irwin  Levitan, 
Markey,  and  National 
Women's  Committee 
President  Belle  lurkowitz  '55 
talked  about  the  importance 
of  the  Center  and  expressed 
their  thanks  to  all  who  were 
involved  in  its  development. 

"The  Volen  Center 
represents  Brandeis's 
commitment  to  the 
interdisciplinary  study  of 
the  sciences  and  to  quality 


research,"  Reinharz  said  in 
his  opening  remarks.  He 
later  called  Thelma  Sachar, 
wife  of  the  late  Founding 
President  Abram  L.  Sachar, 
out  of  the  audience  to  cut 
the  ribbon  on  the  new 
Center. 

"Today  is  a  day  of  great  pride 
for  Brandeis,  Massachusetts, 
and  the  country  as  a  whole," 
Markey  said.  "I  firmly 
believe  that  great  strides  in 
understanding  the  brain  will 
take  place  at  Brandeis,  and 
the  Volen  Center  will 
become  an  extremely 
important  national 
resource." 

After  the  dedication,  many 
honors  and  awards  were 
presented  to  alumni  for 
outstanding  leadership  and 
service  to  Brandeis  and/or 
the  community. 

The  prestigious  Alumni 
Achievement  Award  was 
given  to  Suk-Won  Kim  '70, 
for  his  remarkable 
entrepreneurship  as 
chairman  of  the  Ssangyong 
Group,  one  of  the  leading 
business  conglomerates  in 
South  Korea.  Based  on  his 
work  at  Brandeis,  Kim  has 
published  many  articles  on 
business  development 
strategies. 

Barbara  Cantor  Sherman  '54 
and  Jeffrey  H.  Golland  '61 
were  presented  with  Alumni 
Leadership  Awards,  based  on 
their  loyal  and  undying 
support  and  involvement 
with  the  University. 
Sherman  has  had  a  long 
relationship  with  Brandeis. 
She  has  served  on  many 
class  Reunion  and  annual 
fund  committees,  and  is  a 
lifetime  member  of  the 
National  Women's 
Committee,  and  a  Fellow  of 
the  University.  Sherman  is 
currently  the  chair  of  the 
Friends  of  Theater  Arts,  an 
organization  whose  mission 
is  to  preserve  excellence  and 
to  build  on  the  proud 
tradition  of  theater  arts  at 
Brandeis. 


Suk-Won  Kim 


Thelma  Sachar,  centei,  cuts 
the  zibbon  on  the  Volen 
Center  as,  from  left. 
Congressman  Edward  J. 
Markey,  President  fehuda 


Golland  was  an  active 
member  of  many  campus 
organizations,  including  the 
Alumni  Admissions 
Council,  Friends  of  Brandeis 
Athletics,  and  the  Alumni 
Career  Network.  He  served 
as  president  of  the  Alumni 
Association  for  two  terms 
in  1985-89,  is  a  former 
member  of  the  President's 
Council,  and  a  Fellow  of  the 
University. 

The  1994  Young  Leadership 
Award  was  given  to  Brian 
Saber  '84.  During  the  1 1 
years  since  receiving  his 
degree  from  Brandeis,  he 
constantly  strengthens  his 
relationship  with  the 
University  in  countless 
ways  including  serving  as 
president  and  vice  president 
of  the  Chicago  chapter  of 
the  Alumni  Association,  as 
a  member  of  his  class 
Reunion  gift  committee,  as 
a  volunteer  for  the  Hiatt 
Alumni  Career  Network, 
and  as  a  charter  member  of 
the  Legacy  Circle.  Saber 
also  established  a  Women's 
Studies  Scholarship  in 
memory  of  his  father. 

The  recipient  of  the  Alumni 
Admissions  Council  Award 
was  Judith  Paull  Aronson 
'55.  A  member  of  the 


Reinharz,  Volen  Cemei 
Director  Irwin  Levitan,  and 
Chair  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  Louis  Perlmutter 
look  on. 


Legacy  Circle  and  Fellow  of 
the  University,  Aronson  has 
been  an  active  supporter  in 
the  Alumni  Admissions 
Council.  She  is  currently 
the  chair  of  the  Alumni 
Admissions  Council  for 
Southern  California,  a 
position  she  has  held  since 
1989. 

Unable  to  attend  the 
ceremony  was  Ambassador- 
at-Large  Robert  Gallucci, 
M.A.  '68,  Ph.D.  '74,  former 
assistant  secretary  of  state 
for  political-military  affairs 
and  veteran  career  diplomat. 
Gallucci,  who  was  to  be 
presented  with  an  Alumni 
Achievement  Award,  was  in 
Geneva  concluding  a  treaty 
agreement  with  North 
Korea.  Gallucci  came  to 
Brandeis  m  January  to 
receive  his  award  and  give 
an  address. 

In  addition,  five  alumni 
were  named  as  President's 
Councilors  and  presented 
with  special  plaques  by 
President  Reinharz: 
Kwabena  Akufo  '77,  Yehuda 
Cohen  '81,  Edward  '61  and 
Judith  '63  Feldstein,  and 
Susan  Jay  '71. 


3  Winter  1995 


students 


Daja  Meston  '96 
West  Meets  East 
Meets  West 


Imagine  experiencing 
everything  as  new,  with  a 
child's  perspective  of 
continual  discovery,  but 
you  are  an  adult.  Instead  of 
a  dull  sense  of  repetition 
solidified  into  habit  during 
the  day,  you  are  delighted 
by — and  struggle  with — 
constant  surprises.  To  Daja 
Meston  '96  that  is  the  way 
life  seems.  "Nothing  has 
prepared  me  for  this,  really. 
Every  smgle  class  I  take, 
everything  I  read,  I  study,  I 
hear,  is  all  new.  I'm  like  a 
sponge.  It's  fascinating,  the 
things  so  many  people  take 
for  granted,"  he  says. 

He  IS  intrigued  because 
the  most  familiar  and 
psychically  comfortable 
surrounding  that  framed  his 
childhood  and  teenage  years 
is  a  Buddhist  monastery 
nestled  in  the  breathtaking 
landscape  near  Katmandu, 
Nepal. 

Nothing  could  be  further 
from  the  experience  of  a 
typical  American  child. 
Picture  a  6-year-old  in  the 
United  States — he  faces  the 
huge  demands  of  first  grade, 
learnmg  to  read,  to  write,  to 
understand  number 
relationships,  his  thought 
process  itself  molded  to 
solve  problems. 

Not  so  for  Meston.  Born  in 
Geneva  as  his  American 
parents  meandered  through 
Europe  and  Asia  on  their 
vintage  sixties  quest  for 
meaning,  he  accumulated 
none  of  the  underpinnings 
that  most  college  students 
take  for  granted.  As  a 
toddler  and  preschooler,  he 
was  able  to  participate  in 
his  parents'  journey  to  see 
the  world.  But  at  the  age  of 
4,  radical  changes  were  in 
store  for  him.  And  by  6 — 

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when  most  Americans 
begin  first  grade — he  was 
preparing  to  enter  a  Tibetan 
Buddhist  monastery. 

His  parents  wended  their 
way  through  life  subject  to 
whim  and  advice  from 
unconventional  sources. 
Consider  his  mother's 
approach  when  their  van 
broke  down  in  Afghanistan. 
As  chance  would  have  it, 
Americans  passing  through 
offered  to  take  them  to  a 
city  in  India.  Would  they 
go?  His  mother  consulted 
the  I  Ching,  the  Chinese 
oracle.  The  affirmative 
response  sent  them  on 
their  way. 

Traveling  south  from  the 
mountains  of  Afghanistan, 
a  slow  trek  on  rock  strewn 
roads  past  villages  of  mud 
and  straw  huts,  they  came 
to  the  northern  India  town 
of  Dharmsala.  The  home  of 
the  Dalai  Lama  and  a  center 
of  Tibetan  Buddhism,  this 
exotic  and  spiritual  place 
captivated  Meston's 
parents.  Embracing 
Buddhism,  they  studied 
there  for  more  than  a  year, 
moving  to  Katmandu, 
Nepal,  to  continue  their 
search  for  enlightenment. 

Blessed  with  astounding 
vistas  and  rich  with  a  sense 
of  the  spiritual,  Katmandu 
marked  a  turning  point.  The 
family  would  never  be 
together  again.  Meston's 
father  became  ill  and 
returned  to  the  United 
States.  His  mother  decided 
to  become  a  Buddhist  nun, 
living  in  retreats  in  India 
and  Nepal.  And  Meston-  A 
long-term  boarding 
arrangement  made  by  his 
mother  for  her  4-year-old 
placed  him  with  a  family 
of  Tibetan  nobles  exiled 
by  the  Chinese  occupation 
of  their  country. 


Daja  Meston 


The  large  pink  concrete 
house  that  became  his 
home  was  bustling:  the 
father,  his  two  wives,  who 
were  sisters,  and  12 
children  swallowed  up  the 
little  boy.  "The  most 
difficult  part  of  this  adopted 
family  was  that  I  looked 
different,  and  I  didn't  know 
why,"  Meston  remembers. 
The  man  of  the  house  wore 
western-style  clothes,  while 
his  wives  wore  the 
traditional  silver  jewelry 
and  Tibetan  dress,  skirts 
with  bright,  embroidered 
aprons.  Like  the  other 
children,  Meston  was 
required  to  memorize 
lengthy  Buddhist  prayers  by 
the  strict,  strap-wielding 
father.  "I  was  terrified  of 
him,"  Meston  says.  "But  in 
spite  of  him  I  started  seeing 
these  people  as  my  family.  I 
didn't  comprehend  the 
arrangements  they  had 
made  with  my  mother."  By 
the  time  Meston's  mother 
came  to  visit,  to  talk  and 
bring  him  candy,  he  spoke 
Tibetan,  not  English,  and 
she  could  not  communicate 
with  him. 

She  was  also  part  of  an 
American  culture  of  which 
he  knew  practically 
nothing.  What  did  seem 
natural  to  him  was  her 
decision  that  he  would 
become  a  Buddhist  monk. 
Having  his  head  shaved  and 


being  fitted  for  red  monk's 
robes,  Meston  describes 
himself  as  excited  and 
happy.  "It's  not  uncommon 
in  Tibet  for  a  small 
boy  to  go  to  a  monastery," 
he  explains. 

A  typical  day  in  his  young 
life  began  at  5:30  am  with  a 
splash  of  cold  water  on  his 
face  to  wash.  "There  was  no 
hot  water  at  the  monastery 
and  the  monks  (the  oldest 
were  in  their  mid-30s) 
didn't  shower.  We  didn't 
bathe  very  often,"  Meston 
explains.  "And  I  never  wore 
shoes.  I  was  black  with  dirt, 
but  I  wasn't  aware  that  I 
was  dirty,"  he  remembers. 

Isolated,  with  no  access  to 
television  or  magazines,  the 
80  monks'  world  centered 
on  memorizing  prayers, 
reciting  what  was  learned, 
debating  philosophical 
questions,  and  cleaning 
assigned  areas.  Sparse  meals 
were  served  with  numbing 
repetition.  "The  worst  thing 
about  the  monastery  was 
the  food.  It  was  very  bad 
and  always  the  same — but  I 
never  had  enough.  I  was 
constantly  hungry,"  Meston 
remembers. 

Breakfast?  Tea  and  a  kind  of 
pita  bread,  eaten  between 
early  morning  prayers  and 
late  morning  memorizing 
and  oral  exams.  Lunch? 


Rice  and  dahl,  an  Indian 
lentil  dish,  before  afternoon 
lessons  in  philosophy. 
Dinner?  Not  until  7:00  pm, 
when  noodle  soup  was 
served.  The  evening  hours 
were  spent  discussing 
philosophy,  then  reciting 
the  material  learned  that 
day.  A  strict  regimen — but 
nothing  like  education  as 
taken  for  granted  in  the 
West.  "I  was  taught  to  read 
Tibetan,  but  not  to  write," 
explains  Meston.  "I  had  no 
math  or  history.  The 
teachers  emphasized 
Tibetan  Buddhist 
philosophy."  What  he  has 
retained  is  not  the  ritual,  for 
which  he  says  he  has  little 
use,  but  a  core  mandate  to 
treat  others  with  kindness 
and  compassion. 

That  was  not  how  he  was 
treated.  Taller  than  most  of 
his  Asian  peers  and  looking 
different,  he  was  teased.  "I 
knew  I  was  different 
because  everybody  noticed. 
They  called  me  names,"  he 
says.  During  the  time  he 
stayed  at  the  monastery — 
from  1976  until  1985  when 
he  was  15 — he  had  no  close 
friends. 

There  was  one  hiatus  in 
1980 — a  brief  trip,  four 
months  visiting  his  mother 
m  London  and  about  10 
days  in  Los  Angeles  to  see 
his  great-grandmother.  He 
packed  in  a  cornucopia  of 
experiences  in  stunning 
contrast  to  the  preceding 
four-year  litany  of 
repetition.  Suddenly  lots  of 
people  looked  the  same  as 
he  did.  "I  felt  liberated, 
to  be  one  of  the  crowd 
instead  of  always  standing 
out,"  he  says. 

And  of  America?  "I  loved 
every  bit  of  it."  It  was 
California's  sleek  endless 
freeways  that  dazzled  him, 
in  contrast  to  Nepal's 
pitted,  primitive  roads.  And 
the  swimming  pools,  he 
recalls  with  delight:  "I'd 
wake  up  at  six  or  seven 
o'clock  just  to  get  into  the 
pool.  In  the  whole  of 


Katmandu,  there  was  only 
one  public  swimming  pool, 
where  we  went  once  a  year 
on  a  special  occasion." 

The  compelling  taste  of 
Western  culture  lingered 
when  Meston  returned  to 
Nepal,  Its  intrigue  amplified 
when  he  was  sent,  m  1985, 
to  a  massive  monastery 
with  over  3,000  students  in 
southern  India,  near 
Mysore.  There,  he  describes 
hitting  bottom.  "It  was 
unbelievably  difficult  for 
me.  Sick  and  miserable,  I 
finally  decided  I  didn't  want 
to  be  a  monk  anymore." 

So  he  left.  Frightened  and 
alone  at  16,  he  was  willing 
to  venture  into  completely 
unknown  and  forbidding 
territory,  sustained  by  the 
knowledge,  he  says,  that  his 
natural  curiosity  and 
enjoyment  of  learning  new 
things  would  always  be 
with  him.  Selling  his  monks 
robes  and  sleeping  bag  for 
fare  to  travel,  speaking 
Tibetan,  Hindi,  Nepalese, 
and  very  little  English,  what 
he  got  was  a  crash  course  in 
survival  skills.  But  also, 
says  Meston,  it  was  a  time 
that  he  felt  "free."  Touring 
London  for  a  month,  he 
pedaled  a  bicycle  around  the 
magnificent  city  wearing  a 
Walkman  and  listening  to 
Madonna,  relishing 
spontaneity.  Then  it  was  a 
year  in  Italy — Venice, 
Florence,  Rome — and  a 
Buddhist  center  near  Pisa, 
staying  not  as  a  monk  but 
as  a  handyman  and  cook. 

But  this  lifestyle  did  not 
satisfy  what  Meston 
describes  as  "a  driving  force 
in  me — to  get  an 
education."  With  that  in 
mind,  he  came  to  America 
in  1987.  Meston  had  a  lot  of 
catching  up  to  do.  "I 
remember  not  being  able  to 
write,  not  being  able  to 
subtract,"  he  says.  Staying 
with  family  friends  in 
Southern  California, 
attending  high  school  in 


Orange  County,  he  was 
such  an  oddity  that  he  was 
the  subject  of  a  profile  in 
The  Los  Angeles  Times. 
Indeed,  almost  everything 
was  new  for  him.  Accepting 
the  owner's  suggestion  to 
work  in  a  factory  on 
weekends,  Meston  was 
astonished  when  he  was 
offered  money.  He  was 
doing  it,  he  thought,  as  a 
favor.  And  paid  by  the  hour- 
To  him  that  seemed 
impossibly  extravagant;  in 
Nepal,  workers  are  paid  by 
the  month. 

Attracted  by  the  large 
choice  of  colleges  in 
Massachusetts,  he  enrolled 
at  a  junior  college  in 
Worcester.  But  the  courses 
there  did  not  satisfy  his 
vision.  Transferring  to 
Brandeis  brought  him  to  a 
place  of  discovery. 

Now  he  is  exploring  his 
heritage.  In  1989  he  learned 
that  both  his  parents  were 
lewish.  In  fact,  he  is  related 
to  famed  Zionist  leader  and 
Hadassah  founder  Henrietta 
Szold.  "Before  I  came  to 
America,  I  really  didn't 
know  what  a  lew  was," 
Meston  says.  Eager  to  take 
ludaic  studies  courses  at 
Brandeis,  and  to  someday 
visit  Israel,  Meston,  a 
sociology  major,  is  focused 
first  on  getting  a  good 
education. 

And  of  his  unusual  life 
journey,  he  says  "For  me, 
I'm  happy  I  went  through 
all  those  experiences 
because  it  gave  me  a  unique 
background.  And  everything 
here  is  remarkable  to  me." 
Savoring  the  novelty,  he  is 
bringing  a  far-flung  past 
into  perspective  with 
American  culture.  The 
juxtapositions  are 
extraordinary.  In  the  same 
breath  that  he  mentions  his 
Tibetan  name,  Thubten 
Wangchuk,  he  can  also  tell 
you  that  his  grandfather 
wrote  and  produced  the  old 
western  TV  series 
"Gunsmoke." 


Married  to  a  Tibetan 
woman  from  India  whom  he 
met  in  the  United  States, 
Meston  struggles  with  a 
sense  of  identity  and  lack  of 
roots.  Soft-spoken,  with  a 
ready  smile,  he  notes  with 
amusement  that  his 
appearance  is  completely 
misleading,  as  if  he  lives  in 
a  white  body  that  houses  a 
Tibetan.  He  enjoys  his 
ability  to  straddle  two 
disparate  cultures,  to  be 
able  to  choose  either  to 
participate  in  the  subtle 
intricacies  of  each  or  to  step 
outside  and  look  in  with  a 
foreigner's  cool  eye.  And  he 
has  a  way  of  being  in  the 
world  that  stems  from 
Buddhist  philosophy — 
something  Westerners  often 
seek  to  quickly  obtain — 
impossible  to  put  into 


Eleven-year-old  Daja 
Meston  (Thubten 
Wangchuk)  memorizing 
prayers  with  fellow 
monks  at  a  monastery  in 
Katmandu. 


words,  acquired  only 
gradually,  over  many  years. 
Presently,  he  greatly 
appreciates  the  opportunity 
to  be  a  Brandeis  student. 
His  joyful  curiosity  sustains 
him  and  provides  a  steady 
source  of  strength.  "I  feel 
that  I'm  always  growing, 
that  I'm  very  curious,  and  I 
keep  finding  out  there  are  a 
lot  of  interesting  things  to 
be  learned  and  understood.  I 
get  a  lot  out  of  seeing  that 
process  in  myself,"  Meston 
explains.  He  is  convinced 
that  adventure  is  always 
available  to  him. 


5  Winter  1995 


A  Resource  for 
Campus  Women 


Student  Killed  in 
Auto  Accident 


!\,::  ::i  !\l._,lJ    vj  111  the 

Women's  Resource  Center 


The  Women's  Resource 
Center,  located  on  the 
second  floor  of  Usdan 
Student  Center,  features 
a  library  of  more  than  300 
books  on  women's  issues 
and  women  writers.  It  also 
serves  as  a  meeting  place 
for  several  student 
organizations,  including  a 
support  group  for  women 
survivors  of  rape  and  sexual 
assault. 

"One  of  the  important 
thmgs  about  the  center  is 
that  It  remain  a  safe  space 
for  all  the  people  here,"  said 
Nikki  Horberg  '95,  a 
member  of  the  organizing 
committee  for  the  center. 
It  aims  to  foster  an 
atmosphere  of  mutual 


Men's  Soccer 
Team  Wins  ECAC 
Tournament 


respect  in  which  everyone 
can  feel  comfortable 
expressing  her  views. 

The  center  was  opened  in 
March  1993  by  a  committee 
of  representatives  from 
campus  women's  groups 
with  funding  from  the 
Office  of  Campus  Life.  It  is 
open  Monday  through 
Thursday  from  1 1:00  am  to 
4:00  pm,  and  Sunday  from 
12:00  to  3:00  pm. 

The  center  recently 
initiated  a  project  called  the 
Brandeis  Women's  Archive, 
described  as  a  collection  of 
history  past,  present,  and 
future  of  the  experience  at 
Brandeis  for  women.  Oral 
histories  and  other 
documentation  from 
alumnae,  students,  faculty, 
staff,  and  clubs  arc  sought 
as  part  of  a  chronicle 
showing  that  Brandeis  is  a 
place  where  strong  women 
develop. 


Brandeis  student  David 
Henner  '96  died  November 
22,  1994,  following  an 
automobile  accident 
in  Belchertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Henner,  from  Valley 
Stream,  New  York,  is 
survived  by  his  parents, 
Leo  and  Estclle  Henner,  and 
his  brother,  Adam. 

At  a  memorial  service  on 
December  13,  1994,  in 
Slosberg  Recital  Hall, 
Henner  was  remembered 
by  loyce  Antler,  associate 
professor  of  American 
studies,  lacob  Cohen, 
associate  professor  of 
American  studies,  and 
Andreas  Teuber,  associate 


Hiatt  Center 
Program  Pairs 
Graduates,  Prelaw 
Advisees 


Matthew  Murphy  '98  steals 
the  ball  from  a  Wheaton 
College  opponent. 


Three  straight  wins  over 
top-rated  opponents  led  the 
Brandeis  men's  soccer  team 
to  Its  first-ever  Eastern 
College  Athletic  Conference 
(ECAC)  Division  III  New 
England  championship. 

In  the  opening  round  of  the 
tourney,  forward  Ken 
Hannan  '95,  scored  two 
goals  late  in  the  first  half 
and  added  a  second-half 
assist  to  lead  Brandeis  to  a 
4-0  win  over  host 
Bridgewater  State  College. 
Bridgewater  State,  which 
downed  Brandeis  1-0  in  the 
first  round  of  the  ECAC's 
last  year,  was  the  champion 
of  the  Massachusetts  State 
Athletic  Conference  this 
year. 

In  the  semifinals,  Hannan 
and  forward  Mark  Moroney 
'96,  scored  a  goal  in  each 
half  to  lead  Brandeis  to  a  2-0 
win  over  Colby  College. 
Hannan  then  scored  a  pair 


of  goals  to  clinch  a  4-2  win 
against  Wheaton  College  in 
the  championship  game. 

Hannan  was  named  most 
valuable  player  for  the 
tourney.  He  finished  the 
season  with  a  team  high  of 
15  goals,  and  is  seventh  on 
the  all-time  scoring  list 
with  32  goals  and  15  assists, 
for  79  points.  "In  our  last 
few  games  we  came  out  and 
destroyed  everybody,"  said 
Hannan.  "I  don't  think 
there's  any  team  in  New 
England  that  could  stop  us." 

Coach  Michael  Coven, 
ending  his  22nd  season  at 
Brandeis,  called  his  players 
"as  good  a  team  as  I've  ever 
had. ..Even  when  we  weren't 
winning,  every  day  going 
out  to  practice  was  fun." 


Lori  Gannon  '95  is  getting 
an  insider's  view  this 
semester  of  what  life  in  law 
school  is  really  like. 
Through  phone  calls  and 
e-mail  messages  with  first 
year  Harvard  Law  School 
student  Jason  Mogel  '93, 
she's  hearing  about  all-night 
study  sessions,  oral  exams, 
and  a  grueling  pace  that 
"gets  tougher  week  by 
week." 

Gannon  and  22  other 
Brandeis  seniors  have  been 
matched  up  with  students 
at  Harvard  Law,  who  will 
guide  them  through  the 
application  process  and 
inform  them  about  the 
realities  of  law  school.  The 
program,  begun  last  month 
by  the  Hiatt  Career 
Development  Center,  has 
already  had  some  "very 
positive  reports,"  according 
to  Center  Director  Frank 
Fessenden. 


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Tourney  raises 
money  for 
children  with  AIDS 


Brandeis  Student 
Brings  Medical 
Care  to  the  Poor 
of  Guatemala 


fabes  Otoniel  Rojas- 
Hemandez  '97 


professor  of  philosophy,  as 
someone  who  was  a 
"pleasure  to  teach,"  and  as 
a  loyal  and  involved  student 
in  the  American  studies 
department.  President 
lehuda  Reinharz  noted 
[hat  Henner  had  been 
thoroughly  involved  m 
life  outside  the  classroom 
also,  from  sports  to  Doing 
lustice,  the  Social  Board, 
and  other  Student  Senate 
projects. 

The  service,  attended  by 
an  overflow  audience  of 
students  and  community 
members,  was  officiated 
over  by  Rabbi  Albert 
Axelrad.  The  Psychological 
Counseling  Center  provided 
individual  and  group 
counseling  services  for 
students  affected  by  the 
loss  of  their  classmate. 


A  recent  basketball 
tournament  organized  by 
two  Brandeis  students  raised 
more  than  $2,000  to  benefit 
the  Foundation  for  Children 
with  AIDS. 

Elaine  Waldman  '96  and 
Diane  Morof  '95  organized 
the  three-on-three  basketball 
tournament  that  was  held 
Saturday,  October  29,  1994, 
at  the  Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center  with  a 
little  help  from  the  Boston 
Celtics.  The  event  coincided 
with  a  Celtics  open  practice 
at  the  Gosman  Center,  and 
the  team  donated  prizes  of 
autographed  basketballs  and 
tickets  to  a  game  for  the 
winners. 

Sixteen  teams  of  Brandeis 
students  participated  in  the 
event,  which  was 
cosponsored  by  Brandeis 
Health  Services,  Friends  of 
Brandeis  Athletics,  and 
several  corporate  sponsors. 


While  Gannon  has  not  met 
in  person  yet  with  her 
mentor  due  to  his  schedule, 
he  recently  provided  advice 
and  commented  on  a  draft 
of  Gannon's  all-important 
personal  statement  for  her 
law  school  applications. 

"He's  a  sympathetic  ear 
who  knows  the  whole 
process,"  said  Gannon. 
"That  aspect  is  what  makes 
it  different  from  going  to 
the  Hiatt  Center.  It's 
someone  your  age  who's 
gone  through  it.  And  that's 
very  helpful." 

Gannon  said  Mogel,  in  the 
midst  of  preparing  for 
rigorous  exams,  has  joked 
that  maybe  she  should  be 
comforting  him.  Still  she 
said  she  "wouldn't  refuse" 
if  accepted  at  Harvard  and 
plans  to  sit  in  soon  on 
classes  there. 


The  program  was  the  idea  of 
Brandeis  alum  Eric  Lanyard 
'93,  a  second  year  student  at 
Harvard  Law,  and  is  being 
coordinated  by  Meryl  Glatt- 
Rader,  associate  director  of 
the  Hiatt  Center.  Lanyard 
said  the  program  is  based  on 
one  that  Harvard  runs  for 
its  own  undergraduates.  He 
said  he  did  not  have  any 
trouble  recruiting  mentors, 
but  the  Brandeis  alumni  at 
Harvard  have  been  the  most 
enthusiastic. 

"I  would  have  really  gotten 
a  lot  out  of  something  like 
this  when  I  was  at 
Brandeis,"  said  Lanyard. 


When  sophomore  Jabes 
Otoniel  Rojas-Hernandez  '97 
went  to  Guatemala  to  bring 
medical  care  to  the  poor  this 
summer,  the  faces  on  the 
villagers  streaming  down  dirt 
paths  to  makeshift  clinics  did 
not  look  that  different  from 
the  face  in  the  mirror. 

"It  was  a  humbling 
experience,"  said  Rojas- 
Hernaudez,  who  was  born  in 
Guatemala  and  moved  to  the 
United  States  at  age  9.  "You 
realize  that  we  have  a  lot." 

Delivering  free  health  care  to 
the  indigenous  residents  of 
San  Lucas  Tollman  was  the 
goal  of  Rojas-Hernandez, 
three  doctors  from  Harvard 
Community  Health  Plan,  and 
seven  other  volunteers.  From 
luly  23  to  August  21,  1994, 
they  taught  basic  hygiene, 
distributed  vitamins  and 
medicine,  and  gave  checkups 
and  immunizations  in  a 
grass-roots  mission  known  as 
the  San  Lucas  Project. 

Mission  workers  visited  a 
different  village  each 
weekday,  frequently  walking 
miles  as  roads  designed  for 
four-wheel  drive  vehicles 
narrowed  to  walkways.  Rojas- 
Hernandez  said  word  of  the 
doctors'  arrival  spread 
quickly  through  the  lush 
mountains  of  the 
Guatemalan  Highlands. 

Roias-Hernandez's  main 
responsibility  was  translating 
Spanish  for  English-speaking 
doctors.  Determining  the 
patients'  needs  was  a  slow 
process  because  he  had  to 
wait  for  a  local  medicine  man 
to  translate  from  an 
indigenous  dialect  to  Spanish. 

Although  many  of  the 
patients  had  never  been  to  a 
doctor,  he  said  they  were  not 
afraid.  "They  trusted  Western 
medicine  in  a  mythical  way," 
he  said. 

Rojas-Hernandez,  the  first 
member  of  his  family  to 
attend  college,  wants  to 
become  a  doctor.  He  is 
studying  in  the  Premedical 


Studies  Program  and  Latin 
American  studies.  A  Martin 
Luther  King  Jr.  Scholar,  he 
belongs  to  the  University's 
jAhora!  club,  Intercultural 
Center,  and  Big  Brother 
organization. 

Rojas-Hernandez  was  so 
impressed  with  the  project 
that  he  plans  to  go  again  next 
year  and  would  like  to  spend 
two  years  in  Guatemala 
before  entering  medical 
school. 

In  its  sixth  year,  the  project 
helps  the  people  of 
Guatemala  who  live  in 
extreme  poverty,  the  majority 
without  running  water  or 
electricity.  The  country, 
where  workers  on  banana, 
sugar,  and  coffee  plantations 
earn  the  equivalent  of  three 
dollars  a  day,  has  the  lowest 
immunization  rate  in  Latin 
America.  An  estimated  80 
percent  of  the  population 
cannot  meet  the  most  basic 
nutritional  needs. 

In  the  months  before  the 
mission,  travel  bureaus 
issued  warnings  to  avoid 
Guatemala  because  foreign 
medical  workers  were  being 
attacked.  But  Rojas- 
Hernandez  raised  money  for 
his  airfare  and  $2,300  for 
medical  supplies,  including 
$300  from  Brandeis,  and  was 
undeterred. 

"I  wanted  to  go... I  am  not  a 
tourist,  I  am  a  native.  And  I 
loved  it,"  he  said. 
Encka  Tavares 


7  Winter  1995 


Faculty 


Miller  Named 
Dean  of  Arts  and 
Sciences 


Williams  Serves 
on  International 
Tribunal 


Robin  Feuer  Miller,  an 
internationally  recognized 
scholar  of  19th-century 
Russian  fiction  and  the 
European  novel,  has  been 
named  dean  of  arts  and 
sciences  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

Miller,  a  professor  of 
Russian  and  comparative 
literature  at  Brandeis  and 
fellow  of  the  Russian 
Research  Center  at  Harvard, 
succeeds  Irving  Epstein, 
provost  and  senior  vice 
president  for  academic 


Miller 


affairs,  in  one  of  Brandeis's 
highest  ranking  academic 
posts.  She  started  the  new 
job  in  lanuary. 

Miller  is  one  of  the  most- 
often  quoted  scholars  on 
Dostoevsky,  about  whom 
she  has  authored  two 
books — The  Brothers 
Karamazov:  Worlds  of  the 
Novel  [1992]  and 
Dostoevsky  and  The  Idiot: 
Author.  Narrator,  and 
Reader  [198\].  She  edited 
Critical  Essays  on 
Dostoevsky  (1986),  and 
most  recently  authored  yet 
another  book  on 
Dostoevsky — Dostoevsky: 
Transformations  and 
Conversions.  She  is  editing, 
with  Malcolm  (ones.  The 
Cambridge  Companion  to 
the  Russian  Novel. 
In  addition  to  handling  all 
faculty  related  issues, 
Miller's  responsibilities 
include  implementing  and 
overseeing  an  innovative 
new  curriculum  introduced 
for  the  first  time  this  past 
fall,  and  "upholding  the 
academic  excellence  and 
competitiveness  of  the 
Brandeis  faculty  and  student 
body,"  Epstein  said. 

Miller  earned  her  Ph.D.  and 
master's  degree  from 
Columbia  University.  She 
has  taught  at  Hobart  and 
William  Smith  Colleges, 
Cornell  University,  and 
Harvard  University. 


Dessima  Williams,  visiting 
associate  professor  of 
sociology,  listened  to 
heartrending  testimony 
while  serving  on  an 
international  tribunal  that 
could  lay  the  groundwork 
for  trials  of  those  who  have 
killed  and  committed 
human-rights  violations  on 
behalf  of  Haiti's  military 
regime. 

In  Montreal  on  September 
30  and  October  1,  1994, 
Williams  served  on  a  panel 
of  seven  experts  that 
amassed  evidence  about  the 
patterns  of  rights  violations 
in  Haiti.  They  heard  from 
survivors  of  rights  abuses 
that  were  committed  by  the 
military  regime  that 
overthrew  jean-Bertrand 
Aristide  m  1991.  These 
abuses  included  torture. 


President  Named 
to  Board  of 
Governors  of 
Jewish  Agency 


rape,  kidnapping,  and  forced 
exile,  said  Williams,  the 
former  Grenadian 
ambassador  to  the  United 
States  who  has  visited  Haiti 
twice  in  the  past  year  for 
the  New  England  Observers 
Delegation. 

The  panel  did  not  render 
formal  judgments  against 
those  accused  of  abuses  in 
Haiti,  since  they  were  not 
present  to  defend 
themselves,  said  Williams. 
It  was  designed  as  a  serious 
attempt  to  use  international 
law  and  people's 
experiences  to  draw 
attention  to  human-rights 
abuses  in  Haiti,  where  at 
least  3,000  pro-democracy 
Haitians  have  been  victims 
of  political  killings.  The 
triljunal  was  organized  by 
the  International  Centre  for 
Human  Rights  and 
Democratic  Development. 


Brandeis  President  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72,  has 
been  named  to  the  Board  of 
Governors  of  the  Jewish 
Agency. 

Established  in  1929,  and 
reconstituted  in  I97I,  the 
Jewish  Agency  operates 
under  a  covenant  with  the 
government  of  Israel.  It  is  a 
voluntary,  national 
institution  with 
philanthropic  sources  of 
income,  representing  the 
Jews  of  the  world  and  Israel. 
Through  the  years,  it  has 


expedited  the  absorption  of 
2.3  million  newcomers  to 
Israel,  established  hundreds 
of  rural  settlements,  and 
cared  for  300,000  children 
in  Youth  Aliyah 
institutions. 

In  the  United  States,  the 
Jewish  Agency  accom- 
plishes its  mission  through 
a  partnership  with  the 
United  Jewish  Appeal.  The 
Board  of  Governors  of  the 
agency  directs  policy  and 
manages,  supervises,  and 
controls  its  operations 
and  activities. 


8  Brandeis  Review 


Correction 


Judith  Krieger 
Gardner 
Dies  Suddenly 
in  Jerusalem 


In  the  "Faculty  and  Staff" 
department  of  the  Fall  1994 
Brandeis  Review,  Gina 
Turrigiano  and  Sacha 
Nelson,  assistant  professors 
of  biology  and  the  Volen 
National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  were 
mistakenly  identified  as 
half-time  assistant 
professors.  However,  both 
hold  full-time  tenure-track 
appointments.  We  apologize 
for  the  confusion  this  might 
have  caused. 


Judith  Krieger  Gardner 


Judith  Krieger  Gardner, 
associate  research  professor 
in  The  Florence  Heller 
Graduate  School  for 
Advanced  Studies  in  Social 
Welfare  died  unexpectedly 
at  the  age  of  51  on  Saturday, 
November  26,  1994,  in 
Jerusalem. 

She  became  ill  three  weeks 
prior  while  trekking 
through  Nepal  with  a  group 
of  friends. 

Gardner  was  known  for  her 
research  and  advocacy  on 
behalf  of  children.  She 
directed  the  Family  and 
Children's  Policy  Center 
at  the  University,  and  had 
been  studying  ways  that 
communities  and  families 
could  better  provide  care  to 


children  with  serious 
emotional  disorders.  She 
was  the  author  of  many 
articles  and  edited  various 
books,  including  one 
widely  used  in  teaching 
developmental  psychology. 
Gardner  founded  the 
Atrium  School  Play  Group 
and  served  on  the  board  of 
the  Fellowship  in  Israel  for 
Arab-Jewish  Youths. 

She  leaves  a  daughter, 
Kerith;  two  sons,  Jay  and 
Andrew;  her  parents,  Sylvia 
and  Bernard  Krieger;  and  her 
brother-in-law  and  sister-in- 
law,  Len  and  Marion  Saxe. 

Funeral  services  were  held 
at  the  Spingold  Theater  on 
campus  on  November  30, 
1994. 


Reinharz  to  Chair 

National 

Commission 


Shulamit  Reinharz,  M.A. 
'69,  Ph.D.  '77,  professor  of 
sociology  and  director  of  the 
Women's  Studies  Program, 
has  been  named  chair  of  a 
new  national  commission 
that  will  examine  the 
personal  values  and 
communal  goals  of  today's 
American  Jewish  women. 

Hadassah,  the  world's 
largest  women's  Zionist 
organization,  announced  the 
creation  of  the  National 
Commission  on  American 
Jewish  Women  in  late  1994. 
Composed  of  a  diverse 
group  of  23  women  leaders, 
the  commission  is 
overseeing  a  major 
qualitative  work,  the 


"Hadassah  National 
Women's  Study;  The 
Changing  Outlook  for  the 
American  Jewish  Woman." 
The  goal  of  the  study, 
conducted  by  the  Cohen 
Center  For  Modern  Jewish 
Studies,  is  to  compile, 
examine,  and  analyze  the 
most  in-depth  and  current 
information  about  Jewish 
women  in  the  United 
States. 

To  obtain  data  for  the 
study,  the  Cohen  Center 
conducted  a  nationwide 
series  of  18  focus  group 
discussions  moderated  by 
Cohen  Center  senior 
research  associate  Sylvia 
Barack  Fishman,  assistant 
professor  of  contemporary 
Jewry  and  American  Jewish 
sociology.  Reinharz  and  the 
commission  will  announce 
the  study's  results  and  the 
commission's  recommen- 
dations in  June  1995. 


,-aalamit  Reinharz,  right, 
with  Hadassah  National 
President  Deborah  Kaplan 


9  Winter  1995 


Burt,  Simister 
Recognized  for 
Excellence  in 
Teaching 


John  Davies  Burt,  associate 
professor  of  Englisfi,  and 
Neil  Simister,  assistant 
professor  of  molecular 
immunology  and  Rosenstiel 
Basic  Medical  Research 
Center,  were  honored  at  the 
November  1994  faculty 
meeting  with  the 
University's  two  annual 
awards  for  excellence  in 
teaching.  Burt  was  named 
winner  of  the  Louis 
Dembitz  Brandeis  Prize  for 
Excellence  in  Teaching 
while  Simister  won  the 
Michael  Walzer  Award  for 
Teaching. 

Burt  has  been  praised  by  his 
students  for  his  enthusiasm, 
his  entertaining  and 
engaging  lectures,  and  an 
"ability  to  spark  interest 
and  even  awe  in  the  texts  he 
teaches."  Still,  when  asked 
about  his  philosophy  of 
teaching,  I5urt  said  the  best 
teaching  and  learning  often 
take  place  in  classrooms 
that  can  appear  at  times 
unexciting,  even  dull. 

"The  mistake  people  make 
is  to  think  of  teaching  as 
performance,"  Burt  said. 
What's  more  important  is 
providing  the  opportunity 
for  reflection  and 


thoughtful  discussion,  he 
said.  "To  my  mind  real 
teaching  should  look  like 
thinking  and  not  like  acting." 

This  year's  winners  of  the 
Walzer  Award  and  the 
Brandeis  Prize  were  chosen 
from  among  55  faculty, 
tenured  and  nontenured, 
who  were  nominated  to  the 
Committee  for  the  Support 
of  Teaching  by  undergraduate 
and  graduate  students,  and 
by  faculty  and  staff.  The 
committee  relies  on 
information  gathered  through 
the  Course  Evaluation 
Survey,  direct  nominations, 
and  departmental  input. 

Simister  said  the  award  was 
an  honor  for  him  because 
the  process  of  evaluation  is 
initiated  by  students.  "It's 
especially  important  for 
me  because  it  means  my 
students  like  the  way  I 
teach." 

Working  on  the  frontiers  of 
cell  biology  and  immunology 
to  study  how  antibodies 
transfer  from  mother  to 
child,  Simister  said  he  often 
"brings  back"  ideas  from  his 
teaching  to  use  in  his 
research. 


Irving  Epstein  and  John 
Davies  Bun 


Nei]  Simister 


"I've  been  really  delighted 
with  the  students  I've 
encountered  here  at 
Brandeis,"  he  said.  "They 
are  willing  to  engage. ..to 
tackle  the  subject,  and 
that's  the  most  important 
thing." 

Simister  was  cited  in  his 
evaluations  for  his 
organization  and  the  helpful 
lecture  notes  he  hands  out 
in  advance.  He  said  he 
wants  students  to  have  time 
to  listen  and  reflect  rather 
than  spend  all  their  energy 
taking  notes.  "I  like  to  have 
their  heads  up." 

Provost  Irving  R.  Epstein 
said  that  both  professors 
were  praised  in  their 
nominations  for  their 
accessibility  to  students. 

Simister,  who  joined  the 
biology  department  in  1990, 
teaches  courses  in 
introductory  and  advanced 
cell  biology.  Burt,  at 
Brandeis  since  1983,  teaches 
in  the  areas  of  poetry, 
fiction,  American  literature, 
and  philosophy  of 
education. 

The  Committee  for  the 
Support  of  Teaching  also 
recognized  other  nominees 
who  won  special  praise 
from  students  this  year: 
Gila  Hayim,  associate 
professor  of  sociology,- 
Susan  Lovett,  assistant 
professor  of  biology  and 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Research  Center,-  and  Dora 
Older,  lecturer  with  rank  of 
assistant  professor  of 
Spanish.  Committee 
members  were  Pamela 
Allara,  assistant  professor  of 
fine  arts  and  Petrie  Term 
Assistant  Professor;  Emily 
Dudek,  adjunct  professor  of 
chemistry;  Jane  Hale, 
associate  professor  of 
French  and  comparative 
literature;  Shep  Melnick, 
professor  of  politics;  Linda 
Rost,  graduate  student  in 
biology;  and  Associate  Dean 
for  Undergraduate 
Academic  Affairs  Milton 
Kornfeld. 


Former  Brandeis 

Mathematician 

Dies 


Maurice  Au^!.i:..i:  .    ni  an 
undated  photo 


10  Brandeis  Review 


New  Faculty 
Appointed 


Among  the  new  faculty 
appointed  this  winter  are  an 
economics  advisor  to  the 
President,  an  experimental 
computer  scientist  in  the 
field  of  connectionism,  and 
a  researcher  in  robotics. 

Adam  Jaffe,  associate 
professor  of  economics, 
received  his  Ph.D.  from 
Harvard  University.  laffe 
comes  to  Brandeis  from  the 
Harvard  University  faculty 
after  serving  on  the 
President's  Council  of 
Economic  Advisors.  He  is 
an  applied  econometrics 
specialist  with  substantive 
interests  in  the  economics 
of  research  and 
development  and  industrial 
organization.  Most  of  his 
research  addresses  the 
problem  of  measurement 


and  hypothesis-testing 
related  to  spillovers  in  the 
production  of  scientific 
knowledge.  More  recently, 
he  has  pursued  research  on 
the  measurement  of  the 
contribution  of  universities 
to  national  productivity. 
Jaffe  will  divide  his  time 
between  Brandeis  and  the 
National  Bureau  of 
Economic  Research. 

Jordan  Pollack,  associate 
professor  of  computer 
science  and  Volen  National 
Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  is  an  experimental 
computer  scientist  in  the 
field  of  artificial 
intelligence  and  neural 
networks  known  as 
connectionism.  He  received 
his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Illinois  and 
comes  to  Brandeis  from 
Ohio  State  University.  He  is 
the  coeditor  of  High-level 


Connectionist  Models: 
Advances  in  Connectionist 
and  Neural  Computational 
Theory.  His  most  recent 
work  attempts  to  use  the 
theory  of  chaotic  dynamical 
systems  to  characterize 
neural  networks.  Pollack  is 
the  creator  and  maintainer 
of  NEUROPROSE,  an 
electronic  archive  where 
researchers  may  announce 
and  store  their  technical 
research  reports.  He  has 
served  as  associate  editor  of 
Artificial  Intelligence 
Review  and  Journal  of 
Experimental  and 
Theoretical  AI.  His  research 
is  supported  by  grants  from 
the  Office  of  Naval 
Research  and  the  Air  Force 
Office  of  Scientific 
Research. 


Maja  Mataric,  instructor  in 
computer  science  and  Volen 
National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  received 
her  M.S.  from  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology.  Mataric,  whose 
interest  is  artificial 
intelligence,  including 
cognitive  science, 
neuroscience,  and  ethology, 
is  completing  her  doctorate 
on  "Interaction  and 
Intelligent  Behavior"  at 
MIT.  She  has  done  research 
on  machine  learning, 
robotics,  artificial  life,  and 
distributive  Al.  The 
recipient  of  the  NCR 
Graduate  Engineering 
Fellowship  and  of  the  GE 
Foundation  Faculty  of  the 
Future  Fellowship,  Mataric 
will  assume  the  rank  of 
assistant  professor  upon 
receipt  of  the  Ph.D. 


Award  Presented 
to  Dybwad 


Maurice  Auslander,  a 
mathematician  who  taught 
at  Brandeis  for  37  years, 
died  in  Trondheim, 
Norway,  on  November  18, 
1994.  He  was  68  years  old. 

Auslander  taught 
mathematics  at  the 
University  until  October 
1994.  He  held  the  Sol  Kittay 
Chair  in  Mathematics  and 
served  as  chair  of  the 
mathematics  department 
from  1959-61  and  1976-78. 

Bom  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  he  also  taught  at 
Columbia  University,  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and 
the  University  of  Michigan 
before  coming  to  Brandeis 
in  1957.  He  earned  his 
bachelor's  degree  in 
mathematics  from 


Columbia  College,  and  liis 
Ph.D.,  also  in  mathematics, 
from  Columbia  University. 

Auslander  was  a  fellow  of 
the  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences,  a 
member  of  the  Royal 
Science  Society  of  Norway, 
and  fellow  of  the  American 
Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science. 

A  memorial  service  was 
held  on  campus  in  Berlin 
Chapel  on  November  27, 
1994.  The  Brandeis 
community,  particularly 
his  many  friends  and 
colleagues  on  the  faculty, 
mourned  his  passing. 


The  Adaptive  Environments 
Center  Lifetime  Achievement 
Award  in  Universal  Design 
was  presented  to  Gunnar 
Dybwad,  professor  emeritus 
of  human  development.  The 
Heller  School,  at  a  reception 
last  fall  honoring  sponsors, 
advisors,  and  participating 
design  faculty  of  the 
Universal  Design  Education 
Project.  "Dr.  Dybwad  was  the 
first  international  advocate 
for  the  design  of  places  that 
emphasized  the  human 
potential  and  opportunity  for 
control  by  institutionalized, 
vulnerable  people  with 
mental  retardation,"  said 
Elaine  Ostroff,  executive 
director  of  Adaptive 
Environments  and  presenter 
of  the  award.  "In  1966  he 
convened  and  initiated  the 
work  of  the  first  International 
Working  Conference  on 


Architectural  Planning, 
highlighting  the  central  role 
that  architects  can  play  in  the 
growing  movement  toward 
developing  community  living 
opportunities  for  people  with 
substantial  disabilities." 

Dybwad  has  been  the 
recipient  of  numerous 
national  and  international 
awards  from  rehabilitation, 
legal,  and  social  welfare 
organizations,  but  this  award 
from  Adaptive  Environments 
is  the  first  from  a  design 
advocacy  organization. 


11  Winter  1995 


Brandeis  Authors 
Receive  "Honor 
Awards" 


Callahan  Named 
Head  of 
Committee  on 
Aging 


James  J.  Callahan,  Jr., 
human  services  research 
professor  and  director  of 
The  Heller  School's  Policy 
Center  on  Aging,  has  been 
named  head  of  a  national 
steering  committee  for  the 
National  Academy  on  Aging 
in  Washington,  D.C. 

The  Department  of  Health 
and  Human  Services 
Administration  on  Aging 
awarded  $2  million  to  the 
Gerontological  Society  of 
America  to  establish  the 
freestanding  public  policy 
institute.  The  National 
Academy  on  Aging  will 
define  and  frame  the  issues 
facing  an  aging  society 
through  forums,  policy 
papers,  and  briefs,  and  it 
will  work  with  the  media  to 
publicize  these  issues.  "The 
academy  was  created 
because  the  issues  of  aging 
are  so  pervasive  they  affect 
every  element  of  our 
society,"  said  Callahan. 
"We  will  now  have  a 
national  forum  to  focus  on 
these  issues  in  a 
nonpolitical  setting.  I'm 
delighted  to  have  been 
selected  as  head  of  the 
steering  committee." 
Callahan  has  devoted  years 
to  programs  aimed  at 
extending  the  independence 
of  older  people.  His  research 
is  especially  relevant  today, 
since  life  expectancy  is 
rising  and  the  percentage  of 
elderly  is  increasing  more 
rapidly.  The  number  of  85- 
year-olds  in  this  country  is 
expected  to  grow  by  58 
percent  by  the  year  2010. 


Former  host  of  the  weekly 
TV  show  "Senior  Circuit" 
on  Boston's  CBS-affiliate, 
Callahan  was  the 
commissioner  of  mental 
health  in  Massachusetts  and 
served  under  Governor 
Michael  Dukakis  as 
secretary  of  elder  affairs.  He 
has  also  been  a  consultant 
to  the  Departments  of 
Aging  in  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio  as  well  as  other 
organizations.  Callahan  was 
the  first  winner  of  the 
prestigious  Maxwell  A. 
Pollack  Award  for 
excellence  in  bridging  the 
worlds  of  research  and 
practice. 

Callahan's  current  research 
focuses  on  strengthening 
neighborhoods  to  be  more 
hospitable  for  the  elderly, 
coordinating  elderly 
services,  examining 
methods  of  financing 
programs,  and  modifying 
homes  as  their  owners  age. 

The  Gerontological  Society 
of  America  is  dedicated  to 
research,  education,  and 
practice  in  the  field  of 
aging.  It  will  receive 
$500,000  per  year  for  four 
years  to  operate  the 
academy. 


The  Jewish  Book  Council 
has  selected  Brandeis 
President  Jehuda  Reinharz's 
new  book,  the  second 
installment  of  the  definitive 
biography  of  Chaim 
Weizmann,  Chaim 
Weizmann,  Volume  II 
(Oxford  University  Press) 
and  Sylvia  Barack  Fishman's 
A  Breath  of  Life:  Feminism 
in  the  American  fewish 
Community  (The  Free 
Press),  as  "Honor  Books"  for 
1994. 

Assistant  Professor  of 
Contemporary  Jewry  and 
American  Jewish  Sociology 
and  Senior  Research 
Associate  at  the  Cohen 
Center  For  Modem  Jewish 
Studies,  Fishman  is  an 
authority  on  the  changing 
roles  of  Jewish  women  and 


contemporary  American 
Jewish  literature.  She  has 
studied  the  contemporary 
American  Jewish  family, 
intermarriage  and 
assimilation,  and  the 
measurable  impact  of 
Jewish  education.  Last  fall 
she  had  three  articles 
published,  and  she  is  the 
author  of  Follow  My 
Footprints:  Changing 
Images  of  Women  in 
American  fewish  Fiction. 

An  authority  on  the  Middle 
East,  Reinharz  won  the 
National  Jewish  Book 
Award  in  1986  for  the  first 
volume  of  his  Chaim 
Weizmann  biography.  The 
book  was  selected  by  The 
New  York  Times  as  one  of 
the  "notable"  books  for 
1985.  Reinharz  is  the 
coauthor  or  editor  of  19 
books  and  more  than  80 
articles. 


Nurse  Midwives 
Focus  on  Human 
Genetics  at 
Campus 
Conference 


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One-hundred-and-twenty 
nurse  midwives  and  other 
primary  health  care 
professionals  came  to 
campus  recently  to  be 
briefed  on  the  latest 
developments  in  human 
genetics.  The  November  12, 
1994,  conference,  "The  New 
Genetics  and  Health  Care: 
Impact  on  the  Practice  of 
Nurse  Midwives"  was 
sponsored  by  the 
University's  Genetic 
Counseling  Master's  Degree 
Program. 

Judith  Tsipis,  director  of 
the  Genetic  Counseling 
Program  and  adjunct 
professor  of  biology,  said 
the  event  was  intended  to 
inform  nurse  midwives, 
OB/GYN  nurses,  and  nurse 
practitioners  about  the 
many  new  ethical,  legal, 
and  policy  issues  that  are 


1 2  Brandeis  Review 


being  raised  in  the  field  of 
genetics.  Increasingly,  she 
said,  nurse  midwives  and 
other  primary  health  care 
professionals  will  be  called 
on  to  provide  genetic 
information  and  services 
and  to  make  referrals. 

The  day-long  series  of 
lectures,  panel  presentations, 
and  case-based  workshops 
covered  the  basics  of  human 
and  clinical  genetics  and 
provided  participants  with 
information  and  resources 
needed  to  integrate  genetic 
health  information  into  their 
practices. 

Miriam  Schoenfeld  DiMaio, 
of  the  Yale  University 
Medical  School,  a  social 
worker  and  genetic 
counselor  since  1980,  gave 
an  overview  of  medical 
genetics  and  genetic  diseases 
such  as  Down's  syndrome. 


Research  Suggests 
Progression  of 
Alzheimer's, 
Hospitalization 
Could  be  Delayed 


Irving  Zola 


Zola,  Champion 
of  the  Rights  of 
the  Disabled,  Dies 


As  reported  in  the  Fall  1994 
issue  of  the  Brandeis 
Review,  Gerald  Fasman, 
Louis  and  Bessie  Rosenfield 
Professor  of  Biochemistry, 
and  his  colleagues 
discovered  new  data  that 
support  a  link  hetween 
Alzheimer's  disease  and 
aluminum. 

On  Novembers,  1994, 
proceedings  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Sciences 
published  results  from 
experiments  that  now 
suggest  Fasman  and 
Brandeis  researchers  may 
have  found  a  way  to 
minimize  aluminum  levels 
in  the  circulatory  systems 
of  Alzheimer's  victims — a 
development  which  some 
believe  could  slow  the 


disease  and  postpone  for 
years  the  need  for 
hospitalization. 

Fasman  and  Cathy  Moore,  a 
postdoctoral  research 
associate  at  the  University, 
say  the  results  from  their 
research  are  strong  enough 
to  encourage  clinical  trials 
to  alleviate  the  tragic  effects 
of  Alzheimer's  on  patients 
and  their  families. 

The  researchers  used  model 
neuronal  peptides  in  the 
laboratory  to  cause 
formation  of  structures, 
called  tangles,  which  were 
identical  to  those  found  in 
the  brains  of  Alzheimer's 
victims  when  aluminum 
was  present. 


Fasman  said  the  breakthrough 
came  when  silicates  were 
added  and  shown  to  cause  a 
reversal  of  the  plaque  and 
tangle  formations  from 
deposits  caused  by  aluminum. 
"The  insoluble  deposits  will 
dissolve  upon  the  addition  of 
silicates,"  he  said. 

According  to  Fasman,  use  of 
silicates  as  a  therapeutic  agent 
could  bind  the  aluminum  in 
the  blood  stream,  remove  it 
from  the  circulatory  system 
and  thus  decrease  dramatically 
the  amount  crossing  the 
blood/brain  barrier.  That  may 
help  to  slow  down  the  progress 
of  Alzheimer's  disease  and 
delay  hospitalization  "by  a 
significant  number  of  years," 
Fasman  said. 


Irving  Zola,  Mortimer 
Gryzmish  Professor  of  Fluman 
Relations,  died  suddenly  in 
his  home  on  December  1, 
1994.  He  was  59. 

A  champion  of  the  rights  of 
the  disabled,  Zola  began  his 
career  as  a  research 
sociologist  at  Massachusetts 


cystic  fibrosis,  neural  tube 
defects,  and  cancer. 

Keynote  speaker  Philip 
Reilly,  adiunct  professor  of 
legal  studies  and  director  of 
the  Shriver  Center  for 
Mental  Retardation  in 
Waltham,  updated  the 
audience  on  the  Human 
Genome  Project  and  its 
impact  on  primary  health 
care  delivery.  He  also  spoke 
about  genetics  as 
preventative  and  predictive 
factors,  and  the  problem  of 
genetic  information  about 
disease  being  used  against 
people  by  insurers. 

Other  topics  of  discussion 
included  new  reproductive 
technologies,  pre- 
conceptual  and  prenatal 
genetic  counseling,  genetic 
screening,  and  genetic 
resources  in  the  community. 
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General  Hospital.  He  joined 
the  faculty  at  Brandeis  in 
1963,  where  his  main 
research  interests  included 
ethnicity,  the  sociology  of 
health  and  illness,  and 
disabilities  studies. 

Zola  was  active  both  on  and 
off  campus.  He  was  a 
consultant-in-residence  to 
the  World  Health 
Organization  and  the 
Netherlands  Institute  of 
Preventive  Health.  Most 
recently,  he  served  as  a 
member  of  President 
Clinton's  transition  team 
on  national  health  care  in 
the  areas  of  long-term  care 
and  personal  assistance. 

Zola  was  president  of  the 
Eastern  Sociological  Society 
in  1994  and  was  former 
chair  of  the  Medical 
Sociology  Section  of  the 
American  Sociological 
Association.  He  was  a 
founding  member  of  several 
organizations  including 
Greenhouse,  a  free  standing 
mental  health  cliniC;  the 
Boston  Self-Help  Center,  an 
advocacy  and  counseling 


center  for  people  with 
disabilities;  and 
Community  Works,  a 
Greater  Boston  alternative 
to  the  United  Way.  He  also 
served  on  the  editorial 
boards  of  more  than  20 
journals  and  was  a  panelist 
and  reviewer  for  various 
departments  in  the  federal 
and  state  governments.  Zola 
collected  many  awards 
throughout  his 
distinguished  career, 
including  the  N.  Neal  Pike 
Prize  for  Service  to  the 
Handicapped  in  1989,  the 
Leo  G.  Reeder  Award  for 
Distinguished  Service  to 
Medical  Sociology  in  1990, 
and  in  1993,  the  Lee 
Founders  Award  for  the 
Society  for  the  Study  of 
Social  Problems. 

The  professor  was  the 
author  of  many  articles  and 
books  including  "Missing 
Pieces:  A  Chronicle  of 
Living  with  a  Disability," 
an  autobiographical  story 
detailing  his  own 
experiences  as  a  young  man 
with  polio. 

Zola  was  born  and  raised  in 
Boston.  He  graduated  from 
Boston  Latin  School  in  1954 
and  from  Harvard  College  in 


1958.  In  1962  he  received 
his  doctorate  from  the 
Department  of  Social 
Relations  at  Harvard 
University. 

He  leaves  his  wife,  fudy 
Norsigian;  a  son,  Warren 
Keith;  two  daughters, 
Amanda  Beth  Mosola  and 
Kyra  Zola  Norsigian;  a 
brother,  Michael;  and  a 
grandson.  Peter  Conrad, 
Harry  Coplan  Professor  of 
Social  Sciences  and  chair  of 
the  University's  sociology 
department,  said  in  a 
statement,  "Irv  was  a 
profound  critical  thinker  in 
medical  sociology,  a  pioneer 
in  disability  studies,  and  a 
tireless  advocate  for  people 
with  disabilities.  He  was  a 
great  colleague,  full  of  life, 
with  a  wonderful  sense  of 
humor.  The  sociology  world 
and  all  who  knew  him  will 
miss  him." 

A  memorial  service  was 
held  at  Brandeis  on 
December  6,  1994,  in  the 
Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center. 


13  Winter  1995 


Faculty  Notes 


Nadya  Aisenberg 

adjunct  associate  professor  of 
women's  studies,  published 
Ordinary  Heroines: 
Transforming  the  Male 
Myth,  Continuum  Press. 

Bracha  Azoulay 

lecturer  in  Hebrew,  took  a 
group  of  Brandeis  students  to 
the  Hebrew  Summer  School 
at  Ulpan  Akiva,  Netanya, 
Israel. 

Susan  Dibble 

artist-in-residence  in  stage 
movement,  directed  the 
Summer  Traming  Institute  at 
Shakespeare  &  Co.,  Lenox, 
MA.  She  performed  The  Body 
Reveals  and  The  Sandman, 
two  new  works  created  over 
the  last  year.  The  Body 
Reveals  and  The  Man  and 
The  Angel  were  performed  at 
Mobius,  an  experimental 
performance  theater  in 
Boston.  In  addition  to  the 
performance,  her  drawings 
and  paintings  were  exhibited 
in  the  gallery  at  Mobius. 

Judith  Eissenberg 

artist-in-residence  in  music, 
codirected  Music  From 
Salem,  which  received  a 
grant  from  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Arts.  The 
festival  features  artists  from 
the  U.S.  as  well  as  abroad  in 
chamber  music  concerts  in 
Cambridge  and  Salem,  NY. 

Edward  Engelberg 

professor  of  comparative 
literature  and  European 
cultural  studies,  chaired  a 
session  on  "European 
Identities"  at  the  XlVth 
Congress  of  the  International 
Comparative  Literature 
Association  in  Edmonton, 
Alberta,  Canada.  His  essay, 
"Yeats  Among  the 
Europeans,"  appeared  in  a 
special  volume  of  Yeats:  An 
Annual  of  Critical  and 
Textual  Studies.  He  is 
general  editor  of  the  series 
Critical  Studies  in  Irish 
Literature  and  Catholic 
University  Press  has 
published  the  fourth  volume. 


14  Brandeis  Review 


Irving  Epstein 

provost  and  senior  vice 
president  for  academic 
affairs,  Helena  Rubinstein 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systcins,  and 
Kenneth  Kustin,  professor 
of  chemistry,  have  been 
awarded  a  grant  by  the 
National  Science  Foundation 
to  conduct  research  on  "U.S.- 
Hungary Research  on 
Oscillating  Chemical 
Reactions." 

Sylvia  Barack  Fishman 

assistant  professor  of 
contemporary  Jewry  and 
American  [ewish  sociology, 
was  awarded  the  (ewish  Book 
Council's  1994  National 
Jewish  Book  Award  Honor 
Book  in  the  Contemporary 
Jewish  Life  category  for  A 
Breath  of  Life:  Feminism  m 
the  American  fewish 
Community  in  a  ceremony 
in  New  York.  She  also  had 
three  articles  published, 
"The  Changing  American 
Jewish  Family  Faces  the 
1990s,"  in  The  fewish 
Family  and  Jewish 
Continuity  I  "Rebecca 
Goldstein,"  in  fewish 
American  Women  Writers, 
and  "Soldier  in  an  Army  of 
Mothers:  Reflections  on 
Naomi  and  the  Heroic 
Biblical  Women,"  in  Reading 
Ruth:  Contemporary  Women 
Reclaim  a  Sacred  Story.  She 
delivered  a  paper,  "Beyond 
Compartmentalization:  The 
Interplay  of  Secular  and 
Judaic  Elements  in 
Contemporary  American 
Jewish  Life,"  at  the 
Association  for  Jewish 
Studies  Conference  in 
Boston. 

Eberhard  Frey 

associate  professor  of 
German,  coedited  the 
collected  poems  of  the  exile 
author  Berthold  Viertel 
entitled  Berthold  Viertel: 
Das  graue  Tuch.  Gedichte, 
published  by  Verlag  fiir 
Gesellschaftskritik,  Vienna. 
His  introductory  essay  on 
the  exile  experience  as 
reflected  in  Berthold  Viertel's 
poetry  is  a  part  of  this 
volume. 


Chandler  Fulton 

professor  of  biology,  was 
elected  a  Fellow  of  The 
American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science, 
honoring  his  "diverse 
discoveries  in  biology"  and 
his  "outstanding 
undergraduate  teaching." 
He  was  also  appointed  to  the 
editorial  board  of  The  lournal 
of  Eukaryotic  Microbiology. 

Arthur  Green,  Ph.D.  '75 

Philip  W.  Lown  Professor  of 
Jewish  Thought,  was  invited 
as  the  keynote  speaker  to  the 
Academic  Colloquium  of  the 
Central  Conference  of 
American  Rabbis  in 
Cincinnati. 

Andrew  Hahn,  Ph.D.  '78 

associate  dean  for  external 
affairs,  human  services 
research  professor,  and 
director.  Program  on 
Innovations,  presented  his 
findings  from  a  four-year 
study  of  young  people  from 
public  assistance 
backgrounds  enrolled  in  a 
comprehensive  youth 
development  program — The 
Quantum  Opportunities 
Program — to  a  group  of 
national  leaders  meeting  at 
the  Ford  Foundation.  He  also 
published  an  article  on  foster 
care  in  Children  and  Youth 
Services  Review,  entitled 
"The  Use  of  Assessment 
Procedures  in  Foster  Care  to 
Evaluate  Readiness  for 
Independent  Living." 

Sara  Hascal 

lecturer  in  Hebrew,  presented 
a  paper,  "Authentic  Materials 
for  Developing  Listening 
Comprehension  in  Hebrew," 
at  the  1994  National 
Association  for  Professors  of 
Hebrew  Conference  on 
University  Teaching  of 
Hebrew  Language  and 
Literature. 

Gila  J.  Hayim 

associate  professor  of  soci- 
ology, was  invited  to  deliver  a 
paper  on  "Complexity  and 
Contingency  in  New  System 
Theory"  at  the  international 
conference  on  System  Theory 
and  Cultural  Studies,  Indiana 
University,  Bloomington.  She 


also  served  on  two  panels: 
Postmodernism:  From 
Contradiction  to  Paradox 
and  Transdisciplinary 
Perspectives — The  Case  of 
Science  and  the 
Humanities. 

James  B.  Hendrickson 

Henry  F.  Fischbach 
Professor  of  Chemistry, 
delivered  the  plenary 
lecture  on  the  University's 
SYNGEN  program  for 
synthesis  design  at  the 
French  National  Organic 
Chemistry  Symposium, 
LeCroisie,  France.  He  also 
demonstrated  the 
University's  COGNOS 
program  for  reaction 
retrieval  from  databases  at 
the  American  Chemical 
Society  Congress, 
Washington,  D.C. 

Judith  Herzfeld 

professor  of  biophysical 
chemistry,  delivered  an 
invited  lecture  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  on 
her  studies  of  the  crowding- 
induced  organization  of 
skeletal  filaments  in  cells. 

Sherry  Israel 

adjunct  associate  professor 
of  Jewish  communal 
service,  Hornstein  Program, 
was  appointed  research 
director  for  the  Combined 
Jewish  Philanthropies'  1995 
demographic  study  of  the 
Greater  Boston  Jewish 
community.  She  was  a 
discussant  on  "Has 
American  Jewish  Civil 
Religion  Changed'"  at  the 
Wilstein  Institute  of  Jewish 
Policy  Studies'  Sherman 
Conference  on 
"Transforming  American 
Jewish  Life,"  in  Boston; 
participated  in  a  panel  on 
"The  Future  of  American 
Jewry"  at  the  Association 
for  the  Social  Scientific 
Study  of  Jewry's  session  at 
the  Association  for  Jewish 
Studies  Conference,  Boston; 
and  was  invited  as  guest 
lecturer  for  the  tri-state 
Professional  Development 
Seminars  sponsored  by  the 
Jewish  Federation  of  Greater 
Philadelphia. 


William  P.  Jencks 

Gyula  and  Katica  Tauber 
Professor  Biochemistry 
and  Molecular 
Pharmacodynamics, 
received  the  American 
Chemical  Society's  James 
Flack  Norris  Award  in 
Physical  Organic  Chemistry 
for  his  work  on  reaction 
mechanisms. 

Edward  K.  Kaplan 

professor  of  French  and 
comparative  literature, 
attended  a  workshop  for 
department  chairs 
sponsored  by  the  American 
Association  of  Departments 
of  Foreign  Languages  held  in 
Albany,  NY.  His  article, 
"Sacred  versus  Symbolic 
Religion:  Abraham  Joshua 
Heschel  and  Martin  Buber, " 
appeared  in  Modern 
ludaism. 

Reuven  Kimelman 

associate  professor  of  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies, 
was  chosen  by  the  Council 
of  Jewish  Federations  to 
conduct  Its  professional 
enhancement  training  on 
both  coasts  in  Berkeley  and 
Boston.  He  published, 
"Homosexuality  and 
Family-Centered  Judaism" 
in  Tikkun,  "Psalm  145: 
Theme,  Structure,  and 
Impact"  in  The  Journal  of 
Biblical  Literature,  and 
"The  Conflict  between  R. 
Yohanan  and  Resh  Laqish 
on  the  Supremacy  of  the 
Patriachate"  was  reprinted 
in  Studies  in  Jewish  History 
in  the  Mishna  and  Talmud 
Period. 

Ann  Olga  Koloski-Ostrow 

assistant  professor  of 
classical  studies,  was  the 
featured  lecturer  at  the  J. 
Paul  Getty  Museum  where 
she  delivered  the  latest 
information  about  the 
archaeological  excavations 
of  the  Villa  of  the  Papyri  in 
Herculaneum,  Italy,  in  her 
talk,  "Light  From  Dark 
Places  Along  Naples  Bay." 
For  her  report  she  had 
received  special  permission 
from  the  Italian  government 
to  climb  down  a  well  27 
meters  underground  into 


the  excavation  tunnels.  Her 
adventure  was  published  by 
Arcliaeology  magazine.  She 
also  was  an  invited  speaker 
at  Pompeii,  Italy,  for  the 
Ninth  International 
Conference  of  the  Cura 
Aquarum  (ancient 
waterworks)  in  the  province 
of  Campania.  Her  paper 
which  was  entitled  "Finding 
Social  Meaning  in  the 
Public  Latrines  of  Pompeii," 
will  be  published  in  the 
conference  proceedings. 

Rena  Lavie 

lecturer  in  Hebrew, 
presented  a  paper, 
"Authentic  Materials  for 
Developing  Reading 
Comprehension  in 
Hebrew,"  at  the  1994 
National  Association  for 
Professors  of  Hebrew 
Conference  on  University 
Teaching  of  Hebrew 
Language  and  Literature. 

Nancy  Levy-Konesky 

lecturer  in  Spanish  and 
language  coordinator, 
French,  Spanish,  and  Italian 
Language  Programs, 
presented  two  papers  at  the 
American  Association  of 
Teachers  of  Spanish  and 
Portuguese  Biennial 
Northeast  Regional  meeting 
at  Yale  University.  In  the 
session  titled  "Creative 
Uses  of  Video"  she 
presented  "Videotecnicas: 
Culture  and  Langtiage"  and 
in  the  session  titled 
"Bringing  the  Community 
into  the  Classroom"  she 
presented  a  paper  on  her 
Spanish  Practicum/Seminar 
of  Puerto  Rico  course, 
"Tying  into  the  Hispanic 
Community." 

Lydian  String  Quartet 

artists-in-residence  in 
music,  received  an  Aaron 
Copland  Grant  for 
Recordings  which  will  fund 
a  disc  of  the  music  of  Leo 
Ornstein  on  the  Koch 
International  label.  They 
performed  a  series  of  three 
concerts  of  American  music 
at  Columbia  University 
featuring  works  by  Brandeis 
graduate  Allen  Anderson, 
Yehudi  Wyner,  Walter  W 


Naumburg  Professor  of 
Composition,  Irving  Fine, 

late  faculty  composer,  and  a 
Brandeis  commissioned  work 
by  John  Harbison.  They  also 
appeared  in  a  mini-residency 
format  at  Princeton 
University  and  Dartmouth 
College  performing  concerts 
and  working  with  student 
composers  and 
instrumentalists  and  made 
their  London  debut  with  two 
Wigmore  Hall  concerts  as 
well  as  an  appearance  on  the 
BBC. 

Daniel  J.  Margolis 

lecturer  in  Jewish  education, 
received  the  Shazar  Prize  for 
Excellence  in  Jewish 
Education  in  the  Diaspora  as 
executive  director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Jewish  Education 
of  Greater  Boston.  The  Prize 
is  awarded  by  the  Joint 
Auth<irity  for  Jewish  and 
Zionist  Education  and 
Culture  and  was  presented 
by  Israel's  President  Ezer 
Weizmann  in  a  ceremony  in 
the  President's  house. 

Sarah  Mead 

artist-in-residence  in  music 
and  concert  coordinator, 
performed  works  of  Bach  and 
Rameau  with  Professor 
Emeritus  Robert  Koff 
and  harpsichordist  Rosalind 
Koff  during  the  "April  m 
Paris"  marathon  of  French 
music  at  Slosberg.  Also  she 
was  featured  with  the 
Philharmonia  Virtuosi  of 
New  York.  Her  chapter  on 
"Aspects  of  Renaissance 
Theory"  appears  in  A 
Performer's  Guide  to 
Renaissance  Music 
published  by  Schirmer 
Books.  She  was  named 
program  director  for  Early 
Music  Week  at  Pinewoods, 
where  she  has  taught  for  10 
years. 

Zila  Naor 

lecturer  in  Hebrew, 
presented  a  paper, 
"Introducing  Hebrew 
Literature  to  American 
Hebrew  Learners,"  at  the 
1994  National  Association 
for  Professors  of  Hebrew 
Conference  on  University 
Teaching  of  Hebrew 
Language  and  Literature. 


Bonit  Porath 

lecturer  in  Hebrew, 
presented  a  paper, 
"Listening  and 
Comprehension  in  the 
Hebrew  Class,"  at  the  1994 
National  Association  for 
Professors  of  Hebrew 
Conference  on  University 
Teaching  of  Hebrew 
Language  and  Literature. 

Barbara  N.  Porter 

lecturer  in  Akkadian, 
received  the  John  Frederick 
Lewis  prize  of  the  American 
Philosophical  Society  for 
her  book.  Images.  Power, 
and  Politics:  Figurative 
Aspects  of  Esarhaddon's 
Babylonian  Policy. 

Benjamin  C.  I.  Ravid 

Jennie  and  Mayer  Weisman 
Professor  of  Jewish  History, 
published  an  article  on 
"The  Third  Charter  of  the 
Jewish  Merchants  of 
Venice"  in  the  Jewish 
Political  Studies  Review. 
He  has  also  been  appointed 
a  member  of  the  editorial 
board  of  the  journal  Italia. 

Shulamit  Reinharz,  M.A. 
'69,  Ph.D.  '77 

professor  of  sociology  and 
director.  Women's  Studies 
Program,  delivered  a  talk  on 
"Miscarriage:  Social 
Variation,  Social  Invisibility 
and  Social  Control"  at  a 
National  Institutes  of 
Mental  Health  Invited 
Meeting  in  Bethcsda,  MD, 
titled  "Sociocultural  and 
Environmental  Research  in 
a  Changing  Society: 
Creating  a  Research 
Agenda."  She  has  been 
appointed  chair  of  the 
National  Commission  on 
American  Jewish  Women, 
sponsored  by  Hadassah,  and 
officiated  at  a  meeting  in 
New  York  City  where  the 
results  of  research, 
conducted  by  the  Cohen 
Center  of  Modern  Jewish 
Studies,  were  presented  and 
deliberated.  As  director  of 
the  Women's  Studies 
Program,  Reinharz  received 
gifts  enabling  the  Program 
to  offer  two  new  courses: 
Sex  Discrimination  and  the 

15  Winter  1995 


Law  (cosponsored  by  the 
Legal  Studies  Program)  and 
Psychology  of  Women 
(cosponsored  by  the 
psychology  department).  She 
has  been  appointed  to  the 
editorial  board  of  a  new 
journal,  Qualitative  Inquiry 
and  to  a  three-year  term  on 
the  Dissertation  Prize 
Committee  of  the  American 
Sociological  Association. 

Rhonda  Rider 

artist-in-residence  in  music, 
was  featured  in  an  mterview 
for  the  Oberhn  Conservatory 
magazine  that  highlighted  her 
work  with  the  Lydian  String 
Quartet.  She  concertized  at 
the  Castle  Hill  Festival  in 
Ipswich,  MA,  Music  From 
Salem  in  Salem,  NY,  and 
performed  on  National  Public 
Radio's  "Performance  Today" 
program.  She  was  also  heard 
on  WGBH-Radio  as  a  guest 
artist  with  the  Boston 
Conservatory  Chamber 
Ensemble.  Rider  presented  a 
lecture  in  "Contemporary 
String  Techniques"  for 
student  composers  at  Oberlin 
and  the  New  England 
Conservatory. 

Vardit  Ringvald 

lecturer  in  Hebrew  and  acting 
director,  Hebrew  and  Oriental 
Language  Programs,  directed 
and  led  the  1994  Brandeis 
Summer  Institute  for 
Teachers  of  Hebrew  at  the 
Secondary  and  Post- 
Secondary  Levels  follow  up, 
which  was  funded  by  a  grant 
of  the  National  Endowment 
for  the  Humanities.  She  also 
lectured  on  "A  Competency- 
Based  Curriculum  for 
Teaching  Modern  Hebrew  at 
the  Secondary  and  Post- 
Secondary  Levels"  at  the 
National  Association  for 
Professors  of  Hebrew 
Conference  on  University 
Teaching  of  Hebrew  Language 
and  Literature  and  "Teaching 
for  Speaking  Skills"  at  the 
Bureau  of  Jewish  Education. 


Jonathan  D.  Sarna  '75 

loseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  of  American 
Jewish  History,  has 
published  two  articles, 
"The  Greatest  Jew  in  the 
World  since  Jesus  Christ': 
The  Jewish  Legacy  of  Louis 
D.  Brandeis,"  in  American 
Jewish  History  and  "The 
Secret  of  Jewish 
Continuity"  in 
Commentary.  He  has  been 
appointed  to  the  editorial 
board  of  Jewish  Social 
Studies. 

James  H.  Schuiz 

Ida  and  Meyer  Kirstein 
Professor  for  Planning  and 
Administration  of  Aging 
Policy  at  The  Heller  School, 
was  appointed  chair  of  the 
Advisory  Committee  to  the 
United  Nations  Aging  Unit. 
He  also  presented  and 
chaired  a  session  at  an 
international  research 
meeting  in  Vienna 
sponsored  by  the 
International  Social 
Security  Association. 

Susan  L.  Shevitz 

adjunct  associate  professor 
of  Jewish  education, 
Hornstein  Program  (on  the 
Sumner  N.  Milender  Family 
Foundation),  taught  a  course 
on  organizational  change  at 
the  University  of  Judaism's 
Certificate  of  Advanced 
Studies  summer  program. 
She  presented  a  paper  on 
institutional  readiness  for 
change  processes  at  a 
briefing  of  the  New  York 
Federation  UJA's 
Continuity  Commission, 
and  one  on  characteristics 
and  motivations  of  Jewish 
education  graduate  students 
to  the  board  of  the 
Association  of  Institutes  of 
Higher  Learning  for  Jewish 
Education.  Her  paper,  "An 
Orientation  to 
Transformation  m  the 
Congregational  Setting," 
was  published  in  Creating 
an  Environment  that 
Transforms  Jewish  Lives  by 
Avi  Chai  Foundation.  In 
addition,  she  was  guest 
faculty  at  the  Wexner 
Foundation's  Alumni 
Institute. 


Laurence  R.  de  Zoysa 
Simon 

adjunct  associate  professor 
of  politics,  traveled  to 
Africa  to  help  train  relief 
workers  in  the  use  of 
airtight  grain  storage 
"cocoons"  which  were 
adopted  by  the  International 
Committee  of  the  Red 
Cross  for  use  in  the 
Rwandan  refugee 
settlements.  This 
technology  was  developed 
by  Simon  in  collaboration 
with  Israeli  scientists.  Also, 
he  was  appointed  to  the 
planning  team  for  a 
conservation  project  in 
Sri  Lanka  under  a  grant  to 
the  Harvard  Institute  for 
International  Development, 
funded  by  the  United  States 
Agency  for  International 
Development. 

Gary  A.  Tobin 

associate  professor  of 
Jewish  community  research 
and  planning  (Hornstein 
Program)  and  director, 
Cohen  Center  for  Modern 
Jewish  Studies,  addressed 
the  California  Society  of 
Fund-raising  Executives 
on  "Patterns  of 
Philanthropy  of  Major 
Jewish  Philanthropists." 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield, 
Ph.D.  '72 

Max  Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization, 
delivered  lectures  on 
various  aspects  of  American 
culture  in  the  Czech 
Republic,  Greece,  Romania, 
Austria,  and  Germany 
under  the  auspices  of  the 
U.S.  Information  Agency. 
He  also  presented  a  paper  on 
black  anti-Semitism  at  a 
conference  on  American 
race  and  ethnicity  in 
Washington. 

Harry  Zohn 

professor  of  German,  made 
three  presentations  at  an 
international  conference  on 
literature  in  exile  at 
Wuppertal,  Germany,  and 


was  interviewed  over  the 
West  German  Radio 
Network.  He  was  presented 
with  the  Gold  Medal  of 
Honor  by  the  city  of  Vienna 
and  participated  m  a  panel 
discussion  at  Vienna  City 
Hall.  Also,  he  was  elected 
to  the  board  of  the  PEN 
Center  of  German-Speaking 
Writers  Abroad. 

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Linda  Kent  Davis 

coordinator  of  senior 
services,  Hiatt  Career 
Development  Center,  was 
named  chair  for  the  Eastern 
College  and  Employer 
Network's  annual  spring 
conference  which  is  to  be  a 
leading  resource  for  those 
who  provide  career 
management  and 
employment  services  to  the 
college  educated  workforce 
to  be  held  at  Fairfield 
University. 

Andrea  Kramer 

assistant  director  of 
financial  aid,  was  named 
editor  of  the  monthly 
newsletter  for  the 
Massachusetts  Association 
of  Student  Financial  Aid 
Administrators. 

Linda  A.  Melanson 

manager,  electron 
microscopy  facility, 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Sciences  Research  Center, 
was  invited  to  teach  a 
course,  "Cryo-Transmission 
Electron  Microscopy  for 
Imaging  Biological 
Specimens  in  Suspension" 
at  the  Microscopy  Society  of 
America  meeting.  New 
Orleans,  LA.  She  is  also 
president  of  the  New 
England  Society  for  Electron 
Microscopy. 

Judith  R.  Sizer 

associate  general  counsel, 
was  appointed  chair  of  the 
College  and  University  Law 
Group  of  the  Boston  Bar 
Association.  The  Group 
discusses  legal  issues  of 
interest  to  the  higher 
education  community. 


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The  Inauguration  of  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  Ph.D.  72.  as  the 
seventh  President  of  Brandeis 
is  scheduled  for  3:00  pm  on 
Sunday.  April  9,  1995.  in  the 
Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center. 

The  entire  Brandeis 
community — students,  faculty, 
and  staff — as  well  as  alumni 
and  friends  of  the  University 
are  invited  to  attend  the 
Inauguration.  If  you  would  like 
to  attend  and  do  not  receive  a 
form  to  request  tickets,  please 
call  the  Inauguration  ticket  line 
at  617-736-3099.  Invitations 
are  also  being  extended  to 
presidents  of  other  universities 
and  colleges,  representatives 
of  learned  societies,  and  state 
and  local  officials.  Also,  a 
block  of  tickets  is  being  held 
for  residents  of  Waltham. 
Following  the  Inauguration,  the 
entire  Brandeis  community  will 
gather  to  greet  President  and 
Mrs.  Reinharz  at  a  reception  in 
their  honor. 


17  Winter  1995 


Benefactors 


Movie  Opening 
Raises  $120,000 
for  Voien 


Brandeis  Alum 
Gives  $3  i\/liiiion 
to  Endow  Main 
Stage  Theater 


Before  it  became  the 
number  one  film  in  the 
United  States  and  Canada, 
the  newest  "Star  Trek" 
adventure  helped  to  raise 
$120,000  for  the  Benjamm 
and  Mae  Volen  National 
Center  for  Complex 
Systems  at  Brandeis. 

An  estimated  800  people 
attended  a  November  17, 
1994,  Los  Angeles  premiere 
of  Star  Trek  Generations, 
held  at  the  Paramount 
Pictures  lot  to  benefit  the 
Volen  Center.  The  center  is 
home  to  scientists  whose 
research  is  aimed  at  better 
understandmg  illnesses 
such  as  Alzheimer's  disease, 
strokes,  and  schizophrenia. 
Dedicated  to  the 
interdisciplinary  study  of 
the  brain  and  intelligence,  it 
has  been  called  one  of  the 
most  comprehensive  of  its 
kind  in  the  world. 

Sumner  M.  Redstone, 
chairman  of  the  board  of 
Viacom  Inc.,  told  the 
premiere  audience  that 
Paramount  was  happy  to 
lend  its  support  to  the 
University's  research 
endeavors.  He  expressed  his 
strong  commitment  to 
Brandeis,  where  he  is  a 
visiting  professor. 

Redstone  chaired  the 
premiere  event  with 
actress/director  Gates 
McFadden  '70,  who  stars  as 
Dr.  Beverly  Crusher,  chief 
medical  officer  on  the  USS 
Enterprise-D;  and  Brandeis 
Trustee  and  alumna  Barbara 
C.  Rosenberg  '54.  Other 
attendees  included  Brandeis 
President  lehuda  Reinharz. 

Paramount  Pictures  is  part 
of  the  entertainment 
operations  of  Viacom  Inc. 


Herbert  Beigel  '66,  founding 
partner  of  the  law  firm  of 
Beigel  Schy  Lasky  Rifkind 
Goldberg  &  Fertik,  with 
offices  in  Chicago,  New 
York,  New  lersey,  and  Los 
Angeles,  donated  $3  million 
to  endow  The  Herbert  and 
Nancy  Beigel  Main  Stage 
Theater  in  the  Spingold 
Theater  Arts  Center  at 
Brandeis  University.  The 
gift  is  believed  to  be  the 
largest  single  gift  to  any 
performing  arts  organization 
in  Boston  and  is  the  largest 
single  donation  to  Brandeis 
by  an  alumnus  in  the 
school's  46-year  history. 

"By  reinforcing  and  helping 
to  underwrite  Brandeis's 
commitment  to  the  creative 
and  performing  arts,  the 
Beigels  have  made  a  lasting 
contribution  to  our 
University,"  said  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz.  He  added 
that  the  gift  is  also 
"confirmation  that 
Brandeis's  alumni  have 
come  of  age  and  are  taking 
their  rightful  place  as  major 
supporters  of  the 
University." 

A  check  of  Boston's  most 
well  endowed  professional 
performing  arts 
organizations  and  academic 
performing  arts  programs — 


including  the  American 
Repertory  Theatre,  the 
Huntington  Theatre 
Company,  The  Boston 
Ballet  and  the  Boston 
Symphony — revealed  that 
this  is  the  largest  single  gift 
on  record. 

"Usually  individuals  give 
$100,000,  $500,000,  or  even 
$1  million,"  according  to 
Philip  Conley,  director  of 
library  services  at 
Associated  Grantmakers  of 
Massachusetts.  "This  is 
unusually  generous,"  he 
said. 

The  Beigels  decided  to 
endow  the  theater  for 
several  reasons.  "We  are 
aware  of  the  enormous 
difficulty  the  arts  face  today 
in  trying  to  raise  necessary 
funding,"  Mr.  Beigel  said. 
"And  we  believe  the 
presence  of  the  theater  is 
important  to  the  experience 
of  students  and  an 
important  ingredient  in  the 
cultural  life  of  the  entire 
community." 

The  Spingold  Theater  Arts 
Center  was  built  in  1965, 
and  Beigel's  class  was  one  of 
the  first  to  take  courses  in 
the  new  center.  "My 
experience  at  Brandeis  was 
certainly  enriched  by  the 
Theater  Arts  Program,"  he 
said.  Beigel,  a  native  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  graduated 
with  honors  from  Brandeis 
in  1966  and  received  his  law 
degree  from  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  1969.  In 
addition  to  his  successful 
law  practice,  Beigel  is  the 
author  of  Beneath  the 
Badge  (Harper  &  Row  1976), 
a  study  of  police  corruption. 


The  Beigel  gift  will  fund 
two  main  stage  productions 
a  year  in  the  750-seat 
theater.  It  will  help 
continue  a  tradition  of 
artistic  excellence  that  has 
been  a  part  of  Brandeis  since 
the  theater  was  built. 

In  its  nearly  30  year  history, 
the  space  has  been  used  for 
productions  both  by 
professional  touring 
companies  and  by  graduate 
students  in  the  professional 
theater  training  program. 
Between  the  national 
theater  and  dance 
companies  that  have 
stopped  by  and  the 
productions  presented  by  or 
sponsored  by  the  theater 
arts  department,  the  main 
stage  has  been  graced  by  the 
likes  of  actors  Molly  Picon, 
Morris  Carnovsky,  Ben 
Kingsley,  to  name  a  few, 
and  has  been  the  site  of 
performances  by  Alvin 
Alley,  Paul  Taylor,  Erick 
Hawkins,  Actors  of  the 
London  Stage,  National 
Theater  for  the  Deaf,  Flying 
Karamazov  Brothers,  Haifa 
Municipal  Theater 
Company,  The  Traveling 
Jewish  Theater,  and  off- 
Broadway's  Woza  Albert! 

A  formal  dedication 
ceremony  will  be  held 
Saturday,  April  1,  1995, 
preceding  a  performance 
of  Anton  Chekov's  The 
Cherrv  Orchard. 


18  Brandeis  Review 


BUNWC  Chapters 
Rife  with 
Community 
Service  Projects 


Gail  Heyman  is  fighting 
morning  rush  hour  traffic  as 
she  drives  into  Atlanta. 
Hers  is  no  ordinary  worker's 
commute,  however.  She  is 
going  to  see  her  "story  pals" 
at  the  Anne  E.  West 
Elementary  School. 

Twice  a  month  Gail  makes 
this  trip  from  her  suburban 
home  to  one  of  Atlanta's 
poorest  neighborhoods  to 
read  books,  talk,  and  share 
feelings  and  friendship  with 
20  students  in  kindergarten 
through  third  grade.  Gail  is 
one  of  the  many  members 
of  the  Brandeis  University 
National  Women's 
Committee — best  known 
for  Its  fund-raising  for  the 
Brandeis  Libraries  and  its 
study  groups — who  "give 
back"  to  their  communities 
through  chapter  community 
service  programs. 

From  Westchester  Shore, 
New  York,  where  members 
record  for  the  Jewish  Braille 
Institute  in  five  languages, 
to  Tucson,  Arizona,  where 
volunteers  make  700 
sandwiches  weekly  for  the 
hungry  and  homeless  and 
teach  dancing  to  retarded 
men  and  women.  Women's 
Committee  members  are 
responding  to  the  special 
needs  of  their  own 
communities.  With  literacy 
as  a  major  emphasis,  there 
are  14  chapters  in  California 
alone  tutoring  in  local 
schools. 

In  Atlanta,  20  Women's 
Committee  volunteers, 
most  of  them  young 
mothers,  participate  in  the 
Story  Pals  Program  as  part 
of  the  Atlanta  Proiect,  a 
program  created  by  former 
President  Jimmy  Carter  to 
help  that  city's 


communities  gain  access  to 

the  resources  they  need. 
Under  the  auspices  of  the 
Atlanta  Jewish  Federation, 
the  Jewish  community 
adopted  the  southside  of 
the  city,  the  area  where 
many  Jews  settled  in  the 
late  19th  century. 

In  Annapolis,  Maryland, 
Women's  Committee 
volunteers  are  working  with 
middle  and  high  school 
students  who  are  struggling 
to  learn  English  and  do 
their  school  work  at  the 
same  time. 

Members  of  the  Broward 
West  Chapter  in  Fort 
Lauderdale  have  fun 
working  with  adults  trying 
to  master  English  through 
their  Conversation  Partners 
Program.  Volunteers  and 
their  "partners," 
immigrants  trying  to 
improve  their  English,  meet 
weekly  for  informal 
conversation  on  the  subjects 
of  their  choice — sports, 
television,  work,  etc. 

While  "Partners"  volunteers 
have  the  satisfaction  of 
knowing  they  have  touched 
and  changed  many  lives, 
participants  in  the  Suncoast 
Chapter's  Guardian  ad  litem 
program  feel  they  are  saving 
lives — the  lives  of  abused 
and  neglected  children.  As 
guardians  ad  litem  for  one 
of  the  circuit  courts  in  the 
Tampa-Clearwater  area, 
these  volunteers  act  as 
advocates  for  children 
caught  up  in  abuse  and 
neglect  cases.  When 
assigned  a  case  they  meet 
with  the  child  or  children 
regularly,  monitor  their 
living  environment,  work 
with  the  government's 
social  service  agency  to 
protect  the  child's  rights, 
attend  all  court  proceedings, 
and  submit  reports  to  the 
judge.  Cases  typically  last 
several  months  and  often 
the  guardian  ad  litem  is 
the  only  person  who 
knows  everything  about 
the  child's  case. 


Thousands  of  Women's 
Committee  members  are 
making  a  difference  in 
communities  throughout 
the  country  through  their 
community  service 
programs.  One  by  one,  they 
reach  out  and  touch  the 
lives  of  children,  the 
elderly,  immigrants,  and 
shut-ins  in  ways  that  only 
the  individual  volunteer  can 
do.  At  the  same  time,  they 
enhance  the  reputation  of 
Brandeis  and  indirectly  aid 
the  work  of  the  National 
Women's  Committee  in 
raising  funds  for  the 
Brandeis  Libraries.  For 
information  on  Women's 
Committee  programs  in 
your  community,  call 
617-736-4160. 


S-o-o-o  big:  National 
Women's  Committee 
volunteers  Karen 
Rittenbaum  (left)  and  Gail 
Heyman  enjoy  a  story  with 
their  "story  pals"  at  the 
Anne  E.  West  Elementary 
School  in  Atlanta,  Georgia. 


Pholo  by  Nick  Arroyo,  Atlama  Journal-Constitution 


19  Winter  1995 


Joseph  Linsey, 
Former  Trustee 
and  University 
Contributor,  Dies 
at  95 


The  Annenberg 
Foundation  Gives 
$100,000  to  the 
Waitham  Group 


The  Annenberg  Foundation 
has  given  Brandeis  a 
$100,000  endowment  to 
support  the  Waitham 
Group.  The  foundation's 
advisory  committee  is 
particularly  interested  in 
outreach  programs  serving 
social,  educational,  and 
recreational  needs  of 
children,  and  was  impressed 
with  the  Waitham  Group's 
childrens'  programs. 

Waitham  Group  programs 
include  Companions  to 
Elders,  General  Tutoring, 
Big  Siblings,  Hunger  and 
Homelessness,  Language 
and  Cultural  Enrichment 
(LACE),  Prospect  Terrace/ 
Dana  Court  Recreations 
Program,  and  Community 
Connections,  a  student-run 
referral  service  that 
matches  interested  students 
with  area  volunteer 
opportunities.  Members 
serve  meals  to  needy 
families  at  the  Bristol  Lodge 
Soup  Kitchen,  conduct 
clothing  and  food  drives  for 
the  Salvation  Army, 
participate  in  fund-raising 
efforts  on  behalf  of  the 
Battered  Women's  Shelter, 
and  campaign  to  increase 
the  number  of  blood  donors 
to  the  Red  Cross.  (For  more 
information  on  the 
Waitham  Group,  see  story 
on  page  38.) 


Packard 

Foundation 

Awards  Grant  to 

Brandeis 

RNA  Researcher 


Assistant  Professor  of 
Biochemistry  Melissa  I. 
Moore  has  been  awarded  a 
five-year,  $500,000  David 
and  Lucile  Packard 
Fellowship. 

The  award  provides 
$100,000  per  year,  and  is 
presented  to  20  of  the  most 
promising  young  science 
and  engineering  researchers 
at  U.S.  universities. 

Moore  came  to  Brandeis  last 
spring  from  MIT.  Her 
research  focuses  on  the 
mechanisms  of  RNA 
processing  and  has  already 
yielded  significant  results. 
Her  studies  of  RNA  splicing 
address  a  fundamental 
mechanism  for  gene 
expression,  the  formation  of 
tumors,  and  the  progression 
of  retroviral  infection, 
including  the  HIV  virus. 
Her  work  was  recently 
published  in  the  journals 
Science  and  Nature. 

"Not  only  will  the  Packard 
award  provide  a  significant 
amount  of  funding  for  my 
lab,  it  will  allow  us  to 
pursue  more  innovative 
research  methods  than 
might  be  possible  with 
other  grants,"  said  Moore. 


Moore  has  also  received  a 
Searle  Scholar  award  of 
$60,000  per  year  for  three 
years,  and  a  Harcourt 
General  New  Investigator 
Award  of  $50,000  per  year 
for  two  years. 

The  Packard  Fellowship  is 
the  nation's  largest 
nongovernmental  program 
of  unrestricted  grants  for 
young  faculty  members.  It 
was  established  to  help 
further  scientific 
advancement  and  to 
encourage  a  steady  flow  of 
talented  graduate  students 
to  undertake  university 
research  in  the  United 
States. 

The  David  and  Lucile 
Packard  Foundation  was 
created  in  1964  to  support 
and  encourage  organizations 
that  are  dependent  on 
private  funding  and 
volunteer  leadership.  It 
makes  grants  for  programs 
in  the  arts,  community, 
marine  biology, 
environment,  population, 
education,  and  children's 
health. 


Joseph  M.  Linsey,  former 
Trustee  and  major 
contributor  to  Brandeis 
University,  died  Tuesday, 
November  29,  1994,  at 
Faulkner  Hospital  in 
Boston.  He  was  95. 

A  well-known  businessman 
and  philanthropist,  Linsey 
became  a  Trustee  of  the 
University  in  1955.  He  was 
awarded  a  L.H.D.  degree 
from  Brandeis  in  1976,  and, 
most  recently,  he  was 
inducted  into  the  Brandeis 
Athletic  Hall  of  Fame  in 
April  1994. 

Born  in  Russia,  he 
emigrated  to  the  United 
States  with  his  family  at  the 
age  of  1  in  1900.  Due  to  his 
father's  sudden  death, 
Linsey  suspended  his 
education  while  in  grammar 
school  to  work  with  his 
mother  in  the  family's 
grocery  store. 

In  the  1930s  he  founded  and 
became  president  of 
Whitehall  Liquors,  a  major 
New  England  distributor. 
He  remained  head  of  the 
company  until  his 
retirement  in  1975. 

During  his  lifetime,  Linsey 
was  a  past  president  of  the 
Wine  and  Spirits 
Wholesalers  of 
Massachusetts;  served  as 
the  chair  of  the  Combined 
Jewish  Philanthropies  in 
Boston;  was  director  of  the 
New  England  Region  Anti- 
Defamation  League  and  of 
the  American  Friends  of 
Hebrew  University.  He  was 
also  a  past  president  of 
Jewish  Memorial  Hospital 

"*    and  a  trustee  of  Beth  Israel 

^    Hospital  and  LRF 
Investment,  Inc. 

He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Thelma,  of  Palm  Beach, 
Florida;  a  sister,  Ruth 
Sterman;  and  numerous 
nieces  and  nephews. 


Melissa  }.  Moore 


20  Brandeis  Review 


Lauder  Named 
Chair  of  Sakharov 
Archives  Board 


Ronald  S.  Lauder  has  agreed 
to  serve  as  chair  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Andrei  Sakharov  Archives 
at  Brandeis. 

A  noted  philanthropist, 
Lauder  is  president  of  the 
Ronald  S.  Lauder 
Foundation,  and  has  won 
recognition  for  his  strong 
support  for  the  preservation 
of  Jewish  communities  of 
Eastern  Europe  and  of  the 
sites  of  the  Auschwitz  and 
Birkenau  Nazi  death  camps. 
He  received  the  Jewish 
National  Fund  International 
Peace  Award  in  1993,  and 


Grant  of  $250,000 
Received  from 
Davis  Educational 
Foundation 


founded  the  Ronald  S. 
Lauder  Institute  for  East 
European  Jewry  at  the 
Rabbinical  College  of 
America  in  Morris 
Township,  New  Jersey.  The 
youngest  son  of  Estee 
Lauder,  he  is  also  a  member 
of  the  U.S.  Holocaust 
Memorial  Council. 

Lauder,  who  had  the  honor 
of  meeting  Sakharov  in 
1^88,  said,  "to  properly 
preserve  access  to  and  study 
the  words  of  Sakharov  is  a 
very  expensive  effort.  For  all 
Andrei  Sakharov 
accomplished  in  his  career 
and  his  dedication  to 
principle,  it  will  take  the 
dedicated  efforts  of  many 
people  in  this  country  to 
ensure  that  the  preservation 
of  the  archives  is  a  success." 


The  archives  have  also 
announced  plans  for  two 
concerts  by  world  renowned 
cellist  and  conductor 
Mstislav  Rostropovich:  one 
in  Moscow  in  1996  in  honor 
of  the  late  Andrei  Sakharov's 
75th  birthday,  to  benefit  the 
Sakharov  Foundation,  and 
one  in  the  United  States  in 
honor  of  the  50th  anniversary 
of  the  founding  of  Brandeis, 
to  benefit  the  Sakharov 
Archives.  A  series  of 
symposia  on  the  archives  is 
also  planned.  The  first 
symposium,  titled  "The 
Responsibility  of  Scientists  in 
the  Modern  World,"  was  held 
November  2,  1994,  in  the 
library. 


The  University  has  received 

$250,000  from  the  Davis 
Educational  Foundation. 
The  funds  will  facilitate 
new  electronic  technologies 
for  key  academic  and 
administrative  processes 
serving  students  and 
faculty.  The  implemen- 
tation of  these  new  systems 
will  enable  the  University 
to  reduce  costs  on  a 
continuing  basis,  with  the 
ultimate  goal  of  keeping 
down  the  cost  of  tuition. 

The  grant  will  be  used  to 
implement  a  computer 
multipurpose  advising 
system,  phone  registration 
system,  and  information 
transfer  system. 


The  multipurpose  advising 
expert  (MAX)  will  give 
advisors  and  students  a 
resource  to  construct  the 
details  of  academic  plans 
accurately  and  quickly.  For 
example,  students  will  be 
able  to  sit  in  their  dorm 
rooms  and  use  the  computer 
network  to  access  MAX  at 
any  hour  in  order  to  plan 
their  academic  programs. 
They  will  be  able  to  learn 
about  the  features  of  the 
new  curriculum,  find  out 
which  courses  can  satisfy 
degree  and  program 
requirements,  and  translate 
their  academic  goals  into  a 
schedule  of  specific  courses. 
Advisors  and  faculty  will 
use  the  same  advising 
system  to  inform  students 
of  course  options  and  degree 
and  program  requirements. 
They  will  be  able  to  advise 
greater  numbers  of  students 
more  efficiently. 

A  phone  registration  system 
will  facilitate  student 
registration  and  course 
enrollment,  as  well  as 


faculty  and  student  access 
to  academic  records. 
Students  will  be  able  to 
enroll  at  their  convenience, 
eliminating  clumsy 
paperwork.  Callers  will 
be  able  to  inquire  if  an 
application  for  admission 
was  complete,  whether 
financial  aid  forms  have 
been  acted  on,  if  a  balance 
is  due  on  an  account,  or  if 
a  final  course  grade  had 
been  posted. 

The  information  transfer 
system  will  assist  in 
processing  student  loans 
and  transmitting  academic 
transcripts.  For  example, 
usually,  information  in  one 
computer  system  that  needs 
to  be  transferred  to  another 


system  has  to  be  committed 
to  paper,  sent  elsewhere, 
and  then  converted  to 
electronic  form  again 
through  data  entry.  The 
information  transfer 
system  will  cut  out  the 
intermediate  paper  and  data 
entry  steps.  Brandeis  will 
apply  it  to  process  academic 
transcript  requests  and  to 
share  information  with  the 
National  Student  Loan 
Clearinghouse.  Cost 
reductions  are  expected  to 
be  in  the  range  of  half  to 
two-thirds.  And  students 
will  get  faster  and  more 
accurate  service. 

The  Davis  Educational 
Foundation  was  established 
by  Stanton  and  Elisabeth 
Davis.  Prior  to  his 
retirement,  Davis  was  the 
chair  of  Shaw's 
Supermarkets,  Inc. 


21  Winter  1995 


""■  i  \:Mm^ 


/^ 

by  Lawrence  J.  Wangh  '68 


A  Brandeis  biologist  returns  from  Egypt  with  dire  warnings  about  world  population  and  development. 


I  am  writing  to  give  you  my  impressions  and 
assessments  of  the  International  Conference  on 
Population  and  Development,  held  in  Cairo  in 
September  1994.  I  will  do  so  in  two  parts.  First  I 
will  tell  you  about  the  setting  in  which  the 
meeting  took  place,  how  it  was  organized,  and 
who  participated.  Then  I  will  tell  you  the  five 
major  conclusions  that  I  drew  from  the  meeting. 

The  human  population  has  increased 
spectacularly  in  the  last  150  years.  By  the  year 
2000,  just  five  years  away,  we  will  reach  a  total 
of  six  billion  people.  It  is  quite  clear  that  this 
superexponential  increase  cannot  continue 
much  longer,  but  even  by  the  best  United 
Nations  projections  the  maximum  value  we  will 
reach  in  the  future  and  how  long  we  will  remain 
at  that  level  is  far  from  clear.  Compounding  our 
difficulties  is  the  fact  that  these  changes  are 
happening  very  quickly.  Just  under  90  million 
people  are  currently  added  to  the  planet  each 
year,  and  based  on  the  number  of  young  people 
alive  today,  we  will  almost  inevitably  reach  eight 
billion  by  the  year  2020.  merely  25  years  away. 
Implications  of  these  facts  were  made  very  real 
to  me  in  Cairo.  Yet,  as  I  write  about  these 
coming  realities,  I  feel  like  Alice  who  traveled 
through  the  looking  glass  and  found  a  world  in 
which  rules  of  logic,  order,  common  sense,  and 
common  morality  either  do  not  apply  or  are 
severely  threatened, 

I  went  to  Cairo  as  a  representative  of  Brandeis 
University,  and  because  I  teach  human 
reproductive  biology.  Strange  to  say,  I  think  I 
was  the  only  participant  in  the  meeting  with  a 
purely  academic  affiliation.  Everyone  I  met  and 
everyone  else  listed  in  the  catalog  was 
associated  with  some  type  of  nongovernmental 
organization  devoted  to  population  issues. 

Egypt  is  a  nation  of  almost  60  million  people 
whose  life  support  systems  come  from  two 
sources:  the  Nile  river  valley  and  substantial 
amounts  of  American  aid.  The  population  of 
Cairo,  now  almost  12  million,  is  twice  what  it  was 
10  years  ago.  The  city  stretches  across  the  Nile 
valley,  about  25  kilometers  from  desert  to 
desert.  Because  expansion  into  the  desert  is 


impossible,  the  city  engulfs  the  fertile  valley  as  it 
grows.  The  Sphinx  who  once  asked,  "What 
animal  walks  on  four  feet  in  the  morning,  two 
feet  at  noon,  and  three  feet  in  the  evening?"  now 
asks,  "Where  did  you  all  come  from?"  The  city 
and  the  garbage  reach  right  up  to  her  feet. 

Urbanization  is  a  fundamental  aspect  of 
population  explosion  and  is  occurring  not  just  in 
Egypt  but  everywhere.  From  the  air,  most  towns 
in  Europe  look  like  the  pseudopods  of  an 
amoeba,  eating  the  farmland  as  they  spread. 
The  Cairo  Program  for  Action  points  out  that  by 
the  year  2015,  just  20  years  from  now,  nearly  56 
percent  of  the  global  population  will  live  in  urban 
areas,  up  from  45  percent  today.  In  developing 
countries,  this  represents  a  100  percent 
increase  since  1975. 

The  Cairo  Conference  on  Population  and 
Development  was  actually  two  very  large 
meetings  held  at  the  same  time  on  the  Olympic 
sports  ground.  In  one  building  governmental 
delegations  from  174  nations  met  to  discuss  and 
finalize  the  conference  Program  for  Action.  Most 
aspects  of  this  document  had  already  been 
agreed  to  in  two  previous  meetings  in  New  York 
City.  The  one  paragraph  on  abortion  was  highly 
publicized,  but  the  document  is  actually  over  100 
pages  long,  outlining  principles,  objectives,  and 
actions  to  be  taken  on  a  broad  range  of  topics. 
These  include  the  interrelationship  between 
population,  sustained  growth,  and  sustainable 
development;  gender  equality,  equity,  and 
empowerment  of  women;  the  family,  its  roles, 
composition,  and  structure;  population  growth 
and  structure;  reproductive  rights,  sexual  and 
reproductive  health,  and  family  planning;  health, 
morbidity,  and  morality;  population  distribution, 
urbanization,  and  internal  migration; 
international  migration;  population,  development, 
and  education;  technology  and  research; 
national  and  internal  action  and  cooperation;  and 
cooperation  with  nongovernmental 
organizations. 

The  most  controversial  issue  was  whether  a 
woman  has  a  right  to  have  an  abortion.  This  is  a 
serious  health  issue  since  50  million  abortions 


23  Winter  1995 


are  performed  annually  worldwide,  many  under 
unsafe  conditions.  The  Islamic  countries  and  the 
Vatican,  of  course,  would  not  agree  that  women 
have  a  right  to  safe  abortions,  since  abortions 
are  not  legal  in  their  countries.  In  the  end, 
however,  a  woman's  right  to  health  care, 
including  post-abortion  care,  was  agreed  to,  and 
in  many  respects,  this  is  a  much  greater  victory. 

Other  areas  of  controversy  included  the  rights  of 
immigrant  families  and  the  rights  of  indigenous 
peoples  in  many  countries.  The  U.S. 
government  opposes  the  notion  that  immigrant 
families  have  a  right  to  be  reunited,  because  it 
would  open  the  floodgates  to  immigration.  The 
United  States,  as  well  as  several  South 
American  governments,  also  opposed  use  of  the 
term  indigenous  peoples  as  compared  to 
indigenous  people,  because  these  governments 
do  not  want  to  have  to  negotiate  with  each 
Indian  tribe  separately. 

For  the  most  part,  however,  the  Program  for 
Action  was  agreed  to  without  major  revision. 
Individual  governments  are  now  expected  to 
enact  new  laws  and  put  new  policies  and 
practices  into  place  along  the  lines  of  the 


agreement.  Money,  apparently  to  the  tune  of  $17 
billion  per  year,  is  supposed  to  be  made 
available,  primarily  from  Western  nations.  But  let 
me  emphasize  that  these  agreements  are 
voluntary  and  are,  therefore,  subject  to  the 
national  aspirations  and  cultural  and  legal 
Idiosyncrasies  of  each  country  on  earth. 

How  quickly  countries  will  act  is,  of  course,  the 
big  question.  Moreover,  many  of  the  changes 
required,  particularly  in  family  planning,  women's 
health,  and  education,  require  one-on-one 
instruction  of  virtually  all  people  on  the  planet. 

As  I  have  stated,  there  were  two  meetings  in 
Cairo.  The  second  one,  which  I  attended,  was 
called  the  NGO  Forum.  NGO  stands  for 
nongovernmental  organization.  The  building  in 
which  we  met  was  directly  across  two  large 
parking  lots  from  the  ICPD  meeting. 

Representatives  from  several  hundred  NGOs 
participated,  including  many  family  planning 
organizations,  the  World  Bank,  several 
organizations  within  the  United  Nations,  U.S. 
AID,  and  several  major  U.S.  private  foundations. 
But  even  dissenting  voices,  like  the  "right-to- 
lifers,"  were  present,  their  booth  always  well 
attended. 

Each  day  started  with  reports  from  three  major 
caucus  groups.  The  women's  caucus  was  the 
most  vocal  and  powerful.  Caucus  meetings 
informed  NGO  participants  about  the  major 
issues  that  the  governments  were  arguing  over, 
and  often  ended  in  a  call  for  increased  lobbying 
efforts.  Caucus  meetings  were  also  the  place 
where  leaders  representing  women  in  seven 
regions  of  the  world  got  up  to  voice  their  own 
agendas  and  grievances. 

Caucus  meetings  were  followed  each  day  by 
talks,  video  presentations,  and  formal  speeches. 
At  many  times  there  were  up  to  15  presentations 
going  on  simultaneously,  and  1,500  such  events 
were  staged  over  nine  days.  Major  presentations 
were  given  in  the  three  small  arenas,  and 
speeches  were  translated  into  English,  Arabic, 
French,  and  Spanish. 

Most  of  the  participants  were  women  who  came 
from  all  over  the  world,  the  majority  of  whom 
were  policy  makers  and  field  workers,  out  in  the 
field  every  day  trying  to  deliver  family  planning 
services.  They  all  had  real-life  experiences  to 
relate,  which  were  far  different  from  the  purity  of 
my  academic  isolation.  But  many  of  these 
people  were  also  teachers,  struggling  with  the 
problem  of  how  to  get  a  message  across,  and 
the  people  I  spoke  with  were  invariably 
interested  to  know  that  Brandeis  University  is 
thinking  and  teaching  about  population  issues. 

The  NGO  Forum  served  three  major  functions. 
First,  through  talks,  literature,  and  videos  it 
provided  up-to-date  information  about  population 
and  development  from  all  over  the  world. 
Second,  it  was  a  place  to  meet  people,  to 


network,  and  to  feel  strengthened  by  finding  out 
tfiat  ttiere  are  many  fine  individuals  all  over  tfie 
world  who  are  also  worrying  about  population, 
development,  and  the  environment.  Third,  it  was 
an  intensely  concerned,  and  sometimes  divided, 
political  body  watching  the  official  government 
meetings  and  trying  to  influence  their 
proceedings.  The  opportunities  for  exerting 
influence  were  substantial,  far  greater  than  ever 
before  in  the  history  of  the  United  Nations.  Some 
NGOs  were,  in  fact,  official  government 
delegates.  In  addition,  other  NGOs,  particularly 
those  from  the  women's  caucus,  had  access  to 
the  ICPD  meeting  and  were  able  to  lobby 
governmental  representatives  whenever  an 
official  meeting  came  out  of  closed  session. 

Now  let  me  turn  to  my  five  major  conclusions.  I 
warn  you  in  advance  that,  although  there  is  good 
news  to  tell,  my  conclusions  are  pessimistic  and 
frightening. 

My  first  major  conclusion  concerns  the  very  best 
news  of  all  to  come  out  of  Cairo.  The  meeting  in 
Cairo  was  the  first  time  in  history  that  a  very 
large  meeting  of  world  leaders  was  held  in 
parallel  with  a  very  large  meeting  of 
nongovernmental  agencies.  Why  was  this  so 
important?  Because  as  one  United  Nations 
official  put  it,  the  people  are  out  of  the  bottle  and 
the  politicians  will  never  be  able  to  conduct 
business  in  private  again. 

When  Nafis  Sadik,  the  secretary  general  of  the 
ICPD,  showed  up  at  the  women's  caucus  to 
announce  that  a  compromise  text  on  the 
abortion  issue  had  been  agreed  to,  everyone 
cheered.  What  moved  me  most  was  that  fact 
that  she  thanked  all  members  of  the  caucus  for 
their  efforts  to  pressure  their  governments.  I  sat 
with  tears  of  happiness  in  my  eyes  and  I  thought 
back  to  days  when  the  United  Nations  served  as 
the  forum  for  Khrushchev  to  bang  his  shoe  on 
the  table. 

Of  course,  policy  is  one  factor — how  it  is  applied 
in  each  country  is  another  matter  entirely.  The 
intent  of  the  Program  for  Action  is  to  directly  link 
the  influx  of  new  money  to  the  establishment  of 
family  planning  clinics,  health  clinics,  and  new 
educational  programs,  particularly  for  girls.  Much 
of  this  money  is  supposed  to  go  through 
governments  to  the  nongovernmental  agencies 
already  doing  the  work  in  the  field.  Thus,  one  of 
the  outcomes  we  will  certainly  see  worldwide  is 
a  big  increase  in  the  number  of 
nongovernmental  agencies. 

My  second  major  conclusion  is  broader  and 
much  more  ominous.  After  listening  all  week  in 
Cairo,  I  am  convinced  that  there  are  multiple 
crises  facing  our  species  and  our  biosphere,  and 
that  these  are  so  profound  in  nature  that  they 
require  fundamental,  perhaps  even 
revolutionary,  changes  in  at  least  four  major 
areas  of  human  behavior:  human  reproductive 
practices,  human  sexual  practices,  human 
consumption  of  natural  resources,  and  human 
responses  to  crowding. 


These  enormous  changes  are  demanded  by 
rapid  degradation  of  our  planetary  home.  I 
believe  that  we  are,  in  fact,  reaching  the  limit  of 
our  environmental  support  system.  To  make 
matters  worse,  the  problems  we  face  are  often 
interactive  and  sometimes  contradictory.  The 
time  to  act  on  all  of  these  matters  is 
immediately.  Denial  of  our  state  of  peril  may  be 
the  greatest  danger  of  all. 

My  third  major  conclusion  concerns  the  HIV 
infection  and  AIDS  pandemic.  As  pointed  out  in 
the  Program  tor  Action,  the  total  number  of  HIV 
infected  people  has  now  passed  14  million  and 
is  expected  to  increase  to  30  to  40  million  by  the 
end  of  the  century.  Four-fifths  of  all  persons  ever 
infected  with  HIV  live  in  developing  countries 
where  the  infection  is  transmitted  mainly  through 
heterosexual  intercourse,  and  the  number  of 
new  cases  is  rising  most  rapidly  in  women. 
These  facts  should  serve  to  dispel  the  myth  that 
this  is  a  disease  restricted  to  homosexuals  and 
intravenous  drug  users. 


In  the  absence  of  an  extraordinary  technological 
breakthrough,  our  only  preventive  strategy  relies 
on  education  with  the  aim  of  changing  human 
behavior.  But  I  am  concerned  that  the  changes 
in  reproductive  behavior  needed  to  curb 
population  growth  may  well  run  counter  to  the 
changes  in  sexual  behavior  required  to  stop  the 
spread  of  a  deadly  disease.  China  is  a  good 
example  of  this  dilemma. 

China  has  a  population  nearing  1.2  billion,  or 
one-fifth  of  the  world's  people.  But  this  country 
has  only  seven  percent  of  the  earth's  arable 
land.  The  government  takes  family  planning  very 
seriously  and  promotes  long  lasting,  highly 
effective  contraceptive  methods  like  the  lUD  and 
male  and  female  sterilization.  They  know  that  if 
they  relax  their  rigid  approach  even  slightly,  their 
numbers  will  quickly  rise  above  sustainable 
levels.  Thus,  condoms,  which  have  a  pregnancy 
rate  of  from  five  to  10  percent,  are  too  risky  for 
the  Chinese  to  depend  on.  Besides,  condoms 
are  culturally  taboo  in  China  because  they  imply 
extramarital  relationships. 

The  Chinese  government  does  not  acknowledge 
AIDS  in  their  country,  yet  a  nongovernmental 
Chinese  group  in  Cairo  reported  that  AIDS  is 
present  among  drug  abusers  and  prostitutes  in 
several  southern  Chinese  cities  and  is 
spreading.  They  also  pointed  out  that  increased 
urbanization  is  accompanied  by  increased 
extramarital  and  premarital  sex,  particularly 
among  students.  There  is  no  escaping  the  clear 
implication  of  this  report.  The  AIDS  pandemic  is 
poised  to  explode  in  China,  as  it  has  in  Thailand. 

I  was  left  wondering  when  the  Chinese 
government  will  change  its  official  policy  on 


AIDS,  and  once  it  does,  how  that  vast  country 
will  train  enough  health  care  workers  to  convince 
their  people,  many  of  whom  have  already  been 
sterilized,  that  they  must  nevertheless  practice 
safe  sex  through  the  scrupulous  use  of 
condoms. 

Let  me  be  perfectly  clear,  besides  abstinence, 
condoms  are  currently  the  only  means  we  have 
to  slow  the  spread  of  HIV  between  infected  and 
non-infected  individuals.  But  condoms  as  a 
contra-AIDS  device  are  not  the  same  thing  as 
condoms  as  contraceptives.  There  are  many 
situations  in  which  sexually  active  couples 
cannot  become  pregnant  but  can  still  transmit 
the  HIV  virus.  After  seeing  Cairo  and  hearing 
about  other  overcrowded  and  impoverished 
cities  of  the  world,  it  is  impossible  for  me  to 
imagine  how  human  behavior  will  be  modified 
sufficiently  in  the  next  decade  or  two  to  stop  the 
spread  of  AIDS. 

My  fourth  major  conclusion  concerns  the 
complex  relationship  between  population 
explosion,  development,  and  the  unalterable 
limits  of  the  global  environment.  Despite  the 
clear  warnings  of  environmental  degradation 
contained  in  the  preamble  to  the  Plan  of  Action, 
very  little  was  actually  said  in  Cairo  concerning 
the  environment,  global  warming,  or  the  ozone 
layer.  The  Cairo  Program  for  Action  views 
sustainable  development  as  a  necessary  adjunct 
to  family  planning,  and  it  may  well  be.  Without 
education  and  new  economic  opportunities, 
particularly  for  women,  it  is  very  difficult  to 
convince  people  to  stop  procreating.  But  the 
Plan  of  Action  does  not  address  how  the 
environmental  costs  of  development  are  to  be 
paid.  For  this  reason,  I  think  the  Cairo  Program 
for  Action  fails  to  address  the  most  important 
consequences  of  population  growth  and 
resource  consumption. 

Very  few  speakers  in  Cairo  actually  addressed 
the  ecological  and  climatological  consequences 
of  overpopulation  and,  amazingly,  I  only  heard 
the  term  "carrying  capacity  of  the  earth"  used 
twice  in  Cairo.  Dr.  Norman  Myers,  a  British 
scientist  working  with  the  Climate  Institute,  was 
a  notable  exception.  He  passionately  pointed  out 
that  18  million  of  today's  40  million  refugees  are 
migrating  because  of  ecological  catastrophe.  He 
also  predicts  that  by  the  year  2025,  that  number 
will  rise  to  120  million. 

Myers  also  concludes  that  global  warming  is 
clearly  in  the  pipeline.  We  should  expect  a  rise 
in  the  sea  level  of  at  least  one  and  a  half  feet. 
This  will  be  accompanied  by  coastal  erosion, 
loss  of  wetlands,  intense  storms,  and 
salinization  of  low-lying  fertile  plains  like  those 
of  the  Eastern  United  States,  the  Nile  delta,  and 
Bangladesh.  While  these  chaotic  events  appear 
certain  to  take  place,  they  are  impossible  to 
place  in  time  or  space,  precisely  because  they 
are  chaotic. 


Thus,  my  fifth  and  final  conclusion  is  that  the 
Plan  of  Action  adopted  in  Cairo  will  not  achieve 
population  stabilization  as  it  claims.  The  promise 
of  population  stabilization  is  based  on  a  very 
simplistic  calculation.  Zero  population  growth  will 
occur  when  birthrates  decrease  to  equal  death 
rates.  Mortality  rates  have  fallen  everywhere 
over  the  last  1 00  to  1 50  years  and  are  now 
relatively  low.  Birthrates  are,  indeed,  decreasing 
all  over  the  world,  except  in  sub-Saharan  Africa. 
Increased  efforts  in  family  planning,  women's 
health,  and  education  for  girls  will  certainly 
accelerate  these  trends.  But  will  that  lead  to 
population  stabilization  for  the  next  200  to  300 
years,  as  was  suggested  by  John  Caldwell,  one 
of  the  major  demographers  at  the  meeting? 

I  think  not,  because  it  seems  to  me  that  the  flaw 
in  these  projections  lies  in  the  assumption  that 
mortality  rates  will  remain  relatively  low.  There  is 
no  reason  to  assume  that  this  must  be  the  case 
and,  as  I  have  outlined  above,  there  is  good 
reason  to  doubt  that  it  will.  I  conclude  that  we 
are  headed  for  an  extended  period  of 
environmental  instability  and  substantially 
increased  mortality.  Unfortunately,  because  the 
causes  of  increased  mortality  are  likely  to  be 
many  and  chaotic  in  nature,  they  cannot  be 
predicted  with  precision.  This  is  the  reason  why 
demographers  do  not  include  them  in  their 
calculations,  and  governments  do  not  prepare 
for  them. 

Let  me  close  by  emphasizing  that  nature  does 
not  care  what  becomes  of  the  human  species. 
We  are  going  to  have  to  demonstrate  wisdom  of 
forethought  and  the  moral  courage  to  change. 
Each  of  us  who  has  not  yet  had  children,  or  is 
still  having  children,  should  not  only  ask  how 
many  kids  can  I  afford,  but  how  many  kids  can 
the  planet  afford?  Each  of  us  who  is  sexually 
active  must  ask  ourselves  honestly  and  directly, 
am  I  sexually  safe,  and  am  I  sexually 


responsible?  In  addition,  all  of  us  must  learn  to 
talk  openly  to  each  other  and  our  children  about 
human  sexuality,  human  health,  and  human 
rights.  Contraception  has  separated  human 
sexual  pleasure  from  human  reproduction.  Now, 
both  of  these  behaviors  must  be  patrolled  by 
human  consciousness.  Each  of  us,  particularly 
here  in  the  United  States,  must  make  a 
concerted  effort  to  cut  back  our  consumption  of 
energy  and  natural  resources.  We  have  to  put 
greater  value  on  our  environment,  and  we  will 
have  to  pay  higher  prices  for  earth's  products. 
This  seems  inevitable,  because  it  is  probably  the 
only  way  to  curb  consumption.  Finally,  each  of 
us,  without  resorting  to  violence,  will  have  to 
learn  how  to  live  in  a  hotter  world  with  less 
space  per  person  and  more  interactions  with  the 
people  around  us. 

To  accomplish  these  revolutionary  changes  in 
human  behavior  we  will  have  to  invent,  teach, 
and  practice  new  ethics  based  on  the  biological 
realities  of  our  times.  Fortunately  there  is  good 
news.  As  the  preamble  to  the  Program  for  Action 
states:  "Never  before  has  the  world  community 
had  so  many  resources,  so  much  knowledge, 
and  such  powerful  technologies  at  its  disposal 
with  which  it  could  foster  socially  equitable  and 
environmentally  sustainable  world  development." 
Equally  important  is  the  fact  that  the  conference 
took  place  and  that  all  of  the  countries  of  the 
world  are  now  beginning  to  think  about  and  face 
the  problems  ahead. 

It  is  rare  that  an  individual  gets  a  chance  to  put 
his  head  above  the  trees  and  look  out  over  life. 
Cairo  was  my  opportunity  to  do  so,  and  it  is 
obvious  that  what  I  saw  and  heard  moved  and 
troubled  me  profoundly.  Thank  you  for  letting  me 
share  these  burdens  of  consciousness  with  you.  _ 


Lawrence  J.  Wangh 


Lawrence  J.  vvangn  is  an  associate  proressor 
of  biology  at  Brandeis  University.  He  received 
his  B.A.  summa  cum  laude  with  honors  from 
Brandeis  in  1968  and  his  Ph.D.  from  Rockefeller 
University  in  1973.  He  holds  a  long-standing 
personal  and  professional  concern  for  the  human 
population  explosion  and  its  repercussions. 

The  author  gratefully  acknowledges  Judith  Tsipis, 
adjunct  professor  of  biology  and  director  of  the 
Brandeis  University  Master's  Program  in  Genetic 
Counseling,  and  Greg  Shesko,  assistant  provost 
for  academic  finance  and  administration  at 
Brandeis,  for  their  financial  support.  He  also 
thanks  Ruth  Morgenthau,  Adiai  E.  Stevenson 
Professor  of  International  Politics,  and  Amy  Higer, 
a  graduate  student  In  the  Brandeis  University 
politics  department,  for  helping  him  prepare  for 
this  trip.  Finally,  he  most  warmly  thanks  Dr.  Salah 
and  his  sons  for  their  generous  hospitality  in  Cairo. 


27  "Winter  1995 


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Ci  eating 

A  Human  Rights 

Culture 


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_;  rticle  22  Everyone,  as  a 
member  of  society,  has  the  right 
to  social  security  and  is  entitled 
to  realization,  through  national 
effort  and  international  co-oper- 
ation and  in  accordance  with 
the  organization  and  resources 
of  each  State,  of  the  economic, 
social  and  cultural  rights  in- 
dispensable for  his  dignity  and 
the  free  development  of  his 
personality. 


United  Nations 
document  that  has  gone  largely  unknown 
to  Americans  for  46  years  may  hold 
the  key  to  the  creation  of  a  fairer  and  more 
humanitarian  world. 


by  Joseph  Wronka, 
Ph.D.  '92 


On  December  10,  1948, 
the  United  States  signed, 
and  the  U.N.  General 
Assembly  endorsed  with 
no  dissenting  vote,  the 
Universal  Declaration  of 
Human  Rights.  The  chair 
of  the  drafting  committee, 
Eleanor  Roosevelt  (who 
later  became  a  professor  at 
Brandeis)  referred  to  it  as  a 
new  Magna  Carta  for 
humanity.  The  U.N. 
Human  Rights 
Commission  asserts  that 
it  is  the  authoritative 
definition  of  human  rights 
standards  left  undefined 
by  the  U.N.  Charter, 
which  alleges  only  a  vague 
commitment  to  human 
rights.  World  leaders,  such 
as  Pope  John  Paul  II,   have 
called  it  a  "milestone  in 
the  long  and  difficult 
struggle  of  the  human 
race." 

Despite  its  world  acclaim 
and  burgeoning  legal 
status,  most  Americans 
have  never  heard  of  this 
document.  And  if  they 
have,  they  seem  unaware 
of  the  scope  of  rights  it 
contains.  Human  rights 
violations  are  more  than 
what  appears  generally 
understood  to  occur  in 
such  far  away  places  as 
Tiananmen  Square  in 
China,  or  the  jungles  of 
Somalia. 


Originally  meant  to  be 
merely  a  hortatory 
document,  today  the 
Universal  Declaration  of 
Human  Rights  is  of 
heightening  global 
significance  and  is 
increasingly  referred  to  as 
customary  international 
law  by  human  rights 
scholars  and  even  federal 
judges.  In  the  case 
precedent,  Filartiga  vs. 
Penfl(1980),  a  United 
States  court  ruled  against 
a  military  commander  for 
torturing  and  murdering  a 
17-year-old  high  school 
student,  Joelita  Filartiga, 
in  Paraguay.  Federal 
Judges  Kaufman,  Kearse, 
and  Feinberg  of  the  Second 
Circuit  reached  the 
following  conclusion: 
Official  torture  is  now 
prohibited  by  the  law  of 
nations.  This  prohibition 
is  clear  and  unambiguous 
and  admits  no  distinction 
between  treatment  of 
aliens  and  citizens. ...This 
prohibition  has  become 
part  of  customary 
international  law,  as 
evidenced  and  defined  by 
the  Universal  Declaration 
of  Human  Rights.  (630 
F.2d  884-885) 

The  ruling  was  against 
Pena,  the  military 
commander.  After  the 
torture,  Joelita's  father  and 
Pena  had  moved  to  the 


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K  rticle  28  Everyone  is 
entitled  to  a  social  and  inter- 
national order  in  which  the 
rights  and  freedoms  set  forth 
in  this  Declaration  can  be 
fully  realized 


_,  rlicte23  tu  Everyone  has  the 
Ti^hl  ttt  wink,  tn  free  choice  of  employment, 
to  lust  and  fat'oiirabtc  conditions  of  zvork 
and  to  protection  against  ttnemployment. 

(2(  Et'erxone.  witliout  any  discrimtnalton. 
has  the  right  to  equal  pay  for  equal  icork 

I'it  Lver\onc  who  ivorks  has  the  Tight  to 
rust  and  favourable  remuneration  ensuring 
for  himself  and  his  family  an  existence 
worthy  of  human  dignity,  and  supplement- 
ed, if  necessary,  hy  other  means  of  social 
protection 

14i  Everyone  has  the  right  to  form  and  to 
join  trade  unions  for  the  protection  of  his 
interests. 


i  rticle  25  11)  Zlieryotte  has  lite 
right  to  a  standard  of  living  adetitiate 
for  the  health  and  ivell  being  offtinisetf 
and  of  his  family,  tncludiitgfood.  cloth- 
ing, housing  and  medical  care  and 
neccssari'  social  services,  and  the  right 
to  security  in  the  event  of  iinemplov 
nient.  sickness,  disability,  tridoti'hood. 
old  age  or  other  lack  of  livelthood  in 
circumstances  beyond  his  control 

t2i  Motherhood  and  childhood  are 
entitled  to  special  care  and  assistance- 
All  children,  tvhcther  born  in  or  out  of 
wedlock,  shall  en/oy  the  same  social 
protection 


K  rticle  24  Everyone 
has  the  right  to  rest  and 
leisure,  including  reason- 
able limitation  of  work- 
ing hours  and  periodic 
holidays  with  pay. 


United  States.  Upon 
learning  of  Pena's 
whereabouts,  Filartiga 
filed  suit.  The  ruling  came 
after  extremely  long 
litigation.  What  has 
become  known  as  the 
"Filartiga"  principle  has 
been  used  against  torturers 
from  other  countries  who 
have  tried  to  settle  in  the 
United  States.  Recently,  a 
Massachusetts  court  ruled 
against  General  Hector 
Gramajo,  a  former 
Minister  of  Defense  in 
Guatemala,  who  ordered, 
among  other  things,  the 
disembowelment  of 
children  in  front  of  their 
parents. 

The  Filartiga  case  spawned 
numerous  articles  and 
commentary  m  such 
journals  as  the  Harvard 
Human  Rights  Journal  and 
the  American  Society  of 
International  Law,  which 
argued  that  in  addition  to 
the  prohibition  against 
torture,  other  rights 
contained  in  the  Universal 
Declaration  should  be 
considered  part  of 
customary  international 
law.  According  to  human 
rights  scholar  Richard 
Lillich,  noting  that 
"numerous  judges  and 
litigants  have  already 
invoked  the  Declaration," 


arguments  that  other 
human  rights  now  are  part 
of  customary  international 
law  can  be  expected  to  be 
made  with  increasing 
frequency. 

In  brief,  the  Universal 
Declaration  of  Human 
Rights  consists  of  30 
articles,  written  as  the 
drafting  committee 
wanted  it:  not  for  the 
doctorate  in  jurisprudence, 
but  for  the  everyday 
layperson  in 
understandable,  easy  to 
read  language.  Basically,  it 
consists  of  four  crucial 
notions.  The  first  is 
human  dignity, 
emphasized  in  Article  1. 

The  second  is  civil  and 
political  rights,  supported 
in  Articles  2  through  21 . 
These  are  known  as 
negative  rights,  as  they 
emphasize  government's 
responsibility  not  to 
interfere  in  such  basic 
human  rights  as  the 
freedoms  of  speech,  the 
press,  religion,  and 
assembly.  They  are  also 
known  as  first  generation 
rights  because  they  arose 
primarily  in  the  18th 
century  in  response  to  the 
abuses  of  such  tyrannical 
monarchs  as  King  George. 
The  American  Bill  of 
Rights  exemplifies  these 
fundamental  freedoms. 


The  third  notion  is 
economic  and  social 
rights,  covered  in  Articles 
22  through  27.  These  are 
known  as  second 
generation  or  positive 
rights  because  they  stress 
governments' 
responsibility  to  provide 
for  certain  basic  human 
needs  like  shelter,  health 
care,  education, 
employment,  and  security 
in  old  age.  They  arose 
primarily  in  response  to 
the  abuses  of 
industrialization  in  the 
19th  and  20th  centuries, 
which  in  essence  replaced 
the  previously  abusive 
monarchs.  The  Soviet 
Constitution  of  1917 
emphasizes  these 
freedoms. 

The  fourth  crucial  notion 
is  that  of  solidarity  rights 
or  third  generation  rights. 
Although  still  in  the 
process  of  conceptual 
elaboration,  these 
remaining  articles 
emphasize,  first,  the 
notion  of  duties.  The  right 
to  have  food,  for  instance, 
requires  the  duty  not  to 
overconsume.  In  essence, 
they  stress  the  need  for 
individual  and 


international  cooperation 
to  realize  such  rights  as  a 
clean  environment,  peace, 
and  international 
distributive  justice.  They 
have  arisen  from  the 
failure  of  domestic 
sovereignty  to  solve  such 
global  issues. 

The  creation  of  the 
Universal  Declaration  of 
Human  Rights  is  the 
culmination  of  struggle.  In 
1938  at  the  Conference  of 
Evian,  called  largely  upon 
the  initiative  of  the 
United  States,  many 
nations  of  the  world  stood 
horrified  at  Hitler's 
atrocities  against  his 
fellow  Germans.  As  it 
turned  out,  the  world's 
outrage  was  not  so  much 
over  the  horrors  of  the 
Third  Reich  but  over  the 
gall  of  other  countries  to 
intervene  in  another's 
domestic  affairs.  The 
conference  concluded  that 
no  country  had  that  right. 
What  resulted  was  one  of 
the  most  dreadful  events 
in  history — the  Holocaust, 
the  wanton  genocidal 
massacre  of  10  million 
innocents,  primarily  Jews, 
but  also  such  groups  as 
homosexuals,  gypsies, 
Poles,  and  people  with 
disabilities. 


29  Winter  1995 


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,  rii(;ie29  II I  Evenoite  hasduties 
It  the  cf'ininunity  m  which  alone  the  pee 
and  lull  det'eliipment  ol  his  penonatity  is 
poisible 

(21  In  the  exercise  ol  hts  rights  and  free- 
doms, everyone  shall  be  subrecl  onlv  to 
such  limitations  as  are  determined  by  law 
solely  lor  the  purpose  ol  secttrnif^  due  recog- 
nition and  respect  lor  the  rights  and  Iree- 
doms  ol  others  and  ol  meeting  the  lusl 
requirements  ol  morality,  public  order  and 
the  general  wetlare  in  a  democratic  society 

(31  These  rights  and  Ireedoms  may  in  no 
case  be  exercised  contrary  to  the  purposes 
and  principles  ol  the  Vnited  \ations 


Jrticle  1  Alt  human 
beings  are  born  free  and  equal 
in  dignity  and  rights.  They  are 
endowed  with  reason  and  con- 
science and  should  act  towards 
one  another  in  a  spirit  of 
brotherhood. 


'  rlicle26  1 1 1  Ereryont  has  tile  riKhl  lit 
eduiMliii ft  Litucaiion  sliatl  belree.  at  least  in 
Iht  elt'nenlar\'  and  lundttTicnlat  stores  tlemcn- 
(un  educolion  shall  tie  compuhar^'  Tei:linical 
and  protessiimal  education  shall  tie  madeeetier- 
atlv  available  and  higher  education  shall  or 
equally  accessible  to  all  on  the  baiisol  mem 

121  tducalion  shall  be  directed  to  the  lull 
dezetopmenl  ol  Ihe  human  personality  and  to 
the  strengthening  ol  respect  lot  human  lights 
and  jundamenlat  Ireedoms  It  shall  promote 
understanding,  tolerance  and  jnenaship  among 
all  naliom,  racial  or  religious  groups,  and  shall 
lurthei  the  activities  ol  the  inited  \alions  lor 
the  maintenance  ol  peace 

f  J)  Parents  liai'e  a  prior  right  to  chouse  the 
lltnd  ol  education  that  shall  be  given  to  their 
children. 


rticle30  Nothing  in 
this  Declaration  may  be  inter- 
preted as  implying  for  any 
State,  group  or  person  any 
right  to  engage  in  any  activity 
or  to  perform  any  act  aimed 
at  the  destruction  of  any  of 
the  rights  and  freedoms  set 
forth  herein. 


From  the  ashes  of  World 
War  II,  in  order  to  prevent 
such  a  bloodbath  from 
ever  happening  again, 
countries  formed  a 
"United  Nations"  at  the 
San  Francisco  Conference 
in  June  1945.  But  still 
many  governments 
appeared  hesitant  at  that 
time  to  include  detailed 
provisions  of  "human 
rights,"  a  term  the  U.N. 
Charter  officially  coined. 
The  Soviet  Union,  after 
all,  had  its  Gulag,  the 
United  States  its 
numerous  racial  problems 
and  sprawling  ghettos,  and 
Europe  its  many  colonial 
empires.  But,  according  to 
John  Humphrey,  first 
director  of  the  Division  of 
Human  Rights,  were  it  not 
for  the  efforts  of  a  lew 
deeply  committed 
delegates  and 
representatives  of  some  42 
nongovernmental 
organizations — primarily 
labor  and  religious  groups 
called  in  largely  by  the 
United  States — human 
rights  would  have  received 
"only  a  passing  reference." 

The  Universal  Declaration 
ol  Human  Rights  may  be 
described,  therefore,  as 
truly  a  "people's 
document,"  which  is  also 


a  philosophical  and 
political  compromise 
among  divergent  beliefs, 
countries,  and  traditions. 
Today,  no  government 
would  dare  say  that  it  is 
against  human  rights. 

Research  for  my  doctoral 
dissertation  at  The 
Florence  Heller  Graduate 
School  for  Advanced 
Studies  in  Social  Welfare, 
which  eventually  evolved 
into  a  book.  Human 
Rights  and  Social  Policy 
in  the  21st  Century:  a 
history  of  the  idea  of 
human  rights  and 
comparison  of  the 
Universal  Declaration  of 
Human  Rights  with 
United  States  Federal  and 
State  Constitutions, 
revealed  that  in  our  federal 
constitution,  human 
dignity  is  nowhere 
mentioned,  and  while 
exemplary  m  regard  to 
civil  and  political  rights, 
in  the  area  of  economic, 
social,  cultural,  and 
solidarity  rights,  it  is 
sorely  lacking.  Apart  from 
general  protection  for  an 
author's  interests,  there  is 
no  mention  of  such 
fundamental  rights  as 
shelter,  food,  employment, 
health  care,  education, 
special  protections  for 
children,  security  in  old 
age,  and  a  clean 
environment.  The 


majority  of  state 
constitutions  mention 
only  education  as  a  human 
right.  If,  as  is  often  stated, 
constitutions  can  legally 
mandate  the  fulfillment  of 
human  needs,  can  these 
omissions  account  for  our 
many  hungry,  homeless, 
and  unemployed,  whom 
Thomas  Jefferson  asserted 
were  "excluded  from  the 
appropriation. ..of  the  earth 
as  a  common  stock  to 
labor  and  live  on"?  In 
these  twilight  years  of  the 
20th  century,  would  it  not 
be  wise  to  heed  the  words 
of  Justice  Louis  Brandeis, 
who  urged  in  his  famous 
phrase  that  states  act  as 
"laboratories  of 
democracy"  to  expand  the 
rights  found  in  the  Federal 
Constitution- 
While  it  is  easy  to  contend 
that  the  United  States  is  a 
rights-based  culture — it 
does,  after  all,  sustain  the 
legacy  of  its  Bill  of  Rights, 
a  beautiful  but 
nevertheless  limited 
statement  of  fundamental 
freedoms — advancing 
human  rights  here  will  not 
be  easy.  As  Philip  Alston, 
chair  of  the  United 
Nations  Committee  on 
Economic,  Social,  and 
Cultural  Rights  has 


commented,  anyone  trying 
to  advance  economic  and 
social  rights  in  the  United 
States  will  undoubtedly 
meet  with  much 
resistance.  Individuals 
such  as  Robert  Bork,  who 
was  against  the  Filartiga 
decision,  have  expressed 
fear  that  notions  of 
"customary  international 
law"  will  revolutionize 
society.  Jeanne 
Kirkpatrick,  former  U.S. 
ambassador  to  the  United 
States  referred  to  the 
Universal  Declaration  as 
"a  letter  to  Santa 
Claus.. .neither  nature, 
experience,  nor  probability 
informs  these  lists  of 
'entitlements,'  which  are 
subject  to  no  constraints 
except  those  of  the  mind 
and  appetite  of  their 
authors."  The  former 
United  States 
representative  to  the 
U.N.  Human  Rights 
Commission,  Morris 
Abrams,  further  stated 
that  the  official  position  of 
the  United  States  was  the 
"priority"  of  civil  and 
political  rights.  This 
position  is  antithetical  to 
the  official  U.N.  position 
that  rights  are 
interdependent  and 
indivisible.  What  is 
freedom  of  speech,  for 
instance,  if  a  person  is 
unemployed,  homeless, 
and  hungry? 


30  Brandeis  Review 


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rlicle27  (1)  Everyone  has 
the  right  freely  to  participate  in  the 
cultural  life  of  the  community,  to 
enjoy  the  arts  and  to  nhare  in  scien- 
tific advancement  and  its  benefits- 
12}  Everyone  has  the  right  to  the 
protection  of  the  moral  and  material 
interests  resulting  from  any  scien- 
tific, literary  or  artistic  production 
of  which  he  is  the  author 


i  rticle  2  Everyone  is  entitled  to 
all  the  rights  and  freedoms  set  forth  in 
this  Declaration,  without  distinction  of 
any  kind,  such  as  race,  colour,  sex.  lan- 
guage, religion,  political  or  other  opinion, 
national  or  social  origin,  property,  birth 
or  other  status 

Furthermore,  no  distinction  shall  be 
made  on  the  basis  of  the  political,  juris- 
dictional or  international  status  of  the 
country  or  territory  to  which  a  person 
belongs,  whether  it  be  Independent, 
trust,  non-self-governing  or  under  any 
other  limitation  of  sovereignly 


S  rticle  3  Everyone  has 
the  right  to  life,  liberty  ami 
the  security  of  person. 


Wc  need  a  "human  rights 
culture,"  what  I  call  a 
"lived  awareness"  of  the 
principles  of  not  only  the 
Universal  Declaration  of 
Human  Rights,  but  also 
the  long  train  of  covenants 
and  declarations  that  have 
followed  it — the 
Conventions  Against 
Torture  and  the  Rights  of 
the  Child,  for  example.  We 
have  ratified  neither, 
although  Congress  is 
presently  deliberating  over 
the  Convention  Against 
the  Elimination  of 
Discrimination  Against 
Women.  It  is  here  where 
education,  broadly 
defined,  may  play  a  key 
role,  as  I  recently  argued 
in  my  article,  "Human 
Rights  and  Social  Policy  in 
the  United  States:  an 
educational  agenda  for  the 
21st  century"  in  the 
Journal  of  Moral 
Education.  Thus,  not  only 
must  we  know  cognitively 
that  we  need  "a  social  and 
international  order,"  in 
which  human  rights  can 
be  realized,  as  the 
Declaration  asserts,  but 
we  must  also  engage  in 
social  movements  to 
guarantee  basic  human 
rights  and  carry  these 
principles  into  our 
everyday  lives. 


Public  sentiment,  then,  is 
the  key  to  advancing  the 
principles  of  the  Universal 
Declaration.  We  need  to 
work  to  expand  the 
mandates  of  such  fine 
organizations  as  Amnesty 
International  and  local, 
state,  and  other  human 
rights  commissions  that 
often  limit  themselves  to 
such  parochial  issues  as 
affirmative  action  rather 
than  employment  for  all. 
We  need  to  have 
ordinances  endorsing  the 
principles  of  the  Universal 
Declaration.  In  addition  to 
monitoring  only  limited 
notions  of  rights  m  191 
foreign  countries,  as  in  the 
Department  of  State's 
Country  Reports  on 
Human  Riglits  Practices 
for  1993,  we  also  need  to 
respect  the  ancient 
injunction  to  look  at  the 
log  in  our  own  eye  before 
plucking  out  the  speck 
from  another's.  Should  we 
not  begin  to  examine 
ourselves? 

I  have  begun,  with  Dr. 
David  Gil,  professor  of 
social  policy  and  director 
of  the  Center  for  Social 
Change  at  The  Heller 
School,  The  Universal 
Declaration  of  Human 
Rights  Project,  a  joint 
undertaking  of  Brandeis 
University  and  Springfield 
College.  The  project 


commits  itself  to  raising 
awareness  of  the  Universal 
Declaration,  monitoring 
compliance  with  it,  and 
suggesting  ways  to 
overcome  violations. 
Results  would  not  be  m 
vain,  for  as  Gil  m  his 
Violence  Against  Children 
has  found,  unemployment 
is  a  major  predictor  of 
domestic  violence;  lack  of 
education,  according  to 
Constance  Williams, 
associate  professor  at  The 
Heller  School,  in  her 
Black  Teenage  Mothers: 
Pregnancy  and  Child 
Rearing  From  Their 
Perspective,  is  a  major 
predictor  of  teenage 
pregnancy. 

This  challenge  is  a 
challenge  for  all  citizens  of 
the  world,  but  particularly 
to  the  Brandeis 
community,  which 
traditionally  has  had  a 
strong  commitment  to 
these  rights,  let  alone  the 
visions  of  its  namesake. 
Given  the  Clinton 
administration's 
endorsement  of  the  1993 
Vienna  Declaration,  which 
referred  to  the  Universal 
Declaration  as  a  "timeless 
document,"  and  its 
initiatives  for  universal 


health  care,  the  time 
appears  ripe  to  form 
"partnerships  of 
empowerment"  with  all 
people  to  create  a  more 
humane  and  socially  just 
world.  ■ 


This  article  is  based  on  a 
presentation  "On  the 
changing  spectrum  of 
human  rights  and  civil 
liberties"  by  the  author  at 
Brandeis  University,  May 
20,  1994,  at  the  conference 
"Spotlight  on  Human 
Rights,"  sponsored  by  the 
Alumni  Association. 

Joseph  Wronka,  Ph.D.  '92, 
is  associate  professor  in 
the  department  of  social 
work  at  Springfield 
College,  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  as  well  as 
a  research  associate  in  The 
Heller  School's  Center  for 
Social  Change  at  Brandeis 
University.  Wronka  is  also 
principal  investigator  for 
The  Universal  Declaration 
of  Human  Rights  Project. 


31  Winter  1995 


While  Caribbean 

nations  live 

in  oceans  of  high 

unemployment, 

a  women's 

cooperative  in 

Grenada 

Is  a  respite  for 

a  few  and  the 

pride  of  a  village. 


Women 

and 

Work 

in  a 

Rural 

Cooperative 


In  what  some  see  as  an  idyllic 
setting — sparkling  turquoise 
waters,  abundant  fruits,  and 
exceptional  climate — small 
Caribbean  island  nations  have 
difficulty  warding  off  high 
unemployment  and  poverty. 
Centuries  of  colonial  relations 
have  distorted  local  priorities. 
Tied  in  to  the  vision  of  export- 
oriented  production,  the 
Caribbean's  bountiful  agricultural 
products  of  cocoa,  bananas, 
citrus  fruits,  and  spices  leave  via 
U.S.  and  European  corporations. 
Meanwhile  up  to  50  percent  of 
the  food  consumed  is  imported. 
Writes  James  Ferguson  in  his 
book  Far  From  Paradise:  "The 
Caribbean  became  a  region 
producing  what  it  does  not 
consume  and  consuming  what  it 
does  not  produce.  This  means 
profits  for  the  companies  both 
from  exports  and  imports  at  the 
expense  of  poor  people  who 
cannot  afford  to  buy  even  basic 
foodstuffs  such  as  milk  or  flour." 

Thirty  years  after  Caribbean 
independence,  structural 
limitations  persist;  open, 
dependent  economies; 
deteriorating  terms  of  trade; 
small  internal  and  regional 
markets;  and  a  shrinking  tax 
base  due  to  youthful  populations 
and  widespread  emigration. 
Recently  "adjustment"  and  neo- 
liberal  economic  policies  have 


aggravated  social  and  economic 
health,  leading  to  high 
unemployment.  For  the  20 
million  throughout  the  region, 
excluding  Cuba  and  Suriname, 
joblessness  averaged  16.5 
percent  in  the  early  1990s. 

In  Grenada,  with  a  total 
population  of  about  92,000  of 
which  28,000  is  in  the  labor 
force,  overall  unemployment 
stands  at  32  percent  with 
estimates  as  high  as  50  percent 
for  women.  The  majority  of  these 
are  women  who  did  not  complete 
high  school  and  have  no 
industrial  skills.  Most,  along  with 
men,  emigrate  to  fill  unskilled 
jobs  in  Toronto,  New  York,  and 
Miami.  Women  were  well 
represented  in  the  13.3  percent 
of  Grenada's  population  who 
emigrated  legally  to  North 
America  in  the  decade  of  the 
1980s.  Those  who  remain  often 
create  their  own  employment 
opportunity. 

In  the  small  fishing  village  of 
Grand  Roy  on  the  West  Coast  of 
Grenada,  13  women,  ages  26  to 
48,  own  and  operate  the 
Grenfruit  Women's  Cooperative. 
Under  the  fiscal  watch  of  the 
Grenada  Cooperative 
Development  Agency 
(GRENCODA),  local  fruit 
preserves  and  spices  make  their 
way  to  the  domestic  market  and, 
through  OXFAM  America's  sales 
catalog,  into  North  American 
homes  for  Christmas. 

Grenfruit  has  been  an  alternative 
to  a  drift  into  the  poverty  born  of 
unemployment  in  a  society  with 
a  per  capita  annual  income  of 
US$1,200  (1992)  that  provides 
limited  opportunities  for  the 
poor.  On  a  quality  of  life  scale  of 
1.0,  Grenada  scores  0.707. 
Average  life  expectancy  is  70 
years,  but  slightly  higher  for 
women. 


With  self-honed  skills,  Grenfruit 
women  negotiate  prices  with 
local  farmers  for  fruits  such  as 
condicion,  tamarind,  and  papaya, 
and  spices  such  as  nutmeg, 
saffron,  cinnamon,  and  ginger. 
After  cleaning  and  sectioning, 
the  produce  is  dried  in  locally- 
constructed  solar  heaters.  The 
women  keep  a  constant  eye  on 
the  baking  sun,  the  torrential 
tropical  rain,  and  the  hurricane 
gusts,  all  of  which  affect  the  final 
flavor  and  coloring  of  the 
product.  After  a  thorough  drying, 
which  leaves  the  items  crisp  and 
aromatic,  the  produce  is  ground 
into  a  dusty  powder.  Then  comes 
bottling  and  packaging.  Using 
their  hands  and  small-scale 
industrial  machinery,  the  women 
paste  attractive  saffron-colored 
labels  on  the  bottles  and 
packages.  With  a  hired  driver 
and  minivan,  one  member 
traverses  the  small  island  twice  a 
month,  distributing  the  products 
to  supermarkets  and  shops. 

Since  its  beginnings  in  1979,  this 
simple  micro-scale  development 
project  has  been  a  place  of 
struggle  and  a  source  of 
community  pride.  Only  two  of 
the  women  completed  high 
school;  all  are  mothers,  some 
have  the  fathers  of  their  children 
living  at  home.  There  are  few 


by  Dessima  Williams 

Photographs 

by  Heather  Pillar 


33  Winter  1995 


On  the  previous  page, 
a  Grenfruit  member 
inspects  dried  spices 


Below,  Carmen  Scott,  a 
Grenfruit  member,  at 
home  with  her 
daughter  Reisha  and 
two  of  her  other 
children 


A  GRENCODA- 
sponsored  daycare 
graduation  ceremony 
for  3-year-olds 


34  Brandeis  Review 


prospects  for  jobs  in  Grand  Roy. 
"I  would  have  either  had  to  work 
in  somebody's  kitchen  [domestic 
work]  or  on  the  estate 
[plantation],"  volunteered  one  of 
the  women.  The  cost  of  bus 
transportation,  meals,  and  other 
work-related  expenses,  and  the 
unavailability  of  child  care, 
discourage  low-income  people 
from  gomg  outside  Grand  Roy  to 
work. 

With  the  cooperative,  Grenfruit 
women  have  given  themselves 
an  alternative.  A  typical  day  for  a 
Grenfruit  woman  (and  most 
Grenadians)  starts  at  5:30  am. 
Co-op  member.  Carmen  Scott,  a 
mother  of  four  children  ages  1 2 
to  4,  first  gathers  water  to  wash 
clothes,  dishes,  her  children,  and 
herself.  She  then  prepares 
breakfast  and  feeds  and  dresses 
her  smaller  children.  (Her 
children's  father  will  help  later 
with  evening  chores.)  On  her 
walk  to  work,  Scott.  32,  leaves 
her  toddler  at  GRENCODA's  day 
care  center.  Another  10  minutes 
of  up-hill  climb,  and  she  arrives 
at  the  Grenfruit  factory,  an 
unpainted  two-story  concrete 
building,  at  9:00  am, 

Scott  completed  fifth  grade.  She 
explained  how  hard  her  life  is  in 
terms  of  meeting  her  children's 
needs  and  expectations:  "It  is  a 
struggle,  but  I  am  accustomed  to 
this.  I  can't  feed  [the  children] 
with  bush  tea:  they  want  corn 
flakes  and  milk."  In  1983, 
Grenfruit  was  unable  to  pay  its 
members  for  several  months. 
Feeling  "this  is  ours  we  have  to 
make  it  work,"  according  to 
founding  member  Anastasia 
Noel,  they  stuck  it  out.  In  1991, 


the  business  grossed 
EC$200,000  (US$74,630).  That 
year,  monthly  salaries  averaged 
EC$400  (US$150). 

Sticking  it  out  for  15  long  and 
difficult  years  has  earned  the 
co-op  a  place  of  pride  in  the 
village.  Grenfruit  (and  its 
sponsor  GREIMCODA)  are  seen  as 
providing  stability  and  a  sense  of 
purpose.  They  have  become  a 
symbol  of  women's  tenacity  in  a 
village  of  tight  community  bonds 
and  deep  pride  in  its  own. 
"Grenfruit  doesn't  always  make 
money,  but  they  are  trying.  That 
[is]  good.  They  never  give  up; 
that  [is]  good."  said  Grand  Roy 
resident  Grosener  Mark.  Her 
daughter,  Margaret,  who  worked 
at  the  co-op  for  10  years  until 
1993,  still  identifies  with 
Grenfruit. 

This  small  enterprise  plays  its 
part  in  Grenada's  development. 
Its  domestic  sales  reduce  the 
food  import  bill,  while  its  foreign 
sales  earn  needed  foreign 
exchange.  The  women  all  insist 
that  life  "is  a  struggle"  as  it  is  for 
the  working  poor  the  world  over. 
They  work  hard  but  laugh  easily, 
and  they  look  to  the  future  with 
hope.  That  hope  is  in  their 
children,  all  of  whom  attend 
school,  Cheryl  Thomas,  mother 
of  three,  says:  "I  want  to  give 
[my  children]  a  good 
education. ..that  is  a  major  thing 
I  want  my  son  to  be  a  nurse,  a 
doctor,  whatever...!  want  my  two 
girls  to  be  educated  too." 

Grenfruit's  15-year  veteran, 
Anastasia  Noel,  took  the  long 
view:  "My  life  is  not  hard,"  she 
said.  "It's  just  a  struggle,  and  we 
have  to  continue  with  it."  The 
solidarity  among  the  women  is 
obvious:  and  they  are  not  really 
poor.  Noel  spoke  of  their  riches: 
"Grenada  is  better  than  a  lot  of 
countries.  We  have  food  to  eat: 
we  have  it  to  the  fullest.  But  we 
just  don't  have  money." 


Myona  Charles 
cares  for  her 
grandchild 


35  "Winter  1995 


Dessima  Williams,  visiting 

was  a  member  of  an  observer 

associate  professor  of 

delegation  scheduled  to 

sociology,  has  begun  a 

accompany  Haiti's  President 

tradition  at  Brandeis  of  tal(ing 

Jean-Bertrand  Aristide  on  his 

students  to  her  native 

return  to  power.  Despite 

Grenada  in  the  summer. 

the  Haitian  military's  defiance 

During  1994,  she  collected 

of  the  Governors'  Island 

oral  histories  vi/ith  graduate 

Accord,  Williams  led  the 

student  and  University 

observer  delegation  to  Haiti  to 

photographer  Heather  Pillar 

bear  witness  to  the  continuing 

and  undergraduate  Lori  Smith 

terror  and  to  advocate 

'96.  They  focused  on 

for  Aristide's  restoration. 

women's  (un)employment. 

Her  report,  "Haiti:  Courage 

Washing  Over  Misery," 

Williams  served  for  five  years 

was  presented  at  the 

as  Grenada's  ambassador/ 

World  Population  Conference 

permanent  representative  to 

in  Cairo. 

the  Organization  of  American 

States  and  as  deputy  governor 

In  November,  Williams 

to  the  World  Bank.  She  was 

convened  200  people  for 

also  an  alternate  permanent 

a  conference  at  the  Harvard 

representative  to  the  Inter- 

Law  School  titled,  "Ending 

American  Commission  on 

Violence  Against  Women 

Women.  In  October  1993,  she 

in  Haiti:  Toward  Democratic 

Renewal."  She  is  now 

preparing  for  the  World 

Summit  on  Social 

Grenfruit  membe.. 
prepare  condlcion 


The  Grenviile 
marketplace 


36  Brandeis  Review 


Development  in  Copenhagen 
and  for  the  Fourth  Conference 
on  Women,  to  be  held  in 
Beijing.  China. 


Heather  Pillar  is  a  student  in 
the  joint  Master's  Program  in 
Sociology  and  Women's 
Studies,  specializing  in 
documentary  photography.  In 
November  1994,  a 
photograph  from  her  body  of 
work  on  Grenada  was 
selected  to  be  in  the  Fourth 
Annual  Gordon  Parks 
Exhibition,  a  traveling 
exhibition  based  in  Fort 
Scott,  Kansas. 


Judy  Williams,  director 
otGRENCODA 


37  Winter  1995 


i'i  LH  I L".  1 1 1  lj: 


Nurturing  the  social 
consciousness 
embodied  by  the 
University  since  its 
founding,  two 
Brandeis  programs, 
born  in  the  sixties, 
still  flourish. 


■  „L-iVffl^ 


by  Marjorie  Lyon 


When  Martin  Luther  King  Jr.  was  assassinated, 
violence  screamed,  the  horror  reverberating  in 
the  hearts  of  professors  and  students  across  the 
country.  Spurred  by  that  particular  event  and 
shaped  by  the  philosophy  of  programs  such  as 
Outward  Bound  and  Head  Start.  Transitional 
Year  Program  (TYP)  was  founded  at  Brandeis  by 
professors  determined  to  give  inner-city  minority 
students  the  skills  they  needed  to  succeed  at 
college.  At  approximately  the  same  time,  some 
students,  also  fueled  by  the  spirit  of  the  times, 
vowed  to  make  a  difference  through  organized 
volunteer  service,  and  the  Waltham  Group  was 
born — a  nonprofit,  student-run,  community 
service  organization  operating  programs  that 
serve  the  Waltham  community.  Responding  to 
the  needs  of  community  children  and  adults, 
these  programs  provided  tutorial,  recreational, 
mentoring,  and  advocacy  services. 

That  was  a  generation  ago.  What  has  happened 
since?  Have  these  idealistic  endeavors  survived 
the  freewheeling  seventies,  the  materialistic 
eighties,  the  "Generation  X"  nineties?  Who  are 
the  participants  and  how  can  we  measure  their 
efforts?  Can  we  point  to  changed  (saved)  lives? 
Nurtured  psyches?  Forged  bonds? 

It  turns  out  that  both  TYP  and  the  Waltham 
Group  have  flourished.  Maybe  it  is  because  they 
are  perfectly  aligned  with  the  culture  inspired  by 
Brandeis.  "Give  a  child  a  name,  and  see  what 
happens,"  says  Michael  Kalafatas  '65,  director  of 
admissions  since  1979.  "We're  named  after 
Louis  Brandeis — the  conscience  of  the  court,  the 
people's  attorney — and  I  think  much  of  the 
culture  here  is  inspired  by  his  name  and  from  our 
association  with  the  Jewish  community,"  he 
continues,  "with  long  traditions  of  service,  of 
tzedakah.  charity,  of  tikun  olam.  to  mend  the 
world.  Finally,"  he  says,  "somewhere  imbedded 
in  all  we  do  is  the  notion  that  the  great  aim  of 
education,  ultimately,  is  action." 

It  was  action  as  experiment  for  the  professors 
who  plunged  into  teaching  the  first  TYP  students 
who  arrived  on  campus;  both  teacher  and 
student  were  venturing  into  completely  unknown 
territory.  "It  was  an  effort  to  teach  ourselves," 
says  Robert  Preyer,  professor  emeritus  of 
English  and  passionate  TYP  supporter  and 
teacher.  With  a  mission  to  realize  potentials  and 
remedy  weaknesses,  TYP  professors  had  to  first 
establish  a  link  of  trust  with  students  who  were 
wary  on  alien  turf  and  conditioned  to  view  the 
world  with  suspicion.  As  Preyer  explains  it,  he 
and  other  professors  made  an  effort  to  connect 
on  some  kind  of  common  ground.  They  made  a 
deal— "I'll  teach  you  skills  you  will  find  useful  in 
the  work  world;  you  teach  me  about  what  you 
know."  Preyer  emphasizes  that  it  was  at  times 
extremely  difficult,  that  the  culture  of  poverty 
from  which  some  of  these  students  came  left 
them  without,  for  example,  a  learned  ability  to 
tune  out  the  noise  of  a  truck  going  by  outside  the 
classroom  so  that  they  could  focus  on  the 
teacher.  With  such  basic  obstacles,  it  was  feared 
progress  might  be  nil. 


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But  progress  was  made,  and  steady.  Over  the 
years  more  than  600  people  have  gone  through 
TYP,  many  becoming  Brandeis  or  other  lop 
ranked  schools'  alumni.  More  than  90  percent  go 
on  to  full  programs  annually — more  than  half  to 
Brandeis — becoming  lawyers,  doctors,  teachers, 
entrepreneurs.  Thompson  Williams.  Jr.,  director 
of  the  program  since  1979  (and  at  Brandeis 
since  1969).  descnbes  TYP  as  "the  span  that 
carries  the  educationally  handicapped,  by 
circumstances  of  race,  economic  class,  and  poor 
secondary  school  preparation,  toward 
opportunity."  He  wears  many  hats  for  the  current 
30  TYP  students — counselor,  facilitator, 
surrogate  parent.  AsW  him  to  describe  his  role, 
and  he  says,  "I  wouldn't  even  try."  Then  he 
dissolves  into  his  hearty,  warm  laugh,  and  you 
know  it's  all  of  the  above  and  then  some. 

Of  central  importance  to  the  success  of  TYP  is 
the  choice  of  applicants,  and  Williams  knows 
how  to  pick  them.  "In  most  cases,  I'm  looking  for 
some  kind  of  insight  on  the  part  of  the  student — 
some  kind  of  epiphany — that  results  in  an  ability 
to  take  responsibility,  to  fess  up  to  their  own 
mistakes.  You  know,  I  don't  want  to  hear  'I 
would  have  been  a  great  student,  but  so-and-so 
didn't  like  me.'  See  ya  later,  kid,"  he  says, 
adding,  "Well,  I'm  not  quite  as  gruff  as  that.  If  the 
applicant  says  'so-and-so  didn't  like  me.  but  I 
screwed  up.  I  didn't  go  to  class,  I  didn't  give  it 
the  appropriate  priority,  I  got  caught  up  in 
extracurricular  activities,'  then  they've  already 
made  a  critical  choice:  to  take  responsibility  for 
their  actions,"  says  Williams.  In  short,  those 
applicants  have  the  power  to  benefit  from  the 
program. 

It  was  obvious  at  the  age  of  16  that  Norma 
Sanchez-Figueroa  '84  had  qualities  that  would 
guarantee  her  success  in  TYP.  Speaking  only 
Spanish  at  home,  growing  up  in  the  United 
States,  and  spending  much  time  in  Puerto  Rico, 
Sanchez-Figueroa  was  eager  to  perfect  her 
English  writing  skills.  Now  here's  where  you 
hear  the  key:  "Some  people  shy  away  from  it 
when  they  know  they  have  a  weakness,"  she 
says.  "But  I  go  right  for  it  because  I  hate  not 
knowing  something."  Fulfilling  all  her 
requirements  in  her  high  school  in  Hartford. 
Connecticut,  by  the  end  of  her  junior  year,  she 
petitioned  her  school  to  graduate  early,  realizing 
that  her  high  school  had  nothing  left  to  offer  her. 
TYP  gave  her  an  opportunity  to  complete  high 
school  requirements.  She  started  with  basic 
composition,  then  took  all  the  writing  courses 
Brandeis  offered,  and  majored  in  sociology.  "I 
knew  I  wanted  to  go  to  law  school,"  she 
explains,  "because  a  long  time  ago  I  decided 
that  my  community  needed  representation.  I 
didn't  have  any  role  models,  but  I  set  my  goals 
really  high.  And  even  as  a  child  I  had  been  an 
advocate  for  my  family — I  had  to  represent  my 
parents  in  many  situations  because  they  spoke 
only  Spanish.  At  times  I  have  been  described  as 
being  disrespectful,  because  I  was  so 
outspoken,  yet  only  a  child."  Sanchez-Figueroa 
is  now  an  associate  attorney  at  Alexander 


Aponte  and  Associates  in  Hartford.  Connecticut, 
specializing  in  civil  litigation,  family,  and 
immigration  law,  representing  the  Hispanic 
community.  She  also  retains  a  close  tie  to 
Brandeis:  her  husband,  the  Reverend  Nathaniel 
Mays,  the  University's  Protestant  Chaplain  and 
Intercultural  Center  Director. 

Also  strengthened  by  solid  core  beliefs.  TYP 
student  Terrie  Williams  '75  is  now  founder  and 
president  of  the  Terrie  Williams  Agency  on 
Broadway  in  New  York.  Owner  of  the  country's 
largest  black-owned  public  relations  and 
communications  agency,  she  says  the  key 
ingredients  that  have  buoyed  her  seven-year-old 
company  are:  "paying  impeccable  attention  to 
detail,  doing  what  you  say  you're  going  to  do. 
and  treating  everybody  with  respect  and 
courtesy,  whether  it  is  the  janitor  who  keeps  the 
building  clean  or  the  company  CEO."  Her  book. 
The  Personal  Touch:  What  You  Really  Need  to 
Succeed  In  a  Fast-Paced  Business  World  was 
published  last  September. 

Attorney  Sanchez-Figueroa  and  entrepreneur 
Williams  thrive  today  in  a  more  complicated  and 
less  volatile  society  than  existed  some  three 
decades  ago,  when  they  were  children  and  the 
United  States  seemed  in  some  ways  to  have 
gone  mad. 

Consider  1966.  when  the  Waltham  Group 
began.  Inextricably  linked  to  the  times,  it  was  a 
natural  outgrowth  of  political  ferment,  idealism, 
and  outrage  that  ignited  student  social 
consciousness  during  wrenching  years.  Direct 
action  taken  in  the  midst  of  flamboyant  sixties 
rhetoric  allowed  the  Waltham  Group  participants 
to  find  a  psychic  anchor,  an  opportunity  to 
implement  ideals,  and  a  seminal  experience  that 
influenced  their  careers.  Some  early  members 
can  be  found  on  campus  today — Michal 
Regunberg  '72.  vice  president  for  public  affairs, 
started  the  first  newsletter  for  the  Waltham 
Group  and,  she  says,  "it  was  one  of  the  things 
that  convinced  me  I  wanted  to  go  into 
journalism." 


Far  left:  A  Waltham 

Group  after-school 

activity 

Left:  Thompson 

Williams,  Jr.,  director 

of  the  Transitional 

Year  Program 


39  Winter  1995 


WALTHAM 


A  basketball  signed 
by  the  Boston  Celtics 
is  up  for  bids  at  the 
Waltham  Group's 
annual  auction 


Founders  Howard  Winant  '68  and  Barbara  Marin 
'68  worked  with  Steven  Rose  '61 ,  Ph.D.  '70, 
(Heller),  as  their  advisor,  fueled  by  the  desire  to 
effect  change  in  their  own  backyard,  while 
caught  up  in  an  ideal  to  change  the  world:  "think 
globally,  act  locally,"  remembers  Winant.  "Every 
single  day,  Brandeis  was  the  center  of  political 
activity."  says  Rose,  now  a  professor  at  the 
University  of  New  England  School  of  Social 
Work  in  Biddeford,  Maine.  "Some  of  it  was  real, 
some  of  it  was  not.  There  was  a  group  of 
students  who  really  wanted  to  do  something 
besides  exchange  rhetoric.  These  were  people 
for  whom  the  slogan  was  not  the  answer,"  he 
explains. 

"What  is  relevant?"  was  the  most  asked 
question.  Trudy  Berkovitz  '69,  a  participant 
during  the  early  years,  found  at  least  part  of  the 
answer:  "I  know,  in  the  depths  of 
meaninglessness,  that  I  remember  feeling  the 
Waltham  Group  gave  me  a  sense  of  meaning.  It 
was  wonderful  for  me — one  of  the  most 
important  things.  It  gave  me  the  sense  of 
stability.  Things  were  fairly  abstract  and 
amorphous  in  the  sixties  in  school,  and  students 
questioned  if  intellectual  pursuits  were  relevant. 
This  was  something  very  concrete.  We  were 
working  together,  we  were  accomplishing 
something,  we  made  something  happen 
ourselves.  And  it  was  a  lot  of  fun."  Her 
experience  influenced  her  career;  she  went  to 
Stonybrook  for  a  master's  degree  in  social  work 
and  now  has  a  private  practice  in  clinical  social 
work  as  well  as  a  job  as  an  adjustment 
counselor  in  a  school  district,  "so  I  can  affect 
larger  numbers  of  people." 

The  question  of  relevance  comes  up  again  when 
listening  to  Mark  Kaufman  '71  who  says,  "There 
would  have  been  no  Brandeis  experience  for  me 
without  the  Waltham  Group.  I  was  looking  for 
something  that  was  both  socially  relevant  and 
included  working  with  kids.  I  got  hooked  on  my 
first  involvement  as  a  freshman,  tutoring  in  the 
Prospect  Hill  Housing  Project.  It  was  the  center 
of  my  social,  academic,  political  universe.  And 
that  was  in  the  days  when  the  Waltham  Group 
was  small.  We  scrambled  for  every  penny  that 
we  had.  I  was  reading  about  community 
organization  or  housing  issues,  doing  work  that 
could  be  linked  to  the  field  experience.  So  I 
integrated  theory  and  practical  application." 

Kaufman  decided  that  people  are  motivated  by 
what  happens  to  their  children  and  "in  education, 
I  feel  you  can  have  an  impact  on  what  happens 
to  their  kids,  and  hopefully  then  have  some 
impact  on  people's  perspective  about  what's 
important."  He  is  now  director  of  the  Office  of 
Curriculum  and  Instruction  in  the  Hamilton- 
Wenham  Public  Schools,  South  Hamilton, 
Massachusetts. 


To  lead  to  effective  action,  idealism  must  be 
tempered  with  a  cool  eye  on  reality.  Such  was 
the  impact  of  the  Waltham  Group  experience: 
"The  idea  that  fueled  most  of  the  sixties 
movement  was  if  only  you  exposed  the  injustice, 
then  good  people  would  rise  up  and  make  things 
OK — they  would  right  the  wrong.  Out  of 
ignorance,  people  didn't  realize  that  in  fact,  of 
course,  those  injustices  and  inequalities  served 
particular  interests,"  explains  Winant,  now  a 
sociology  professor  at  Temple  University  in 
Philadelphia.  He  describes  Brandeis  students  in 
the  late  sixties  as  aliens,  extraterrestrials,  in  a 
Waltham  that  was  depressed.  "Those  were  fairly 
prosperous  times  but  it  seemed  to  have  passed 
Waltham  by,"  he  says.  "Our  idea  was  to  try  to 
organize  and  mobilize  people.  We  learned 
organizing  skills,  and  we  became  much  more 
deeply  aware  of  the  entrenched  nature  of  power 
and  inequality  in  our  society,  things  that  even  in 
the  intense  times  of  the  sixties  I  think  we  were 
fairly  naive  about. 

"It  forces  students  to  ask  important  questions.  If 
you  begin  with  the  idea  of  helping  people  first, 
that  can't  be  bad.  And  if  you  go  from  there  to 
question  why  it  is  that  these  people  need  to  be 
helped — what's  their  problem?  Where  does  it 
come  from?  Then  that's  pretty  important." 

It  can  even  be  said  that  the  Waltham  Group 
saved  people.  "I  went  to  a  big  urban  public  high 
school,"  says  Carl  Milofsky  '70,  a  founder  of  the 
Waltham  Group,  "and  I  think  that  what's 
probably  still  true  today  is  that  somebody  who 
goes  to  a  big  urban  public  high  school  and  goes 
to  a  good  private  college  gets  his  brains  beat  in. 
I  spent  12  hours  a  day  studying  and  getting  Cs. 
And  it  really  was  the  Waltham  Group  that  turned 
me  around. 

"I  see  now  that  what  professors  want  students  to 
do  is  think.  And  by  'think,'  it's  to  express 
themselves  in  an  original  and  thoughtful  way 
rather  than  recapitulate  what  the  teacher  tells 
them,  which  is  more  high  school.  It  was  very 
hard  for  me  to  get  self-confident  enough  and 
relaxed  enough  to  do  that.  For  me,  being  in  the 
Waltham  Group  was  an  opportunity  to  take 
charge  of  something,  to  make  something,  and  to 
get  a  sense  that  I  was  really  good  at  certain 
things,  mostly  having  to  do  with  running  groups." 
Still  involved  scrutinizing  groups,  Milofsky  is  now 
an  associate  professor  and  chair  of  the 
sociology  department  at  Bucknell  University  in 
Lewisberg,  Pennsylvania. 

The  noise  and  theater  of  the  sixties  is  long  gone, 
but  the  commitment,  a  quiet  fervor,  is  alive  and 
well.  "It's  my  extremely  sincere  feeling  that  this 
generation  that  is  here  now  on  this  campus, 
that's  been  washing  ashore  here  for  several 
years,  is  the  most  service-oriented  generation  I 
have  ever  seen,"  says  Kalafatas.  "They  are 
quieter  on  the  political  front,  but  they  are  truly,  I 
think,  delivering  on  the  promise  and  much  of  the 
rhetorical  clamor  of  the  sixties." 


40  Brandeis  Review 


"There's  a  reason  why  there  are  140  student 
organizations  here,"  he  continues.  "I  think  this 
generation  of  kids  has  in  many  ways  transformed 
this  campus,  and  we  saw  it  coming.  These  are 
kids  who  in  their  school  districts  are  carrying  their 
schools  on  their  backs — in  the  face  of  cutbacks  in 
school  budgets,  federal  cutbacks,  and  state 
cutbacks.  Programs  are  happening  beyond  the 
classroom  because  the  kids  are  making  them 
work.  And  they  have  had  plenty  of  practice  in  it — 
meals  to  AIDS  patients,  work  on  the  environment, 
students  against  drunk  driving,  they  participate  in 
every  direction.  They  arrive  here,  and  they  move 
in,  to  do  the  same  thing.  And  they  find  the 
Waltham  Group  a  wonderful  conduit  for  their 
service  orientation,"  explains  Kalafatas,  And  it  is 
also  a  place  to  have  fun. 

One,  two,  and  three,  back  step,  A  student's  short 
flouncy  red  skirt  swings  with  each  twirl,  flapping 
up  against  her  hip.  Her  partner  is  thin  and  tall, 
wearing  a  white  T-shirt  and  jeans,  hair  combed 
straight  back,  reminiscent  of  John  Travolta.  They 
are  swing  dancing  to  Aretha  Franklin's  "Respect." 
It  could  be  decades  ago.  But  it  is  the  fall  of  1994, 
and  their  audience  is  Waltham  12-and  13-year- 
olds,  who  come  to  the  Brandeis  campus  one 
afternoon  each  week  for  group  activities  and 
individual  tutoring  by  Brandeis  student  volunteers. 
Currently  20  middle  school  students  are  enrolled. 
On  this  day  they  watch  a  demonstration  by 
Brandeis  swing  dance  club  members.  It  is  part  of 
just  one  of  the  Waltham  Group's  1 2  programs  that 
involve  approximately  10  percent  of  Brandeis's 
3,000  undergraduates. 

Students  benefit  at  least  as  much  as  those  they 
volunteer  to  help.  "It's  a  learning  experience  for 
the  students — experiential  education  outside  of 
the  classroom.  Working  with  a  child  or  a  senior 
gives  them  a  broadened  perspective.  This  is 
education  beyond  the  campus,"  says  Diane 
Hannon,  Waltham  Group  director.  "Students  find 
that  whatever  reason  brought  them  in  to 
volunteer,  the  results  are  often  a  surprise — to  feel 
valued  heightens  self-esteem  in  many  ways.  They 
find,  for  example,  that  they're  much  more 
productive,"  she  explains. 

Participation  ranges  from  a  few  hours  each  week 
to  major  time  commitments.  For  approximately  30 
student  coordinators  who  keep  the  programs 
going,  it  is  very  labor  intensive.  Particularly  time 
consuming  is  the  organization  of  the  major  fund- 
raiser for  the  Waltham  Group,  a  charity  auction. 
Andrea  Samber  '96.  who  coordinated  last  year's 
auction,  worked  approximately  30  to  40  hours 
each  week  from  November  until  April,  taking  only 
three  classes  and  making  no  other  commitments. 
She  worked  out  her  schedule  so  she  could  be  in 
the  Waltham  Group  offices  every  afternoon  from 
1  ;00  pm  on,  and  stayed  until  1 1 :00  pm  or 
midnight.  "It  was  definitely  worth  it,"  she  says. 
Samber  learned  about  business,  marketing,  and 
sales,  with  a  tangible  result.  The  focus''  To  have 
the  best  auction  that  had  ever  been.  And  yes,  it 
was  a  success. 


The  campus  atmosphere  today  is  much  quieter 
than  in  the  sixties;  rather  than  responding  to  loud 
external  sources  touting  civil  rights  and  antiwar 
politics,  students  come  to  the  Waltham  Group  for 
many  internal  reasons.  Some  are  motivated 
purely  by  social  responsibility.  Others  are 
attracted  by  a  specific  interest  in,  for  example, 
children  or  seniors.  And  many  come  to  see  their 
friends,  break  away  from  the  routine  of  campus 
life,  and  get  to  know  the  community  of  Waltham. 

That  they  do.  For  those  who  want  to  get  involved 
on  a  one-to-one  basis,  the  Big  Siblings  program 
pairs  30  Brandeis  students  with  children  in  the 
community  in  grades  kindergarten  through  six 
who  need  a  mentor.  Children  chosen  come  from 
single  parent  families,  or  have  been  labeled  "at 
risk"  by  social  workers.  These  relationships  often 
continue  during  the  entire  time  a  student  is  at 
Brandeis  and  for  years  after  graduation.  There  are 
Brandeis  students  who  have  their  own  families 
and  still  correspond  with  their  little  sibs.  "It's 
probably  been  the  most  valuable  experience  I've 
had  at  Brandeis.  and  I  don't  think  I  can  define  my 
Brandeis  experience  without  including  this 
program,"  said  Rochelle  Haas  '94  in  spring  1994. 
"I  was  matched  to  my  little  sister  when  she  was  9, 
and  now  she's  13  1/2.  She  taught  me  an  awful  lot 
and  made  me  realize  how  much  I  want  community 
service  to  be  an  important  component  of  my 
future.  I'm  going  to  be  a  physician,  and  I  know 
that  no  matter  what,  even  if  I'm  in  private  practice, 
I  still  want  to  do  outreach.  If  I  can  have  that  much 
of  an  impact  on  one  child's  life,  imagine  what  I 
can  do  if  I  participate  even  more," 

Blake  M.  Barich  '97  is  interested  in  dance,  so  she 
created  a  Saturday  morning  ballet  class  for  a 
group  of  kids — disadvantaged  girls  who  are  now 
doing  better  in  school,  increasing  their  self- 
esteem,  and  loving  her  strictly  disciplined  class 
that  everyone  said  would  never  fly.  Rhonda  Dunn 
'94  and  Rachel  Bebchick  '96.  hunger  and 
homeless  coordinators,  made  arrangements  to 
take  clothing  into  the  streets  of  Boston  and 
distribute  it, 

"Social  conscience  has  been  part  and  parcel  of 
the  identity  of  Brandeis  from  the  very  beginning," 
says  Kalafatas.  "What  is  true  across  generations 
is  the  need  for  students  to  find  an  outlet  for 
expression  of  their  own  ideas  and  personalities, 
and  a  way  to  increase  self-confidence  and  the 
ability  to  contribute  and  function  effectively  in  the 
world — a  way  to  put  ideas  into  action  that  makes  a 
difference.  It  doesn't  matter  what  generation. 
Young  people  search,  and  the  Waltham  Group 
provides  them  an  opportunity  to  find  satisfaction 
and  meaning  in  action  that  directly  benefits 
others," 

They  are  the  young  generation  whose  mandate  is 
similar  to  that  of  the  professors  in  1968  who 
began  TYP.  Whatever  their  age,  they  are 
influenced  by  the  Brandeis  culture  of  education 
and  social  action — tikun  olam.  to  mend  the 
world — and  they  are  doing  it,  one  step  at  a  time,  i 


The  Waltham  Group 
runs  an  annual  food 
drive  (top)  and  an 
annual  blood  drive 
(above) 


41  Winter  1995 


Books 


Faculty 


Jeffrey  Abramson 

Professor  of  Politics 

We.  The  fury:  The  Jury 
System  and  the  Ideal  of 
Democracy 
Basic  Books 

Trial  by  jury  is  about  the 
best  of  democracy  and  the 
worst  of  democracy.  This 
book  traces  the  evolution  of 
the  jury  system  from  an 
intimate  institution  of 
small-town  justice  to  the 
impersonal  and  (ideally) 
impartial  institution  of 
today.  Fascinating  cases 
from  American  history 
show  how  juries  remain  the 
heart  of  our  system  of 
criminal  justice — and  an 
essential  element  of  our 
democracy.  No  other 
institution  of  government 
rivals  the  jury  in  placing 
power  so  directly  in  the 
hands  of  citizens.  The 
author  draws  upon  his  own 
background  as  both  a  lawyer 
and  a  political  theorist  to 
capture  the  full  democratic 
drama  that  is  the  jury. 

Seyom  Brown 

Wien  Professor  of 
International  Cooperation 

The  Causes  and  Prevention 
of  War.  2nd  ed. 
St.  Martin's  Press 

The  first  edition,  written 
when  the  rivalry  between 
the  United  States  and  the 
Soviet  Union  dominated 
world  politics,  reflected  the 
preoccupation  of  analysts 
and  statespersons  with  the 
nuclear  balance  of  terror 
between  the  superpowers. 
Then  came  the  world- 
transforming  events  of  1989 
to  1991:  the  collapse  of  the 


42  Brandeis  Review 


Soviet  sphere  of  control,  the 
demise  of  the  U.S. -Soviet 
rivalry,  and  the  Gulf  War. 
The  present  edition  reflects 
the  author's  enlarged 
interest  in  the  psychological 
variables  and  the  mind-sets 
of  particular  decision 
makers. 

Wai  Chee  Dimock 

Associate  Professor  of 
English  and  American 
Literature,  and 
Michael  T.  Gilmore,  eds. 

Professor  of  English 

Rethinking  Class:  Literary 

Studies  and  Social 

Formations 

Columbia  University  Press 

Rethinkmg  Class  examines 
the  continuing  vitality  and 
the  energizing  problematics 
of  the  concept  of  class.  The 
introduction  addresses  the 
ways  the  concept  of  class 
was  employed  in  literary 
and  historical  analyses.  The 
first  section  restores  class  to 
its  moment  of  inception  as 
both  a  theoretical  construct 
and  an  analytic  category.  In 
the  next  section  some  of  the 
general  propositions  set 
forth  in  the  beginning  of  the 
book  are  tested.  In  the  final 
section,  the  essays  turn  to  a 
question  that  is  of  great 
concern  to  literary  critics: 
how  the  category  of  class 
can  enrich  and  complicate 
our  response  to  specific 
literary  texts. 

Mark  Hulliung 

Professor  of  Politics  and 
History 

The  Autocritique  of 
Enlightenment:  Rousseau 
and  the  Philosophes 
Harvard  University  Press 

Of  all  the  critiques  of  the 
Enlightenment,  the  most 


telling  may  be  found  in  the 
life  and  writings  of  Jean- 
lacques  Rousseau.  The 
author  restores  Rousseau  to 
his  historical  context,  and 
shows  how  he  employed  the 
arsenal  of  Voltaire,  Diderot, 
and  others  to  launch  an 
attack  on  their  version  of 
the  Enlightenment. 
Rousseau  exposed  the 
inconsistencies  and 
shortcomings  that  called 
the  entire  program  of  the 
Enlightenment  into 
question.  As  the  century 
moved  on,  the  most 
advanced  philosophes  found 
themselves  drawn  to 
conclusions  that  paralleled 
Rousseau's — an  agreement 
that  went  unacknowledged 
in  the  acrimonious  climate 
of  the  time. 

Barbara  Hyams 

Lecturer  with  Rank  of 
Assistant  Professor  of 
German  and  Nancy  A. 
Harrowitz,  eds. 

lews  et>  Gender:  Responses 
to  Otto  Weininger 
Temple  University  Press 

In  1903  Otto  Weininger,  a 
Viennese  Jew  who 
converted  to  Protestantism, 
published  Geschlecht  und 
Charakter  (Sex  and 
Character},  a  book  in  which 
he  set  out  to  prove  the 
moral  inferiority  and 
character  deficiency  of  "the 
woman"  and  "the  Jew." 
Almost  immediately  he  was 
acclaimed  as  a  young  genius 
and  his  suicide  at  the  age  of 
23  immortalized  him  as  an 
intellectual  who  expressed 
abject  misogyny  and  anti- 
Semitism.  This  collection  of 
essays  examines 
Weininger's  influence  and 
reception  in  Western 
culture,  particularly  his 
impact  on  important  writers 


such  as  Wittgenstein,  Freud, 
Kafka,  and  Joyce.  This 
volume  also  suggests  how 
the  legacies  of  prejudice 
affect  Western  culture 
today. 

Ray  Jackendoff 

Professor  of  Linguistics  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems 

Patterns  in  the  Mind: 
Language  and  Human 
Nature 
Basic  Books 

Recent  discoveries  in 
linguistics  and  psychology 
provide  answers  to  the  age- 
old  mysteries  including 
what  it  is  about  humans 
that  accounts  for  the  fact 
that  we  can  all  speak  and 
understand  a  language.  The 
central  idea  of  this  book  is 
that  our  language  ability  is 
stored  in  the  brain  as  a  set 
of  unconscious  patterns,  or 
a  "mental  grammar."  How 
do  we  learn  this  grammar? 
The  author  demonstrates 
that  this  involves  a  rich 
interweaving  of  nature  and 
nurture.  Patterns  in  the 
Mind  emphasizes  the 
grammatical  commonalities 
across  languages,  both 
spoken  and  signed,  and 
discusses  the  implications 
for  our  understanding  of 
language  acquisition  and 
loss. 

Morton  Keller 

Samuel  J.  and  Augusta 
Spector  Professor  of  History 

Regulating  a  New  Society: 

Public  Policy  and  Social 

Change  in  America,  1900- 

1933 

Harvard  University  Press 

Looking  at  the  beginning  of 
the  century,  Keller  gives  us 
a  portrait  of  the  emergence 
of  modern  society  and  its 
distinctive  transformations 


Regulating 

a  New 
I    Society 


Brandeis 
University  Press 
Series 


and  social  problems.  He 
integrates  political,  legal, 
and  governmental  history, 
providing  the  first 
comprehensive  study  of  the 
ideas  and  interests  that 
shaped  early  20th-century 
American  social  policy.  The 
author  looks  at  the  major 
social  institutions  and 
examines  important  social 
issues.  His  final  area  of 
concern  is  one  that  assumed 
new  importance  after  1900: 
social  policy  directed  at 
major  groups,  such  as 
immigrants,  blacks.  Native 
Americans,  and  women. 

Sidney  M.  Milkis 

Associate  Professor  of 
Politics 

The  President  and  the 
Parties:  The  Transformation 
of  the  American  Party 
System  Since  the  New  Deal 
Oxford  University  Press, 
Inc. 

Milkis's  work  on  political 
parties  starts  from  the 
premise  that  the  New  Deal 
is  properly  viewed  as  the 
defining  moment  in  setting 
the  tone  of  20th-century 
politics  in  the  United 
States.  He  makes  the  case 
that  Roosevelt's  party 
leadership  and  the  New 
Deal  mark  the  culmination 
of  efforts  to  loosen  the  grip 
of  partisan  politics  on  the 
councils  of  power.  The 
second  part  of  the  book 
traces  the  legacy  of  the 
Roosevelt  "revolution" 
through  the  presidency  of 
George  Bush  into  the  midst 
of  the  1992  election 
campaign,  revealing  that  the 
pattern  of  executive 
leadership  established 
during  the  1930s  continues 
to  operate  irrespective  of 
the  president's  party  and 
philosophy. 


The  Tauber  Institute  for 
the  Study  of  European 
Jewry  Series 
Jehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D. 
'72,  editor 

From  Text  to  Context:  The 
Turn  to  History  in  Modern 
Judaism  by  Ismar  Schorsch. 
For  more  than  two  decades 
Schorsch  has  studied  the 
genesis,  impact,  and 
meaning  of  modern  Jewish 
historiography.  This 
compilation  of  his  writings 
examines  the  emergence  of 
Jewish  scholarship  in  the 
19th  century  and  shows 
how  the  Wissenschaft  des 
fudentums  movement, 
which  advocates  a  more 
scientific  study  of  Judaism, 
"was  to  make  historical 
thinking  the  dominant 
universe  of  discourse  in 
Jewish  life  and  historians  its 
major  intellectual  figures." 

With  My  Own  Eyes:  The 
Autobiography  of  An 
Historian  by  Jacob  Katz, 
recreates  the  atmosphere  of 
the  period  in  which  the 
author  has  lived.  In  this 
memoir,  Katz,  a  scholar  of 
Jewish  social  history,  recalls 
a  life  that  in  many  ways 
encapsulates  the  path  of  the 
remnant  of  East  European 
Jewry  through  the  events  of 
this  century.  In  19.34,  Katz 
received  the  last  doctorate 
from  the  University  of 
Frankfurt  granted  to  a  Jew 


in  Nazi  Germany.  Heeding 
ominous  undercurrents, 
Katz  immigrated  to 
Palestine-Israel  in  1936. 
There  he  witnessed  the 
birth  of  the  new  state  and 
the  growth  of  Hebrew 
University. 

The  Zionist  Ideology  by 
Gideon  Shimoni  traces  the 
development  and 
ramifications  of  the 
ideology  of  Zionism  from 
its  roots  in  Europe  to  its  full 
flowering  in  the 
establishment  of  the  State 
of  Israel.  Shimoni  begins  by 
outlining  the  social  origins 
of  Zionism,  precipitated  by 
the  pogroms  in  the  Russian 
Empire.  He  then  describes 
the  various  streams  of 
Zionist  thought  and  how 
they  were  transmogrified  by 
events  and  individuals,  and 
concludes  by  examining 
both  Zionism's  connection 
With  a  secular  Jewish 
identity  and  the  nature  of 
the  Jewish  claim  to  Eretz 
Israel. 

The  Brandeis  Series  in 
American  Jewish 
History,  Culture,  and  Life 
Jonathan  Sarna  '75,  M.A. 
'75,  editor 

Alternatives  to 
Assimilation  by  Alan 
Silverstein. 
Historians  have  long 
debated  whether  the  mid- 
I9th-century  American 
synagogue  was  transplanted 
from  Central  Europe  or 
represented  an  indigenous 
phenomenon.  Alternatives 
to  Assimilation  examines 
the  Reform  movement  in 
American  Judaism  from 
1840  to  1930  in  an  attempt 


to  settle  this  issue. 
Silverstein  describes  the 
emergence  of  organizational 
innovations  as  evidence  of 
Jews  responding  uniquely  to 
American  culture,  in  a 
fashion  parallel  to 
innovations  in  American 
Protestant  churches. 

A  Breath  of  Life:  Feminism 
in  the  American  Jewish 
Community  by  Sylvia 
Barack  Fishman  is  now  in 
paperback.  Please  see  the 
write-up  in  the  Summer 
1993  issue  of  the  Brandeis 
Review. 

The  American  Synagogue: 
A  Sanctuary  Transformed 
by  Jack  Wertheimer,  editor, 
is  now  in  paperback. 
When  first  published  in 
1987,  Tlie  American 
Synagogue  quickly 
established  itself  as  the 
standard  work  on  the 
subject.  The  strength  of  the 
book  lies  in  its  combination 
of  broad  overviews  of 
denominational 
differentiation  that  took 
place  and  case  studies 
drawing  from  many 
geographical  regions  and 
emphasizing  themes 
ranging  from  effects  of 
immigration  on  synagogue 
life  to  changing  roles  of 
women. 


43  Winter  1995 


Alumni 


Karen  Axelrod  '82 

Axelrod  was  a  buyer  for 
major  retail  and  catalog 
companies  for  the  past  10 
years. 

Watch  It  Made  in  the 
U.S.A.:  A  Visitor's  Guide  to 
the  Companies  That  Make 
Your  Favorite  Products 
John  Muir  Publications 

If  you're  the  knid  of  curious 
traveler  who  wonders  about 
such  things  as  how  a 
fortune  gets  into  a  fortune 
cookie  or  how  tea  gets  into 
tea  bags,  then  Watch  It 
Made  in  the  U.S.A.  may  be 
your  kind  of  book.  This 
guide  lists  nearly  250 
companies  across  the 
country  that  invite  you  to 
take  a  tour.  Information  on 
getting  to  the  factories  and 
company  museums  is 
included,  as  are  tour  hours, 
age  and  group  requirements, 
disabled  access,  nearby 
attractions,  and  much  more. 


It  also  provides  helpful 
Itinerary  planners  that 
weave  together  some  of  the 
best  tours  in  all  regions  of 
the  country. 

Allan  Borowski,  Ph.D.  '80 

Borowski  is  a  professor  in 
the  School  of  Social  Work  at 
The  University  of  New 
South  Wales,  Sydney, 
Australia. 

Immigration  and  Refugee 
Policy:  Australia  and 
Canada  Compared.  2  vols. 
Melbourne  University  Press 
and  The  University  of 
Toronto  Press 

Scholars  have  often  pointed 
to  the  similarities  between 
Australia  and  Canada.  In 
addition  to  histories  of  early 
European  settlement  and 
populations  that  are  small 
relative  to  the  land  size  of 
the  countries,  they  each 
also  have  a  policy  of 
planned  immigration. 
Volume  I  provides  a  survey 
of  Australian  and  Canadian 
migration  patterns  and 
policies;  the  international 
movements  of  people;  and 
the  immigration  policy 
implementation  and  refugee 
policy  implementation 
processes.  Volume  II  focuses 
upon  three  areas — 
settlement  policy  and 
policies  designed  to  foster 
social  integration  in 
Australia  and  Canada;  the 
economic  and 
environmental  impacts  of 
immigration;  and  the  social 
impacts  of  immigration. 


Eating  Healthy 
Healthy  Bahy 


1  \tiinrfi-lf\-.Moiith  (ittiilf  til  Sutiitioi 


^r 


-^^, 


riUiltl'lOIMN. III./  1>A,N.\  i;ti.M..v  M.l). 

Arthur  Caplan  '71 

Caplan  is  director  of  the 
Center  for  Bioethics  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Moral  Matters:  Ethical 
Issues  in  Medicine  and  the 
Life  Sciences 
John  Wiley  &.  Sons,  Inc. 

The  essays  included  in  this 
book  began  their  lives  as 
newspaper  columns  in  the 
St.  Paul  Pioneer  Press.  Most 
of  the  issues  examined  in 
this  book  consist  of  moral 
problems  that  could  happen 
to  anyone:  abortion, 
contraception,  sexuality, 
and  the  family; 
relationships  between 
health  care  providers  and 
those  in  their  care;  the  right 
to  refuse  medical  treatment; 
defining  death,  euthanasia, 
and  the  right  to  die;  AIDS, 
epidemics,  public  health, 
and  population;  the  ethics 
of  experimentation;  and 
virtue  and  vice  in 
biomedical  science. 

Dana  Cernea,  M.D.,  '79, 
M.M.H.S.  '83 

with  Fred  Plotkin 
Cernea  was  the  medical 
director  of  Maternity 
Services  for  the  New  York 
City  Department  of  Health. 

Eating  Healthy  for  a 
Healthy  Baby:  A  Month-by- 
Month  Guide  to  Nutrition 
During  Pregnancy 
Crown  Trade  Paperbacks 

Eating  the  right  foods 
during  pregnancy  is  by  far 
the  most  important  thing 
you  can  do  for  your  baby. 
This  book  teaches  you 
exactly  which  foods  your 
growing  baby  needs  and 
shows  you  how  to  cook 
them.  Eating  Healthy  for  a 
Healthy  Baby  deals  with 
the  principles  of  nutrition 


KEEP 
BEAR 
VRMS 

•w'  ■Till'  Orhjiiii  of  till 
:Aiu)lo<hm'riam  'Kiqlil 

JOYCE   LEE   MALCOLM 


during  pregnancy  and  the 
culinary  demands  of 
pregnancy:  cooking  without 
getting  tired,  entertaining, 
eating  well  in  restaurants, 
snacking,  and  shopping  for 
food  with  an  eye  toward 
avoiding  chemical  additives, 
as  well  as  feeding  the  new 
baby  when  the  pregnancy  is 
finally  over.  There  are  more 
than  100  recipes,  each  one 
accompanied  by  a  doctor's 
note  that  gives  the  recipe's 
nutritional  breakdown. 

Joyce  Lee  Malcolm,  M.A. 
'72,  Ph.D.  '77 

Malcolm  is  professor  of 
history  at  Bentley  College. 

To  Keep  and  Bear  Arms: 
The  Origins  of  an  Anglo- 
American  Right 
Harvard  University  Press 

The  right  of  ordinary 
citizens  to  possess  weapons 
is  the  most  extraordinary, 
most  controversial,  and 
least  understood  of  those 
liberties  secured  by 
Englishmen  and  bequeathed 
to  their  American  colonists. 
The  author  illuminates  the 
historical  facts  underlying 
the  current  passionate 
debate  about  gun-related 
violence,  the  Brady  Bill,  and 
the  NRA.  Malcolm's  story 
begins  in  turbulent  17th- 
century  England  and  shows 
why  such  a  dangerous 
public  freedom  was 
necessary.  The  results  add 
to  our  knowledge  of  English 
life,  politics,  and 
constitutional  development, 
and  present  a  historical 
analysis  of  a  controversial 
Anglo-American  legacy. 


44  Brandeis  Review 


^        -> 


What  You  Really 

Need  to  Succeed  in 

Today's  Fast-paced 

Business  World 

Foreword  by 


Preface  by 

Jonathan  Tisch 


ir-  . 


TMlEWlIilAm 

with    Joe     C  0  0  n  e  y 


Timothy  Steele,  M.A.  '76, 
Ph.D.  '77 

Steele  is  professor  of 
English  at  California  State 
University,  Los  Angeles, 
and  the  author  of  two 
previous  collections  of 
poems  and  a  book  of  literary 
criticism. 

The  Color  Wheel 
The  lohns  Hopkms 
University  Press 

Steele  has  earned  a 
reputation  as  one  of  the 
most  highly  regarded  poets 
born  since  World  War  II 
who  continues  to  work  in 
meter.  Now  he  brings 
together  35  new  poems  that 
extend  the  scope  and  deepen 
the  spirit  of  his  previous 
work.  While  always  faithful 
to  the  richness  and 
complexity  of  experience, 
the  poems  in  The  Color 
Wheel  are  clear  and 
accessible.  They  blend 
imagistic  detail  and 
reflection,  bringing  to 
contemporary  subjects  what 
Steele  calls  "the 
preservative  virtues  of 
formal  care." 


Daniel  R.  Tobin  '68 

Tobin  is  an  independent 
consultant  on  corporate 
change  and  learning 
strategies. 

Re-Educating  the 

Corporation:  Foundations 

for  the  Learning 

Organization 

Oliver  Wight  Publications 

Companies  have  been 
unable  to  tap  the  learning 
potential  of  their  people  to 
achieve  any  degree  of 
competitive  advantage.  In 
response  to  this  challenge, 
Re-Educating  the 
Corporation  shows 
organizations  how  to  build 
the  essential  foundations — 
strong,  visible  leadership; 
thinking  literacy; 
overcoming  functional 
myopia;  creating  effective 
learning  teams;  and 
managers  as  enablers — to 
create  a  true  learning 
organization.  By  focusing  on 
the  learning  needs  of  the 
people  within  the 
organization,  companies  can 
initiate  effective  change 
that  will  position  the 
business  for  future  growth. 


Robert  Wexelblatt,  Ph.D. 

'73 

Wexelblatt  teaches  in  the 
College  of  General  Studies 
at  Boston  University. 

The  Decline  of  Our 

Neighborhood 

Rutgers  University  Press 

Unusual  characters  m 
strange  circumstances 
populate  the  II  stories  in 
this  new  volume  of  short 
stories  by  Wexelblatt.  His 
stories  are  about  language 
and  people.  As  his 
characters  struggle  for 
meaning  and  vision,  they 
enter  the  consciousness  of 
the  reader  in  surprising  and 
moving  ways. 

Terrie  Williams  '75 

with  Joe  Cooney 
Williams  IS  president  of  The 
Terrie  Williams  Agency,  a 
public  relations  firm  with 
offices  in  New  York  and  Los 
Angeles  and  clients  from 
the  entertainment,  sports, 
political,  and  business 
fields. 

The  Personal  Touch:  What 
You  Really  Need  to  Succeed 
in  Today's  Fast-paced 
Business  World 
Warner  Books 

When  she  started  her  own 
public  relations  firm, 
Williams  had  no  money  and 
no  agency  experience;  she 
was  a  young  social  worker 
who  had  decided  to  switch 
careers.  Superstar  Eddie 
Murphy  signed  on  as  her 
first  client;  lazz  legend 
Miles  Davis  became  client 
number  two,  with  Grammy- 
winner  Anita  Baker 
following.  In  The  Personal 
Touch.  Williams  tells  her 
extraordinary  success  story 
and  shares  her  surprising 


strategies.  She  believes  that 
the  key  to  success  in 
today's  increasingly 
impersonal  world  is 
personal  consideration.  Her 
principles  are  refreshingly 
simple:  treat  people  with 
respect,  be  there  for  them, 
conduct  yourself  with 
integrity  and  compassion — 
and  it  will  come  back  to 
you  tenfold  both  in  business 
and  in  life. 

Glenn  M.  Wong  '74 

with  Robert  C.  Berry 
Wong  is  head  of  the  sports 
management  department  at 
the  University  of 
Massachusetts,  Amherst. 

Law  and  Business  of  The 
Sports  Industries:  Common 
Issues  in  Amateur  and 
Professional  Sports,  2nd  ed. 
Praeger  Publishers 

The  scope  and  power  of 
amateur  athletic 
organizations  in  the  United 
States  and  worldwide  have 
expanded  tremendously 
over  the  past  quarter 
century.  In  the  U.S., 
amateur  athletic 
organizations  are  part  of  the 
lives  of  many  people  from 
childhood,  through  high 
school,  college,  and  beyond. 
The  financial  stakes  in 
amateur  athletics  have  also 
increased  dramatically,  and 
as  a  result,  there  has  been  a 
dramatic  increase  in 
litigation  as  constituencies 
feel  the  various  pressures 
and  fight  to  survive. 


45  Winter  1995 


Alumni 


Apsell  '69  Given 
Museum  of 
Science  Award 


Paula  S,  Apsell  '69, 
executive  producer  of 
WGBH's  "NOVA"  series, 
has  won  the  Boston 
Museum  of  Science's 
highest  honor,  the  1994 
Bradford  Washburn  Award. 
The  prize  recognizes  her 
"innovative  work  in 
developing  programs  that 
present  science  in 
educational  and 
entertaining  ways." 

David  W.  Ellis,  president 
and  director  of  the  Museum 
of  Science,  said,  "In 
bringing  cutting-edge 
science  to  the  public  in  an 
approachable,  fun  way. 


i\/laurice  Stein  '58 
Dies  in  Plane 
Crasii 


I'aula  Apsell  has 
demonstrated  the  ideals 
that  the  Bradford  Washburn 
Award  celebrates." 

Since  1984,  Apsell  has  been 
executive  producer  for 
"NOVA,"  the  acclaimed 
public  television  science 
series,  and  director  of  the 
WGBH  science  unit.  Her 


Paula  Apsell 


production  credits  include 
"Race  to  Save  the  Planet," 
"The  Secret  of  Life,"  and 
"In  Search  of  Human 
Origins,"  a  three-part  series 
on  the  earliest  humans.  She 
also  served  as  executive 
producer  of  "To  the  Limit," 
the  critically  acclaimed 
1989  film  on  the  human 
body  produced  in 
collaboration  with  the 
Harvard  Community  Health 
Plan,  WGBH,  and  the 
Museum  of  Science. 

In  the  past  the  award  has 
gone  to  such  notables  as 
Jacques-Ives  Cousteau, 
Walter  Cronkite,  Sally  Ride, 
Jane  Goodall,  Carl  Sagan, 
and  Isaac  Asimov. 


An  October  31,  1994,  plane 
crash  in  Roselawn,  Indiana, 
took  the  life  of  Maurice 
(Morry)  B.  Stein  '58. 

Stein,  of  Hartsdale,  New 
York,  was  the  leading  scorer 
and  tackier,  and  cocaptain 
of  Brandeis's  famed  1957 
tixitball  team,  the  most 
successful  in  the 
University's  history.  Last 
April  he  was  inducted  into 
the  Brandeis  Athletic  Hall 
of  Fame. 

In  1972,  he  received  the 
Friends  of  Brandeis 
Athletics  Distinguished 
Contribution  Award,  and  in 
1993  he  was  given  an 
Alumni  Service  Award. 


Stein  served  as  president  of 
the  Friends  of  Brandeis 
Athletics  and  was  also 
president  of  the  New  York 
Chapter  of  the  Alumni 
Association. 

In  offering  his  condolences 
to  Stein's  family.  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz  called 
Stein  a  devoted  alumnus 
and  a  hard-working  member 
of  the  Brandeis  community. 

Since  1964  Stein  had  been 
owner  and  director  of  Camp 
Echo  Lake  m  New  York.  In 
1970  he  founded,  with  his 
wife.  Amy  Medine  Stein 
'59,  a  nationally  recognized 
resident  camping  program 
for  disadvantaged  youth.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
three  sons,  Eric,  Anthony, 
and  George. 


Hall  of  Fame 
Announces  Third 
Class  of  inductees 


Brandeis  University  and 
the  Friends  of  Brandeis 
Athletics  have  announced 
the  third  class  of  inductees 
into  Brandeis's  Athletic 
Hall  of  Fame. 

This  year's  inductees 
include  nine  alumni  and 
one  coach. 

Edward  Gastonguay  '64,  one 
of  the  top  middle  distance 
runners  in  the  history  of  the 
Brandeis  track  team,  is  the 
record  holder  in  the  880 
yard  event,  1:50.6,  and  is 
also  the  first  Hall  of  Fame 
member  from  the  1960s  to 
be  inducted. 


Maurice  iMorry)  Stein 
46  Brandeis  Review 


Kaufman  '68,  M.A. 
'73,  Elected  to 
House 


Jay  R.  Kaufman  '68,  M.A. 
'73,  was  elected  to  the 
Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives  last  month. 
He  will  represent  the  15th 
Middlesex  District. 

Kaufman  is  president  of  Jay 
R.  Kaufman  Associates,  a 
consulting  practice  that 
specializes  in  helping 
organizations  with  strategic 
planning.  For  14  years  he 
directed  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  Marine  Studies 
Consortium,  an  association 
of  18  colleges  and 
universities,  including 
Brandeis,  that  provides 
interdisciplinary 
environmental  education 
courses  and  undertakes 
public  policy  research  and 
programming. 


fay  Kaufman 


Walter  Harrigan  '78  was  an 
All  New  England  and  All- 
American  selection  for  the 
Brandeis  men's  basketball 
team.  Upon  graduation,  he 
was  drafted  by  the  Boston 
Celtics. 

Marcia  Hammerschmidt 
Harris  '77  was  the  first  AU- 
Amencan  for  the  women's 
swimming  and  diving  team. 
A  versatile  swimmer,  she 
dominated  in  several 
strokes,  including  the 
butterfly,  freestyle,  and 
backstroke. 

Kevin  Healy  '85  was  a  two- 
time  Ail-American  in  men's 
soccer.  A  top  defender,  he 
was  also  a  three  time  All 
New  England  selection. 
Healy  was  a  key  member  of 
the  1981  team  that  played 
in  the  national 
championships  game.  In 
addition,  he  served  as  an 
assistant  coach  at  Brandeis 
for  four  years. 


A  top  pitcher  and  hitter  for 
Brandeis,  Vincent  Hillyer 
'77  hit  .439  as  a  senior,  the 
top  batting  average  in 
NCAA  Division  III.  Hillyer 
pitched  in  the  national 
championship  game  in 
1977. 

Norman  Levine,  a  name 
synonymous  with  Brandeis 
University  and  men's  and 
women's  track  and  cross 
country,  is  the  most 
successful  coach  in 
Brandeis's  history.  He  led 
the  men's  cross  country 
team  to  the  national 
championship  in  1983.  In 
his  30  years,  his  teams  have 
placed  in  the  top  five 
nationally,  winning 
numerous  New  England, 
regional,  and  conference 
championships. 


A  guard  and  linebacker, 
Edward  Manganiello  '54, 
served  as  a  two-time  captain 
of  the  football  team  and  was 
named  a  Little  AU- 
American  in  both  1950  and 
1951. 

Charles  Napoli  '58  will  be 
inducted  posthumously.  He 
was  a  two-time  All  New 
England  selection  in 
football  and  a  championship 
shot  putter  in  track.  A 
guard,  he  served  as 
cocaptain  of  the  1957 
football  team.  Napoli  was  a 
devoted  alumnus  and  served 
as  FOBA  president  and  an 
Alumni  Term  Trustee. 

Noel  Occomy  '89  became 
the  first  Brandeis  tennis 
player  to  win  the  individual 
national  championship 
when  he  captured  the  title 
in  1988.  He  won  four  AU- 
Amencan  titles  in  singles 


and  earned  two  Ail- 
American  titles  in  doubles. 
The  most-winning  player  in 
tennis  history,  he  also  won 
the  New  England  individual 
title. 

One  Waltham  native,  Kellie 
Vaughan  Righini  '89,  will  be 
inducted  for  her 
contributions  in  two  sports. 
She  became  the  first  Ail- 
American  women's  soccer 
player  at  Brandeis,  was  an 
all  New  England  selection 
in  soccer,  and  was  honored 
as  a  league  all-star  in  soccer 
and  Softball. 

Induction  ceremonies  will 
be  held  at  a  dinner  on 
Saturday,  April  1,  1995,   in 
the  Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center.  For 
further  information,  please 
call  Jack  Molloy  at  617-736- 
3631. 


47  Winter  1995 


Pick  the  Winner 


The  Design  Our  Mascot  finalists  are  here.  To  help  choose 
the  new  mascot,  please  call  the  Brandeis  University 
Student  Senate  office  at  617-736-3760,  fax  Senator  Janet 
Lipman  at  617-736-3761,  or  send  e-mail  to 
IN%"st921751n@pip. cc.brandeis.edu"  to  Senator  Lipman's 
attention.  Include  your  name,  year  of  graduation,  and  the 
number  next  to  the  design  of  your  choice.  If  you  are  not  an 
alumnus  of  Brandeis  University,  please  state  your 
affiliation  to  our  school  (i.e.  Trustee].  The  deadline  for  the 
poll  will  be  Sunday  March  26,  1995. 

Thank  you  for  taking  part  in  Brandeis  Project  Pride. 


48  Brandeis  Review 


Class  Notes 


'57 


Richard  Silverman  '54  with 
Rena  Blumberg  '56 


'62 


If  you  can  access  the  internet,  you 
can  now  send  in  your  class  notes 
by  electronic  mail.  Address  your 
news  to 

In%"awpri@binah. cc.brandeis.edu". 
Remember  to  use  your  full  name 
(middle  mitial  or  maiden  name) 
and  class  year(s)  for  proper 
identification.  Given  our 
production  timelme,  your  note 
should  appear  within 
approximately  five  months. 

'52 

Lynne  Shoolman  Isaacson,  Class 
Correspondent,  22  Fifer  Lane, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Lynne  Shoolman  Isaacson  and  her 
husband,  Burt,  look  forward  to 
their  monthly  visit  to  the  Church 
of  All  Nations  in  Boston,  where 
they  join  with  fellow  alumni  and 
Brandeis  Hillel  students  to  cook 
and  serve  a  meal  for  homeless 
persons.  She  reports  being 
"amazed"  by  the  generosity  of  the 
volunteers  as  well  as  that  of  the 
corporate  sponsors. 

'54 

Sydney  Abend,  Class 
Correspondent,  304  Concord 
Road,  Wayland,  MA  01778 

Richard  Silverman  is  a 

commissioner  for  the  city  of  West 
Hollywood,  where  he  was  sworn 
in  last  September  as  a  member  of 
the  Fine  Arts  Advisory  Board  for  a 
two-to-four  year  appointment.  He 
is  also  on  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Far  Eastern  Art 
Council  of  the  Los  Angeles 
County  Museum  of  Art.  Kyoto 
News  Service  interviewed  Richie 
for  eight  hours  for  an  article  on 
his  work,  published  m  Japan  for  a 
total  circulation  of  60  million 
readers. 


^SS'^OthRe 


Judith  PauU  Aronson,  Class 
Correspondent,  22371  Cass 
Avenue,  Woodland  Hills,  CA 
91364 

Lucy  DeVries  Duffy  reports  that 
she  recently  spent  a  year  teaching 
in  Romania.  She  continues  to  run 
in  marathons  to  raise  money  for 
leukemia  research,  most  recently 
doing  the  Marine  Corps  Marathon 
in  October  on  behalf  of  a  12year- 
old  girl  with  leukemia.  Since  her 
husband  Allen's  death  from 
leukemia  in  1986,  she  says  that 
"running  has  continued  to  sustain 
me."  Risa  Hirsch  Ehrlich  returned 
to  teaching  math  this  year  after 
leaving  work  in  1983  when  she 


adopted  two  children,  a  brother 
and  sister,  now  14  and  15  years 
old.  She  describes  her  job  on  the 
staff  of  a  new  New  York  City 
public  high  school  based  on  the 
principles  of  the  Coalition  of 
Essential  Schools  as  "hard  work 
but  fascinating."  Previously,  she 
taught  for  over  20  years  and 
headed  a  pioneering  math  lab. 
Nancy  Wolkenberg  Greenblatt,  a 
therapist  in  Manhattan,  is  also 
conducting  historical  research  on 
Congregation  B'nai  Jeshurin, 
where  she  grew  up  and  is  still  an 
active  member.  She  welcomes 
input,  memories,  or  artifacts 
about  the  congregation  from 
fellow  alumni.  Gloria  Goldreich 
Horowitz's  10th  novel.  That  Year 
of  Out  War.  was  published  last 
spring  by  Little,  Brown  and 
Company.  Star  Sack  Miller,  an 
executive  committee  member  of 
the  National  Jewish  Community 
Relations  Advisory  Council,  went 
on  a  mission  to  the  Middle  East 
in  October,  where  she  and  her 
delegation  met  with  key  political 
leaders  such  as  Yasser  Arafat  and 
Yitzhak  Rabin.  Julian  Smith  has 
retired  from  the  University  of 
Medicine  and  Dentistry  of  New 
Jersey,  where  he  had  worked  in 
computer  information  systems  for 
18  years.  He  and  his  wife,  Sharon, 
have  three  children:  Ira,  a  1993 
graduate  of  Brooklyn  College, 
Esta,  in  her  last  year  at  Barnard, 
and  Sonya,  who  is  spending  a  year 
in  Jerusalem  prior  to  joining  the 
Brandeis  Class  of  1999.  He  looks 
forward  to  seeing  classmates  and 
friends  at  Reunion  in  May. 
Manfred  Wolf  is  working  on  a 
book-length  memoir,  including  a 
chapter  on  his  years  at  Brandeis. 
He  is  a  professor  of  English  at  San 
Francisco  State  University. 

'56 

Leona  Feldman  Curhan,  Class 
Correspondent,  366  River  Road, 
Carlisle,  MA  01741 

Richard  Baldacci  had  his  first 

professional  art  show  in 
September  with  an  exhibit  at  the 
Marblehead,  MA,  Public  Library, 
displaying  watercolors,  sculpture, 
and  painted  ceramic  plates  that 
often  focus  on  North  Shore  life 
and  history.  He  previously  taught 
art  for  30  years  at  Swampscott 
High  School. 


Wynne  Wolkenberg  Miller,  Class 
Correspondent,  14  Larkspur  Road, 
Waban,  MA  02168 
Kadimah  (Kim)  Freedman 
Michelson  received  her  doctorate 
from  Harvard  University's 
Graduate  School  of  Education  in 
June  1994.  Her  thesis,  a  case 
study  of  the  benefits  and  tensions 
of  a  successful  entrepreneurial 
adult  and  community  education 
program  in  a  traditional  public 
school  bureaucracy,  grew  out  of 
her  observations  of  the  program 
and  the  school  system  during  six 
years  on  the  Brookline,  MA, 
School  Committee. 

'59 

Sunny  Sunshine  Brownrout,  Class 
Correspondent,  87  Old  Hill  Road, 
Westport,  CT  06880 

Gabrielle  Rossmer  Gropman's 

work  was  exhibited  in  a 
multimedia  installation  entitled 
"Gabrielle  Rossmer:  In  Search  of 
the  Lost  Object,"  in  the  Cathedral 
of  St.  John  the  Divine  in  New 
York  from  October  to  December. 

'60  ^^^^  Reunion 
Joan  Silverman  Wallack,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Linden  Shores, 
Umt  28,  Branford,  CT  06405 

Travel  photographer  Lee  Snider 
signed  a  contract  with  Unicom 
Calendars  for  a  1996  calendar, 
"Gardens  of  the  World," 
consisting  exclusively  of  his 
European  and  American  photos. 
Lee  published  26  photvjs  in  the 
premier  issue  of  Historic  Traveler 
magazine  last  fall.  Mary-Lou 
Weisman's  book  When  I  Grow 
Up,  a  comic  treatment  of  middle 
age,  is  forthcoming  from 
Workman  Publishing  Company 
this  spring.  She  is  also  the  author 
of  Intensive  Care:  A  Family  Love 
Story,  published  in  1982.  Her 
professional  activities  over  the 
past  20  years  include  both  full- 
time  and  freelance  lournalism; 
she  has  also  been  a  columnist, 
scriptwriter,  editor,  and  writing 
instructor. 

'61 

Judith  Leavitt  Schatz,  Class 
Correspondent,  139  Cumberland 
Road,  Leominster,  MA  01453 

Geraldine  McNulty  is  in  her 

fourth  year  as  vice  president  of 
Cariad  Capital,  Inc.,  in 
Providence,  RI.  Previously,  she 
was  vice  president  of 
Narragansett  Capital,  Inc.  She 
holds  an  M.B.A.  from  Babson 
College. 


Ann  Leder  Sharon,  Class 
Correspondent,  13890  Ravenwood 
Drive,  Saratoga,  CA  95070 

Jonathan  Shear,  Ph.D.,  is 
managing  editor  of  the 
international  Journal  of 
Consciousness  Studies  and  a 
faculty  member  in  philosophy  at 
Virginia  Commonwealth 
University  in  Richmond.  Stephen 
J.  Solarz,  a  former  congressman 
from  Brooklyn  and  a  Brandeis 
Trustee,  was  appointed  by 
President  Clinton  to  head  the 
new  Central  Asian-American 
Enterprise  Fund,  which  promotes 
investments  in  the  former  Soviet 
republics  of  Kazakhstan, 
Kyrgyzstan,  Uzbekistan, 
Tajikistan,  and  Turkmenistan. 

'63 

Miriam  Osier  Hyman,  Class 
Correspondent,  140  East  72nd 
Street,  #16B,  New  York,  NY 

10021 

Ron  Hollander  is  spending  a  year 
as  a  Fulbright  Scholar  in  Beijing, 
lecturing  at  the  graduate  China 
School  of  Journalism  and  studying 
the  Chinese  press  in  the  present 
period  of  transition.  His  wife, 
Virginia  Cornue,  joins  him  abroad 
to  conduct  field  research  in 
gender  studies  for  her  Ph.D.  in 
cultural  anthropology  at  Rutgers 
University.  In  addition  to 
academic  pursuits,  they  plan  to 
adopt  a  baby  girl  in  China.  Ron  is 
director  of  journalism  at 
Montclair  State  University  in 
New  Jersey,  teaching  and 
specializing  in  the  Amencan 
press  and  the  Holocaust.  His 
book.  All  Aboard!,  a  history  of 
Lionel  trains,  has  been  optioned 
for  a  film. 

'05  -^'^^^^^  Reunion 

Joan  L.  Ralafatas,  Class 
Correspondent,  95  Concord  Road, 
Maynard,  MA  01754 

Anne  C.  Bernstein's  book.  Flight 
of  the  Stork:  Hovi/  Children  Think 
(and  When)  about  Sex  and 
Family  Building,  a  revised  and 
expanded  edition  of  her  earlier 
hook,  was  published  in 
September.  She  contributed  a 
chapter  entitled  "Women  in 
Stepfamilies:  The  Fairy 
Godmother,  the  Wicked  Witch, 
and  Cinderella  Reconstructed"  to 
Women  in  Context:  Toward  a 


49  Winter  1995 


Lucy  DeVries  Duffy  '55 


Ron  Hollander  '6.1 


Angela  M: 


Feminist  Reconstruction  of 
Psychotherapy,  also  published 
last  year.  Mark  Kramer  is  in  his 
fifth  year  as  writcr-in-rcsidence  in 
nonfiction  at  Boston  University. 
Previously,  he  held  a  similar 
position  at  Smith  College  for  10 
years.  He  completed  a  book  about 
his  travels  in  backwoods  Russia 
and  an  anthology  of  literary 
journalism,  and  was  recently 
remarried. 

'68 

Jay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  One  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Angela  M.  Mazzarelli  was  elected 

to  the  New  York  Supreme  Court 
last  year  and  presided  in  the  civil 
term  of  the  Court  in  New  York 
County  (Manhattan).  In 
December,  she  was  appointed  by 
outgoing  Governor  Mario  Cuomo 
to  the  Appellate  Division  First 
Department,  one  of  four 
intermediate  state  appellate 
courts,  with  jurisdiction  over 
cases  from  the  Bronx  and 
Manhattan.  She  is  the  second 
female  justice  in  the  Court's 
history. 

'69 

Nancy  Sherman  Shapiro,  Class 
Correspondent,  9437  Reach  Road, 
Potomac,  MD  20854 

Alan  N.  Braverman  was  named 
general  counsel  of  Capital  Cities/ 
ABC,  Inc.,  in  October,  charged 
with  all  legal  affairs,  labor 
relations,  and  government 
relations  of  the  company.  He 
joined  the  company  in  November 
1993  and  continues  to  serve  as  its 
vice  president  and  executive 
officer.  Previously,  he  was  a 
partner  in  the  Washington,  D.C., 
law  firm  of  Wilmer,  Cutler  & 
Pickering.  Stephen  Cohen,  Ph.D., 
is  a  professor  in  the  school  of 
philosophy  at  the  University  of 
New  South  Wales,  Australia, 
where  his  teaching  schedule 
regrettably  prevented  him  from 
attending  Reunion  last  year.  He 
has  published  two  books  and  is 
currently  interested  in  business 
ethics.  He  earned  a  law  degree  in 
1991  and  passed  the  Australian 
equivalent  of  the  bar  exam,  but 
has  no  immediate  plans  to 
practice.  He  and  his  wife,  Denise, 
have  three  children,  Noah,  Jared, 
and  Anthea.  Robert  PanoH  is  a  tax 
attorney  specializing  in  civil  and 
criminal  tax  controversies  and  tax 
planning  in  Miami,  FL.  He  is  also 
chairman  of  the  tax  section  of  the 
Florida  bar,  president  of  the 


Greater  Miami  Tax  Institute,  and 
a  15-year  adjunct  professor  at  the 
University  of  Miami  School  of 
Law  Master's  in  Tax  Program.  His 
wife,  Jeanne,  is  a  real  estate 
broker,  and  his  son,  Joseph,  is  a 
high  school  senior  and  champion 
debater.  Sharon  T.  Sooho  chairs 
the  fundraising  committee  for 
Friends  of  the  Boston  YWCA, 
which  raised  $1 14,000  in  1993  to 
support  youth  services,  housing, 
and  health  services  for  the 
country's  oldest  YWCA.  She  is 
also  a  divorce  lawyer  in  Newton, 
MA. 
'YQ    25th  Reunion 

Charles  S.  Eisenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  4  Ashford  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

David  B.  Adler  is  a  solo  practice 
attorney  in  Seattle,  WA, 
concentrating  on  civil  rights  and 
discrimination  while  also 
expanding  as  a  business  lawyer. 
He  and  his  wife,  Susan,  have  two 
sons,  Joshua,  age  16  and  heading 
to  college  next  year,  and 
Benjamin,  age  9.  He  is  enjoying 
"watching  today's  teenagers 
resurrect  Hendrix  and  the  1960s." 
Judith  Lowitz  Adler  and  her 
family  relocated  to  the  Detroit 
area  five  years  ago,  where  she  is  a 
partner  at  the  law  firm  of  Jaffe, 
Raitt,  Heuer  &  Weiss,  specializing 
in  financial  transactions  and 
international  corporate  work.  She 
was  elected  treasurer  of  the 
Birmingham,  MI,  board  of 
education  and  is  also  participating 
in  Leadership  Detroit,  a  program 
to  foster  suburban-urban 
understanding  and  promote 
community  leadership.  She  and 
her  husband,  Josh,  an  associate 
professor  of  neurology  at  Wayne 
State  University's  school  of 
medicine,  have  two  daughters: 
Esther,  age  16,  who  will  be 
attending  college  this  year,  and 
Rachel,  age  12.  She  reports  that 
"there  are  more  cars  in  my 
driveway  than  I  ever  dreamed 
possible!"  Jay  Bergman,  Ph.D., 
was  granted  tenure  and  promoted 
to  professor  of  history  at  Central 
Connecticut  State  University, 
where  he  continues  to  publish  in 
his  field  of  Russian  history.  He  is 
happily  married  and  has  one  son, 
Aaron,  age  6.  Marc  L.  Citron, 
M.D.,  is  head  of  the  medical 
oncology  section  of  the  Long 
Island  Jewish  Medical  Center  in 
New  Hyde  Park,  NY.  He  is  also 
associate  professor  of  medicine  at 
Albert  Einstein  College  of 
Medicine  and  is  involved  in 
clinical  and  laboratory  research. 


He  IS  married  and  has  three 
children,  ages  16,  14,  and  11.  An 
avid  runner  and  bicyclist,  he 
recently  ran  the  New  York 
marathon  and  now  enjoys 
competing  in  biathalons.  Marc 
Cohen  is  a  member  of  a  small  law 
firm,  Roberts  &  Cohen  PA.,  with 
offices  in  Meredith  and 
Portsmouth,  NH.  He  and  his  wife 
of  20  years,  Ellen,  have  two 
children,  Emily,  age  17,  and 
David,  age  13.  Although  his 
quarter-mile  running  days  are 
over,  he  still  enjoys  jogging  as 
well  as  photography,  reading,  and 
writing.  Kenneth  "Eppo"  Epstein 
lives  in  Austin,  TX,  with  his  wife, 
Celeste,  his  daughter,  Lorian,  age 
7,  and  his  twin  sons,  Spencer  and 
Peter,  age  3.  He  works  full-time 
in  the  marketing  communications 
department  of  IBM  Personal 
Software  Products  and  part-time 
in  his  rock  'n'  roll  band,  the 
Rockafellas.  Celeste  is  a  part-time 
system  software  technical 
specialist  at  the  Apple  Assistance 
Center.  Robert  D.  Farber  is  an 
artist/painter  living  in  New  York 
City.  Last  year,  he  displayed  his 
work  in  a  group  show  at  the 
Lennon,  Weinberg  Gallery  in 
NYC  and  in  the  "Arts  Lament" 
exhibition  at  Boston's  Isabella 
Stewart  Gardner  Museum.  He 
received  a  fellowship  award  from 
the  Edward  F.  Albce  Foundation 
in  1993,  had  a  solo  show  in  New 
York's  Artists  Space  in  1992,  and 
did  a  project  room  installation  at 
the  Museum  of  Modern  Art  in 
1991.  Other  group  shows  include 
the  Barbara  Krakow  Gallery  in 
Boston  and  the  Henie-Onstad 
Kunstsenter  in  Oslo,  Norway.  He 
is  featured  in  the  book  Muses 
from  Chaos  and  Ash:  AIDS. 
Artists,  and  Art  (1993),  and  has 
been  reviewed  by  several 
newspapers.  Janet  Fisbman  and 
her  husband,  Larry  Dickerson, 
formed  their  own  theater 
company  in  1992.  Last  summer, 
they  took  their  two  shows.  The 
Olive  Lake:  A  Chinese  Fairy  Tale 
and  Three  Short  Stories  by  Isaac 
Bashevis  Singer  to  the  Edinburgh, 
Scotland,  fringe,  where  they  "had 
a  great  time  and  want  more!" 
Before  her  marriage  in  1985,  Janet 
lived  in  Ghana  for  two  years, 
teaching  high  school,  and  in  Paris 
for  nine  years,  where  she  taught 
part-time,  studied  acting,  and 
joined  a  French  theater  company 
which  toured  throughout  the 
country.  She  and  Larry  live  in 
Philadelphia  and  have  a  6-year-old 
son,  Matthew.  Judith  A.  Frediani 
is  curriculum  development 
director  for  the  Unitarian 
Universalist  Association.  She  has 
a  daughter,  Keilah,  a  college 


senior,  and  a  son,  Aaron,  a  recent 
graduate.  Michael  Gerver  is  a 
physicist  with  a  small  research 
and  development  company  in 
Cambridge,  MA,  and  lives  in 
Brookline  with  his  wife  and  four 
children:  Miriam,  age  17,  Adina, 
age  15,  Avi,  age  12,  and  Mollie, 
age  9.  Kathy  Landau  Hess  is  a 
newly-licensed  marriage,  family, 
and  child  counselor  in  private 
practice  in  Palo  Alto,  CA.  She 
holds  an  M.A.  in  counseling  from 
the  University  of  San  Francisco. 
She  and  her  husband  of  15  years, 
fared,  enjoy  going  to  the  theater, 
dancing,  and  camping.  They  have 
two  children,  Rachel,  age  13,  and 
Abhaya,  age  10.  Asher  Keren-Zvi 
(a.k.a.  Artie  Gordon)  is  a  clinical 
psychologist  in  private  practice, 
completing  the  last  stage  of 
psychoanalytic  training.  He 
teaches  at  the  California  School 
of  Professional  Psychology  and 
the  Psychoanalytic  Center  of 
California.  He  and  his  wife,  Ann, 
live  in  Los  Angeles  with  their 
children,  Micah,  age  9,  and  Talia, 
age  5.  Dr.  Rick  Levy  is  a 
psychologist  m  clinical  private 
practice  in  Rockville,  MD, 
dealing  with  both  traditional  and 
alternative  therapies.  His 
involvement  in  past-life 
regression  therapy  and  auric 
healing  helped  popularize  these 
fields  nationwide.  He  also  teaches 
how  to  see  the  aura  and  develop 
particular  psychic  abilities  within 
the  context  of  spiritual 
counseling  which  emphasize 
mediative  approaches  to 
communion  with  God.  Deborah 
Lipp  has  a  small  nursery  business 
in  Santa  Maria,  CA,  specializing 
in  herbs,  scented  geraniums,  and 
drought-tolerant  plants.  She  and 
her  husband,  Paul  Broeker  '67, 
have  two  daughters:  Rebecca,  age 
14,  and  Margaret,  age  12. 
Menachem  Malkosh  (formerly 
Mark  Skolnik)  and  his  wife, 
Judith  Wolke  Malkosh  '71,  live  in 
Rehovot,  Israel.  He  is  a  senior 
systems  engineer  with  D.S.L, 
specializing  in 
telecommunications 
management,  and  she  is  director 
of  the  Weizmann  Institute's 
International  Science  Summer 
Institute.  They  have  four 
children,  ages  21,  19,  16,  and  13, 
and  their  oldest  daughter  was 
married  in  December  1993.  Carl 
Milofsky  is  professor  of  sociology 
at  Bucknell  University,  where  he 
has  taught  for  13  years  and 
previously  spent  six  years  as 
department  chair.  He  continues 
to  do  research  on  nonprofit 
organizations  in  association  with 


50  Brandeis  Review 


News  Notes 


Yale  University's  Program  on 
Nonprofit  Organizations,  and 
edits  the  Nonprofit  and  Voluntary 
Sector  Quarterly,  the  main 
research  journal  in  the  field.  He 
has  been  returning  to  Boston 
occasionally  to  visit  his  daughter, 
Tessa,  a  college  freshman.  He  also 
plays  a  lot  of  squash,  spends  time 
with  his  new  wife,  Sandy,  and 
tries  "to  keep  my  head  above 
water."  After  Brandeis,  Naomi 
Mindlin  became  a  professional 
modern  dancer,  performing  in  the 
Limon  Dance  Company  for  three 
years.  She  now  works 
independently,  has  received  a 
grant  to  learn  two  seminal  Doris 
Humphrey  solos  from  a 
Humphrey  scholar  and  former 
dancer,  and  is  choreographing  a 
solo  for  herself  about  the  prophet 
Miriam.  She  is  married  to 
Stephen  Perloff,  a  photographer 
and  editor;  they  have  two 
daughters,  Crissa,  age  7,  and 
Emma,  age  18  months.  Robert 
Nayer  is  chief  financial  officer  for 
the  Cheyenne  Mountain  Zoo  in 
Colorado  Springs,  CO  He  has  one 
child,  Lindsay,  a  high  school 
sophomore,  and  three 
stepchildren:  Michelle,  age  20, 
Kevin,  age  19,  and  Jamie,  age  15. 
He  and  his  wife,  Rosslyn,  were 
married  in  1988.  Eleanor  Billings 
Richardson  is  finishing  her  third 
book,  Andover:  A  Century  of 
Change  1896-1996.  a  350th 
anniversary  history  of  Andover, 
MA,  to  be  published  this  fall  by 
the  Andover  Historical  Society. 
Judith  Gollinger  Savage  is  a 
library  media  specialist  in  her 
14th  year  at  Xavier  High  School 
in  Connecticut  and  reports  that 
she  loves  her  work  with  the 
students.  She  serves  as  state 
conference  chair  of  the 
Connecticut  Educational  Media 
Association  and  as  a  member  of 
the  National  School  Library 
Media  Month  committee  of  the 
American  Association  of  School 
Libraries.  She  and  her  husband, 
Norman  Savage  '68,  have  a  son  in 
college  and  a  daughter  finishing 
high  school,  and  describe  their 
life  as  "busy,  interesting,  hectic, 
and  fun."  Ronnie  Scherer  is  a 
lecturer  at  Fordham  University's 
Lincoln  Center  campus,  in  the 
division  of  arts,  and  an  adiunct 
lecturer  at  the  mainstream 
program  of  Westchester 
Community  College.  She  is  also 
the  busy  mother  of  Michael,  age 
12,  and  Robert,  age  7.  Ronald 
Schleifer  is  professor  of  English  at 
the  University  of  Oklahoma  and 
editor  of  a  scholarly  lournal, 


Genre,  and  a  hook  series, 
"Oklahoma  Project  for  Discourse 
and  Theory."  He  has  authored  or 
co-authored  four  books,  most 
recently  Culture  and  Cognition. 
plus  three  collections  and  one 
translation.  He  plays  tennis  and 
squash  and  reports  enjoying 
Oklahoma  and  "our  American 
heartland  "  He  is  married  to 
Nancy  Mergler  and  has  two  sons, 
Cyrus,  age  12,  and  Benjamin,  age 
10.  Jeanne  Bakst  Siegel  is 
executive  director  of  the  Jewish 
Community  Center  of  Queens, 
NY  She  is  married  to  Richard 
Siegel  '69  and  has  two  children, 
Andrew,  age  23,  and  Ruth,  age  13. 
Her  "new  love"  is  bike  riding  and 
she  also  enjoys  Japanese  gardens 
and  her  three  cats.  Deborah  M. 
Spitalnik  was  appointed  by 
President  Clinton  to  the 
President's  Committee  on  Mental 
Retardation,  a  panel  which 
advises  both  him  and  U.S. 
Secretary  of  Health  and  Human 
Services,  Donna  Shalala,  on 
programs  and  services  for  people 
with  developmental  disabilities. 
Dr.  Spitalnik  is  founder  and 
executive  director  of  the 
University  Affiliated  Program  of 
New  Jersey,  which  trains  health 
care  professionals  to  work  with 
the  developmentally  disabled 
under  the  auspices  of  the 
University  of  Medicine  and 
Dentistry  of  New  Jersey-Robert 
Wood  JoJinson  Medical  School, 
She  IS  also  associate  professor  of 
pediatrics  and  family  medicine  at 
the  medical  school  and  has  served 
on  several  statewide  councils  on 
disabilities.  Heleni  Thayre  is  an 
artist  who  paints  in  an  oil-with- 
wax  medium  and  describes  her 
style  as  "archaic  abstract."  She  is 
starting  an  enterprise  as  an  art 
consultant  for  business  and 
residential  clients.  Robert  H. 
Thibeault  continues  to  teach  at 
Salem,  MA,  High  School,  where 
he  has  been  since  1972.  He 
originally  taught  special  needs 
students  and  now  specializes  in 
English  and  American  literature. 
He  is  also  advisor  to  the  school 
College  Bowl  team.  He  has  an 
M.Ed.,  collects  books  and  music, 
and  has  sung  in  choral  groups  and 
faculty  shows.  He  is  single  and 
still  visits  his  immediate  family 
in  Rhode  Island  frequently.  Susan 
L.  Thorner  is  senior  counsel  at 
Apple  Computer,  Inc.,  working  in 
the  corporate  area  and  enjoying 
her  new  in-house  role  with  what 
she  calls  "a  terrific  company,  full 
of  bright,  energetic  folks." 
Previously,  she  had  been  a  partner 
with  a  San  Francisco  law  firm 


since  1988.  Ann  Vershbow  moved 
to  Brunswick,  ME,  last  year, 
where  she  is  a  teaching  principal 
at  Mast  Landing  School  in 
Freeport  (home  of  L.L,  Bean).  Her 
husband.  Chuck  Beitz,  is  dean  for 
academic  affairs  at  Bowdoin 
College  and  her  13-year-old 
daughter,  Caroline,  is  an  eighth 
grader  and  talented  pianist.  After 
leaving  Brandeis,  Ann  taught 
elementary  and  middle  school  for 

14  years  while  living  in  her 
hometown  of  Newton,  MA.  She 
earned  a  master's  degree  at  the 
Harvard  Graduate  School  of 
Education  and  most  recently 
spent  four  years  as  head  of  the 
Lauer  School  at  Winsor,  a  private 
girls'  school  in  Boston.  Steven  L. 
Weiss  teaches  sculpture,  drawing, 
and  anatomy  classes  at  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  and 
maintains  a  studio  in  his  home. 
He  has  shown  work  in  museums, 
galleries,  and  private  collections 
in  Philadelphia,  New  Jersey,  and 
New  York.  He  and  his  wife, 
Martha  Himmelfarb,  have  four 
children,  ages  14,  II,  7,  and  5. 
Trudy  Zimmerman  is  director  of 
field  education  at  the  Boston 
University  School  of  Social  Work. 
Her  husband,  Tim  Wilson,  is  an 
elementary  school  principal,  and 
their  8-year-old  daughter,  Lily,  is 
in  second  grade  in  Wayland,  MA, 
where  they  moved  last  June.  She 

15  looking  forward  to  Reunion  in 
May. 

'71 

Mark  L.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Devens  Road, 
Swampscott,  MA  01907 

Steven  F.  Friede!!  traveled  to 
Lublin,  Poland,  in  August  to 
speak  at  a  conference  on  Jewish 
law,  held  at  a  former  yeshiva  and 
attended  by  professors,  judges, 
and  rabbis  from  Israel  and  the 
U.S.  His  topic  was  a  16th-century 
rabbinical  decision  written  by  the 
Maharam  of  Lublin  and  involving 
the  Inquisition  in  Italy.  Steve  is 
professor  of  law  at  the  Rutgers 
University  Law  School  in 
Camden,  N). 

'73 

June  Warren  Lee,  D.D.S.,  received 
the  Academy  of  General 
Dentistry's  prestigious 
Mastership  Award  at  the 
organization's  annual  meeting  in 
August,  signifying  her  completion 
of  1 100  hours  of  course  work 
beyond  her  degree.  She  is  a  fellow 
of  the  American  College  of 
Dentists  and  the  Academy  of 


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51  Winter  1995 


Deborah  Spitalnik  '70 


and  the  Lennon  Biothers 


Dentistry  International,  past 
president  of  the  American 
Association  of  Women  Dentists, 
and  active  in  numerous 
organizations.  She  and  her 
husband,  William,  have  a  private 
family  practice  in  Dorchester, 
MA,  and  live  in  Milton  with  their 
two  children,  Jaime  and  Daniel. 
David  G.  Marwell,  his  wife,  (udy 
Eisenstein  Marwell  '71,  and  their 
sons,  Nathan  and  Gabriel, 
returned  last  summer  from  five 
and  a  half  years  in  Berlin, 
Germany,  where  David  was 
director  of  the  Berlin  Document 
Center  and  Judy  was  American 
president  of  the  Berlin  American 
Club.  In  July,  David  became 
executive  director  of  the  John  F. 
Kennedy  Assassination  Records 
Review  Board,  a  quasi- 
independent  presidential  entity  in 
Washington,  DC,  and  the  family 
resumed  residence  in  University 
Park,  MD. 

'74 

Elizabeth  Sarason  Pfau,  Class 
Correspondent,  80  Monadnock 
Road,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Richard  Honotoff  recorded  a 
Shoah  concert  in  Moscow  in  the 
fall,  including  one  of  his  own 
pieces.  Amy  Koplow,  iW.F.A.  '77 
teaches  clothing,  textile,  and 
decorative  arts  courses  at  Queens 
College  in  Flushing,  NY,  where 
she  has  been  a  faculty  member  for 
seven  years.  She  has  two 
daughters,  Ghana,  age  10,  and 
Dalia,  age  6.  Arell  Schurgin 
Shapiro  is  medical  director  of  Life 
Source  Blood  Services  in 
Glenview,  IL,  and  lives  in 
Northbrook,  IL,  with  her  "four 
future  Brandeisians."  Sally  Zanger 
has  her  own  law  practice 
representing  the  families  of 
children  with  special  education 
entitlements  as  well  as  a  variety 
of  cases,  usually  discrimination 
claims,  for  adults  with 
disabilities.  She  lives  in  New 
Haven,  CT,  and  has  two  children, 
Lynn,  age  13,  and  Joseph,  age  10. 

'75   -Oth  Reunion 

Barbara  Alpert,  Class 
Correspondent,  272  1st  Avenue 
Suite  #4G,  New  York,  NY  10009 

Barbara  Alpert  is  executive  editor 
of  the  ParentSource  Resource 
Directory  and  a  contributing 
editor  of  the  ParentSource 
magazine.  Your  Child  and  You. 
She  is  teaching  two  courses  at 
Hofstra  University  this  spring  on 
the  theory  and  practice  of 


publishing  and  book  editing. 
Nancy  R.  Alpert  joined  Lifetime 
Television  for  Women  as  vice 
president  of  business  and  legal 
affairs,  a  move  she  describes  as 
"the  culmination  of  a  career  that 
led  me  through  law  firms, 
Spanish-language  television 
[Telcmundol,  and  finally  to  a 
place  that  combines  my  interest 
in  women's  issues  and 
television."  She  lives  on 
Manhattan's  Upper  West  Side 
with  another  Brandeis  alum  and 
two  "fabulous"  silver  tabby  cats. 
Gail  Lopata  Lennon  is  in  Branson, 
MO,  performing  at  the  Lawrence 
Welk  Champagne  Theater  with 
the  Lennon  Brothers  (yes,  the 
brothers  of  the  famous  Lennon 
sisters!  |.  Their  newest  CD,  Swing 
Away,  has  been  released  on 
Ranwood  Records.  They  perform 
swing  music  from  the  1930s, 
1940s,  and  early  1950s  patterned 
after  the  four-part  vocal  groups  of 
that  era.  She  reports  that  the 
Ozarks  are  a  big  change  from  the 
hectic  pace  of  Los  Angeles,  where 
she  had  previously  lived  and 
worked  as  a  singer  for  TV,  movies, 
and  commercials;  her  children, 
Grace,  age  6,  and  Henry,  age  4,  are 
also  enjoying  their  new  "country- 
style"  surroundings.  Gail  reflects 
that  "maybe  someday  I  can  write 
my  memoirs.  From  Brandeis  to 
Branson!"  All  alumni  passing 
through  the  midwest  are  invited 
to  stop  by  Maris  A.  Makkas  is 
still  in  touch  with  some  Brandeis 
friends,  and  looks  forward  to 
seeing  more  former  classmates, 
perhaps  at  this  year's  Reunion.  He 
has  fond  memories  of  his  three 
years  in  the  Brandeis  economics 
department.  Michele  iVlanasse 
owns  three  fine  crafts  galleries, 
named  Fireworks,  in  Seattle,  WA. 
She  and  her  husband  of  four  years, 
Leonard  Piha,  have  two  children, 
Elana  and  Etan.  Christine 
iWesberg  has  been  practicing  law 
since  1986  and  is  now  a  member 
of  the  American  Academy  of 
Adoption  Attorneys.  Married  for 
15  years  to  Harold  Grossman  '74, 
she  is  the  mother  of  two 
daughters.  Noting  that  "we  can't 
seem  to  leave  the  past  behind," 
she  says  that  they  went  to 
Woodstock  this  past  summer. 
Jody  iWyers  was  promoted  to  full 
professor  in  the  religious  studies 
department  of  California  State 
University,  Northridge,  where  she 
has  coordinated  the  Jewish 
Studies  Interdisciplinary  Program 
since  1985.  She  and  her  husband 


of  17  years.  Dr.  David  Ackerman, 
have  three  children.  Lawrence  S. 
Tesser  is  chief  of  periodontics  at 
New  York's  Beth  Israel  Hospital 
and  a  partner  in  the  practice  of 
Drs.  Veroscak,  Tesser  &  Toffler. 
He  and  his  wife,  Diane,  have  two 
children,  Meredith,  age  4,  and 
Joshua,  age  6  months.  Deborah 
London  Wexler  is  now  mother  to 
a  stepson,  Andy,  age  16,  as  well  as 
to  her  three  children.  Grant,  age 
12,  Jonathan,  age  10,  and  Rebecca, 
age  6.  She  is  a  public  health  nurse 
and  supervisor  and  is  still  glowing 
from  her  "Jeopardy!"  win  in  1993. 

'76 

Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Parkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  55416 

Amanda  Annis  lives  in  Newton, 
MA,  and  has  two  sons,  Memin, 
age  8,  and  Clemcnte,  age  4.  She 
divides  her  time  ("unequally") 
between  family  life,  working  as  a 
professional  fundraiser,  and 
continuing  with  her  artwork. 
Elyse  Harnett  moved  to  Stanford, 
CA,  to  "enjoy  some  sunshine" 
while  pursuing  a  Ph.D.,  and  is 
still  there  almost  20  years  later, 
teaching  anthropology  at  Foothill 
College  and  looking  forward  to 
tenure  in  two  years.  She  and  her 
husband,  Mark  Musen,  a  medical 
school  professor,  have  a  7-year-old 
son.  Jay,  plus  three  tortoises,  two 
turtles,  one  anole,  and  a  golden 
retriever.  Ellen  Bernstein  Baum  is 
senior  financial  analyst  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  Sloan  School  of 
Management,  where  she  has 
worked  for  four  years.  She  enjoys 
the  bustle  of  MIT  but  is 
constantly  reminded  of  "what  a 
special  place  Brandeis  is,  nestled 
on  its  beautiful  suburban 
campus."  She  and  her  husband, 
Jerrold  Baum  '75,  an  engineer, 
have  two  children:  Ashley,  age  7, 
and  Steve,  age  4.  She  hopes  to  see 
everyone  at  the  20th  Reunion 
next  year.  Ruth  Hurwitz  Ebrlich 
and  family  are  back  in  the  Boston 
area  after  1 1  years  in  San 
Francisco.  She  works  part-time  as 
a  speech/language  pathologist 
with  children  ages  5  and  under 
and  her  husband,  Barry  Ehrlich 
'74,  is  an  emergency  room 
physician  at  Waltham-Weston 
Hospital.  They  have  four  boys, 
ages  14,  11,  8,  and  5.  Andrew 
Freeman  took  a  long-awaited  trip 
to  the  South  Pole  in  November, 
spending  10  days  on  the 
Antarctican  continent  before 


returning  to  his  anesthesia 
practice  in  Dallas,  TX.  He  and  his 
wife,  Joyce  Wishkin  Freeman  '77, 
have  two  children,  Isaac,  age  5, 
and  Abigail,  age  3.  He  invites 
fellow  alumni  to  reach  him  at 
"andybranch@aol.com".  David 
Gurwitz  is  cofounder  and 
principal  of  RG  Financial  Ltd.,  a 
Princeton,  NJ-based  merchant 
banking  and  money  management 
firm  with  a  wide  array  of 
interests.  He  and  his  wife, 
Suzanne,  have  three  children, 
Solomon,  age  7,  Hana,  age  4,  and 
Avi,  age  I.  Andrew  D.  Katz  is 
technology  coordinator  for  the 
Winchester,  MA,  public  schools 
and  enjoys  the  challenge  of 
implementing  change  in  his  own 
town.  He  and  his  children, 
Jennifer,  age  7,  and  Ben,  age  5,  are 
glad  to  be  able  to  spend  more 
time  together.  Previously,  he 
taught  at  Merrimack  College  in 
Andover  and  owned  a  company, 
AlphaGraphics,  which  he  sold  in 
1993.  Jeti  Wingate  Licht  is  an 
attorney  working  part-time  for  a 
personal  injury  firm  in 
Manhattan.  She  and  her  husband 
of  14  years,  Peter,  just  had  their 
first  child,  Daniel  Seth,  and 
moved  from  Greenwich  Village  to 
a  house  in  New  Rochelle,  NY. 
"As  if  that  wasn't  enough,"  she 
says,  "I  |ust  turned  40!"  Amir  J. 
Malin  is  president  of  October 
Films  and  Cinecom 
Entertainment  Group,  producing 
and  distributing  such  films  as  A 
Room  With  A  View  and  Tous  Les 
Matins  du  Monde.  He  is  married 
to  Karen  Green,  a  dermatologist, 
and  has  two  children:  Adam,  age 
9,  and  Jenessa,  age  5.  Richard  J. 
Novick,  M.D.,  is  still  living  in 
London,  Ontario,  Canada,  with 
his  wife  and  two  sons,  ages  6  and 
3.  He  is  associate  professor  of 
cardiovascular-thoracic  surgery  at 
the  University  of  Western  Ontario 
and  University  Hospital,  where 
he  directs  the  lung  transplant 
program.  In  September  he  was 
invited  to  Germany  as  a  visiting 
professor  at  the  Medizinische 
Hochschule  Hannover,  where  he 
delivered  talks  on  "Exogenous 
Surfactant  Therapy  in  Lung 
Transplantation"  and  "Pulmonary 
Retransplantation;  Determinants 
of  Survival  in  120  Patients." 
During  the  same  trip,  he  chaired  a 
session  and  presented  a  paper  at 
the  Premier  Congri;s  International 
de  Transplantation  Pulmonaire  in 
Paris.  Shelley  L.  Payne  is  a 
clinical  psychologist  in  private 


52  Brandeis  Review 


'78 


practice,  "a  hold-out  m  this  time 
ot  managed  care."  Her  husband, 
Howard  Goldman  '75,  is  an 
anesthesiologist  at  Mount  Sinai 
Medical  Center  in  Miami  Beach, 
FL.  They  have  two  children,  Sara 
Fay,  age  9,  and  Daniel  Zachary, 
age  5.  Shelley  and  the  kids  are 
training  in  Tae  Kwon  Do  and  the 
whole  family  enjoys  boating, 
fishing,  and  gardening  their 
"banana  plantation."  Julieanna  L. 
Richardson  is  president  of  her 
own  video  production  company  in 
Chicago,  which  has  the  exclusive 
right  to  manage  three  local 
commercial  cable  channels. 
Although  she  reports  being 
"consumed"  by  her  work,  she 
also  loves  being  "creative  and 
entrepreneurial  at  the  same 
time!"  Todd  Silverstein  is  an 
associate  professor  of  chemistry 
at  Willamette  University  in 
Salem,  OR,  and  recently  spent  a 
year  on  a  Fulbright  fellowship  in 
Norway  and  Sweden  conducting 
research  on  photosynthesis.  Fiis 
previous  teaching  job  was  "in  the 
middle  of  nowhere"  at  Whitman 
College  in  Walla  Walla,  WA.  After 
leaving  Brandeis,  he  spent  two 
years  in  Israel  doing  research  at 
the  Weizmann  Institute  and  then 
earned  a  Ph.D.  at  the  University 
of  California,  Berkeley.  Donald 
Stewart  lives  m  Appleton,  WI, 
with  his  wife,  Karen  Engelbourg 
'79,  and  their  two  sons,  Michael, 
age  4,  and  Ian,  age  6  months.  Gary 
Tinterow,  Engelhard  Curator  of 
European  Painting  at  the  New 
York  Metropolitan  Museum  of 
Art,  co-curated  the  museum's  big 
fall  exhibition,  "The  Origins  of 
Impressionism,"  which  opened  in 
September,  Eric  Weinstein  spoke 
to  a  group  of  Lemberg  Program 
alumni  at  Brandeis  House  in  New 
York  City  in  September.  He 
works  with  the  interest  rate  risk 
management  advisory  services  of 
the  Swiss  Bank  Corporation. 
Jeffrey  Weissman  lives  in  White 
Plains,  NY,  with  his  wife,  IiU,  and 
their  sons,  Adam,  age  11,  and 
Michael,  age  7.  leff  practices  law 
in  the  Manhattan  office  of 
O'Connor,  Ruddy  &  Jensen, 
specializing  in  banking  and 
corporate  finance,  and  Iill  is  an 
adminstrator  and  teacher  at  the 
Solomon  Schechter  School  of 
Westchester.  Elaine  Nierman 
Widder  works  for  Very  Special 
Arts,  a  national  agency  providing 
arts  opportunities  for  people  with 
disabilities,  where  she 
coordinates  national  programs 


such  as  the  Young  Playwrights 
Program  and  the  Young  Soloists 
Program.  She  and  her  husband, 
Joel,  live  in  Silver  Spring,  MD, 
with  their  two  children,  Jeremy, 
age  10,  and  Samantha,  age  7. 
During  the  debate  on  national 
health  care,  Marc  Wine  spoke  to 
interest  groups  nationwide  on 
behalf  of  the  White  House  and 
President  Clinton's  position.  He 
and  his  wife,  Sharon,  enjoy 
keeping  up  their  passive  solar 
house  in  Potomac,  MD.  Louis 
Woolf  has  assumed  a  new 
position  as  vice  president  for 
business  development  at  New 
England  Baptist  Hospital  in 
Boston. 

'77 

Fred  Berg,  Class  Correspondent, 
150  East  83rd  Street,  Apt.  2C, 
New  York,  NY  10028 

Daniel  Fins  and  Deborah  Liss  Fins 

report  that  they  are  "loving  every 
second  of  their  hectic,  rewarding 
lives."  She  is  assistant  executive 
director  of  Jewish  Family  Service 
of  Worcester,  MA,  serving,  among 
other  responsibilities,  as  an 
authority  on  elder  guardianship 
issues.  She  likes  the  flexibility  of 
part-time  hours,  which  allows  her 
more  time  for  her  three  sons, 
Adam,  age  11,  Eric,  age  8,  and 
Morgan,  age  1.  Dan  continues  as  a 
tax  manager  at  Joseph  B.  Cohan 
and  Associates,  coaches  a 
successful  youth  soccer  team,  and 
has  started  playing  in  a  men's 
soccer  league.  Robin  Jaffce  Frank. 
assistant  curator  of  American 
paintings  and  sculpture  at  Yale 
University  Art  Gallery,  organized 
an  exhrbition  last  fall  entitled 
"Charles  Demuth  Poster 
Portraits;  1913-1929,"  and 
published  the  exhibition 
catalogue  by  the  same  name.  A 
weekend  symposium, 
"Declarations  of  Identity:  The 
American  Avant-Garde  in  the 
1920s,"  also  accompanied  the 
exhibition.  Robert  Neal  Halpern 
IS  a  staff  attorney  with  the 
Association  of  the  Bar  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  where  he  supervises 
legal  clinics  for  the  homeless  and 
elderly. 


Valerie  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

In  October,  Barry  E.  Epstein  was 

named  executive  vice  president  of 
Alliance  Benefit  Programs,  Inc., 
the  group  benefit  and  life 
insurance  division  of  Alliance 
Brokerage  Corporation,  one  of  the 
nation's  largest  independent 
insurance  brokerage  firms. 
Previously,  he  ran  his  own 
insurance  brokerage  operation  for 
eight  years.  Barbara  Rachelson  is 
in  her  first  year  as  director  of 
program  development  at 
Spectrum  Youth  &  Family 
Services  in  Burlington,  VT.  She 
and  her  husband,  Don  Loeb,  have 
two  children,  Isaac,  age  5,  and 
Aviva,  age  8  months.  Lesley  A. 
Sharp,  Ph.D.,  is  assistant 
professor  of  anthropology  at 
Barnard  College  in  New  York.  She 
recently  published  a  book  entitled 
The  Possessed  and  the 
Dispossessed:  Spirits.  Identity, 
and  Power  in  a  Madagascar 
Migrant  Tonm. 

'79 

Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angler  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Kenneth  S.  Kaplan,  M.D.,  is  a 
clinical  assistant  professor  of 
obstetrics  and  gynecology  at  New 
York  University  Medical  Center 
and  is  also  m  private  practice  in 
New  York  City. 

'QQ  15th  Reunion 

Lisa  Gelfand,  Class 
Correspondent,  19  Winchester 
Street  #404,  Brookline,  MA  02146 

Beth  Cohen  is  principal 
conductor  of  the  New  American 
Chamber  Orchestra,  an  orchestra 
composed  of  Russian  refugees 
who  are  professional  musicians. 
She  also  conducts  the  Interschool 
Orchestras  of  New  York  and  spent 
over  four  years  as  music  director 
of  the  Metropolitan  Chamber 
Orchestra.  Her  faculty  positions 
include  such  prestigious 
independent  schools  as  the 
Collegiate  School  and  Little  Red 
School  House  and  Elizabeth  Irwin 
High  School.  She  has  been 
featured  on  the  "CBS  Sunday 
Morning  News,"  on  "Eye  on 
America"  with  Connie  Chung, 
also  on  CBS,  and  in  The  New  York 
Times  Sunday  Magazine.  She 
holds  a  master's  degree  of  music 
in  conducting  from  the 


University  of  Wisconsin-Madison. 
Eric  H.  Luckman  is  a  partner  in 
the  law  firm  of  Liggio  &.  Luckman 
in  West  Palm  Beach,  FL, 
practicing  in  plaintiffs'  personal 
injury  and  insurance  litigation. 
He  was  also  recently  certified  by 
the  Florida  bar  in  civil  trial  law. 
In  1992  he  received  a  service 
award  from  the  Academy  of 
Florida  Trial  Lawyers.  He  and  his 
wife,  Joanne,  stay  very  busy  with 
their  daughters,  Jena,  age  6, 
Emily,  age  4,  and  Rebecca,  age  1. 
Janis  Boyarsky  Schiff  joined  the 
Washington,  DC,  law  firm  of 
David  ik  Hagner,  PC,  as  a 
principal  specializing  in  real 
estate  transactions.  Previously, 
she  was  a  partner  m  the  DC. 
office  of  Robins,  Kaplan,  Miller  & 
Ciresi.  She  serves  as  chair  of  the 
International  Council  of  Shopping 
Centers  Mid-Atlantic  Idea 
Exchange  and  was  named  one  of 
the  top  women  in  commercial 
real  estate  by  Real  Estate  Forum. 
She  holds  a  J.D.  from  Suffolk 
University  Law  School. 

'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  25  Hobart  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Sol  W.  Bernstein  is  vice  president 
and  counsel  of  National 
Westminster  Bancorp 's  in-house 
legal  department.  He  was 
previously  a  banking  associate 
with  Winston  &.  Strawn's  New 
York  office   Pamela  Rosenthal 
Davis  IS  director  of  publicity, 
advertising,  and  promotion  at 
Golden  Books  in  New  York.  She 
lives  in  MontviUe,  NJ,  with  her 
husband.  Dr.  Sinai  Davis,  and 
their  son,  Matthew  Scott.  Shari 
Goodstein  is  assistant  corporation 
counsel  m  the  affirmatrve 
litigation  department  of  the  New 
York  City  Law  Department.  Her 
husband,  Craig  Lambert,  is  a  vice 
president  at  the  ad  agency 
Ammirati  ili.  Puns.  They  have  two 
children,  Zachary,  age  4,  and  Sara, 
age  2.  Peter  Rozovsky  is  in  his 
sixth  year  with  the  Philadelphia 
Inquirer,  and  plans  to  stay  there 
while  pursuing  a  master's  degree 
in  art  history.  He  would  love  to 
hear  from  alumni,  professors,  or 
students  in  art  history.  Anthony 
Sutin  left  his  partnership  at  the 
law  firm  of  Hogan  &  Hartson  to 
serve  as  first  general  counsel  to 
the  U.S.  lustice  Department's 
COPS  program,  formed  to 
implement  President  Clinton's 
crime  bill. 


53  Winter  1995 


Beth  Cohi:: 


fanis  Boyarsky  Schiff  'SO 


Chiistophei  Becke  '87 


'82 


'87 


Ellen  Cohen,  Class 
Correspondent,  11738Mayfield 
Avenue  #111,  Los  Angeles,  CA 
90049 

Marta  Batmasian  was  elected  vice 
president  ot  the  board  of  directors 
at  the  Children's  Science 
Explorium  in  Boca  Raton,  FL,  last 
summer.  Dana  E.  Casher,  an 
attorney  with  Krulewich  ik 
Associates  in  Boston,  was  elected 
treasurer  of  the  New  England 
region  of  the  Commercial  Law 
League  of  America  m  August  and 
to  the  executive  council  of  its 
young  members  section  in 
September,  She  holds  a  ID.  from 
Suffolk  University  Law  School. 
Janice  Friedman  is  an  associate 
editor  for  Skiing  Magazine  in 
New  York,  where  her  husband, 
Ian  Finnell  '83,  is  a  financial 
consultant  with  Fidelity 
Investments.  Alexa  Shabecoff  is 
assistant  director  of  the  Office  of 
Public  Interest  Advising  at 
Harvard  Law  School,  a  career 
counseling  office  for  students  and 
alumni  interested  in  public 
interest  careers.  Working  part- 
time,  she  IS  able  to  spend  more 
time  with  her  .?-year-old  son, 
Adam  (Bertlmgl.  Previously,  she 
spent  seven  and  a  half  years  as  a 
legal  services  lawyer.  Mark  Siade 
is  vice  president  of  sales  tor 
American  Essentials,  Inc.,  a 
manufacturer,  marketer,  and 
distributor  for  Calvin  Klein  socks 
as  well  as  for  its  own  brand  and 
private  label  socks. 

'83 

Eileen  Ishitts  Weiss,  456  9th 
Street  #30,  Hoboken,  N]  07030 

Yvette  Hamilton  is  assistant 
regional  counsel  for  the  U.S. 
Environmental  Protection  Agency 
in  Philadelphia.  Lance  Kawesch  is 
a  new  associate  at  Jones,  Day, 
Reavis  &  Pogue  in  Cleveland, 
OH.  He  received  a  I.D.  from 
Boston  University  School  of  Law, 
where  he  was  an  editor  of  the 
Law  Review.  Nicholas  Kushner  is 
a  viral  immunology  researcher  at 
Cambridge  Biotech  Corporation 
in  Worcester,  MA,  and  lives  in 
Ashland  with  his  wife.  Merle 
Handing,  a  social  worker  at  the 
Lahey  Clinic  in  Burlington.  Beth 
A.  Levy  is  senior  staff  attorney  at 
the  Legal  Aid  Society  in  Bronx 
County,  NY,  where  she  has 
practiced  criminal  defense, 
housing,  and  family  law  for  eight 
years.  Her  husband,  Michael  J. 


Ecker,  is  assistant  general 
manager  with  the  New  York  City 
Transit's  Department  of  Buses. 
They  live  in  Riverdale,  NY,  with 
their  daughter,  Melaina.  Heydon 
Traub  is  managing  director  for 
State  Street  Global  Advisors  at 
State  Street  Bank  in  Boston.  His 
wife,  Jodi  Feldman  Traub,  is  a 
proiect  director  for  Big  Blue  Dot,  a 
design  firm  for  children  in 
Watertown,  MA.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Erica,  age  4,  and  an 
infant,  Amanda.  Vangie  Vargas 
loined  the  Dorchester,  MA, 
Gardenlands  Preserve  & 
Development  Corporation  as  an 
outreach  coordinator,  a  position 
made  possible  through  a  grant 
from  the  Amelia  Peabody 
Foundation.  Working  in  the 
Bowdoin/Geneva  Avenue 
Partnership  area,  she  assists 
residents  in  organizing  to  reclaim 
vacant  land  in  their 
neighborhoods. 

'84 

Marcia  Book  Adirim,  Class 
Correspondent,  211  East  18th 
Street  #5-G,  New  York,  NY  10003 

Last  May,  Jeffrey  Bernhardt 
received  an  M.S.W,  from  the 
University  of  Southern  California 
and  an  M.A.  in  lewish  communal 
service  from  Hebrew  Union 
College.  He  does  earthquake 
counseling  at  lewish  Family 
Service  in  Los  Angeles  and  is 
"looking  for  that  special  someone 
to  make  the  earth  move  under  my 
feet."  Eileen  Weicher,  an  attorney 
with  Monheimer  ik  Weicher,  P.A,, 
m  Wellesley,  MA,  married  Steve 
Dershowitz  '86,  director  of 
customer  service  at  Easel  Corp.  in 
Burlington,  MA,  on  May  29,  1994. 
Eighteen  Brandeisians  attended, 
including  wedding  party  members 
Jeff  Bernhardt,  Francine  B.  Ferraro 
'86,  and  Richard  Epstein  '86   Lois 
Yurow  and  her  husband,  Richard 
Botos,  live  in  New  Jersey  and 
have  one  child,  Zachary. 

'85  ^^^^  Reunion 

James  R.  Felton,  Class 
Correspondent,  5733  Aldea 
Avenue,  Encino,  CA  91316 

Dina  Ross  ioined  the  Chicago 
office  of  Skadden,  Arps,  Slate, 
Meagher  ik  Flom  as  an  associate 
in  the  fall,  having  received  her 
J.D.  from  Loyola  University  of 
Chicago  and  completed  a 
fellowship  with  the  American 
Civil  Liberties  Union.  Previously, 


she  worked  internationally  in 
finance  and  strategic  planning  for 
the  Motion  Picture  Association  of 
America  and  m  Chicago  for  a 
subsidiary  of  PepsiCo.  She  earned 
an  MB. A-  in  finance  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  in  1987. 

'86 

lllyse  Shindler  Habbe,  Class 
Correspondent,  89  Turner  Street, 
Brighton,  MA  02135 

Jan  Klinek  Cardin  and  Andrew 
Cardin  moved  to  Baltimore, 
where  she  is  an  associate  with  a 
law  firm  and  he  is  a  general 
pediatrician  in  Owings  Mills, 
MD.  They  have  twin  sons,  age  2. 
Michael  B.  Goodman  is  a  litigator 
specializing  in  commercial 
litigation  and  criminal  law  with 
the  law  firm  of  Hamburg,  Rubin, 
MuUin,  Maxwell  ik  Lupin  in 
Lansdale,  PA.  He  is  looking 
forward  to  being  married  in 
November.  Jennifer  Kaplan, 
director  of  marketing  and 
membership  for  the  Delaware- 
Raritan  Girl  Scout  Council  in 
East  Brunswick,  NJ,  reports  that 
"Girl  Scouting  is  much  more  than 
cookies  and  New  Jersey  is  much 
more  than  the  Turnpike!"  Last 
spring  she  co-chaired  New 
Jersey's  Lesbian  and  Gay 
Achievement  Awards  Banquet. 
Maxwell  Lazinger,  M  D.,  is 
completing  a  residency  in 
radiology  at  the  Lahey  Chnic 
Medical  Center  in  Burlington, 
MA,  and  plans  to  pursue  a 
fellowship  in  interventional 
procedures.  He  and  his  wife, 
Caroline  Hoover,  a  nurse  in 
Boston,  spent  their  honeymoon  m 
Tahiti  and  Bora  Bora  where  they 
"went  scuba  diving  with  sharks." 
Bruce  S.  Lustig  recently  opened  a 
law  practice  m  Quincy,  MA, 
while  living  in  Cambridge  with 
his  wife,  Gail.  Jordan  Oshlag  and 
his  wife,  Susan  Tohn,  were 
appointed  professors  at  Boston 
University's  School  of  Social 
Work,  where  they  co-teach  a 
course  in  brief  treatment.  Daniel 
Petigrow  specializes  in 
educational  law  with  the  law  firm 
of  Anderson,  Banks,  Curran  &. 
Donoghue  and  lives  in 
Westchester  County,  NY,  with  his 
wife,  Eleanor,  and  their  baby 
daughter.  Samara.  Jeffrey  Stelman 
is  a  real  estate  attorney  with 
Berkal,  Stelman,  Davern  & 
Shribman  m  Salem,  MA. 


Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  45  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  5H,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Christopher  Becke  lomed  the 
"lucrative  and  exciting"  world  of 
management  consulting  last 
August  as  a  senior  consultant 
with  the  performance 
improvement  group  of  Ernst  &. 
Young,  where  he  racks  up  lots  of 
frequent  flyer  miles.  Previously, 
he  was  an  analyst  in  the  database 
marketing  group  of  the  Leo 
Burnett  advertising  agency. 
Bonnie  Effros  holds  a  Killam 
postdoctoral  fellowship  at  the 
University  of  Alberta  m 
Edmonton,  Canada,  teaching  two 
courses  a  year  on  the  early  Middle 
Ages  through  the  department  of 
history  and  classics.  After 
receiving  her  Ph.D.  in  history  at 
the  University  of  California,  Los 
Angeles,  last  June,  she  spent  a 
month  conducting  research  in 
Pans  and  Germany.  Andrea 
Birnbaum  Lewis,  Ph.D.,  is  co- 
f(»under  of  a  management 
consulting  firm  called  Creative 
Solutions  International,  Inc.  She 
specializes  m  training  and 
organization  development  and 
also  publishes  articles  on  career 
development  and  women  in 
management.  She  lives  in  Silver 
Spring,  MD,  with  her  husband, 
Paul.  Michael  Lubowitz  is  in  his 
fifth  year  as  an  associate  with  the 
New  York  law  firm  of  Weil, 
Gotshal  &  Manges.  Rachel 
Kenyon  Perkel  is  a  senior  product 
manager  in  marketing  at  Charles 
Schwab  in  San  Francisco, 
continuing  to  enioy  the  "beautiful 
Bay  area"  and  spending  her  spare 
time  m  horseback  riding,  politics, 
and  sporting  activities.  She 
reports  seeing  a  lot  of  Jennifer 
Kresch,  who  has  returned  to  San 
Francisco.  Adam  Twiss  was 
graduated  from  the  Massachusetts 
College  of  Art  with  a  degree  in 
architecture  in  May,  and  will 
soon  be  moving  to  Raleigh,  NC, 
to  begin  a  business  with  his  wife. 
Amy. 


54  Brandeis  Review 


Marriages 


'88 


'90  ^^^  Reuni( 


Susan  Tcvclow  Fcinstein,  Class 
Correspondent,  2201  Broughton 
Drive,  Beverly,  MA  01915 

Robert  S.  Brown  works  for 
Morgan  Stanley  lapan,  Ltd.,  in 
Tokyo,  lapan.  Suzanne  Feldstein 
Frankel  is  an  interrelated  special 
education  teacher  at  Montclair 
Elementary  School  in  Atlanta. 
Paul  L.  Gorshel  reports  that  he 
has  tinally  realized  his  dream  of 
moving  to  Love  Canal,  NY,  and  is 
planning  to  start  a  family  "very, 
very  soon."  Elliot  Herman  has  a 
new  )oh  as  accounting  manager 
for  Lnomis-Sayles  tk  Co. 
investment  Counsel.  In  August, 
Steven  Lauridsen  hegan  teaching 
economics,  world  history,  and 
world  geography  at  Larkin  (puhlic) 
High  School  in  Elgin,  IL.  He  lives 
in  Oak  Park,  Stephanie  Fine 
Maroun,  M.A.  '90  has  been 
enjoying  her  )ob  as  coordinator  of 
the  Brandeis  Women's  Studies 
Program  since  1992.  Last  May, 
she  and  her  husband,  Alfred, 
spent  a  month  in  Israel  on  their 
honeymoon,  where  they  saw 
Adam  Brauer  and  his  wife, 
Bonnie,  also  on  their  honeymoon. 
Stephanie  and  her  husband 
vacationed  in  Italy  this  winter. 
Greg  Zuckerman  reports  that  he 
is  "clean  and  sober"  and  now 
paroled  from  prison.  He  sends 
thanks  to  all  classmates  who 
supported  him  through  the  past 
few  difficult  years. 

'89 

Karen  Gitten  Gohler,  Class 
Correspondent,  119Waltham 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02165 

Ilene  D.  Freier  was  graduated 
from  Columbia  Law  School  m 
May  ly-X?  and  is  currently  an 
associate  in  the  labor  department 
at  Proskaucr,  Rose,  Goetz  ^ 
Mendelsohn  in  New  York  City. 
George  Kirychuk,  a  tive-year 
teacher  at  Upton  Lake  Christian 
School  m  Clinton  Corners,  NY, 
also  taught  a  math  PSAT/SAT 
review  class  at  Vassar  College's 
Summer  Institute  tor  the  Gifted. 
Edward  I.  Messina  will  receive  his 
I.D.  m  May  from  Vermont  Law 
School,  where  he  earned  an  M.S. 
degree  in  environmental  law  in 
August  1992.  Last  year,  he 
worked  as  a  summer  associate  m 
environmental  law  for  Beveridge 
Si.  Diamond,  P.C.  in  New  York. 


ludith  Libhaher  Weber,  Class 
Correspondent,  66  Madison 
Avenue  #9E,  New  York,  NY  10016 

Miles  Abrams  was  graduated  from 
Rut,gers  University  with  an 
M.B  A.,  specializing  in 
information  systems,  and  is  now 
working  as  a  consultant  for  SAP 
America  (Systems,  Applications  & 
Products  in  Data  Processing)  in 
Philadelphia,  PA.  He  reports  that 
after  Brandeis  he  worked  in  the 
theater  department  of  Club  Med 
for  SIX  months,  and  later  taught 
acrobatics  at  a  summer  camp.  Miri 
Abrams  was  graduated  from  the 
New  England  School  of  Law  and 
went  on  to  receive  an  L.L.M. 
degree  in  taxation  from 
Georgetown  Law  in  May  1993. 
Jennifer  M.  Allen  was  graduated 
from  Boston  College  Law  School 
and  hegan  practicing  in  the  Boston 
area  in  the  fall   Benjamin  Alouf 
was  graduated  from  Albany 
Medical  College  and  started  a 
pediatric  internship  in  luly  at 
Albany  Medical  Center.  Sheryl  L. 
Axelrod  won  the  Sainuel  ].  Polsky 
Moot  Court  Competition  at 
Temple  University's  Klein  School 
of  Law  and  then  held  a  ludicial 
clerkship  with  the  Honorable 
Sandra  Mazer  Moss  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  of  Philadelphia. 
She  IS  an  associate  at  Dunn,  Haase, 
Sullivan,  Mallon,  Cherner  Si 
Broadt  in  Media,  PA.  K.  Vasken 
Babigian,  a  graduate  of  the 
Massachusetts  School  of  Law,  is 
studying  for  the  Massachusetts  bar 
exam.  He  is  single,  has  no 
children,  and  is  living  at  home 
with  his  parents.  He  plans  on 
starting  his  own  law  practice. 
Rebekah  Thomas  Barkowitz  is 
working  as  a  residential  services 
coordinator  at  a  human  service 
organization  in  Boston  and 
attending  The  Heller  School's 
Master  of  Management  in  Human 
Services  program  part-time.  Her 
husband  of  five  years,  Daniel,  is 
assistant  director  of  the 
Massachusetts  Education 
Financing  Authority  (MEFAI.  They 
have  no  children,  but  have  a  cute 
poodle  named  Teddy  Bear.  They 
live  in  Winthrop  and  are  both 
teachers/youth  group  advisors  at 
their  temple  in  Boston.  Marcy 
(Miriam)  Baskin  is  living  in  Israel 
and  finishing  a  master's  degree  in 
social  work  from  Yeshiva 
University.  She  and  her  husband, 
Tzvi  Arnheim,  live  on  a  moshav 
on  Har  Hevron  with  their 
daughter,  Shrifra.  They  would  love 
to  hear  from  anyime  coming  to 
Israel.  Mark  E.  Beatty  is  pursuing  a 
joint  MBA.  and  master's  degree  in 
urban  planning  at  New  York 


Class    Name 


Date 


1968 
197,S 
1978 
1980 

1982 


1983 

1984 


1985 
1986 


1987 
1988 


1989 
1990 


1991 


1992 
1993 


1994 


Jeffrey  Weinstein  to  John  Perreault  March  1,  1994 

Deborah  London  to  lack  Wexler  lune  1994 

Mark  D.  Gottfried  to  Karen  L.  Milles  '81  April  10,  1994 

Bernard  D.  Faigenbaum  to  June  25,  1994 
Amy  H.  Rubinoff 

Andrea  Casson  to  Glen  Milstein  '83  June  12,  1994 

Janice  L.  Friedman  to  Ian  L.  Finnell  '83  September  17,  1994 

Arlene  Zuckerberg  to  Alan  Gellman  May  2,  1993 

Merle  Hanfling  to  Nicholas  Kushner  October  9,  1994 

Fern  Ring  to  Samuel  Elkind  October  2,  1994 

Gloria  Goldstine  to  Michael  Wald  August  14,  1994 

Beth  SiruII  to  Jon  Shuster  July  4,  1993 

Eileen  Weicher  to  Steve  Dershowitz  '86  May  29,  1994 

Suzanne  Roland,  M.D.,  to  Lloyd  R.  Kahon  May  16,  1993 

Maxwell  Lazinger,  M.D.,  to  June  19,1994 
Caroline  Hoover 

Bruce  S.  Lustig  to  Gail  S.  Lipman  August  21,  1994 

Jeffrey  Stelman  to  Jill  Denstman  September  24,  1994 

Adam  Twiss  to  Amy  Hosley  October  1,  1994 

Kathleen  Caproni  to  Peter  del  Rosario  June  18,  1994 

Dana  Flamenbaum  to  Andrew  Goldstein  January  I,  1994 

Karen  Seaton  to  Robert  Hyams  August  8,  1993 

Debra  E.  Glickman  to  Aaron  J.  Charles  June  19,  1994 

Benjamin  Alouf  to  Charlene  A.  Schweder  May  29,  1994 

Bari  Barton  to  Jason  A.  Cooper  '91  August  7,  1994 

Marcy  Baskin  to  Tzui  Arnheim  April  6,  1992 

Robin  Bergan  to  Alex  Richmond  September  15,  1990 

Chris  Bohyer  to  Wanita  Kumar  June  II,  1994 

Cindy  Brown  to  John  Matthews  July  2,  1994 

Jennifer  Elkin  to  Sean  Gorman  July  1,  1993 

Carolyn  Fein  to  David  F.  Levy  May  22,  1994 

Julie  Fisher  to  Daniel  Shapiro  '91  August  23,  1993 

Leah  Gittlitz  to  Robert  Schiffman  December  26,  1993 

Jodi  Hirsch  to  Jonathan  Freedman  June  26,  1994 
Rachel  Lapidus  to  Jonathan  Helman,  M.D.  June  2,  1994 

Brendan  Levy  to  Dana  Matloff  '91  May  28,  1994 

Donna  Lowen  to  Dov  Perlmutter  July  12,  1992 

Michelle  Lydeen  to  Derek  P.  Rutherford  May  I,  1993 

Ilene  Parish  to  Jonathan  S.  Gershen  August  15,  1993 

Jessica  M.  Rubenstein  to  Thomas  Jenen  June  12,  1994 

Stephen  Setterlund  to  Randi  Cooper  June  II,  1994 

Jodelyn  Shack  to  Mitchell  Malzberg  March  19,  1994 

Dean  Shalit  to  Melissa  Feldman  '91  January  1,  1994 

Hilary  Shein  to  Eric  Rothman  May  30,  1994 

Michael  Steinberg  to  Cindy  Handler  August  14,  1993 

Laurie  Sutherland  to  May  28,  1994 
Ted  Papalimberis  '89 

Alyson  B.  Tarr  to  Jeff  Popper  October  I,  1994 

Alyssa  Turner  to  Dmitry  Dinega  April  30,  1993 

Pamela  M.  Vaughan  to  Bob  Gillen  May  16,  1992 

Aron  G.  Weber  to  Judy  Libhaber  March  5,  1994 

Seth  T.  Weinstein  to  Marcia  Wachtel  September  5,  1993 

Andrew  M.  Zeitlin  to  Susan  E.  Loeb  June  4,  1994 

Gene  Zeyger,  M.A.  '91  to  Melissa  Weil  June  12,  1994 

Joshua  Betkowitz  to  Sheryl  Hoffman  December  26,  1993 

April  Minerd  to  Sgt.  Michael  Leytem  April  10,  1993 

Paula  V.  Ruthen  to  Michael  E.  Kushnir  August  13,  1994 

Daniel  R.  Kinel  to  Stacy  B.  Lefkowitz  '93  August  7,  1994 

Joseph  A.  Curro,  Jr.,  M.A.,  to  October  1,  1994 
Lisa  A.  Moncevicz 

Jennifer  Cohen  to  Jason  Canel  July  30,  1994 


55  Winter  1995 


Births 


University.  He  was  promoted  to 
manager  at  Citibank  and  made 
director  of  MIS  for  a  small  area  of 
the  bank.  He  is  registered  as  a 
Certified  Network  Engineer  and 
does  volunteer  work  at  Planned 
Parenthood  in  New  Jersey.  Wendy 
Beckerman  has  been  living  in 
Manhattan  and  traveling  for  her 
work  as  an  acoustic  singer/ 
songwriter.  She  released  her  debut 
album  "By  Your  Eyes"  on  CD  and 
cassette  in  January  1993  on  Great 
Divide  Records,  and  her  second 
album  will  be  released  soon. 
Robin  Bergan-Richmond  is  a  part- 
time  research  assistant  and  a  full- 
time  student  for  a  master's  in 
public  health  at  the  University  of 
Miami.  Joy  Bockstcin  was 
graduated  from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  School  of  Dental 
Medicine  and  started  a  general 
practice  residency  at  North  Shore 
University  Hospital  in 
Manhassett,  Long  Island,  NY. 
Staci  M.  Bockstein  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  School  of  Dental 
Medicine  and  is  completing  a 
one-year  residency  at  Mount  Smai 
Medical  Center  in  Manhattan. 
Christopher  Bohyer  and  Wanita 
Kumar  Bohyer  are  living  in 
Framingham,  MA.  Wanita  is 
currently  doing  her  internship  in 
medicine  at  Beth  Israel  Hospital 
in  Boston,  having  received  her 
M.D.  from  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  Medical  School. 
Chris  began  medical  school  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  in 
August.  Andrea  Malkin  Brenner  is 
living  in  Bethesda,  MD,  with  her 
husband.  Dr.  Richard  Brenner. 
She  works  at  the  American 
Council  on  Education  in 
Washington,  DC,  where  she 
helps  to  develop  the  nation's  high 
school  equivalency  exam  for  the 
National  GED  Testing  Service. 
She  IS  also  a  doctoral  student  in 
sociology  at  American  University. 
She  received  her  master's  degree 
in  higher  education 
administration  from  Boston 
College  in  1991.  Her  husband  is  a 
resident  in  general  surgery  at 
Georgetown  University  Hospital. 
Israela  Adah  Brill  was  graduated 
from  Suffolk  University  Law 
School  cum  laude  in  1993  and 
was  sworn  in  to  the 
Massachusetts  Bar  that  same  year. 
She  is  an  attorney  with  Cass  Law 
Associates,  specializing  m  general 
civil  litigation,  and  was  sworn 
into  the  Rhode  Island  Bar  and  the 
Massachusetts  Federal  Bar  in 
February  1994   Cynthia  Brown  is 
finishing  a  Ph.D.  program  in 
linguistics  at  McGill  University 
in  Montreal.  Her  husband,  John, 


IS  also  finishing  his  Ph.D.  in 
linguistics  at  McGill  and  the 
couple  plans  to  make  their  home 
in  Montreal   Marc  D.  Bruckner 
was  graduated  from  the  New 
York  College  of  Podiatric 
Medicine  last  May.  He  is 
completing  his  residency  in 
podiatric  medicine  and  surgery 
at  the  Veterans  Administration 
.Medical  Center  in  East  Orange, 
NJ  Richelle  Budd  Caplan 
received  her  MA,  from  the 
Hebrew  University  of  Jerusalem 
in  1992  and  is  working  as  an 
assistant  editor  of  an  academic 
lournal  in  Israel.  Bari  Barton 
Cooper  IS  in  her  last  year  of  law 
school  at  University  of 
Baltimore,  where  she  is 
manuscripts  editor  of  the  Law 
Review.  Next  year  she  will  be 
clerking  for  Judge  Eldridge  of  the 
Court  of  Appeals  of  Maryland  in 
Annapolis   Her  husband,  (ason 
A.  Cooper  '91,  is  in  his  last  year 
of  medical  school  at  University 
of  Maryland.  They  are  both 
doing  well  and  plan  to  continue 
living  in  the  Baltimore  area  after 
graduation.  Valerie  David 
received  her  J.D.  from  American 
University  in  May  1993  and  has 
since  been  working  at  a  variety 
of  lobs,  most  recently  in  the 
legal  department  at  MCI 
Telecommunications.  She  has 
also  been  spending  a  lot  of  time 
with  her  former  Brandeis 
roommate,  JWiri  Abrams,  who 
has  been  living  in  D.C.  for  the 
past  year  David  B.  Desser  was 
graduated  from  Georgetown  Law 
School  in  1993  and  practices 
corporate  law  in  Chicago.  Alyssa 
Turner  Dinega  taught  British 
and  American  literature  for  two 
years  in  Russia,  where  she  met 
and  married  her  husband, 
Dmitry.  She  has  an  M.A,  in 
Russian  literature  and  is 
working  (slowly  but  surely) 
toward  a  Ph.D.  at  the  University 
of  Wisconsin-Madison,  while  her 
husband  has  been  working  as  a 
chemist  and  getting  ready  to 
apply  to  graduate  school. 
Jennifer  Elkin  and  her  husband, 
Sean  Gorman,  spent  10  months 
studying  in  Israel  as  part  of  their 
studies  in  the  rabbinical  school 
of  the  Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  David  A.  Farbman  is 
married  to  Karen  Splansky 
Farbman  '89  and  lives  m 
Providence,  RI.  He  is  a  Ph.D. 
candidate  in  20th-century 
American  history  at  Brown 
University,  writing  a 
dissertation  on  the  history  of 
public  high  school  students, 
1940-1980.  Michael  Felmar  was 
graduated  from  Brooklyn  Law 


Class    Brandeis  Parent(s) 


Child's  Name 


D.uc 


1972  Dan  Garfinkel 

1973  Carol  J.  Goldstein 

1974  Mark  Gershenson 

1975  Lawrence  S.  Tesser 

1976  Renee  Hariton  and 
Mark  Mishler  '78 
Melinda  Harrison  and 
Jeffrey  Stulin 
Donald  Stewart  and 
Karen  Engelbourg  '79 

1977  Deborah  Liss  Fins  and 
Daniel  Fins 

1978  David  I.  Alexander 
Dan  Loeb  and 
Barbara  Rachelson 
Eric  Stern 

1979  Eric  D.  Cohen,  M.D. 
Kenneth  S.  Kaplan,  M  D. 
Amy  Leavitt  Rothschild 

1980  Risa  Janoff  Bernstein 
and  Sol  W.  Bernstein  '81 
Fran  A.  Bloomfield-Landry 
David  Diamond  and 
Rebecca  Policy  Diamond  '82 
Tsipi  (Sylvia)  Wexler 

1981  Pamela  Rosenthal  Davis 
Debbie  E.  Hammer 
Matthew  Hills  and 
Lisa  Berman  Hills  '82 
Marlene  Mlawski 

Daniel  R.  Ravin,  D.M.D. 

1982  Joel  L.  Baker  '80,  M.J  C.S. 
Sharon  Lupcher  Kasman 

1983  Beth  A.  Levy  and 
Michael  f.  Ecker 


Eli  Arthur 
Avi  Jacob 
Chloe  Marie 
Joshua  Daniel 
Nikolai 

Miriam  Elana 

Ian  Charles 

Morgan  Zachary 

Zachary  Noah 
Aviva  Pauline 

Daniel  Reuben 
Laura  Natalie 
Austin  Ryan 
Rebecca  Stuart 
Ari  Phillip 

Richard  Ernest 
Jacob  Asher 

Moriah  Shoshana 
Pashkoff 
Matthew  Scott 
Julie  Rebecca  Towbin 
Benjamin  Ross 

Avery  Alexander 
Golombek 
Aaron  Mitchell 
Zachary  and  Jason 
Jason  Coleman 
Melaina  Brynn 


AmuiM  I  I,  1994 
April  22,  1993 
March  1,  1974 
July  14,  1994 
August  24,  1994 

March  7,  1994 

September  19,  1994 

December  1,  1993 

August  6,  1994 
June  16,  1994 

Augusta,  1994 
July  30,  1994 
June  10,  1994 
September  5,  1994 
February  I,  1994 

January  11,  1994 
December  25,  1993 

November  15,  1993 

February  27,  1994 
September  1,  1994 
July  I,  1994 

May  9,  1993 

August  30,  1994 
July  28,  1992 
March  14,  1994 
June  15,  1994 


School  in  1993  and  is  setting  up 
his  own  practice  in  Manhattan, 
where  he  lives.  Roger  B. 
Finderson  is  an  associate  attorney 
with  Pagan,  Whitmore,  Myers, 
Richards  &.  Farnhauch  in  Fort 
Wayne,  IN.  Julie  Fisher  and  her 
husband,  Daniel  Shapiro  '91, 
recently  bought  a  house  in 
Bethesda,  MD,  and  invite  all  their 
friends  to  come  visit  them.  She 
teaches  at  a  Jewish  day  school  and 
he  is  working  on  Capitol  Hill. 
Melissa  Fishman  is  living  in  Los 
Angeles.  She  finished  her  first 
year  at  UCLA  in  a  joint  J.D./ 
master's  in  urban  planning,  where 
she  made  Law  Review.  She 
received  a  grant  to  work  for  the 
Western  Center  on  Disability 
Rights  last  summer,  dealing  with 
housing  and  the  disabled. 
Mitchell  Fixler  finished  his 
M.B.A.  in  1992.  He  will  receive 
his  J.D.  from  Cardozo  Law  School 
in  New  York  City  in  May,  at 
which  time  his  mother,  Fredda 
Fixler-Fuchs,  will  be  graduated 
from  Pace  University  Law  School. 
Adam  Frank  was  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Baltimore 


School  of  Law  with  honors  last 
May.  He  is  an  assistant  court 
monitor  in  the  Office  of  the  Court 
Monitor  in  Baltimore.  Jodi  Hirsch 
Freedman  teaches  special 
education  and  lives  outside  of 
Chicago  with  her  husband, 
lonathan.  Merilyn  Friedland  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  School  of 
Public  Health  with  an  M.S.  in 
health  policv  and  management 
last  June.  Anusia  Lori  Gayer  was 
graduated  from  law  school  in 
1994  and  planned  to  take  the  bar 
exam  in  luly  Mitchell  Geiger 
lives  m  Atlanta  and  was 
graduated  from  Emory  Law 
School  in  December.  Jonathan  S. 
Gershen  and  llene  Parish  Gershen 
are  living  in  their  new  house  in 
Lawrenceville,  Nl.  llene  is 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in 
human  service  administration  at 
Rider  University.  Jonathan  was 
graduated  from  Cardozo  School  of 
Law  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  Bar.  He  is  working  in  real 
estate  for  MICO  Management 
Company  in  Trenton,  NJ.  Scott  C. 
Gladstone  earned  his  law  degree 
from  Northeastern  University  in 


56  Brandeis  Review 


Class    Brandeis  Pareiit(s) 


Child's  Name 


Date 


Marian  Garber  Marlowe 
Heydon  Traub  and 
(odi  Feldman  Traub 
Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss 

1984  Hope  Kurk-Wasserman,  M.D. 
Lois  Yurow 

1985  Elizabeth  Kagan  Cooper 
Susan  Hart  and 
Gregory  Newman 

Lisa  Antell  Lichtenberg  and 
Michael  Lichtenberg 
Thomas  Peter,  M.D.,  and 
Brenda  Ferreira  Peter  '86 
Lori  Lieberman  Popkin  and 
David  Popkin 

1986  Staci  Clopper  Berkson 
Daniel  Petigrow 

1987  Dina  Nirenstein  Fields  and 
Warren  Fields 

Susan  A.  Kahn 
(ill  Lenett  Keller  and 
Paul  Keller 

Daphne  Barak  Horowitz 
Michael  Lubowitz  and 
Allison  Lehman  Lubowitz  '88 
1^'SS     Elizabeth  Orange  Gradwohl 
Beth  MacDonald  LeClaire 
Linda  Lederkramer  Sabot 

1989  Tania  Eubbani  Glasgow 
lordana  Berkowitz 

Karen  and  George  Kirychuk 

1990  Marcy  Baskin  Arnheim 
Robin  Bergan 

Mark  Sutton 
ivyi      Bonnie  Kwitkin  Goldstein 
Russell  O.  Keith,  M.F.A. 


the  spring  of  1993  and  is  now  a 
public  defender  in  Decatur,  GA, 
His  wife,  Tracy,  is  a  Ph.D. 
candidate  in  psychology  at  Emory 
University  lennifer  M.  Goddard 
is  in  her  third  year  at  Boston 
University  School  of  Law.  After 
taking  the  bar  exam  in  July,  she 
plans  to  go  back-packing  through 
Europe.  When  she  returns  to 
Boston,  she  will  be  working  as  an 
associate  in  the  labor  and 
employment  practice  group  at 
Testa,  Hurwitz  &  Thiheault. 
Emily  S.  Goldberg  is  working 
towards  a  master's  degree  in 
teaching  English  to  speakers  of 
other  languages  at  Teacher's 
College  of  Columbia  University. 
Tamar  H.  Gollan  defended  her 
master's  thesis  in  May  1994  and 
will  continue  to  work  in  the  same 
research  area,  bilingual  language 
processing,  for  her  PhD.  at  the 
University  of  Arizona.  She  is 
thinking  about  doing  post- 
doctoral work  in  Israel.  Solly 
Granatstein  was  graduated  from 
Columbia  University's  Graduate 
School  of  Journalism  with  a 
concentration  in  investigative 


Samuel  Jordan 
Amanda  Lauren 

Simon 

Marni  Gabrielle 
Zachary  Dylan  Botos 
Madeline  Sarah 
Elisabeth  Newman  Hart 

Lauren  Molly 
Emily  Rose 
Matthew  Andrew 

Alexandra  Sydney 

Michael  Alan 
Samara  Leigh 
Daniel  Nathan 

Julia  Rachel  Bank 
Arielle  Stephanie 

Ariel  Tallie 
Lauren  Alyssa  and 
Ethan  Daniel 
Lucas  Eli 
Bradford  Paul 
Aaron  Michael 
Shulamit  |Sallyl 
Samuel  Lev 
Haley  Elizabeth 
Shifra  Orit 
Heidi 
Asa  Jordan 
Ayala  Irit 
Elizabeth 


January  13,  1994 
May  17,  1994 

August  29,  1994 
May  19,  1994 
July  4,  1994 
January  8,  1994 
May  25,  1994 

May  27,  1992 
June  28,  1994 
June  25,  1994 

Augusts,  1994 

September  4,  1994 
August  2,  1994 
July  26,  1994 

September  25,  1993 
April  28,  1994 

August  24,  1994 
February  3,  1994 
February  3,  1994 
May  6,  1994 
Septembers,  1992 
May  5,  1994 
November  29, 
July  14,  1994 
May  1,  1994 
November  15, 
February  21,  1992 
June  29,  1994 
December  27,  1993 
August  4,  1 994 


1992 


1993 


television  reporting.  He  field- 
produced  the  World  Cup 
broadcast  from  Giants  Stadium 
and  IS  now  seeking  a  lob. 
Previously,  he  did  freelance 
writing,  teaching,  and  social 
service  counseling  in  San 
Francisco.  He  lives  with  his 
longtime  companion,  Rachel 
Chernick.  Francine  Green  is 
completing  a  year-long  residency 
program  m  clinical  pastoral 
education,  working  as  a  hospital 
chaplain,  before  returning  to 
rabbinical  studies  at  the  Jewish 
Theological  Seminary.  Her  fiance. 
Marc,  a  Ph.D.  candidate  in 
economics  at  the  University  of 
Chicago,  is  the  brother  of 
Adrienne  Roston  '89  Jeffrey  A. 
Greenbaum  is  an  associate  at 
Paul,  Weiss,  Rifkind,  Wharton 
and  Garrison  m  New  York  City. 
Linda  Hecht  is  working  on  a 
master  of  arts  in  teaching  (MATI 
degree  at  Boston  University's 
Graduate  School  of  Education. 
She  is  studying  to  become 
certified  to  teach  math  to  middle 
school  students,  and  expects  to 
finish  in  May.  Renee  Bronson 


Heywood  works  for  Liberty 
Mutual  Insurance  Company  as  a 
senior  case  manager.  This  year 
she  volunteered  to  be  a  business 
consultant  for  Junior 
Achievement  and  coordinated  her 
office's  activities  for  "Take  our 
Daughters  to  Work  Day."  She  is 
the  youth  director  at  her  church, 
Shiloh  Baptist,  and  is  also  a 
Sunday  School  teacher  and  a 
soloist.  Her  husband,  Robert,  is  a 
software  development  engineer. 
Seth  Himelhoch  is  living  in 
Berkeley,  CA.  He  started  a 
residency  at  the  University  of 
California,  San  Francisco  in  June 
and  will  be  specializing  in 
psychiatry.  His  wife,  Sheila  Jalen, 
is  studying  for  a  doctorate  in 
comparative  literature  at  the 
University  of  California, 
Berkeley.  Andrea  Jacobs  spent  a 
year  living  and  working  in  Israel 
after  completing  an  M.A.  in 
linguistics.  Upon  completion  of 
her  Ph.D.  coursework  in 
linguistics  at  the  University  of 
Texas  at  Austin,  she  plans  to  go 
back  to  Israel  for  her  dissertation 
research.  Lisa  Drate  Jacobson  is 
an  optometrist  at  Cambridge  Eye 
Doctors  in  Boston,  having 
received  her  optometry  degree 
last  May  from  the  State 
University  of  New  York.  She  lives 
in  Brookline,  MA,  with  her 
husband,  Neil  L.  Jacobson,  a  law 
firm  associate  in  Needham.  Elise 
Millen  Jacobson  is  a  clinical 
social  worker  at  the  Jewish  Big 
Brother  Big  Sister  Association  in 
Newton,  MA.  She  is  still  singing 
and  was  recently  named  to  the 
board  of  directors  of  an  area 
chorus.  She  received  her  M.S.W., 
as  well  as  a  certificate  in  Jewish 
communal  service,  from  Yeshiva 
University  in  1992.  Her  husband. 
Rich  Jacobson  '91,  began  Boston 
University  Law  as  a  second-year 
transfer  and  was  graduated  last 
year.  Ron  Judenberg  moved  to 
Stamford,  CT,  with  his  wife, 
Shan.  He  is  now  working  as  a 
systems  analyst  tor  HBO,  Lisa 
Karshen  and  Mark  Solomon  '80 
are  planning  a  September 
wedding  Cheryl  Rubin  Katz 
celebrated  her  two-year 
anniversary  with  Todd  Katz  '89. 
She  has  been  working  at  Lehman 
Brothers  for  five  years  as  a 
financial  market  economist. 
Occasionally  you  may  spot  a 
quote  from  her  on  Dow  Jones 
Capital  Wire,  Wall  Street  Journal. 
Nikkei  News,  Reuters,  etc. 
Hillary  Kessler  is  covering  the 
police  beat  for  The  Riverdale 
Press,  a  newspaper  in  the  Bronx, 
NY.  Elissa  Kupelnick  is  working 
in  a  bilingual  position  in  a 


downtown  Boston  law  firm.  Barak 
Kushner  taught  in  Chicago  and 
Japan  and  then  started  a  Ph.D.  in 
East  Asian  history  at  Indiana 
University.  In  August  he  returned 
to  Japan  for  more  language  study 
and  research.  He  says  that  any 
Brandeis  people  passing  through 
should  feel  free  to  contact  him  for 
a  chat  or  a  place  to  stay.  Rachel 
Lapidus  was  admitted  to  both  the 
New  York  and  North  Carolina 
bars  in  May.  She  is  married  to 
Jonathan  Helman,  M.D.  Anna  Lef 
finished  her  four  years  at  Mount 
Sinai  Medical  School  and  is 
staying  there  to  complete  a 
residency  in  internal  medicine. 
Her  husband,  Steven  M. 
Moulding,  Ph.D.  '93  (physicsl  is  a 
manager  in  fixed  income  research 
at  Citicorp.  Eva  Lefkowitz 
received  her  master's  in 
psychology  from  the  University  of 
California,  Los  Angeles  in 
December  1993,  where  she  is 
currently  a  doctoral  student  in 
developmental  psychology.  Mara 
Leibowitz  traveled  to  Cordoba, 
Spam,  to  teach  at  the  University 
of  Cordoba  for  the  1993-94 
academic  year.  She  returned  to 
Spain  in  September  to  teach  in 
Seville,  saying  that  she  wants  to 
avoid  another  Boston  winter. 
Previously,  she  received  an  M.A. 
in  teaching  English  as  a  second 
language  and  worked  at 
Charlestown,  MA,  High  School- 
Brendan  Levy  and  his  wife,  Dana 
Matloff  '91,  had  an  exciting 
honeymoon  in  Australia  and  are 
now  residing  in  Phoenix,  AZ. 
Brendan  recently  began  a  three 
year  residency  in  internal 
medicine  at  Good  Samaritan 
Hospital  and  Dana  is  practicing 
family  law  at  a  local  firm. 
Carolyn  Fein  Levy  and  David  F. 
Levy  are  living  in  Manhattan. 
Carolyn  was  graduated  from 
Mount  Sinai  School  of  Medicine 
and  IS  doing  a  residency  in 
pediatrics  at  Mount  Sinai 
Hospital,  and  David  recently 
joined  his  family's  import/export 
business.  Stella  Levy  has  a 
master's  degree  m  education  and 
has  been  teaching  at  the  Hackley 
School  in  Tarrytown,  NY,  for  two 
years,  currently  as  the  reading  and 
English  teacher  for  the  fifth  grade. 
She  enjoys  seeing  her  Brandeis 
friends  and  looks  forward  to  our 
Reunion.  Michele  Lieber  was 
graduated  from  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh  School  of  Law  and  is 
an  attorney  specializing  in 
legislative  affairs  at  Federated 
Investors,  an  investment 
company  in  Pittsburgh,  PA,  David 
Likosky  is  working  in  the 
archaeologic  reconstruction  of 


57  Winter  1995 


niesolithic  period  dump  sites  in 
Nepal.  Vanessa  Lowenstein  has 
been  living  in  beautiful  Denver, 
CO,  for  over  two  years.  She  has 
completed  her  second  year  of  the 
University  of  Denver's  doctor  of 
psychology  (Psy.D.)  program  and 
has  only  three  more  years  to  go! 
Michelle  Lydcen-Rutherford  and 
her  husband,  Derek  P.  Rutherford, 
live  near  Savannah,  GA,  where  he 
works  with  the  Army  Corps  of 
Engineers  at  Fort  Stewart. 
Michelle  is  teaching  English  as  a 
second  language  (ESL)  to  military 
dependents  at  Fort  Stewart.  James 
W.  McDonough  is  director  of 
American  contracts  for  Elgo 
Internacionai,  a  Mexican  import/ 
export  company,  and  hves  in 
Brownsville,  TX-  Ann 
McWilliams  received  an  M.S.  in 
gerontology  from  St.  Cloud  State 
University  in  St.  Cloud,  MN,  in 
May  1994.  She  now  lives  in 
Minneapolis,  is  job  hunting,  and 
IS  not  married — yet!  Bellanne 
Markizon  is  in  her  second  year  as 
an  assistant  district  attorney  in 
the  Bronx,  NY.  She  was  graduated 
cum  laude  from  Tuiane 
University  School  of  Law  in  New 
Orleans  in  May  1993.  Marc  A. 
Meisler  was  graduated  from  New 
England  School  of  Law  in  1993 
and  IS  a  member  of  both  the 
Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  bars. 
He  has  been  looking  for  a  job  for 
over  a  year.  He  and  his  wife,  Sara 
Sclar,  expected  their  first  child  in 
January.  Kristan  R.  Mertz  was 
graduated  from  Mount  Smai 
School  of  Medicine  in  New  York 
City  in  May  1994  and  began  a 
general  surgery  residency  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee  Medical 
Center  in  Knnxville  in  July, 
Deborah  Solomon  Miller  is 
president  of  a  small  Texas-based 
company  called  CompuCase,  Inc., 
which  manufactures  and 
distributes  bags  and  computer 
cases.  She  is  also  a  licensed 
attorney  in  the  state  of  Texas,  but 
does  not  practice  law.  She  and  her 
husband,  Morris  Miller,  have 
planned  a  trip  to  New  England, 
where  Deborah  is  excited  to  visit 
the  "old  stomping  ground"  at 
Brandeis,  Babak  Namazi  was 
graduated  from  Albany  Law 
School  of  Union  University  last 
May  and  took  the  California  bar 
exam  in  luly.  As  part  of  an  L.L.M. 
program  in  transnational  business 
practice,  he  spent  the  fall  in 
Salzburg,  Austria,  attending  the 
University  of  Salzburg's  School  of 
Law.  He  will  also  spend  three 
months  in  Thailand  and  Vietnam 
working  for  an  international  law 
firm,  returning  to  Northern 
California  this  spring  to  complete 


his  degree.  Lyla  Naseem  received 
her  M.S.  in  public  relations  from 
Boston  University  and  is  working 
at  Laura  Davidson  Public 
Relations  in  New  York  City, 
where  her  clients  are  Caribbean 
resorts  and  hotels.  Beth  E.  Novick 
was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  Law 
School  in  May  1993  and  went  to 
work  for  Proskauer  Rose  Goetz  & 
Mendelsohn  m  New  York  City, 
where  she  is  an  associate 
practicing  health  care  law.  She 
has  been  admitted  to  the  New 
York  and  Pennsylvania  Bars, 
Susan  Nozyce  is  in  her  third  year 
of  graduate  school  for  her 
doctorate  m  school  psychology  at 
New  York  University,  She  is 
planning  a  June  wedding. 
Suzannah  Ohring  hves  in  New 
York  City  and  works  at  the  South 
Street  Sea  Port  Museum,  Michael 
Palace  received  his  M.B.A,  in 
finance  from  the  Rutgers 
Graduate  School  of  Management 
and  is  currently  executive  vice 
president  of  an  investment  firm 
in  New  York,  He  and  his  wife, 
Allison,  live  in  New  Jersey.  James 
Perle  was  graduated  from 
Pennsylvania  State  University's 
College  of  Medicine  in  May  1994 
and  started  an  internal  medicine/ 
pediatrics  residency  at  Geisinger 
Medical  Center  in  July.  He  and 
his  wife,  Knstine,  also  an  M.D,, 
are  living  in  Hughesville,  PA. 
Donna  Lowen  Perlmutter 
received  a  master's  m  health 
science  from  Johns  Hopkins 
School  of  Hygiene  and  Public 
Health  in  1992  and  is  working  as 
a  projects  coordinator  at  the 
University  of  Maryland.  Gregory 
J.  Postal  IS  working  toward  an 
M.S.W.  at  Boston  College.  Samuel 
Rafalin  is  m  his  third  year  at  New 
York  Medical  College  and  is 
loving  It,  Sandy  Rappaport  started 
as  an  associate  with  a  law  firm  in 
San  Francisco  in  the  fall  after 
being  graduated  from  Hastings 
School  of  Law  in  May.  Last 
summer,  after  taking  the  bar 
exam,  she  traveled  to  Southeast 
Asia.  Sharon  Rosen  was  graduated 
from  Jefferson  Medical  College 
last  June;  her  fiance,  Neil 
Rabinovitz,  was  graduated  from 
the  American  University  Law 
School  in  1993.  Srikant 
Ramaswami  finished  Buffalo  Law 
School  and  then  left  for  Singapore 
to  work  as  a  freelance  journalist. 
He  describes  himself  as  a  "vinyl 
junkie,"  spinning  at  major 
discotheques  in  London,  Toronto, 
and  New  York,  with  heavy 
interests  in  Chicago  deep  house 
and  Detroit  technofunk  grooves. 
He  plans  to  attend  Columbia 


University's  Graduate  School  of 
Journalism,  and  wants  to  work  in 
music  journalism  and 
entertainment  law.  Larry  Ross 
received  an  M.B.A.  with  honors  in 
major-qualitative  management 
from  Fordham  University  in 
December  1993.  He  is  the  total 
quality  manager  for  Arlington 
Press  Inc.,  located  in  Brooklyn, 
NY,  where  he  is  responsible  for 
training,  process  improvement 
facilitation,  and  auditing  costs  of 
quality.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
youngest  individuals  industry- 
wide to  be  leading  an  ISO-9000 
implementation,  Linda  Rosenfeld 
Rothman  and  her  husband  of  two 
years,  Rob,  are  living  in  Great 
Neck,  NY,  after  one  year  in 
Brookline,  MA.  Linda  is  a  project 
director  in  a  market  research  firm 
and  her  husband  is  completing  his 
residency  in  ophthalmology  at 
Long  Island  Jewish  Medical 
Center  Jessica  M.  Rubenstein 
received  her  M.F.A.  degree  in 
theater  management  from 
Columbia  University  in  May  1993 
and  is  now  assistant  to  theatrical 
and  television  producer  Alexander 
H.  Cohen  in  New  York.  Her 
husband,  Thomas  Jenen,  is  senior 
editor  at  Warm  Thoughts 
Communications,  a  marketing 
and  research  company  in  New 
York   Paul  Ruggerio  is  in  a  new 
position  as  assistant  director  of 
campus  activities  and  resident 
director  at  LeMoyne  College  in 
Syracuse,  NY.  He  has  also  been 
appointed  program  chair  for  our 
fifth  year  Reunion  and  asks 
anyone  interested  in  getting 
involved  to  please  call  him  at 
315-44S-4660.  Since  graduating 
from  Boston  College  Law  School, 
Ken  Samuel  is  a  business  affairs 
attorney  for  NBC  in  New  York 
City,  performing  legal  and 
business  affairs  duties  associated 
with  international  and  domestic 
licensing  of  NBC  programming. 
Wendy  Samuelson  was  graduated 
from  Cornell  Law  School  m  1993 
and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
York  Bar  last  March.  She  is 
practicing  matrimonial  law  at 
Samuelson,  Rieger  and  Yovino  in 
Long  Island.  Barbara  Scharf- 
Zeldes  lives  in  San  Antonio,  TX, 
with  her  husband,  Adam  Zeldes. 
She  was  graduated  from  law 
school  at  St.  Mary's  University  in 
San  Antonio  in  May  1993  and  is 
now  an  associate  attorney  with 
the  law  office  of  Lawrence  ]. 
Souza,  providing  general  civil 
litigation  and  some  criminal 
work — but  no  personal  iniury^ — for 
firefighters  and  police  officers  m 
San  Antonio.  Leah  Gittlitz 
Schiffman  was  graduated  irom 


New  York  University  School  of 
Medicine  in  May  and  is 
completing  her  residency  in 
internal  medicine  at  NYU/ 
Bellcvue  Hospitals.  Her  husband, 
Robert,  is  a  fixed  income  analyst 
for  DLJ,  an  investment  bank  on 
Wall  Street.  liana  Schoenfeld  is  in 
a  master's  degree  program  at  the 
Yale  School  of  Forestry  and 
Environmental  Studies.  This  past 
summer  she  worked  in  Baltimore, 
MD,  creating  grassroots 
employment  opportunities  for 
inner-city  youth  as  well  as 
working  with  local  communities 
to  create  parks  and  gardens  out  of 
abandoned  lot  areas.  Stephen 
Setterlund  and  Randi  Cooper 
Setterlund  live  in  Holden,  MA, 
where  Stephen  is  currently 
pursuing  an  M.B.A.  from  Nichols 
College  Dean  Shalit  and  Melissa 
Feldman  '91  were  graduated  from 
Cardozo  School  of  Law  in  June, 
five  months  after  their  wedding, 
and  moved  to  Los  Angeles  m  the 
fall.  Brent  Shamberg  interned 
with  Hallmark  in  Kansas  City, 
MO,  and  is  now  in  his  second  and 
final  year  m  the  M.B.A.  program 
at  the  University  of  Michigan, 
Ann  Arbor.  Rebecca  Shargel 
teaches  third  grade  Hebrew  at  the 
Heschel  Seht)ol  in  New  York  City. 
Hilary  Shein  was  graduated  from 
the  Columbia  University  Program 
m  Physical  Therapy  last  May 
with  hont)rs,  receiving  the 
Faculty  Award  for  Academic 
Excellence.  She  is  now  a  physical 
therapist  at  the  New  York 
Childhood  Center.  Wendy  L. 
Shiensky  is  the  publicist  for  the 
Middle  East  Restaurant  and 
Nightclub  in  Cambridge,  MA, 
where  she  coordinates  all 
publicity  and  advertising.  She  has 
worked  there  over  a  year,  but  has 
been  a  patron  since  her  Brandeis 
years.  Christopher  Simpson  is  in 
his  third  year  teaching  with 
Project  Headway  on  Martha's 
Vineyard,  a  state-funded 
preschool  program  for  special- 
needs  and  handicapped  students 
which  he  calls  a  "very  rewarding 
)ob."  He  keeps  busy  devoting 
time  to  the  island  kids:  last 
spring,  he  completed  his  first 
season  as  track  and  field  coach  for 
boys  and  girls  at  Martha's 
Vineyard  Regional  High.  Daniel  J. 
Sokatch  decided  to  enter  rabbinic 
school  after  several  years  working 
in  the  mental  health  arena.  He  is 
now  a  first-year  student  at 
Hebrew  Union  College  in 
Jerusalem.  Julie  Solomon  finished 
her  M.A.  in  linguistics  at  Stanford 
University  in  June  and  is 
continuing  m  the  Ph.D.  program. 
Lisa  Stein  works  for  a  nonprofit 


58  Brandeis  Review 


agency  which  serves  the  homeless 
in  Contra  Costa  County,  CA.  She 
is  working  on  a  new  five-year 
HUD  grant  that  provides  rental 
assistance  and  supportive  services 
to  homeless  single  adults  and 
families.  She  recruits,  trains,  and 
supervises  volunteers,  conducts 
outreach  and  awareness-raising 
activities,  and  does  some 
fundraising  and  community 
organizing  projects,  She  says  that 
she  is  enjoying  her  lite  in 
California  very  much.  Cindy 
Handler  Steinberg  earned  her 
M,D.  degree  from  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  Medical  School 
and  received  an  award  from  the 
American  Medical  Women's 
Association  for  recognition  of 
scholastic  achievement.  She 
began  a  family  practice  residency 
at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  Medical  Center  m 
July.  Her  husband,  Michael 
Steinberg,  is  completing  his  final 
year  at  the  Massachusetts  College 
of  Pharmacy  in  pursuit  of  a  B.S. 
and  doctor  of  pharmacy  degree. 
Charlee  Leimberg  Sterling 
describes  herself  as  "all-but- 
dissertation"  as  she  pursues  her 
Ph.D.  in  English  at  New  York 
University.  Her  husband,  Rob,  is  a 
first  year  resident  in  surgery  at 
Washington  Hospital  Center. 
They  live  in  Silver  Spring,  MD. 
Laurie  Sutherland  was  graduated 
from  Tutts  Medical  School  in 
May.  She  and  her  husband,  Ted 
Papalimberis  '89,  returned  from 
their  summer  honeymoon  in  the 
Greek  islands  to  start  their 
residencies,  Ted  in  anesthesia  at 
Beth  Israel  Hospital  and  Laurie  in 
obstetrics  and  gynecology  at  New 
England  Medical  Center  in 
Boston,  Mark  Sutton  lives  in 
Brookline,  MA,  with  his  wife, 
Susan  S.  Bitcnsky,  and  their  new 
son,  Asa.  Mark  is  currently  a 
software  engineer,  but  he  expects 
to  go  back  to  school  for  a  change 
of  profession  in  the  next  few 
years  Helen  DavidoH  Tanchel 
and  Mark  Tanchel  live  in 
Brookline,  MA.  Helen  is  a  traffic 
manager  at  Arnold  Advertising, 
and  Mark  is  an  intern  in  internal 
medicine  at  New  England 
Medical  Center,  having  graduated 
from  Tufts  Medical  School.  Amy 
K.  Thau  was  graduated  with  a 
master's  in  counseling  and  human 
development  from  the  Harvard 
Graduate  School  of  Education  in 
1991.  She  works  as  a  therapist  for 
emotionally  troubled  inner-city 
youth  and  their  families.  She  also 
sings  in  a  jazz  vocal  a  cappella 
group,  owns  two  cats,  and  goes 
out  to  dinner  often.  Michael 
Traister  is  currently  living  in 


Portland,  ME,  and  has  finished  his 
second  year  of  law  school.  He 
says  "hi"  to  his  crew  in  New 
York-  Pamela  M.  Vaughan  is 
athletics  business  manager  in  the 
Brandeis  athletics  department  and 
IS  pursuing  her  master's  degree  at 
The  Heller  School.  She  and  her 
husband.  Bob  Gillen,  live  in  Stow, 
MA  Lee  Vilker  and  Ronitte 
David  Vilker  are  living  m 
Brooklyn,  NY.  Lee  was  graduated 
from  New  York  University  Law 
School  and  is  a  lawyer  at  a  New 
York  law  firm.  Ronitte  is  at  Long 
Island  University  studying  for  her 
Ph.D.  in  clinical  psychology. 
They  have  a  cute  cocker  spaniel 
named  Brandeis,  where  they  met. 
After  returning  from  a  year  in 
Israel,  Andrew  Vogel  moved  to 
Manhattan  in  the  fall,  where  he  is 
a  second  year  rabbinical  school 
student  at  Hebrew  Union  College. 
He  would  love  to  get  together 
with  Brandeis  friends  in 
Manhattan.  Aron  G.  Weber  and 
Judy  Libhaber  Weber 
honeymooned  in  Costa  Rica  last 
March  and  are  now  living  in 
Manhattan.  Seth  T.  Weinstein 
was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Miami  School  of 
Law  in  May  1993.  He  passed  the 
Florida  Bar  and  formed  a  law 
practice  with  one  of  his  law 
school  classmates  in  November 
1993,  specializing  in  personal 
in|ury  law,  wills-trusts-probate, 
corporate  and  family  law,  and  real 
estate.  His  wife,  Marcia,  works  in 
health  care,  Eric  Weinstock  was 
graduated  from  law  school  at  the 
University  of  Virginia,  but  is  in 
no  rush  to  start  practicing.  He 
volunteered  in  Israel  for  about 
eight  months  after  college  and 
hoped  to  go  back  for  another  visit 
last  summer  Michelle  Werch  is 
living  in  Austin,  TX,  and  is  in  her 
first  year  of  law  school  at  the 
University  of  Texas,  doing  a  joint 
degree  program  with  the  L.B.). 
School  of  Public  Affairs.  Sam 
Young  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  Law 
School  in  May  of  1993.  He  and  his 
wife,  Robin  Dichter,  live  in 
Miami,  where  Sam  is  working  for 
the  Dade  County  public 
defender's  office  and  Robin  is  a 
librarian  at  Gordon  Day  School. 
Dawn  Yules  was  graduated  from 
medical  school  at  The  George 
Washington  University  and 
moved  to  Maryland  to  begin  her 
residency  m  emergency  medicine 
at  the  University  of  Maryland 
Hospital  m  Baltimore.  Beth 
Zeiger  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  Law 
School  in  1993  and  is  now 
practicing  corporate  law  for 


Sullivan  ik  Cromwell  m 
Manhattan.  After  graduating  from 
UMDNJ-New  Jersey  Medical 
School  (where  she  was  elected 
into  AOA),  Susan  E.  Loeb-Zeitlin 
started  her  residency  in  OB/GYN 
at  New  York  Hospital/Cornell 
Medical  Center.  Her  husband, 
Andrew  M.  Zeitlin,  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  Law  School,  where 
he  was  the  editor  m  chief  of  the 
CompaTative  Labor  Law  journal 
He  joined  the  Manhattan  law  firm 
of  Tenzer,  Greenblatt,  Fallon  and 
Kaplan  in  the  fall.  Gene  Zeyger 
lives  in  Newton,  MA,  with  his 
wife  of  eight  months,  Melissa. 
Michael  A.  Ziccardi,  Jr.  was 
graduated  from  medical  school  in 
June  and  started  an  internship  in 
Michigan  on  July  1.  He  is  married 
to  a  pharmacist. 

'91 

Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  165  Palmer 
Street,  Arlington,  MA  02174 

Bonnie  Kwitkin  Goldstein,  her 

husband,  and  baby  daughter 
moved  to  Israel  last  year  and 
bought  a  house  in  the  West  Bank 
settlement  of  Eli,  where  she 
invites  anyone  traveling  to  Israel 
to  pay  them  a  visit.  She  had 
previously  worked  in  publishing 
in  New  York  City.  Steven  Hatch 
received  an  M.A.  degree  from 
Case  Western  Reserve  University 
last  May  and  is  currently  taking 
premed  courses  at  Tufts 
University.  Gaye  Jacob  made 
aliyah  to  Israel  this  winter,  after 
living  in  Atlanta  and  teaching 
elementary  and  middle  school 
since  graduation.  She  completed  a 
master's  degree  in  educational 
psychology  at  Georgia  State 
University  in  December.  Andrea 
C.  Kramer,  assistant  director  of 
financial  aid  at  Brandeis,  was 
named  editor  of  the  monthly 
newletter  for  the  Massachusetts 
Association  of  Student  Financial 
Aid  Administrators.  Her 
responsibilities  include  writing 
articles  and  designing  layout  for 
this  publication  with  a 
circulation  of  over  600.  Sharon  J. 
Lerner  moved  to  East  Lansing, 
MI,  to  pursue  an  M.S.  in 
agricultural  economics, 
concentrating  on  microenterprise 
development.  After  living  in  San 
Francisco  for  two  years  and 
working  on  the  options  floor  of 
the  Pacific  Stock  Exchange,  she 
traveled  to  Turkey  and  Israel 
where  she  lived  on  a  kibbutz  and 
studied  Hebrew.  Last  fall,  April 
Minerd  Leytem  began  work 
towards  a  Ph.D.  at  North 


Carolina  State  University. 
Previously,  she  was  a  senior 
planner  for  Delaware  County,  NY, 
and  a  planner  for  Clayton,  NC. 
She  received  a  master's  degree  in 
technology  for  international 
development  from  North 
Carolina  State  in  May  1993.  Neil 
Rothstein  is  attending  Emory 
University  Business  School  on  a 
full-tuition  scholarship.  Last 
summer  he  interned  as  a  financial 
analyst  for  the  Atlanta 
Committee  for  the  Olympic 
Games,  where  he  continues  to 
work  part-time.  Amanda  S.  Trigg 
loined  the  Atlanta,  GA,  litigation 
firm  ot  Rubm,  Winter,  Rapoport 
&  Hall. 

'92 

Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Oak  Street, 
Harrington  Park,  NI  07640 

Michele  Bogaty  received  her 
master's  degree  in  speech  therapy 
from  Northwestern  University 
last  August,  and  returned  to 
Boston  to  begin  working  and  to 
live  with  Dana  Hoffman,  who 
received  an  M.S.W,  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  last 
May.  Derek  Cohen,  once  a 
Spanish  major,  now  holds  an 
MB. A,  and  M.S.  in  accounting 
from  Northeastern  University  and 
is  working  for  Deloitte  &.  Touche 
in  Stamford,  CT.  He  reports  that 
he  "now  has  very  short  hair." 
Morgann  Cohen  is  pursuing  a 
degree  in  physical  therapy  in  New 
York  City.  Erin  Glassman  earned 
an  M.S.W.  degree  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
May,  and  has  moved  to  Los 
Angeles  to  practice  and  to  "live 
among  the  stars"  with  Jason 
Ensler.  Abby  Loss  is  living  in 
Waltham  and  teaching  sixth  grade 
at  a  /ewish  day  school  in 
Needham,  MA,  having  earned  her 
M.Ed,  last  May.  In  April,  Alain 
Mestat  founded  Advena 
Management,  a  consulting 
business  which  serves  as  a  liaison 
between  international  students  in 
Boston  and  a  network  of  local 
financial  service  providers. 
Deborah  Raider  received  a  J.D. 
from  Now  York  Law  School  last 
year.  Susannah  Spodek  is 
coordinator  of  the  English 
education  program  PEC  in  Tokyo, 
where  she  teaches  after-school 
English  classes  for  children,  hires 
and  trains  other  teachers, 
develops  curriculum,  and  does 
Japanese-English  translations.  She 
welcomes  contact  from  alumni 
visiting  or  living  in  lapan.  Emily 
Steiner  is  a  second-year  student  at 
Suffolk  University  Law  School  in 


59  Winter  1995 


Ciirolvn  Grav.  Pi 


Moshe  Waldoks.  M.A.  V/,  Ph.D.  '84 


Grad 


Suffolk  University  Law  School  in 
Boston.  Sheri  Weinstein  is 
earning  a  master's  degree  in 
English  at  McGill  University  in 
Montreal. 

'93 

losh  Blumenthal,  Class 
Correspondent,  21  Goldenrod 
Circle,  Amherst,  MA  01002 

Brian  Auster  will  graduate  from 
Tufts  Medical  School  in  1997. 
Hildy  S.  Karp  completed  a 
master's  degree  in  women's 
studies  at  the  University  of  York 
in  England.  |ohanna  Leffler  is  in 
her  second  year  at  Emory 
University  School  of  Public 
Health  and  also  works  with 
residents  of  public  housing 
projects  through  her  job  at  the 
Urban  Training  Organization  of 
Atlanta.  Tobi  Printz  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  public  policy  at 
Georgetown  University  and 
working  at  the  National  Center 
for  Education  in  Maternal  and 
Child  Health  in  Washington,  D.C. 
Melissa  Rubin  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  film  studies  at 
Emory  University  after  spending 
last  summer  m  Los  Angeles 
working  for  Miramax  films.  She  is 
living  with  Johanna  Leffler  and 
they  would  love  to  get  in  touch 
with  other  Atlanta-area  alumni. 
Eva  Shafir  is  at  the  University  of 
Houston  Law  Center,  where  she 
plans  to  receive  her  J.D.  in  1996. 
David  Solomon  is  still  in  the 
Boston  area,  living  in  Sudbury, 
MA,  and  working  in  Westwood. 
Abraham  N.  Stein  is  an  associate 
in  the  emerging  markets  and 
investment  banking  department 
of  Bear,  Stearns  &  Company,  Inc., 
in  New  York.  In  September, 
Michele  Yellowitz  entered 
Harvard  University's  John  F. 
Kennedy  School  of  Government 
to  study  health  policy. 

'94 

Sandy  Kirschen,  Class 
Correspondent,  512  Brandon 
Avenue,  Apt.  #A-5, 
Charlottesville,  VA  22903 

Jason  and  Jennifer  Cohen  Canel 

both  attend  the  University  of 
Chicago,  he  in  medical  school  and 
she  in  law  school.  They  live  in 
Hyde  Park,  IL,  with  a  golden 
retriever  puppy  named  Taliesan. 
Kimberlee  Tarr  has  entered  the 
Ph.D.  program  in  philosophy  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin. 


Rosamond  Drooker  Brenner 

(Ph.D.  '68,  music]  is  a  musician, 
composer,  and  teacher  who  has 
performed  frequently  on  Boston 
radio  and  on  television  m  Boston 
and  Chicago.  Her  faculty 
positions  include  American 
Conservatory  in  Chicago  and  the 
Boston  Conservatory  of  Music. 
She  has  composed  music  for 
sacred  writings  as  well  as 
children's  songs,  and  has  written 
for  several  music  publications. 
Charles  Conwell  (M.EA.  '70, 
theater),  associate  professor  of 
theater  arts  at  the  University  of 
the  Arts  in  Philadelphia,  directed 
the  violence  in  a  production  of 
Richard  III  which  opened  in 
September  at  the  Hartford  Stage. 
It  is  his  seventh  collaboration 
with  director  Mark  Lamos  and  his 
second  with  leading  man  Richard 
Thomas,  having  directed  the 
fencing  match  in  the  Lamos/ 
Thomas  Hamlet  in  1987.  Mary  E. 
Davidson  (Ph.D.  candidate  '75, 
Heller)  is  dean  of  the  School  of 
Social  Work  at  Rutgers 
University.  Previously,  she  spent 
eight  years  as  director  of  the 
School  of  Social  Work  at  the 
Southern  Illinois  University  at 
Carbondale.  Carolyn  Gray  (Ph.D. 
'92,  Heller)  was  named  director  of 
library  services  for  Florida  Gulf 
Coast  University  in  August. 
Previously,  she  was  associate 
director  for  public  services  and 
library  development  officer  for 
the  Brandeis  Library,  whose  staff 
she  loined  in  1982.  Nina  Alonso 
Hathaway  |M.A.  '63,  Ph.D.  '70, 
English)  has  moved  her  ballet 
school,  Fresh  Pond  Ballet,  to 
Massachusetts  Avenue  in 
Cambridge,  MA.  She  and  her 
husband,  Paul,  are  delighted  with 
their  three-year-old  daughter,  Lara 
Francesca  Valeria,  whom  they 
adopted  from  Chile  in  1992. 
Janice  Irvine  (M.A.  '81,  Ph.D.  '84, 
sociology)  edited  a  book  entitled 
Sexual  Cultures  and  the 
Construction  of  Adolescent 
Identities,  a  collection  of  essays 
on  teenage  sexuality  released  last 
year  by  Temple  University  Press. 
She  IS  assistant  professor  of 
sociology  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  and  also  published 
Disorders  of  Desire:  Sex  and 
Cender  in  Modern  American 
Sexology  in  1990.  Judith  A.  Kaden 
Lewis  '66  (Ph.D.  '85,  Heller)  is  an 
associate  professor  and  chair  of 
the  Maternal  Child  Nursing 
Department  at  Virginia 


Commonwealth  University  in 
Richmond,  VA,  where  she  moved 
m  August  1993.  Last  October,  she 
was  inducted  as  a  fellow  in  the 
American  Academy  of  Nursing. 
R.  Ruth  Linden  (M.A.  '87, 
anthropology,  Ph.D.  '89, 
sociology)  is  a  Mellon  fellow  in 
history  and  philosophy  of  science 
at  Stanford  University, 
conducting  research  on  the 
culture  and  politics  of 
mammography.  Last  year  she 
published  a  book.  Making  Stories. 
Makmg  Selves:  Feminist 
Reflections  on  the  Holocaust. 
Sally  Engle  Merry  |Ph.D.  '78, 
anthropology),  professor  of 
anthropology  at  Wellesley 
College,  is  a  fellow  at  The  Mary 
Ingraham  Bunting  Institute  of 
Radcliffe  College  for  the  1994-95 
academic  year.  Her  protect, 
entitled  "Violence  and  the  Law: 
Wife  Battering  in  Colonial  and 
Post-Colonial  Hawaii,"  focuses 
on  one  local  Hawaiian  court  to 
track  the  changing  way  domestic 
violence  has  been  handled  over  a 
140-year  period.  Lawrence  Siegel 
(Ph.D.  '88,  music)  is  composer-in- 
residence  at  the  University  of  St. 
Thomas  in  St.  Paul,  MN,  for  the 
1994-95  academic  year.  He  is  co- 
editor  of  the  forthcoming  State  of 
the  Art:  Refiguring  Music  Studies, 
and  has  taught  at  Wellesley 
College  and  Keene  State  College 
as  well  as  at  Brandeis.  Recently, 
he  has  led  performances  of  his 
own  music-theater  works  and 
directed  the  Nelson  Village 
Dancers  traditional  dance  troupe. 
He  has  received  numerous  grants, 
including  one  for  the  National 
Endowment  for  the  Arts  to 
develop  his  1991  piece,  "The 
Village  Store  Verbatim."  Joel 
Suben  (M.EA.  '74,  Ph.D.  '80, 
music)  conducted  the  Polish 
Radio  National  Symphony  in  a 
digital  recording  of  Brian 
Fennelly's  "On  Civil 
Disobedience,"  released  last  April 
on  New  World  Records.  He  has 
five  more  commercial  CD 
releases  planned  for  this  year,  all 
with  European  orchestras.  He  also 
recently  published  two  choral 
works  and  composed  music  for  a 
commercial  to  he  aired  this 
season  on  National  Public  Radio. 
He  has  been  music  advisor  of  the 
Wellesley  |MA)  Philharmonic 
since  1993.  Moshe  Waldoks  (M.A. 
'77,  Ph.D.  '84,  NEIS)  received  the 
prestigious  B'nai  B'rith 
International  Humanitarian 
Award  in  October.  He  is  the 
editor  of  The  Best  American 
Humor  1994.  published  in  the 
fall,  and  co-edited  The  Big  Book 
of  fewish  Humor  and  The  Big 


New  Book  of  New  American 
Humor:  The  Best  of  the  Past  25 
Years  with  William  Novak,  (M.A, 
'73,  Hornstem).  He  was  featured 
in  a  documentary  about  the 
children  of  Holocaust  survivors, 
Angst,  in  the  Boston  Jewish  Film 
Festival  in  November.  He  has  also 
been  featured  as  an  expert  in  two 
PBS  documentaries,  Breaking  the 
Silence,  about  children  of  the 
Holocaust,  and  The  World  of 
fewish  Humor. 

Obituaries 

Elaine  L.  Gluckman  '73  died  on 
July  2  after  giving  birth  to  her 
first  child.  She  held  a  doctorate  in 
psychology  and  had  worked  at  the 
Interfaith  Medical  Center  in  New 
York.  Elaine  had  been  married  for 
four  years.  Word  has  been 
received  of  the  death  of  Jone  A. 
Sloman,  Ph.D.  '86  (psychology)  on 
October  21  of  breast  cancer.  She 
was  an  associate  professor  of 
human  development  at  Wheelock 
College,  where  her  research  and 
writing  focused  on  children's 
temperament,  peer  interaction, 
and  exposure  to  lead.  She  leaves 
her  husband,  E.  Michael,  a 
daughter,  lessica,  and  a  son, 
Christoper,  all  of  Milton,  MA. 


60  Brandeis  Reviev 


Having  been  associated  with  very  fine  institutions  of  higher  learning,  I 
have  developed  a  deep  appreciation  for  the  high  caliber  of  scholarship 
and  research  conducted  at  Brandeis  University.  Supporting  the 
University  is  not  new  to  our  family,  as  we  have  been  connected  to 
Brandeis  since  its  founding.  It  is  my  sister's  alma  mater,  as  well  as  my 
daughter's  college  and  career.  With  a  Brandeis  Charitable  Gift 
Annuity,  I  am  able  to  contribute  to  the  University's  very  promising 
future,  while  ensuring  my  financial  security  and  advantageous  tax 
benefits.  What  a  wonderful  combination! 


The  professional  staff  of  the  Office 
of  Planned  Giving  welcomes  your 
questions.  For  a  financial  proposal 
tailored  to  your  individual 
circumstances,  contact  the  Office 
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1 


Inauguration 

pages  1 6-27 


Dear  Reader 


This  is  the  season  that  redraws 
autumn  in  pastel  hues.  From  the 
top  of  the  Campus,  spreading  to 
the  west  and  south,  the  New 
England  hills  recall  the  colors  of 
fall,  but  chalked  now,  not  painted. 
There  they  are  again:  the  reds  and 
oranges  of  the  maples,-  yellows  of 
the  willows,  poplars,  and  birches; 
purples  of  the  ashes;  and  the 
greens,  so  many  greens,  greens 
that  fade  out  of  yellow  and  into 
gray  after  passing  through  every 
other  tint  that  can  bear  the  name 
of  green. 

In  autumn  the  colors  are 
aggressive,  intense,  desperate. 
"This  is  it,"  they  exclaim.  "Take  a 
good  last  look."  And  they  are  not 
bluffing;  with  the  first  wet  winds 
of  November  they  are  gone, 
leaving  us  with  the  browns  of  the 
tenacious  oak  leaves,  the  grays  of 
naked  bark,  and  the  mossy  black 
of  evergreen  needles.  But  those 
were  has-been  leaves.  Now  we  are 
dealing  with  something  else. 

Tree  flowers  are  among  the  best- 
kept  secrets  of  the  spring,  the 
showy  blossoms  of  apples  and 
cherries  notwithstanding.  Long 
before  those  appear  in  Fellows' 
Garden,  inconspicuous  blossoms 
explode  all  over  Campus,  so  subtle 
that  the  unwitting  fail  to  see  them 
without  the  aid  of  distance,  tens  of 
thousands  seen  at  a  glance  upon  a 
distant  hill.  Yet  the  Brandeis 


campus  is  one  of  the  most 
beautifully  planted  and  tended  I 
have  seen,  and  it  affords  the 
curious,  especially  around  this 
time  of  year,  endless  opportunities 
to  be  awed.  Besides  dozens  of 
ornamentals,  the  willow  near 
Pearlman  has  been  there  for  the  29 
years  for  which  I  can  vouch;  huge 
ashes  march  all  across  the 
Campus;  the  margins  of  Chapels 
Field  teem  with  birches,  poplars, 
and  species  too  numerous  to 
itemize;  and  oaks  are  everywhere. 

In  terms  of  flowers,  there  are  three 
types  of  arrangements  trees 
employ  in  furthering  their  kinds. 
Many  trees  such  as  elms  and 
basswoods,  along  with  the 
aforementioned  apples  and 
cherries,  and  others  with  showy 
blossoms  that  will  bloom  later, 
have  perfect  flowers — the  male 
and  female  parts  of  the  flower  are 
all  contained  within  the  same 
blossom,  just  like  tulips,  roses, 
and  lilies,  for  example.  Trees  like 
maples — there  are  some  beauties 
around  the  Slosberg  Music 
Center — birches,  oaks,  hickories, 
walnuts,  and  pines  are 
monoecious,  having  separate  male 
and  female  flowers,  but  with  both 
types  on  each  tree.  Look  closely  at 
a  pine,  for  example,  and  you  will 
notice  that  all  the  cones  are  in  the 
upper  part  of  the  tree,  because  that 
was  where  the  female  flowers  were 
located.  The  third  arrangement, 
seen  in  willows,  ashes,  and 


poplars,  is  to  have  separate  male 
and  female  trees;  only  male  flowers 
on  some  individuals  and  only 
female  flowers  on  others.  That  is 
why  some  ash  trees  grow  seeds  and 
others  do  not.  Such  trees  are 
dioecious. 

Examined  closely,  individually,  the 
intensity  of  the  fall  colors  is  there 
in  the  flowers.  The  red  of  a  female 
swamp  maple  blossom  can  shock 
your  eyes.  The  violet  of  ash  is 
startling.  But  the  distribution  of  the 
flowers  on  the  trees  is  scattered,  and 
each  flower  is  small,  and  the  effect 
is  that  of  breaking  a  vivid  block  of 
color  mto  a  screen  of  tiny  dots  until 
it  forms  a  paler  tint. 

The  flowers  do  not  last  long.  Soon, 
the  leaves  burst  forth  in  their 
newborn  flawless  verdancy, 
unweathered,  untouched  by  insects, 
replacing  the  diverse  phrases  of  the 
flowers  with  an  infinite  vocabulary 
of  immaculate  greens.  But,  as 
prelude,  the  tree  flowers  of  spring 
recall  the  fall  as  though,  each  year, 
by  design,  they  link  the  past  to  the 
promise  of  the  future.  Nature  is  like 
that.  It  is  reassuring  to  us  humans. 

This  issue  combines,  among  other 
things,  the  reminiscences  of  an 
alumnus  of  the  fifties  with  the 
Inauguration  and  vision  of  a  new 
President,  also  an  alumnus.  That, 
too,  feels  natural  and  reassuring. 

Cliff 


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Numbers,  Spring  1995 
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(ISSN  0273-7175) 
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On  the  cover: 
President  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  PhD,  '72, 
delivering  his  Inaugural 
address  on  April  9,  1995, 
Photo  by  Marvin  Lewiton 


Brandeis  Review 


Spring  1995 


Volume  15 


Number  3 


An  Old  and  Generous  Contract 

The  Inaugural  address 

of  Brandeis's  seventh  President 

Jehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72 

24 

Scenes  of  an  Installation 

Documenting  the  development 
of  Judy  Pfaff's  "Elephant" 

Text  by  Carl  Belz 
Photographs  by  Heather  Pillar 

28 

Who  4re  Those  Women 

in  Those  Operas  and  Why  Are 

They  All  So  Unhappy? 

A  grand  tour  of  the  tribulations 
of  opera's  most  tragic  heroines 

Barbara  Koral  Raisner  '53 

34 

At  Brandeis  in  the  Fifties 

Reminiscences  of  a  40th  Reunion 
alumnus 

Manfred  Wolf  '55 

40 

A  Portrait  by 

the  Artist  of  a  Young  Man 

John  Michelman  '66 

in  a  Norman  Rockwell  cover 

Marjorie  Lyon 

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Students 


Faculty  and  Staff 


Benefactors 


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12      Books 

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Class  Notes 

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students 


Sophomore,  Swim  Team 
Member,  Dies  in  Gosman 


ChaeRan  Yoo  Freeze:  Out 
of  Korea 


Brandeis  sophomore  and 
swim  team  member 
Michael  Zarrilh,  of 
Havertown,  Pennsylvania, 
died  February  2  of  cardiac 
arrest  after  playing 
basketball  in  the  Gosman 
Center.  He  is  survived  by 
his  parents,  Mary  and  Paul, 
and  siblings  Alex  and  Kate. 

"Michael  was  an  outstanding 
young  man,"  said 
Swimming  and  Diving 
Coach  Jim  Zotz.  "He  was  a 
sensitive,  supportive 
teammate  and  just  a  very 
confident,  warm,  and 
engaging  individual." 

Zarrilli  was  a  member  of 
the  record-holding  200-yard 
freestyle  relay  team  and  the 
top  breaststroker  at 
Brandeis  this  past  season. 

An  autopsy  showed  that 
Zarrilli  suffered  from  an 
abnormal  growth  of  the 
heart.  Zotz  said  the  family 
told  him  Michael  had  been 
monitored  during  childhood 
for  signs  of  heart  disease, 
which  has  afflicted  both  his 
father  and  grandfather,  but 
he  had  appeared  to  be  in 
excellent  health. 

A  campus  memorial  service 
was  held  for  Zarrilli  on 
February  8  with  about  150 
in  attendance.  Earlier,  a 
counseling/information 
session  was  held  to  help 
students  cope  with  the  loss, 
and  to  discuss  several  other 
recent  but  unrelated  cardiac 
ailments  among  students. 


A  Korean-born  Christian 
who  grew  up  in  Africa, 
ChaeRan  Yoo  Freeze  is 
earning  her  Ph.D.  in  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies 
at  Brandeis.  As  if  on  fast- 
forward,  her  young  life  has 
encompassed  astonishingly 
varied  experiences,  exposure 
to  wildly  disparate  cultures, 
survival  in  countries  in 
tumult,  and  wrenching 
moves  demanding  well- 
honed  adaptation  skills. 

"I'm  writing  the  first  social 
history  of  the  Russian- 
Jewish  family  that  draws  on 
recently  declassified 
records,  material  that 
became  available  during 
what's  called  Russia's 
'archival  revolution'  of 
1991,"  ChaeRan  says. 
ChaeRan  feels  comfortable 
dealing  with  the  aftermath 
of  a  revolution:  she  grew  up 
during  one. 

Born  in  Seoul,  a  chance 
meeting  changed  her 
family's  life  when  her 
father,  a  physician, 
encountered  the  Korean 
ambassador  to  Ethiopia.  The 
ambassador  told  Dr.  Yoo 
that  physicians  were 
urgently  needed  in  certain 
regions  of  the  African 
country  due  to  erupting 
revolutionary  violence. 

Dr.  Yoo  responded  to  the 
call,  moving  his  family  to 
Addis  Ababa,  the  capital  of 
Ethiopia,  in  1975.  Though 
ChaeRan  was  5,  she  recalls 
her  new  surroundings:  "We 
were  well-protected,  in  an 
apartment  in  the  center  of 
the  city,  but  sometimes  I 
could  hear  gunfire.  And  I 
saw  refugees  and  bloody, 
wounded  people  beside  the 
road  and  at  my  father's 


hospital."  But  ChaeRan 
doesn't  remeinber  being 
scared.  "Perhaps  I  was  too 
young,"  she  says. 

And  perhaps  ChaeRan  was 
already  developing  the 
adaptability  skills  she 
would  need  for  the  changes 
in  her  life  that  lay  ahead — 
an  education  at  an 
American-run  boarding 
school  in  Kijabe,  Kenya,  and 
college  at  the  University  of 
California  in  Irvine — a 
youth  spent  on  three 
continents.  "I've  had  very 
big  changes  throughout  my 
life,  every  two  or  three 
years  it  seems,"  she  says. 
"I've  had  to  adapt!" 

Throughout  all  the  changes 
she  has  witnessed,  ChaeRan 
has  maintained  at  least  one 
constant:  a  fascination  with 
Jewish  culture.  "I  was 
always  intrigued  by  the 
history  of  the  Jewish 
people,"  she  declares,  "I'd 
heard  a  little  about 
Ethiopian  Jews  when  I  lived 
in  Addis  Ababa,  but  I'd 
never  met  any.  I  knew  that 
Ethiopia's  emperor,  Hailie 
Selassie,  was  supposedly 
descended  from  the  Queen 
of  Sheba  and  that,  according 
to  legend,  the  Ark  of  the 
Covenant  was  hidden 
somewhere  in  the  country. 
But  I  really  developed  my 
interest  in  Jewish  history  on 
my  own."  She  remembers 
reading  novels  by  Jewish 


authors — particularly 
Chaim  Potok — and 
identifying  with  the 
characters'  ability  to 
survive. 

"I  didn't  have  a  strong  sense 
of  being  Asian  because  I'd 
left  Korea  when  I  was  so 
young,"  ChaeRan  states. 

"My  parents  tried  to  impart  a 
sense  of  Korean  tradition, 
but  at  school  in  Kenya,  I 
was  surrounded  by 
Americans,  the  sons  and 
daughters  of  African-based 
diplomats  and  businessmen. 
I  became  Americanized 
quickly." 

College  in  California  was  a 
cultural  shock  of  a  more 
complex  sort.  ChaeRan  had 
never  seen  so  many  Asians 
in  her  life.  "But  they 
weren't  like  me,"  she 
declares.  "I'd  formed  the 
beginnings  of  a  Korean 
identity  through  my  family 
and  an  American  identity 
through  my  school  in 
Kenya,  but  these  college 
students  combined  those 
cultures:  they  were  Korean- 
American." 

Still,  Irvine  was  "a  good 
experience"  because 
ChaeRan  was  able  to  fuse 
her  interests  in  Jewish 
history  with  a  budding 
curiosity  about  Russia, 
sparked  by  her  ineeting  the 
families  of  Russian 
advisors  to  the  Marxist 
government  of  Ethiopia 
while  growing  up. 

At  Brandeis,  ChaeRan  is 
now  completing  her 
dissertation  on  marriage  and 
divorce  among  Jews  in 
Imperial  Russia.  "There  was 
a  crisis  in  Jewish  family  life 
in  19th-century  Russia," 
ChaeRan  says.  "Economic 
changes  were  affecting 
family  life,  as  Jews  left  their 


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ChaeRan  Yoo  Freeze 


villages  to  find  work  in 
urban  factories  and  mills. 
And  there  was  a 
fundamental  transformation 
of  the  family,  even  back  in 
the  villages.  The  divorce 
rate  for  lews  was  the 
highest  m  Imperial  Russia. 
In  1875,  1.57  marriages  in 
1,000  ended  in  divorce  in 
the  Russian  Orthodox 
population.  By  contrast,  a 
study  by  A. A.  Shal'kovskii 
and  local  archival  sources 
indicate  that  the  divorce 
rate  [among  Jews]  in  Odessa 
was  308.49—149  divorces 
for  483  marriages  in  1875 — 


nearly  two  hundred  times 
the  rate  among  Russians! 
Even  more  astounding 
figures  were  reported  in 
towns  like  Berdichev,  with 
331.40  divorces  per  1,000 
marriages  in  1865." 

ChaeRan's  dissertation 
addresses  these  changing 
patterns  of  Jewish  marriage 
and  divorce,  including  the 
age  and  social  status  of  Jews 
seeking  to  end  their 
marriages.  It  probes  why 
Jews  turned  from  the 
rabbinate  to  state  courts  to 
resolve  questions  of 
marriage  and  divorce.  Also, 
it  discusses  the  rates  of 
Jewish-Christian 
intermarriage;  the  politics 
of  gender  and  nationality  in 


divorce  litigation,-  and  the 
crisis  of  lewish  family  life 
as  depicted  in  the  literature 
of  the  times.  "I  hope  this 
study  will  shed  new  light  on 
the  history  of  the  Jewish 
family  and  the  complex 
interaction  between  the 
Jewish  people  and  the 
czarist  state  in  late  Imperial 
Russia,"  ChaeRan  states. 

ChaeRan  has  travelled  to 
Europe  four  times,  spending 
a  total  of  seven  months  in 
Russia  and  Ukraine,  sifting 
through  documents  in 
Moscow,  Lvov,  St. 
Petersburg,  and  Kiev.  At 
Brandeis,  she  is  using  Bar- 
Ilam  Responsa,  a  database 
created  in  Israel,  for  her 
research. 

A  lot  of  people  ask  me  if 
I've  converted  to  Judaism — 
or  if  I  was  adopted  into  a 
Icwish  family,"  ChaeRan 
^ays.  She  remains  a 
practicing  Christian  and 
describes  her  interest  in 
Jewish  history  as  cultural. 
She  has  visited  Israel  three 
times  (she  once  spent  a 
summer  on  a  kibbutz)  and 
has  made  numerous  trips 
"home"  to  Ethiopia,  where 
her  family  still  lives.  She 
has  not  yet  been  back  to 
Korea,  but  has  recently  been 
studying  "Korean  women's 
issues." 

And  yes,  it  takes 
considerable  language  skills 
to  have  lived  a  life  as 
international  as  ChaeRan's. 
She  speaks  Korean,  Amharic 
(Ethiopian),  Russian, 
Hebrew,  and  Ukranian — and 
she's  "working  on  Yiddish." 


New  Honor  Society  on 
Campus 


After  a  decades-long 
absence,  Omicron  Delta 
Epsilon  (ODE),  the 
international  honor  society 
m  economics,  has  returned 
to  the  Brandeis  campus. 

ODE,  one  of  the  largest  and 
oldest  honor  societies  in  the 
nation,  includes  some  500 
colleges  and  universities 
throughout  the  United 
States  and  abroad. 

Selected  as  a  member  in 
1967,  Brandeis  was 
ultimately  de-chartered  as  a 
result  of  large-scale  student 
interest  in  other  social  and 
political  causes  during  the 
late  1960s  and  early  1970s, 
according  to  Professor  of 
Economics  Barney 
Schwalberg.  The 
reactivation  of  ODE  came 
about  through  the  joint 
effort  of  Maria  Calderon  '96 
and  Schwalberg, 
undergraduate  advising  head 
of  the  Department  of 
Economics. 

The  41  current  members  of 
ODE  were  chosen  on  the 
basis  of  academic 
achievements  and  were 
honored  during  an 
induction  dinner  held  on 
January  31. 


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Hannan  '95  Named 
All-America 


!■•  rimri  n  i  tiiiiihin 


Kenneth  Hannan  '95,  whose 
stellar  performance  on  the 
soccer  field  this  semester 
helped  lead  the  team  to  its 
first-ever  ECAC  Division  III 
New  England  Men's  Soccer 
championship,  recently 
became  the  third  soccer 
player  in  Brandeis  history  to 
be  named  an  All-America. 

Hannan  was  made  a 
member  of  the  National 
Soccer  Coaches 
Association/Umbro  All- 
America  Third  Team  at  a 
January  1 1  ceremony  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

Brandeis  Men's  Soccer 
Coach  Mike  Coven 
described  Hannan,  a  four- 
year  starter  for  the  team,  as 
a  "fearless  player." 


After  missing  the  early  part 
of  the  season  due  to  a 
kidney  injury  sustained  in  a 
pre-season  scrimmage, 
Hannan  rebounded  to  help 
pull  the  team  out  of  a  rocky 
start.  "As  soon  as  he  came 
back,  the  team  took  off," 
said  Coven. 

Hannan  managed  to  amass  a 
string  of  honors  on  the  field 
this  season,  said  Coven,"and 
this  was  with  missing  a 
third  of  the  season." 


Describing  the  honors  as  "a 
good  way  to  end"  his  career 
at  Brandeis,  Hannan  said  he 
will  miss  the  disciplined 
schedule  of  soccer  season, 
but  looks  forward  to 
finishing  his  bachelor's 
degree  in  English. 

Hannan,  who  has  played 
midfield,  forward,  and 
defense  for  the  Judges, 
earned  a  team  high  of  15 
goals.  He  wound  up  seventh 
on  the  all-time  scoring  list, 
with  32  goals  and  15  assists, 
for  79  points.  In  addition  to 
the  All-America  honors,  he 
was  named  UAA  Men's 
Most  Valuable  Player 
this  year. 


Leadership  Academy 
Encourages  Students  to 
Take  Charge 


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The  Office  of  Campus  Life 
offered  a  series  of 
workshops  this  past 
semester  aimed  at  helping 
students  become  more 
effective  in  their  roles  as 
resident  advisors,  student 
senators,  and  club 
coordinators.  The  first 
session  of  the  Leadership 
Academy  met  January  27, 
with  approximately  20 
student  leaders  in 
attendance. 

Kristine  Carlson,  assistant 
director  of  campus  life,  said 
the  program  was  started  in 
response  to  requests  for 
guidance  from  students. 
"We  have  a  lot  of  hands-on 
leadership  roles  for  students 
here  at  the  University,  such 
as  in  the  Student  Senate,  as 
Residence  Assistants,  and 
Orientation  Coordinators, 
but  we  were  looking  for  a 
more  structured  way  of 
providing  student  leaders 
with  training." 


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The  January  27  workshop 
was  led  by  Peter  W. 
Simonds,  associate  dean  of 
students  at  Holy  Cross 
College,  who  has  developed 
a  leadership  training 
program  for  college 
students.  Through 
discussion,  group  activities, 
and  a  "Personal  Profile 
System"  questionnaire, 
participants  in  the  three- 
and-one-half-hour  session 
identified  their  leadership 
styles  and  explored  ways  of 
interacting  with  people 
whose  personalities  and 
styles  are  different. 

After  reminding 
participants  that  "being  a 
good  leader  involves  being  a 
good  listener,"  Simonds 
encouraged  them  to  talk  to 
each  other  and  the  group 
about  their  best  and  worst 
qualities  as  leaders,  and 


about  some  of  the 
challenges  they  face  as 
campus  activists,  editors  on 
publications,  and 
coordinators  for  Parents' 
Weekend  and  Orientation. 

After  the  session,  Megan 
King  '97 ,  an  Orientation 
Core  Committee 
coordinator  and  president  of 
the  photography  club,  said 
the  workshop  was  a  "great 
opportunity  to  discover 
what  kind  of  leader  you  are, 
and  also  to  see  what  your 
shortcomings  are  as  a  leader 
and  become  more  in  tune 
with  that. ..it  also  really 
helped  me  realize  what  I'm 
not  as  a  leader  and  then  try 
to  see  what  I  can  improve." 

Participants  met  five  times 
during  the  spring  semester 
to  share  experiences  and 
practice  leadership  skills. 
Workshop  topics  included 
leading  an  effective 
meeting,  motivating 
members,  managing  stress, 
and  resolving  conflict. 


Faculty  and  Staff 


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Three  Professors  Awarded 
NEH  Fellowships 


Jonathan  Saina 
Wai  Chee  Dimock 


The  National  Endowment 
for  the  Humanities  (NEH) 
has  awarded  three  of  its 
prestigious  and  highly 
competitive  fellowships  to 
Brandeis  professors. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna,  Wai 
Chee  Dimock,  and  Mary  B. 
Campbell  were  among  the 
107  university  teachers  in 
the  United  States  honored 
by  the  NEH  with  one-year, 
$30,000  grants.  The  NEH 
chose  the  recipients  in 
November  after  reviewing 
661  applications. 

Sarna  is  the  Joseph  H.  and 
Belle  R.  Braun  Professor  of 
American  Jewish  History 
and  chair  of  the  Near 
Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies 


department.  He  was 
selected  to  write  a  new 
history  of  American 
Judaism.  A  well-known 
expert  on  the  unique 
experience  of  American 
Jews,  Sarna  has  written  and 
edited  a  dozen  books, 
including  the  definitive 
reader.  The  American 
Jewish  Experience,  and 
People  WalJi  On  Their 
Heads,  about  Jewish 
immigrant  life  in  New 
York. 

A  professor  of  English  and 
American  literature, 
Dimock  was  picked  to 
research  configurations  of 
literature,  law,  and  science. 
She  has  earned  a  reputation 
for  interpreting  literary 
texts  in  the  context  of  their 
historical  period  and 
intellectual  climate.  Her 


1989  book.  Empire  for 
Liberty:  Melville  and  the 
Poetics  of  Individualism, 
won  acclaim  for  shedding 
new  light  on  Melville's 
novels  by  viewing  them  as 
interconnecting  and  as 
products  of  the  culture  from 
which  they  came. 

An  associate  professor  of 
English,  Campbell  was 
chosen  to  research  the 
literature  of  travel,  fantasy, 
and  anthropology.  Campbell 
is  a  recognized  literary 
critic  and  a  prize-winning 
poet.  Her  1989  book  of 
poems.  The  World,  the 
Flesh,  and  Angels,  was 
praised  for  its  artfulness 
and  Its  quirky  imagination, 
and  earned  Campbell 
the  Barnard  New  Women 
Poets  Prize. 


"Brandeis  2000"  Plan 
Announced 


President  Jehuda  Reinharz 
and  Provost  Irving  R. 
Epstein  together  with  the 
faculty  have  begun  the 
"Brandeis  2000"  Committee, 
which  will  look  at  the 
University's  operations  and 
budgets  to  the  next 
millennium.  "Brandeis 
2000"  will  build  on  the 
Equilibrium  Plan,  which 
was  put  in  place  in  1992. 

"Three  years  ago  this 
University  undertook  a 
collaborative  process  that 
took  a  hard  look  at  the 
budget  and  how  we  could 
balance  it  by  1996.  That 
plan  accomplished  a 
number  of  valuable  things," 
said  Reinharz.  "Among  the 
most  important  of  these 


was  reinforcing  the  bonds  of 
trust  between  the  faculty, 
the  administration,  and  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

"However,"  he  added, 
"certain  assumptions  we 
made  then  need  to  be 
revised  and  with  them  a 
new  plan  is  needed  to  bring 
us  to  the  next  century  on  a 
financially  sound  footing. 

"Before  we  can  even  think 
about  launching  a 
successful  capital  campaign, 
the  University  must  be  in 
the  strongest  possible 
financial  position.  That's 
the  goal  of  the  'Brandeis 
2000'  Committee," 
Reinharz  said. 

In  the  long  term,  according 
to  Reinharz,  Brandeis  must 
at  least  double  its 


endowment  to  carry  on  the 
kind  of  cutting-edge 
educational  and  research 
programs  that  have  been 
its  hallmark. 

The  "Brandeis  2000" 
Committee  is  a  standing 
committee  charged  with 
taking  both  a  short-term 
and  long-term  view  of  the 
future  of  the  University. 
Committee  members  are, 
for  two-year  terms:  Anne  P. 
Carter,  economics;  Jane 
Kamensky,  history;  Marty 
Wyngaarden  Krauss,  Heller 
School;  Robert  Szulkin, 
Germanic  and  Slavic 
languages;  for  one-year 
terms:  Eve  E.  Marder, 
biology;  Thomas 


Pochapsky,  chemistry; 
Nancy  J.  Scott,  fine  arts. 
Administrators  on  the 
committee  are:  Robin  Feuer 
Miller,  dean  of  arts  and 
sciences;  Arthur  H.  Reis  Jr., 
associate  provost  and 
associate  vice  president  for 
development;  Stanley  A. 
Rumbaugh,  executive  vice 
president  for  finance  and 
administration;  and  Jack  P. 
Shonkoff,  dean  of  the  Heller 
School.  Epstein  will  chair 
the  committee,  and  Elaine 
Wong,  associate  dean  of 
arts  and  sciences,  will  serve 
as  staff. 

Epstein  cautioned  that 
"there  are  no  easy  or  obvious 
solutions  to  the  challenges 
facing  the  University."  If 
there  were,  he  said,  "we 
would  have  adopted  them." 


5  Spring  1995 


Krinsky,  Reis  Named  to  Key 
Fund-raising  Posts 


Dimock  Promoted  to  Full 
Professor 


Susan  Krinsky,  a  veteran 
fund-raiser  and  strategic 
planning  consultant  for 
nonprofit  organizations,  has 
joined  the  Office  of 
Development  and  Alumni 
Relations  as  associate  vice 
president.  She  will  be 
working  to  develop 
innovative  plans  of 
operations  for  short-  and 
long-term  budget  relief  and 
infrastructure  issues  such  as 
database  management  and 
analysis.  Krinsky  also  will 
be  responsible  for  planning 
the  early  stages  of  a  50th 
anniversary  campaign  for 
Brandeis. 

At  the  same  time.  Associate 
Provost  Arthur  H.  Reis  Ir. 
has  added  the  title  of 
associate  vice  president  for 
development  to  his 
portfolio.  Reis  said  he  plans 
to  work  closely  with 
Krinsky  on  a  number  of 
issues,  including  overseeing 
the  annual  giving  campaign. 

Reis,  m  addition  to  annual 
budget  relief  support 
responsibilities,  will 
oversee  corporate  and 
foundation  giving.  Reis  said 
he  and  Krinsky  also  will 
focus  on  both  individuals 
and  foundations. 

Krinsky  has  designed  and 
conducted  comprehensive 
campaigns  for  colleges. 


universities,  museums,  and 
cultural  organizations  from 
Los  Angeles  to  Boston.  Most 
recently,  as  a  consultant 
with  Grenzebach,  Glier  & 
Associates,  she  was 
instrumental  in  developing 
the  $100  million  Centennial 
Campaign  for  the  Combined 
Jewish  Philanthropies  of 
Boston. 

Krinsky  has  also  served  as 
director  of  the  annual  fund 
and  director  of  foundations 
and  corporations  at  Scripps 
College;  and  as  a  director  of 
development  for  the  Los 
Angeles  Children's 
Museum,  where  she  secured 
funding  for  a  successful 
membership  campaign. 
Krinsky  holds  a  master's  of 
education  from  the 
Claremont  Graduate 
School. 

Reis  came  to  Brandeis  in 
1979.  A  chemist  by  training, 
with  a  doctorate  from 
Harvard  University  and 
several  teaching  and 
research  honors  to  his 
credit,  he  has  held  a  number 
of  administrative  and 
teaching  posts  at  the 
University.  As  project 
director  of  the  Benjamin  and 
Mae  Volen  National  Center 
for  Complex  Systems,  he 
was  a  driving  force  behind 
the  conception  and  creation 
of  the  recently  completed 
interdisciplinary  research 
facility. 


Wai  Chee  Dimock,  known 
as  one  of  her  generation's 
leading  scholars  in 
American  literature,  was 
promoted  to  full  professor 
of  English  and  American 
literature  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

Dimock  came  to  Brandeis  in 
1992  as  an  associate 
professor  after  receiving 
widespread  acclaim  for 
Empire  for  Liberty:  Melville 
and  the  Poetics  of 
Individualism. 

In  recommending  Dimock 
for  the  promotion,  Irving  R. 
Epstein,  provost  and  senior 
vice  president  for  academic 
affairs,  said  her  scholarship 
is  noted  for  its  "strong 
interdisciplinary  focus  and 
her  writing  for  its  clarity  of 
language,  ease,  and  grace." 

While  she  admits  to  being 
"obsessed"  with  her  own 
writing  and  research, 
Dimock,  director  of 
graduate  studies  in  her 
department,  said  she  enjoys 
"stepping  back"  to  teach  and 
interact  with  students. 


'■■'^    Susan  Krinsky 
y    i       Arthur  Reis  Jr. 


Dimock  said  she  has  found 

at  Brandeis  a  congenial  and 
supportive  atmosphere  and 
a  "wonderful  sense  of 
community." 

Educated  at  Harvard  (B.A. 
magna  cum  laude,  1976) 
and  Yale  (Ph.D.,  1982), 
Dimock  has  taught  at 
Rutgers  University  and,  just 
prior  to  coming  to  Brandeis, 
the  University  of  California, 
San  Diego.  She  has  been  an 
American  Council  of 
Learned  Societies  Fellow,  a 
New  Jersey  Governor's 
Fellow  in  Humanities,  and 
a  Prize  Teaching  Fellow 
at  Yale. 


Heller  Dean  Appointed  to 
Two  Commissions 


Heller  School  Dean  Jack  P. 
Shonkoff  will  be  researching 
the  quality  of  Head  Start 
and  the  best  models  for 
dealing  with  family 
violence  this  year  as  an 
appointee  to  two  newly 
formed  commissions. 

Vice  chair  of  the  Board  on 
Children  and  Families  of 
the  Institute  of  Medicine 
and  the  National  Academy 
of  Science,  Shonkoff  was 
recently  named  to  serve  on 
two  of  the  board's  new 
research  commissions.  The 
commissions  will  bring 
together  leaders  from 
government,  academia, 
family  support 
organizations,  and  private 
foundations  to  shed  new 
light  on  Head  Start  and 
family  violence 
intervention. 

As  a  member  of  the 
Roundtable  on  Head  Start 
Research,  on  which  Heller 
School  Associate  Professor 


6  Brandeis  Review 


Petri  Named  Dean  of  New 
Graduate  School 


Peter  A.  Petri,  a  long-time 
faculty  member  and  leading 
expert  on  international 
trade  and  Pacific  Rim 
economic  relations,  has 
been  named  dean  of  the 
University's  new  Graduate 
School  for  International 
Economics  and  Finance. 

Petri  is  the  Carl  Shapiro 
Professor  of  International 
Finance,  and  has  been 
serving  as  director  of  the 
Lemberg  Master's  Program 
in  International  Economics 


and  Finance.  He  joined  the 
Brandeis  faculty  m  1972, 
and  has  received  numerous 
research  grants  from  U.S. 
and  international  agencies. 

His  responsibilities  as  dean 
include  overseeing  the 
School's  master's  and  Ph.D. 
programs,  as  weU  as  the 
research  activities  of  its 
Asia-Pacific  Center. 

Petri  is  a  consultant  to  the 
World  Bank,  the  United 
Nations,  and  other 
international  organizations. 
He  is  the  editor  of  two 
scholarly  journals,  author  of 
Modeling  Japanese- 


iT  Petri 


American  Trade:  A  study 
of  Asymmetric 
Interdependence  (Harvard, 
1984),  coauthor  of  East 
Asia's  Trade  and 
Investment  (World  Bank, 
1994),  coeditor  of  The 
Economics  of  the  Dollar 
Crcie  (MIT  Press,  1990), 
and  author  of  more  than 
50  articles. 

Petri  received  his  A.B.  from 
Harvard  College  and  Ph.D. 
from  Harvard  University. 


Researchers  Uncover  the 
Mystery  of  Infant  Immunity 


Jack  Shonkoff 


Constance  Williams  will 
also  serve,  Shonkoff  said  he 
and  the  other  24  members 
hope  to  encourage  an 
enduring  dialogue  between 
scientists  who  study  Head 
Start  and  practitioners  who 
work  on  a  daily  basis  with 
families  served  by  the 
program. 

Created  in  1965,  Head  Start 
has  been  the  preeminent 
example  of  the  country's 
commitment  to  using  early 
intervention  programs  to 
alleviate  the  adverse 
consequences  of  poverty  for 
children,  said  Shonkoff,  an 
M.D.  and  the  Samuel  F.  and 
Rose  B.  Gingold  Professor  of 
Human  Development. 


Shonkoff,  who  is  considered 
a  leading  expert  in  policy 
for  children  and  families, 
said  the  roundtable's 
objective  is  to  illuminate 
issues,  not  resolve 
them.  It  will  meet  through 
August  1996. 

The  Heller  School  Dean 
also  Will  serve  on  the 
Committee  on  the 
Assessment  of  Family 
Violence  Intervention, 
which  is  charged  with 
finding  the  best  methods  to 
treat,  control,  and  prevent 
different  forms  of  family 
violence.  The  18-member 
committee  will  identify 
strengths  and  weaknesses  in 
existing  programs  designed 
to  combat  family  violence 
and  document  the  costs  of 
these  programs  on  the 
country's  public  and  private 
sector  services.  The 
committee's  final  report  is 
scheduled  to  be  released  in 
the  fall  of  1996. 
Ericka  Tavares 


Brandeis  researchers  have 
pinpointed  the  biochemical 
gateway  through  which 
maternal  antibodies  are 
transferred  during 
pregnancy.  The  find 
provides  critical  new 
information  on  how  the 
maternal  immune  system 
gives  infants  a  running  start 
in  the  battle  against  germs 
and  viruses,  according  to 
Neil  Simister,  assistant 
professor  of  molecular 
immunology  and  the 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Sciences  Research  Center. 

"We  found  that  a  protein 
which  transports  an 
important  antibody  called 
IgG  from  breast  milk  to  the 
young  in  laboratory  animals 
is  present  in  the  placenta  in 
humans,"  said  Simister. 

"The  protein  is  in  the  right 
place  to  send  human  IgG 
through  the  placenta  like  an 
immunity  care  package 
from  home." 

The  immune  system, 
through  which  the  body's 
army  of  antibodies  and 
other  defenses  protects  us 
from  the  germs  and 
pathogens  sharing  our 
environment,  is  built  up  via 
two  important  avenues  in 
most  animal  species.  Most 
young  animals  either  ingest 
antibodies  from  breast  milk 


or  make  antibodies 
themselves  after  exposure 
to  a  germ  or  virus  in  the 
environment. 

But  the  human  immune 
system  gets  a  head  start. 
Human  babies  benefit  at 
birth  from  breast  milk 
antibodies,  which  protect 
the  digestive  tract  from 
pathogens  in  food.  They 
also  are  born  with 
antibodies  to  blood-borne 
pathogens  like  cold  and  flu 
germs,  which  in  other 
species  don't  develop  while 
the  fetus  is  sheltered  in  the 
mother's  sterile  uterus. 
Scientists  hypothesized  that 
in  humans  immunities  were 
transferred  from  the 
maternal  bloodstream 
during  pregnancy,  but 
before  Simister's  discovery 
there  was  no  real 
explanation  for  this 
phenomenon. 

Simister,  whose  research 
team  is  internationally 
recognized  for  its  work  on 
transmission  of  immunity 
from  mother  to  child,  hopes 
to  identify  the  exact  role  of 
the  placental  IgG  receptors 
within  the  year. 
Sharon  Block 


7  Spring  1995 


New  National  Center 
Devoted  to  Women  and 
Aging  Established 


A  new  $1.1  million 
National  Policy  and 
Resource  Center  on  Women 
and  Aging  will  focus 
attention  on  the 
contributions  and  problems 
of  mid-life  and  older 
women. 

In  February,  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Health  and 
Human  Services' 
Administration  on  Aging 
granted  a  three-year 
cooperative  agreement  for 
Brandeis  to  create  the  new 
center  on  campus.  It  will 
seek  to  foster  a  nationwide 
dialogue  about  how  to 
improve  the  status  of 
women,  who  make  up  the 
vast  majority  of  the  aging 
population. 

"As  late  as  1980,  most 
research  on  aging  had  been 
based  on  studies  of  men — 
with  little  analysis  of 


gender  and  cultural 
differences,"  said  James  J. 
Callahan,  a  member  of  the 
new  center's  governing 
council  and  director  of  the 
Policy  Center  on  Aging  at 
the  Heller  Graduate  School. 
"There  is  now  a  body  of 
research  on  gender 
differences  in  aging,  but  an 
unfortunate  tendency  to  see 
older  women's  issues  as  a 
special  interest  persists." 

The  new  center  will  serve 
as  the  national  focal  point 
for  the  numerous,  and  often 
ignored,  issues  related  to 
older  women.  The  center's 
goals  include:  identifying 
issues  and  expanding  public 
knowledge  of  aging  women 
in  four  main  areas — income 
security,  health,  caregiving, 
and  housing;  educating  and 


providing  technical 
assistance  to  those  working 
in  the  aging  field — 57  state 
offices  on  aging,  670  area 
agencies  on  agmg,  228  tribal 
organizations,  5,000  senior 
centers,  and  more  than 
25,000  service  providers, 
women's  organizations,  and 
policymakers;  promoting  a 
greater  understanding  of  the 
contributions,  concerns,  and 
needs  of  America's  older 


In  the  United  States,  32 
million  people  are  age  65 
and  older,  about  two  thirds 
of  them  women.  By  the  year 
2010,  almost  half  of  all 
adult  women  will  be  at  least 
50  years  old. 

"Despite  the  large  numbers 
of  elderly  women,  scant 
attention  has  been  given  to 
their  needs  and  concerns," 
said  Phyllis  Mutschler, 
director  of  the  new  center 


and  a  member  of  the  faculty 
at  the  Heller  School.  "This 
national  center  will  put  a 
feminine  face  on  the  debate 
over  agmg  policy, 
documenting  problems  that 
need  attention,  and 
presenting  feasible  options 
for  solving  them." 

The  new  center  is  a 
partnership  of  Brandeis,  the 
American  Society  on  Aging, 
the  Coalition  of  Labor 
Union  Women,  and  the 
National  Black  Women's 
Health  Project.  The  center 
pools  the  talents  of  faculty 
members  at  the  Heller 
School,  the  Women's 
Studies  Program,  and  the 
Aging  and  Lifespan 
Development  Program  in 
Psychology. 
Ericka  Tavaies 


Research  Breakthrough  in 
Memory  Study 


Brandeis  Professor  John 
Lisman's  research  at  the 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems  has 
yielded  surprising 
information  on  how 
humans  manage  an 
inventory  of  up  to  seven 
short-term  memories  at 
a  time. 

The  research  will  be 
published  in  an  upcoming 
issue  of  the  internationally 
recognized  journal.  Science. 

"People  like  to  think  of  the 
brain  as  processing  a 
multitude  of  information 
simultaneously  along 
parallel  channels,  but  it 
now  appears  that  short-term 
memories  are  stored  via  a 
serial  process,"  said  Lisman 
'66,  professor  of  biology. 

Lisman  and  colleagues 
discovered  the  brain's 
leanings  towards  order  and 
organization  by  studying 


brain  waves  and  computer 
models  of  memory. 
Previous  research  showed 
that  short-term  memory 
(STM)  is  made  possible  by 
the  continued  electrical 
firing  of  nerve  cells  in  the 
brain.  But  Lisman  suggests 
that  memory  involves  a 
mechanism  that  enables 
each  neuron  to  fire 
repeatedly. 

The  new  theory  takes  into 
account  the  knowledge  that 
brain  waves  associated  with 
memory  are  organized  into 
high-  and  low-frequency 
oscillations.  Lisman  found 
that  the  high-frequency 
oscillations  carved  up  the 
low-frequency  oscillations 
into  seven  sub-oscillations. 
These  sub-oscillations  may 
keep  STM  neurons  firing 
over  and  over. 


The  seven  oscillations  may 
help  explain  why  people  can 
remember  random 
information  grouped  "in 
sevens,"  such  as  a  phone 
number,  quite  easily. 

The  discovery  eliminated  a 
sticky  problem  left 
unsolved  by  previous 
hypotheses:  on  a  continuous 
reverberatory  loop,  different 
memories'  patterns  would 
presumably  collide  with 
each  other,  corrupting  the 
memory.  But  Lisman's 
model  of  nested  oscillations 
would  allow  memories  to 
stay  separate  and  intact. 

Lisman's  discovery  is  also 
exciting  because  it 
opens  a  new  era  for 
scientists  studying  short- 
term  memory. 

"Memory  research  is  unique 
because  it  stimulates 
everyone's  curiosity  and 
because  it  is  still  so 
mysterious,"  said  Lisman. 

"Sometimes  scientists  find 
themselves  working  on 


areas  that  are  largely 
understood  except  for  a  few 
details,  but  the  field  of 
memory  is  a  great 
unknown.  The  idea  of 
making  a  breakthrough  in 
our  knowledge  of  memory 
is  tremendously 
energizing." 

In  the  coming  months, 
Lisman  and  colleagues  at 
the  Volen  National  Center 
for  Complex  Systems  will 
try  using  a  "neural  net,"  a 
model  of  the  brain 
incorporating  networked 
computers,  to  learn  more 
about  the  interaction  of 
short-term  and  long-term 
memory. 
Sharon  Block 


8  Brandeis  Review 


New  Technique  Developed 
to  Study  DNA  Loops 


Faculty  Notes 


A  new  technique  for 
studying  DNA  could  help 
speed  scientists'  research 
into  how  genes  dictate  cell 
processes  ranging  from 
embyrological  development 
to  the  onset  of  diseases  such 
as  heart  disease,  cancer,  and 
diabetes. 

Developed  at  the  new  Volen 
Center  for  Complex 
Systems  by  Jeff  Gelles, 
assistant  professor  of 
biochemistry,  and  Laura 
Finzi  in  the  Brandeis 
biochemistry  department, 
the  technique  enables 
researchers  to  study  with 
new  precision  how  DNA 
molecules  form  "loops"  and 
influence  gene  activation. 
The  loops  make  it  possible 
for  different  proteins  to 
instruct  genes — that  control 
every  process  in  the  body — 
to  turn  on  or  off. 

While  previous  techniques 
for  studying  DNA  looping 
were  based  on  examining  a 
group  of  molecules  and 
making  general  inferences, 
Gelles  and  Finzi's  technique 
enables  researchers  to  study 
DNA  loops  one  molecule  at 
a  time. 

"It  makes  the  difference 
between  being  in  a  room 
with  50  people  giving  the 
same  speech  but  not  in  sync 
and  being  in  a  room  with 
one  person  giving  a  speech," 
Gelles  said.  "Instead  of 
trying  to  learn  about  each 
molecule  by  studying  the 
jumbled  output  of  a  group, 
we  now  have  a  way  to  see 
each  molecule  doing  its 
own  thing." 

The  technique's  success 
was  announced  in  the 
January  20  issue  of  the 
internationally  recognized 
journal.  Science. 

Finzi  and  Gelles 
successfully  studied  DNA 
looping  in  a  single  molecule 
by  attaching  one  end  of  the 
long,  thin  DNA  strand  to  a 
glass  slide,  and  attaching 
the  other  to  a  microscopic 


plastic  bead,  like  a  ball  at 
the  end  of  a  tether.  They 
then  recorded  the  natural 
motion  of  the  plastic  bead. 
Beads  on  the  end  of  looped 
DNA  showed  less  motion 
because  they  were  shorter, 
while  beads  at  the  end  of 
unlooped,  longer  DNA 
showed  more  motion.  The 
researchers  then  quantified 
the  degree  of  motion  and 
determined  the  rates  at 
which  DNA  loops  formed 
and  then  released. 

Gelles,  who  will  continue 
to  expand  use  of  the 
technique  in  collaboration 
with  other  laboratories, 
called  the  method 
remarkably  dependable 
among  current  techniques 
for  studying  the  complex 
DNA  molecule. 

"While  it  took  almost  two 
years  to  develop  the 
experiment,  once  we 
determined  the  right 
techniques,  the  experiments 
were  relatively  easy  to 
perform,"  Gelles  said.  The 
technique's  ease-of-use 
should  help  other 
laboratories  replicate  the 
Brandeis  experiments  and 
produce  additional  needed 
data  on  looping-regulated 
genetic  activity. 

Gelles  added  that  the 
interdisciplinary  biophysics 
and  molecular  biology 
approach  to  the  research 
was  a  key  factor  in  its 
success.  "While  there  has 
been  an  explosion  in  the 
ability  to  study  single 
molecules  in  some  areas  of 
research,  this  is  the  first 
application  of  this 
technique  to  studies  of  gene 
regulation,"  he  said. 


Joyce  Antler 

associate  professor  of 
American  studies,  presented 
a  paper  on  "Gypsy  of  the 
Footlights:  Sophie  Tucker  as 
Vaudevillian,  Labor  Leader, 
and  Jewish  Philanthropist" 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Association  for  Jewish 
Studies.  Her  article,  "The 
Americanization  of  the 
Holocaust,"  appeared  in 
American  Theatre 
magazine.  Other 
publications  include  an 
overview  essay  on  Jewish 
women  in  the  Oxford 
Companion  to  Women's 
Writing  in  the  United 
States  and  a  chapter, 
"Sleeping  with  the  Other: 
The  Problem  of  Gender  in 
American- Jewish 
Literature,"  in  Feminist 
Perspectives  on  Jewish 
Studies  (Yale  University 
Press). 

Tom  Bills 

Avnet  artist-in-residence  in 
fine  arts,  had  his  work 
exhibited  at  E.S.  VanDam 
Gallery,  New  York  City;  at 
the  International 
Exhibition,  Construction  In 
Process  "DUKIUM." 
Mitzpe  Ramon,  Israel;  and  a 
permanent  installation  of 
two  outdoor  sculptures  in 
the  desert. 

Mary  Baine  Campbell 

associate  professor  of 
English,  was  awarded  a 
National  Endowment  for 
the  Humanities  fellowship 
to  work  on  her  book. 
Wonder  and  Science.  She 
presented  portions  of  it  at  a 
faculty  development 
seminar  at  the  University  of 
Maine  and  as  a  lecture  at 
Bard  College.  While  at  the 
University  of  Maine,  she 
gave  a  poetry  reading. 

Eric  Chasalow 

assistant  professor  of 
composition,  was  in  Rome 
for  the  premiere  of  his 
musical  composition.  Out 
of  foint  for  trumpet  and 
electronic  sounds,  which 
was  commissioned  by 
Nuova  Consonanza. 


Jon  Chilingerian 

associate  professor  of 
human  services 
management.  Heller  School, 
was  elected  program  chair 
for  the  Health  Care 
Division  of  the  Academy  of 
Management  and  treasurer 
for  the  Health  Applications 
Division  of  the  Institute  for 
Operations  Research  and 
the  Management  Sciences. 
Also,  he  and  Stanley  Wallack 
human  services  research 
professor  and  director. 
Institute  for  Health  Policy, 
Heller  School,  were  awarded 
a  five-year  grant  from  the 
Agency  for  Health  Care 
Policy  and  Research  to  be 
used  to  establish  a  new 
doctoral  program  at  the 
Heller  School,  focusing  on 
health  services  research. 
Chilmgerian  and  Wallack 
will  be  the  codirectors  of 
the  new  program. 

Jacques  Cohen 

Zayre/Feldberg  Professor  of 
Computer  Science  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  was  the 
invited  speaker  at  the 
Cambridge  Research 
Laboratory  of  Digital 
Corporation  where  he 
presented  the  current  plans 
for  the  Association  of 
Computing  Machinery  to 
start  electronic  publication 
and  distribution  using  the 
Internet.  Also,  he  obtained  a 
grant  to  enable  Dr. 
Benjamin  Brosgol,  a 
computer  expert,  to  teach 
an  undergraduate  course  on 
Object-Oriented  Software 
Development. 

Stanley  Deser 

Enid  and  Nate  Ancell 
Professor  of  Physics, 
delivered  a  number  of 
invited  lectures  while  on 
sabbatical:  at  CERN 
(European  Center  for 
Nuclear  Research);  at  the 
Universities  of  Florence, 
Pisa,  and  Rome;  and  he  was 
a  Distinguished  Visiting 


9  Spring  1995 


Professor,  Turkish  National 
Scientific  Council.  Recently 
he  was  the  invited  speaker 
at  the  O.  Klein  Centennial 
Nobel  Symposium, 
Stockholm;  at  CERN;  and  at 
the  University  of 
Neuchatel. 

Gerald  D.  Fasmati 

Louis  and  Bessie  Rosenfield 
Professor  of  Biochemistry, 
delivered  the  following 
lectures:  "Intrachain  and 
Interchain  Complexes  of 
Neurofilament  Peptides:  A 
Link  Between  Al'*  and 
Alzheimer's  Disease"  at  the 
Fourth  International 
Conference  on  Alzheimer's 
Disease  and  Related 
Disorders,  Minneapolis, 
MN;  "Alzheimer's  Disease: 
Organic  or  Psychological?" 
at  Wellesley  College, 
Wellesley,  MA; 
"Alzheimer's  Disease:  Can 
Tangle  and  Plaque 
Formation  Be  Reversed?"  at 
Tufts  University, 
Department  of 
Biochemistry,  Boston,  MA; 
and  "The  Role  of 
Aluminum  in  Alzheimer's 
Disease"  at  SmithKline  &. 
Beecham  Pharmaceuticals, 
The  Frythe,  Welwyn, 
Hertfordshire,  England. 

Gordon  Fellman 

associate  professor  of 
sociology,  published 
"Ambivalence  and  Social 
Change"  m  the  Peace 
Review  and  "The  Fetishism 
of  Publications  and  the 
Secrets  Thereof"  in 
Academe,  the  journal  of  the 
American  Association  of 
University  Professors. 

Lawrence  Fuchs 

Meyer  and  Walter  Jaffe 
Professor  in  American 
Civilization  and  Politics, 
contributed  an  essay, 
"Diversity,  Xenophobia, 
Racism,  and  Bigotry: 
Celebration  and  Conflict  in 
the  Kaleidoscope,"  for 
American  Studies  Today. 
His  essay,  "The  American 
Civic  Culture  and  an 
Inclusive  Immigration 
Policy,"  appeared  in  the 
Handbook  of  Research  on 


Multicultural  Education 
and  his  article,  "What  Do 
Immigrants  Deserve?  A 
Warm  Welcome  and  the 
Usual  Benefits — But  Not 
Affirmative  Action," 
appeared  in  the  Sunday 
Outlook  section  of  the 
Washington  Post.  He 
delivered  testimony  before 
the  House  Ways  and  Means 
Committee  in  Washington 
on  the  subject  of  immigrant 
eligibility  for  welfare 
benefits.  He  held  public 
hearings  and  consultations 
in  Texas,  Arizona,  and 
Washington,  D.C.,  on 
immigration  matters.  Also, 
he  gave  a  speech  on  behalf 
of  the  Facing  History  and 
Ourselves  Foundation  on 
refugee  policy  and  he  spoke 
to  a  scholar  seminar  on 
immigration  and  refugee 
policy  at  Tufts  University. 
His  work  on  the  U.S. 
Commission  on 
Immigration  Reform  was 
mentioned  in  several 
newspapers,  including  the 
New  York  Times,  the 
Miami  Herald,  the  Los 
Angeles  Times,  and 
Business  Week. 

Barbara  Hyams 

lecturer  with  rank  of 
assistant  professor  of 
German,  delivered  a  paper 
on  "Hcrnadi's  Whodunit:  A 
Detective  Novel 
Investigates  the  Conflict 
between  Cultural  and 
Political  Zionism"  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the 
Association  for  Jewish 
Studies,  Boston.  She  was 
organizer  and  moderator  of 
a  session  on  "Christa  Wolf 
and  Cultural  Politics,  A 
Five-Year  Retrospective, 
1989-1994"  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Modern 
Language  Association,  San 
Diego,  CA.  Also,  she  was 
invited  to  speak  on  a  panel 
on  Weimar  Germany  and 
the  Volkish  Movement  at 
Boston  College;  her  talk  was 
titled  "The  New  Woman 
and  the  Nazis." 


Adam  B.  Jaffe 

associate  professor  of 
economics,  was  appointed 
to  the  board  of  editors  of  the 
American  Economic 
Review. 

Ann  GIga  Koloski-Ostrow 

assistant  professor  of 
classical  studies,  delivered  a 
paper,  "Latrines,  Baths,  and 
Health  in  Post-Earthquake 
Pompeii,"  at  the  joint 
annual  meetings  of 
Archaeological  Institute  of 
America  and  the  American 
Philological  Association, 
Atlanta,  GA. 

Margie  E.  Lachman 

associate  professor  of 
psychology,  was  elected  a 
fellow  of  the  American 
Psychological  Association, 
Division  on  Adult 
Development  and  Aging. 
She  was  coorganizer  and 
lecturer  at  the  Summer 
Institute  on  Successful 
Midlife  Development,  St. 
Moritz,  Switzerland, 
sponsored  by  the  John  D. 
and  Catherine  T. 
MacArthur  Foundation 
Research  Network  on 
Successful  Mid-life 
Development,  the  Max 
Planck  Institute  on  Human 
Development  and 
Education,  and  the 
International  Society  for  the 
Study  of  Behavioral 
Development.  Her  lecture 
was  entitled,  "The  Sense  of 
Control  in  Adulthood." 

Richard  Lansing 

professor  of  Italian  and 
comparative  literature, 
delivered  a  lecture,  "The 
Sins  of  Violence  in  Dante's 
Inferno:  Act  and  Image,"  at 
the  University  of  Toronto. 
Also,  he  was  a  discussant  at 
the  inaugural  International 
Dante  Seminar,  Princeton 
University.  He  is  general 
editor  of  The  Dante 
Encyclopedia,  which  he  is 
preparing  with  the 
collaboration  of  150 
scholars  from  around  the 
world. 

Avigdor  Levy 

professor  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies,  is  editor 
of  the  book.  The  Jews  of  the 
Ottoman  Empire  (The 
Darwin  Press)  for  which  he 


has  also  written  the 
introduction  and  a  chapter. 
His  article,  "The 
Foundation  of  the  Office  of 
Chief  Rabbi  in  the  Ottoman 
Empire,"  was  published  in 
Hebrew  in  Pe'aniim, 
quarterly  of  the  Ben-Zvi 
Institute,  Jerusalem.  He 
gave  talks  on  "Islam  and 
Judaism"  to  the  Hadassah  at 
Brandeis  University 
Institute  and  was 
interviewed  by  The  Boston 
Globe  on  the  Middle  East 
peace  process  and  published 
his  comments. 

Victor  Luftig 

associate  professor  of 
English  and  American 
literature  and  director. 
University  Writing,  chaired 
a  session  on  Irish 
Modernism  at  the  Modern 
Language  Association 
Convention;  lectured  on  the 
poetry  of  Seamus  Heaney  at 
Middlebury  College;  and 
represented  Brandeis  at  a 
meeting  of  the  Ivy  League 
Writing  Consortium  at 
Cornell  University. 

Daniel  Margolls 

lecturer  in  Jewish 
education,  Hornstein 
Program,  received  an 
honorary  doctorate  from  the 
Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  of  America.  Also, 
the  book  that  he  coedited. 
Curriculum,  Community 
and  Commitment:  Views 
on  the  American  fewish 
Day  School,  was  recognized 
as  an  honor  book  in  the 
field  of  Jewish  education  by 
the  Jewish  Book  Council  at 
their  45th  Annual  National 
Jewish  Book  Awards. 

Richard  J.  Parmentler 

associate  professor  of 
anthropology,  had  his  book. 
Signs  in  Society:  Studies  in 
Semiotic  Anthropology, 
published  by  Indiana 
University  Press.  He 
delivered  the  following 
invited  lectures  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania 
Law  School:  "The 
Discipline  of 
Anthropology," 
'Anthropological  Approaches 
to  Cultural  Symbolism," 


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"Language,  Discourse,  and 
Textuality,"  and  "Gender, 
Domination,  and  Feminist 
Anthropology." 

Michael  G.  Plummer 

assistant  professor  of 
economics,  coedited 
Emerging  Patterns  of  East 
Asian  Investment  m  China. 
published  by  M.E.  Sharpe. 

Marilyn  Ranker 

Saltzman  Visiting  Artist  in 
Fine  Arts,  had  her  sculpture 
exhibited  in  a  two-person 
show  at  Lenore  Gray 
Gallery,  Providence,  RI. 

Benjamin  C.  I.  Ravid 

Jennie  and  Mayer  Weisman 
Professor  of  Jewish  History, 
received  grants  from  the 
Memorial  Foundation  for 
Jewish  Culture  and  the 
Lucius  M.  Littauer 
Foundation  for  his  research 
on  the  Jewish  Merchants  of 
Venice.  He  has  been 
appointed  Discipline 
Representative  for  Hebraica 
of  the  Renaissance  Society 
of  America  and  chaired  a 
session  at  the  annual 
conference  of  the 
Association  for  Jewish 
Studies. 

ShulamitReinharz 

professor  of  sociology  and 
director.  Women's  Studies 
Program,  delivered  the 
following  talks:  "The  Ninth 
Night  of  Hanukkah,"  at 
Temple  Emanuel,  Newton, 
MA;  "Looking  at  Invisible 
Women:  The  History  of 
Women  in  Sociology,"  at 
Brandeis  House,  New  York; 

"Finding  Jewish  People  who 
Inspire  Us,"  at  Cohen  Hillel 
Academy  Friends  of  the 
Library;  "Manya 
Wilbushewitz  Shohat,"  as 
scholar-in-residence  in 
Brandeis  Bardine  Institute, 
CA;  "The  Future  of 
American  Universities,"  at 
Eastern  Sociological 
Society,  Philadelphia;  and 

"Author  meets  the  Critics," 
a  panel  on  Paradoxes  of 
Gender  by  Judith  Lorber  at 
the  Eastern  Sociological 
Society,  Philadelphia. 
Reinharz  sits  on  the 
editorial  board  of  Applied 
Developmental  Psychology. 
Her  chapter  "Toward  an 


Ethnography  of  'Voice'  and 
'Silence',"  was  published  in 
Human  Diversity: 
Perspectives  on  People  m 
Context. 

Vardit  Ringvald 

lecturer  in  Hebrew  and 
acting  director,  Hebrew  and 
Oriental  Language 
Programs,  made  two 
presentations:  "Developing 
Language  Skills  in  the 
Hebrew  Classroom"  at  Ohio 
State  University  and  "A 
Competency-Based 
Curriculum  for  Teaching 
Modern  Hebrew  and 
Chinese  at  the  Secondary 
and  Post-Secondary  Levels," 
at  the  University  of 
Kentucky. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna 

Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  of  American 
Jewish  History,  delivered 
the  Lucy  Dawidowicz 
Memorial  Lecture  at 
Congregation  Ohr  Zarua  in 
New  York  and  keynoted  the 
annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Jewish 
Committee's  Institute  on 
American  Jewish-Israel 
Relations  in  Jerusalem.  He 
coauthored  an  article  on 
K.K.  Bene  Israel  (Rockdale 
Temple)  in  Cincinnati  that 
appeared  in  American 
Congregations  (University 
of  Chicago  Press). 

Donalds.  Shepard 

research  professor.  Heller 
School,  has  helped  health 
officials  in  the  Mexican 
state  of  Tabasco  to 
strengthen  the  financing  of 
their  health  sectors  through 
cost-effectiveness  analysis 
to  use  its  limited  resources 
most  effectively;  suggested 
to  health  officials  in 
Barbados  how  to  attract 
overseas  patients  for 
uncomplicated  medical  care 
such  as  plastic  surgery  or 
stroke  rehabilitation;  and  in 
Jamaica  he  reported  results 
from  a  baseline  survey  of 
hospital  patient 
satisfaction. 


Jack  Shonkoff 

dean  and  Samuel  F.  and 
Rose  B.  Gingold  Professor  of 
Human  Development, 
Heller  School,  delivered  the 
Warren  Weiswasser 
Memorial  Lecture  at  Yale 
University  School  of 
Medicine. 

Laurence  R.  de  Zoysa  Simon 

adjunct  associate  professor 
of  politics,  was  invited  by 
the  Food  and  Agriculture 
Organization  of  the  United 
Nations  to  participate  in 
the  planning  for  a  national 
post-harvest  strategy  for  Sri 
Lanka  where  small  farmers 
currently  lose  as  much  as  25 
percent  of  their  harvests. 

James  A.  Storer 

professor  of  computer 
science  and  Volen  National 
Center  for  Complex 
Systems,  and  Martin  Cohn 
lecturer  and  senior  research 
associate  in  computer 
science,  served  as  general 
chair  and  program  chair, 
respectively,  of  DCC  '95, 
the  annual  Data 
Compression  Conference 
sponsored  by  the  Institute 
of  Electrical  and  Electronics 
Engineers. 

Gary  A.  Tobin 

associate  professor  of  Jewish 
community  research  and 
planning  jHornstein 
Program)  and  director, 
Cohen  Center  for  Modern 
Jewish  Studies,  delivered  an 
address  on  "Trends  in 
Jewish  Fundraising"  at  the 
Fifth  Annual  Conference  of 
the  Jewish  Funders 
Network  meeting  in 
Cambridge,  MA. 

Pieter  C.  Wensink 

professor  of  biochemistry 
and  Rosenstiel  Basic 
Medical  Sciences  Research 
Center,  was  invited  to  serve 
as  a  member  of  the  Genetics 
Study  Section,  Division  of 
Research  Grants,  National 
Institutes  of  Health,  for  a 
four-year  term. 

Stephen  J.  Whitfield 

Max  Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization, 
delivered  lectures  on 
American  politics  and 
culture  at  the  University  of 


Bucharest,  Romania,  the 
University  of  Graz,  Austria, 
and  the  Hebrew  University 
of  Jerusalem.  He  was  also 
invited  to  present  papers  at 
conferences  in  Bologna  on 
the  Cold  War  and  in 
Nashville  at  the  American 
Studies  Association.  He 
published  the  following 
articles:  "Stages  of 
Capitalism:  The  Business  of 
American  Jewish 
Dramatists"  in  Jewish 
History  and  "Blood  and 
Sand:  The  Jewish 
Community  of  South 
Florida"  in  American 
lev^sh  History. 

Harry  Zohn 

professor  of  German, 
presented  papers  at  the 
convention  of  the  Modern 
Language  Association,  San 
Diego,  CA;  The  Franz 
Werfel  Symposium  at  the 
University  of  Szeged;  and 
the  Austrian  Cultural 
Institute  in  Budapest.  His 
book,  Austriaca  and 
fudaica:  Essays  and 
Translations  was  issued  by 
Peter  Lang  Publishing. 

Staff 

Barbara  H.  Palmer 

university  registrar  and 
director,  institutional 
research,  received  the  1994 
Best  Paper  Award  by  the 
North  East  Association  for 
Institutional  Research.  Her 
paper,  "Lesjes  van  de 
nederlanders:  Little  Lessons 
from  the  Dutch  to  Promote 
Educational  Quality," 
compares  efforts  to  account 
for  quality  in  Dutch  and 
American  higher  education. 
The  award  includes  an 
honorarium  and  an 
invitation  to  present  the 
paper  at  the  1995  national 
forum. 


11  Spring  1995 


Benefactors 


$750K  Fishman  Trust  Grant 
Will  Repair  Castle 


It  has  become  a  Brandeis 
icon,  an  eccentric  symbol  of 
the  early  beginnings  of  a 
campus  that  seemingly 
overnight  grew  from  a 
handful  of  buildmgs  on  a 
hill  to  a  sprawling  research 
institution.  But  Usen 
Castle,  once  home  to 
medical  school  classrooms 
and  dissectmg  laboratories, 
and  now  a  sought-after 
student  residence  hall,  is 
showing  its  age. 

Embedded  inside  thick 
walls  made  of  fieldstone 
harvested  from  Colonial-era 
stone  fences,  the  aging  pipes 
of  its  heating  system  are 
deteriorating,  making  life 
for  the  1 16  or  so  student 
residents  sometimes  less 
than  comfortable  and 
contributing  to  the 
deterioration  of  other 
building  systems.  The  turret 
on  one  of  the  towers  is  in 
dire  need  of  significant 
structural  repair. 

So  last  November,  when 
word  came  that  a  portion  of 
the  Philip  Fishman  Trust 
was  due  to  be  distributed  to 
the  University,  earmarked 
specifically  for 
improvements  to  the 
physical  plant.  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz  said  he 
needed  little  time  to  decide 
where  the  money  should  go. 
He  commissioned  a 
preliminary  engineering 
study  to  see  what  could  be 
done  with  the  $750,000 
donation  and  decided  the 
castle  was  the  University's 
highest  priority. 

"Ever  since  the  first  days  of 
Brandeis,  the  castle  has 
been  a  focal  point  of  our 
campus.  By  replacing  the 
castle's  heating  systems  and 
shoring  up  the  tower,  we 
will  be  taking  a  major  step 


toward  making  it  a  better 
place  for  students  to  live," 
said  Reinharz. 

"At  the  same  time  we  will  be 
honoring  our  commitment 
to  preserve  the  historical 
value  of  the  building," 
added  Reinharz.  The  castle, 
built  in  1928,  is  on  the 
National  Register  of 
Historic  Places. 

Stanley  A.  Rumbaugh, 
executive  vice  president  for 
finance  and  administration, 
said  it  IS  somewhat  unusual 
for  a  trust  to  be  given  for 
the  purposes  of  physical 
improvements.  He 
explained  that  the  late 
Philip  Fishman,  an  engineer 
from  the  North  Shore  of 
Massachusetts,  left  money 
to  a  number  of  area 
institutions  for  similar 
purposes. 

"Without  this  generous  gift, 
we  might  have  had  to  delay 
work  on  the  castle  for  at 
least  another  year,"  said 
Rumbaugh.  He  explained 
that  the  old  heating  system, 
encased  within  the  thick 
walls,  will  be  abandoned 
and  left  in  place  and  a  new 
system  with  forced-hot- 
water  radiation  and  copper 
piping  will  be  installed.  The 
current  system,  said  Shelley 
M.  Kaplan,  vice  president 
for  administration, 
generates  excessive 
humidity,  which  leaks 
through  the  stone  walls  and 
peels  paint.  The  turret,  he 
said,  now  has  wire  mesh 
wrapped  around  it  to  guard 
against  falling  rock.  It  will 
need  to  be  dismantled  and 
totally  rebuilt,  Kaplan 
added. 

The  first  installment  of  the 
trust  was  received  in 
February,  and  work  began  in 
May.  The  job  of  replacing 
the  heating  and  ventilation 
system  should  be  done 
before  students  arrive  back 
in  the  fall. 


Parents  Fund  Shuttle  Bus 


Marjorie  and  Martin  Grove, 
the  parents  of  Geoffrey 
Grove  '98,  have  made  a 
generous  donation  to  the 
Brandeis  Parents'  Annual 
Fund  to  help  improve  the 
quality  of  life  for  students. 
The  gift  will  continue 
funding  the  popular 
weekend  shuttle  bus  service 
to  Boston  and  Cambridge 
and  late-night  dining  at 
Cholmondeley's  in  1995-96. 

"We  are  delighted  to  have  an 
opportunity  to  help  make 
the  quality  of  life  at 
Brandeis  as  good  as  it  can 
be,"  said  Martin  Grove,  a 
Hollywood  entertainment 
columnist  and  screenwriter 
best  known  as  the  movie 
analyst  for  CNN's  "ShowBiz 
Today."  The  Groves 
describe  themselves  as 

'enthusiastic  supporters"  of 
the  University. 

"Marjorie  and  I  both  believe 
that  its  very  important  for 
students  to  be  able  to  get  to 
the  cultural  opportunities  of 
Boston  and  to  be  able  to  do 
so  in  a  way  that  is  as  safe  as 
possible,"  said  Grove, 
expressing  his  enthusiasm 
for  the  free  shuttle  bus. 
Begun  last  semester,  the 
service  runs  continuously 
into  Boston  on  weekend 
nights  until  2:45  am. 


Judith  Shapiro  '63  Named 
Sachar  Winner  by  National 
Women's  Committee 

ludith  R.  Shapiro  '63, 
president  of  Barnard 
College,  will  receive  the 
Abram  L.  Sachar  Medallion 
from  the  Brandeis 
University  National 
Women's  Committee  at 
Brandeis  on  Friday,  June  9, 
during  the  organization's 
national  conference. 

Shapiro  was  graduated 
magna  cum  laude  from 
Brandeis,  earned  her  Ph.D. 
from  Columbia  University, 
and  went  on  to  hold 
positions  at  the  University 
of  Chicago  and  Bryn  Mawr 
College  before  her 
appointment  to  head 
Barnard  in  1994.  A  noted 
anthropologist,  she  has  done 
pioneering  research  on 
gender  differences  and  is  an 
outspoken  champion  of 
single-sex  education  for 
women. 

The  Women's  Committee 
established  the  Sachar 
Award  in  1968  to  honor 
Abram  L.  Sachar,  the 
founding  president  of 
Brandeis.  Each  year  the 
organization  recognizes  a 
woman  who  has  made 
outstanding  contributions 
to  public  education  and 
awareness.  Shapiro  is  the 
second  Brandeis  graduate  to 
receive  the  award.  Past 
recipients  include  Jane 
Alexander,  Letty  Cottin 
Pogrebin  '59,  Nina 
Totenberg,  Sherry  Lansing, 
Dr.  Rosalyn  Yalow,  Jehan 
Sadat,  Helen  Caldicott, 
Helen  Hayes,  Dixie  Lee 
Ray,  and  Doris  Kearns 
Goodwin. 


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Giddon  Scholars,  Waltham 
Teens  Taking  Free  Courses 


Donald  Giddon 


Three  local  high  school 
students  were  enrolled  in 
courses  at  Brandeis  this  past 
semester  as  recipients  of  the 
1994-95  Ruth,  Franklin,  and 
William  Giddon 
Scholarships.  The 
scholarships,  which  allow 
exceptional  high  school 
students  to  take  a  course  m 
the  field  of  their  choice  at 
Brandeis,  are  given  annually 
to  up  to  four  students  from 
Newton  and  Wellesley  high 
schools. 

The  Giddon  Scholarships 
were  established  at  Brandeis 
in  memory  of  Ruth  Giddon, 
a  former  national  vice 
president  and  honorary 
board  member  of  the 
Brandeis  University 
National  Women's 
Committee;  her  husband, 
William;  and  their  son, 
Franklin,  a  former  Brandeis 
student.  Dr.  Donald 
Giddon,  who  resides  and 
practices  dentistry  in 
Newton,  Massachusetts, 
and  is  Ruth  Giddon's 
surviving  son,  congratulated 
the  three  recipients. 


This  year's  recipients  were: 
Eli  Mitrani  of  Newton 
Center,  who  took  a 
philosophy  course;  Tonia 
Rosario  of  Newtonville, 
who  enrolled  in  a  course  in 
legal  studies;  and  Leonid 
Sigal  of  Auburndale,  who 
studied  physics. 

Five  Waltham  High  School 
students  also  took  one 
course  each  free  of  charge  at 
Brandeis  University  this 
past  semester. 

Enrolled  in  courses  ranging 
from  chemistry  to  fine  arts 
and  from  economics  to 
psychology  were:  Ajay 
Bhatia,  Kristie  Downing, 
Jeffrey  Napolitano,  Cara 
Weddig,  and  David  Wong. 
Free  courses  are  offered 
annually  at  Brandeis  to  up 
to  10  qualified  high  school 
students  from  Waltham. 


The  Herbert  W.  Plimpton 
Collection  of  Realist  Art, 
a  significant  and  often 
startling  body  of  1970s 
American  realist  art, 
will  be  exhibited  at  the 
Rose  Art  Museum 
through  July  31. 

Admission  is  free  and 
open  to  the  public. 

Acquired  by  the  Rose  last 
year,  the  Plimpton 
Collection  is  a  major  body 
of  work  offering  a  richly 
varied  look  at  realist  art  of 
its  period.  It  documents  an 
important  attitude  and 
invaluable  sampling  of  the 
genre.  A  feature  article 
about  the  collection 
appeared  in  the  Summer 
1 994  issue  of  the  Review. 

Museum  hours  are 
Tuesday  through  Sunday, 
1 :00  to  5:00  pm,  with 
extended  evening  hours 
Thursday  until  9:00  pm. 
For  more  information  call 
617-736-3434. 


Dorothy  Corwin  (center) 
was  inducted  as  a  Brandeis 
University  Fellow  on 
February  26.  1995.  by 
Jehuda  Reinharz.  President 
of  Brandeis,  (left)  and 
Richard  R.  Silverman  '54, 
Fellow  of  the  University 
(right).  Appointment  as  a 
Brandeis  University  Fellow 
is  an  honorary  distinction 
conferred  for  life  upon  an 
individual  who  has  given 
significant  service  and 
support  to  Brandeis  and  has 
made  an  outstanding 
contribution  to  the  future 
of  higher  education. 


13  Spring  1995 


Alumni 


Survivors'  Daughter  Takes 
Play  to  Auschwitz 


An  actress,  director,  and 
teacher,  Smulowitz  is  drama 
director  at  Triton  Regional  High 
School  in  Byfleld,  north  of 
Boston,  and  runs  a  children's 
theater  program  in 
Newburyport.  She  makes  it  her 
mission  to  combat  prejudice 
and  preach  responsibility, 
going  into  schools  to  explain  in 
dramatic  personal  terms,  about 
the  Holocaust  and  its 
ramifications. 


Anna  Smulowitz,  M.A.  '86, 
endured  a  childhood 
permeated  by  the  pain  her 
parents  suffered  at 
Auschwitz  and  Birkenau, 
where  many  in  her  family 
perished.  Both  her  mother 
and  father  were  emotionally 
devastated  by  their 
experiences  in  the  German 
concentration  camps.  Given 
its  atmosphere  of  past 
agony,  her  childhood  home 
in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
might  just  as  well  have  been 
situated  right  next  to 
Auschwitz. 

Smulowitz  coped  with  this 
legacy  by  writing  a  play  in 
1971,  entitled  Teiezin, 
Children  of  the  Holocaust, 
about  a  Nazi  concentration 
camp.  Although  the  play  • 
has  evolved  during  the  last 
24  years,  the  core  remains 
the  same.  "Terezin"  won 
the  American  Children's 
Television  Award  in  1984 
after  a  WBZ-TV  broadcast. 


The  play  is  about  Terezin,  a 
Nazi  concentration  camp  in 
Czechoslovakia,  where 
15,000  children  were  sent 
during  World  War  II  and 
only  ISO  survived.  It  is 
really  a  metaphor  for 
Smulowitz's  life:  a  lost 
childhood  in  the  wake  of 
her  mother's  emotional 
.irutality  and  her  father's 
emotional  paralysis,  both  a 
result  of  experiences  at 
Auschwitz  and  Birkenau. 
She  still  struggles  to  heal. 

Smulowitz  took  a  giant  step 
last  December  when  she 
performed  her  play  during  a 
peace  convocation  at 
Auschwitz.  Funded  in  part 
by  Timberland,  the  rugged- 
wear  company  that  is 
interested  in  combating 
racism  through  education, 
Smulowitz  brought  to 
Europe  about  30  actors — all 
children — from  the 
Newburyport  area,  and 
some  of  their  parents.  They 
met  another  25  German 
teachers  and  students — who 
are  the  actors  in  the  same 
play  performed  in 
Germany — at  a  place  called 
the  Oenwaldschule,  near 
Frankfurt.  All  boarded  a  bus 
for  a  17-hour  ride  to 
Auschwitz.  "It  was  an 
intense,  long  trip,"  says 
Smulowitz.  "The  language 
barrier  became  minimal. 
Everyone  wanted  so  much 
to  communicate.  It  was  an 
interesting  metaphor  for 
what  the  whole  trip  was 
about — learning  other 
cultures,  and  trying  to 
understand  each  other.  By 
the  end  it  wasn't  hard  at  all, 
it  was  just  wonderful," 
she  says. 

Arriving  at  Auschwitz  in 
the  middle  of  the  night, 
exhausted,  they  promptly 
found  beds  and  went  to 
sleep.  "The  next  morning 
when  we  woke  up,  I  pulled 
the  curtain  open  and  could 
see  the  barbed  wire  through 


the  window,"  states 
Smulowitz.  "It  was 
astonishing  because  I  didn't 
know  we  were  that  close. 
We  had  slept  basically 
on  the  grounds  of 
Auschwitz  all  night.  We  got 
dressed  and  took  a  very 
short  walk  to  go  in  (it  is 
now  a  museum)  and  it  was 
like  Hell. 

"We  spent  the  first  day  at 
Auschwitz,  the  death  camp, 
and  the  second  day  at 
Birkenau,  the  labor  camp, 
where  a  part  of  Steven 
Spielberg's  Schindlei's  List 
was  filmed.  It  was  very 
painful.  We  said  a  kaddish 
for  my  family.  We  took 
names  off  suitcases  and  said 
their  names  at  the  kaddish 
service.  And  we  had  a 
Native  American  cleansing 
session  at  the  same  time. 
The  karma  is  so  dark,  it  is 
oppressive.  The  trees  are 
bent  and  gnarled,  unlike  any 
trees  I've  seen  anywhere.  I 
really  believe  the  plant  life 
took  on  some  of  the  pain  of 
all  those  souls,"  Smulowitz 
recalls. 

'One  of  the  most  amazing 
things  was  that  we 
celebrated  the  last  night  of 
Chanukkah  on  our  first 
night  there,"  she  explains 
with  excitement.  "We  were 
part  of  a  peace  convocation 
of  about  250  people.  And  in 
the  morning,  we  made  250 
menorahs  out  of  tongue 
depressors  and  little 
plumbing  gaskets.  We 
brought  candles — nine 
candles  in  each — and  we  lit 
them  at  the  gates  of 
Auschwitz.  To  hear  the 
blessing  and  see  all  that 
light  at  the  crematorium 


14  Brandeis  Review 


South  Korean  Business 
Leader  Named  to 
Board  of  Trustees 


was  an  incredible 
contradiction  of  light  and 
darkness,  and  it  was 
beautiful  to  witness." 

Smulowitz  had  been  there 
about  10  years  before,  by 
herself,  but  passed  out,  she 
explains.  "I  didn't  make  it 
through,  I  could  barely  get 
into  the  place.  I  had  come 
all  that  way  from 
Newburyport,  and  then  I 
looked  very  little,  and  left 
quickly." 

This  time,  accompanied  by 
her  husband  and  child,  she 
prepared  herself.  Braced  for 
an  onslaught  of  emotions, 
she  felt  more  secure  as  part 
of  a  group.  "When  I'm 
nervous,  I  bring  40  people 
with  me.  So  I  shlepped  all 
these  people,  and  I  thought, 
we're  going  to  do  this,"  she 
says.  After  the  performance 
of  the  play  at  Auschwitz, 
one  of  her  actors  was  asked 
by  a  member  of  the 
audience,  "How  can  you  do 
this?  Don't  you  have 
nightmares;"  Contrasting 
the  finality  of  death  with 
the  continuing  possibilities 
available  in  life,  the  child 
answered,  "Well  at  least  I 
have  the  possibility  to 
dream." 

The  child's  response  made  a 
strong  impression  on 
Smulowitz.  "It  made  me 
realize  that  we  all  have  to 
bear  witness  to  Auschwitz, 
to  the  horror,"  she  says. 
"There  you  are,  in  the 
middle  of  it,  and  you're 
looking  at  rooms  full  of 
hair,  and  suitcases  and 
braids  and  individual  shoes 
and  you  ]ust  know  they 
belonged  to  real  people  with 
personalities  and  names  and 
futures.  That's  why  you 
need  to  go  there  to  see  that 
the  six  million  gets  reduced 
to  one  person  at  a  time," 
she  explains. 


That  is  exactly  the  goal  of 
her  play.  The  six  children  in 
the  play  represent  the  six 
million  Jews.  After  their 
performance  at  Auschwitz, 
the  audience,  weeping,  full 
of  compassion,  gave  it  a 
standing  ovation.  "Children 
have  to  teach  adults," 
Smulowitz  believes, 
"because  they  still  hold  a 
sense  of  what's  right  and 
what's  wrong,  and  adults 
tend  to  forget.  Because  the 
ends  justify  the  means,  then 
vision  is  blurred.  Children's 
vision  is  not  blurred  yet.  It's 
very  clear." 

In  a  question  and  answer 
period  with  the  audience 
after  the  play,  the  children 
are  often  very  articulate, 
offering  surprising  insights 
and  answers.  The  actors  feel 
they  have  an  obligation  to 
those  children  who  didn't 
have  a  life,  to  remember  and 
acknowledge — to  pay 
tribute — to  those  lives. 
They  feel  empowered,  that 
they  can  educate  people, 
and  the  audience  listens  to 
what  they  have  to  say. 

Of  special  significance  to 
her  healing  process  is  the 
extraordinary  performance 
at  Auschwitz.  "We 
performed  right  at  the  gas 
chamber — you  can't  get  any 
closer.  I  was  able  to  grieve 
all  day  long,  walking  around 
the  place:  I  cried  all  day. 
And  then  at  night  I  went  to 
work  through  my  play,  and 
did  something  with  all  the 
pain,  and  it  was  positive, 
and  it  felt  right,"  she  says. 


One  of  South  Korea's  most 
distinguished  business 
leaders  has  been  named  to 
the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Suk-Won  Kim  '70  is 
chairman  of  the  Ssangyong 
Business  Group,  a  company 
that  was  founded  by  his 
father  in  1939. 

Kim  helped  to  diversify  the 
Ssangyong  Business  Group, 
which  in  1993  was  listed  as 
the  sixth  largest  business 
conglomerate  in  Korea. 
Today  the  company  is 
involved  in  a  successful  ski 
resort,  oil  refineries,  hotels, 
automobile  manufacturing, 
securities  brokerage,  and 
computer  software. 

Other  recent  changes  to  the 
board  include  the  election 
of  Joel  L.  Fleishman,  Robert 
Shapiro  '52,  and  the  re- 
election of  Thomas  L. 
Friedman  '75  as  Alumni 
Term  Trustee.  Fleishman  is 
professor  of  law  and  public 
policy  and  director  of  the 


Suk-Won  Kim  '10 


Samuel  and  Ronnie 
Heyman  Center  for  Ethics, 
Public  Policy,  and  the 
Professions  at  Duke 
University.  Shapiro  is 
president  of  Turnkey  Living 
Inc.  of  Boston.  Friedman  is  a 
two-time  Pulitzer  Prize- 
winning  author  and 
diplomatic  correspondent  at 
the  New  Yoik  Times. 


15  Spring  1995 


s 

PL, 


The  Procession  of  the 
President's  Party  including, 
front  to  back,  fornner 
Brandeis  President  Charles 
I.  Schottland;  Dean  of 
Admissions  and  Financial 
Aid  David  Gould 
serving  as  Marshal  of  the 
President's  Party;  and 
President  Jehuda  Reinharz. 

Photos  by  Marvin  Lewiton  and  Julian  Brown 


16  Brandeis  Review 


Left,  President  Reinharz 
receives  applause  upon  his 
Investiture.  Top,  Charles 
I.  Schottland,  President 
of  Brandeis,  1970-72.  Above, 
President  Reinharz's  niece, 
Ariela  Lovett,  daughters 
Yael  and  Naomi,  and  sister 
Lea  Roussos  listen 
to  the  inaugural  address. 


17  Spring  1995 


Left,  The  robing 
in  Gosman  Center. 
Above,  President  Reinharz 
and  Vartan  Gregorian, 
President  of 
Brown  University. 


18  Brandeis  Review 


Below,  Shulamjt  Reinharz, 
flanked  by  other  faculty 
members.  Bottom,  President 
Relnharz's  sister-in-law 
Dr.  Tova  Rothschild,  nephew 
Adam  Lovett,  and  brother- 
in-law  Dr.  Barry  Lovett. 


Top,  President  Reinharz 
greets  delegate  Greggory 
Keith  Spence,  former 
Vice  President  and  General 
Counsel  of  Brandeis, 
1987-91.  He  currently  holds 
the  same  position  at  the 
New  School  for  Social 
Research.  Above,  Reinharz 
and  John  Silber,  President 
of  Boston  University. 


19  Spring  1995 


eetings  from  the  City 
Waltham 


Louis  Perlmutter  '56 
Chair  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees 

On  behalf  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Brandeis 
University,  it  is  my  privilege 
to  welcome  you  to  this 
historic  occasion  in  the  life 
of  this  institution — the 
Inauguration  of  the  seventh 
President  of  Brandeis — the 
only  nonsectarian  university 
sponsored  by  the  American 
Jewish  community.  It  is  an 
institution  that  is  rightfully  a 
source  of  great  pride  to  our 
community  and  a  resource 
for  the  entire  nation. 

It  was  with  Brandeis's 
unique  mission  in  mind,  as 
well  as  the  promise  and 
challenges  for  the  future, 
that  the  Board  of  Trustees 
enthusiastically  selected 
Jehuda  Reinharz  to  be  the 
President  to  lead  Brandeis 
into  the  new  millennium.  So 
the  search  that  began  14 
months  ago  formally  ends 
today  with  the  Inauguration 
of  Jehuda  Reinharz: 

As  John  Masefield  said: 

There  are  few  earthly  things 
more  splendid  than  a 
University. . .  wherever  a 
University  stands,  it  stands 
and  shines:  wherever  it 
exists,  the  free  minds  of 
men  and  women,  urged  on 
to  full  and  fair  inquiry  may 
still  bring  wisdom  into 
human  affairs. 


Mdyor  w 


'filial  If -'f^ 


Any  inauguration  is  a 
special  moment  in  the 
history  of  a  university.  But 
for  Brandeis,  this 
Inauguration  is  historic. 
Jehuda  Reinharz  is  the  first 
alumnus  and  first  member 
of  the  faculty  to  become 
President  of  Brandeis.  A 
scholar,  administrator,  and 
leader,  he  was  educated  at 
Brandeis  where  the  great 
mentors  in  his  field  were 
teaching.  He  taught  and  did 
his  most  productive  work  as 
a  member  of  the  faculty. 
And  he  developed  his 
administrative  skills  as  the 
director  of  The  Tauber 
Institute  for  the  Study  of 
European  Jewry  and  then 
as  provost  and  senior  vice 
president  for  academic 
affairs. 

We  are  fortunate  that  within 
our  inner  family  exists  a 
man  who  in  every  respect 
reflects  the  high  standards 
and  expectations  of  this 
University.  That  is  why  I  am 
confident  and  excited  about 
the  future  of  this  great 
institution  and  I  am  pleased 
that  so  many  of  you  could 
join  with  us  today  to 
celebrate  the  Inauguration 
of  Jehuda  Reinharz. 


It  gives  me  great  pleasure 
to  extend  greetings  from  the 
city  of  Waltham  to  Brandeis 
University  on  this  important 
occasion.  I  congratulate 
Jehuda  Reinharz  on 
becoming  the  seventh 
President  of  Brandeis 
University,  and  officially 
welcome  him  to  our  city. 

Brandeis  University  and  the 
city  of  Waltham  have 
always  had  a  great  deal  in 
common.  Both  the  city  and 
the  University  are  close-knit 
communities  whose 
members  feel  a  strong 
sense  of  belonging,  and  a 
desire  to  use  their  individual 
talents  for  the  well-being  of 
the  whole.  Both  the  city  of 
Waltham  and  Brandeis 
University  draw  strength 
from  their  diversity,  and 
encourage  men  and  women 
of  all  religions  and  ethnic 
backgrounds  to  live  and 
work  together  in  a  spirit  of 
goodwill  and  mutual 
respect.  I  might  also 
mention  that  both  Waltham 
and  Brandeis  value 
education  not  just  as  a 
means  to  earn  a  living,  but 
as  a  path  leading  to 
happiness,  truth,  and  self- 
fulfillment. 

The  city  of  Waltham  is 
proud  to  be  the  home  of 
Brandeis  University.  Over 
the  years,  Brandeis  and  its 


home  city  have  enjoyed  a 
warm  and  productive 
relationship,  one  that  is 
beneficial  to  both  parties. 
We  are  grateful  that 
Brandeis  University  has 
committed  itself  to  the  well- 
being  of  the  city,  and  has 
chosen  to  be  actively 
involved  in  many  worthwhile 
and  important  projects.  I 
look  forward  to  continuing 
this  special  relationship  with 
President  Reinharz. 

The  inauguration  of  a  new 
president  is  a  momentous 
event  in  the  history  of  a 
university.  It  brings  about  a 
feeling  of  excitement,  and  a 
sense  that  all  things  are 
possible.  I  am  quite  certain 
that  Brandeis  will  thrive  and 
prosper  under  the 
leadership  of  President 
Reinharz,  and  maintain  its 
position  as  one  of 
America's  preeminent 
institutions  of  higher 
learning.  I  congratulate 
President  Reinharz  on  this 
important  day  and  wish  him 
success  and  happiness  in 
the  years  to  come. 

Thank  you. 


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Hugh  N.  Pendleton 
Chair  of  the  Faculty 
Senate,  Professor 

Fellow  ceremonians: 
On  behalf  of  the  faculty  of 
Brandels  University  I  bring 
greetings  to  Jehuda 
Reinharz  as  he  is 
inaugurated  as  the  seventh 
President  of  Brandeis 
University.  We  trust  that 
seven  will  be  a  number 
portending  good  fortune  for 
this  University  and  for  its 
newest  President.  As 
Jehuda  undoubtedly  knows, 
the  mathematician  Karl 
Friedrich  Gauss  proved  it 
impossible  to  construct  a 
seven-sided  regular 
polygon  in  a  finite  number 
of  steps  using  ruler  and 
compass  alone.  However,  a 
talented  university 
president  must  do  things 
with  figures  in  a  finite 
amount  of  time  which 
ordinary  mortals  know 
should  take  an  infinite 
amount  of  time.  We  look 
forward  to  Jehuda's 
transfinite  construction  of 
seven-sided  regular 
polygonal  figures,  to  his 
total  mastery  of  monetary 
figures  of  whatever  size  is 
necessary,  and  to  his 
judicial  utilization  of 
professorial  figures.  I  end 
my  greeting  to  Jehuda  with 
a  heartfelt  wish  from  his 
colleagues  on  the  Brandeis 
faculty  and  from  Vulcans 
everywhere:  'Haarekh 
yamim  vehazlah  (live  long 
and  prosper)!" 


Ian  Marinoff  '95 

President 

of  the  Student  Union 

It  is  indeed  an  honor  to 
bring  you  greetings  on 
behalf  of  the  students  of 
this  University.  On  this 
wonderful  occasion  marking 
the  Inauguration  of  the 
University's  seventh 
President,  we  do  much 
more  than  celebrate  a 
period  of  new  leadership. 
What  we  celebrate  today  is 
the  distance  our  University 
has  traveled  since  those 
momentous  days  in  1948. 
Today  is  a  very  special  day 
because  we  draw  attention 
to  the  great  tradition  of  our 
University,  which  has  given 
so  much  to  American  higher 
education  and  to  all  who 
have  studied  and  taught  on 
campus.  Today,  we 
celebrate  not  a  changing  of 
the  guard,  but  the  continuity 
of  a  sacred  tradition  upon 
which  this  University  was 
built  and  depends  still.  We 
draw  attention  to  our  new 


President  and  take  pride  in 
knowing  that  he,  like  all  of 
us,  shares  the  unique  vision 
which  defines  Brandeis's 
own  place  among  its  peers. 
We  celebrate  the 
achievements  of  Brandeis's 
faculty,  students,  and 
alumni.  We  acknowledge 
the  great  potential  of  this 
institution,  and  we  pause  to 
empower  our  University's 
new  leadership  with  words 
of  encouragement  and  of 
hope. 

Today,  as  our  University, 
for  the  first  time, 
inaugurates  an  alumnus  as 
President  we  have  much  to 
be  proud  of  and  much  to 
look  forward  to.  President 
Reinharz — as  a  graduate  of 
Brandeis  you  have  a 
special  bond  to  its  students 
of  today  and  tomorrow. 
From  our  personal 
conversations,  I  know  of 
your  love  and  commitment 
to  this  University  and  its 
students.  We  admire  your 
devotion  to  this  University, 
we  wish  you  the  best  of  luck 
in  guiding  its  future,  and  we 
join  the  entire  community  in 
celebrating  your 
Inauguration  as  President 
today. 


Stephen  H.  Kargere 
President  of  the  Graduate 
Student  Association  (GSA) 

As  this  year's  GSA 
president,  I  am  very  glad 
and  honored  to  have  this 
opportunity  to  congratulate 
the  new  President  of 
Brandeis  University,  on 
behalf  of  the  graduate 
student  body. 

I  am  particularly  pleased  to 
do  so  as  Dr.  Reinharz  is  the 
first  President  in  Brandeis's 
history  to  have  been  a 
graduate  student  here,  from 
1968  to  the  completion  of 
his  Ph.D.  in  1972.  His 
spouse.  Dr.  Shulamit 
Reinharz,  was  also  a 
graduate  student  at 
Brandeis.  obtaining  her 
sociology  Ph.D.  that  same 
year.  Some  of  you  in  the 
audience  may  have  known 
the  couple  back  then.  Since 
this  was  the  sixties,  I  can't 
help  imagining  them  in 
sandals  and  bell-bottoms, 
love  beads  draped  over  tie- 
dyed  T-shirts,  and 
bandannas  holding  back 
long  braids.  Unfortunately,  I 
have  found  no  witness  to 
confirm  this  description. 


21  Spring  1995 


I  wish  especially  to  thank 
President  Reinharz  for 
including  graduate  students 
in  these  Inauguration 
ceremonies.  As  he  knows, 
the  graduate  community  at 
Brandeis  is  eager  to 
participate  in,  and  to 
contribute  to,  all  aspects  of 
the  University's  life.  His 
invitation  attests  to  the 
good  relationship  which  has 
blossomed  in  the  past  few 
years  between  the 
administration  he  now 
heads  and  this  community. 

We  are  all  aware  that 
Brandeis,  and  higher 
education  in  general,  face 
tough  times  ahead,  but  we 
are  confident  that  our  new 
President  will  overcome 
them  and  will  solidify 
Brandeis's  position  as  one 
of  the  premier  small 
research  institutions  in  the 
country,  and  we  wish  him 
well  in  his  endeavor. 


William  S.  Bowen 
Senior  Clerk,  United 
States  Post  Office  and 
Brandei'--  •''■•;  "i  '^'-^■'-n 
It  is  a  great  privilege  to  be 
here  honoring  you  today  on 
your  Inauguration.  As  a 
child  growing  up  in 
Waltham  on  Prospect  Hill 
just  across  the  way,  I  held 
Brandeis  in  awe.  I  used  to 
watch,  every  Fourth  of  July, 
the  fireworks  reflect  off  the 
windows  of  the  dorms,  and  I 
still  see  that  sparkle  in  the 
eyes  of  the  people  who 
come  here  to  learn.  Never 
did  I  dream  that  one  day  I 
would  actually  be  working 
on  this  campus,  just  as  you, 
President  Reinharz, 
probably  never  thought  that 
after  attending  Brandeis, 
you  would  return  "home"  to 
become  seventh  President. 

So  it  is  with  deep 
appreciation  and  gratitude, 
that  I  officially  bring 
greetings  to  you  from  the 
University  and  myself. 


Bruce  B.  Litwer  '61 
President  of  the  Alumni 
Association 

On  behalf  of  the  more  than 
25,000  men  and  women 
who  have  been  educated  at 
this  remarkable  institution,  I 
extend  greetings. 

In  its  two  score  and  seven 
year  history,  Brandeis 
University  has  reached 
many  significant 
milestones,  and  its  alumni 
have  been  a  proud  part  of 
each  and  every  one  of 
them. 

Brandeis  alumni  have 
taken  pride  in  the 
accomplishments  of  its 
high-achieving  graduates, 
who  are  world-class  leaders 
in  their  chosen  fields  of 
endeavor. 

Brandeis  graduates  have 
boasted  when  faculty  and 
alumni  have  distinguished 
themselves  by  winning 
prestigious  prizes  and 
awards,  including 
Fulbrights,  Pulitzers,  and 
MacArthur  Fellowships,  and 
we  are  very  proud  that  the 
presidents  of  15  colleges 
and  universities  come  from 
the  ranks  of  Brandeis 
alumni. 

But  I  can  think  of  no 
prouder  moment  for  alumni 
than  today's  celebration. 
For  Brandeis  alumni  the 


world  over,  this  is  an 
auspicious  occasion.  For 
the  first  time  in  our 
University's  young  life,  a 
fellow  alumnus  from  the 
Class  of  1972  is  being 
inaugurated  as  the 
University's  seventh 
President. 

We  congratulate  Dr. 
Reinharz  on  his 
Inauguration,  and  the 
University  community  on  its 
wisdom  in  choosing  him. 
Mr.  President,  please  know 
that  Brandeis  alumni 
cherish  their  relationship 
with  their  alma  mater, 
recognize  and  appreciate 
the  superior  education  they 
received  from  Brandeis, 
and  are  prepared  to 
shoulder  their 
responsibilities  and  join 
with  you  and  others  in 
strengthening  the 
University's  ability  to  fulfill 
its  mission  as  you  lead 
Brandeis  into  the  21st 
century. 

Good  luck  and  Godspeed. 


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Belle  D.  Jurkowitz  '55 
President  of  the  Nationc 
omen's  Committee 

As  a  pioneer  student  at 
Brandeis  and  a  graduate  of 
the  Class  of  1955,  I  am 
privileged  to  bring  greetings 
from  tfie  Brandeis 
University  National 
Women's  Committee.  This 
organization  of  50,000 
foster  alumni  in  112 
communities  around  the 
country  has  played  a 
significant  role  in  the 
miraculous  growth  of  the 
Brandeis  Libraries — 
Libraries  that  in  part 
determine  the  reputation 
and  rating  of  the  University. 
Providing  the  books, 
journals,  and  research 
materials  for  Brandeis 
students  and  faculty  has 
been  a  labor  of  love:  love 
for  higher  education;  love 
for  this  esteemed 
University;  concern  for  the 
generations  that  follow  us 
and  leave  their  indelible 
impression  on  the  society  in 
which  they  live. 

It  is  with  the  sincere  belief 
that  quality  education  can 
make  a  difference  that  we, 
the  National  Women's 
Committee,  forge  an 
enduring  bond  with  our  new 
President,  Jehuda 
Reinharz.  With  President 
Reinharz,  we  renew  a 
partnership  that  will  take  us 
into  an  imposing  and 


challenging  century  when 
our  global  community  will 
be  blessed  with  greater 
advances  in  technology, 
cutting-edge  research,  and 
a  proactive  society. 

In  the  capable,  innovative, 
and  protective  hands  of 
Jehuda  Reinharz,  Brandeis 
will  take  its  place  among 
the  leaders  in  higher 
education.  As  national 
president  of  the  largest 
friends  of  a  library 
organization  in  the  world,  I 
pledge  our  membership  to 
join  hands  and  hearts  in  the 
search  for  truth,  "even  unto 
its  innermost  parts."  We 
promise  our  continuing 
support  for  libraries  of 
uncompromising  quality  that 
can  keep  pace  with  the 
progress  of  a  changing 
world. 


Vartan  Gregorian 
President  of  Brown 
University 

On  behalf  of  all  the  college 
and  university  presidents  of 
the  nation,  the  academic 
associations,  and  the  entire 
academic  community,  I 
bring  to  you  the 
congratulations  of  your 
sister  universities  and  their 
hope  that  Brandeis 
University  under  your 
leadership  will  prosper  in  its 
second  half  century  no  less 
than  it  has  in  its  first  half 
century. 

The  beginnings  of  this 
University  were  modest  in 
material  possessions,  but 
filled  with  great 
expectations.  A  beginning 
which  has  the  blessing  of 
Albert  Einstein  and  takes 
unto  itself  the  name  of 
Justice  Louis  D.  Brandeis 
has  already  dreamed 
dreams  of  greatness.  In 
1925  Justice  Brandeis 
cautioned  that  money  alone 
cannot  build  a  worthy 
university.  "To  become 
great,"  he  wrote,  "A 
university  must  express  the 
people  whom  it  serves,  and 
must  express  the  people 
and  the  community  at  their 
best. ...The  aim  must  be 
high,  and  the  vision  broad." 

The  choice  of  the  name 
carried  with  it  a  great 
responsibility  to  live  up  to 
the  symbol  it  represented. 
Einstein  wrote:  "Brandeis  is 


a  name  that  cannot  be 
merely  adopted.  It  is  one 
that  must  be  achieved." 

A  succession  of  presidents 
has  led  this  University  to 
achieve  the  recognition  of 
which  Einstein  wrote.  This 
achievement  has  been 
attained  through  a 
leadership  which  has  built  a 
faculty  and  a  student  body 
of  national  and  international 
recognition.  Believing  that 
Brandeis  University  must 
link  truth  and  justice  to 
honor  its  heritage,  this 
University  chose  to  place 
the  Hebrew  word  emeth 
(truth)  at  the  center  of  it 
seal  and  to  derive  its  motto 
from  the  psalmist  who 
demanded,  "The  search  for 
truth,  even  unto  its 
innermost  parts." 

As  a  historian  of  modern 
Jewish  history  who  unites 
Israel  and  the  United  States 
through  your  birth  in  Haifa 
and  your  higher  education 
in  the  United  States,  we 
offer  to  you  and  to  Brandeis 
University  our 
congratulations  and  our 
hope  that  the  Brandeis 
University  of  the  21st 
century  will  continue  to 
manifest  the  linkage  of  the 
search  for  truth  and  the 
demand  for  justice  which 
was  in  the  foundations  of  its 
beginnings  in  1948. 


23  Spring  1995 


Knolo  by  Marvin  Lewilon 


An  Old  and 
Generous  Contract 


On  April  9, 1995,  Jehuda 
Reinharz,  Ph.D.  '72, 
reassured  a  celebratory 
throng  with  these 
remarks  on  the  occasion 
of  his  Inauguration  as  the 
seventh  President  of 
Brandeis  University 


Mr.  Chairman,  Mr.  Chairman-elect,  President 
Gregorian,  fellow  trustees,  fellow  faculty,  fellow 
administrators  and  staff,  fellow  alumni,  fellow  parents, 
students,  members  of  the  Brandeis  inner  family  and 
my  own  family,  honored  guests,  ladies  and  gentlemen. 
Brandeis  is  an  institution  close  to  my  heart.  For  more 
than  27  years,  it  has  played  a  vital  role  in  my  life,  first 
as  a  student,  then  as  an  alumnus,  a  faculty  member,  an 
academic  administrator,  and  now  as  its  seventh 
President. 

In  accepting  the  presidency  of  Brandeis,  I  am  reminded 
of  the  story  about  Herbert  Samuel,  the  first  high 
commissioner  for  Palestine,  who  arrived  in  Jaffa  on 
June  30,  1920,  to  receive  from  Major  General  Louis 
Bols  the  formal  transfer  of  administration.  Bols  had 
prepared  for  Sir  Herbert  a  humorous  typewritten 
receipt  for  "one  Palestine  taken  over  in  good 
condition,"  which  Sir  Herbert  dutifully  signed,  adding 
the  letters  "E.O.E." — Errors  and  Omissions  Excepted. 

I  have  received  from  my  predecessors  "one  Brandeis 
taken  over  in  good  condition" — E.O.E!  I  see  it  as  my 
duty  to  protect  and  nurture  it,  ensuring  that  it  will  be 
available  "in  good  condition"  for  future  generations  of 
Brandeisians.  I  accept  the  obhgations  of  the  Presidency 
as  a  high  honor  and  privilege.  I  recognize  my 
responsibility  as  a  steward,  called  to  preserve  all  that  is 
best  about  Brandeis  while  helping  to  prepare  our 
University  for  the  21st  century. 

Sometimes  I  wonder  how  my  life  might  have  turned 
out  were  it  not  for  the  great  opportunities  offered  by 
this  magnificent  country.  In  1961,  when  my  family 
and  I  landed  in  New  York  City,  I  had  no  money,  knew 
no  English,  and  had  no  immediate  relatives  who  had 
attended  college.  It  was  my  last  year  of  high  school, 
which  I  was  about  to  enter  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  It 
was  also  the  year  I  applied  to  college  and  was  accepted. 
Without  full  scholarships  throughout  my 
undergraduate  and  graduate  years,  provided  both  by 
private  and  government  sources,  combined  with  paid 
jobs  during  the  school  year  and  vacations,  and  without 
faith  in  me  by  my  professors,  I  never  would  have  made 
it. 

I  am  telling  you  all  of  this  so  you  will  understand  how 
I  feel  about  providing  opportunities  to  young  people 
who  have  the  talent,  but  not  necessarily  the  resources, 
to  obtain  a  higher  education.  How  many  young  people 
from  families  of  modest  means  will  be  held  back 
throughout  their  lives  because  of  lack  of  access  to  a 
first-class  education?  How  many  middle-class  families 
will  incur  enormous  debts  in  order  to  educate  their 
children?  And  how  many  other  17-year-old  immigrants 
came  to  the  United  States  this  year?  Where  will  they 
be  this  coming  fall? 

Like  me,  and  like  some  of  you,  many  of  the  men  and 
women  who  founded  Brandeis  University  were  first- 
generation  immigrants.  Most  of  them  had  no 
opportunity  to  attend  college,  but  they  cared 


24  Brandeis  Review 


passionately  about  education,  and  they  knew  its 
worth.  Indeed,  much  of  the  history  of  Brandeis  is  the 
history  of  immigrants.  Today,  for  the  most  part,  the 
names  of  our  students  are  no  longer  Central 
European.  Rather,  they  are  Asian,  Haitian,  Hispanic, 
or  Eastern  European.  But  for  these  students,  as  for  the 
earlier  generations,  the  love  of  learning  and  the  will 
to  succeed  are  intense. 

One  of  the  reasons  I  accepted  the  Brandeis  presidency 
was  to  ensure  for  others  the  same  opportunity  for  a 
quality  education  with  which  I  have  been  blessed. 
This  is  one  of  the  reasons  I  have  spent  a  good  part  of 
my  first  nine  months  in  office  traveling  throughout 
the  country  and  abroad,  trying  to  raise  scholarship 
funds  for  our  students. 

Some  of  you  are  familiar  with  the  story  of  Hillel, 
known  later  as  Hillel  the  Elder,  one  of  the  greatest  of 
the  sages  of  the  period  of  the  Second  Temple.  He 
made  great  sacrifices  to  gain  an  education  in  the 
academy  of  Shemaya  and  Avtalyon.  One  winter  day, 
being  out  of  work,  he  could  not  pay  the  necessary 
admission  charge  to  the  lecture  at  the  academy,  and 
the  doorkeeper  refused  him  admission.  Determined 
not  to  miss  out  on  the  session,  he  climbed  onto  the 
roof  and  listened  to  the  lecture  through  the  skylight. 
Basically,  he  sneaked  into  class.  On  the  following 
morning,  the  lecture  hall  was  darker  than  usual.  On 
looking  up,  the  students  saw  a  human  figure.  Hillel 
had  been  covered  by  the  snow  that  had  fallen  during 
the  night.  Fortunately,  he  was  discovered  in  time  and 
saved. 

The  commitment  to  learning  exhibited  by  Hillel  and 
the  need  to  provide  educational  opportunity  for  those 
with  talent,  but  not  the  means  to  pay,  were  ideals 
motivating  Brandeis's  founding  pioneers.  We  all 
know  that  Brandeis  was  founded  in  1948.  And  some 
of  you  know  that  it  was  formerly  the  site  of 
Middlesex  University.  But  probably  few  of  you  know 
that  Brandeis  is  built  on  Boston  Rock.  It  was  from 
Boston  Rock  that  Governor  John  Winthrop  surveyed 
the  site  of  the  future  city  of  Boston.  He  looked  out 
from  this  place  and  saw  the  future  and  knew  he  was  a 
pioneer. 

I  strongly  identify  with  the  pioneers  at  Brandeis  and 
with  their  successors.  I  also  appreciate  the  foresight 
of  those  men  and  women,  born  in  this  country,  who 
believed  in  the  concept  of  Brandeis  University.  Then 
and  now,  all  of  us  share  a  common  faith  in  the  vast 
opportunities  available  to  individuals  in  America 
through  a  combination  of  individual  effort  and 
community  support. 

The  founding  of  Brandeis  University  in  the 
immediate  aftermath  of  World  War  II  and  the 
Holocaust  was  a  reaffirmation  of  the  extraordinary 
vitality  of  the  Jewish  people  who  began  rebuilding 
wherever  Jews  were  dispersed.  After  the  long 
darkness  of  the  European  night,  what  could  be  a  more 
powerful  symbol  of  freedom  and  light  than  a  Jewish- 
sponsored  university,  open  to  all  regardless  of  race. 


creed,  gender,  or  economic  means.  The  founding  of 
Brandeis  was  a  singular  act  of  courage  and  faith. 

The  men  and  women  who  founded  Brandeis  knew  that 
spiritual  rebuilding  in  the  aftermath  of  physical 
destruction  was  a  necessity.  In  some  ways  they 
followed  the  example  of  the  founders  of  the  Yavneh 
Academy  after  the  destruction  of  the  Second  Temple. 
They  knew  that  this  idea  would  resonate  in  the  hearts 
and  minds  of  all  people,  Jews  and  non-Jews  alike. 

The  founding  of  the  University  almost  defied 
rationality.  Imagine  for  a  moment  what  would  have 
happened  if,  before  establishing  Brandeis,  the  founders 
had  hired  a  consultant  to  conduct  a  needs-assessment 
for  a  new  university  in  the  Greater  Boston  area.  Would 
they  have  been  encouraged  to  proceed?  And  to 
heighten  their  challenge,  the  founders  planned  to  name 
the  new  school,  not  for  a  generous  donor,  but  for  an 
illustrious  Supreme  Court  Justice  whose  contribution 
would  be  wisdom,  not  wealth.  That  initial  lack  of 
resources  seems  only  to  have  spurred  the  founders  to 
even  greater  achievements. 

In  his  inaugural  message  in  1948,  President  Abram 
Sachar  stated:  "A  new  institution  must  move  slowly 
and  modestly...."  We  can  all  be  thankful  that  he  did 
not  heed  his  own  words.  Today,  as  we  near  our  50th 
anniversary,  we  take  pride  in  all  that  has  been 
achieved  in  such  a  remarkably  short  time,  but  we  are 
also  challenged  to  fulfill  the  trust  vested  in  us  by 
Brandeis's  founders. 

The  world  has  undergone  enormous  change  since  1948, 
not  always  for  the  better.  Universities,  however, 
remain  islands  of  hope  in  a  world  that  all  too 
frequently  fails  to  appreciate  calm  reason,  open- 
minded  dialogue,  and  respectful  dissent.  Women  and 
men  desperately  need  the  few  years  that  colleges  and 
universities  provide  to  learn  to  open  their  hearts  and 
minds  to  new  ideas,  new  cultures,  and  new  ways  of 
seeing  and  interpreting  the  world,  while 
simultaneously  retaining  and  strengthening  their  own 
cultural  identity. 

Institutions,  like  individuals,  have  their  own  distinct 
identities.  From  its  earliest  years,  Brandeis's  identity 
was  that  of  a  small,  liberal  arts  college  within  a 
research  university,  an  institution  committed  to  both 
undergraduate  and  graduate  education.  It  is  part  of  the 
tradition  in  American  higher  education  of  institutions 
founded  as  the  special  responsibility  of  particular 
denominational  groups.  It  is  one  of  the  last  institutions 
that  is  heir  to  this  tradition.  It  has  a  clear  and 
unambiguous  identity  that  rests  on  four  solid  pillars: 
dedication  to  academic  excellence,  nonsectarianism,  a 
commitment  to  social  action,  and  continuous 
sponsorship  by  the  Jewish  community. 


25  Spring  1995 


As  the  University's  mission  statement  declares: 

Biandeis  was  founded  in  1 948  as  a  nonsectaiian 
univeisity  under  the  sponsorship  of  the  American 
Jewish  community  to  embody  its  highest  ethical  and 
cultural  values  and  to  express  its  gratitude  to  the 
United  States  through  the  traditional  Jewish 
commitment  to  education.  By  being  a  nonsectarian 
university  that  welcomes  students  and  teachers  of 
every  nationality,  religion,  and  political  orientation, 
Brandeis  renews  the  American  heritage  of  cultural 
diversity,  equal  access  to  opportunity,  and  freedom 
of  expression. 

The  University's  pride  in  the  traditional  Jewish  love 
of  learning  and  the  American  heritage  of  cultural 
diversity,  equal  access  to  opportunity,  and  freedom  of 
expression  are  as  relevant  today  as  in  1948.  Our  ideals 
and  values  have  not  changed;  nor  should  they.  I 
assume  gladly  the  responsibility  of  helping  to  sustain, 
refine,  and  enlarge  the  mission  of  Brandeis  University 
as  a  nonsectarian  institution  that  is  both  proud  of  its 
heritage  and  welcoming  of  diversity,  committed  to 
what  Abba  Eban  once  called  "particularism  without 
parochialism." 

The  tie  between  Brandeis  and  the  Jewish  community 
is  as  strong  today  as  it  was  in  1948.  In  fact,  in  a  time 
of  flux,  uncertainty,  and  lack  of  direction  within  the 
American  Jewish  community,  Brandeis,  with  its 
superb  Judaica  scholars  and  researchers,  its 
community  organizers  and  educators,  is  a  unique  and 
special  resource.  I  see  Brandeis  as  a  partner,  helping 
to  set  the  agenda  with  the  Jewish  community,  as  it 
wrestles  with  the  challenges  confronting  it 
throughout  North  America  and  beyond. 

An  inauguration  is  a  celebration  of  the  individual 
being  formally  invested  with  the  authority  to  lead  the 
university.  But,  in  a  far  more  important  sense,  it  is  an 
affirmation  of  the  strength  and  permanence  of  the 
institution.  Brandeis  has  fulfilled  many  of  its  dreams. 
But  as  proud  as  we  are  of  our  past  accomplishments, 
we  look  forward,  not  backward,  expanding  our 
tradition  of  intellectual  experimentation. 

Contrary  to  the  myth  that  universities  are  ivory 
towers,  removed  from  the  problems  of  society,  there 
are  at  Brandeis,  as  elsewhere,  many  faculty  members 
and  students  who  deal  with  these  very  problems.  The 
University's  Program  in  Humanities  and  the 
Professions,  for  example,  sensitizes  judges, 
physicians,  and  other  professionals  to  the  ethical 
dimensions  and  dilemmas  of  their  work.  The 
Brandeis  Intercultural  Center  provides  a  forum  for 
students  to  appreciate,  understand,  and  deal  with  one 
another's  ethnic,  racial,  and  cultural  differences.  The 
Waltham  Group  engages  over  300  undergraduates  in 
social  service  projects  in  the  city  of  Waltham.  The 
Women's  Studies  Program  has  begun  an  internship  in 
the  prevention  of  violence  against  women  and 


children,  and  the  Heller  School  develops  policies  and 
programs  focused  on  the  needs  of  the  elderly,  women, 
children,  and  the  disadvantaged  in  our  society. 

The  challenge  for  me  is  to  guarantee  to  our  faculty  and 
students  the  resources  that  will  enable  Brandeis  to 
respond  to  the  demands  of  a  rapidly  shifting 
environment.  A  university  president  is  not  unlike  the 
mayor  of  a  small  city,  who  is  involved  in  education, 
construction  and  facilities  maintenance,  snow 
removal,  housing,  dining  services,  security,  athletic 
and  entertainment  programs,  business  and 
transportation  services,  and,  of  course,  parking.  And 
always  there  are  budgetary  concerns. 

Like  a  city,  we,  too,  have  elections,  a  council — actually 
many  councils  and  governing  groups — numerous 
competing  interests  all  vying  for  the  same  finite 
resources.  No,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  this  is  not  the 
ivory  tower;  this  is  the  real  world! 

Like  the  mayors  of  cities,  we  must  find  the  resources 
to  attract  and  retain  the  finest  faculty  and  staff  and  to 
ensure  the  maintenance  and  upgrading  of  our  physical 
facilities.  Brandeis  must  continue  to  enhance  the 
quality  of  life  on  campus  for  both  undergraduates  and 
graduate  students,  and  we  must  strengthen  our 
competitive  ability  to  recruit  the  best  and  the  brightest 
young  men  and  women. 

Many  of  the  problems  we  face  involve  money  or,  more 
accurately,  the  absence  of  money.  Today,  the 
government,  which  has  been  a  major  source  of  support 
for  education,  is  drawing  back.  Proposals  are  pending 
in  Congress  that  could,  among  other  things,  eliminate 
campus-based  student  aid  programs,  reduce  or  cap 
indirect  costs  for  federally  sponsored  research,  limit 
growth  of  the  National  Science  Foundation,  and  reduce 
or  eliminate  funding  for  the  arts  and  humanities. 

At  the  same  time  that  the  government  is  poised  to 
decrease  its  support  for  higher  education,  expectations 
regarding  universities  are  increasing.  Ironically,  this  is 
occurring  at  a  time  when  public  skepticism  is  on  the 
rise  about  what  universities  do  and  public  concern  is 
voiced  about  the  cost  of  doing  it.  It  is  little  wonder 
that  university  presidents  feel  that  we  spend  100 
percent  of  our  time  trying  to  raise  funds  and  the 
remaining  100  percent  of  our  time  being  available  to 
faculty,  students,  alumni,  parents,  and  trustees. 

But  finances  alone  are  not  the  only  concern.  Every  day 
serious  debates  arise  about  higher  education.  Should 
public  universities  support  graduate  education  and 
research  or  exclusively  provide  training  for  particular 
jobs?  What  is  the  relationship  of  research  to  first-rate 
undergraduate  education?  To  what  extent  can  a 
tenured  professor  say  what  he  or  she  likes  in  the 
classroom?  What  are  the  permissible  limits  of  student 
conduct  on  campus?  Affirmative  action,  political 
correctness,  multiculturalism,  hate  speech  codes, 
gender  equity  in  athletics,  the  management  style  of 
presidents,  the  impact  of  new  technologies  on  the 


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quality  of  education,  the  access  of  controversial 
speakers  to  the  campus — all  are  discussed  on  the 
front  pages  of  our  nation's  newspapers  and  in  the 
media. 

How  we  resolve  these  issues  is  part  of  what  the 
philosopher  John  Dewey  called  the  informal  curric- 
ulum. The  formal  curriculum  is  listed  in  the 
catalogue;  the  informal  curriculum  refers  to  the  way 
the  institution  conducts  itself,  how  it  deals  with 
ethical  issues  and  builds  character.  Similarly,  Abba 
Hillel  Silver,  a  great  American  rabbi  of  this  century, 
referred  to  true  education  as  "intelligence  plus 
character." 

This  role  of  building  character  may  explain  the 
interest  and  the  concern  that  the  public  has  with  our 
nation's  campuses.  The  public  wants  to  know  what 
kind  of  character  we  are  building.  The  public 
unabashedly  holds  colleges  and  universities  to  a 
higher  standard  of  conduct  than  it  often  holds  for 
itself.  The  public's  expectations  impose  grave 
responsibilities  on  our  colleges  and  universities. 
Given  these  high  expectations,  it  behooves  the  state, 
the  federal  government,  and  society  at  large  to  help 
support  our  institutions  of  higher  education.  We 
sometimes  forget  that  America's  system  of  public  and 
private  higher  education  is  one  of  its  greatest 
resources.  Brandeis  is  a  small,  albeit  sparkling,  jewel 
in  this  crown.  As  a  nation,  we  will  come  to  regret 
sorely  any  lessening  of  our  support  for  higher 
education. 

As  I  noted  earlier,  an  inauguration  is  a  time  to 
celebrate,  but  it  is  also  a  time  to  dream.  I  have 
spoken  of  my  past  and  of  the  University's  past  and 
some  of  the  challenges  that  confront  us  today.  But 
what  about  tomorrow?  It  is  well  known  that 
American  society  is  characterized  by  enormous 
change,  and  economic  advantage  most  often  comes  to 
those  who  best  cope  with  change.  Even  the  notion  of 
what  it  means  to  be  an  educated  person  is  changing. 
Increasingly,  an  educated  person  will  be  the  woman 
or  man  who  has  learned  how  to  learn  enthusiastically 
throughout  the  course  of  her  or  his  life. 

For  Brandeis  this  means  an  increased  flexibility  in  the 
curriculum,  a  continuing  emphasis  on  the 
interdisciplinary  aspects  of  education  and  a 
diminishing  of  the  artificial  and  often  arbitrary 
boundaries  that  divide  disciplines.  This  approach  to 
learning  is  already  in  evidence  at  Brandeis  in  areas  as 
diverse  as  the  Gordon  Public  Policy  Center,  the 
program  in  genetic  counseling,  and  the  Volen 
National  Center  for  Complex  Systems. 

Cyberspace,  a  term  coined  a  decade  ago  by  a  science 
fiction  writer,  has  become  a  reality  for  millions  of 
Americans,  most  especially  the  young.  It  is  estimated 
that  by  the  turn  of  the  century  more  than  100  million 
people  will  be  connected  to  the  information  highway 


that  electronically  links  the  world.  As  a  consequence, 
the  very  way  in  which  we  learn  is  changing.  Students 
on  the  Brandeis  campus  can  access  material  from  a 
library  in  Melbourne,  Australia,  more  quickly  than 
they  can  walk  from  their  dorm  rooms  to  the  Farber 
Library. 

But  this  information  revolution  is  not  without  its 
darker,  unintended  consequences.  The  same 
communication  explosion  that  enables  us  to 
electronically  access  libraries  worldwide  also  allows 
for  the  creation  of  Internet  bulletin  boards  devoted  to 
child  pornography.  A  communication  network  that 
will  one  day  link  virtually  every  home  and  institution 
in  America  raises  important  questions  about  personal 
privacy,  our  sense  of  community,  and  our  very  values 
for  a  democratic  society.  Will  computers  that  check 
our  spelling  or  balance  our  checkbook  create  in  all  of 
us  expectations  that  tend  to  narrow  rather  than  expand 
our  human  potential? 

For  Brandeis,  and  for  all  of  America's  colleges  and 
universities,  the  future  will  belong  to  those 
institutions  that  best  anticipate  the  changes  that  are 
coming.  Certain  aspects  of  libraries  and  other  research 
facilities  that  we  take  for  granted  will  become 
obsolete.  Instructional  formats  will  change.  When  you 
can  link  individuals  and  institutions  simultaneously 
through  an  interactive  electronic  network,  the  role  and 
definition  of  the  classroom  is  transformed.  Even 
student  demonstrations — a  well-established  tradition 
at  Brandeis — are  being  transformed,  as  was  evident  in 
the  recent  protests  organized  over  the  Internet  against 
budget  reduction  proposals  in  Congress.  The 
relationships  among  institutions  will  also  be 
transformed,  and  partnerships  will  be  created,  perhaps 
reducing  unnecessary  duplication.  I  foresee  many  more 
formal  and  informal  partnerships  like  the  program 
recently  begun  by  Brandeis,  Tufts,  and  Northeastern  to 
train  physicians  in  aspects  of  business  and  health 
policy.  In  short,  there  is  scarcely  a  sector  of  our  society 
that  will  not  be  changed  in  this  revolution  that  is 
already  well  underway,  a  revolution  as  profound  as  any 
social  or  technological  transformation  in  the  course  of 
human  history. 

Brandeis  has  tremendous  potential  to  respond  and  to 
anticipate  these  changes.  Its  institutional  size 
facilitates  the  process  of  change.  Its  superb  faculty, 
working  cooperatively  with  the  administration  and 
students  in  strategic  planning,  its  tradition  of 
educational  experimentation,  and  a  willingness  to  take 
risks  all  bode  well  for  the  future. 

Everyone  is  familiar  with  the  current  discussion  in 
Congress  about  a  Contract  with  America.  And  many  of 
us  have  strong  opinions  about  it.  But  there  is  another 
and  a  much  older  and  more  generous  contract.  It  is  the 
contract  that  each  generation  has  with  future 
generations,  the  contract  that  each  of  us,  individually 
and  collectively,  has  with  the  generations  of  young 
people  who  will  come  after  us.  I  pledge  that,  with  your 
help  and  good  wishes,  that  contract  among  the 
generations  will  be  honored  at  Brandeis. 


Thank  you. 


27  Spring  1995 


Judy  Pfatf's 
"Elephant" 
transformed 
ttie  Rose  into 
a  magical 
environment 
for  nearly 
two  months 
this  winter 


These  images  by  University 
photographer  Heather  Pillar 
document  the  installation, 
"Elephant,"  created  for 
the  main  galleries  of  the 
Rose  Art  Museum  this  past 
January  by  internationally 
recognized  artist  Judy  Pfaff. 
Working  with  a  crew  that 
included  several  Brandeis 
students,  Pfaff  produced 
the  installation  during 
a  two-week  residency  that 
was  made  possible  by 
a  grant  from  Mrs.  Robert  B. 
Mayer  of  Chicago.  Boston 
Globe  critic  Nancy  Stapen 


Scenes  of 


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28  Brandeis  Review 


ation 


Text  by  Carl  Belz 


praised  the  installation, 
calling  it  unforgettable, 
an  assessment  confirmed 
enthusiastically  by  all 
who  saw  or  where  involved 
in  the  project. 

Following  a  visit  last 
year  to  familiarize  herself 
with  the  space  and  its 
idiosyncrasies — the  pool, 
the  stairs,  the  huge 
windows  at  the  rear  of  the 
upper  gallery — Judy  arhved 
at  the  Museum  on 
a  Friday  morning  in  a  truck 
filled  with  materials  and 
equipment:  fiberglass, 
copper  tubing,  vines,  steel 


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Photographs 
by  Heather  Pillar 


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wire,  lumber,  staging,  pipe 
cutters  and  threaders, 
welding  torches  and  tanks 
of  acetylene,  all  of  it 
resembling  an  unwieldy  but 
intriguing  palette  that  would 
yield  up. ..who  could  tell? 
Judy  herself  confessed 
anxiously  that  she  had  no 
better  idea  than  any  of  us 
about  what  would 
materialize  (she  had  spent 
the  previous  six  months 
working  on  a  major 
installation  in  Philadelphia), 
but  she  returned  from  lunch 


that  same  afternoon  and 
said  she  received  her 
inspiration  while  sitting  in 
her  truck  in  the  parking  lot 
in  the  back  of  the  Museum, 
it  was  a  birch  tree,  about 
45  feet  tall  and  looking 
as  though  it  was  about  to 
tumble  onto  her  vehicle, 
and  she  said  she  wanted 
to  dig  it  up  and  bnng  it  into 
the  space,  roots  and  all. 

Which  she  did,  suspending 
it  against  the  back  wall  of 
the  main  gallery  like  a  giant 
paint  brush  (abdominal 
aorta?  elephant 
trunk?. ..many  readings 


I 


were  suggested),  while 
causing  fiberglass  and  wire 
and  copper  pipe  and 
twisting  vines  to  extend  its 
reach  throughout  the 
surrounding  space  both 
upstairs  and  down,  onto  the 
walls  and  into  the  water, 
creating  an  environmental 
drawing  that  eloquently 
combined  natural 
and  human  energies,  that 
was  as  physical  on  the 
one  hand  as  it  was  magical 
on  the  other.  I  wish 
you  could  have  seen  it. 


31  Spring  1995 


Carl  Belz  is  the  Henry 
and  Lois  Foster  Director 
of  the  Rose  Art 
Museum  at  Brandeis. 

Heather  Pillar  is  a  staff 
photographer  at  Brandeis. 


32  Brandeis  Review 


■#■: 


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An  opera  buff's 
survey  of  the 
classics'*  shows^ 
that  while 


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became  piibr 
idols,  the  ■■ 
heroine; ' 
they  po, 


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by  Barbara  Koral  RaJsner 


Grand  opera  is  the  art  form  in  which 
the  mores,  beliefs,  fears,  and 
prejudices  of  the  18th  and  19th 
centuries  are  writ  large.  Human 
willfulness  and  passion  are  shown  in 
intense  focus  against  backgrounds 
ranging  from  classical  mythology 
through  biblical  tales;  from  histories  of 
warriors  and  aristocrats  through 
"verismo"  stories  of  ordinary  people 
living  their  everyday  lives. 

Most  of  the  operas  in  the  popular 
repertory  were  written  in  the  period 
beginning  with  the  French  Revolution 
and  ending  with  World  War  I.  They 
were  conceived  by  composers  and 
librettists  who  reflected  the  European 
Christian  society  in  which  they  lived. 

As  we  recognize  that  our  popular 
media  (movies,  novels,  television) 
speak  to  our  20th-century  fears, 
beliefs,  and  prejudices — frequently 
portraying  women  either  as  victims  of 
rape,  murder,  and  betrayal,  or  as 
temptresses  and  schemers,  so  Grand 
Opera,  the  popular  art  form  of  the 
19th  century,  can  be  viewed  as  a 
mirror  of  the  Western  mind  of  that 
period.  Widely  held  concepts  of 
gender  roles  are  dramatized  in  the 
portrayal  of  women  as  victims  or 
devils,  but  rarely  as  "heroes."  The 
noble  females  are  usually  called  upon 
to  sacrifice  themselves  for  the  sake  of 
the  men  they  love,  but  when  they 
thwart  the  agenda  of  the  men  who 
control  them  they  are  punished. 
Although  19th-century  opera  appears 
to  be  about  romantic  love,  it  is  actually 
about  revenge,  jealousy,  and  guilt.  In 
the  vast  number  of  situations  it 
involves  a  woman  who  loves  the 
'wrong"  man,  and  it  usually  results  that 
the  woman  "pays  the  price"  with  her 
life. 

In  Verdi's  Otello,  Desdemona 

sings  a  sad  song  about  a  young 
maiden  who  mourns:  "He  was  bom  to 
his  glory— and  I  was  born  to  love  and 
die."  In  these  few  plaintive  words  she 
has  expressed  the  tragic  theme  of 
most  of  our  "grand  operas."  But  why 
are  the  female  characters  invariably 
so  emotional,  so  dramatic? 

A  little  historical  background  is 
needed  to  fully  explain  the  place  of 
the  "diva"  in  the  culture  of  this  period. 


Up  until  the  late  18th  century,  female 
roles  in  "Classical"  opera  were  sung 
by  male  castrati  because  women  were 
forbidden  on  the  public  stage.  With 
the  gradual  disappearance  and  final 
outlawing  of  the  practice  of  castration, 
women  began  to  assume  leading 
roles  and  to  thrill  the  public  with  florid 
exhibitions  of  vocal  artistry.  These 
"divas"  became  such  public  idols  that 
in  1820,  when  a  house  servant  earned 
about  $30  per  year,  and  an  orchestral 
musician  could  earn  perhaps  $200  per 
year,  a  reigning  soprano  star  could 
command  $500  for  a  single 
performance.  There  was  no  other 
possible  opportunity  for  a  woman  to 
earn  that  kind  of  money;  women  who 
were  employed  away  from  the  home 
or  farm  slaved  in  menial,  low-paid 
labor.  Naturally,  composers  created 
operatic  roles  that  would  attract  super- 
star sopranos  who  would  attract  the 
paying  public  to  the  theaters. 
Consequently,  women  figured  very 
prominently  in  opera,  appearing  in 
highly  dramatic  and  emotionally 
charged  roles. 

By  studying  these  heroines,  we  can 
discern  volumes  about  the 
fundamental  "belief  systems"  that        i 
prevailed  in  the  Europe  of  this  period. 

To  begin  with,  women  in  the  19th 
century  tended  to  be  dehumanized. 
Upper-class  women  were 
condescended  to,  treated  like 
children,  or  put  on  pedestals 
(effectively  keeping  them  out  of  the 
real  world  of  men),  while  lower-class 
women  were  exploited  as  servants  or 
factory  laborers.  Most  commonly,  they 
were  trapped  in  a  life  of  domestic 
drudgery,  back-breaking  farm  work, 
and  early  death  from  repeated  child- 
bearing. 

In  all  classes,  women  were  chattel, 
the  property  of  their  fathers  until 
marriage,  and  their  husbands 
thereafter.  They  had  no  property  of 
their  own,  had  no  role  in  government, 
and  rarely  if  ever  had  an  opportunity 
to  express  their  needs  and  beliefs 
publicly.  Only  a  few  determined 
eccentrics  (usually  "spinsters") 
succeeded  in  publishing  their  writing 
or  exhibiting  their  painting.  Queens 
and  empresses  were,  of  course,  the 
rare  exceptions.  In  real  life  they  had 
wealth  and  power.  (In  opera,  though, 
they  frequently  met  the  fate  of  their 
less  noble  sisters.) 


35  Spring  1995 


And  yet,  women  were  held  responsible 
for  the  honor  of  their  families.  In 
Catholic  societies  (where  divorce  was 
forbidden)  it  was  not  uncommon  for 
wealthy  men  to  have  mistresses  and 
concubines,  with  no  resulting  loss  of 
respectability.  But  a  woman's  behavior 
reflected  on  her  husband,  and  she  was 
expected  to  uphold  the  honor  of  the 
family  or  pay  the  price  if  she  did  not. 
And  death  was  not  too  great  a  price  to 
pay.  So,  poor  tragic  Desdemona  is 
murdered  by  her  husband  because  he 
wrongly  believes  that  she  dishonored 
him  by  having  a  relationship  with  young 
Cassio — Otello's  jealousy  having  been 
deliberately  roused  for  political  reasons 
by  the  scheming  lago. 

That  is  one  approach  to  the  problem  of 
an  unfaithful  wife.  (When  Otello  realizes 
that  Desdemona  was  innocent,  he 
stabs  himself  and  dies  in  his  remorse 
and  guilt.)  Another  approach  also 
involving  domestic  murder  is  explored 
in  the  "verismo"  favorite,  I  Pagliacci. 
Here,  Canio,  the  clown,  took  in  and 
married  Nedda  when  she  was  poor 
and  homeless.  He  then  suspects 
(correctly)  that  she  has  a  lover,  and 
demands  to  know  the  man's  name. 
When  Nedda  refuses  to  reveal  it,  he 
stabs  her.  Her  lover,  Silvio,  rushes 
towards  her  and  is  stabbed  as  well. 
Since  Nedda  was  indeed  unfaithful,  and 
therefore  deserved  punishment,  Canio 
need  not  kill  himself  in  this  drama.  He 
simply  tells  us,  "La  commedia  e  finita." 
(The  play  is  over.) 

In  another  twist,  the  eponymous 
Carmen,  a  girl  of  questionable 
character,  is  not  even  married  to  the 
jealous  Don  Jose.  Nevertheless,  he 
feels  so  dishonored  by  her  having 
broken  off  her  affair  with  him  to  pursue 
Escamilio,  the  dashing  toreador,  that  he 
threatens  her  with  death.  She  declares 
that  she  would  rather  die  than  live  with 
a  man  she  does  not  love,  so  he  stabs 
her  outside  the  bullring  while  the  crowd 
within  is  cheering  Escamilio.  Again, 
since  Carmen  was  unfaithful,  it  is  not 
considered  necessary  to  show  the 
audience  Don  Jose's  fate.  He  may,  like 
Canio,  pay  for  committing  murder,  but 
that  is  not  the  concern  of  Bizet's  opera. 
Carmen  has  received  her  "just 
desserts." 


Another  fatal  mistake  our  operatic 
heroines  frequently  make  is  loving  the 
wrong  man.  He  might  have  been  her 
brother's  political  rival,  or  the  son  of 
her  father's  traditional  nemesis.  Or ' 
might  belong  to  an  enemy  nation.  ' 
Frequently,  the  woman  is  expected  tS 
make  a  marriage  that  will  strengthen 
the  family's  financial  or  social  position. 
When  she  rejects  the  chosen  suitor 
because  she  is  in  love  with  someone 
else,  the  family  (or  the  Fates)  exae* 
revenge. 

These  stories  also  reflect  the  widely 
held  belief  (probably  initiated  by  Adam 
and  Eve)  that  women  are  inherently 
weaker  in  character  than  men;  that 
they  lack  moral  strength  and  cannot 
control  their  impulses.  When  faced 
with  the  need  to  choose  between  love 
and  obedience,  they  sometimes  "go 
mad"  and  kill  either  their  tormentors  or 
themselves  or  both.  We  know  that  in 
Victorian  society,  illness  was  a  familiar 
female  escape  from  unlivable 
situations.  But  while  real  women  had 
"vapours"  and  "took  to  their  beds," 
operatic  heroines  collapsed  into 
insanity.  (Of  course,  there's  another 
agenda  here  as  well;  these  "mad 
scenes"  give  the  sopranos  wonderful 
opportunities  to  electrify  the  audience 
with  their  vocal  histrionics.) 

Here's  the  classic  example  of  a  lady 
caught  in  that  tragic  mess:  Donizetti's 
Lucia  de  Lammermoor  is 

betrothed  to  the  rich  Arturo  by  her 
brother  who  hopes  thereby  to 
increase  the  family's  real  estate 
holdings.  She,  however,  loves 
Edgardo,  her  brother's  traditional 
enemy.  When  forced  to  marry  Arturo 
she  goes  mad,  kills  Arturo  on  the 
wedding  night,  and  then  dies 
(presumably  of  madness).  In  an 
unusual  twist,  Edgardo,  upon  hearing 
of  her  death,  collapses  in  grief  and 
kills  himself. 

Male  suicides  are  extremely  rare  in 
opera.  Many  men  die— in  war,  in 
duels,  in  murder  plots — but  only 
Otello,  Edgardo,  and  another  Donizetti 
tenor,  Pollione,  in  Norma,  come 


36  Brandeis  Review 


immediately  to  mind  as  suicides. 
Norma,  a  Druid  priestess,  also  loves 
the  enemy,  a  Roman  soldier,  and 
secretly  has  two  children  by  him. 
Disgraced  before  her  people  and  no 
longer  divinely  chaste  (the  "Casta 
Diva'),  she  chooses  suicide,  and 
Pollione  joins  her  on  the  funeral  pyre. 
Wrong  man,  again.  Let  us  look  at 


the  Ethiopian  slave  and 
edient  daughter  in  Verdi's  next- 
to-last  opera,  loves  Radames,  the 
Egyptian  soldier  and  enemy  of  her 
people.  Her  father  persuades  her  to 
trick  Radames  into  revealing  the 
'"cation  of  the  Egyptian  army.  Aida 
Sists,  but  she  knows  she  is  doomed. 
e  betrays  her  lover  because  she 
mot  deny  her  father's  will.  When 
dames  Is  eventually  captured  and 
tombed,  Aida  (the  embodiment  of 
p  noble,  self-sacrificing  woman) 
leaks  into  the  tomb  to  be  buried 
alive  with  him.  Together  they  lament 
the  beautiful  world  they  leave  behind. 

Puccini's  Madama  Butterfly  (Clo- 
Cio-San)  is  another  self-sacrificer. 
She  has  betrayed  and  rejected  her 
traditional  Japanese  ancestors  by 
loving  and  marrying  the  American 
Lieutenant  Pinkerton.  A  naive  15- 
year-old,  she  believes  the  marriage 
will  be  permanent  and  that  she  will 
adapt  to  American  society.  But 
Pinkerton  is  interested  in  sex,  not 
love.  He  merely  pretends  to  marry 
Butterfly  knowing  that  he  will  have  a 
real  American  wife  soon.  When 
Butterfly  later  realizes  that  she  has 
been  abandoned  and  disgraced,  she 
takes  the  only  way  out  that  her  culture 
offers:  hara  kiri. 

Unlike  Aida  and  Butterfly,  whose 
suicides  do  nothing  to  benefit  their 
lovers,  Gilda,  in  Verdi's  Rigoletto, 
sacrifices  herself  for  a  purpose.  When 
she  overhears  a  murder  plot 
(arranged  secretly  by  her  father) 
against  the  feckless  Duke  of  Mantua, 
with  whom  she  is  infatuated,  she 
substitutes  herself  for  the  intended 
victim,  thereby  saving  the  Duke's  life. 
The  cad!  His  celebrated  aria,  "La 
Donna  e  Mobile," vihicU  is  repeated 
just  after  Gilda  is  fatally  stabbed,  tells 
of  the  joys  of  making  love  to  feather- 


brained wome 
the  Duke's  reac 


his  actions  i 


er  do  witness 
Gilda's  self- 


led  his  own 


Incic^tally,  Verdi  wrote  26  operas.  In 
10,  the  father-daughter  relationship  is 
central  to  the  plot.  Most  often  the 
father  sets  up  or  causes  the  chain  of 
circumstances  that  inevitably  leads  to 
the  daughter's  tragic  end.  Is  it 
significant  that  Verdi's  young  wife  and 
two  young  children  died  in  a  short 
period  of  time  or  that  he  was  totally 
estranged  from  his  parents  as  anlr 
adult?  Was  he  obsessed  with 
parenting?  That's  the  subje^|»f 
another  exploration. 

Returning  to  Butterfly,  we  can  see 

the  reflection  of  another  aspect  of  the 
Western  mind  of  the  19th  century:  the 
separation  of  love  from  sex.  Catholic 
teaching  from  Paul  through  Aquinas, 
reinforced  by  Protestant  emphasis  on 
original  sin  (which  was  often  thought 
to  pass  from  generation  to  genei 
through  the  male^^^^,  resultc 
pervasive  sexuallHpPat  flowered  in 
the  Victorian  era.Tormany  men  of 
that  time,  sexuality  was  so  fraught 
with  guilt  that  it  had  to  be  morally 
separated  from  love.  Only  devalued 
women,  unworthy  of  true  love  and 
marriage,  could  be  objects  of  sexual 
desire.  Those  men  who  could  afford  it 
kept  mistresses;  others,  of  course, 
used  prostitutes.  But  the  women  they 
married  were  to  be  chaste  and 
basically  asexual.  Poor  Butterfly,  a 
member  of  an  alien  (read,  inferior) 
race  who  worked  as  a  geisha,  suits 
this  role  perfectly.  Her  kind  of  figure, 
the  devalued,  exotic,  sexualized 
woman,  is  quite  common  in  romantic 
opera.  Consider  Tosca,  the  actress; 
Carmen,  the  promiscuous  gypsy  girl; 
Mimi,  the  Bohemian  who  presumably 
practices  "free  love,"  and  Violetta, 
the  courtesan. 


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We  all  mourn  for  tragic  Violetta  in 
Verdi's  La  Traviata.  She  is  faced 
with  a  clear-cut  demand  for  her 
sacrifice  by  her  lover's  father.  Since  she 
is  known  to  be  a  woman  of  the 
"demimonde,"  her  relationship  with 
Alfredo  cannot  lead  to  marriage.  In  fact, 
it  so  imperils  the  conventional 
bourgeois  marriage  of  Alfredo's  sister 
that  his  father  implores  Violetta  to  give 
him  up,  assuring  her  that  she  will  find 
another  lover.  (Her  impending  death 
from  consumption  does  nothing  to 
soften  his  heart.)  She  reluctantly 
consents  and  later  dies,  consoled  only 
by  the  knowledge  that  Alfredo  has 
learned  of  her  noble  sacrifice  and  has 
arrived  to  spend  her  final  hour  at  her 
side. 


In  dramatic  operas  we  see  masculine 
sadism,  an  extreme  of  the  Victorian 
era's  acceptable  masculine  aggression 
directed  against  enemies  in  war, 
political  prisoners,  or  other  assorted 
villains.  Now  consider  another  situation, 
the  relationship  between  a  sadistic 
male  pursuer  and  his  female  victim.  Our 
operatic  predator  is  usually  a  man  of 
ireat  power,  either  aristocratic  or 
political,  who  wants  the  beautiful, 
hapless  victim  for  sex  only;  love  plays 
no  part  here.  But  his  victim,  a  woman 
presumably  confined  to  domestic  life, 
and  certainly  given  no  sanctioned  outlet 
for  any  feelings  of  aggression 
engendered  by  her  hopeless  situation, 
finally  directs  her  violence  inward. 

Two  well-known  heroines  find 
themselves  in  this  situation:  La 
Gioconda  (ironically,  the  "joyous 
female")  who  takes  poison  when  forced 
to  submit  to  the  evil  Barabas  in  order  to 
save  the  life  of  her  lover,  Enzo;  and  the 
pathetic  Leonora  of  II  Trovatore 
who  also  takes  poison,  but  whose  lover, 
Manrico,  is  murdered  anyway  by  the 
enraged  Count  de  Luna  when  he 
realizes  he  has  been  cheated  of  his 
prize.  (Of  course,  the  Count  did  not 
know  that  Manrico  was  his  own 
brother.) 


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Now  Puccini's  Tosca  is  a  woman  of 
another  kind.  In  her  story  we  meet  the 
supreme  sexual  sadist,  Baron 
Scarpia,  who  tells  her  outright  that  he 
enjoys  sex  more  when  it  is  a  forced 
conquest  rather  than  a  willing 
surrender.  He  wants  her  to  hate  him 
and  resist  him.  But  he  holds  the  life  of 
her  lover,  Mario  Cavaradossi,  in  his 
hands,  and  Tosca  reluctantly  agrees 
to  give  herself  to  him  for  one  night  to 
obtain  Mario's  freedom.  When  Scarpia 
approaches  her  she  stabs  him,  and  as 
he  lies  dying,  she  snarls,  "And  before 
him,  all  Rome  trembled."  Scarpia, 
however  had  double-crossed  her,  and 
Mario's  execution  goes  off  as 
scheduled.  Tosca,  realizing  that  Mario 
is  dead,  and  about  to  be  arrested 
herself  for  murder,  commits  suicide  by 
leaping  off  the  tower  of  the  Castel 
Sant'Angelo  into  the  Tiber  River. 

Sadism,  revenge,  murder,  suicide — 
the  stuff  of  romantic  opera.  And 
there's  lots  more:  more  women  with 
more  tragic  stories  for  us. 

In  the  Ring  of  the  Nibelungen, 

Wagner  tells  us  that  the  Valkyrie, 
Brunnhilde,  has  disobeyed  her 
father,  Wotan,  King  of  the  Gods. 
Wotan  punishes  her  by  removing  her 
Godhead  and  reducing  her  to  a  mortal 
woman.  Her  love  affair  with  Seigfried 
comes  to  a  tragic  end  when  he  is 
murdered,  and  she  pays  the  price  by 
riding  her  horse  into  his  funeral  pyre. 
The  resulting  dramatic  conflagration 
burns  Valhalla  to  the  ground  only  to 
be  extinguished  by  the  overflowing 
waters  of  the  river  Rhine. 
And  so  ends  the  reign  of  the 
Wagnerian  Gods  and  Heroes. 

Manon  Lescaut,  another  Puccini 
heroine,  is  a  fickle  15-year-old  of 
obviously  weak  character.  She  falls  in 
love  with  Des  Grieux,  leaves  him  for 
an  older,  richer  man,  becomes  bored 
with  the  elderly  gentleman,  and 
eventually  taunts  him  heartlessly.  As 
she  plans  to  run  off  with  Des  Grieux, 
the  jealous  old  man  denounces  her  to 
the  police,  but  as  the  gendarmes 
arrive  to  arrest  her,  she  lingers  to 
gather  her  jewels  instead  of  fleeing. 
Too  late— she  is  caught  and  deported, 
exiled  to  America  on  a  prison  ship 
where  she  finds  that  Des  Grieux  has 


bribed  his  way  aboard  in  order  to  be 
with  her.  They  are  abandoned  in  the 
desert  of  New  Orleans.  (At  the  time 
the  opera  takes  place— late  1 8th 
century — the  Louisiana  Territory 
actually  extended  to  the  West  Coast.) 
Manon  dies  pitifully  from  hunger, 
thirst,  and  exposure,  a  severe 
punishment  for  youthful  vanity  and 
unfaithfulness.  Des  Grieux  apparently 


Perhaps  the  most  well-known  and 
well-loved  heroine  of  them  all  is 
Mimi,  the  fragile  flower-maker  of 
Puccini's  La  Boheme.  Her  problem 
is  poverty,  tuberculosis,  and  (horrors) 
an  improper  life-style.  Her 
impoverished  lover,  Rodolfo,  cannot 
support  her  and  is  jealous  of  her 
casual  flirtations.  He  leaves  her  in 
winter,  telling  his  friend  Marcello  that 
he  fears  for  her  life  in  his  cold  attic. 
Overhearing  this  exchange,  Mimi  bids 
him  farewell  "without  bitterness"  so 
that  he  will  no  longer  be  responsible 
for  her.  We  later  witness  her  painful 
but  peaceful  death  and  Rodolfo's 
tragic  cries,  surely  the  most  moving 
finale  in  the  entire  opera  repertory. 
Could  Mimi  have  avoided  her  tragedy 
by  living  a  more  conventional  life  with 
a  more  substantial  man? 

The  examples  go  on  and  on,  but  it  is 
clear  through  these  stories  that  19th- 
century  Grand  Opera  is  basically 
about  the  sacrifices  of  women.  Of 
course  there  are  exceptions;  one 
woman,  Leonora,  in  Beethoven's 
only  opera,  Fidelia,  is  truly  heroic  in 
a  noble  cause.  She  is  the  faithful  wife 
who  rescues  her  husband,  a  political 
prisoner,  from  death  in  a  horrible 
dungeon,  freeing  a  host  of  other 
prisoners  as  well.  Another  admirable, 
strong  woman  is  Tatiana  of 
Tchaikovsky's  Eugene  Onegin, 
who  renounces  Onegin,  the  man 
whom  she  had  loved  as  a  young  girl, 
but  who  had  callously  rejected  her. 
When  he  finds  her  years  later,  married 
to  a  wealthy  aristocrat,  Onegin  tries  to 
appeal  to  her  former  love  for  him,  but 
she  answers  that  he  is  now  merely 
attracted  to  her  status,  and  although 
she  still  feels  drawn  to  him,  she 
remains  faithful  to  her  husband, 
ultimately  sending  Onegin  away.  True 
nobility,  indeed. 


Does  a  man  ever  find  himself  in  the  role 
of  the  "sacrifice"?  Only  in  a  few 
instances.  In  Verdi's  Masked  Ball,  it 
is  the  King  himself  who  is  killed  by 
Amelia's  jealous  husband  although 
their  affair  is  as  yet  unconsummated. 
And  in  the  classic  "verismo"  opera, 
Cavalleria  Rusticana,  we  have 
Turiddo,  a  man  who  has  dallied  with 
another  man's  wife,  and  is  killed  in  a 
duel  after  his  jilted  fiancee,  Santuzza, 
rats  on  him  to  the  outraged  husband. 
So,  on  rare  occasions,  a  man  pays  the 
"wrong  woman"  price.  But  Santuzza 
suffers  a  lifetime  of  guilt  and  is 
ostracized  for  her  treachery. 

Now  that  we  have  examined  how  opera 
treated  women  in  the  past,  what  about 
our  generation?  How  do  we  compare? 

Two  hundred  years  ago,  in  the  1786 
Marriage  Of  Figaro,  Mozart  had  his 
title  character  explicate  a  view  of 
women,  which,  while  acknowledging 
men's  need  for  them,  used  these 
words:  witches,  sorcerers,  sirens,  and 
liars;  treacherous,  deceitful,  and 
callous. 

Forty  years  ago,  in  the  1955  musical 
My  Fair  Lady,  Lerner  and  Leowe 
gave  us  Henry  Higgins,  the 
quintessential  late-Victorian  misogynist, 
who  expresses  his  annoyance  with 
Eliza  Dolittle  thus: 

Women  are  irrational,  that's  all  there  is 

to  that. 

Their  heads  are  full  of  cotton,  hay,  and 

rags. 

They're  nothing  but  exasperating, 

irritating, 

vacillating,  calculating,  agitating, 

maddening  infuriating  hags. 

Yet,  like  Figaro,  Higgins  reluctantly  has 
to  admit  that  he  has  "become 
accustomed  to  her  face." 

Apparently  we  haven't  come  a  long  way 
at  all,  baby!  ■ 

Barbara  Koral  Raisner  was  a  member 

of  Brandeis's  second  graduating 

class  and  went  on  to  earn  an  Ed.D. 

degree  in  reading  from  Hofstra 

University.  While  her  professional 

career  has  been  In  the  field 

of  education,  her  first  love 

Is  music.  As  a  backstage  tour  guide 

at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House 

in  New  York  and  a  teacher 

of  adult  education  opera  courses, 

she  has  shared  her  expertise 

and  contagious  enthusiasm  widely. 


39  Spring  1995 


in  the  Fifties 


by  Manfred  Wolf  '55 


In  its  earliest  days, 
Brandeis  University 
was  a  curious 
mixture  of  Europe  and 
America,  the  perfect 
blend  of  familiarity  and 
newness  for  this 
budding  intellectual. 


i 


*b 


My  first  view  of  Brandeis  students  was  in  an 
auditorium — a  sea  of  color,  red  shirts,  green  and 
blue  and  white  scarves,  yellow  rain  slickers. 
They  were  sitting  in  all  sorts  of  attitudes  and 
postures — slumped,  slouched,  upright,  leaning 
over  each  other,  waving,  talking,  calling.  They 
had  a  kind  of  larger  than  life,  cartoon  look  about 
them,  which  ever  since  I  have  associated  with 
Amehca.  Their  boldness  was  admirable  but,  to 
my  Dutch  eyes,  a  trifle  overdone.  My 
puzzlement,  during  those  early  American  days, 
was  less  with  language  than  with  unaccustomed 
ways  of  behaving. 

Those  first  weeks  in  the  required  humanities 
class,  the  professor  asked  about  the  differences 
between  the  Hebrews  and  the  ancient  Greeks. 
We  had  read  excerpts  from  the  Bible  and  three 
Greek  plays — Sophocles's  Oedipus  Rex  and 
Antigone  and  Euripides's  Medea — in  English 
translation,  of  course.  The  teacher,  a  man  in  the 
then  obligatory  tweed  jacket  and  elbow  patches, 
with  a  major  reputation  as  a  minor  poet,  pressed 
for  an  answer.  I  thought  then,  and  I  still  think, 
that  the  question  was  much  too  broad.  To  my 
amazement,  a  young  man  in  a  red  lumberjack 
shirt,  brayed  out  a  long  stream  of  answers.  I 
recalled  that  my  father  once  told  me  "You  have 
to  be  crazy  to  wear  a  red  shirt." 

"The  Greeks  were  well,  you  know,  individualists. 
The  Hebrews  were. ..eh. ..under  God's  thumb," 
said  the  young  man,  and  he  went  on,  elaborating 
the  idea  with  considerable  self-satisfaction  and 
ease,  his  broad  face  beaming  comfortably.  I  was 
unimpressed  with  his  answer  but  astonished  at 
his  poise,  his  expansiveness,  the  freedom  with 
which  he  spoke.  I  had  heard  that  Amencan 
children  were  encouraged  early  on  to  speak  up, 
but  this  confidence  was  utterly  alien  to  me. 
Other  students  seemed  equally  at  ease;  they 
smiled,  they  gestured,  they  were  vibrant,  they 
radiated  self-esteem,  whereas  I  was  critical, 
anxious,  and  poker-faced. 

I  envied  the  young  man's  self  assurance  and 
wondered  if  I  would  ever  achieve  it.  As  for  the 
teacher's  reaction:  he  nodded,  he  prodded,  he 
rephrased;  he  was  respectful,  even  deferential. 
Had  Mr.  Kliber  considered  the  Greek  notion  of 
liubris?  Mr.  Kliber  had  not.  Did  Mr.  Kliber  think 
that  liubris,  which  the  teacher  quickly  defined  as 


40  Brandeis  Review 


The  lure  of  Europe  remained 


image  of  so  many  refugee 
professors 


the  flaw  of  pride,  limited  or  supported  thie  idea  of 
individualism?  f\yir.  Kliber  was  vague.  And  then  of 
course  the  teacher  did  what  American  university 
teachers  always  do,  and  what  I  myself  do  now: 
he  recast  the  comment,  put  it  into  his  own 
words,  made  the  student  feel  as  though  he  had 
said  it  but  actually  said  it  himself,  much  better, 
more  precisely,  with  references  to  the  text,  and 
then  developed  the  point  to  include  other 
matters,  and  finally  turned  to  another  student 
with  another  question.  I  was  impressed. 

At  Brandeis,  I  found  myself  not  only  in  the  land 
of  the  carefree  but  in  the  home  of  the  bravely 
exuberant.  Laughter  rang  out  in  class,  at  the 
cafeteria,  and  on  the  rolling  lawns  of  the 
campus.  My  classmates'  voices  were  bold  and 
accompanied  by  broad,  hand-waving  gestures, 
t^y  parents  had  told  me  not  to  "speak  with  my 
hands";  it  would  typify  me  as  Jewish.  Here 
students  used  almost  theatrical  body  motions.  It 
reminded  me  of  what  I  had  seen  in  the  movies. 
Broad  smiles,  arms  outstretched  in  mock 
gestures,  eyes  sparkling,  their  animation 
contrasted  with  my  self-control,  and  their 
enthusiasm  with  my  Dutch  nay-saying.  Back 
home,  if  you  thrust  yourself  forward,  you  were 
likely  to  fiear  some  adult  quote  an  old  Dutch 
maxim  at  you,  "Only  fools  and  madmen  paint 
their  names  on  their  glassware  and  toys." 

Some  of  our  professors  were  solid,  some 
brilliant,  some  eccentric,  many  of  them  refugees 
from  Europe.  "Only  in  America,"  said  my 
professor  of  French,  Claude  Vigee.  who  had  left 
Europe  in  the  same  year  I  had.  1942,  "could  all 
these  crazy  people  come  together."  He  readily 
included  himself.  The  slight  young  man  with  his 
large  beak  of  a  nose  and  flowing  chestnut  hair 
fascinated  me.  No  one  could  handle  the  English 
language  to  such  affect  as  he;  whether  he  talked 
about  the  Hegelian  component  in  existentialist 
thought  or  the  role  of  exile  in  his  own  poetry,  he 
did  so  with  an  uncommon  passion  and  lucidity. 
The  faculty,  too,  admired  his  brilliance.  I  once 


heard  Brandeis  historian  Frank  Manuel  call  him, 
perhaps  with  just  a  trace  of  irony,  "the  last  lyric 
poet  in  the  West."  At  the  same  time,  Vigee  was 
clearly  enjoying  the  role  of  mentor  to  his  best 
students.  Once,  while  he  demonstrated  a  rather 
arcanely  French  sexual  position  on  the  floor  of 
his  study,  his  wife  walked  in  and  exclaimed,  "Ah, 
les  positions!"  Vigee  smiled  impishly. 

So  great  was  the  infatuation  at  Brandeis  with 
Europe  that  when  our  little  Cercle  Francais 
found  out  that  one  of  the  younger  history 
instructors,  the  novelist  Stephen  Becker,  had 
lived  in  France  and  consorted  with 
existentialists,  we  instantly  invited  him  to  speak 
to  us  in  French.  To  our  chagrin,  this  glamorous 
young  man,  who  twice  a  year  wore  an  ascot 
because  he  had  "picked  up  a  skin  disease  while 
traveling  through  the  Gobi  desert"  gave  a  rather 
bland  presentation,  something  like,  "II  y  a  dix- 
neuf — non,  vingt —  arondissements  a  Paris,"  and 
"Several  underground  lines  crisscross  the 
capital,"  and  "Why  do  we  speak  of  the  Fourth 
Republic?"  It  only  strengthened  our  resolve  to 
invite  "real"  Europeans  from  then  on. 

The  lure  of  Europe  remained  strong,  not  just  for 
me  but  seemingly  for  Brandeisians  generally, 
abetted  by  the  image  of  so  many  refugee 
professors — the  philosopher  Aaron  Gurwitsch, 
the  literary  critic  Rudolf  Kayser,  the  art  historian 
Leo  Bronstein — who  brought  with  them  a  whiff  of 
the  old  continent.  To  hear  that  Kayser  had  been 
a  friend  of  Max  Brod,  himself  an  intimate  of 
Kafka,  gave  the  gentle  grey  man  with  the  heavy 
German  accent  an  irresistible  glamor.  For  me,  it 
brought  back  a  world  that  I  had  heard  about,  that 


Members  of  the  social  sciences 
faculty,  ca.  1953.  Left  to  right; 
Robert  A.  Manners,  assistant 
professor  of  anthropology; 
Philip  Rieff,  instructor  in  social 
relations:  Lewis  A.  Coser, 
lecturer  in  the  social  sciences. 


41  Spring  1995 


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of  Vienna  in  1910,  or  Berlin  in  1920,  before  \he 
great  catastroptie,  when  Jewisfi  intellectuals 
assimilated  easily  into  their  surroundings. 


Brandeis  provided  me  with  both 
the  newness  of  America 
and  the  comfort  and  familiarity 
of  Europe 


Brandeis  in  the  fifties  was  the  perfect  vantage 
point  to  observe  that  Annerica  was  receptive  to 
these  refugees  and  this  European  culture.  To  be 
sure,  my  own  family  had  not  been  granted  an 
American  visa  when  we  really  needed  it;  even 
here,  I  could  not  completely  suppress  the 
recollection  of  my  father  wringing  his  hands  in 
1941  in  the  living  room  of  our  house  in  Holland, 
saying,  "If  only  America,  if  only  America  had 
taken  us  in  1939!"  We  fled  in  the  middle  of  the 
War  and  ended  up  in  Surinam  and  in  Curagao, 
and  I  never  completely  shook  off  a  curious, 
hallucinatory  image  that  had  been  with  me  ever 
since  we  realized  what  it  meant  to  have  survived 
the  War,  when  the  news  from  Europe  came  to 
Curagao  in  1945 — a  mere  six  years  before  I 
entered  Brandeis — and  that  is  with  me  still;  my 
brother  and  I  are  on  a  schoolbus.  on  a  field  trip 
with  all  our  friends  crowding  all  the  seats  in  that 
shiny  silver  bus.  Some  of  the  children  carry  little 
satchels,  others  have  unwieldy  paper  bags  of 
food  for  the  outing,  the  smaller  ones  have  only 
toys  and  stuffed  bears  or  rabbits.  But  something 
happens  and  when  we  return,  only  my  brother 
and  I  are  in  that  cavernous  bus,  with  all  those 
empty  seats,  we  two,  the  only  ones  left  from 
what  had  promised  to  be  a  golden  picnic. 

Brandeis  provided  me  with  both  the  newness  of 
America  and  the  comfort  and  familiarity  of 
Europe.  It  seemed  to  me  almost  from  the  first 
day  I  was  at  Brandeis  that  the  Jewish 
assimilation  into  American  culture  echoed  that  of 
the  Jews  into  the  German-speaking  world  before 
Hitler.  This  feeling  was  confirmed  by  Professor 
Ludwig  Lewisohn,  who  spoke  of  Germanic 
culture  with  the  rueful  love  of  someone  who  had 
lost  it  many  years  ago.  The  small  man  with  the 
soulful  eyes  was  a  fervid  orator,  his  white  hair 
bouncing  as  he  spoke;  Old  though  he  was,  he 
could  stir  me  with  his  talk  of  how  unfettered  love 
had  been  in  Europe  and  how  puritanical  America 
was.  He  longed  for  the  joys  of  love  he  had  so 
frequently  tasted  as  if  it  were  the  sun,  for  which, 
as  a  northern  European  Jew  and  a  transplanted 
American  southerner  who  had  grown  up  in 
South  Carolina,  he  also  longed. 


42  Brandeis  Review 


1!  intellectual 


engagement  I  have  neve. 

seen  elsewhere  and  have  sought 

ever  after. 


The  presence  of  refugee  professors  could  lead 
to  strange  encounters  and  culture  clashes. 
Sometime  in  1955,  the  senior  class  was 
addressed  by  the  noted  poet  Archibald 
MacLeish  ("A  poem  should  not  mean  but  be")  in 
one  of  those  well-meaning  seminars  where 
famous  people  speak  to  students  about  their 
life's  work,  and  students  are  supposed  to  soak 
up  politely  the  opinions  and  eccentricities  of  their 
elders. 

MacLeish  had  been  librarian  of  Congress  in  the 
forties,  and  his  successor  administered  the 
Bollingen  Prize  in  1949  when  it  was  awarded  to 
Ezra  Pound,  who  had  made  pro-fascist 
broadcasts  in  Rome  during  the  War.  IVlacLeish 
had  little  to  do  with  the  award  but  had  been 
vocal  in  his  support  of  Pound's  right  to  the 
award.  Immediately  after  MacLeish's  speech 
about  his  career  as  a  man  of  letters  and 
government,  a  small,  ancient  professor  of 
romance  languages  with  a  pointy  little  grey 
beard,  jumped  up  and  with  a  heavy  Yiddish 
accent  started  shouting  at  MacLeish,  "For  what 
he  got  a  prize?  For  being  a  Nazi?  Show  me  a 
Dante,  show  me  a  Cervantes  who  was  a  Nazi." 
Some  of  the  mitteleuropa  professors  looked 
embarrassed;  you  could  see  that  this  reminded 
them  of  undesirable  Eastern  European 
crudeness.  The  American-born  professors, 
though  mostly  Jewish,  adopted  for  a  moment  a 
certain  Waspish  gentility,  and  pretended  that  a 
legitimate  academic  question  had  been  posed. 
The  few  non-Jews  in  the  auditorium  stayed  out 
of  what  looked  like  a  sectarian  quarrel.  MacLeish 
stood  very  straight  and  frowned:  his  golden  hair 
shone  in  the  afternoon  sun.  He  looked  pained 
but  unruffled;  talented  and  accomplished  as  he 
was,  you  could  see  that  he  had  gone  far  on  his 
patrician  manner. 

Though  this  was  1955,  there  was  a  hysterical, 
1960ish  tone  to  what  came  next.  The  sixties 
were  occasionally  prefigured  at  Brandeis.  The 
angry,  old  professor  was  followed  by  a  young 
Brandeis  student,  a  roundheaded  crew  cut  boy 


with  mean-looking,  black-rimmed  glasses,  who 
had  clearly  worked  himself  up  into  a  state  of 
willed  indignation,  and  in  a  rather  McCarthyite 
way,  started  to  grill  MacLeish;  "And  isn't  it  true 
that  you  determined  Ezra  Pound  should  have 
the  Prize  because  you  felt  his  views  were 
inconsequential?  And  isn't  it  a  fact,  Mr. 
MacLeish,  that  you  saw  nothing  wrong  with 
Pound  having  that  Prize  despite  his  support  of 
fascism  in  World  War  II?  And  don't  you  think  that 
those  who  support  genocide  might  be  better  not 
celebrated  as  poet  heroes?"  Not  only  the  tone 
but  some  of  the  concerns  of  the  sixties  surfaced 
at  Brandeis — the  transcendence  of  the  political 
over  the  aesthetic,  the  intolerance  toward 
genuinely  unorthodox  opinions,  the  attack 
against  liberals  from  the  left — indeed,  wasn't  the 
concept  of  "repressive  tolerance "  at  that  very 
time  worked  out  by  the  newly  appointed 
Brandeis  professor  Herbert  Marcuse? 

The  tall,  distinguished  MacLeish  also  played  his 
part  in  a  psychodrama  so  common  a  decade 
later:  calm  rationality,  reason  against  the  mob, 
the  parental  voice  against  the  angry  infantile 
attack.  He  replied  that  beliefs  in  poetry  could  not 
be  judged  separately  from  the  poetry  itself  and 
that  we  cannot  dismiss  good  poetry  because  of 
bad  opinions.  "Would  you  have  us  censor  the 
strange  ideas  in  Baudelaire,  or  Rimbaud,  or 
Yeats?"  he  queried,  to  which  another  student, 
now  jumping  on  the  bandwagon  countered, 
"How  can  you  have  good  poetry  with  bad 
opinions?"  and  the  exchange  became  more 
muted.  But  the  original  attack  was  in  a  style  then 
unheard  of  at  American  universities,  though  it 
would  become  commonplace  in  the  sixties. 

Both  the  aging  professor  and  the  obnoxious 
student  broke  through  a  collective  silence,  a 
massive  disregard,  an  evasiveness,  of  the  fifties. 
They  had  the  courage  to  confront  what  was 
important,  and  they  anticipated  in  style  a  kind  of 
sixties  primitivism.  Much  as  I  miss  it,  our  very 
intellectualism  in  that  time  often  served  as  a 
fuzzy  blanket  smothering  the  ugliest  truths: 
Freud  and  Marx  became  a  way  of  not  looking. 
Perhaps  if  the  fifties  had  been  more  honest,  the 
sixties  would  not  have  had  to  be  so  dangerously 
shrill  and  ill-tempered. 


Leo  Bronstein,  professor  of  Fine  Arts 


43  Spring  1995 


Manfred  Wolf  '55  is  a 
professor  of  English  at 
San  Francisco  State 
University  where  he  has 
taught  since  1956.  He 
received  his  M.A.  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  and 
his  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Leiden,  The 
Netherlands.  In  the  spring 
of  1990,  and  during  the 
academic  year  1990-91, 
he  was  visiting  lecturer  at 
the  University  of  Helsinki. 
He  has  also  given 
lectures  at  the 
Universities  of 
Amsterdam,  Antwerp, 
Tampere  (Finland), 
California  (Berkeley),  and 
others  on  such  diverse 
topics  as  "The  Two 
Cultures  in  Black 
American  Literature," 
Translating  Dutch 
Poetry,"  "Contemporary 
Styles  of  Conversation," 


and  "The  Debate  over 
Multiculturalism  in 
American  Higher 
Education."  He  is  the 
author  of  Albert  Verwey 
and  English 

Romanticism  (1977)  and 
the  translator  of  four 
books  of  Dutch  poetry. 
His  articles  have 
appeared  in  U.S.  and 
European  publications 
that  include  the  Los 
Angeles  Times,  San 
Francisco  Chronicle, 
Saturday  Review, 
Commentary, 
Comparative  Literature, 
World  Literature  Today, 
Nieuwe  Rotterdamse 
Courant,  and  Helsingin 
Sanomat. 


But  for  the  moment,  it  was  a  very  good  time,  a 
time  of  great  intellectual  excitement.  A  panel 
discussion  with  our  teachers  and  guests  was  a 
major  event.  We  would  not  miss  it.  Whether 
Irving  Howe  and  Lewis  Coser  spoke  on  "This 
Age  of  Conformity,"  or  Philip  Rieff,  Leonard 
Levy,  and  Hannah  Arendt  on  the  origins  of 
totalitarianism,  there  was  a  degree  of  intellectual 
engagement  I  have  never  seen  elsewhere  and 
have  sought  ever  after.  Once  at  such  a  panel, 
Ludwig  Lewisohn  declared  that  "after  all  there  is 
in  Nietzsche  a  good  deal  of  19th-century 
foolishness,"  and  faculty  and  students  quietly 
hissed  their  disapproval.  The  old  man  did  not 
seem  to  mind.  Brandeis  was  a  suburb  of  the 
New  York  intellectual  scene  of  the  fifties,  and  I 
mourn  its  passing.  It  was  a  time  when  ideas 
were  taken  seriously,  though  sometimes 
pretentiously  so.  Yet  it  lives  on  in  minor  ways 
that  almost  parody  it;  when  I  was  in  New  York 
recently  I  asked  a  Brandeis  classmate  what  was 
new  in  the  city.  Her  reply:  "They  say  Susan 
Sontag  has  given  up  the  essay." 

Sometimes  this  prevailing  intellectual  style  at 
Brandeis  occasioned  a  culture  clash.  When 
Robert  Frost  came  to  read  his  poems,  the 
venerable  old  poet  with  the  shock  of  white  hair 
became  a  bit  garrulous,  and  after  reciting  or 

"saying"  any  number  of  his  poems,  he  veered  off 
on  "why  a  penny  saved  was  not  really  a  penny 
earned."  The  week  after,  in  our  usual  rehash  of 
these  lectures  or  readings,  Irving  Howe 
addressed  the  mystery  of  Frost:  "that  such  a  fine 
poet  possessed  such  a  tedious  mind,"  and  had  a 

"cracker  barrel  mentality."  "I  dislike  his  pose  of 
simple  mindedness,"  said  Howe,  giving  a  little 
shake  of  his  round  head,  his  eyes  puzzled 
behind  his  bulging  glasses.  He  had  that  earnest 
vigor  that  made  him  likeable  even  when  he  said 
harsh  things.  You  felt  he  wished  Frost  had  been 
more  "intellectual."  Here  was  the  New  England 
Yankee,  slow  and  soft-spoken  against  the  New 
York  Jew,  quick-witted  and  driven  by  ideas. 

Brandeis  taught  you  to  be  an  intellectual,  that  is 
to  say,  not  intellectual,  but  an  intellectual. 
Intellectuals  were  our  culture  heroes.  Not 
everyone,  of  course,  but  many  espoused  this 
ideal.  We  were  the  new  intelligentsia,  a  word  out 
of  19th-century  Russia,  with  revolutionary 


44  Brandeis  Review 


to  know  how  the  play  struck  me. 
This  was  utterly  marvelous. 


connotations.  Not  surprisingly,  the  children  and 
grandchildren  of  Russian  Jewish  immigrants 
copied  their  elders  in  this.  Though  we  were 
always  told  that  an  intellectual  would  think  for 
himself,  this  was  not  exactly  true.  We  were 
supposed  to  embrace  certain  opinions  and 
accept  not  only  Marxist  or  Freudian  critique  of 
the  "system,"  but  also  to  find  Marx  and  Freud 
essentially  reliable — the  figures  who  had 
provided  our  time  with  the  crucial  explanations. 

Such  notions  were  assumed  as  well  as  stated. 
They  went  far  and  deep.  If  you  were  an 
intellectual,  you  studied  political  science  or 
history;  it  was  hard  to  be  taken  completely 
seriously  if  you  studied  English,  except  if  you 
were  going  to  be  another  Irving  Howe,  and  even 
he  wrote  on  literature  and  politics.  The  man  of 
ideas  was  our  hero.  In  the  heat  of  the  1952 
presidential  election,  one  student  said  to  me,  as 
we  were  all  gathered  in  front  of  the  television: 
"Adiai  Stevenson  is  not  a  great  man,  like  Lewis 
Coser  or  Irving  Howe." 

I  liked  enormously  the  friendliness  and  even  the 
friendship  that  could  exist  between  teacher  and 
student,  the  equality  which  many  teachers 
believed  in.  In  that  regard,  the  European 
teachers  at  Brandeis  lagged  behind  the 
American.  I  once  asked  Professor  Gurwitsch  if  I 
could  look  over  his  shoulder  while  he  graded  our 
exams,  as  he  did  the  minute  we  turned  them  in. 
"No  one  ever  looks  over  my  shoulder,"  he 
growled,  as  Germanic  as  the  most  Aryan  of 
Germans.  Compare  that  with  Philip  Finkelpearl's 
gently  Socratic  manner,  his  apparently 
boundless  curiosity  about  what  I  thought,  why  I 
should  find  Hamlet  a  flawed  hero.  He  had  read 
virtually  every  book  on  Shakespeare  but  wanted 
to  know  how  the  play  struck  me.  This  was  utterly 
marvelous.  Nothing  in  my  school  experience  had 
prepared  me  for  that.  And  there  were  several 
such  teachers.  I  wanted  to  be  like  them. 

I  never  took  a  class  from  Leonard  Bernstein  but 
sat  in  on  his  huge  "History  of  Musical  Theater" 
and  have  seldom  experienced  so  charismatic  a 
figure.  He  was  a  born  teacher.  His  classes  were 


legendary;  they  were  performance  as  much  as 
class,  but  what  stood  out  for  me  was  the  passion 
he  had  for  music  and  his  desire  to  make  you 
love  and  understand  the  music  as  much  as  he 
did.  Bernstein  was  then  in  his  early  30s  and 
already  the  composer  of  symphonies,  ballets, 
and  musicals,  from  the  austere  Age  of  Anxiety  \o 
the  popular  Wonderful  Town.  He  had  been  the 
conductor  of  innumerable  orchestras  and  was  as 
energetic  with  his  students  as  he  must  have 
been  rehearsing  The  New  York  City  Symphony 
Orchestra.  To  illustrate  something,  he  would  run 
to  the  piano,  sit  down,  play  a  chord,  and  sing, 
"Je  pense  a  un  certain  officier .  .  ."  He  could  play 
all  the  parts.  When  a  student  asked  a  question, 
he  came  close  and  looked  directly  at  him.  His 
manner  was  natural,  his  tone  warm,  his  voice 
theatrical;  "Ah,  you  are  heah,  Feliciah." 

When  he  conducted  the  world  premiere  of  The 
Three  Penny  Opera,  in  its  first  English 
translation  by  Marc  Blitzstein,  it  was  as  if 
America  and  Europe  came  together  for  one 
night.  The  open-air  amphitheater  overflowed 
with  Brecht's  lyrics  and  Weill's  heart-rending 
music,  and  Lotte  Lenya's  voice  reached  places 
in  me  that  seemed  to  have  heard  those  sounds 
before,  in  the  remoteness  of  other  times.  Could 
it  be  that  those  times  were  not  entirely  gone? 

At  Brandeis,  I  rarely  mentioned  my  family's  flight 
from  Europe  during  the  middle  of  the  War.  In 
this,  I  was  not  very  different  from  a  whole 
generation  of  children  of  survivors  and  for  that 
matter  a  whole  generation  of  post-war  Jewish 
adolescents.  In  those  years,  few  at  Brandeis 
wanted  to  talk  about  the  Holocaust.  There  were 
innumerable  discussions  of  fascism, 
communism,  totalitananism,  but  the  Holocaust 
itself  went  almost  unmentioned. 

It  took  me  many  years  to  learn  that  forgetting  my 
past  was  really  not  possible.  I  did  not  learn  it  at 
Brandeis.  But  what  I  did  learn  was  that  the 
curious  mixture  of  Europe  and  America  that  was 
Brandeis  suited  me,  and  I  learned  too  that, 
despite  all  my  reservations  about  America,  I  had 
come  home.  In  such  a  time  and  such  a  place,  I 
could  be  more  what  I  wanted  to  be  than  I 
thought  possible  during  the  years  of  my 
adolescence  in  Curagao.  ■ 


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"I  have  an  Ashkenazi  look— 
the  long  face  and  the 
high  cheekbones  often 
found  in  Jews  from  Eastern 
Europe.  I  happened  to 
inherit  these  features, 
since  my  family  came  from 
Russia  and  Poland." 
John  Michelman  '66  is 
talking,  and  he  is  telling 
you  what  he  looks  like 
because.. .well... 


The  story  starts  with 
Norman  Rockwell,  the 
consummate  illustrator 
whose  charming  scenes  are 
woven  mto  the  American 
psyche.  Depicting  values  of 
equality,  justice,  freedom, 
hard  work,  the  pleasures  of 
home,  outdoors,  and  family, 
Rockwell  began  illustrating 
at  the  age  of  17  in  1911. 
Those  were  days  when 
America  was  still  a  nation 
of  small  towns,  and 
Rockwell  documented  their 
everyday  rhythms  for 
decades — he  created  over 
300  cover  illustrations  for 
the  Saturday  Evening  Post 
alone.  One  of  these,  called 
'The  Golden  Rule,"  appeared 
on  the  cover  of  the  Post  in 
1961.  It  is  a  painting 
crowded  with  faces  of  many 
different  nationalities  and 
religions.  Near  the  bottom 
left  there  is  a  boy 
representing  Judaism, 
holding  the  Torah.  He  is  13- 
year-old  John  Michelman. 

How  so?  One  summer 
Michelman  came  to  a  music 
and  art  camp  in 
Stockbridge,  Massachusetts, 
from  his  home  in  New 
York.  It  turns  out  that 
Rockwell's  studio  was  in 
Stockbridge,  and  since  he 
always  worked  from  live 
models — many  of  the 
characters  in  his 
illustrations  are  the  local 
town  residents — he  came  to 
the  camp  one  day  to  choose 
two  models.  "He  picked  me 
to  represent  the  Jewish  boy 
and  hold  the  Torah,  which 
was  a  great  honor  for  me," 
says  Michelman.  "It  means 
a  great  deal  to  me  that  I  was 
chosen  to  represent  Judaism 
and  it  has  been  a 
tremendous  influence  for 
me  in  my  lifetime." 

Michelman  remembers  the 
whole  event  vividly.  "I 
went  to  Rockwell's  studio. 
He  was  very  modest,  he 
smoked  a  little  pipe.  He  was 
an  old,  sort  of  crotchety, 
very  funny.  New  England 
kind  of  guy— a  very 
delightful  person.  One  of  his 
sons  was  a  photographer, 
who  took  pictures.  Then 
Norman  Rockwell  did 
preliminary  sketches,  and 
he  invited  me  back  again 
when  he  did  final  sketches. 


He  joked  with  me,  he  put 
me  at  ease,  and  he  said,  'Oh, 
have  you  come  to  see 
another  struggling  modern 
artist?'  I  loved  my 
experience  with  Norman 
Rockwell  because  he  loved 
children  and  he  was  very 
respectful  about  diversity  in 
society — he  had  a  great 
feeling  of  humanitarianism. 
He  came  from  a 
conservative  New  England 
background,  but  he  was 
right  up  in  the  forefront  of 
civil  rights.  And  he  was 
extremely  interested  m 
basic  American  freedoms." 

Michelman's  contagious 
enthusiasm  extends  to 
reminiscences  about 
college.  "I  loved  Brandeis,  it 
was  wonderful.  I  remember 
that  it  was  a  beautiful 
setting,  and  we  had  small 
classes,  and  I  could  do 
anything  from  studio  art  to 
studying  the  Bible  with  Abe 
Sachar.  He  was  still  there, 
and  I  took  his  class  in  the 
Old  Testament.  I  got  a  great 
education,"  he  says.  After 
graduating,  he  tried  a  few 
different  directions.  "First  I 
went  to  architecture  school 
for  a  while,  then  I  got  a 
master's  degree  in 
criminology  at  Berkeley, 
focusing  on  juvenile 
delinquency,  and  then  I 
went  on  to  earn  an  M.D. 
and  becaiTie  a  child 
psychiatrist,"  he  explains 
matter-of-factly,  as  if 
everyone  delves  into  such 
varied  and  education- 
intensive  careers. 

During  these  phases  of  his 
life  his  presence  in  the 
Rockwell  illustration 
continued  to  have  a 
lingering  impact.  "It  was  a 
big  influence  for  me  years 
later,  when  I  was  in  my  late 
forties.  I  had  a  Reform 
Judaism  upbringing  in  New 
York  City,  but  I  hadn't  had 
a  bar  mitzvah.  So  I  went 
back  and  I  had  an  adult  bar 
mitzvah,"  says  Michelman. 
And  currently,  he  cites  the 
painting  as  having  an  affect 
in  his  work  as  a 
psychiatrist.  "I  see  many 


people  who  are  not  pleased 
with  the  way  they  look,"  he 
explains.  "Let's  say  they 
want  to  change  their  nose — 
they  think  it's  too  big — or 
they  think  they're  too 
heavy.  But  if  you  get  the 
message  from  somebody 
like  Norman  Rockwell  that 
ethnic  diversity  is  a  positive 
feature,  and  you  look 
through  that,  then  you  get  a 
feeling  that  you  don't  have 
to  have  your  nose  bobbed, 
and  you  don't  have  to  weigh 
1 10  pounds,  or  look  like 
Barbie,  or  whatever  it  is. 
That's  the  beautiful  feature 
of  a  message  of  art,  that  a 
woman  from  Japan  has  one 
type  of  figure,  and  a  woman 
from  Russia  has  another, 
and  each  is  fine." 

Michelman,  who  sketches 
as  his  hobby,  works  at 
Brightside  for  Families  and 
Children  in  West 
Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
and  also  in  a  Puerto  Rican 
clinic  with  Puerto  Ricans 
and  Hispanics  (he  is  fluent 
in  Spanish).  His  wife  is  a 
professor  at  the  University 
of  Massachusetts,  and  he 
has  two  children. 
Michelman  has  worked 
many  times  in  locations 
that  have  that  particular 
painting  on  display, 
including  currently,  where  a 
huge  representation  of  the 
Rockwell  illustration  hangs 
in  one  of  the  rooms.  The 
same  illustration  is  also  a 
tile  mosaic  in  the  United 
Nations  in  New  York.  "It 
was  very  helpful  to  me, 
because  like  most 
adolescents,  I  worried  about 
how  I  appeared.  But  if  you 
have  your  picture  on  the 
front  of  the  Saturday 
Evening  Post,  and  in  the 
United  Nations,  it  gives  you 
a  lot  more  confidence," 
he  says. 

"The  message  for  me  in  my 
experience  of  posing  for  the 
illustration  is  that  I  was 
fortunate  to  have  some 
grounding  in  my  own 
identity,  Judaism,  and  that 
helped  me  fit  into  a  wide 
world — as  Norman 
Rockwell  pointed  out — 
where  people  look  different, 
act  different,  and  have 
different  interests."  ■ 


47  Spring  1995 


Books 


Faculty 


Seyom  Brown 

Wien  Professor  of 
International  Cooperation 

The  Faces  of  Power:  United 
States  Foreign  Policy  from 
Truman  to  Clinton.  2nd  ed. 
Columbia  University  Press 

In  the  new  edition  of  this 
major  work,  the  author 
brings  his  authoritative 
account  of  United  States 
foreign  policy  completely 
up-to-date  with  analyses  of 
the  Truman  administration 
to  the  Clinton 
administration.  He  provides 
an  overview  of  the  last 
three  presidencies  beginning 
with  an  expanded  treatment 
of  the  Reagan  years  to  the 
first  major  assessment  of 
Bush's  foreign  policies  to 
Clinton's  early  ambivalence 
toward  grappling  with  the 
dilemmas  of  the  post-Cold 
War  world. 

Peter  Conrad 

Harry  Coplan  Professor  of 
Social  Sciences  with 
Rochelle  Kern 

The  Sociology  of  Health  &> 
Illness:  Critical 
Perspectives.  4th  ed. 
St.  Martin's  Press 

This  fourth  edition 
maintains  the  overall 
thematic  framework  of 
previous  editions  and 
incorporates  10  new 
selections.  These  examine 
important  health  issues, 
including  social 
disadvantage  and  mortality, 
anorexia,  compliance,  and 
health  care  reform.  Also, 
the  author  added  a  new 
critical  debate  on  rationing 
medical  care,  refrained  the 
section  on  social  and 
cultural  meanings  of  illness, 
expanded  the  coverage  of 
the  social  response  to  AIDS, 


and  included  comparative 
materials  on  the  health 
systems  of  Germany  and 
Canada. 

Judith  T.  Irvine 

Professor  of  Anthropology, 
with  Jane  H.  Hill. 

Responsibility  and  evidence 
in  oral  discourse 
Cambridge  University  Press 

In  these  essays,  twelve 
prominent  linguists  and 
linguistic  anthropologists 
examine  central,  but 
problematic,  concepts  in 
contemporary  anthropology. 
Their  detailed  case  studies 
analyze  diverse  forms  of 
oral  discourse  in  societies  in 
the  Americas,  Africa,  Asia, 
and  the  Pacific.  The  volume 
challenges  cognitive 
theorists  who  locate 
responsibility  for  the 
meaning  of  verbal  acts 
solely  in  the  intentions  of 
individual  speakers.  The 
contributors  focus  on  the 
production  of  meaning 
between  speakers  and 
audiences  in  particular 
social  and  cultural  contexts, 
through  dialogue  and 
interaction  which  mediate 
between  linguistic  forms 
and  their  interpretations. 

Avigdor  Levy,  ed. 

Professor  of  Near  Eastern 
and  Judaic  Studies 

The  Jews  of  the  Ottoman 

Empire 

The  Darwin  Press,  Inc. 

In  1900,  Ottoman  Jewry 
constituted  the  fifth  largest 
Jewish  community  in  the 
world.  In  addition  to  their 


THE  JEWS 
OF  THE 

OTTOMAN 
EMPIRE 


edited  with  an  introduction 
by  Avigdor  Levy 


numerical  importance,  for  a 
long  time  Ottoman  Jewry 
constituted  a  major  hub — 
materially,  spiritually,  and 
culturally — of  the  world 
Jewish  Diaspora.  Following 
the  expulsion  of  the  Jews 
from  Spain  in  1492  and 
Portugal  in  1497,  the 
Ottoman  Empire  became 
the  most  secure  and 
desirable  haven  for  the 
Iberian  Jews,  as  well  as  for 
other  European  Jewish 
refugees.  The  essays  in  this 
book  focus  on  the  structure 
of  the  Jewish  communities, 
their  organization  and 
institutions,  the  scope  of 
their  autonomy,  and  their 
place  in  Ottoman  society. 

Sidney  M.  IVIilkis 

Associate  Professor  of 
Politics  with  Michael 
Nelson 

The  American  Presidency: 
Origins  &>  Development 
1776-1993.  2nded. 
Congressional  Quarterly 
Press 

This  second  edition  of  The 
American  Presidency  takes 
into  account  the  Bush 
administration,  the  1992 
presidential  election,  and 
the  early  Clinton 


administration.  It  includes 
accounts  of  the  passage  of 
the  12th,  20th,  22nd,  and 
25th  amendments  and  an 
extensively  revised  chapter 
on  Lincoln.  The  authors 
continue  to  tell  the  history 
of  how  the  institution  of 
the  presidency  was  created; 
how  it  has  developed  during 
its  more  than  two  centuries 
of  existence;  what  has 
remained  constant  in  the 
office;  and  what  has 
endured  of  those  1 9th-  and 
20th-century  innovations. 

George  Ross 

Hillquit  Professor  of  Labor 
and  Social  Thought 

Jacques  Delors  and 
European  Integration 
Oxford  University  Press 

Jacques  Delors  and 
European  Integration 
reconsiders  the  last  decade 
of  European  Community 
history,  and  the  Maastricht 
period  in  particular,  from 
the  point  of  view  of  the 
unfolding  strategy  of 
Jacques  Delors,  the  most 
successful  president  of  the 


48  Brandeis  Review 


THE 

SOCIOLOGY 

OF  HEALTH 

&ILLNESS 

CRITICAL 
PERSPECTIVES 


Fourth  Edition 

PfliT  Coiiuid  •  Rixhellc  Kt-rii 


European  Commission.  The 
book's  data  sources  include 
the  author's  observations  of 
the  day-to-day  work  of  the 
Commission  under  Delors 
and  access  to  key  personnel 
and  documents.  The 
volume  follows  processes 
around  the  Maastricht 
treaty  from  inside, 
observing  the  complex 
system  of  European 
institutions  at  work. 

Carmen  Sirianni 

Associate  Professor  of 
Sociology  with  Frank 
Fischer,  eds. 

Critical  Studies  in 
Organization  &> 
Bureaucracy.  2nd  ed. 
Temple  University  Press 

This  revised  and  expanded 
edition  responds  to  the 
continued  crisis  in 
bureaucratic  organization 
and  managerial  authority  at 
the  end  of  the  20th  century. 
Central  to  the  critical 
analyses  presented  here  are 
the  themes  of  power  and 
empowerment,  control  and 
resistance,  gender  and  race, 
political  economy  and  class 
analysis,  technology  and 
environment,  flexibility  and 
innovation,  diversity  and 


Against  M  Hope 


Resistance  in 
the  Nazi 

Concentration 

Camps 

1938-1945 


HERMANN  LANGBEIN 

Tranilated  by  Hany  Zoitn 

participation,  social  change 
and  democratic  learning. 
The  case  studies  used  are 
drawn  from  settings 
ranging  widely  across 
manufacturing  and  service 
firms;  public  service 
bureaucracies  in  welfare 
and  education;  federal  and 
state  regulatory  agencies 
in  environment,  labor, 
housing,  the  military- 
industrial  complex,  and 
health  organizations. 

Harry  Zohn 

Professor  of  German, 
translator  of 

Against  All  Hope: 
Resistance  in  the  Nazi 
Concentration  Camps  1938- 
1945,  authored  by  Hermann 
Langbein 
Paragon  HoUse 

Professor  Zohn  has 
translated  this 
comprehensive  work  by 
Langbein,  which  shatters  the 
myth  that  all  prisoners  of 
concentration  camps  during 
World  War  II  passively  let 
themselves  be  slaughtered. 
A  prisoner  himself  and  one 
of  the  leaders  of  resistance 
at  Auschwitz,  the  author 
carefully  documents  a 
detailed  account  of  the 
history  of  the  camps  and  the 
story  of  resistance  so  that 
the  heroic  resistance  and 
the  resilience  of  the  human 
spirit  would  be  recognized. 
Zohn  has  translated 
numerous  works  from  the 
German,  including  those  of 
Freud,  Walter  Beniamin,  and 
Theodore  Herzel. 


Alumni 


David  Ball  '59 

Ball  is  a  professor  of  French 
and  comparative  literature 
at  Smith  College. 

Darkness  Moves:  An  Henri 

Michaux  Anthology:  1927- 

1984 

University  of  California 

Press 

Before  his  death  in  1984, 
Henri  Michaux,  one  of  the 
visionary  European  artists 
of  the  20th  century,  had  his 
writing  translated  from  the 
French  into  more  than  half 
a  dozen  languages,  and  his 
paintings  displayed  at  the 
major  art  museums  of 
Europe  and  the  United 
States.  Darkness  Moves  is 
the  first  English-language 
anthology  to  present  the 
full  range  of  Michaux's 
talent,  including  many 
works  that  were  previously 
unavailable  in  English.  The 
selections  include  his 
hallucinatory  visions, 
fantastic  journeys,  fables, 
portraits  of  strange  peoples, 
the  weirdly  comic  "Plume" 
narratives,  his  "exorcism- 
poems,"  and  the  meditative 
ecstatic  poetry  nourished  by 
the  religions  of  Asia.  Also, 
30  reproductions  of 
Michaux's  paintings  give  a 
sample  of  his  visual  work. 

Anne  C.  Bernstein  '65 

Bernstein  is  a  professor  of 
psychology  at  the  Wright 
Institute,  Berkeley,  CA. 

Flight  of  the  Stork:  What 
Children  Think  (and  When) 
about  Sex  and  Family 
Building 
Perspectives  Press 

Flight  of  the  Stork  examines 
how  children  think 
differently  from  adults 
concerning  sex  and  birth. 


Enlightening  interviews 
take  us  deep  into  the  minds 
of  children  3  to  12  years  old. 
The  interviews  demonstrate 
each  child's  level  of  mental 
development  and  show  how 
a  child's  thinking  changes 
with  age.  Understanding 
child  development  helps 
adults  communicate  better 
with  children.  The  book 
also  deals  with  such  21st- 
century  topics  as  assisted 
reproductive  technology, 
donor  insemination,  and 
surrogacy. 

Tony  Dunbar  '72 

Dunbar  is  a  lawyer  who 
lives  and  works  in  New 
Orleans.  He  is  the  author  of 
four  works  of  nonfiction 
and  is  now  working  on  his 
second  mystery  novel. 

Crooked  Man 

G.  P.  Putnam  and  Sons 

Crooked  Man  introduces 
Tubby  Dubonnet,  a 
maverick  lawyer  whose 
hobbies  include  betting, 
beer,  and  bringing  in  the 
bad  guys  in  a  witty  chase 
through  New  Orleans, 
where  action  and  adventure 
come  to  life  on  Bourbon 
Street. 

Robin  Jaffee  Frank  '77 

Frank  is  the  assistant 
curator  of  American 
paintings  and  sculpture  at 
the  Yale  University  Art 
Gallery. 

Charles  Demuth:  Poster 

Portraits  1923-1929 

Yale  University  Art  Gallery 

Between  1923  and  1929,  the 
modernist  American  painter 
Charles  Demuth  created  a 


49  Spring  1995 


Easeful 
death 

Caring  for  dving  &  berca%'ed  people 


CHARLES        DEMUTH 

POSTER       PORTRftlTS        192J-I919 


scries  of  emblematic 
portraits  to  honor  friends 
promment  in  the  avant- 
garde  circles  of  New  York: 
the  painters  Marsden 
Hartley,  Georgia  O'Keeffe, 
Arthur  Dove,  Charles 
Duncan,  and  John  Marin,- 
the  literary  figures  Wallace 
Stevens,  Eugene  O'Neill, 
William  Carlos  Williams, 
and  Gertrude  Stein;  and  the 
vaudevillian  Bert  Savoy. 
The  portraits  have  long 
been  recognized  as  among 
the  most  original  and 
important  expressions 
within  Demuth's  body  of 
work  and  until  now,  these 
paintings,  watercolors,  and 
drawings  had  never  been 
brought  together. 

Jeanne  Samson  Katz  72 

with  Moyra  Sidell 
Katz  IS  lecturer  in  health 
and  social  welfare  at  the 
Open  University,  Milton 
Keynes,  United  Kingdom. 

Easeful  death:  Caring  for 
dying  &>  bereaved  people 
Hodder  &  Stoughton 

Despite  being  exposed  to 
images  of  violent  death  in 
the  media  from  an  early  age, 
we  are  unlikely  to 
experience  the  death  of 
someone  close  until  late 
adulthood.  With  increased 
life  expectancy  and  medical 
advances,  death  has  become 
more  remote  and,  largely,  a 
subject  to  be  avoided. 
Easeful  death  has  been 
written  for  all  professional 
carers.  It  deals  with  the 
caring  needs  of  dying  people 
and  the  support  needs  of  the 
bereaved,  taking  a  practical 


approach  to  the  subject.  The 
authors  make  extensive  use 
of  case  studies  that  reflect 
the  wide  age  and  cultural 
range  of  our  society. 

Carole  S.  Kessner  '53,  ed. 

Kessner  teaches  in  the 
Departments  of 
Comparative  Studies  and 
English  and  in  the  programs 
in  Judaic  Studies  and 
Women's  Studies  at  State 
University  of  New  York, 
Stony  Brook. 

The  "Other"  New  York 

Jewish  Intellectuals 

New  York  University  Press 

The  -Other"  New  York 
Jewish  Intellectuals 
presents  a  group  of  thinkers 
who  may  not  have  had 
widespread  celebrity  status 
but  who  fostered  a  real 
sense  of  community  within 
the  Jewish  world  in  those 
troubled  times.  What 
unified  these  men  and 
women  was  their 
commitment  and  allegiance 
to  the  Jewish  people. 
Divided  into  three 
sections — "Opinion 
Makers,"  "Men  of  Letters," 
and  "Spiritual  Leaders" — 
the  book  will  be  of  interest 
to  students  of  Jewish 
studies,  American 
intellectual  history,  as  well 
as  history  of  the  1930s 
and  1940s. 


_Ic:innc  Kat:  ;tixI  Miivni  Sidcli 

Herbert  S.  Lewis  '55 

Lewis  is  a  professor  of 
anthropology  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin, 
Madison. 

After  the  Eagles  Landed: 
the  Yemenites  of  Israel 
Waveland  Press,  Inc. 

Especially  prominent  in 
Israel's  diverse  Jewish 
population  are  the  Jews 
from  Yemen,  who  have 
occupied  a  special  position 
in  the  life  of  the  community 
for  more  than  a  century. 
This  study  examines  many 
aspects  of  the  adaptation  of 
the  Jews  of  Yemen  to  life  in 
Israel.  It  is  based  on 
extensive  fieldwork  which 
is  centered  on  the  Yemenite 
community  of  a  small  city 
but  broadened  with 
comparative  material  from 
all  over  the  country.  In 
looking  at  the  Yemenites 
and  urban  life  in  Israel,  the 
book  sheds  light  on  the 
controversial  topic  of  ethnic 
integration  in  Israel. 

JanetB.  Mitchell,  Ph.D. '76, 
Heller  School,  and  Margo  L. 
Rosenbach '78,  Ph.D.  '85, 
Heller  School 

Mitchell  is  president  and 
Rosenbach  is  vice  president 
of  the  Center  for  Health 
Economics  Research. 

Access  to  Health  Care:  Key 
Indicators  for  Policy 

The  Nation's  Health  Care 
Bill:  Who  Bears  the  Burden! 
Center  for  Health 
Economics  Research 

Access  to  Health  Care  asks 
the  question:  Is  access 
better  or  worse  than  a 
decade  ago?  The  data  that  is 
presented  shows 
improvement  in  a  few  areas 
but  the  access  indicators 


50  Brandeis  Review 


Foreword  by  Alan  Millard 


Alfred ].  Hocnh   •  Gerald  L.  Mattiugly 


Edwin  M.  Yamaiichi 


taken  as  a  whole  show 
either  no  improvement  over 
the  last  decade  or  an  actual 
worsening.  The  authors 
point  out  that  disparities  m 
access  persist  for  poor  and 
near  poor  people  and 
sometimes  for  racial  or 
ethnic  mmorities  as  well. 
These  disparities  are 
reflected  in  the  use  of  fewer 
health  care  services  and 
worse  health  care  outcomes. 

Better  health  for  all 
Americans  is  a  basic  goal  of 
our  society.  Yet,  as  the 
share  of  the  nation's 
resources  devoted  to 
improving  health  has  risen 
steadily,  satisfaction  with 
the  level  and  distribution  of 
health  services  lags  far 
behind  other  countries.  The 
Nation's  Health  Care  Bill 
points  out  that  our  society 
is  faced  with  a  large,  and 
growing,  opportunity  cost  if 
we  fail  to  control  health 
care  spending.  It  concludes 
that  if  we  do  not  act  now, 
we  will  pay  the  price  in 
terms  of  a  lower  standard  of 
living  for  everything  besides 
health  care. 


Elizabeth  A.  Segal  79 

with  Nora  S.  Gustavsson 
Segal  is  an  assistant 
professor  in  the  College  of 
Social  Work,  at  The  Ohio 
State  University. 

Critical  Issues  in  Child 

Welfare 

Sage  Publications 

Childhood  has  become  a 
passage  fraught  with  peril 
for  many  of  America's 
children.  The  authors 
provide  a  clear,  concise 
overview  of  the  mental, 
emotional,  physical,  and 
social  condition  of  children 
in  the  United  States  and  the 
current  social  concerns  that 
threaten  their  well-being. 
Traditional  child  welfare 
topics  such  as  foster  care, 
adoption,  abuse,  and  neglect 
are  discussed,  as  are  areas  of 
increasing  scope  and 
significance,  including 
poverty  among  children, 
HIV  and  chemically  exposed 
infants,  and  the  rising 
number  of  single-parent 
households. 

Laura  J.  Snyder  '87 

with  Peter  Achinstein,  eds. 
Snyder  is  completing  her 
Ph.D.  in  philosophy  at  The 
Johns  Hopkins  University. 


Scientific  Methods: 

Conceptual  and  Historical 

Problems 

Kriegcr  Publishing 

Company 

This  book  discusses 
problems  of  scientific 
methodology,  including  the 
nature  of  scientific 
reasoning,  experimentation, 
evidence,  theory-change, 
and  controversy  in  science. 
The  essays  examine 
methodological  issues 
involved  in  various  episodes 
in  the  history  of  science 
from  Newtonian  physics  in 
the  17th  and  18th  centuries 
to  quantum  mechanics  in 
the  20th  century.  The  book 
is  primarily  intended  for  use 
by  those  working  in  the 
history  and  philosophy  of 
science;  but  it  may  he 
readily  understood  by 
nonspecialists  as  well. 

Elise  KJmerling  WIrtschafter  77 

Wirtschafter  is  an  associate 
professor  of  history  at 
California  State  Polytechnic 
University  in  Pomona. 

Structures  of  Society: 
Imperial  Russia's  "People  of 
Various  Ranks" 
Northern  Illinois  University 
Press 

A  category  of  persons  best 
defined  by  what  they  were 
not,  the  raznochintsy — 
"people  of  various  ranks"  or 
"people  of  diverse  origins" — 
inhabited  the  shifting  social 
territory  between  nobles 
and  serfs  in  preindustrial 
Russia.  In  official  society, 
they  were  outsiders.  The 


author  draws  on  an  array  of 
sources  to  show  how  this 
important  but  elusive 
category  functioned  in 
Russian  society. 
Challenging  the  traditional 
image  of  a  rigidly 
hierarchical  social 
structure,  her  conclusions 
indicate  that  there  was 
much  more  mobility  within 
imperial  Russian  society 
than  historians  have 
previously  thought. 

Edwin  M.  Yamauchi,  M.A.  '63, 
Ph.D. '64 

with  Alfred  J.  Hoerth  and 
Gerald  L.  Mattingly,  eds. 
Yamauchi  is  professor  of 
history  at  Miami 
University,  Oxford,  Ohio 

Peoples  of  the  Old 
Testament  World 
Baker  House 

Peoples  of  the  Old 
Testament  World  is  the 
latest  reference  book  to 
offer  detailed  accounts  on 
the  people  groups  who 
interacted  with  Israel  in  the 
Hebrew  Bible.  Thirteen 
essays  provide  information 
as  to  what  is  known  about 
these  civilizations, 
including  developments  and 
theories  that  have  emerged 
since  1973.  Two  of  the 
essayists  also  hold  Ph.D.'s 
from  Brandeis:  Harry  A. 
Hoffner,  Jr.,  Ph.D.  '63,  and 
William  A.  Ward,  Ph.D. '58 


Book  blurbs  are  compiled 
from  publisher/author 
promotional  materials  and 
should  be  considered 
neither  reviews  nor 
summaries. 


51  Spring  1995 


Class  Notes 


editor's  note:  Class  Notes  may 
now  be  sent  by  e-mail  to 
IN%"alumni@logos. cc.brandeis.edu" 


'53 


Norman  Diamond,  D.D.S.,  Class 
Correspondent,  240  Kendrick 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02158 

Carole  Schwartz  Ressner  edited 

The  OthcT  New  York  Jewish 
Intellectuals,  released  last  year  by 
New  York  University  Press.  She  is 
recipient  of  the  Marie  Syrkin 
Fellowship  for  1994  and  teaches 
English,  comparative  studies, 
Judaic  Studies,  and  women's 
studies  at  the  State  University  of 
New  York  at  Stony  Brook. 


'58 


Allan  W.  Drachman,  Class 
Correspondent,  115  Mayo  Road, 
Wellesley,  MA  02181 

Laurence  J.  Silberstein,  Ph.D.  '72, 

IS  spending  the  spring  semester  as 
a  visiting  professor  at  the 
Gregorian  University  in  Rome,  an 
institution  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  where  he  will  teach  a 
course  on  "Jewish  Thought  Since 
the  Holocaust."  He  is  director  of 
the  Philip  and  Muriel  Berman 
Center  for  Jewish  Studies  at 
Lehigh  University. 


'59 


Sunny  Sunshine  Brownrout,  Class 
Correspondent,  87  Old  Hill  Road, 
Westport,  CT  06880 

Letty  Cottin  Pogrebin  was  part  of 
a  delegation  which  accompanied 
President  Clinton  to  the  Middle 
East  in  October  to  witness  the 
signing  of  the  Israel-Jordan  peace 
treaty. 

bU  35th  Reunion 

Joan  Silverman  Wallack,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Linden  Shores, 
Unit  28,  Branford,  CT  06405 

Cayla  Freiberger  Coleman  has  a 

private  counseling  practice  in  San 
Rafael,  CA,  and  counsels  juvenile 
offenders  and  their  families  in  the 
county  probation  system.  She 
received  her  master's  in  social 
welfare  from  University  of 
California  at  Berkeley  in  1989. 
Susan  Pekarsky  Gary  is  a 
consultant  and  troubleshooter  for 
the  garment  industry  in  the 
California  bay  area.  Frances  Pat 
Goldman  is  close  to  retirement 
from  the  Leonia  School  system  in 
New  Jersey,  where  she  has  been  a 
special  education  teacher  for 
more  than  25  years.  She  writes 
that  she  enjoys  spending  much  of 
her  leisure  time  in  Vermont  and 
Florida  and  is  ready  to  return  to 
the  classroom  to  take  "all  the 
courses  I've  always  wanted  to 
take  "  Bea  Green  Graney  sadly 

52  Brandeis  Review 


announced  that  in  December 
199.^  she  was  given  six  months  to 
live  due  to  inoperable  cancer. 
"Thanks  to  the  good  Lord  and 
good  doctors,  I'm  still  here  in 
December  1994."  She  welcomes 
communication  from  Brandeis 
friends,  reporting  that  she 
treasures  her  Brandeis  years 
"which  helped  me  'fight  the  good 
fi.i;ht'  in  many  issues."  Gerard  R. 
Guttell,  D.M.D.,  maintains  a 
dental  practice  in  Burlington, 
MA,  and  reports  that  he  is  still 
happily  married  to  his  wife, 
Barbara,  after  28  years.  His  son, 
Andrew  M.  Guttell  '86  teaches 
first  grade  in  Newton,  MA,  and  is 
married  to  Karen  Shashoua 
Guttell  '86  Suzanne  Hodes  is  a 
successful 


artist  based  in  Waltham.  She 
presented  a  solo  show  last 
summer  at  the  Lightwater  Gallery 
in  Wellfleet,  MA,  and  participated 
in  the  Women  m  Watercolor 
exhibit  at  the  Boston  Public 
Library  and  the  Creativity  and 
Spirituality  exhibit  at  the 
Newton  Jewish  Community 
Center.  Some  of  her  work  was 
included  in  New  American 
Paintings,  a  book  published  by 
the  Open  Studios  Press.  Ellen  D. 
Levine  won  the  1994  Jane 
Addams  Book  Award  for 
Freedom's  Children:  Young  Civil 
Rights  Activists  Tell  Their  Own 
Stories.  The  award  was  given  on 
the  basis  of  the  promotion  of 
peace,  social  justice,  world 


tiieii  L.cvtne 


community,  and  equality  of  the 
sexes  and  races.  Elisabeth  Lisette 
Nayor  is  educational  director  of 
the  Yorktown,  NY,  Jewish  Center 
Religious  School  and  Jewish 
Family  Education.  She  is  also  vice 
president  of  the  regional  board  of 
the  Anti-Defamation  League, 
chair  of  the  education  committee, 
and  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  Bet  Am  Shalom 
Synagogue.  Toby  Sheinfeld 
Nussbaum  writes  that  she  had  the 
opportunity  to  travel  to  Italy, 
London,  and  Turkey  for  three 
months  with  her  husband, 
Bernard  W.  Nussbaum,  former 
counsel  to  President  Clinton. 
They  were  loined  on  the  last  leg 
of  their  trip  by  fellow  alumnus 
Steven  (.  Solarz  '62  and  his  wife. 
Now  back  in  "hectic"  New  York 
City,  Toby  is  volunteering  and 
participating  in  philanthropic 
activities  and  her  husband  Bernie 
IS  back  in  his  law  firm.  "I'm 
looking  forward  to  seeing 
rl.issmates  at  our  upcoming 
Kcunion — 35  years — yikes!"  she 
wiites.  Sheila  Robbins  Reid  lives 
in  Worcester,  MA,  and  continues 
III  teach  and  perform  violin  while 
playing  with  several  area 
orchestras.  She  is  artistic  director 
uid  violinist  for  three  chamber 
i  iiscmbles:  the  Romantic  Harp  ik 
\  lolm,  the  Classic  String  Trio. 
.ind  the  Hawthorne  Tree  Chamber 
rlayers.  Stephen  Rudin  was 
appointed  to  the  ccmsulting  staff 
of  Goddard  Medical  Associates 
and  has  a  visiting  professorship  in 
psychology  at  Bndgewater  State 
College.  He  resides  in  Stoughton, 
MA,  and  reports  the  arrival  of  a 
second  grandchild  and  the 
marriage  of  his  youngest 
daughter,  Laura.  Alan  E.  Sidman 
is  on  sabbatical  leave  from  his 
middle  school  teaching  duties  in 
Brooklyn.  He  is  studying  at 
Kingsborough  Community 
College  and  is  "enjoying  the 
changes  of  pace  and  routine.  As  I 
approach  retirement,  I'm 
considering  various  options — and 
looking  forward  to  the  next  30 
years."  Mimi  Berenson 
Silberstein  is  coordinator  for 
special  education  and  elementary 
guidance  counselor  for  the 
Bangor,  PA,  school  district.  She 
lives  with  her  husband,  Laurence 
I.  Silberstein  '58,  in  Bethlehem, 
PA.  They  continue  to  visit  Israel 
every  year  as  part  of  Larry's  work 
and  travel  to  Ohio,  San  Francisco, 
and  Seattle  to  visit  their  children. 
Bob  Stein  lives  in  Washington, 
DC,  with  his  wife,  Jane  (acobson 
'59.  He  practices  law,  arbitrates, 
and  mediates,  and  for  the  last  10 
years  has  focused  on  legal  and 
policy  questions  of  HIV/AIDS  and 
related  health  and  disability 
issues.  He  also  teaches  at 
Georgetown  Law  School,  sits  on 
the  American  Bar  Association 
AIDS  Committee,  and  the 
Committee  on  HIV/AIDS  of  the 


Union  of  American  Hebrew 
Congregations/Central 
Conference  of  American  Rabbis. 
Last  year,  they  hiked  in  New 
Zealand  ("the  finest  walk  in  the 
world")  and  Colorado.  Joni  M. 
Steinman  lives  in  San  Diego  and 
works  with  her  spouse  and 
business  partner,  John  P. 
Harenskim,  J.D.,  M.PH.  Their 
consulting  business,  AUSMS 
Healthcare  Consultants,  supports 
the  health  care  industry  in  its 
transition  from  a  hospital  focus  to 
a  network  of  community  and 
home-based  services.  She  writes 
that  the  family  helped  longtime 
friend  Rosetta  B.  Packer  '75 
celebrate  her  birthday  last  year: 
"Brandeis  friendships  run  deep," 
she  writes.  Robert  Weiner 
published  a  book  entitled  Change 
m  Eastern  Europe.  Ellen 
Rosenbaum  Wolf  is  working  with 
public  schools  to  involve  business 
professionals  in  helping  create 
and  actively  support  higher 
academic  standards.  Joyce  Ship 
Zaritsky  continues  to  teach  and 
run  a  tutoring  program  at 
LaGuardia  Community  College  in 
New  York.  In  her  spare  time,  she 
works  at  completing  her  novel 
which  is  "almost  finished  and 
published." 


'61 


Judith  Leavitt  Schatz,  Class 
Correspondent,  139  Cumberland 
Road,  Leominster,  MA  01453 

Peter  Lipsitt  is  planning  an  art 
show  at  the  Chapel  Gallery  in 
Newton,  MA,  in  October.  Ellen 
Jacobs  Freyer  Poss  was  remarried 
to  Samuel  Poss  in  1989  and 
moved  to  Los  Angeles  where  she 
welcomes  contacts  from 
classmates.  Formerly  with  PBS/ 
Wonderworks,  she  is  now  an 
independent  producer  specializing 
in  family  entertainment.  She 
produced  "The  Whipping  Boy" 
feature  for  the  Disney  Channel  in 
July  and  an  animated  original 
musical  version  of  The  Secret 
Garden  for  ABC  in  November. 
Her  son,  Daniel  Freyer,  an 
executive  with  TRW,  is  married 
to  an  attorney  and  lives  in 
Manhattan  Beach,  CA. 


'63 


Miriam  Osier  Hyman,  Class 
Correspondent,  140  East  72nd 
Street,  #16B,  New  York,  NY 
10021 

Lawrence  Goldman  received  the 
Distinguished  Practitioner  Award 
at  the  annual  dinner  of  the  New 
York  Criminal  Bar  Association 
last  June.  He  was  also  reelected  to 
the  board  of  directors  of  the 
National  Association  of  Criminal 
Defense  Lawyers. 


News  Notes 


Lawrence  Goldman 

Dw  30th  Reunion 

Joan  L.  Kalatatas,  Class 
Correspondent,  95  Concord  Road, 
Mavnard,  MA  01754 

Ellen  Bassuk,  M.D.,  is  cofounder 
and  president  of  the  Better  Homes 
Fund,  a  national  organization 
serving  homeless  families,  which 
has  given  grants  to  more  than  100 
programs  in  35  states.  She  is 
editor  in  chief  of  the  American 
lournal  of  Orthopsychiatry  and 
recently  received  an  honorary 
Doctor  of  Public  Service  from 
Northeastern  University.  In 


Ellen  Bassuk 

addition,  she  enioys  the  challenge 
of  being  the  mother  of  Danny,  age 
1 1,  and  Sarah,  age  7.  Carl  Baylis  is 
assistant  director  of  management 
and  information  systems  at 
Montefiore  Hospital  in  New  York, 
where  he  specializes  in  database 
software.  He  lives  in  Harrison, 
NY,  with  his  wife  and  two  sons, 
ages  22  and  16.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  Harrison  Band 
Parents  Association  and  the 
IDM's  Northeast  Users'  Group. 
David  (Chuck)  Bresler  is  a 
psychologist  and  acupuncturist  in 
West  Los  Angeles.  His  23rd  hook 
on  Emotional  First  Aid  is  soon  to 
be  released.  David's  oldest  son, 
age  21,  is  in  Navy  SEAL  training; 
his  daughter,  age  19,  is  studying 
marine  biology  at  San  Diego 
State,  "getting  ready  to  save  the 
whales."  His  two  youngest 


children  have  been  home- 
schooled  for  the  last  10  years. 
Michael  Dover  is  a  research 
associate  professor  at  Clark 
University's  Center  for 
Technology,  Environment,  and 
Development  |CENTED|  in 
Worcester,  !V1A.  He  is  principal 
investigator  on  a  project 
sponsored  by  the  United  States 
Environmental  Protection  Agency 
examining  ways  to  improve 
communications  on  wildlife 
protection.  He  now  lives  in 
Amherst,  MA,  and  has  one 
daughter,  Caitlin,  a  sophomore  at 
Sarah  Lawrence  College.  Martin 
Fassler  is  an  administrative  law 
judge  for  the  California  State 
Personnel  Board,  whose  office  was 
recently  moved  from  San 
Francisco  to  Oakland.  Despite 
accumulating  debts,  he  enjoyed 
five  years  of  private  law  practice 
representing  teachers,  teacher 
unnms,  and  other  plaintiffs  in 
employment  disputes.  He  and  his 
wife,  Kathryn  Knight,  a  fund- 
raiser for  various  environmental 
advocacy  groups,  have  two 
children;  Emma,  age  8,  and  laied, 
age  4  Marilyn  Shuffman  Faust  is 
"still  married  after  2S  years"  to 
David  Faust.  She  has  her  own  law 
practice  concentrating  on 
matrimonial  and  family  law  in 
White  Plains,  NY.  They  have 
enioyed  traveling  in  Europe, 
Africa,  Australia,  and  the  United 
States,  including  Alaska  and 
Hawaii,  with  their  three  children, 
lonathan,  Paul,  and  Lauren 
|"Ioey"|.  The  family  is  planning 
soiourns  to  South  America  and 
South  Africa  in  the  near  future. 
Ellen  Foley,  after  working  at  the 
Pittsburgh  Post  Gazette,  has  been 
assistant  managing  editor/ 
features  for  the  past  five  years  at 
The  Blade,  a  Toledo  newspaper. 
William  Friedman  is  CEO  of  two 
real  estate  investment  trusts 
concentrating  in  affordable 
housing  investments.  His  wife, 
Lucy,  recently  received  a 
Presidential  Award  from 
President  Clinton  for 
extraordinary  services  to  crime 
victims.  He  relates,  "At  the  Rose 
Garden  ceremony  the  President 
and  1  exchanged  congratulations 
on  our  wives'  accomplishments. 
He  also  said  he  liked  my  tie."  He 
has  one  daughter,  Tanya,  and 
three  sons,  Ezra,  Gideon,  and 
Sam.  Helen  Goldenberg  is 
working  as  a  computer 
programmer  for  Retirement 
Systems  and  has  two  daughters, 
Ilene  and  Audrey.  She  is  active  in 
Jewish  community  fund-raising 
and  cultural  organizations,  and 
has  traveled  in  the  last  year  to 
Florida,  Arizona,  and  Israel. 


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Sidney  Golub 

Sidney  Golub  recently  assumed 
responsibilities  as  Executive  Vice 
Chancellor  of  the  Irvine  campus 
of  the  University  of  California, 
where  he  serves  as  chief  academic 
officer  and  budget  director  for  a 
campus  of  about  16,000  students. 
Katherine  Gould-Martin  has 
recently  moved  to  Red  Hook,  NY, 
in  the  "beautiful  Hudson  Valley" 
hoping  to  resume  teaching  in  the 
near  future.  Her  husband  is 
graduate  dean  at  Bard  College, 
and  their  four  children  are  spread 
around  the  country,  with  only  the 
youngest  at  home.  Arlene 
Hirschfelder  has  been  on  the 
faculty  at  the  New  School  for 
Social  Research,  New  York,  since 
1984,  teaching  "American  Indians 
in  American  History:  a  New 
Perspective"  and  "The  American 
Indian  Experience  in 
Contemporary  Native  Poetry  and 
Fiction,"  among  other  courses. 
She  has  authored  many  books  on 
Native  Americans  including 
Rising  Voices  and  Happily  May  1 
Walk.  John  Jacobs,  M.D,,  is  very 
busy  in  private  practice  as  a 
psychiatrist  and  couples' 
therapist.  Gabriel,  his  fourth 
child,  was  born  in  1993,  Nina 
Judd  reports  that  she  is  busy 
teaching  English  to  Russian 
immigrants  and  that  her  children 
are  all  grown  up.  Joan  Furber 
Kalafatas  has  been  working  for 
the  past  seven  years  as  a  senior 
benefits  analyst  at  NEC 
Technologies  in  Boxborough,  MA, 
responsible  for  designing, 
communicating,  and 
administering  employee  benefits. 
She  looks  forward  to  the  30th 
Reunion  as  well  as  celebrating  her 
30th  wedding  anniversary  with 
her  husband,  Michael  Kalafatas, 
director  of  admissions  at 
Brandeis.  Their  son  John,  age  25, 
who  recently  married  Marybeth 
Savicki,  does  research  and  writing 
in  the  development  department  at 
Harvard.  Their  son  Dan,  age  21,  a 
college  junior,  is  currently 
interning  at  J. P.  Morgan.  Mark 
Kramer,  professor  and  writer-in- 
residence  at  Boston  University, 


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usually  are  unable  to  print  lists 
of  classmates  who  attend  each 
other's  weddings  or  other 
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and  births  are  included  in 
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Mark  Kramer 

coedited  Literary  Journalism:  A 
New  Collection  of  the  Best 
American  Nonfiction,  which  will 
be  published  next  month.  Robert 
Lerman,  chair  of  the  economics 
department  at  American 
University  in  Washington,  D.C., 
was  proud  to  receive  the  1994 
University  Award  for 
Contributions  to  Academic 
Development  after  he  created  a 
new  master's  program  in  financial 
economics  for  public  policy.  In 
addition,  Young  Unwed  Fathers, 
which  he  edited,  was  recently 
published  in  paperback.  Bob's 
wife,  Ariella,  is  a  professional 
interior  designer;  his  daughters 
Alona  and  Maya  "are  great  kids  in 
spite  of  their  teenage  years."  Don 
Lubin  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  Harvest 
Cooperative  Supermarkets  for  the 
past  21  years.  Marilyn  Siskin 
Merker  is  assistant  director  ot 
graduate  academic  advisement  at 
Pace  University's  Lubin  School  of 
Business.  She  is  also  active  in  the 
Westchester,  NY,  alumni  chapter. 
Susan  Weidman  Schneider  is 
founder  and  editor  in  chief  of 
Lilith,  the  independent  lewish 
women's  magazine  which 
celebrated  its  18th  anniversary. 
"I'm  always  delighted  to  see  how 
many  Brandeis  graduates  cross  my 
path  in  some  feminist  activities 
or  another,"  she  writes.  Her 
daughter,  Rachel,  is  in  the 
Brandeis  Class  of  199S.  Michael 
L,  Seltz  reports  that  his 
architectural  and  interior  design 
firm,  Oldham  and  Seltz,  recently 
celebrated  its  1 1th  anniversary. 
He  has  a  daughter,  Jennifer,  and 
two  sons,  Daniel  and  Steven. 
Marian  Segal  Krauskopf  is  deputy 
commissioner  in  New  York  City's 
Department  of  Personnel,  where 
she  is  responsible  for  the  city's 
training  programs  for  its  own 
employees  (executive, 
management,  computer, 
procurement,  and  training)  and 
for  the  city's  internship  programs. 
As  a  Dinkins  recruit  working  in 
the  Giuliani  administration,  she 
IS  wondering,  what's  next?  Her 
husband,  Jack,  is  dean  of  the 


Graduate  School  of  Management 
and  Urban  Policy  at  the  New 
School-  Her  son,  Lewis,  is  a  senior 
at  Duke  University,  and  her 
daughter,  Katie,  is  a  sophomore  at 
Hrttwn.  David  Lynch  is  senior 
project  manager  at  the 
Massachusetts  Division  of 
Capital  Planning  and  Operations. 
He  is  married  to  Ellen  Belland  and 
has  one  daughter,  Sophia,  Barbara 
Sommer  Penny  reports  that  she 
was  recently  happily  reunited 
with  her  daughter,  Ruth,  who  had 
been  given  up  for  adoption  28 
years  ago.  Her  son,  Michael,  age 
26,  was  married  in  June  1993  and 
lives  with  his  wife,  Alicia,  in 
Colorado.  Her  daughter,  Lenna, 
age  24,  whom  she  coparented, 
was  graduated  in  June  from  the 
University  of  California  at  Santa 
Cruz,  Barbara  and  her  partner, 
Kristi  Gochoel,  live  in  the  woods 
of  Northern  California.  Robert 
Marcus  is  a  social  worker  on  an 
inpatient  unit.  He  reports  that  he 
copes  by  "blowing  my  brains  out" 
playing  first  cornet  in  several 
concert  bands.  Massachusetts 
alumni  can  hear  him  every 
Thursday  summer  night  at  the 
Lexington  Green  Bandstand,  and 
at  the  Middlesex  Concert  Band  at 
the  Hatch  Shell  on  the  Esplanade 
at  least  once  during  the  summer. 
Gary  Posner,  who  teaches  at  the 
Johns  Hopkins  University  in  the 


chemistry  department,  recently 
received  a  1994  Distinguished 
Teaching  Award  from  the  School 
of  Arts  and  Sciences.  Laurin 
Raiken  is  professor  of 
individualized  studies  and  senior 
faculty  member  of  the  Gallatin 
School  at  New  York  University, 
which  he  helped  to  found  24  years 
ago.  He  directs  the 
interdisciplinary  Arts  Program, 
which  includes  the  Arts  and 
Society  Program  and  the  Arts 
Management  and  Cultural  Policy 
Programs.  A  faculty  member  at 
NYU's  Tisch  School  of  the  Arts, 
Raiken  is  also  recipient  of  NYU's 
Great  Teacher  Award,  and  a  new 


Interdisciplinary  Arts  Fund  was 
recently  created  in  his  honor.  His 
wife,  Ann  Axtmann,  a  former 
ballet  dancer  with  the  Joffrey 
Ballet  and  American  Ballet 
Theatre,  teaches  movement 
analysis  and  choreography  at 
NYU.  Their  son,  Thor,  is  a 
computer  programmer  and  studies 
photo-imaging.  Patricia  Rohner 
has  been  working  on  an  M.S.W.  at 
the  Simmons  School  of  Social 
Work  and  interning  at  Cape  Ann 
Day  Treatment  Center  in 
Gloucester,  MA.  Dan  Rubin,  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Denver  Police 
Department,  is  studying  for  an 
M.A,  in  political  science  at  the 
University  of  Colorado  at  Denver. 
His  wife,  Vicki,  teaches  middle 
school.  Marilyn  Doria  Shaw  is  a 
law  partner  representing  ma)or 
energy  companies  in  Houston. 
Her  husband,  a  law  partner  at  a 
different  firm,  has  a  white  collar 
crime  practice.  Marilyn  is  the 
mother  of  an  active  second- 
grader.  (Two  cats,  a  new  puppy, 
and  a  tankful  of  fish  complete  the 
Shaw  menagerie,  she  says.)  When 
not  at  their  home  in  the 
Palisades,  complete  with  deer, 
fox,  wild  turkeys,  coyote,  and  a 
cougar,  the  Shaws  are  at  their 
Madison,  CT,  home  on  the  shore. 
Sandy  Kotzen  Smith  has  been 
student  assistance  coordinator  for 
the  Chatham,  NJ,  school  district 
for  seven  years.  She  provides 
individual  and  group  counseling 
tor  students  in  grades  five  through 
1 1  for  alcohol/drug  abuse  and 
other  prevention-related  issues. 
She  also  does  teacher  in  service 
training  and  parent  education. 
Sandy  is  married  to  Dennis  Smith 
'65.  One  of  their  daughters  works 
in  New  York  City;  the  other  is 
pinsuing  her  master's  degree  at 
(  -jllaudet  in  Washington,  D.C. 
I  nr  fun,  Sandy  enjoys  reading, 
walking,  and  staying  physically 
tit.  She  and  Dennis  enjoy 
traveling  and  spending  vacations 
m  the  Massachusetts  Berkshires. 
Herbert  Teitelbaum  has  a  law 
firm  of  22  lawyers.  He  is  also 
president  of  the  New  Israel  Fund 
which  works  to  strengthen 
democracy  in  Israel  by  building 
the  nonprofit,  independent  sector 
in  such  areas  as  civil  rights, 
religious  tolerance,  economic 
equity,  and  women's  rights.  His 
wife  Ruth  J.  Abram,  M.S.W.,  runs 
the  Lower  East  Side  Tenement 
Museum.  Their  daughter,  Anna 
'92,  IS  in  her  first  year  of 
Columbia  School  of  Social  Work; 
their  son,  Noah,  attends  New 
College  in  Sarasota.  Sheila  Rabb 
Weidenfeld  lives  in  Washington, 
D.C,  with  her  husband,  Edward, 
and  their  two  children:  Nicholas, 
age  15,  and  Daniel,  age  13.  She  is 
president  of  D.C.  Productions,  a 
firm  specializing  in 
communication  strategies  and 


television  programming.  She  is 
also  chair  of  the  Chesapeake  & 
Ohio  Historical  Party 
Commission,  Honorary  Consul 
General  of  the  Republic  of  San 
Marino,  and  a  member  of  the  U.S. 
Holocaust  Memorial  Museum. 
Richard  Weisberg  is  Floersheimer 
Professor  of  Constitutional  Law 
at  Cardozo  Law  School  of  Yeshiva 
University,  former  Brandeis 
Fannie  Hurst  Visiting  Professor  of 
English  Literature  (1989),  and  a 
pioneer  of  the  "Law  and 
Literature"  movement.  The 
recipient  of  grants  from  the 
National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities,  the  United  States 
Information  Agency,  and  ACLS, 
he  has  been  a  consultant  to  law 
firms  worldwide  on  the 
improvement  of  legal  writing 
skills.  His  books  include:  The 
Failure  of  the  Word.  1984;  When 
Lawyers  Write,  1987;  Poethics, 
1992;  and  the  forthcoming 
Pervasive  Vichy:  French  Legal 
Rhetoric  Under  Stress.  He  is 
married  to  Cheryl  Zackian  '68 
and  they  have  three  sons.  Susan 
Kraft  Zemelman  is  an 
organization  development 
specialist  at  Northwestern 
Memorial  Hospital.  She  has  been 
married  for  28  years  to  Steven 
Zemelman,  Ph.D.  '71.  They  have 
"two  wildly  creative  sons":  Mark, 
age  25,  who  holds  an  M.F.A.  in 
painting  from  Virginia 
Commonwealth  University;  and 
Dan,  age  21,  a  jazz  pianist  and 
senior  at  the  University  of 
Wisconsin. 


'66 


Kenneth  E.  Davis,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Mary  Chilton 
Road,  Needham,  MA  02192 

Judith  Kaden  Lewis,  Ph.D.  '85 

(Heller),  is  associate  editor  of 
lOGNN:  The  Journal  of 
Obstetric.  Gynecologic,  and 
Neonatal  Nursing,  and  previously 
edited  a  peer-reviewed  journal. 
Clinical  Issues  in  Perinatal  and 
Women's  Health  Nursing. 


ludith  Lewis 


54  Brandeis  Review 


'68 


Jay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  1  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

MoUyann  Wersted  Blumenthal 

has  been  married  to  her  husband, 
Peter,  smce  1^)67  and  involved  in 
lewish  education  for  even  longer. 
She  calls  "the  really  bright  spots 
in  my  life"  their  four  children: 
Jeremy,  a  Ph.D.  candidate  at 
Harvard  who  previouslv  studied 
at  Brandcis,  Joshua  '93,  Elana 
(Lani)  '97,  and  Rafael  (Rafi)  '98. 
Peter  Coey,  M.A.  '70,  recently 
volunteered  to  work  in  the 
anthropology  section  of  the  Field 
IVIuseum  of  Natural  History  in 
Chicago,  where  he  corrected  and 
updated  the  catalog  of  ancient 
Roman  coins.  Some  years  ago,  he 
taught  anthropology  in  the 
Philippines.  Susan  Golod  Cohn 
received  a  M.Ed,  from 
Marymount  University  and  is 
now  teaching  sixth  grade  in 
Fairfax  County,  VA.  She  teaches 
all  subjects  to  a  diverse  group  of 
28  students,  and  finds  it  both 
challenging  and  enjoyable.  Susan 
Dickler  is  attending  the  John  F. 
Kennedy  School  of  Government 
at  Harvard  University  in  a  one- 
year  mid-career  program  to  earn  a 
master's  in  public  administration. 
Her  areas  of  interest  are  nonprofit 
administration,  philanthropy,  and 
politics.  Michele  Foster  is  a 
professor  in  the  Center  for 
Educational  Studies  at  the 
Claremont  Graduate  School  in 
California.  She  reports  that  her 
son,  Toure,  was  married  in 
August   Samuel  Heilman  was 
appointed  to  the  Harold 
Proshansky  Chair  of  Jewish 
Studies  and  Sociology  at  the 
Graduate  Center  of  the  City 
University  of  New  York.  His  sixth 
book,  Portrait  of  American  lewry, 
was  lust  published.  His  wife,  Ellin 
Kaufman  Heilman  '69,  received 
her  doctorate  in  psychology  from 
the  Ferkauf  Graduate  School  of 
Yeshiva  University  and  is  a 
therapist  in  Riverdale,  NY.  They 
have  four  sons;  Adam,  finishing 
his  senior  year  of  college;  Uri  '98; 
Avi,  a  high-school  sophomore; 
and  Yoni,  who  lust  celebrated  his 
bar  mitzvah   Roberta  Marke 
Hunter  received  a  $3,000  grant 
from  the  Council  of  Basic 
Education  to  study  relationships 
among  women  in  Jane  Austen's 
novels.  She  has  also  studied  at  the 
Lehman  College  Writing 
Consortium  with  teacher-trainer 
Alan  Stein  '58.  She  continues  to 
teach  at  Clara  Barton  High  School 
in  Brooklyn,  NY,  and  as  adjunct 
professor  at  Kmgsborough 
College.  Ronald  Kronish  lives  in 
Jerusalem,  where  he  is  director  of 


the  Interreligious  Coordinating 
Council  in  Israel  (1CCI|.  He 
lectures  frequently  to  visiting 
Jewish,  Christian,  and  interfaith 
groups  m  Israel  and  to  similar 
groups  m  North  America.  He  is 
also  a  regular  contributor  to 
Jewish,  Christian,  and  ecumenical 
journals  and  newspapers.  Howard 
Krosnick  is  assistant  director 
general  of  marketing  in  the 
English  program  branch  of  the 
National  Film  Board  of  Canada, 
based  in  Montreal   Barbara  Freed 
Sherman  is  on  the  interior  design 
staff  of  Shepley,  Bullinch, 
Richardson  ik  Abbott,  Boston's 
oldest  and  largest  architectural 
firm.  She  is  also  a  Brookline  town 
meeting  member  with  several 
other  Brandeis  alumni.  She  has 
two  daughters:  Julie,  completing 
her  first  year  of  college,  and 
Stephanie,  a  high  school 
sophomore  "dancing  her  way  to 
stardom"  as  a  lazz  student.  Mark 
Simon  received  a  design  award 
from  the  Virginia  Society  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Architects 
Design  Award  for  his  design  of 
the  National  Maritime  Center.  He 
adds  this  building,  called 
"Nauticus, "  to  his  list  of  credits 
that  also  includes  the  new  Carl 
and  Ruth  Shapiro  Admissions 
Center  at  Brandeis.  Peter  Spry- 
Leverton  produced  and  directed  a 
four-hour  series  for  the  Discovery 
Channel  on  "The  Seven  Wonders 
of  the  World,"  to  air  this  year. 
Lesley  Straley  reports  that  she 
loves  living  in  Vermont,  "both  foi 
the  countryside  and  the  people." 
She  continues  to  teach 
kindergarten  and  violin  lessons, 
and  hike,  canoe,  swim,  ski,  and 
read  in  her  free  time.  Her  partner, 
Charlotte,  is  now  traveling  as  an 
educational  consultant.  Nancy 
Wulwick  IS  a  visiting  associate 
professor  and  research  associate 
in  economics  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York  at 
Binghamton. 


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25th  Reunion 


Charles  S.  Eisenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  4  Ashford  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Laura  Schwartz  Arnold  earned  her 
M.D,  in  1988  and  now  enjoys  her 
work  as  a  family  practice 
physician,  serving  an  urban 
underprivileged  area  with  patients 
ranging  from  the  homeless  to 
college  professors.  Her  husband, 
George  Arnold,  M.D.,  is  a 
gastroenterologist  and  codirector 
of  a  gastroenterology  training 
program  at  Shadyside  Hospital  in 
Pittsburgh,  where  he  is  president- 
elect of  the  medical  staff.  He  took 
up  scuba  diving  and  underwater 
photography  as  a  hobby  and  has 
received  a  number  of  photo 
awards.  Their  son.  Ion,  is  a 


college  freshman,  and  their 
daughter,  Sarah,  is  15  years  old. 
Laura  says  of  reaching  her  25th 
Reunion,  "It's  hard  to  believe!  1 
don't  feel  any  older^ — wiser,  yes, 
but  older,  no."  Loretta  T.  Attardo 
opened  her  own  law  practice  in 
1992,  concentrating  in  labor  and 
employment  law,  and  reports  that 
she  is  busy  having  fun.  She  works 
in  Salem,  MA,  and  lives  in 
Marblehead  with  her  husband, 
Ralph  Rotman,  and  three 
daughters,  Alyssa,  age  10,  Cassie, 
age  8,  and  Leanne,  age  5,  who 
swim,  dance,  do  karate,  play 
piano  and  basketball,  and  "never 
let  us  sit."  Jane  Klein  Bright  is 
vice  president  of  human  resources 
at  Fidelity  Investments' 
management  and  research  group, 
where  she  has  worked  for  five 
enioyable  years.  Her  husband. 
Nelson,  owns  a  kitchen  design 
and  remodeling  business  and  has 
provided  her  with  a  "fabulous" 
kitchen.  They  have  two  sons,  ages 
16  and  13,  the  oldest  of  whom 
attends  Exeter  and  will  be  facing  a 
college  search  this  fall.  Ada  Demb 
is  an  associate  professor  in  the 
department  of  educational  policy 
and  leadership  at  the  Ohio  State 
University  College  of  Education, 
loining  the  faculty  last  fuly  after 
two  and  a  half  years  as  vice 
provost  for  international  affairs. 
She  teaches  graduate  courses  on 


Ada  Demb 

the  administration  of  academic 
affairs,  "managing"  the 
university,  and  internationalizing 
universities.  Her  book  on 
corporate  governance,  The 
Corporate  Board:  Confronting  the 
Paradoxes,  most  recently 
appeared  in  Danish  and  Slovenian 
translations.  Ada  continues  to 
enioy  life  in  the  Columbus,  OH, 
area  with  her  husband,  Bill 
Matthews  Deborah  Webb 
Eisenbach  has  lived  m  Jerusalem 
since  1970,  when  she  married 
Rabbi  Gil  Zion  Eisenbach  and 


moved  to  Israel.  He  teaches  at 
Aish  HaTorah,  a  yeshiva 
established  to  give  Jews  a  deeper 
understanding  of  their  heritage, 
while  .'^he  is  coordinator  of  Aish 
HaTorah  Women's  Organization, 
which  programs  educational 
seminars  and  fund-raising  events 
as  well  as  publishmg  two  kosher 
cookbooks.  They  have  10 
children,  ages  2  through  23;  the 
three  oldest  are  married;  they 
have  three  grandchildren. 
Deborah  invites  any  friends  to 
visit  them  in  lerusalem.  Rand 
Engel  retired  in  January  after 
three  years  manufacturing 
lingerie  in  Thailand,  Malaysia, 
and  Sri  Lanka  factories.  He 
assures  classmates  the  factories 
are  "bright  and  cheerful  with  no 
locked  doors!"  Claudia  Fine  has 
expanded  her  geriatric  care 
management  practice  and  has 
formed  a  partnership.  Fine  and 
Newcombe  Associates,  which 
provides  counseling  and 
professional  consultation  to  older 
adults  and  their  families  in  the 
New  York  metropolitan  area.  She 
and  her  husband,  David,  have 
three  children:  Isaac,  a  high 
school  iunior,  and  Ezra  and  Nina, 
second  graders.  Theodora  (Teddi) 
Fine  reports  that  she  has  )omed 
the  ranks  of  alumni  in  the 
Clinton  administration,  as  senior 
health  policy  advisor  to  the  head 
of  women's  health  in  the 
Department  of  Health  and 
Human  Services.  Her  office  heads 
the  largest  effort  to  date  on  breast 
cancer  education,  treatment,  and 
prevention,  work  which  she  finds 
especially  meaningful  as  a  five- 
year  breast  cancer  survivor.  Her 
husband  also  "went  political" 
during  a  six-month  term  in  the 
White  House  General  Counsel's 
office.  They  have  two  sons,  a  high 
school  student  and  a  9-year-old, 
both  serious  student/athletes. 
Margareta  N.  Freeman's  plans 
depended  on  whether  her 
husband,  Leonard  Levin,  M.A. 
'72,  Ph.D.  '73,  decides  to  go  to 
rabbinical  school  on  the  East 
Coast.  If  they  stay  in  Chicago,  she 
may  branch  out  her  private  social 
work  practice  to  include  adoption 
consulting  and/or  sex  therapy. 
They  have  two  children:  David, 
who  recently  celebrated  his  bar 
mitzvah,  and  Rachel,  age  8  1/2. 
Meg  Doshin  Gawler  lives  in 
France  and  works  in  Switzerland, 
designing  and  monitoring  World 
Wildlife  Fund  International 
conservation  pro)ects  m  Africa 
and  Madagascar  and  traveling 
extensively  in  the  region.  Her 
husband,  Alain  Blondel,  is  a 
particle  physicist  working  in  a 
Geneva  lab  and  teaching  at  the 
Ecole  Polytechnique  in  Paris.  She 
has  two  daughters,  and  three 
stepdaughters  ages  1 1  to  23.  After 
two  years  at  Brandeis,  Meg  spent 


55  Spring  1995 


some  time  at  the  Zen  Center  m 
San  Francisco  before  returning  to 
school  to  study  conservation.  She 
has  worked  as  an  environmental 
planner,  earned  an  M.Sc.  in 
engineering  science/applied 
ecology,  and  conducted  research 
on  the  ecology  of  Lake  Geneva  for 
the  French  government.  Jeffrey 
Gefter  is  chief  of  radiation 
oncology  at  the  Erlanger  Medical 
Center  in  Chattanooga,  TN.  His 
wife,  Monique  Lehr  Gefter,  is 
associate  professor  of  internal 
medicine  and  assistant  program 
director  of  internal  medicine 
residency  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee  College  of  Medicine. 
They  have  two  children.  Liana, 
age  17,  and  Julia,  age  12.  IWichael 
D.  Ginsberg  has  been  married  to 
Karen  Lee  Kimball  Ginsberg  '71 
lor  21  years  and  has  three  teenage 
sons,  Jeremy,  Josh,  and  Iiistin.  He 
has  his  own  10-lawyer  law  firm, 
specializing  in  estate  and  tax 
planning,  in  Dallas,  TX,  and  also 
keeps  busy  planning  a  mountain 
home  in  Colorado  and  wishing 
that  today's  music  were  "as  great 
as  that  of  the  sixties."  Howard  H. 
Goldman,  Ph.D.  '78,  (Heller), 
worked  on  health  care  reform  on 
President  Clinton's  task  force  m 
early  1993  with  "a  crew  of 
Brandeis  alumni."  He  also 
continues  to  enjoy  and  be 
challenged  by  his  work  in  the 
University  of  Maryland's 
psychiatry  department.  He 
remains  close  friends  with  several 
fellow  alumni  and  their  families 
also  living  in  the  Washington, 
D.C.,  area,  and  reports  that  his 
kids,  ages  10  and  17,  are  growing 
up.  iVlurray  Gordon  continues  to 
be  excited  by  his  job  as  tax 
director  at  Helene  Curtis,  Inc. 
More  importantly,  he  has  been 
married  to  Lou-Ellen  Saidel  '71 
for  20  years  and  has  three  sons,  all 
athletic  "stars":  Jonathan,  age  1.5, 
Micah,  age  12,  and  David,  age  8. 
In  addition  to  captaining  his 
senior  men's  league  hockey  team, 
the  Rangers,  Murray  spent  this 
winter  working  on  a  major  home 
addition  which  he  hopes  to  finish 
by  Reunion.  Emily  Greenberg  has 
been  director  of  the  University  of 
Baltimore  law  library  for  20  years. 
She  holds  an  M.A.  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  a 
M.L.S.  from  Rutgers  University, 
and  a  J.D.  from  the  University  of 
Baltimore.  She  and  her  husband, 
lohn  Sondheim,  live  in  a  little 
stone  house  in  Baltimore.  She 
makes  jewelry  as  a  hobby  and 
enjoys  Richard  Thompson's 
music  Saralee  Goldfein  Kane  and 
her  husband,  Mark  Kane  '69,  have 
lived  in  Switzerland  for  five  years, 
where  he  is  an  epidemiologist  at 
the  World  Health  Organization, 
working  on  controlling  hepatitis 
worldwide,  and  she  is  a  marriage 
and  family  therapist  for  a  Swiss 


clinic  in  Geneva.  She  has  also 
done  some  research  and  writing, 
including  several  papers  on 
international  adoption,  one 
published  in  an  academic  journal 
in  the  U.S.  and  some  published  in 
Europe  and  presented  at  the 
Hague.  She  also  wrote  a  book  for 
the  Red  Cross,  titled  Working 
with  Victims  of  Organized 
Violence  from  Different  Cultures. 
With  their  sons,  Adam,  age  16, 
and  Seth,  age  13,  the  Kanes 
"enjoy  living  in  a  small  Swiss 
village,  traveling  in  Europe, 
hiking  in  the  Alps,  seeing  great 
art,  eating  cheese,  and  drinking 
wine."  Saralee  reports  seeing  her 
former  roommate,  Susan  Harritt, 
who  visited  on  her  way  home 
from  Russia.  She  and  Mark  would 
love  to  hear  from  other 
Brandeisians  with  whom  they 
have  lost  contact.  Mitchell 
Kertzman  founded  Powersoft 
Corporation  of  Concord,  MA,  a 
maker  of  software  that  tracks 
manufacturing  inventory,  in  1974. 
In  November,  Powersoft  was 
bought  by  Sybase  Inc.  in  a  stock 
deal  which  created  the  world's 
seventh-largest  software 
company.  Mitchell  keeps  the  title 
of  chief  executive  of  Powersoft 
and  holds  one  of  two  Powersoft 
seats  on  the  Sybase  board. 
Andrew  Langsam  is  an  emergency 
and  trauma  physician  at  the 
Medical  Center  of  Delaware.  He 
and  his  wife,  Cabella,  have  two 
sons:  Caleb,  age  IS,  and  Joshua, 
age  13.  Robert  Litrownik,  Ph.D., 
has  been  living  happily  in 
Needham,  MA,  for  the  last  12 
years  with  his  wife,  Naomi  Mael, 
and  their  sons,  Michael,  age  13, 
and  Daniel,  age  9.  He  is  a  clinical 
psychologist  at  a  state  hospital  in 
Taunton,  specializing  in  treating 
the  severely  ill  and  doing  forensic 
evaluations.  Albert  Namias, 
M.D.,  is  a  gastroenterologist 
practicing  in  Salem,  MA.  He  and 
his  wife,  Gila  Rosenfield  Namias 
'71,  have  two  children:  Joshua 
'97,  and  Sarah,  a  junior  in  high 
school.  Eric  Pasternack  is  a 
petrophysical  consultant  with 
ARCO  International  Oil  and  Gas 
Company  in  Piano,  TX.  He  and 
his  wife  of  three  years.  Dr.  JoAnn 
Taurog,  are  active  in  their 
synagogue,  where  Eric  chairs  the 
ritual  committee,  and  they  both 
enjoy  acting  in  Gilbert  and 
Sullivan  operettas  in  their  "spare" 
time.  Eric  has  a  son,  Ethan,  a 
college  sophomorci  a  daughter, 
Esther,  in  her  lunior  year  of  high 
school;  a  stepson,  Aaron,  a  college 
junior;  and  a  stepdaughter,  Becky, 
a  high  school  senior.  Anne 
Schuldiner  Patterson  is  publisher 


of  the  medical  division  at  Mosby, 
where  she  has  worked  for  over  six 
years.  Her  son,  lesse,  is  a  college 
sophomore.  Gloria  Huberman 
Price  IS  a  clinical  psychologist  in 
part-time  private  practice  with 
her  husband,  Kenneth  Price.  She 
also  volunteers  extensively  for 
the  Dallas,  TX,  Memorial  Center 
for  Holocaust  Studies.  Married  for 
25  years,  she  and  Ken  have  two 
children:  Sarah,  age  17  and 
graduating  high  school  this  year, 
and  David,  age  14.  They  invite 
classmates  to  visit  if  they  come  to 
Dallas.  Sara  Ann  Levinsky  Rigler 
lives  in  Jerusalem's  Old  City, 
where  she  teaches  a  course  in 
"Women  in  the  Bible"  at  the 
Israelite  Institute.  She  and  her 
husband,  Leib,  a  musician  and 
composer,  have  a  daughter,  Pliyah 
Esther,  age  6,  and  a  son,  Yisrael 
Rohn,  age  I.  James  M.  Rosenblum 
IS  director  of  operations  for 
Southern  Audio  Visual  at  the 
Buena  Vista  Palace  Hotel  in  Lake 
Buena  Vista,  FL.  He  is  a  musician 
(saxophone  and  other 
woodwinds),  arranger,  and 
composer.  Evelyn  Speier  Rubin  is 
a  clinical  social  worker  at  the 
Sarah  Stedman  Nutrition  Center 
at  Duke  University,  working  with 
compulsive  eaters  and  people 
with  diabetes.  Previously,  she 
worked  for  over  1 1  years  at  the 
Hemophilia  Center.  She  and  her 
husband,  David,  a  professor  at 
Duke,  have  lived  in  Durham,  NC, 
for  16  years.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Shira,  age  16,  and 
Ariel,  age  13.  Craig  Safan 
composed  the  score  for  Damon 
Wayan's  new  film,  Mujor  Payne, 
for  Universal,  and  also  scored 
Gregory  Nava's  film  Mi  Familia 
for  New  Line.  He  lives  in  Santa 
Monica,  CA.  Louise  Brady 
Sandberg  works  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  archives  and  is 
pursuing  an  M.L.S.  at  Simmons 
College,  specializing  in  archives 
management.  She  and  her 
husband,  Michael  A.  Sandberg 
'69,  live  in  Reading,  MA,  with 
their  two  children,  Robin,  age  16, 
and  Matthew,  age  9.  David  E.  Y. 
Sarna's  botik,  Windows  Rapid 
Application  Development,  was 
published  last  year  by  PC 
Magazine  and  has  since  been 
translated  into  Czech.  His 
column,  "Paradigm  Shift — 
Developing  Smarter,"  appears 
semimonthly  in  Datamation.  He 
IS  chair  of  ObjectSoft  Corp.  in 
Englewood,  N|.  Mark  Sehenker, 
Ph.D.,  IS  director  of  a  drug  and 
alchohol  program  and  assistant 
professor  at  the  Medical  College 
of  Pennsylvania.  He  lives  in 
Philadelphia,  is  married,  and  has 
two  stepchildren,  one  stepson-in- 
law,  and  a  daughter,  Molly.  He 
reports  that  he  goes  hiking  less 
than  he  used  to,  but  still  plays 


music  once  in  a  while — and  has  a 
new  Collings  SJ  guitar.  Lawrence 
W.  Schiffman,  M.A.  '70,  Ph.D.  '74, 
is  professor  of  Hebrew  and  Judaic 
Studies  at  New  York  University 
as  well  as  a  member  of  the 
University's  Hagop  Kevorkian 
Center  for  Near  Eastern  Studies. 
He  IS  the  author  of  nine  books 
and  numerous  articles,  including 
Reclaiming  the  Dead  Sea  Scrolls, 
a  topic  in  which  he  specializes. 
He  is  also  a  fellow  of  the 
American  Academy  for  Jewish 
Research  and  recently  completed 
a  term  as  chair  of  the  Qumran 
Section  of  the  Society  of  Biblical 
Literature.  Peter  Skagestad,  Ph.D. 
'73,  spends  his  days  managing 
operations  for  a  foreign-language 
translation  company  in 
Cambridge,  MA,  his  evenings 
teaching  logic  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts-Lowell,  and  his 
weekends  jogging,  reading,  and 
writing  about  philosophy  His 
most  recent  paper,  "Thinking 
With  Machines,"  appeared  in  the 
fournal  of  Social  and 
Evolutionary  Systems  in  1993.  He 
lives  in  Brookline  with  his  wife, 
Elaine,  and  their  cat.  Penny.  Joyce 
Melzer  Springer  is  still  living  in 
London,  working  as  an  actress 
and  smger/dancer/musician  m  the 
theater  and  on-screen.  She 
costarred  in  a  network  television 
series  that  she  worked  on  with 
her  husband  of  27  years,  Paul 
Springer  '68.  Their  most  recent 
proiect  IS  a  series  about  an  all-girl 
rock  band  touring  the  universe. 
Justine  (Tina)  Wolk  moved  to 
Charlottesville,  VA,  over  six  years 
ago  to  "escape  from  the  madness" 
of  the  New  York  City  area.  She  is 
assistant  to  the  executive  director 
and  resident  expert  on  foundation 
fund-raising  at  the  Southern 
Environmental  Law  Center,  a 
regional,  nonprofit, 
environmental  law  firm.  She  is 
single,  lives  with  a  dog  and  two 
cats  in  a  cottage  "out  in  the 
boonies,"  and  spends  most  of  her 
free  time  as  a  closet  old-time 
fiddler  and  frequent  participant  in 
traditional  dances. 


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Mark  L.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Devens  Road, 
Swampscott,  MA  01907 

Greetings  to  all  ot  you.  It  was 
wonderful  to  get  so  many 
responses  and  to  hear  from  many 
old  friends. 

Joseph  Aviv  is  a  lawyer  in 
Michigan  specializmg  in 
commercial  litigation  and 


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business  law  and  is  the  tather  of 
four  daughters,  ages  2-  to  16- 
years-old.  lames  Backer  was 
appointed  National  Counselor  for 
CALL  (computer  aided  language 
learning]  in  the  Israeli  Ministry  of 
Education.  He  and  his  wife,  Amy 
Backer,  have  a  six-year-old 
daughter,  Tamara.  R.  Michael 
Earth  is  the  financial  controller 
for  the  the  International  Finance 
Corporation,  the  private  sector 
arm  of  the  World  Bank  Group, 
and  lives  in  Maryland  with  his 
wife,  Ellen,  and  two  sons,  Adam 
and  Alex.  James  Benson  is  giving 
serious  thought  to  his  next  career 
after  24  years  as  a  biology 
professor  at  the  University  of 
Maine.  He  is  looking  for  good 
ideas!  David  Berkowitz  is  director 
of  managed  care  at  the  Wheeler 
Clinic  in  central  Connecticut.  He 
also  has  a  private  psychology 
practice  in  West  Hartford.  He  and 
his  wife,  Lois  Aaron,  have  a 
daughter,  Allison,  a  son,  lacob, 
and  they  keep  busy  with  lots  of 
running,  bicycling,  tennis,  and 
working  out.  Micah  Berlin  was 
named  "Salesman  of  the  Year"  for 
the  fourth  consecutive  year  for  a 
Philadelphia  printing  company, 
specializing  in  recycling.  He  is 
also  continuing  a  part-time  mime 
career  and  has  set  up  work/ 
vacations  to  France  and  Hawaii. 
Martha  Bleshman  has  been 
teaching  world  history  to  a 
diverse  group  of  seventh  graders 
in  a  year-round  school  m 
Sacramento  where  she  lives  with 
her  partner,  her  shepherd-mix 
dog,  and  her  part-Siamese  cat. 
Rick  Blum  is  the  father  of  five- 
year-old  quadruplets  (two  of  each] 
and  is  a  psychologist  m  private 
practice  in  West  Hartford,  CT.  He 
plans  to  do  some  writing  m  his 
spare  time.  (Good  luck,  Rick.l  Lee 
Friedman  Brice  spent  15  years  m 
human  services  and  then  went 
back  to  Lesley  College  for  an 
M.Ed,  in  special  education  and 
now  teaches  in  Albany,  NY, 
where  she  lives  with  her  family. 
Mark  Broder  has  been  teaching  on 
Salt  River  Indian  Reservation  m 
Arizona  since  1989.  He  has  also 
been  leading  a  Gestalt  drop-in 
group  and  invites  any  of  his  old 
friends  to  "drop  in"  or  drop  him  a 
line.  Linda  Burke  is  teaching 
middle  school  math,  has  three 
children,  Jessica,  Allison,  and  Lee, 
and  welcomes  hearing  from 
anyone  who  remembers  her.  (ed. 
note:  That  seems  to  be  a  common 
problem  for  Vlers — does  anyone 
remember  us?)  Arthur  Caplan, 
Janet  Stojak  72,  and  son,  Zach, 
have  moved  to  Philadelphia 
where  he  is  director  of  the  Center 
for  Bioethics  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  also  has  a 
syndicated  newspaper  column, 
and  his  latest  book  recently 
appeared  in  bookstores.  Janet 


continues  her  work  as  a 
management  consultant.  David 
Epstein  has  become  founding 
director  of  the  United  Way  of 
Israel  in  lerusalcm.  He  has  three 
children,  Yoni,  Raya,  and  Rina, 
and  his  wife,  Judy  Feierstein  '75 
(Hornstein),  is  a  career  and 
organizational  consultant.  He 
would  love  to  hear  from  visiting 
classmates  and  others.  Dan 
Falkoff  is  married  with  three  good 
kids  and  is  getting  by  working, 
hut  would  rather  do  more  photo, 
video,  and  audio  projects.  Janet 
Goldberger  von  Reyn  is  working 
as  a  reading  recovery  teacher  in 
Lebanon,  NH,  and  lives  near 
Hanover,  NH,  with  her  children, 
Leah,  Adam,  and  Alex,  and 
husband.  Ford.  Jeff  Handel  wrote 
a  long  letter  from  his  kibbutz  m 
Israel  where  he  has  been  for  the 
past  18  years.  He  doubts  that  he'll 
be  back  for  the  23th  and  expresses 
some  sadness  at  losing  contact 
with  the  people  he  knew.  Priscilla 
Harmel  is  living  m  Newton  with 
her  husband  and  daughters. 
Samara,  Michal,  and  Avca, 
teaches  creative  arts  at  Lesley 
College,  works  as  an  artist-in- 
residence,  teaches  movement  and 
drama  for  children,  and  spends 
her  spare  moments  consumed  by 
black  and  white  photography. 
Caryn  Askinas  Hart  has  no  big 
news.  She's  a  part-time  PC 
trouble  shooter  and  is  living  in 
Havertown,  PA,  with  her 
husband,  Alex,  and  two  musical 
daughters,  Sarah  and  Rebecca. 
Joan  Gabriella  Heinsheimer  is  a 
holistic  general  practitioner  m 
Richmond,  CA,  with  her  partner, 
Kathleen  McCallum  and  her  8- 
year-old  son.  Lucky,  who  changed 
his  name  from  Noah  four  years 
ago  Elizabeth  Hemley  left 
Brandeis  and  moved  to  the 
Netherlands  where  she  got  a 
clinical  psychology  degree.  She 
now  has  a  private  practice  in 
Amherst,  MA,  where  she  lives 
with  her  husband.  Will  Brilhart, 
and  their  blended  family  of  four 
daughters.  Lori  Lyons  Hubner  has 
made  a  career  shift  after  17  years 
of  teaching.  She  is  completing  a 
B.S.N,  degree  and  hopes  to 
specialize  in  grief  and 
bereavement  counseling.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Hevra  Kadisha  and 
lives  in  Wilmington,  DE,  with  her 
husband,  Romeo,  and  sons,  Isaac 
and  Joshua.  Jeffrey  Hyams  is 
professor  of  pediatrics  at 
University  of  Connecticut 
Medical  School  and  is  chief  of 
pediatric  gastroenterology  at 
Hartford  Hospital.  Jackie  Hyman 
IS  undoubtedly  the  most  prolific 
novelist  in  the  class.  She  has  sold 


30  novels  including  two  due  out 
in  1995  under  the  name 
Jacqueline  Diainond.  (Can  anyone 
top  that;  Let  me  know!)  She  lives 
in  Brea,  CA  ,with  her  husband, 
Kurt  Wilson,  and  sons.  An  and 
Hunter  Leonard  Jason  writes  that 
he  has  finished  20  years  on  the 
clinical  faculty  at  DePaul  and  he 
is  free  to  conduct  research  on  any 
topic.  He  has  just  obtained  a 
patent  on  a  device  to  help  kids 
reduce  their  TV  viewing  and  has 
written  ji  book  on  the  topic. 
David  Kannerstein  lives  in 
Philadelphia  with  his  wife, 
Winnie  Lanoix,  and  has  been 
working  as  a  psychologist  in  a 
stress  and  chronic  pain 
management  program  and  in 
private  practice.  In  reality, 
however,  he  is  a  keyboardist, 
vocalist,  and  songwriter  for  the 
Dukes  of  Destiny,  a  blues/rock 
band  Susan  Katz-Serby  is  on  the 
faculty  of  dermatology  at  Einstein 
College  of  Medicine  with  a 
private  practice  near  the  medical 
school.  She  is  married  to  Dr. 
Michael  Serby  and  has  three  sons, 
Adam,  Jed,  and  Ben.  Gail 
Kaufman  has  a  busy  consultative 
gastroenterology  practice  at  New 
England  Baptist  Hospital.  She  is 
still  married  to  Rabbi  Jeffrey 
Summit  '72  and  they  have  three 
children,  Aleza,  Ariela,  and 
Zachary.  Phyllis  Kayten,  her 
husband,  Steve  Weinstein,  and 
daughter,  Carly,  moved  to 
Northern  California  two  years 
ago  where  she  works  for  the  FAA 
and  as  a  liaison  with  NASA.  She 
reports  that  there  is  interesting 
research  on  pilots  napping  in  the 
cockpit  during  regular 
commercial  flights.  Thanks, 
Phyllis,  but  keep  my  pilot  awake! 
Richard  Kopley  has  become 
associate  head  of  the  Department 
of  English  at  Penn  State.  He  has 
been  writing  on  Poe,  Hawthorne, 
and  Melville,  and  has  lUst 
completed  two  children's  picture 
books.  He  and  his  wife.  Amy 
Golahny  '73,  have  two  children, 
Emily  and  Gabriel.  Ian  Lustick 
moved  from  Dartmouth  College 
to  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
with  his  wife.  Tern,  and  two 
children,  Hilary  and  Alexander,  m 
1991  to  teach  in  the  political 
science  department.  He  has 
completed  a  long  book  and  is 
refocusing  on  his  teaching  and 
improving  his  tennis  game. 
Margaret  McDormand  left  Jordan 
Marsh  Company  after  22  years 
and  has  made  a  transition  to  a 
new  company  as  a  "client 
advocate."  She  has  also  bought 
her  first  home  in  Medford,  MA. 
Karin  McQuillan  will  be  giving  a 
slide/video  show  on  her  African 
wildlife  novel  for  the  Brandeis 
National  Women's  Committee  in 
San  Jose,  CA.  Philip  Meyer  is  an 
associate  professor  at  Vermont 


Law  School  and  is  married  with 
two  sons.  He  can't  believe  that  25 
years  have  gone  by  so  soon  and 
that  his  oldest  is  applying  to 
college.  Jill  Paperno  is  completing 
an  M.S.W,  program  and  is  hoping 
to  find  a  good  lob.  She  has  lived  in 
Maine  with  her  husband,  Arnie 
Standish,  and  two  children,  Sarah 
and  Jamie,  for  a  long  time.  Carol 
Skowronski  didn't  send  any  info, 
but  I  see  her  around  town  and  can 
report  that  she  and  Jack  '69  are 
doing  well  and  are  sending  their 
oldest  daughter  off  to  college  next 
year.  Janis  Lieff  Spring  is  a 
clinical  psychologist  in  private 
practice  in  Westport,  CT,  and  is 
writing  a  book  about  infidelity. 
She  was  married  in  1993  to 
Michael  Spring.  Steven  Swerdlow 
writes  that  he  is  very  busy  doing 
hematopathology  and  lots  of 
administrative  work  at  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  Medical 
Center.  He  and  his  wife,  Jenny, 
anticipate  bringing  their  older 
daughter,  Debbie,  to  look  at 
Brandeis  next  summer.  They  also 
have  another  daughter,  Naomi. 
Starr  Brockert  Teague  moved  to 
Fort  Collins,  CO,  with  her 
husband,  Phil,  and  two  children, 
Kat  and  Nelson,  several  years  ago. 
While  not  officially  employed, 
she  is  busy  in  the  community  and 
at  her  children's  schools.  Susan 
Townsend  has  started  teaching 
sixth  graders  in  Maryland.  By 
next  fall  she  hopes  to  get  outside 
once  in  a  while,  to  sleep  more, 
and  to  be  an  even  better  teacher! 
Marge  Hausdorff  Vale  and 
Michael  Vale  share  a  practice  in 
dermatology  in  Huntington,  NY. 
Their  son,  Edward,  celebrated  his 
bar  mitzvah  last  year  and  their 
daughter,  ludith,  will  be  next. 
Lucille  Baiter  Weinstein  and 
Mark  Weinstein  are  both  doctors 
on  Long  Island  and  are  happily 
surviving  the  challenges  of  a  pre- 
adolescent  daughter,  Juliana,  and 
an  adolescent  son,  Adam.  They 
had  fun  at  Robby  Baer's  wedding  a 
few  years  ago  and  bump  into 
Debbie  Cotton  Lipsett  at 
infectious  disease  meetings.  Hedy 
Wormer  is  a  clinical  psychologist 
in  private  practice  in 
Northampton,  MA.  She  and  her 
husband,  Ben  Branch,  have  a 
bright,  lively  second  grade  son, 
Adam.  Dvora  Yanow  has  been  a 
very  busy  person.  Besides  her 
associate  professor  position  at 
California  State  University  at 
Hayward,  she  has  been  a  visiting 
professor  in  the  Netherlands,  a 
Visiting  Scholar  at  Stanford  Law 
School,  a  Senior  Fulhright 
Lecturer-Researcher  to  Spain,  and 
has  been  working  on  a  book.  She 
has  been  married  since  1980  to 
Scott  Cook  Deborah  Corbett 


57  Spring  1995 


76 


Young  reports  that  her  son, 
Stephen  Jr.,  was  awarded  a 
National  Science  Foundation 
scholarship  to  attend  the  Brandeis 
Summer  Odyssey  Program.  He 
had  a  great  experience  and  hopes 
to  follow  her  footsteps  to 
Brandeis.  She  says  it  was  a  "real 
deja  vu  experience"  visiting  him 
on  campus.  Finally,  I  continue  to 
toil  in  the  fields  of  public 
education  north  of  Boston.  My 
wife,  Nancy  '72  and  I  celebrated 
our  daughter  Sandra's  bat  mitzvah 
just  over  a  year  ago.  Recently,  I 
had  a  chance  to  chat  with  a 
Brandeis  undergraduate  activist 
about  the  "old  days"  and  it 
brought  back  memories  of  the 
energy  and  turmoil  of  our  years. 
We  will  never  recreate  that  time, 
but  maybe  our  25th  will  give  us  a 
chance  to  reflect  and  reminisce. 
Don't  be  afraid  to  write  and  keep 
us  posted. 


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Amy  Snyder  Axelrod  published 
her  first  children's  book,  Pigs  Will 
Be  Pigs,  last  March  to  favorable 
reviews.  The  Pig  family  will 
embark  on  another  adventure  in 
Pigs  On  a  Blanket,  due  out  next 
spring.  Amy  lives  with  her 
husband,  Dr.  Michael  Axelrod, 
and  their  sons,  Bram,  age  13,  and 
David,  age  9,  in  the  historic 
Hudson  Valley  community  of 
Hurlev,  NY. 


74 


Elizabeth  Sarason  Pfau,  Class 
Correspondent,  80  Monadnock 
Road,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Ralph  C.  Martin  II  was  reelected 
Suffolk  County,  MA,  District 
Attorney  in  the  November  8 
election. 


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Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Parkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  55416 

JVSarcie  Anthone  moved  to 
Chicago  after  "a  wonderful  17 
years  in  New  York  City"  to 
become  director  of  strategic 
planning  and  research  at  Bozell 
Worldwide,  an  advertising 
company.  Beth  Bawnik  lives  in 
Saudi  Arabia,  where  she  is 
working  for  Saudi  Aramco  and 
raising  five  children,  including 
1 1-month-old  twins.  "Life  is 
busy!  '  Jonathan  B.  Bell  is  a 
physician  in  private  allergy 
practice  in  Danbury,  CT.  He  and 
his  wife,  Debbie,  an  attorney, 
have  two  children,  Elana  and 
Jessica,  ages  8  and  5.  Harvey 
Blank  was  principal  author  of  the 
United  States  Department  of  the 
Interior's  regulations  governing 
use  of  the  department's  applicant/ 
violator  computer  system, 
specifically  of  permit  applications 
to  conduct  surface  mining 
operations,  Diana  Joan  deRegnier 
writes,  "Bet  I'm  the  first  grandma 
from  the  Class  of  '76!"  Her 
granddaughter,  Sherilyn,  is  two 
years  old.  Diana  was  a 
nontraditional  student,  arriving  at 
Brandeis  at  age  25  with  three 
children   Donna  Beth  Goldenberg 
Feldman  describes  1994  as  a  busy 
year  which  included  celebrating 
the  bar  mitzvah  of  her  son, 
Moshe.  She  also  received  the 
Shofar  Award  from  the  Boy  Scouts 
of  America  for  her  work  in 
furthering  Jewish  scouting.  Susan 
Greenbaum  Ferbank  lives  in 
Hollywood,  FL,  with  her  husband, 
Paul,  and  daughter,  Sarah  Aviva, 
nearly  2.  She  is  associate  director 
of  the  David  Posnack  Jewish 
Community  Center.  Sami  Farah 
Geraisy  lives  m  Nazareth,  Israel, 
where  he  is  retired  but  very  busy 
and  active  in  organizations 
dealing  with  Palestinian-Israeli 
understanding,  the  Israeli-Arab 
peace  efforts,  and  Arab-Jewish 
cooperation  within  Israel;  groups 
for  social  research  and  social 
action;  and  pressure  groups  for 
equality  and  justice.  He  and  his 
wife  have  four  sons,  all  married, 
and  enjoy  the  company  of  their  12 
grandchildren,  Mark  S.  Goldstein 
and  Leonara  La  Due  Goldstein 
"took  the  plunge  into 
parenthood"  after  17  years  of 
marriage  and  now  have  a 
daughter,  Carolyn,  almost  18 
months.  Lea  earned  a  master's  of 
music  degree  in  violin 
performance  at  the  Longy  School 
of  Music  in  Cambridge,  MA,  and 
continues  to  teach  violin 
privately  and  perform 
professionally  in  the  Boston  area. 
Last  summer,  Mark  left 
Honeywell/Bull,  where  he  had 
worked  since  leaving  Brandeis,  to 
become  a  software  analvst  for 


Peritus,  Inc.  Kenneth  Gorfinkle  is 
assistant  clinical  professor  of 
psychology  at  Columbia 
University's  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons.  His  work  focuses 
on  people  with  anxiety  disorders 
and  on  the  psychological  care  of 
children  with  serious  medical 
illnesses.  He  has  also  written  and 
coauthored  articles  and  book 
chapters  on  pain  management  and 
psychological  aspects  of  cancer 
treatment.  He  and  his  wife,  Doris 
Ullendorff,  celebrated  their  lOth 
anniversary  in  September.  Their 
first  child,  Ari,  died  in  1988  at  age 
16  months.  They  are  now 
"blessed  with  three  healthy 
children";  Gabriel,  age  6  and  in 
kindergarten,  Naomi,  age  4,  and 
Margot,  age  2.  Marjorie  Merlin 
Holzer  is  education  director  at 
Congregation  Beth  Israel,  a 
conservative  congregation  in 
Worcester,  MA,  where  she  is 
responsible  for  educational 
programming  "from  birth  to 
death."  She  is  excited  to  be 
program  cochair  for  the  1995 
Conference  on  Alternatives  in 
Jewish  Education  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts- 
Amherst  in  August.  She  has  lived 
in  Worcester  for  10  years  with  her 
husband,  Aaron,  and  two 
children,  Morgan,  age  15,  and 
Jesse,  age  13,  whose  bar  mitzvah 
was  in  April.  She  welcomes 
contact  from  former  classmates. 
Sarah  Kagan  is  a  patent  attorney 
specializing  in  biotechnology  m 
Washington,  D.C.,  and  forming 
"the  typical  Washington  two- 
worker  family"  with  her  husband, 
Henry,  a  hematologist  and 
oncologist.  They  have  two 
children:  Zoe,  in  kindergarten  at  a 
Jewish  day  school,  and  Dory,  age 
3,  Eve  Kaplan  has  been  in  the 
Netherlands  for  over  six  years 
with  her  husband,  Andrei,  and 
son,  Ariel,  age  6.  She  is  a  senior 
portfolio  manager  investing  in 
Japanese  equities  for  Robeco 
Groep  and  continues  to  find  life 
m  Northern  Europe  interesting. 
Rabbi  Bonnie  Koppell  is  rabbi  of  a 
conservative  congregation. 
Temple  Beth  Sholom,  in  Mesa, 
AZ,  although  her  ordination  is 
from  the  Rcconstructionist 
Rabbinical  College.  She  has  been 
a  U.S.  Army  reserve  chaplain 
since  1979  and  holds  the  rank  of 
major.  This  summer  marks  the 
10th  anniversary  of  her  marriage 
with  her  husband,  David 
Rubenstein,  Ph.D.,  a  professional 
astrologer.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Jessie,  age  8,  and  Sarah, 
age  6.  Dan  Marmorstein  has  lived 
in  Denmark  for  10  years,  where 
he  works  as  a  translator  of  texts 


on  art  and  architecture  (from 
English  to  Danish).  He  also 
composes  classical  chamber 
music,  and  was  due  to  release  a 
record  or  CD  in  late  1994.  He  is 
married  to  Lone  Hoyer  Hansen,  a 
successful  European  sculptor,  and 
welcomes  visits  from  any  friends 
passing  through  Denmark.  Eve 
Rosenberg  Martin  is  a 
veterinarian  living  on  12  acres  of 
"finest  countryside"  in  Cheshire, 
England,  with  her  husband  and 
two  children,  Marian  (Grubstein) 
Lands  Matthaey  is  in  a  Ph.D. 
program  in  clinical  psychology  at 
Fairleigh  Dickinson  University. 
She  has  a  daughter.  Eve,  age  1. 
Julie  Salzberg  Perlin  visited 
Brandeis  last  fall  for  the  first  time 
since  graduation,  and  reports 
being  "amazed"  by  all  the  new 
buildings  on  campus.  She 
returned  with  her  husband,  Paul 
Perlin  '74,  for  his  20th  Reunion, 
bringing  their  two  children: 
Michelle,  age  6,  and  Daniel,  age  4. 
Ruth  Birnbaum  Pernick  and  her 
husband,  Dan,  have  lived  in 
Rockland  County,  NY,  for  10 
years  and  love  it.  They  moved 
into  a  larger  house  for  their  fast- 
growing  family:  Sarah,  age  8, 
Beniamin,  age  7,  Joshua,  age  6, 
and  David,  age  3.  Ruth  continues 
to  work  at  their  "flourishing" 
congregation,  Beth  Am  Temple  m 
Pearl  River,  where  she  teaches 
kindergarten  and  sixth  grade 
Hebrew,  and  tutors  bar/bat 
mitzvah  students.  In  her  spare 
time,  she  interviews  Brandeis 
applicants  and  is  trying  to 
establish  a  Jewish  chorus  with 
Bergen  County,  Nl.  Katharine 
Phillips  reports  that  when  she  is 
not  taking  care  of  her  three 
children — Matthew,  age  8,  Kayla, 
age  6,  and  Michael,  age  3 — she 
does  freelance  interpreting  in 
Italian.  Brian  Rogol  and  Rhonna 
Weber  Rogol  celebrated  the  bat 
mitzvah  of  their  daughter,  Alissa, 
in  November,  and  report  that 
Josh,  age  II,  and  Dane,  age  8,  are 
also  doing  well.  Brian  is  vice 
president  at  G.E.  Capital  Aviation 
Services,  working  in  aircraft 
finance,  and  Rhonna  continues  to 
practice  law  "in  her  spare  time." 
Terry  Sochat  Schneier  has 
practiced  law  since  1985, 
specializing  m  insurance  defense 
litigation.  She  lives  in  Southern 
California  and  has  one  son, 
Nicholas,  age  3.  Todd  Silverstein 
reports  that  the  research  he 
conducted  in  Norway  on  a 
Fulbnght  scholarship  in  1993  has 
now  been  published.  He  is  hard  at 
work  revising  Willamette 
University's  introductory 
chemistry  course  to  cover  more 
modern  problems,  such  as  air 
pollution  and  drug  toxicity.  He  is 
also  preparing  a  "World  Views" 


58  Brandeis  Review 


Marriages 


course  on  the  Middle  East,  which 
will  be  required  for  all  freshmen 
starting  this  fall,  facob  Simon  is 
in  his  l^th  year  at  IBM  and 
recently  started  a  new  assignment 
as  manager  of  finance  and 
planning  for  the  Petroleum 
Industry  Worldwide.  He  and  his 
wife,  Jeanne,  a  physical  therapist, 
have  two  daughters,  Lea,  age  8, 
and  Natalie,  age  6.  After  spending 
three  years  in  the  Los  Angeles 
area  and  surviving  the  Northridge 
earthquake,  they  came  back  east 
to  Stamford,  CT,  "where  the 
ground  is  still."  Bernard  Spier, 
M.D.,  IS  co-owner  of  the  Northern 
New  lersey  Eye  Institute  and 
played  tennis  in  the  Pan-Am 
Maccabi  games  He  is  still  single 
and  looking  for  that  "perfect 
woman  "  Daniel  Sreebny  works 
for  the  United  States  Information 
Agency,  which  has  taken  him  to 
Bahrain,  Oman,  Taiwan,  and 
Hong  Kong  since  1980.  He  is 
currently  running  the  Near  East/ 
South  Asia  Division  of  the  Voice 
of  America  and  living  in  Herndon, 
VA,  with  his  wife,  Darcy,  and 
daughters,  Rachel,  age  10,  and 
Laura,  age  6.  They  are  thrilled  to 
be  moving  to  Israel  this  summer, 
where  Dan  will  serve  as  cultural 
attache  in  the  American  Embassy. 
Nancy  Shpiegelman  Sleekier 
received  her  doctorate  in  clinical 
psychology  from  Yeshiva 
University  in  1992.  She  lives  with 
her  husband,  Michael,  and 
daughter,  Sarah,  age  4,  in 
Teaneck,  N[.  Jerome  Zisfein  is  a 
cardiologist  living  on  Long  Island 
with  his  wife,  Ronnie  Salzman 
'73,  a  gynecologist.  They  have 
two  children,  Julie,  age  6,  and 
Alex,  age  3. 

77 

Fred  Berg,  Class  Correspondent, 
150  East  83rd  Street,  Apt.  2C, 
New  York,  NY  10028 

Benjamin  H.  Hoffman,  M  D  , 
M.P.H.,  founded  Business  Health 
Management  in  1992,  an 
occupational  health  consulting 
service  for  industry  nationwide. 
He  and  his  wife,  Lexi,  relocated 
their  family  to  Beverly  Farms, 
NH,  last  fall.  Their  third  child, 
lake,  is  18  months  old.  Elise 
Kimerling  Wirtschafter  published 
Structures  of  Society:  Imperial 
Russia's  "People  of  Various 
Ranks  "  in  November  from 
Northern  Illinois  University 
Press.  Previously,  she  published 
From  Serf  to  Russian  Soldier.  She 
is  associate  professor  of  history  at 
California  State  Polytechnic 


University  in  Pomona.  Stuart  J. 
Young  IS  senior  counsel  in  the 
legal  department  of  Cox 
Enterprises,  Inc.,  an  Atlanta-based 
company  working  with  the 
newspaper,  cable,  broadcasting, 
and  automobile  auction 
industries.  Previously,  he  served 
as  vice  president  and  general 
counsel  for  United  Broadcasting 
Company,  Inc. 


Class   Name 


Date 


78 


Valerie  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

lerome  Hoberman  visited 
Shanghai,  China,  in  April  1994  as 
guest  conductor  and  teacher  of 
conducting  at  Shanghai 
Conservatory  of  Music,  giving  the 
first  Chinese  performance  of  the 
music  of  Lutoslawski,  He 
continues  his  professional 
activities  in  Hong  Kong  with  the 
Hong  Kong  Chamber  Orchestra, 
the  Hong  Kong  Bach  Choir,  and 
the  faculty  of  Hong  Kong  Baptist 
University,  He  regularly  reviews 
classical  CDs  for  Radio- 
Television  Hong  Kong. 


79 


Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angier  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Rena  A.  Gorlin  is  editor  of  Codes 
of  Professional  Responsibility, 
new  third  edition,  released  by  the 
Bureau  of  National  Affairs,  Inc., 
in  Washington,  D.C.  Naomi 
Leitner  is  married,  has  three 
children,  and  lives  in  Kfar  Saba, 
Israel.  She  was  graduated  from  Tel 
Aviv  University  Law  School  in 
1988  and  established  a  private 
practice  last  fall.  B.  Scott  Levine 
is  a  partner  in  the  Oakland,  CA, 
law  firm  of  Goodman  &  Levine, 
practicing  real  estate  litigation. 
He  IS  also  director  of  the  Alameda 
County  Bar  Association  Real 
Estate  Section,  and  has  enjoyed 
living  in  Northern  California  for 
over  15  years.  Although  sorry  to 
have  missed  the  15th  Reunion, 
Scott  invites  classmates  to  call 
him  if  they  come  to  the  San 
Francisco  Bay  area. 

OU   15th  Reunion 

Lisa  Gelfand,  Class 
Correspondent,  19  Winchester 
Street  #404,  Brookline,  MA  02146 

Lawrence  G.  Hoyle  practices  law 
with  the  firm  of  Partridge,  Snow 
&.  Hahn  in  Providence,  RI,  where 
he  specializes  in  personal  and 
estate  planning,  estate 
administration,  business 
succession,  and  executive 
compensation. 


1980     Gayle  Barsky  to  Larry  A.  Homer 

1983  David  ^\.  Slater  to  Sarah  J.  Craven 

1984  Shari  B.  Gersten  to  David  M.  Rosenblatt 

1985  Cathy  Barron  to  Stephen  Feller 
Alan  J.  Bercnbaum  to  Helene  Caspe 
Lisa  Glantz  to  Glenn  Prickctt 
Ellen  Harnick  to  Stuart  Bauchner 
Joy  Ryen  to  Ron  Plotnik 

Shira  N.  Sanders  to  Raphael  Linker 
Lois  J.  Schulman,  M.D.  to 
David  C.  Rosenberg,  M.D. 
1988    .David  Salomons,  D.D.S.  to 
Linda  Goldberg 

1992  Bess  C.  Karger  to  Andrew  Weiskopf  '93 

1993  Rebecca  Rabin  to  Robert  Kaplan  ''2 
Stacy  Rubtchinsky  to  Allen  Kamer 
Elana  Siiton  to  Ari  Moskowitz 
Jennifer  Wilen  to  Scott  Tobin  '92 

1994  Ardra  Weber  to  Paul  Belitz 


February  21,  1993 
August  21,  1994 
November  19,  1994 
September  4,  1994 
July  30,  1994 
October  9,  1994 
January  17,  1993 
May  30,  1993 
August  3,  1993 
September  17,  1994 

June  12,  1994 

August  21,  1994 
lanuary  15,  1995- 
August  28,  1994 
January  1,  1995 
November  6,  1994 
June  9,  1994 


'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  25  Hobart  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Eric  Ansel  is  a  commercial  real 
estate  broker  in  Boca  Raton,  FL. 
Julie  Aronson  is  finishing  her 
doctoral  dissertation,  "Bessie 
Potter  Vonnoh  (1872-1955)  and 
Small  Bronze  Sculpture  in 
America,"  at  the  University  of 
Delaware.  She  is  also  researching 
for  the  exhibition  "Metropolitan 
Lives:  The  Ashcan  Artists  and 
Their  New  York,  1897-1917," 
scheduled  for  the  National 
Museum  of  American  Art  in 
November  1995.  James  f. 
Belanger  enioys  a  well-rounded 
life  outside  of  his  partnership  at 
Lewis  and  Roca  in  Phoenix,  AZ. 
Some  of  his  recent  memories 
include  attending  a  World  Cup 
final  game,  climbing  the  Colorado 
mountains,  writing  and 
publishing  poetry,  and  "generally 
having  an  excellent  time."  Lisa 
M.  Herman  lives  in  Richmond, 
VA,  with  her  husband,  Mitchell 
A.  Rosenfeld,  and  their  infant  son, 
Daniel.  She  administers  the 
mental  health  program  in  the 
county  jail  and  he  is  a  budget 
analyst  at  the  State  Department 
of  Planning  and  Budget,  Sol  W. 
Bernstein  lives  m  Montclair,  NJ, 
with  his  wife,  Risa  Janoff 
Bernstein  '80,  and  their  two  sons, 
Bcniamin  and  An.  He  is  vice 
president  and  counsel  for  the  in- 
house  legal  department  of 
National  Westminster  Bank.  She 
is  senior  vice  president  and 


director  of  strategic  initiatives  at 
GTFH,  a  medical 
communications  firm.  Darcy 
Buchwald  Bloch  and  her  husband, 
Robert,  moved  into  a  new  home 
lUSt  m  time  to  receive  their  third 
child.  Perry  Marcus,  age  3 
months.  They  live  m  Norfolk, 
VA,  and  report  that  Hilary  is  now 
age  3  and  Elisa  is  age  6.  She 
continued  to  teach  step  aerobics 
into  her  seventh  month  of 
pregnancy.  Marc  D.  Braunstein, 
M.D.,  lives  with  his  wife,  Lynette, 
and  daughter,  Aliza,  m  Laguna 
Hills,  CA.  He  has  a  family 
practice  in  preventive  medicine  in 
Aliso  Viejo,  CA,  and  writes  that 
he  recently  attended  the  premier 
of  Star  Trek:  Generations,  "a 
great  evening"  that  was  a  benefit 
for  the  new  Volen  Center  at 
Brandeis  University.  Robert  J. 
Carroll  is  a  computer  network 
engineer  for  a  firm  in  North 
Jersey  during  the  daytime  hours. 
In  the  evening  he  uses  his 
rabbinical  degree  to  perform 
weddings,  teach,  and  write.  He 
lives  with  his  wife,  Shoshana 
ledwab,  in  New  York  City.  They 
report  that  they  have  no  kids,  but 
they  do  have  one  cat  named 
Buddha.  Michele  Chabin,  a 
Jerusalem-based  lournalist, 
recently  contributed  articles  to 
the  Chicago  Tribune,  NY 
Newsday,  USA  Today,  and 
Cosmopolitan  magazine.  She 
spent  January  through  March  at 
Cambridge  University  in  England, 
where  she  was  a  Wolfson  College 
Fellow.  Jeffrey  F.  Chase-Lubitz 
lives  in  Rhode  Island  with  his 
wife,  April,  and  three  children, 
Jacob,  age  7,  Lily,  age  4,  and 
infant  Jesse,  He  practices  health 
care  law  in  Massachusetts  and 
Rhode  Island  with  Brown, 


59  Spring  1995 


Births 


Rudnick,  Freed,  &  Gesmer.  Larry 
Coen  appeared  as  Officer  Pupp  in 
the  world  premiere  production  of 
the  musical  Kiazy  Kat  with  Beau 
(est  Moving  Theatre.  He  also 
codeveloped  and  designed  a  new 
exhibit  on  the  1950s  at  The 
Children's  Museum,  Boston, 
while  continuing  to  perform  with 
the  United  States  Improvisational 
Theater  League,  fulia  L.  Cohen  is 
a  self-employed  therapist/energy 
healer  living  in  Brookline,  MA, 
with  her  2  children;  loshua,  age  8, 
and  lacke,  age  2.  Dianne  M. 
Cutillo  IS  director  of  marketing, 
public  relations,  and  development 
at  North  Adams  Regional 
Hospital  m  the  Berkshires.  She  is 
completing  the  executive  M.B.A. 
program  at  Rensselaer 
Polytechnic  Institute  in  Troy,  NY. 
She  reports  that  she  and  Matt 
Neville  were  divorced  amicably 
last  year  after  1 1  years  of 
marriage.  Rafael  DeLeon  was 
appointed  assistant  general 
counsel  for  the  Claims  and 
Property  Law  branch  of  the  E.P.A., 
where  he  supervises  a  team  of 
attorneys,  paralegals,  and  support 
staff  which  is  responsible  for 
providing  legal  advice  and 
guidance  in  the  area  of  torts  and 
real  property.  The  office  handles 
all  claims  for  and  against  the 
E.P.A  Ellen  Kaminow  DiMatteo 
was  promoted  to  senior 
promotion  manager  for  PC  World 
magazine.  Kenneth  A.  Dressier, 
M.D.,  is  performing  bone  marrow 
transplants  at  Memorial  Sloan 
Kettering  Cancer  Center  and 
studying  intracellular  signalling 
in  the  laboratory.  He  lives  in 
Harrison,  NY,  with  his  wife, 
Nancy  Ann,  and  two  children: 
Andrew,  age  4,  and  Danielle,  age 
2.  He  writes  that  "I've  published  a 
few  papers  and  am  enjoying 
medical  research,"  Bruce  B. 
Ehtlich  is  senior  project  manager 
for  supportive  housing  with  the 
city  of  Boston.  His  wife,  Lisa  S. 
Mirowitz  '82  is  associate  producer 
of  the  NOVA  science  series  at 
WGBH  in  Boston.  They  live 
together  with  their  daughter, 
Leanna  Belle,  age  3,  in  lamaica 
Plain,  MA.  Thomas  C.  Enlow  is  a 
pediatric  neurologist  m  Akron, 
OH.  He  lives  with  his  wife, 
Michele,  and  two  children:  Paul, 
age  4,  and  Amy,  age  I .  Lisa  |. 
Feingold  enjoys  her  work  in  the 
ethnically  diverse  English  as  a 
Second  Language  department  at 
Amherst  Regional  High  School,  as 
well  as  her  "home  among  the 
farms  in  the  semi-rural  town  of 
Deerfield,  MA.  Jeffrey  H.  Field  is 
vice  president  at  the  William 
Morris  Agency  in  the  motion 
picture  department.  Susan  Winer 
Foner  is  a  real  estate  attorney  m 
Braintree,  MA.  She  lives  in 


Newton,  MA,  with  her  husband. 
Marc,  an  optometrist,  and  two 
children:  Stephanie,  age  5,  and 
Alex,  age  2  Robert  A.  Frank  is  an 
adult  and  pediatric  heart  surgeon 
in  New  Orleans,  LA.  He  is  the 
codirector  of  cardiac  surgery  at 
Children's  Hospital  and  assistant 
professor  at  Tulane  University. 
His  wife,  Diane  Ginzburg  Frank 
'83  is  a  marketing  consultant. 
They  have  two  children:  Adam, 
age  6,  and  lenna,  age  2.  Jeffrey  B. 
Friedman,  M.D.,  loined  the 
Matthews  Orthopaedic  Clinic  in 
Orlando,  FL,  after  completing  a 
shoulder  and  knee  sports 
fellowship  there.  He  lives  with 
his  wife  of  eight  years,  Robin,  and 
4-year-old  son  Jonathan,  and  he 
reports  that  there  is  "one  more  on 
the  way  "  Adam  iW.  Gaffin  is  a 
senior  writer  at  Network  World 
and  author  of  Everybody's  Guide 
to  the  Internet.  He  was  previously 
at  the  Middlesex  News  in 
Frammgham,  MA.  Barbara 
Shenker  Gardner,  M  D  ,  lives  in 
Florida  with  her  husband,  Mark, 
and  two  sons,  Adam  and  Noah. 
She  practices  pediatrics  part-time 
and  enjoys  spending  time  with 
her  children  at  home.  Harry  A. 
Garfield  loined  Mercer 
Consulting  after  he  received  his 
MBA.  from  Cornell  in  1990  and 
was  consulting  manager  with 
Anderson  Consulting.  He  lives 
with  his  wife,  Susan  Belden, 
daughter  Amanda,  age  2,  and 
stepson  Adam,  age  9.  Robyn  Gold 
IS  a  freelance  writer  and 
marketing  consultant  for  high- 
tech  companies  living  in  the 
Boston  area.  She  recently  returned 
from  a  three-year  assignment  in 
Europe  and  reports  that  she  "is 
happy  to  be  back."  Michael  R. 
Goldman  reports  that  he  is  "a 
busy  guy,"  as  full-time  editor  and 
writer  at  Daily  Variety,  "the 
entertainment  industry's  bible," 
He  is  also  a  published  freelance 
writer,  covering  the  worlds  of 
movies,  videogames,  and  other 
multimedia  topics.  And,  "like 
everyone  else  in  town,  I'm 
working  on  a  book  and  a 
screenplay."  David  P.  Greele 
moved  to  Delhi,  India,  in  October 
1994  for  a  two  year  assignment 
with  Population  Services 
International,  a  nonprofit 
organization  that  markets 
contraceptives  and  other  health 
products  at  subsidized  prices  for 
family  planning  and  disease 
prevention.  With  a  population  of 
over  900  million  people  and 
dramatically  rising  HIV  rates,  he 
reports  that  India  represents  an 
enormous  challenge.  He  spent 
last  Hanukkah  with  one  of  the 


Class    Brandeis  Parentis) 


Child's  Name 


Date 


1976     Susan  Greenbaum  Ferbanj 
Mark  Goldstein  and 
Leonora  La  Due  Goldstein 
Marian  Lands  Matthaey 
Rabbi  Joan  Pitzele  Sacks 

1978  Jerome  Hobernian 
Margo  L.  Rosenbach, 
Ph.D.  '85 

1979  Jeremy  I.  Silverfine 

1980  Gaylc  Barsky  Homer 
Janice  Cohen  Poplove 

1981  William  D.  Addas  and 
Valerie  P.  Addas  '80 
Amy  E.  Alkoff 
Sol  Bernstein  and 
Risa  Janoff  Bernstein  '80 
Darcy  Buchwald  Bloch 
Natanya  Lipkowitz-Briendel 

Wendy  Sobel  Dahar 

Ellen  Kaminow  DiMatteo 

.4llan  Feldman 

Alan  S.  Fink 

Barbara  Angelucci  Giammona 
l''S2      Julie  A.  Harris 
s?      Chervl  Cutler  Azait 

Ari  Jaffe 
1985     Terri  Tatro  Aharon 

Shari  Rosen  Aseher 

Ellen  Canton  Agulick  and 

Mark  Agulnick  '83 

Jeri  Lynn  Ganz  Balenson 

Nadine  J.  Beck  and 

Alan  M.  Pearson  '89 

Pamela  Scott  Chirls 


Sarah  Aviva 
Carolyn  Elizabeth 

Eve  Rachel 
Rachel  Shira 
Maia  Yona 
Hanna  Ruth 

Hannah  Rose 
David  Henry 
lonah  Daniel 
Scarlett  Nicole 


Evan  Grain 
Nancy  Rubin  Ellis 


world's  oldest  Jewish 
communities  in  Cohin,  India. 
Michael  Lyon  and  his  wife,  Diana, 
are  taking  a  one-year  sabbatical 
from  his  business  in  distressed 
real  estate  and  troubled  debt. 
Their  plans  include  spending  six 
months  sailing  in  the  Caribbean, 
driving  from  their  Washington, 
D.C.,  area  home  to  Alaska,  and 
bicycling  through  China. 


'83 


Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss,  Class 
Correspondent,  456  9th  Street 
#30,  Hoboken,  NJ  07030 

Barry  J.  Bonder  "retired"  after 
seven  years  as  vice  president  of  a 
software  company  to  earn  an 
M.B.A.  at  the  Tuck  School  at 
Dartmouth  College,  His  wife. 
Dawn,  also  left  her  position  as  an 
attorney,  and  they  moved  from 
Long  Island  to  a  home  in  New 
Hampshire,  He  reports  being 
excited  about  the  change  of  pace, 
being  out  of  New  York,  and  living 


Daniel  Alec 
Ari  Phillip 

Perry  Marcus 
lonathan  Craig 
Robin  Faye 
Lauren  Michelle 
Matthew  Scott 
Emma  Rachel 
Deena  Sydney 
William 
Lauren  Melissa 
Samuel  Jacob 
Leora  Jean 
David 

Martin  Frederick 
Allison 

Rachel 
Matthew  Jay 

AUix  Isadore  and 
lulie  Sophie 
David  Harry 
Marissa  Ariel 


June  4,  1993 
December  9,  1993 

May  30,  1994 
lanuary  18,  1994 
July  20,  1993 
November  13,  1993 

April  21,  1994 
October  22,  1994 
March  13,  1993 
July  21,  1994 

August  26,  1993 
Februarys,  1994 

January  28,  1995 
October  22,  1994 
July  29,  1993 
July  5,  1994 
February  14,  1994 
December  13,  1993 
December  12,  1991 
August  22,  1994 
December  7,  1993 
June  7,  1994 
May  2,  1994 
August  13,  1994 
July  16,  1994 
August  11,  1994 

October  1,  1994 
September  16,  1993 

October  6,  1994 

August  4,  1994 
April  4,  1993 


in  New  Hampshire  with  "no  state 
income  tax  or  sales  tax!"  Ana 
Demel  was  chosen  as  one  of  six 
new  partners  at  Cleary,  Gottlieb, 
Steen  &.  Hamilton,  an 
international  law  firm  based  in 
New  York  City,  Ari  Jaffe  has 
almost  completed  the  Wexner 
Heritage  Foundation  Seminar,  a 
two-year  course  of  study  and 
leadership  training  for  which  he 
was  selected  in  1993.  He  lives  in 
University  Heights,  OH,  with  his 
wife,  Marlyn,  and  two  daughters. 
David  M.  Slater  is  managing 
partner  of  Slater  a.  Associates,  a 
law  firm  specializing  in  the  legal 
needs  of  small  and  medium  size 
businesses,  and  welcomes 
business  contacts  from  fellow 
alumni.  He  lives  on  Manhattan's 
Upper  West  Side  with  his  wife, 
Sarah,  a  research  assistant  at  the 
investment  bank  Forstmann  i'i 
Little. 


60  Brandeis  Review 


Class   Brandeis  Parent(s) 


Child's  Name 


Date 


lanicc  Rovner  Feldman 
Robin  Donsky  Fine 
Bernard  Gerson 
Lysa  Flanz  Ginsberg 
Peter  L.  Gladstone  and 
Anne  Ripps  Gladstone  '86 
Annie  Newman  Goldish 
liana  S.  Hanau 
Marsaret  Saul  tlanford 
Kevin  Healy 
Lorette  Herman  and 
Lauren  Eric  Krieger 
Gary  Massey 
Jim  Meisel  and 
Ellen  S.  Meisel,  M.A.  92 
Scott  Menter  and 
lacqucline  Miller  Menter 
David  Paris  and 
Deborah  Klotz-Paris 
Bradd  Robbins 
Shira  N.  Sanders,  Ph.D. 
Julie  S.  Solberg 
Rcgina  Stewart  and 
Peter  Cherecwich  '87 
Harold  B.  Waisel 
Ellen  Baker  Weiss  and 
L.  Michael  Weiss  '84 
Jeffrey  D.  Zimon 

1986  Robert  Gerstman 

Dawn  Weisenberg  LaFontaine 

1987  Heidi  Siegel  Oletsky,  M.D. 
Abigail  Nagler  Sender 

1989  Abbe  Weidenfeld-Levine 

1990  loan  Levitan  Kagan  and 
Joshua  Kagan 

'1      Meredith  J.  Kates 
Marisa  S.  Kesselman 


Doryn  Nicole 
Jennifer  Sylvie 
Kelly  Dara 
Blaykc  Fayu 

Simcha  Shalom 

Alexandra 

Adam 

Ryan  Patrick 

Samantha 

Shira  Baila 
Alison 

Avile  Natan 

Holly  Bess 

Zachary 

Gitit  Dror  Linker 
Alexa  Jenny 
Nicole  Marie 

Alannah  Rose 
Danielle  Brooke 

Maxwell  Martin 
Danielle  Rachel 
Ethan  Asher 
David  Alexander 
Jonathan  Alexander 
Jcnna  Gayle 
Jordan 

Maya  Dcrora 
Eitan  Jeremy  and 
Aryeh  Jordan 


March  4,  1994 
October  25,  1994 
June  9,  1 994 
April  11,  1994 
February  4,  1994 

September  17,  1994 
May  16,  1994 
February!,  1994 
May  13,  1994 
July  28,  1994 

November  10,  lyv4 
June  22,  1994 

October  4,  1994 

January  15,  19')4 

October  24,  19^) 
December  6,  h>  - 
December  1,  1993 
August  22,  1994 

June  16,  1994 
November  25,  1994 

February  2,  1994 
November  21,  1994 
Octobers,  1994 
September  21,  1994 
November  19,  1994 
April  28,  1994 
August  26,  199^ 

October  4,  1994 
September  22,  1994 


03   10th  Reunion 

James  R.  Felton,  Class 
Correspondent,  5733  Aldea 
Avenue,  Encmo,  CA  91316 

Thanks  to  all  members  of  the 
Class  of  '85  who  sent  in  Class 
Notes.  Our  10th  Reunion  is  set 
for  the  weekend  of  October  20-22, 
so  everyone  please  remember  to 
save  the  date! 

Karen  Adler  is  still  pursuing  a 

doctorate  in  social  welfare  policy 
at  the  Heller  School,  where  she 
recently  received  a  joint  M.A.  in 
social  welfare  policy  and  women's 
studies.  Her  previously  published 
article  on  Amy  Jacques  Garvey 
(wife  of  Marcus  Garvey)  will  be 
published  in  a  forthcoming 
anthology  entitled  Common 
Bonds.  Different  Voices:  Race. 
Class  and  Gender  (Sage 
Publications,  1995).  She  is  an 
evaluation  consultant  on  middle 
school  health  education  at  the 
Massachusetts  Department  of 
Education.  Ellen  Canton 
Agulnick  and  her  husband,  Mark 


Augulnick  '83,  live  in  Newton, 
MA.  She  IS  at  home  with  their 
children — Diane,  age  6,  Joshua, 
age  3,  and  Allison,  age  I — while 
Mark  is  manager  of  software 
development  at  Thompson 
Financial  Services  in  Boston. 
Shari  Rosen  Ascher  is  back  at 
work  as  a  broadcast  media  sales 
representative  after  taking 
maternity  leave  for  the  birth  of 
her  first  child.  She  is  looking 
forward  to  Reunion  so  that 
classmates  can  meet  her  husband, 
Neil,  and  her  son,  Marty,  now  10 
months.  Anaya  Baiter  is  working 
at  Providence  Hospital  in 
Centralia  and  Chehalis,  WA.  She 
bought  a  home  in  Olympia,  WA, 
and  is  enjoying  the  great 
outdoors.  Nadine  J.  Beck  has 
worked  as  a  bilingual/bicultural 
iSpanish/Puerto  Rican)  AIDS 
educator  for  the  South  End 
Community  Health  Center  in 
Boston  for  over  five  years.  She  and 
her  husband,  Alan  M.  Pearson  '89, 
have  an  18-month-old  son, 


Matthew.  Mark  Beeman  is 
assistant  professor  m  the 
Department  of  Neurological 
Sciences  at  Rust  Medical  College 
in  Chicago,  doing  research  in 
cognitive  neuroscience.  Alan  J. 
Berenbaum  and  his  wife,  Helene 
Caspe,  spent  two  weeks  in  Hawaii 
on  their  honeymoon  this  summer 
and  now  live  on  the  Upper  West 
Side  of  Manhattan.  Steven  A. 
Bercu  is  a  corporate  lawyer  at  the 
Boston  law  firm  of  Foley,  Hoag  & 
Eliot,  specializing  in  issues 
related  to  new  communications 
technologies:  privacy, 
globalization,  surveillance, 
encryption,  and  the  First 
Amendment.  He  also  participates 
in  various  railway  construction 
and  operation  proiects  with  his 
children,  lulian,  age  3,  and  Toby, 
age  2;  listens  to  macabre  tales 
from  his  wife,  Leslie  Cioffi,  an 
emergency  physician  at  Boston 
City  Hospital;  and  "combs  the 
library  shelves  in  search  of 
children's  stories  that  have  not 
been  bowdlerized  by  the  p.c. 
marketing  junta."  In  October, 
Linda  Brenner  completed  her  first 
marathon,  the  Marine  Corps 
Marathon,  in  three  hours  and  44 
minutes.  She  lives  with  her 
husband,  Herbert  Wong  '84,  in 
Derwood,  MD.  She  is  manager  of 
sales  force  marketing  for  the 
Investment  Company  Institute, 
the  National  Trade  Association  of 
Mutual  Funds.  Karen  Lee  Chan 
has  been  living  in  Southern 
California  since  graduation.  She 
has  experienced  three 
earthquakes,  two  home 
purchases,  and  one  natural 
childbirth,  of  her  son,  Andrew 
Brandon,  in  1992.  She  tries  to 
visit  the  East  Coast  every  couple 
of  years.  She  sends  hellos  to  her 
friends  and  other  former  BAASA 
members.  Evan  Grain,  M.D.,  lives 
in  San  Diego,  CA,  and  has  one 
son,  David.  Mark  R.  Cohen  has 
enjoyed  his  five  years  in 
California,  working  with 
Paramount  Pictures  Corporation 
as  a  manager  of  finance  in  the 
television  division.  However,  he 
reports  that  "Boston  beckons"  if 
anyone  knows  of  any  business 
opportunities  there!  Steven 
DeLott  practices  law  at  Simpson, 
Thacher  &.  Bartlett  in  New  York 
City.  He  is  married,  has  two  sons, 
Joshua,  age  5,  and  Max,  age  2,  and 
is  looking  forward  to  Reunion  in 
October,  Nancy  Rubin  Elias  is 
marketing  services  manager  at 
Reader's  Digest  Special  Interest 
Publications,  aiding  in  the 
advertising  sales  effort  for  a  group 
of  four  magazines.  Kim  Coughlin 
Enriquez  survived  the  Northridge, 
CA,  earthquake  at  only  1.5  miles 
from  the  epicenter.  She  writes 
that  she  "can't  seem  to  get  out  of 
the  Valley,  though  we've  tried." 
When  the  ground  is  still,  she 


sings  and  plays  in  a  band,  teaches 
third  and  fourth  graders,  and 
plans  home  improvements 
(thanks  to  the  earthquake).  She 
lives  with  her  husband,  Sam,  and 
her  two  children,  Rachel,  age  4, 
and  Sammy,  age  5.  Janice  Rovner 
Feldman  and  her  husband,  Brian, 
are  both  trial  attorneys  at  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Justice  in 
Washington,  D.C.  They  live  in 
Potomac,  MD,  with  their  14- 
month-old  son,  Matthew.  Cathy 
Barron  Feller  works  as  an  R.N.  in 
the  Trauma  Intensive  Care  Unit 
at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  in  Grand 
Junction,  CO.  Robin  Donsky  Fine 
and  her  husband.  Ken,  live  in 
Dallas,  TX,  with  their  7-month- 
old  daughter,  Doryn.  Aaron  W. 
Finkel  is  back  in  New  York  City 
writing  about  the  Latin  American 
capital  markets  for  institutional 
investor's  Emerging  Markets 
Week  newsletter.  He  looks 
forward  to  hearing  from  others  in 
similar  fields.  Deborah 
Hassenfeld  Getz  enioys  spending 
time  with  her  husband,  Ken  Getz 
'84,  and  their  two  children,  Ellyn, 
age  4,  and  David,  age  2.  She  and 
her  husband  publish 
CenterWatch,  a  newsletter  for  the 
clinical  trials  industry,  as  part  of 
his  new  company.  Before  their 
children  were  born,  she  was  an 
instructional  video  producer/ 
director.  Lysa  Flanz  Ginsberg  is 
vice  president  in  the  Real  Estate 
Finance  Group  at  Chemical  Bank, 
specializing  in  debt  restructuring 
and  portfolio  liquification.  She 
and  her  husband,  Robert,  have 
one  daughter,  Kelly,  age  1.  Lisa 
Glantz  and  her  husband,  Glenn, 
live  in  Washington,  D.C,  where 
they  are  both  involved  in 
environmental  work.  Glenn  is 
chief  environmental  advisor  at 
USAID  and  Lisa  is  in  public 
affairs.  Annie  Newman  Goldish 
and  her  husband,  Dan,  live  in 
Brighton,  MA,  with  their  three 
sons:  Shimmy  (Shimon),  Zev,  and 
Simcha  Shalom  Jonathan  Golub 
and  his  wife,  Cindy  Kalb  Golub 
'88,  are  enjoying  their  home  in 
North  Bethesda,  MD.  Jonathan 
reports  that  he  is  "still 
endeavoring  to  succeed  in  a  tight 
commercial  real  estate  market" 
as  vice  president  for  sales  and 
management  for  JGR,  where  he 
divides  his  time  between  sales, 
leasing,  and  managing  the 
portfolio  of  properties  contained 
in  the  company's  partnerships. 
David  Greschler  moved  into  a 
new  home  in  Sharon,  MA,  and  is 
enjoying  the  surrounding  nature. 
He  opened  a  new  exhibit  at  The 
Computer  Museum  titled  The 
Networked  Planet,  an  interactive 
exploration  of  the  "information 
highway."  Rosel  Halle  is  director 


61  Spring  1995 


of  the  Montgomery  County 
Center  for  the  Johns  Hopkins 
School  of  Continuing  Studies  in 
Rockville,  MD,  where  she 
oversees  all  administrative, 
marketing,  and  community 
relations  activities.  Previously, 
she  was  director  of  program 
development  and  client  services 
in  the  University  of  Virgmia's 
Division  of  Contmuing 
Education.  Orna  Hananel  is 
completing  her  residency  in 
family  medicine  and  primary  care 
at  the  University  of  California- 
Los  Angeles  Harbor  Medical 
Center.  She  visited  Thailand  in 
the  fall  and  planned  an  elective  in 
India  for  February.  She  intends  to 
join  Doctors  Without  Borders 
next  year  and  is  primarily 
interested  in  Southeast  Asia. 
liana  S.  Hanau  was  graduated 
from  American  University  Law 
School  m  1989  and  is  working  at 
Lester,  Schwab,  Katz  ^  Dwyer  in 
New  York  City.  She  and  her 
husband,  Mark  1.  Cohen,  have  one 
child,  Alexandra,  age  1,  Ellen 
Harnick  is  a  lawyer  doing 
commercial  litigation  at 
Friedman  ik  Kaplan  in  New  York 
City.  She  and  her  husband,  Stuart 
Bauchner,  met  as  attorneys  in  the 
same  law  firm  and  were  married 
in  January  1993.  After  their 
wedding,  they  quit  their  lobs  and 
spent  SIX  months  in  Southeast 
Asia  and  China.  Stuart  is  now 
starting  a  practice  as  a  labor 
arbitrator.  Kevin  Healy  was 
graduated  with  honors  from 
California  Western  School  of  Law 
in  San  Diego  in  May  1992,  where 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Law 
Review  and  consistently  made 
dean's  list.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  California  Bar  in  December 
1993.  He  and  his  wife  of  five 
years,  Susan,  have  a  1 -year-old 
son,  Ryan,  and  recently  bought 
their  first  home  m  Carlsbad,  CA. 
Amy  F.  Hendel  is  art  director  of 
Gallery  Art  II,  a  modern 
contemporary  art  gallery  in  North 
Miami  Beach,  FL.  She  lives  in  a 
condominium  with  her  two  cats. 
Randall  Kessler  is  still  single  and 
working  at  the  law  firm  he 
started  in  1991,  where  he  handles 
high-profile,  complicated  divorce 
cases.  He  invites  us  to  visit  his 
"Olympic"  city  of  Atlanta,  GA. 
Garry  S.  Kitay,  M.D.,  and  his 
wife,  Debbie  Banks  '87,  are 
moving  from  Philadelphia  to 
Indianapolis  in  June,  where  Garry 
will  pursue  a  fellowship  in  hand 
surgery.  They  continue  to  be 
thrilled  with  their  1-year-oId  son, 
Jonah.  Orna  Meyers  Kliger  has 
moved  back  from  Israel  after 
living  there  for  six  years.  She  has 
two  children,  Gili,  age  5,  and 
Zachary,  age  2.  Evan  Koster  is 
deputy  general  counsel  of  the 
Inter-American  Foundation,  a 


U.S.  government  agency  that 
promotes  development  in  Latin 
America.  Previously,  he  was  an 
attorney  with  Covington  ^ 
Burling,  a  Washington,  D.C.  law 
firm.  Amy  Kraham  is  an  attorney 
for  DNA  People's  Legal  Services 
serving  indigent  Navajos  on  the 
Navajo  reservation  in  Shiprock, 
NM.  She  and  her  husband,  Gil 
Morrow,  have  been  married  for 
three  years.  Laurie  Lee  is  pursuing 
an  M.B.A.  at  the  Amos  Tuck 
School  at  Dartmouth.  Joshua 
Levin  and  his  wife,  Joy  Brown 
Levin  '87,  have  been  married  for 
six  years  and  live  in  a  house  in 
Oiney,  MD.  iosh  is  working  at  a 
biotech  company  and  Joy  is  a 
market  research  analyst,  Marvin 
H.  Lucas,  M.D.,  is  a  primary  care 
physician  specializing  in  internal 
medicine  with  a  seven-person 
group  practice.  He  now  calls 
Cincinnati  home — go  Bearcats! 
Amy  Markowitz  moved  to  New 
York  after  13  years  m  Boston. 
Having  designed  the  only  two 
secured  tuberculosis  treatment 
units  for  non-compliant  patients 
in  the  country,  she  now  enjoys 
providing  consulting  services  in 
various  parts  of  the  country  and 
looks  forward  to  expanding  her 
clinical  practice.  She  recently 
became  more  strongly  connected 
to  many  Brandeis  friends,  and  is 
pleased  to  be  in  New  York.  Mark 
Meckler  is  a  full-time  Ph.D. 
student  in  management  at  the 
Joint  Florida  Atlantic  University 
and  Florida  International 
University  Program.  He  continues 
to  practice  human  resource 
consulting  part-time  in  the  U.S. 
and  the  Caribbean.  Jim  Meisel, 
M.D.,  and  his  wife,  Ellen  S. 
Meisel,  M.A.  '92,  report  that  they 
are  looking  forward  to  the 
Reunion  in  October.  They  live  in 
Newton,  MA,  with  their  infant 
daughter,  Alison.  David  T.  Z. 
Mindich  is  adjunct  professor  of 
journalism  at  New  York 
University  and  is  finishing  a 
dissertation  on  the  rise  of 
"objectivity"  in  19th-century 
American  journalism.  He  has 
published  articles  in  New  York 
Magazine.  Quill  New  York 
Newsday.  The  Christian  Science 
Monitor,  and  academic  journals. 
He  IS  a  karate  and  tai-chi  student 
and  assistant  instructor  in  New 
York's  only  outdoor  dojo.  He  lives 
in  New  York  City  with  his  wife, 
Barbara  Richmond,  a  producer  at 
CNN,  and  their  daughter,  Talia, 
age  4.  Geoffrey  A.  Negin  joined  a 
private  practice  diagnostic 


radiology  group  in  Fort  Myers,  FL, 
last  July.  He  and  his  wife, 
Angelique,  recently  honeymooned 
in  Ball,  Indonesia.  Alissa 
Nordlicht  designs  and  programs 
computer  software,  specializing 
in  educational  software,  for 
Crossover  Technologies  in  New 
York  City.  She  and  her  husband 
have  a  2-year-old  son,  Adam 
Jeremy  Ossip,  and  were  expecting 
another  child  in  April.  Julie 
Piasecki  earned  her  M.A.  in 
communication  disorders  from 
Boston  University  in  1988  and  is 
now  a  rehabilitation  manager  at 
the  North  Shore  Medical  Center 
in  Salem,  MA.  She  lives  in 
Reading  with  her  husband  of  five 
years,  Stephan  Andreas  Voegelin, 
an  electrical  engineer.  Her 
pastimes  include  traveling,  fine 
dining,  and  summertime  sports. 
Rabbis  Deborah  and  Gary  Pipe- 
Mazo  have  two  beautiful  boys, 
An  and  Daniel,  and  expect 
another  child  this  May.  Debbi  is  a 
staff  chaplain  in  the  department 
of  pastoral  care  at  the  Hospital  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Gary  is  in  his  fifth  year  as 
associate  rabbi  at  Congregation 
M'Kor  Shalom.  Joy  Ryen  Plotnik 
lives  with  her  husband,  Ron,  an 
ophthalmologist,  in  a  suburb  of 
her  hometown  of  Rochester,  NY. 
She  started  her  own  law  practice 
in  1993,  specializing  in  estate 
planning,  and  enjoys  the  freedom 
of  being  her  own  boss.  Previously, 
she  worked  in  a  large  Rochester 
law  firm  for  five  years.  David  M. 
Podell  lives  on  Solomon  Island, 
MD,  and  is  in  his  fourth  year  as 
an  attorney  in  the  Southern 
Maryland  office  of  the  Legal  Aid 
Bureau,  the  state  legal  services 
program  for  the  poor.  He  is 
president  of  the  Maryland  Legal 
Aid  Workers  Union,  affiliated 
with  the  National  Organization  of 
Legal  Services  Workers  and  the 
United  Auto  Workers.  He  was 
graduated  from  Emory  Law 
School  in  May  1988.  He  still 
keeps  in  touch  with  Peter  Appel, 
who  is  deputy  to  the 
administrator  of  the  FAA,  but 
remarks  that  "it's  hard  to 
reconcile  myself  that  it  has  been 
10  years  since  we  all  lived  m 
Deroy"  David  Popkin  and  Lori 
Lieberbaum  Popkin  have  a  baby 
daughter,  Alexandra.  David  is 
assistant  vice  president  at  the 
Bank  of  Boston's  New  Haven,  CT, 
office.  Bradd  Robbins  is  still 
practicing  law  in  Bridgeport,  CT, 
and  lives  in  a  new  house  in 
Trumbull.  He  has  an  I8-month- 
old  son,  Zachary,  Suzanne  Roland 
is  a  fellow  in  neuroradiology  at 
New  England  Medical  Center. 
Richard  Rolnick  is  vice  president 
for  Chase  Securities,  Inc.,  a 
subsidiary  of  Chase  Manhattan 


Bank,  m  the  high  yield  bond 
department.  He  is  single,  lives  in 
Manhattan,  and  enjoys  playing 
basketball.  Deborah  Glickman 
Scher  was  promoted  to  buyer  of 
petite  dresses  at  Talbots  in 
Hingham,  MA.  She  and  her 
husband.  Bill,  purchased  their 
first  home  in  Sharon.  Katherine 
Schuman  is  moving  to  Bremen, 
Germany,  to  be  managing  director 
of  the  European  Chamber  Music 
Association.  For  the  past  eight 
years,  she  has  worked  for  the 
Marlboro  Music  Festival  in  New 
York  and  Vermont.  Arieh  Siegal  is 
a  senior  systems  analyst  for  the 
University  of  Texas  at  Austin, 
working  for  the  General  Libraries. 
He  is  also  two-time  defending 
champion  of  the  Wiffleball  Home 
Run  derby  at  the  University  of 
Texas,  Kenneth  Simon  continues 
to  pursue  his  acting  career 
through  productions  at  the 
Westside  Repertory  Theater  in 
Manhattan,  most  recently  as 
Jimmy  in  Phivboy  of  the  Western 
World  and  previously  as  Valerie  in 
Tartuffe.  He  has  performed  in  As 
You  Like  It.  Measure  for  Measure, 
and  an  original  adaptation  of 
Crime  and  Punishment.  He  also 
does  stand-up  and  improvisation 
comedy,  spending  two  summers 
in  the  improvisation  company  of 
the  New  York  Renaissance 
Festival  in  Tuxedo,  NY,  Julie  S. 
Solberg  works  in  the 
Development  Office  at  Brandeis 
and  lives  in  Brighton,  MA,  with 
her  husband  of  3  1/2  years,  Ted 
Chandler,  and  their  daughter, 
Alexa,  age  18  months.  Lauren 
Elkins  Stern  and  her  husband, 
Leonard  Stern  '83,  are  living  and 
working  in  New  York  City,  where 
she  is  a  senior  marketing  manager 
at  American  Express,  TRS.  Lenny 
started  a  communications 
consulting  firm,  Shepardson, 
Stern  <^  Kaminsky,  specializing  in 
corporate  and  international 
communication,  marketing,  and 
advertising,  Stuart  Toben  lives  in 
the  Hollywood  Hills  of  California, 
where  he  started  a  company 
called  Kangaroo  Pouch  which 
manufactures  travel  accessories. 
He  is  looking  forward  to  a 
mountain  climbing  venture  in  the 
Kashmiri  Himalayan  region  of 
India.  Beth  Goldstein  Weiner 
works  for  a  newsletter  publisher 
in  Arlington,  MA,  and  lives  in 
HoUiston  with  her  husband, 
Michael,  whom  she  married  in 
1991.  They  have  a  2-year-old 
daughter,  Jacqueline,  and  two 
dogs  named  Gus  and  Madel   Ellen 
Baker  Weiss  lives  in  Atlanta  with 
her  husband,  L.  Michael  Weiss 
'84,  who  IS  completing  his 


62  Brandeis  Review 


'91 


tellowship  in  gastroenterology  at 
Emory  University,  and  their  two 
daughters.  Lindsey,  age  1,  and 
Danielle,  a  reeent  addition  to  the 
family.  Renee  Wetstein  left  her 
law  firm  after  the  birth  of  her  son 
and  started  her  own  practice  in 
Northampton,  MA.  She 
specializes  in  international 
adoptions  and  represents  women 
who  are  abused  by  their  partners. 


'87 


Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  45  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  5H,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Heidi  Siegel  Oletsky,  M  D  ,  is  a 
senior  neurology  resident  at  the 
University  of  Maryland  Hospital 
and  courscmaster  for  the 
neurology  course  at  the 
University  of  Maryland  School  of 
Medicine.  In  luly,  she  will  begin  a 
fellowship  in  EEC  and  clinical 
epilepsy  at  the  National  Institutes 
of  Health  in  Bethesda,  MD.  She 
and  her  husband,  fon,  also  a 
doctor,  have  one  son,  David. 
Michael  L.  Oster  manages  an 
investment  fund  in  Eastern 
Europe  and  Russia  which  he 
created  at  the  real  estate 
investment  company  of  Aldnch, 
Eastman  &.  Waltch  in  Boston.  He 
previously  lived  m  Moscow, 
where  he  started  a  real  estate 
group  after  receiving  his  M.B.A. 
from  New  York  University  and 
gaining  experience  at  IBM  and 
A.T.  Kearney  in  New  York. 


'88 


Contrary  to  earlier  reports,  he 
lives  m  New  York  City  and  is  the 
senior  editor  of  Mei^eis  and 
Acquisitions  Report,  appearing 
frequently  on  CNBC  and  "The 
Nightly  Business  Report."  Greg 
has  written  on  a  freelance  basis 
for  Fortune  Magazine  and  The 
New  York  Daily  News.  Greg  also 
publishes  Shalom  Bayit,  a  real 
estate  newsletter,  and  runs 
College  Bound  Tours  Inc.,  a 
company  devoted  to  bringing  high 
school  juniors  and  seniors  to 
college  campuses  to  examine  the 
Jewish  and  academic 
communities  at  each  school.  In 
his  spare  time,  Greg  interviews 
prospective  students  for  Brandeis. 


'89 


Susan  Tevelow  Feinstem,  Class 
Correspondent,  2201  Broughton 
Drive,  Beverly,  MA  01915 

We  very  much  regret  the 
pubhcation  of  an  erroneous  class 
note  in  the  Winter  1995  edition  of 
the  Brandeis  Review  concerning 
Greg  Zuckerman  '88.  We  also 
regret  any  inconvenience  or 
awkwardness  this  may  have 
caused  Mr.  Zuckerman.  His  up- 
date news  note  follows. 

Michelle  Leder  is  business  editor 
of  the  Poughkeepsie  fournal,  a 
Gannett  newspaper  in 
Poughkeepsie,  NY.  She  reports 
that  she  has  moved  five  times  and 
through  three  different  states 
since  leaving  Brandeis.  David  M. 
Rosenblum  was  elected  to  the 
national  board  of  the  National 
Lesbian  and  Gay  Law  Association 
at  its  "Lavender  Law  IV" 
conference  in  Portland,  OR,  last 
fall.  He  is  a  regional 
representative  for  Pennsylvania, 
New  lersey.  New  York,  and 
Delaware.  Greg  Zuckerman  notes 
that  it's  nice  to  know  the  Class  of 
'88  still  has  a  sense  of  humor. 


Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  165  Palmer 
Street,  Arlington,  MA  02174 

Marisa  S.  Kesselman  is  a 

physician  m  West  Palm  Beach. 
PL,  where  she  and  her  husband, 
Herzl  Ebrahimi,  are  the  proud 
parents  of  S-month-old  twin  boys. 
Andrew  Roberts  is  pursuing  an 
M.B.A.  at  Harvard  University. 
Previously,  he  worked  at  an  AIDS 
hospice  and  in  a  national 
community  building  anti-drug 
program,  housed  at  the  Boston 
University  School  of  Medicine. 
He  earned  a  master's  in  human 
service  management  from  the 
Heller  School  in  1992. 


'92 


Karen  Gitten  Gobler,  Class 
Correspondent,  lI9Waltham 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02165 

Elizabeth  Kressel  is  a  statistical 
analyst  ftir  Meredith 
Corporation — the  publisher  of 
Ladies  Home  fournal  and  Better 
Homes  and  Gardens — where  she 
does  database  marketing  for  five 
catalog  book  clubs  in  the  Better 
Homes  and  Gardens  Book  Club 
Division.  She  is  also  taking 
master's  level  statistics  classes  at 
Columbia  University.  Ian  E. 
Murray  is  general  manager  for 
Caribbean  Trust  Merchant  Bank 
Limited  in  Kingston.  Jamaica. 
Previously,  he  spent  four  years 
with  George  &  Branday  Limited, 
most  recently  as  manager  of 
investment  and  special  projects. 

*IU     Sth  Reunion 

ludith  Libhaber  Weber,  Class 
Correspondent,  66  Madison 
Avenue  #9E,  New  York,  NY 
10016 

Matni  Smith  Katz  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of 
Connecticut  School  of  Law  and 
practices  with  the  firm  of  Green 
&  Gross  in  Bridgeport,  CT.  Her 
husband  of  three  and  a  half  years, 
Stuart  Katz  '89,  is  also  practicing 
law  in  Bridgeport,  specializing  in 
employment  law  and  commercial 
litigation  with  the  firm  Cohen  iS. 
Wolf  Daniel  Sieger  and  Andrea 
Goldberg  Sieger  were  married  in 
1992  and  live  in  Hoboken,  NL  He 
is  an  account  executive  at  the 
Bruce  Cohen  Group,  a  Manhattan 
public  relations  firm  specializing 
in  nonprofits  and  the  arts,  and  she 
received  her  MA.  in  speech 
language  pathology  from  New 
York  University  in  1994  and  now 
works  at  St.  Joseph's  Medical 
Center  in  Yonkers,  NY. 


Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Oak  Street, 
Harrington  Park,  NJ  07640 

Sara  Cormeny  completed  a 
successful  year  as  the  steering 
committee  chair  of  "Cartoons  and 
Cocktails,"  an  annual  benefit  for 
Young  DC,  a  Washington-area 
newspaper  entirely  by  and  about 
teenagers.  Hosted  by  the  National 
Press  Club,  this  is  the  paper's 
only  fund-raising  event,  which 
Sara  is  proud  to  report  raised  over 
S40,000  last  year.  Kevin  (osel  is 
executive  editor  of  the  Boston 
University  International  Law 
Journal,  where  he  recently 
published  an  article  on  the 
protection  of  French  wine 
regional  names.  Michael 
Rosenthal  is  finishing  his  third 
year  at  Yaie  University  Law 
School.  He  spent  last  summer  as  a 
summer  associate  in  the  New 
York  office  of  the  law  firm  Fried, 
Frank,  Harris,  Shriver  £<  Jacobson. 


'93 


Josh  Blumenthal,  Class 
Correspondent,  21  Goldenrod 
Circle,  Amherst,  MA  01002 

Priscilla  Bradford  is  completing 
her  second  year  of  law  school  at 
the  University  of  Vermont.  Her 
fiance,  Richard  Glucksman  '90, 
was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Denver  School  of 
Law  in  1993  and  works  m  Rhode 
Island  Jeffrey  Loewenthal  started 
a  trading  company,  BTG 
Enterprises,  in  Prague  and  reports 
that  he  is  doing  well. 


'94 


Sandy  Kirschen,  Class 
Correspondent,  512  Brandon 
Avenue,  Apt.  A-5,  Charlottesville, 
VA  22903 

As  part  of  the  Americorps, 
President  Clinton's  national 
service  corps,  Joshua  Klainberg 
spent  the  fall  starting  an  urban 
stream  renewal  program  to  clear 


the  way  for  the  historic  migratory 
pathways  of  shad  and  herring  in 
Aberdeen,  MD.  Last  summer,  he 
worked  on  a  farm,  harvesting 
fruits  and  vegetables  for  a  food 
bank  for  low-income  families  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

Grad 

Peter  A.  Appel  (M.FA.  '87, 
theater!  appeared  in  three  films 
released  this  winter:  The 
Professional.  The  ferky  Boys,  and 
Man  2  Man.  Previous  film  roles 
include  Mr  Wonderful.  Basic 
Instmct,  and  Regarding  Henry. 
His  most  recent  theater  work  was 
with  the  Yale  Rep,  Second  Stage, 
Playwright's  Horizons,  and  the 
New  York  Shakespeare  Festival. 
He  also  recently  appeared  on 
television  in  NYPD  Blue  and  Law 
and  Order.  John  Benjafield  (Ph.D. 
'68,  psychology)  has  published 
two  books;  Cognition  in  1 992  and 
Thinking  Critically  about 
Research  Methods  in  1994.  He  is 
professor  of  psychology  at  Brock 
University  in  Ontario.  He  reports 
that  he  visited  campus  in  October 
and  was  struck  by  "how  much 
and  how  little  has  changed!" 
Charles  Berliner  |M.FA.  '71, 
theater)  is  head  of  the  union  for 
all  set,  light,  and  costume 
designers  in  Los  Angeles, 
responsible  for  all  of  their 
negotiations.  He  designed 
costumes  for  Theater  of  the 
Deaf's  Itahan  S(r<in'  Hat.  Gail 
Brassard  |M.F.A.  '92,  theater)  was 
costume  designer  for  a  new 
musical,  Starcrossed.  at  the 
Goodspeed  Opera  at  Chester  in 
the  Norma  Terris  Theater.  She 
also  worked  on  an  off-Broadway 
show,  Insideout.  at  the  Cherry 
Lane  Theater.  For  over  three 
years,  she  has  worked  as  assistant 
costume  designer  for  the  TV  show 
One  Life  to  Live,  and  until  last 
January  she  was  the  designer  for 
the  Ringling  Bros.  Barnum  &. 
Bailey  Circus.  Monique  Mclntyre 
Brown  (M.FA.  '87,  theater)  is  in 
her  second  season  with  the 
Oregon  Shakespeare  Festival,  the 
nation's  largest  regional  theater, 
working  with  directors  Kenny 
Leon  in  The  Colored  Museum  and 
Clinton  Turner  Davis  on  The 
Fifth  of  luly.  She  has  also  worked 
recently  with  directors  Nagle 
lackson  and  Joe  Turner.  Holly 
Cate  (M.FA.  '92,  theater)  has 
appeared  on  As  The  World  Turns 
for  the  past  two  years.  Arthur 
Douglas  Durant  (Ph.D.  '93, 
Heller)  was  appointed  professor  of 
alcoholism  sciences  at  Governors 
State  University  in  University 
Park,  IL.  Previously,  he  served  as 
program  director  for  the 
comprehensive  Substance  Abuse 
Treatment  Program  of  the  Tri- 


63  Spring  1995 


Arthur  Duiant 

County  Community  Mental 
Health  Board  m  Lansing,  Ml,  and 
as  part-time  instructor  at  Lansing 
Community  College.  Ilsa 
Schuster  Glazer  |M.A.  '68, 
anthropology]  teaches  at  the  City 
University  of  New  York- 
Kingsborough,  where  she  writes 
about  lewish,  Arab,  and  African 
women  in  their  homelands  and 
diasporas  Harris  Gleckman  '68 
(M.A.  '77,  Ph.D.  '82,  sociologyl 
spoke  on  "Transnational 
Enterprises  and  the  Environment" 
at  Brandeis  on  November  18, 
sponsored  by  the  politics 
department.  He  is  senior 
consultant  to  NAFTA,  the  North 
American  Free  Trade  Association. 
Previously,  he  was  chief  of  the 
environmental  unit  in  the  United 
Nations  Secretariat.  Alejandro 
Garcia  (Ph.D.  '80,  Hellerl  received 
the  1994  University  Scholar/ 
Teacher  of  the  Year  Award, 
sponsored  by  the  Division  of 
Higher  Education  and  Ministry  of 
the  United  Methodist  Church, 
last  fall.  He  is  professor  of  social 
work  and  chair  of  the  gerontology 
concentration  in  the  School  of 
Social  Work's  graduate  program  at 
Syracuse  University,  where  he  has 
taught  since  1978.  In  luly,  the 
New  York  state  chapter  of  the 
National  Association  of  Social 
Workers  honored  him  with  its 
Lifetime  Achievement  Award.  He 
was  also  named  the  1994  Central 
New  York  Social  Worker  of  the 
Year  by  the  Central  New  York 
Division  of  NASW.  William  S. 
Grenzebach  |M.A.  '70,  Ph.D.  '78, 
comparative  history)  was  one  of 
23,000  American  scientists  and 
engineers  selected  for  the  1994-95 
Second  Edition  of  Who's  Who  m 
Science  and  Engineering.  Yosef 
Grodzinsky  (Ph.D.  '85, 
psychology)  holds  positions  at  Tel 
Aviv  University  in  Israel  and  at 
Boston  University  VA  Medical 
Center.  He  is  a  psycholinguist 
and  also  conducts  research  on 
World  War  II  displaced  persons 
camps,  according  to  a  November 
Boston  Globe  Magazine  article  in 
which  he  was  cited.  James  B. 
Harnagel  (M.FA.  '8.3,  theater)  is 
living  in  Southern  California, 


working  on  a  script  and  placing 
attorneys  with  the  Quorum/ 
Estrin  Group.  His  recent  work 
includes  guest  starring  on  Sisters 
and  Golden  Girls,  doing  a  pilot 
for  CBS,  and  coproducing  a  show 
for  the  Pasadena  Playhouse.  John 
Spencer  Hill  (Ph.D.  '88,  history) 
was  appointed  assistant  professor 
of  history  and  politics  at 
Immaculata  College  in 
Pennsylvania,  Previously,  he  was 
assistant  professor  of  history  at 
Ohio  State  University,  history 
instructor  at  Suffolk  University  in 
Boston,  and  a  research  assistant. 
He  has  published  articles  in  the 
Journal  of  Modern  History  and 
the  American  Historical  Society's 
Guide  to  Historical  Literature, 
and  IS  the  recipient  of  two 
fellowships  from  the  Center  for 
International  Affairs  at  Harvard 
University  Rita  Danzigei 
Kashner  |M.A.  '65,  English)  has 
published  three  books,  most 
recently  The  Graceful  Exit  in 
1989.  In  addition  to  teaching  an 
adult  education  course  on  Israeli 
and  American  fiction,  she  writes 
book  reviews  for  The  Washington 
Post  and  does  some  public 
relations  writing  for  the  Jewish 
Theological  Seminary.  She  has 
taught  at  both  the  high  school 
and  college  levels  and  has  been 
published  in  various  periodicals, 
including  short  fiction  in 
Hadassah  Magazine.  She  and  her 
husband,  Howard,  have  two 
daughters,  Elisabeth  and  Megan. 
Emily  Levy-Shachat  |M.A   '72, 
J.C.S.)  has  lived  in  Israel  for  15 
years,  where  she  is  currently 
coordinator  of  early  childhood 
programs  for  the  National 
Council  of  Jewish  Women 
Research  Institute  at  the  Hebrew 
University's  School  of  Education. 
In  addition  to  two  local  programs, 
the  institute  heads  an 
international  program,  HIPPY, 
which  conducts  home 
intervention  with  educationally 
disadvantaged  families  to  prepare 
the  children  for  school  while 
empowering  the  parents  to  be 
educators  themselves.  Steven 
Mackey  (Ph.D.  '85,  music)  writes 
that  his  composition  Eating 
Greens,  commissioned  by  the 
Ernst  &.  Young  Emerging 
Composers  Fund,  premiered  at 
the  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 
in  October.  He  is  professor  of 
music  at  Princeton  University. 
Kathleen  Popko,  S  P  (M.S.W  '73, 
Ph.D.  '75,  Heller)  was  named  to 
the  board  of  directors  of  McAuley 
Institute,  a  national  housing 
development  organization  based 
in  Silver  Spring,  MD.  She  is 
president  and  chief  executive 
officer  of  the  Sisters  of  Providence 
Health  System  in  Springfield, 


Kathleen  Popko 

MA.  A  past  president  of  the 
Sisters  of  Providence,  she  is  active 
in  other  religious  health  care 
organizations  and  past  president 
of  the  Leadership  Conference  of 
Women  Religious  of  the  United 
States.  Sherri  Silverman  (MA. 
'74,  English)  is  an  adjunct  faculty 
member  at  Santa  Fe,  NM, 
Community  College.  Lise  Vogel 
(M.A.  '80,  Ph.D.  '81,  sociology)  is 
the  Laura  C.  Harris  visiting 
professor  of  sociology  and 
anthropology  at  Denison 
University  m  Granville,  OH.  She 
is  professor  of  sociology  at  Rider 
University  in  New  Jersey,  and  has 
taught  at  the  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology,  Brown 
University,  Boston  University, 
and  Nassau  Community  College 
in  New  York   Alice  Kogan 
Weinreb  '65,  is  a  flutist  with  the 
National  Symphony  Orchestra  at 
the  Kennedy  Center  for  the 
Performing  Arts.  She  lives  in 
Annandale,  VA  with  her 
husband  Michael  P.  Weinreb 
(M.A.  '65,  Ph.D.  '66,  physics)  in 
Annandale,  VA. 

Obituaries 

Leonard  Gorman,  Ph.D.  '67,  died 
on  January  8,  1995.  A  1948 
graduate  of  Tufts  School  of  Dental 
Medicine,  he  later  earned  a 
doctorate  in  biochemistry  at 
Brandeis.  He  opened  and  directed 
the  Harvard  Community  Health 
Plan's  dental  service  for  a  decade. 
In  1981  he  began  acting  in  Boston 
area  theaters  and  appeared  in 
radio  and  TV  commercials.  He 
leaves  his  wife.  Sheila  Ferrini,  a 
daughter,  two  sons,  and  two 
grandchildren.  Steven  M. 
Goldstein  '67,  associate  dean  of 
the  Florida  State  University 
College  of  Law,  died  November 
23,  1994,  at  his  home  in 
Tallahassee,  FL,  at  the  age  of  48. 
He  had  been  on  the  FSU  faculty 
since  1974  and  a  full  professor 
since  1991.  An  expert  on  death 
penalty  cases  with  particular 
interest  in  helping  needy  clients, 
he  helped  start  the  Florida 
Volunteer  Lawyers  Resources 
Center  to  assist  private  attorneys 
who  represent  death  row  inmates. 


He  was  graduated  from  Columbia 
University  School  of  Law  in  1972 
with  Harlan  Fiske  Stone  Scholar 
honors.  Word  has  been  received  of 
the  death  of  Robert  Victor 
Hoffman  '73  on  October  29,  1994. 
Alfred  ).  Kutzik,  Ph.D.  '67 
(Heller),  one  of  the  13  original 
students  selected  for  The  Heller 
School's  first  year,  died  on  August 
26  of  cancer  at  the  age  of  71.  A 
writer  and  educator,  he  was 
recognized  as  an  expert  in  the 
tield  of  Jewish  communal  service 
and  a  pioneer  in  the  new 
discipline  of  ethnic  studies.  He 
was  a  professor  of  social  research 
and  policy  at  a  number  of 
colleges,  including  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  University  of 
Maryland,  and  the  New  School 
for  Social  Research  in  Manhattan. 
Among  his  seven  books  were 
Social  Work  and  Jewish  Values 
(1959)  and  Tzedakah  (1967). 
Kutzik  served  as  a  consultant  to 
several  Jewish  organizations,  was 
the  acting  U.S.  representative  to 
the  United  Nations  for  the  World 
Federation  of  Trade  Unions  in 
1984-85,  and  represented  North 
America  at  the  World  Peace 
Conference  in  Prague.  He  was  a 
lifelong  socialist,  a  political  and 
community  activist,  and  a  lover 
of  the  arts.  He  is  survived  by  two 
sons,  David  and  Robert,  and  three 
grandsons.  Daniel  Lourie  '57 
passed  away  on  January  7,  1995. 
He  leaves  a  sister,  Barbara  L. 
Sand,  of  Princeton,  NJ,  a  niece, 
and  two  nephews.  Judith  Rae 
Miller,  Ph.D.  '94,  (Hellerl  passed 
away  on  December  16,  1994.  She 
leaves  her  companion,  Irene 
Cramer,  of  Waltham,  and  a 
brother,  Ben  Miller,  of 
Huntington,  WV.  Remembrances 
may  be  directed  to  the  Judith  Rae 
Miller  Memorial  Fund,  c/o  Dean 
Jack  Shonkoff,  The  Heller  School, 
Brandeis  University,  P.O.  Box 
9110,  Waltham,  MA  02254.  Paul 
Michael  Starr  '71  died  December 
31,  1992,  m  his  home  in  Portland, 
OR,  due  to  complications  from 
AIDS.  He  was  the  executive 
director  of  the  Cascade  AIDS 
Projects  in  Portland  from  1990-92. 
He  is  survived  by  his  longtime 
companion,  Fred,  his  father, 
Deane,  sisters,  Deanna  and  Susan, 
and  brothers,  David,  Stephen,  and 
Mark. 


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Since  my  graduation  in  1959.  I  have  been  continually  involved  with 
Bzandeis  as  an  administrator,  hoard  member,  or  volunteer.  The 
University's  needs  are  well  known  to  me,  and  I  have  always  wished  I 
could  make  a  substantial  gift.  With  a  Charitable  Remainder  Trust,  my 
gift  has  been  invested  by  Brandeis  so  that  it  has  the  potential  to 
grow.  This  means  my  own  income  will  grow  and  Brandeis  will  receive 
an  even  larger  gift  when  I'm  gone.  Good  financial  planning  and  the 
support  of  an  institution  I  love — what  a  winning  combination! 


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Dear  Reader 


Nature  abounds  with  examples  of 
individual  organisms  and 
organized  groups  of  organisms 
evolving  schemes,  interactive  with 
their  environments,  to  effect  a 
wider  scope  of  influence  on  the 
landscape.  Plants  do  it  best  at  the 
time  of  fruiting,  their  systems  of 
seed  dispersal  often  reaching 
remarkable  levels  of  innovation. 
Here  is  where  new  ground  is 
pioneered,  fresh  territorial  claims 
staked,  real  inroads  made  in  places 
never  before  touched  by  the 
unique  contributions  of  that  plant 
to  the  aesthetic  and  competitive 
mix  of  a  place. 

Common  roadside  plants  like 
burdock  and  beggar  ticks  equip 
their  seeds  with  hooks  for  hitching 
rides  on  the  fur  of  passing  animals. 
Woodland  plants  like  witch  hazel 
and  jewelweed  produce  exploding 
pods  that  blast  their  seeds  as  far  as 
several  yards  from  the  mother 
plant.  Wind,  of  course,  plays  a 
major  role  in  the  dispersion 
of  thistles,  dandelions,  milkweeds, 
and  their  hosts  of  fluff-borne 
progeny,  increasing  a  specie's 


natural  range  by  miles.  But  one 
other  form  of  botanical  outreach 
truly  takes  the  trailblazing  prize. 

I  have  long  enjoyed  a 
beachcombing  specialty  that  has 
afforded  me  nearly  exclusive  rights 
to  my  quarry.  While  hordes  scour 
tropical  strands  in  search  of  shells, 
I  can  be  found  hunched  over  piles 
of  wrack  and  flotsam,  oblivious  to 
conchs  and  murexes,  poking 
through  the  noisome  mass  in 
search  of  drift  seeds — seeds  that, 
by  design,  make  use  of  ocean 
currents  for  dispersal. 

The  most  celebrated  drift  seed  is 
surely  the  coconut,  but  hundreds 
of  others,  ranging  in  size  from  that 
of  a  baked  bean  to  the  volleyball 
proportions  of  the  calabash,  drop 
off  coastal  trees  and  vines  to  drift 
upon  the  oceans  in  the  hope  of 
washing  up  on  distant,  hospitable 
shores.  Some,  like  the  country 
almond,  bear  folds  and  furrows 
like  a  peach  pit,  but  are  corky, 
buoyant,  and  resistant  to  the 
corrosive  effects  of  salt  water. 
Others,  like  the  sea  bean  and  the 
sea  heart,  are  as  hard  and  smooth 
as  river  stones  and  emerge  from 
the  brine  polished  like  the  bowl  of 
a  brier-root  pipe.  All  have  the 
equipment  and  design  for 
intercontinental  travel  and 
routinely  impact  coastal  regions 
far  from  their  points  of  origin. 


Brandeis,  too,  is  a  relatively  small 
organism  that  wields  a 
disproportionately  large  global 
influence.  This  versatile 
University  makes  ready  use  of 
the  winds  of  global  connectedness 
and  the  forceful  currents 
of  international  involvement, 
planting  distant  shores  with 
consequential  alumni,  affecting 
international  thought  through  the 
research,  expertise,  and  outreach 
of  its  faculty,  and  promoting 
universal  understanding  and 
tolerance  through  its  policies  and 
ideals.  Our  issue's  contents  gives 
credence  to  that  claim. 

Cliff 


Brandeis  Review 


Editor 

Cliff  Hauptman  '69. 
MF.A,  73 

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Brandeis  Review. 
Volume  15 

Number  4,  Summer  1995 
Brandeis  Review 
(ISSN  0273-7175) 
is  published  by 
Brandeis  University 
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with  free  distribution  to 
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On  the  cover: 
Ligtit  Room  {ietaW)  by 
James  Carpenter,  fi/lunich 
Airport  Photo  by 
Miriam  L.  Steinberg  '93 


Summer  1995 


Brandeis  Review 


Volume  15 


Number  4 


Chicago  at  the  Rose 

The  Rose  Art  Museum 

gears  up  for  a  new  show  in  the  fall 

Carl  Belz 

22 

A  School  in  a  Class  by  Itself 

Brandeis  gives  rise  to  a  whole 
new  kind  of  international 
graduate  school 

Marjorie  Lyon 

26 

APEC:  America's 

New  Anchor  in  the  Pacific 

Three  experts  shed  light  on  the 

past,  present,  and  future 

of  U.S. -China  trade  relations 

Nancy  Adams,  Peter  A.  Petri, 
and  Michael  G.  Plummer 

30 

The  World  Wide  Wien  Web 

A  first-of-its-kind  program 
has  long  made  Brandeis  a  global 
community 

Marjorie  Lyon 

34 

Moving  People 

The  world's  longest  art  galleries 
are  in  the  subways  of  Europe 

Miriam  L.  Steinberg  '93 

44 

A  Brief  Sojourn,  A  Lasting 
Legacy 

Murdered  shortly  after  receiving 
promise  of  a  Brandeis  scholarship, 
Iqbal  Masih  is  remembered 

Ivy  George,  Ph.D.  '85  (Heller) 

50 

Letters 

2 

Students 

3 

Faculty  and  Staff 

5 

Benefactors 

14 

Spring  Reunion  '95 

16 

Commencement  '95 


Books 


38 


Alumni 


52 


14      Class  Notes 


55 


etters 


Sommers  Responds 

Mr.  Cliff  Hauptman: 

The  Winter  '95  issue 
contained  an  abusive  letter 
from  Ms.  Eleanor  Linn 
attacking  my  book  Who 
Stole  Feminism!  and 
excoriating  the  Review  for 
"mouthing  |Sommers'|  lies." 

Normally,  when  someone 
believes  a  writer  to  be 
mistaken,  the  writer  may  be 
called  sloppy  or  careless. 
The  overwrought  Ms.  Linn 
calls  me  a  liar.  Her  letter  is 
a  rehash  of  baseless  charges 
that  I  have  refuted  many 
times.*  Readers  may  be 
curious  to  know  just  why 
Ms.  Linn  is  so  angry. 

My  book.  Who  Stole 
Feminism!,  has  engendered 
a  great  deal  of  controversy: 
and  the  reaction  crosses 
traditional  political  lines.  I 
was  vituperatively  attacked 
in  the  New  York  Times 
Book  Review  hy  a  radical 
feminist  reviewer  but 
defended  by  liberal 
columnists  in  the 
Washington  Post  and  the 
New  York  Daily  News  who 
protested  the  Times'  review. 
The  book  was  praised  by 
Nadine  Strossen,  President 
of  the  ACLU,  by  feminist 
novelist  Erica  Jong — as  well 
as  conservative  talk  show 
host  Rush  Limbaugh.  I  have 
been  denounced  by  the 

"cultural  left"  in  several 
academic  newsletters,-  at  the 
same  time  I  was  dropped 
from  the  Conservative  Book 
Club  for  being  too  liberal. 
Ms.  Linn  may  have  been 
briefed  by  The  American 
Association  of  University 
Women,  a  group  whose  self- 
esteem  "research"  I  found 
fault  with.  The  AAUW  has 
set  up  a  "Christina  Hotline" 
for  tips  on  how  to  denounce 
me.  But  recently,  ABC's 

"20/20"  investigated  the 
AAUW  charges  and  found 
them  baseless  and  on  March 
31  (1995)  they  did  a  segment 
supporting  my  criticism  of 
the  AAUW. 


Ms.  Linn  herself  is  hardly 
disinterested.  As  "Associate 
Director  of  the  Center  for 
Sex  Equity  in  the  Schools," 
she  is  naturally  unhappy  to 
see  me  criticizing  the 
gender  bias  industry  and  its 
army  of  well-paid  "self- 
esteem  experts,"  and  "sex 
equity  facilitators." 

I  was  disappointed  to  see 
the  Review's  editor  timidly 
offering  to  change  the  open 
policy  of  the  Brandeis 
Review  to  accommodate 
censorial  ideologues  like 
Ms.  Linn. 

Sincerely  yours, 
Christina  Sommers 
Associate  Professor  of 
Philosophy,  Clark 
University 

"The  most  complete  array  of 
charges  and  responses  are  to 
be  found  in  the  academic 
newsletter  Democratic 
Culture,  beginning  with  the 
'94  Fall  issue.  My  rebuttal 
of  these  charges  will  appear 
in  the  next  issue. 

Dear  Ms.  Sommers. 

There  was  no  need  to  flatter 
me:  I  would  have  run  your 
letter  anyway.  Actually.  I 
did  not  timidly  offer  to 
change  the  open  policy  to 
accommodate  censorial 
ideologues.  The  way  I  see 
it.  I  simply  defined  a  policy 
about  which  at  least  one 
reader  was  confused  and 
then  boldly  offered  to 
consider  amending  the 
policy  if  sufficient  numbers 
of  readers  felt  similarly 
misled:  the  purpose  was  to 
increase  communication, 
not  restrict  it.  As  I 
suspected  would  happen,  of 
several  responses  from  both 
faculty  and  alumni,  only 
one  was  in  favor  of  our 


printing  a  "Books"  section 
with  only  title,  author,  and 
publisher  data.  Everyone 
else  felt,  as  I  do,  that 
blurbs,  even  those 
composed  of  the  authors'/ 
publishers'  promotional 
materials — which  is  what 
you  get  on  the  inside  flap  of 
a  book  jacket,  anyway — are 
more  useful  than 
misleading,  provided  the 
reader  knows  the  score. 
Readers  can  now 
unambiguously  find  the 
score  in  a  disclaimer  within 
the  "Books"  section. 

chff 


The  Final  Word 

Dear  Cliff: 

Let  this  be  the  last  bird 
you  get. 

First,  there  WAS  an  owl  in 
1948!  It  lived  in  a  cage, 
which  was  located  by  the 
wishing  well.  It  was  cared 
for  by  Stuart  Mayper  and  his 
wife,  Lois  Rossignol.  The 
SPCA  insisted  that  the  owl 
be  released  or  sent  to  an 
approved  shelter.  END  of 
story! 

Those  of  you  from  the  Class 
of  '52  who  want  to 
challenge  my  memory,  be 
advised  that  I  still  have  a 
vast  library  of  pictures  that, 
even  today,  I  don't  believe 
you  would  like  to  see  in 
print;  it  might  be  difficult 
to  explain  to  your 
grandchildren! 

For  those  of  you  in  the  first 
few  classes,  I  think  it  is  a 
pity  that  the  powers  that  be 
do  not  think  enough  about 
the  early  history  of  Brandeis 
to  do  any  research  in  the 
archives.  We  lived  too 
fantastic  a  story  to  allow  it 
to  be  buried.  For  example, 
the  whole  football  story 
seems  to  have  been 
forgotten,  lost,  or  relegated 
to  unopened  file  cabinets. 


I  hope  that  I  am  not  the 
only  voice  in  the  wilderness 
crying  for  the  lost 
memories. 

My  eyesight  may  be  gone 
but  my  memory  remains 
sharp.  For  example,  Mr. 
Nigrosh  (see  Lawrence  M. 
Nigrosh's  letter  in  this 
department  of  the  Winter 
1995  issue],  I  still  have 
photos  of  all  your  favorite 
parking  places.  Do  you  still 
feed  the  ducks? 

Sincerely, 
Ralph  Norman 


Ralph  Norman,  whose 
photographs  document  the 
emergence  and  blossoming 
of  the  University  from  1 948 
until  his  retirement  in 
1981.  wrote  this  letter 
shortly  before  he  died  on 
fuly  8,  1995.  He  touched  the 
lives  of  nearly  everyone 
who  became  a  member  of 
the  Brandeis  community 
during  those  33  years  and  is 
remembered  for  his  selfless 
dispensation  of  advice, 
assistance,  friendship,  and 
compassion.  A  future  issue 
of  the  Review  will  bear  a 
suitable  memorial  to  Ralph, 
featuring  a  selection  of  his 
photographs  of  the 
University.  We  will  also  try 
to  include  brief  anecdotes 
about  him,  should  those 
who  knew  him  wish  to 
share  them  with  us.  We  all 
mourn  his  passing. 


2  Brandeis  Review 


Applications  Breal( 
All  Records 


Continuing  a  two-year  trend 
of  record-breaking  rates,  the 
University  has  received 
4,520  applications  for 
undergraduate  admission, 
making  this  year's  pool  of 
applicants  the  largest  ever. 

So  far,  applications  for  the 
Class  of  1999  are  about  5.3 
percent  above  last  year's 
record  number,  according  to 
Dean  of  Admissions  and 
Financial  Aid  David  Gould. 

An  aggressive  strategy  of 
recruiting  minority  students 
has  resulted  in  a  36  percent 
increase  in  applications 
from  African-Americans 
and  a  16  percent  rise  in 
Asian-American  applicants. 

Gould  said  he  has  also 
begun  expanded  recruiting 
efforts  abroad,  with  trips  to 
the  Far  East  and  Latin 
America.  Last  May,  he  and 
President  Jehuda  Reinharz 
visited  with  secondary 
school  officials  and  alumni 
in  Japan  and  Korea.  In  April, 
Gould  accompanied  the 
president  to  Bogota, 
Colombia,  and  Mexico  City 
on  a  similar  mission. 

For  the  fourth  year  in  a  row, 
applications  to  the  Graduate 
School  of  Arts  and  Sciences 
continue  to  break  records, 
with  an  increase  of  about  10 
percent  over  last  year. 


Student  Killed  in  Israel 


Alisa  M.  Flatow,  a  Brandeis 
junior,  was  killed  in  a 
terrorist  truck  bomb  attack 
April  9  in  the  Gaza  Strip. 
She  was  20  years  old. 

Flatow  suffered  fatal  head 
wounds  in  the  blast,  which 
wounded  two  other 
Americans,  killed  seven 
Israeli  soldiers,  and  injured 
40  other  people. 

Flatow,  of  West  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  was  on 
academic  leave  from  the 
University  to  study  at 
Yeshiva  Nishmat  in 
Jerusalem.  On  break  from 
her  studies,  she  was  on  her 
way  to  a  resort  with  friends 
when  the  attack  occurred. 
Her  roommate  in  Israel  was 
wounded  in  the  blast. 

News  of  her  death  plunged 
the  campus  into  sadness,  as 
students,  faculty  members, 
and  staff  openly  grieved  and 
struggled  to  comprehend 
the  impact  of  the  tragedy. 

Her  many  friends  on 
campus  described  the 
sociology  major  as  someone 
who  was  caring  and  warm, 
and  always  willing  to  help 
others. 

The  Brandeis  students' 
Orthodox  organization  said 
Flatow  was  an  active 
member  of  the  campus 
Jewish  community.  "Alisa 
was  a  funny,  caring,  and 
loving  friend." 

Professor  Jonathan  Sarna, 
Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  of  American 
Jewish  History  and  chair  of 
the  Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  department,  recalled 
her  as  an  exceptional 
student  who  loved  traveling 
in  Israel. 


At  an  April  10  campus  news 
conference.  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz  said 
Brandeis  was  "faced  with  a 
very  dark  day."  He  said  he 
had  been  in  touch  with 
Flatow's  family  and  pledged 
the  University's  support. 

The  President  said  the 
violence  would  not  be 
allowed  to  disrupt  students 
from  traveling  abroad  to 
complement  their  academic 
experience  at  the 
University.  Juniors  who 
travel  to  other  countries 
know  of  the  dangers 
involved  and  are  instructed 
at  Brandeis,  both  in  writing 
and  orally,  about  how  to 
lessen  the  risks.  Ultimately, 
he  said,  the  decision  to  go 
abroad  is  one  made  by  the 
students  and  their  families. 


Alisa  Flatow 


Flatow's  father,  Steven,  said 
his  daughter  believed  she 
was  safe  in  Israel  and  "no 
one  could  dissuade  her  from 
that  belief." 

In  a  statement  he  issued  in 
Israel,  he  said,  "her  lasting 
contribution  to  the  people 
of  Israel  is  that  her  organs 
were  donated  for  the  saving 
of  lives  in  need." 

A  funeral  service,  at  which 
Reinharz  represented  the 
University,  was  held  in 
Flatow's  hometown.  A 
memorial  service  was  held 
at  Brandeis  on  May  2. 


The  Heller  School's 
35th  Anniversary 
Conference  Planned 
for  October 

The  Florence  Heller  Graduate 
School  for  Advanced 
Studies  in  Social  Welfare 
announces  that  a  conference 
addressing  "Prospects 
for  Social  Policy  in  the  Next 
Decade"  will  be  held 
October  27  and  28. 

The  conference  weekend 
begins  on  Friday  afternoon  with 
the  Third  Annual  Rosemary 
Ferguson  Dybwad  Memorial 
Lecture  on  "Women  and 
Disabilities,"  sponsored  by  the 
Starr  Center  for  Ivlental 
Retardation. 

On  Friday  evening,  Jack  P. 
Shonkoff,  dean  of  the  Heller 
School,  will  host  a  kickoff  party. 


Supported  in  Part  by  the 
Bernard  Grossman 
Endowed  Leadership 
Conference  Fund 


Saturday  will  feature 
distinguished  lecturers  and 
participatory  workshops  that 
will  explore  the  future  of  health 
and  social  welfare  policy.  The 
conference  will  close  on 
Saturday  evening  with  a  dinner 
program  that  will  include  the 
honoring  of  former  Dean  Stuart 
Altman  for  his  16  years  of 
leadership  of  the  School. 

Anyone  interested  in  receiving 
more  information  about  the 
conference  stiould  contact  ttie 
Heller  School,  Office  of 
Development  and  Alumni 
Relations.  617-736-3806  or 
3808.  FAX  617-736-3881. 


Billed  Charges  to 
Increase  4.9  Percent 


Joint  M.D./M.B.A. 
Program  Established 


To  meet  the  expanding  need 
for  physicians  skilled  in 
both  the  clinical  and 
business  aspects  of 
medicine,  the  Heller  School 
has  joined  forces  with  the 
Tufts  University  School  of 
Medicine  and  Northeastern 
University's  Graduate 
School  of  Business 
Administration  to  offer  a 
joint  M.D./M.B.A.  degree  in 
health  management. 

Believed  to  be  the  first  of  its 
kind  in  the  United  States, 
the  new  program  will  allow 
medical  students  to  earn 
both  an  M.D.  and  an  M.B.A. 
in  health  management  in 
four  years.  At  a  press 
conference  to  announce  the 
program.  President  Jehuda 
Reinharz  said  that  Brandeis, 
Tufts,  and  Northeastern 
were  combining  their 
strengths  and  setting  the 
pace  for  the  health  care 
industry. 

"An  M.D.  degree  alone  is 
simply  not  enough  for  a 
doctor  to  succeed," 
Reinharz  said,  referring  to 
the  tremendous  economic 
pressures  that  are  changing 
the  nature  of  the  U.S. 
health  care  system.  "Every 
university  in  the  country  is 
going  to  go  this  way  sooner 
or  later." 

A  few  universities  offer 
M.D./M.B.A.  programs  that 
compress  four  years  of 
medical  school  and  two 
years  of  business  school 


into  five-year  programs.  But 
in  the  new  program, 
medical  students  will  take  a 
full  complement  of  business 
courses  at  Northeastern, 
Brandeis,  and  Tufts  during 
two  summers  and  all  four 
years  to  meet  requirements 
for  an  M.B.A.  in  health 
management. 

Heller  School  Dean  lack  P. 
Shonkoff,  M.D.,  said  the 
collaborative  effort 
addresses  two  critical 
challenges  in  medical 
education — the  need  for 
creative  partnerships  among 
neighboring  institutions  and 
the  demand  for  a  new  breed 
of  physicians  who  are 
competent  with  both  the 
clinical  and  business 
aspects  of  medicine. 

At  the  press  conference  at 
Boston's  Bostonian  Hotel, 
Reinharz  singled  out  fon 
Chilingerian,  Heller  School 
associate  professor  of 
human  services 
management,  for  doing  "the 
leg  work"  to  make  the  joint 
degree  program  possible.  An 
expert  in  hospital 
management,  Chilingerian 
said  medical  costs  have 
risen  to  crisis  proportions 
and  that  physicians  make 
80  percent  of  the  decisions 
that  result  in  expenditures. 

Approximately  15  Tufts 
medical  students  will  be 
admitted  to  the  combined- 
degree  program  each  year. 
Individual  courses  designed 
for  this  program  will  be 
open  to  Brandeis  and 
Northeastern  students 
when  space  is  available. 
— Ericka  Tavares 


Undergraduate  billed 
charges  at  Brandeis, 
including  tuition,  room, 
board,  and  fees,  will 
increase  4.9  percent  next 
year,  the  second  lowest 
percentage  increase  in  20 
years. 

Tuition  for  the  1995-96 
academic  year  will  be 
$20,470,  up  5.6  percent;  the 
standard  room  charge  will 
be  $3,700,  up  5.7  percent; 
board  charges  for  a  14-meal 
plan  will  remain  unchanged 
at  $3,080;  and  the  health  fee 
and  student  activity  fee  will 
be  set  at  $318  and  $147 
respectively.  The  total  bill 
with  a  14-meal  plan  will  be 
$27,715. 

The  Board  of  Trustees 
approved  the  increases  April 

9  on  the  recommendation  of 
its  Budget  and  Finance 
Committee. 

The  University's  operating 
budget  for  1995-96  is 
projected  to  increase  from 
$160  million  to  $164 
million,  according  to 
Richard  M.  Heller,  associate 
director  of  budget  and 
planning.  As  it  has  in  the 
past  several  years, 
undergraduate  financial  aid 
will  also  increase  by  about 

10  percent.  Heller  said.  The 
total  for  financial  aid 
expenditures  will  rise  to 
$26.4  million  next  year. 


Last  year  the  University 
held  the  increase  in  billed 
charges  to  3.9  percent,  the 
lowest  increase  in  20  years. 
Financial  aid,  however, 
increased  by  13  percent, 
which  resulted  in  lower  net 
revenues  than  originally 
projected. 

According  to  President 
fehuda  Reinharz,  continuing 
financial  aid  pressures  on 
the  budget  necessitated  the 
4.9  percent  increase  in 
billed  charges,  which  is  well 
within  the  average  range  of 
other  private  institutions. 

"The  University  is 
sympathetic  to  the  struggle 
of  many  families  working  to 
pay  for  their  children's 
college  education  and  we 
have  tried  our  best  to  keep 
the  annual  increase  as  low 
as  possible  while  still 
maintaining  a  quality 
education  and  a  need-blind 
admissions  policy," 
Reinharz  said. 

"Brandeis  is  committed  to 
keeping  its  doors  open  to 
qualified  students  regardless 
of  their  ability  to  pay,"  he 
said.  About  half  of  all 
Brandeis  students  receive 
financial  aid  from  the 
University.  Last  year  that 
amounted  to  $24  million. 

Reinharz  also  urged 
students  and  parents  to  let 
their  representatives  in 
Congress  know  how  they 
feel  about  proposals  to 
eliminate  the  in-school 
interest  subsidy  for  low- 
and  middle-income 
families,  which  allows 
those  who  qualify  to  waive 
interest  on  federal  student 
loans. 


4  Brandeis  Review 


acuity  and  Staff 


Abeles  Shares 
Prestigious  Chemistry 
Award 


Robert  H.  Abeles,  Aron  and 
Imre  Tauber  Professor  of 
Biochemistry  and  Molecular 
Pharmacology,  has  been 
awarded  the  prestigious 
Welch  Foundation  Award  in 
Chemistry  for  achievements 
in  enzyme  research  and 
enzyme-based  drug  design. 

Abeles  and  colleague  Jeremy 
Knowles  of  Harvard 
University  will  receive 
$300,000  in  unrestricted 
funds  as  recognition  of  their 
contributions  to  medical 
research.  Abeles  and 
Knowles  were  chosen  to 
receive  the  award  over 
approximately  90  other 
nominees. 


Abeles  is  considered  the 
father  of  studies  into  how 
enzyme  interactions  hasten 
or  halt  disease.  He  has  been 
instrumental  in  developing 
drugs  for  life-threatening 
diseases  such  as 
emphysema  and  has  also 
begun  building  one  of  the 
first  on-line  libraries  of 
information  on  enzymes  for 
the  benefit  of  colleagues  in 
medical  research. 


Robert  Abeles 


Astrophysicist  Wins 
Guggenheim 


AAAS  Recognizes  Four 
Brandels  Professors 


The  American  Academy  of 
Arts  and  Sciences  has 
recognized  the 
contributions  of  four 
Brandeis  professors, 
including  President  Jehuda 
Remharz,  by  electing  them 
to  its  roster  of  distinguished 
fellows  in  science, 
scholarship,  the  arts,  and 
public  affairs. 

Named  to  the  prestigious 
academy  were  Reinharz, 
Richard  Koret  Professor  of 
Modern  Jewish  History; 


David  A.  Buchsbaum, 
Berenson  Professor  of 
Mathematics;  Gerald  D. 
Fasman,  Louis  and  Bessie 
Rosenfield  Professor  of 
Biochemistry;  and  David 
Hackett  Fischer,  Earl 
Warren  Professor  of  History. 

Founded  in  1870,  the 
Academy,  which  honors 
achievements  in  the  arts 
and  sciences,  conducts  a 
varied  program  of  studies 
reflecting  the  interests  of  its 
4,000  members  and  the 
needs  of  society  and  its 
intellectual  communities. 


John  F.  C.  Wardle,  professor 
of  astrophysics,  has  been 
granted  a  Fellowship  award 
from  the  John  Simon 
Guggenheim  Memorial 
Foundation  for  his 
distinguished  contributions 
to  the  field  of  radio 
astronomy. 

He  will  use  the  fellowship 
to  support  sabbatical 
research  on  the  volatile 
galaxies  known  as  quasars. 
Wardle,  who  pioneered  the 
technique  of  measuring 
polarized  radiation  to  study 
quasars,  was  the  only 
astrophysicist  among  152 
awardees  selected  from  over 
2,800  applicants  for  this 
year's  awards. 


John  Wardle 


5  Summer  1995 


Four  Named  Full 

Professor; 

Four  Awarded  Tenure 


Brandels  Professors 
Reach  Out  to 
Public  School  Peers 


Several  Brandeis  faculty 
members  went  back  to  high 
school  this  past  spring 
semester. 

Thanks  to  a  state  grant 
designed  to  brmg  high 
quality  professional 
opportunities  to  Waltham's 
public  school  educators, 
eight  Brandeis  professors 
took  turns  lecturing  at 
weekly  workshops  for 
teachers  at  Waltham  High 
School  during  April  and  May. 

The  educational  series, 
titled,  "Gender  and  Society: 
A  Global  Perspective," 
included  Visiting  Associate 
Professor  of  Sociology 
Dessima  Williams  speaking 
on  the  social  and  economic 
gender  disparities  of  women 
around  the  world.  Shulamit 
Reinharz,  professor  of 
sociology  and  director  of  the 
Women's  Studies  Program, 
examined  "Invisible  Women: 
The  Unacknowledged 
Intellectuals  and  Social 
Scientists  who  Shaped  Our 
World." 

As  part  of  the  grant,  Bentley 
College  offered  workshops 
on  technology  applied  to  the 
classroom.  The  grant 
included  funding  to 
videotape  the  workshops  for 
possible  statewide 
distribution.  The  series  was 
cosponsored  by  the  Rabb 
School  of  Summer,  Special, 
and  Continuing  Studies,  and 
the  Waltham  Public  Schools. 


Four  Brandeis  faculty 
members  were  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  full  professor. 
The  promotions  of  Maurice 
Hershenson,  Margie  E. 
Lachman,  Jessie  Ann 
Owens,  and  Daniel 
Ruberman  were  approved  by 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  In 
addition,  Seth  Fraden,  Jeff 
Gelles,  Karen  Hansen,  and 
Susan  Lovett  were 
promoted  to  the  rank  of 
associate  professor  with 
tenure. 

In  his  laboratory  at 
Brandeis,  Maurice 
Hershenson,  professor  of 
psychology,  studies  how 
adults  perceive  the  three- 
dimensional  world,  and  is 
especially  interested  in  the 
mechanisms  underlying 
monocular  visual  space 
perception.  His  research  has 
led  him  to  a  new  theory 
that  e.\plams  what  he  calls 
one  of  the  oldest  visual 
puzzles  known  to  mankind. 

The  ancient  Chinese  and 
Egyptians  remarked  that  the 
moon,  when  seen  near  the 
horizon,  appears  larger  than 
normal,  but  only  150  years 
ago  did  scientists  realize  the 
illusion  is  a  psychological, 
not  physical  phenomenon. 
If  you  cup  your  hand  and 
squint  through  it  at  the 
moon,  or  take  a  photograph 
of  it,  you  realize  your  eye  is 
tricking  you,  explained 
Hershenson. 

"There  are  as  many  as  12 
different  explanations  for 
the  moon  illusion,"  said 
Hershenson.  "The  illusion, 
even  though  it's  a  solitary 
phenomenon,  touches  on 
many  aspects  of  visual 
perception." 

Hershenson  proposed  a 
theory,  which  asserts  that 
automatic  processes  he  calls 
constraints,  together  with 
specific  stimulus  patterns 
he  calls  motion  vector 
patterns,  produce  the 


normal  perception  of  rigid 
objects  moving  in  three 
dimensions.  This 
mechanism  makes  the 
moon,  or  a  like  object 
sitting  on  or  near  the 
horizon,  appear  larger. 

He  believes  this  "unified 
theory"  can  explain  diverse 
phenomena  including  the 
moon  illusion,  the  spiral 
after-effect,  the  perception 
of  apparent  motion  in 
depth,  and  the  perception  of 
shrinking.  "In  my  view  all 
these  are  related  to  each 
other,"  said  Hershenson. 

He  IS  the  coauthor  and 
editor  of  The  Psychology  of 
Visual  Perception,  and  The 
Moon  Illusion,  respectively, 
which  contain 
contributions  from  all 
theorists  as  well  as 
extensive  commentary. 

Hershenson  has  been  the 
recipient  of  the  College  of 
Optometrists  Certificate  of 
Appreciation  for 
"outstanding  contributions 
to  the  science  of  vision." 
Among  his  courses  are 
Visual  Space  Perception, 
and  Introduction  to 
Psychological  Theory. 

He  is  a  former  member  of 
the  Faculty  Senate  and 
serves  on  the  quantitative 
reasoning  committee. 

Working  out  of  her  Life 
Span  Developmental 
Psychology  Lab  on  campus. 
Professor  of  Psychology 
Margie  E.  Lachman  studies 
adults  ages  20  to  90,  looking 
for  clues  to  how  people 
respond  to  the  aging  process 
and  what  factors  promote 
adaptive  functioning.  Her 
findings  have  had  a 
significant  impact  on  the 
field  of  social- 


developmental  psychology 
of  aging.  In  particular,  her 
research  on  longitudinal 
changes  in  sense  of  control 
has  been  called  pioneering, 
provocative,  and  innovative. 

While  most  adults  believe 
there  is  little  they  can  do  to 
reverse  the  effects  of  aging, 
Lachman  has  found  that 
adults  can  compensate  for 
so-called  normal,  non- 
pathological  changes  in 
functioning. 

"There's  a  lot  of  reserve 
capacity,"  that  older  adults 
can  draw  on  to  preserve 
their  mental  and  physical 
functions,  Lachman  said. 
Unfortunately,  she  said,  a 

"low  sense  of  control"  can 
have  damaging  effects. 

"If,  for  example,  you  think 
memory  and  physical 
deterioration  are  inevitable 
and  there's  nothing  you  can 
do  about  it,  that  often 
results  in  anxiety,  fear,  and 
ultimately  avoidance, 
which  can  lead  to  disuse 
and  atrophy,"  Lachman 
said. 

For  the  last  six  years, 
Lachman  has  been  a 
member  of  an  international 
team  of  physicians, 
sociologists,  economists, 
and  psychologists  m  the 
MacArthur  Foundation 
Research  Network  on 
Successful  Midlife 
Development.  The 
interdisciplinary  project 
takes  a  new  approach  to 
middle  age  and  aging  by 
looking  at  both  biological 
functioning  and  psycho- 
social factors.  As  part  of  the 
study,  Lachman  has 
launched  an  in-depth  study 
of  several  hundred  people  in 
the  Boston  area,  measuring 
cognitive  functioning  and 
how  cognitive  abilities 
affect  aspects  of  work, 
family,  and  health. 


6  Brandeis  Review 


Margie  Lachman 
Jessie  Ann  Owens 


Lachman's  interdisciplinary 
perspective  on  aging  led  her 
to  create  a  campus-wide 
network  of  researchers  at 
Brandeis  who  are  interested 
in  aging,  from  the  sciences 
to  the  Heller  School  to  the 
Women's  Studies  Program. 
Members  of  that  network 
formed  the  nucleus  of  the 
Aging  Process  Cluster  for 
undergraduates. 

Lachman,  who  chairs  her 
department's  graduate 
program,  is  on  the 
governing  board  of  the  new 
National  Policy  Center  on 
Women  and  Aging  at  the 
Heller  School.  Her  teaching 
includes  courses  in 
Personality,  Aging  in  a 
Changing  World,  and  Life 
Span  Development. 
Lachman  is  a  fellow  of  the 
Gerontological  Society  of 
America  and  the  American 
Psychological  Association, 
and  sits  on  the  editorial 
boards  of  several  journals  in 
her  field. 

Lachman  received  her  Ph.D. 
from  Penn  State  University. 
She  is  the  editor  of  Planning 
and  Contiol  Processes 
Across  the  Life  Span  (1993). 

Professor  of  Music  Jessie 
Ann  Owens  is  a 
Renaissance  musicologist 
with  particular  interest  in 
compositional  processes  of 
the  period  1450-1650.  By 
carefully  examining  little- 
studied  manuscripts  of  early 
music  in  European  archives, 
Owens  has  come  to  some 
surprising  conclusions 
about  compositional 
methods  of  the  time. 


In  research  that  challenges 
accepted  theory,  Owens 
found  that  Renaissance 
composers  did  not  use 
scores,  but  worked  with  the 
music  in  separate  parts, 
never  seeing  the  whole 
piece  on  the  page. 
Composers  used  erasable 
tablets  and  paper  to  sketch, 
draft,  and  revise  their 
music. 

According  to  Owens, 
instead  of  using  a  score, 
they  wrote  the  top  line  of 
the  music  at  the  upper  left 
of  the  page,  and  the  bottom 
line  at  the  lower  right. 
French  composer  Josquin 
des  Prez,  for  example, 
writing  around  1500,  would 
never  have  seen  all  the 
voices  of  his  famous  "Ave 
Maria"  notated  together,  as 
we  see  them  today. 

Owens's  findings  are 
supported  by  her  discovery 
of  early  versions  of  music 
thought  lost.  "These 
sketches  and  drafts  are  very 
messy  and  hard  to 
transcribe,"  she  said. 

That  may  explain  why 
scholars  had  overlooked 
them  for  centuries.  In  one 
of  her  most  striking  finds, 
Owens  deciphered  the 
scribbling  in  the  margins  of 
a  chanson  manuscript  and 
recognized  them  as 
autograph  sketches  for 
madrigals  by  the  16th- 
century  Italian  composer 
Francesco  Corteccia. 

The  results  of  her  research 
will  be  published  in  1996  by 
Oxford  University  Press  as  a 
book  titled  Composers  at 
Work:  The  Craft  of  Musical 
Composition.  1450-1600. 


This  summer,  using  a 
National  Endowment  for 
the  Humanities  grant, 
Owens  will  offer  a  seminar, 
'Analyzing  Early  Music, 
1300-1600,"  on  campus  for 
12  college  teachers.  In 
addition  to  a  writing 
intensive  course  about  the 
symphony  in  the  18th,  I9th, 
and  20th  centuries,  Owens 
recently  developed  a  senior 
seminar  on  opera  and  will 
offer  a  USEM  course  next 
spring  on  Music  as  Text. 

Owens  served  as  dean  of  the 
College  of  Arts  and  Sciences 
and  associate  dean  of  the 
faculty  from  1987  to  1989, 
and  has  sat  on  major 
University  committees  on 
academic  planning,  budget, 
and  educational  policy. 
Owens  earned  her  Ph.D. 
from  Princeton  University. 

Professor  of  Mathematics 
Daniel  Ruberman  employs 
algebra,  geometry,  and 
analysis  to  prove  theorems 
and  solve  problems  in  what 
is  considered  one  of  the 
most  exciting  fields  in 
mathematics.  He  is  a  gauge 
theorist  who  looks  at 
geometrical  structures  on 
three-  and  four-dimensional 
manifolds  in  order  to  learn 
about  their  topology,  also 
known  as  connections. 

Ruberman's  research  is 
credited  with  providing 
fundamental  insights  to 
esteemed  senior 
mathematicians. 

A  1977  recipient  of  the  Rice 
Prize  in  Mathematics, 
Ruberman  has  been  a 
National  Science 
Foundation  Postdoctoral 
Research  Fellow  and  a  Sloan 
Foundation  Fellow. 


He  IS  the  author,  with  J. 
Morgan  and  T.  Mrowka,  of 
the  1994  book-length 
monograph.  The  L2  Moduli 
Space  and  a  Vanishing 
Theorem  for  Donaldson 's 
Polynomial  Invariants. 

Ruberman  is  considered  a 
passionate  and  patient 
teacher  who  can  excite  even 
students  uninterested  in 
mathematics.  His 
undergraduate  and  graduate 
courses  include  Techniques 
of  Calculus,  Introduction  to 
Real  Analysis,  and 
Topology.  He  cotaught 
Physics  and  Calculus  for  the 
Life  Sciences  with  a 
physicist  as  an  experiment 
to  integrate  physics  and 
calculus. 

This  year,  Ruberman  is 
spending  his  sabbatical 
working  with  colleagues  at 
Oxford  University's 
Mathematics  Institute. 
Ruberman  earned  his 
doctorate  at  the  University 
of  California,  Berkeley. 

Seth  Fraden,  associate 
professor  of  physics,  who 
earned  his  doctorate  from 
Brandeis,  studies  liquid 
crystals,  one  of  nature's 
most  exotic  states  of 
matter,  and  electro- 
rheological  fluids,  in  which 
the  viscosity  of  a 
suspension  is  altered  by 
application  of  an  electric 
field.  An  established  leader 
in  the  field  of  physics  of 
complex  fluids,  he  is  a 
recognized  expert  in  viruses 
in  colloidal  suspensions,  an 
area  of  interest  to  physicists 
as  well  as  scientists  in 
structural  biology, 
biophysics,  and  chemistry. 

Supported  by  funding  from 
the  National  Science 
Foundation,  Fraden  and  his 
colleagues  utilize  a  genetic 
engineering  technique, 
which  involves  altering 


7  Summer  1995 


Jeff  Gelles 
Karen  Hansen 
Susan  Lovett 


viral  DNA  to  modify  the 
physical  properties  of  the 
virus,  then  study  the 
behavior  of  the  liquid 
crystal  phase.  Using  the 
technique,  Fraden  has 
discovered  a  liquid  crystal 
phase  in  viruses  that  had 
not  been  predicted  by 
previous  theories  or 
computer  simulations. 

Fraden  Vi^as  a  postdoctoral 
fellow  at  the  Max  Planck 
Institut,  during  which  time 
he  was  also  the  recipient  of 
a  National  Science 
Foundation  fellowship.  He 
teaches  courses  in  high 
technology  optics,  quantum 
physics,  digital  electronics, 
and  signal  processing. 

Fraden  is  the  chair  of  the 
Science  Library  Committee. 

Working  at  the  forefront  of 
a  fast-moving,  highly 
competitive  field.  Associate 
Professor  of  Biochemistry 
Jeff  Gelles  has  been  credited 
with  developing  elegant 
new  methods  of  studying 
the  actions  of  DNA 
molecules. 

Recently,  in  a  discovery 
announced  in  Science 
magazine,  Gelles  found  a 
way  to  successfully  study 
DNA  looping  in  a  single 
molecule  by  attaching  one 
end  of  a  DNA  strand  to  a 
glass  slide,  and  attaching 
the  other  end  to  a 
microscopic  plastic  bead. 
The  method  could  help 
scientists'  research  into 
how  genes  dictate  cell 
processes  ranging  from 
embryological  development 
to  the  onset  of  heart 
disease,  cancer,  and 
diabetes.  (See  Brandeis 
Review,  Spring  1995) 

His  work  is  supported  by 
the  National  Institutes  of 
Health,  and  in  1990  Gelles 
won  a  prestigious  three-year 
Searle  Scholar  Award.  He 
has  also  been  a  Lucille  P. 


Markey  Scholar  and  was  a 
Damon  Runyon-Walter 
Winchell  Cancer  Fund 
Postdoctoral  Fellow  after 
earning  his  Ph.D.  from  the 
California  Institute  of 
Technology. 

Gelles  has  served  on  the 
Graduate  Admissions 
Committee  for  the 
Biophysics  Program  and  as  a 
representative  to  the 
Library  Committee.  He 
teaches  courses  in 
Advanced  Biochemistry, 
Drug  Development  and 
Design,  and  Statistical 
Biophysics. 

Associate  Professor  of 
Sociology  Karen  V.  Hansen 
has  received  support  for  her 
research  from  the  National 
Endowment  for  the 
Humanities,  the  Bunting 
Institute,  and  the  Andrew 
W.  Mellon  Foundation.  Her 
work,  often  based  on  her 
discoveries  of  new  source 
material,  examines  family 
violence,  women's  unions, 
gender  relations  in 
antebellum  New  England, 
friendships,  and  men's 
relationships  from  a 
feminist  perspective. 

Hansen's  recently  published 
A  Very  Social  Time: 
Crafting  Community  m 
Antebellum  New  England 
is  based  on  the  diaries, 
letters,  and  first-person 
accounts  of  inhabitants  of 
19th-century  New  England, 
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unknown  archives,  the  book 
details  what  Hansen  calls 
an  "intricate  web  of  social 
exchange  and  interaction" 
among  working  people  of 
the  time. 

Hansen  is  also  the  coeditor 
of  Women,  Class  and  the 
Feminist  Imagination:  A 
Socialist-Feminist  Reader, 
which  has  become  a 
standard  in  the  field.  In 
1993,  Hansen  was  named  a 
Marver  and  Sheva  Bernstein 
Faculty  Fellow.  She  earned 
her  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  California, 
Berkeley. 

Hansen  has  served  on  her 
department's  Graduate 
Admissions  Committee,  as 
a  freshman  advisor,  and  on 
the  1991  Provost  Search 
Committee. 

Associate  Professor  of 
Biology  and  Rosenstiel  Basic 
Medical  Sciences  Research 
Center  Susan  Lovett  is  a 
molecular  geneticist 
interested  in  the 
mechanism  of 
recombination  and  its 
consequences  for  the  living 
cell.  Her  work,  which 
provides  a  bridge  at 
Brandeis  between 
biochemists  and  geneticists, 
aims  to  achieve  a  better 
understanding  of  human 
cancers. 

One  area  of  research  for 
Lovett  and  the 
undergraduate  and  graduate 
assistants  in  her  lab  is  to 
study  the  mechanism  of 
mutagenesis,  which  is  the 
deletion  of  large  chunks  of 
DNA. 


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"Mutagenesis  is  the  source  of 
a  lot  of  human  diseases,  and 
no  one  knows  how  it 
works,"  she  said.  Lovett  has 
developed  a  hypothesis  that 
the  condition  arises  as  a 
result  of  lesions  that  could 
be  caused  by  carcinogens 
blocking  DNA  replication. 
The  model  for  this 
mechanism  has  been 
published  in  Genetics,  and 
is  currently  being  tested. 

Lovett  also  uses  genetic, 
molecular  biological,  and 
biochemical  approaches  to 
research  the  reef  gene  and 
its  mutations.  Her  work  is 
supported  by  the  National 
Institutes  of  Health. 

Prior  to  coming  to  Brandeis, 
she  was  a  Dana  Farber 
Cancer  Institute 
Postdoctoral  Fellow  and 
also  received  a  National 
Institutes  of  Health 
Postdoctoral  Training 
Grant.  Lovett  received  her 
doctorate  from  the 
University  of  California, 
Berkeley. 

Lovett  has  participated  in 
Brandeis's  Summer  Odyssey 
Program,  on  her 
department's  curriculum 
committee,  and  as  a 
freshman  advisor. 


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Researchers  Prove 
Circadian  Rhythms  Not 
Affected  by 
Temperature 


Researchers  at  Brandeis 
University  have  delivered 
the  first  explanation  for  the 
long-mysterious 
phenomenon  of  how 
biological  rhythms,  so 
sensitive  to  other 
environmental  conditions 
such  as  light,  remain  steady 
despite  temperature 
changes. 

As  published  in  the 
February  24,  1995,  issue  of 
Science,  investigators 
proved  that  while  heat 
causes  mutations  in  most 
biological  processes,  fruit 
flies  exposed  to  it  developed 
new  cell  processes  that 
protected  their  biological 
rhythms. 


Michael  Roshash 


Michael  Rosbash,  professor 
of  biology,  principal 
investigator  for  the  study 
and  Howard  Hughes 
Medical  Institute, 
explained:  "The  clock 
regulators  do  'feel  the  heat,' 
but  compensate  by 
developing  a  two-armed 
system  for  maintaining 
proper  rhythm.  The  two 
arms  use  different  cellular 
processes  to  counterbalance 
mutations  that  would  slow 
the  clock." 


Biological  or  circadian 
rhythms  are  found  in 
virtually  every  species  of 
insect,  plant,  and  animal.  In 
humans,  circadian  rhythms 
help  dictate  evolutionarily 
advantageous  behaviors 
such  as  being  more 
energetic  during  the  day, 
when  food  is  more  easily 
found,  than  at  night,  when 
humans'  poor  nocturnal 
vision  puts  them  at  a 
disadvantage. 

Rosbash's  and  colleagues' 
discovery  of  the  two-armed 
approach  to  minimizing 


heat's  effects  is  one  step 
toward  filling  the  vacuum 
of  information  on  circadian 
rhythms.  Despite  the 
rhythms'  prevalence  and 
importance,  scientists 
understand  little  about  how 
the  few  known  regulators 
control  so  many  functions 
across  so  many  species. 

Rosbash's  laboratory  at 
Brandeis,  in  the  Volen 
National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  is 
recognized  internationally 
for  the  comprehensiveness 
of  Its  program  in  circadian 
rhythm  genetics  and 
behaviors. 


Project  in  Sri  Lanka 
Aims  to  Sustain  Rain 
Forest 


A  joint  proiect  with 
Brandeis  and  Harvard 
Universities  is  integrating 
conservation  with  economic 
development  in  32  villages 
surrounding  Sri  Lanka's  last 
remaining  rain  forest. 

The  program,  initiated  six 
months  ago  with  a  planning 
grant  from  the  U.S.  Agency 
for  International 
Development,  takes  a  novel, 
interdisciplinary  approach 
to  sustainable  development 
of  the  South  Asian  island's 
Sinharaja  Forest,  said 
Laurence  Simon,  adjunct 
associate  professor  of 
politics  and  codirector  of 
Brandeis's  Program  in 
Sustainable  International 
Development. 

Peter  Ashton,  professor  of 
forestry  at  Harvard, 
explained  that  biologists, 
economists,  and  social 


scientists  are  working 
together  in  the  field  to 
collaborate  on  a  model  for 
conservation  that 
acknowledges  the  realities 
of  a  consumer  society. 

Ashton,  Simon,  and  Neela 
de  Zoysa,  a  tropical 
ecologist  associated  with 
Harvard,  delivered  a  report 
on  the  proiect  at  Brandeis  in 
April. 

The  challenge,  said  Simon, 
IS  to  "protect  the  core 
forest. ..from  further 
deterioration  while  meeting 
the  legitimate  and  growing 
needs  of  the  surrounding 
villages  that  traditionally 
extract  forest  products  for 
subsistence  and  income." 


Right  now,  said  Simon,  the 
biggest  harvest  from  the 
forest  is  rattan,  which  the 
villagers  make  into  bags 
used  by  the  mining 
industry.  Villagers  are  paid 
about  10  U.S.  cents  for  the 
bags.  "If  we  can  turn 
communities'  proud 
tradition  for  rattan  work 
towards  production  of 
higher-end  rattan  work, 
such  as  furniture,  villagers 
could  be  paid  hundreds  of 
times  more  for  the  same 
amount  of  rattan.  They  will 
be  able  to  improve  their 
standard  of  living  while 
taking  less  rattan  out  of  the 
forest,"  said  Simon,  who 
sits  on  the  National 
Ecodevelopment  Steering 
Committee  in  Sri  Lanka. 

Simon  said  the  Sinharaja 
project  can  benefit  the 
Brandeis  community  as  well 
as  the  international 
conservation  community. 


'Many  students  are 
increasingly  concerned  with 
cultural  and  economic 
issues  arising  from  the 
accelerating  development  of 
South  Asia.  As  this  project 
moves  through  the  next  few 
years  of  implementation,  it 
could  offer  interested 
students  a  direct  look  at 
sustainable  development  in 
a  growing  South  Asian 
country." 
— Sharon  Block 


9  Summer  1995 


NEJS  Faculty  to  Take 
Active  Role  in  Ukraine 


Petsko  Elected  to 
National  Academy  of 
Science 


With  the  end  of 
communism  and  newly 
available  archives  to  mine, 
the  field  of  Jewish  studies  is 
undergoing  dramatic  growth 
in  the  former  Soviet 
Union's  institutes  of  higher 
learning.  But  after  years  of 
enforced  neglect,  Soviet 
scholars  cannot  rely  on  the 
orderly  transmission  of 
information  from  one 
generation  of  professors  to 
the  next,  a  traditional 
aspect  of  teaching  and 
research. 

"They  have  been  isolated 
from  scholarly  contact," 
said  Antony  Polonsky,  the 
Walter  Stern  Hilborn 
Professor  of  Judaic  and 


Social  Studies  and  an  expert 
on  the  history  of  Eastern 
European  Jewry. 

Polonsky,  who  recently 
returned  from  a  trip  to 
Russia,  said  the  Department 
of  Near  Eastern  and  Judaic 
Studies  plans  to  take  an 
active  role  in  bolstering 
Jewish  studies  in  the  former 
Soviet  empire.  One  of  only 
four  professors  in  America 
invited  to  a  February 
conference  at  the 
International  Center  for 
University  Teaching  of 
Jewish  Civilization  on  the 
outskirts  of  Moscow, 
Polonsky  helped  develop  a 
program  to  send  a  NEJS 
faculty  member  to  the 
Ukraine  each  year  to  share 
expertise. 


The  program  is  still  in  the 
planning  stages.  The 
visiting  faculty  member 
would  spend  a  week  or 
more  visiting  and  lecturing 
in  English  at  the  Ukraine's 
four  main  teaching  centers 
in  Odessa,  Kiev,  Donetsk, 
and  Kharkov.  Polonsky  said 
they  hope  to  establish  a 
student  exchange,  a  natural 
for  Brandcis  given  the  large 
population  of  Soviet 
students  on  campus  and  the 
number  of  American 
students  who  have  either 
done  or  wish  to  do  research 
in  Soviet-bloc  countries. 
— Encka  Tavares 


Gregory  Petsko,  professor  of 
biochemistry,  chemistry, 
and  director  of  the 
Rosenstiel  Basic  Medical 
Science  Research  Center, 
was  elected  to  the  National 
Academy  of  Science. 

Petsko  came  to  Brandeis  in 
1988  from  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  where  he 
taught  chemistry.  He 
received  his  B.A.  from 
Princeton  University,  and, 
as  a  Rhodes  Scholar,  earned 
a  D.Phil,  in  molecular 
biophysics  from  Oxford 
University. 

Petsko  currently  researches 
the  structure  of  protein 
macromolecules,  and 
teaches  chemistry  and 
biochemistry. 


Eigsti  Awarded 
Endowed  Chair 


Karl  Eigsti,  renowned  scenic 
designer  and  Brandeis 
faculty  member  since  1985, 
has  been  named  to  the 
Charles  Bloom  Chair  of  the 
Arts  of  Design. 

In  announcing  the 
appointment.  Dean  of  Arts 
and  Sciences  Robin  Feuer 
Miller  said  the  honor  was  in 
recognition  of  Eigsti's 
professional  achievements 
and  his  contributions  to  the 
theater  world  and  the 
theater  arts  department  at 
Brandeis. 

In  a  career  spanning  four 
decades,  he  has  worked 
with  the  leading  directors  in 
American  theater  on-  and 
off-Broadway  and  at  major 


resident  theaters  across  the 
country.  He  has  produced 
designs  for  scores  of  original 
productions  including  John 
Guare's  House  of  Blue 
Leaves  and  Arthur  Miller's 
The  American  Clock.  His 
20  productions  on  Broadway 
include  Grease,  Yentl,  and 
Joseph  and  the  Amazing 
Technicolor  Dreamcoat, 
which  earned  him  a  Tony 
nomination  and  a  Joseph 
Maharam  Award.  He  is  also 
the  recipient  of  the  Helen 
Hayes  Award  for  his  work 
in  the  resident  professional 
theater. 


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In  January  1996,  Eigsti  will 
design  the  sets  for  Les 
Blancs,  at  the  Berkeley 
Repertory  Theater.  He  is 
currently  preparing  for  a 
retrospective  of  his  work  at 
the  Graduate  School  of 
Drama  at  the  University  of 
Indiana  in  South  Bend.  The 
exhibit  will  be  on  display 
from  January  to  October  of 
next  year. 


Irving  Epstein,  provost  and 
senior  vice  president  for 
academic  affairs, 
congratulates  Karl  Eigsti  on 
being  named  to  the  Charles 
Bloom  Chair  of  the  Arts  of 
Design 


10  Brandeis  Review 


Charles  Schottland, 
Third  President 
and  Former  Heller 
Dean,  Dies 


Chark's  Irwin  Schottland, 
the  third  president  of 
Brandeis  University,  Social 
Security  commissioner 
during  the  Eisenhower 
administration,  and  one  of 
the  nation's  foremost 
experts  on  social  welfare 
policy,  died  lune  27  at  his 
home  in  Tucson,  Arizona, 
of  natural  causes.  He  was  88 
years  old. 

The  author  of  three  books 
and  more  than  130 
articles  on  social  welfare, 
Schottland  had 
distinguished  careers  in 
both  government  and 
academia. 

He  was  the  administrator  of 
the  California  State  Relief 
Administration,  1933-36; 
assistant  to  the  chief  of 
Children's  Bureau,  U.S. 
Department  of  Labor, 
1941-42;  assistant  director 
of  the  United  Nations  Relief 
and  Rehabilitation 
Administration  for 
Germany  in  1945;  and 
director  of  the  California 
State  Department  of  Social 
Welfare,  1950-54. 

Schottland  was  appointed 
commissioner  of  Social 
Security  by  President 
Dwight  D.  Eisenhower  in 
luly  1954,  serving  until  his 
resignation  in  1958.  As 
commissioner,  he  was  the 
originator  of  the  1956 
amendments  to  the  Social 
Security  Act,  which  made 
significant  changes  in  Social 
Security  law. 


In  1959,  he  became  the 
founding  dean  of  the 
Florence  Heller  Graduate 
School  for  Advanced  Studies 
in  Social  Welfare  and  served 
in  that  post  until  he  was 
named  Brandeis  president  in 
1970.  In  1972  he  returned  to 
teaching,  until  becoming 
Heller  School  dean  again  in 
1976.  From  1968  to  1972  he 
served  as  president  of  the 
International  Council  on 
Social  Welfare,  an 
organization  of 
governmental  and  voluntary 
social  welfare  organizations 
representing  some  75 
countries. 

During  World  War  II, 
Schottland  served  on 
General  Dwight  D. 
Eisenhower's  staff  as  a 
lieutenant  colonel  at  the 
Supreme  Headquarters  of 
the  Allied  Expeditionary 
Forces.  He  was  chief  of  a 
section  dealing  with 
displaced  persons  in  Europe 
and,  for  his  work  in 
repatriating  5.5  million 
United  Nations  nationals, 
was  decorated  by  France, 
Czechoslovakia,  Poland, 
The  Netherlands,  and 
Greece. 

This  past  May,  he  was 
honored  with  an  invitation 
to  attend  the  White  House 
Commission  on  Aging. 


Charles  Schottland 


In  Arizona,  he  was 
chairman  of  the  Governor's 
Advisory  Council  on  Aging, 
appointed  by  Governor 
Bruce  Babbitt  and 
reappointed  by  Governor 
Bruce  Simon,  and  served  as 
a  member  of  the  Pritzlaff 
Commission,  which  made  a 
comprehensive  study  of 
long-term  care. 

Schottland  served  as 
principal  adviser  of  the  U.S. 
delegation  to  the  10th  and 
1 1th  sessions  of  the  United 
Nations  Social 
Commission,  and  as  a 
member  of  the  United 
Nations  Expert  Group  on 
Social  Services. 

He  was  a  member  of  the 
National  Institute  of  Mental 
Health  Advisory  Council 
and  the  Social  Work 
Advisory  Council  of  the 
Veterans  Administration 
and  chaired  the  consultant 
group  to  the  National 
Institute  of  Mental  Health 
Research  Task  Force. 

He  was  on  the  editorial 
board  of  Social  and 
Economic  Administration, 
a  British  journal,  and  of 
Administration  in  Social 
Work,  an  American  journal. 


Schottland  lectured  at  more 
than  40  universities  and 
colleges  and  taught  at  the 
University  of  California, 
Berkeley,  the  University  of 
California,  Los  Angeles,  the 
University  of  Southern 
California,  and  Catholic 
University,  Washington, 
D.C.  He  studied  political 
science  at  UCLA  as  an 
undergraduate,  social  work 
at  the  New  York  School  of 
Social  Work,  and  law  at  the 
University  of  Southern 
California.  He  received 
honorary  degrees  from  six 
colleges  and  universities, 
among  them  Boston 
University,  Brandeis,  and 
Centro  Escolar  University 
in  Manila,  the  Philippines. 

Schottland  was  born  on 
October  29,  1906,  in 
Chicago,  Illinois. 

He  leaves  a  son,  Richard, 
and  two  grandsons,  Mark 
and  Greg.  His  wife,  Edna, 
died  on  May  24. 


11  Summer  1995 


Faculty  Notes 


Mary  E.  Davis 

adjunct  associate  professor 
of  American  studies,  lias 
been  academic  director  of  a 
State  Justice  Institute  grant 
administered  by  the 
Massachusetts  Judicial 
Institute  for  the  purpose  of 
examining  ethnic/gender/ 
racial  and  economic  bias  in 
the  Massachusetts  state 
court  system;  she  is 
creating  an  analytic 
curriculum  for  use  in  state 
judicial  systems  throughout 
the  country.  She  taught  in  a 
two-day  law  and  literature 
program  at  the  University  of 
Iowa  law  school;  spoke  at 
the  national  conference  of 
the  state  Councils  of  the 
Humanities  in  San  Antonio 
on  creating  and 
implementing  programs  in 
law  and  literature;  and  was 
a  panelist  discussing  law 
and  literature  at  the  First 
Circuit  Court  of  Appeals 
Judicial  Conference  in  San 
Juan,  Puerto  Rico. 

Peter  Conrad 

Harry  Coplan  Professor  of    . 
Social  Sciences,  received  a 
grant  from  the  section  on 
Ethical,  Legal,  and  Social 
Implications  of  the  Human 
Genome  Project  to  study 
Genetics  and  Behavior  in 
the  News,  1945-95.  As 
president  of  the  Society  for 
the  Study  of  Social 
Problems,  he  presented  two 
papers  on  that  topic  to  the 
Society.  He  published 
"Wellness  as  Virtue: 
Morality  and  the  Pursuit  of 
Health"  in  Culture, 
Medicine  and  Psychiatry. 

Thomas  Doherty 

assistant  professor  of  film 
studies  (on  the  Sam  Spiegel 
Fund),  attended  the 
Annenberg  Washington 
Program's  Summer  Faculty 
Workshop  in 
Communications  Policy, 
Washington,  D.C.,  and  the 
National  Endowment  for 
the  Humanities  Summer 


Institute  on  American 
Culture  and  the  Great 
Depression  at  the 
University  of  North 
Carolina,  Chapel  Hill. 

Gerald  D.  Fasman 

Louis  and  Bessie  Rosenfield 
Professor  of  Biochemistry, 
was  awarded  an  honorary 
degree  by  Eotvos 
University,  Budapest.  Also, 
he  was  the  recipient  of  a 
Humboldt  Research  Award 
for  Senior  U.S.  Scientists 
that  offers  the  opportunity 
for  an  extended  research 
stay  in  Germany. 

James  B.  Hendrickson 

Henry  F.  Fischbach 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  was 
invited  to  speak  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Association  of 
Artificial  Intelligence  at 
Stanford  and  he  was  the 
main  speaker  at  the 
Congress  of  Computer- 
Aided  Synthesis  at  Goslar, 
Germany. 

Ray  Jackendoff 

professor  of  linguistics  and 
Volen  National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  delivered 
a  keynote  address,  "How 
Language  Helps  Us  Think," 
to  the  Language  Acquisition 
Research  Symposium  in 
Utrecht;  spoke  on  "Lexical 
Insertion  in  a  Post- 
Minimalist  Theory  of 
Grammar"  at  the 
University  of  Southern 
California;  on  "Semantic 
Subordination  Despite 
Syntactic  Coordination"  at 
the  University  of  California, 
Los  Angeles;  and  on  "The 
Conceptual  Structure  of 
Intending  and  Volitional 
Action"  at  the  conference 
on  Semantics  and  Linguistic 
Theory  at  the  University  of 


Texas,  Austin.  He  gave  a 
week-long  course  on 
Conceptual  Semantics  at 
Umberto  Eco's  Summer 
School  on  Language  and 
Understanding  in  San 
Marino.  His  paper, 
'Something  Else  for  the 
Binding  Theory," 
coauthored  with  Peter 
Culicover,  appeared  in 
Linguistic  Inquiry. 

William  P.  Jencks 

Gyula  and  Katica  Tauber 
Professor  of  Biochemistry 
and  Molecular 
Pharmacodynamics,  was 
elected  a  Member  of  the 
American  Philosophical 
Society.  Founded  by 
Benjamin  Franklin,  it  is  the 
oldest  learned  society  in  the 
country. 

Edward  K.  Kaplan 

professor  of  French  and 
comparative  literature, 
presented  two  papers: 
"Baudelaire's  Ethical  Irony," 
at  the  Conference  of 
Nineteenth-Century  French 
Studies,  University  of  San 
Diego,  and  "Love,  Guilt, 
Reparation:  Jules  Michelet, 
Artist-Historian,"  at  the 
Kentucky  Foreign  Language 
Conference,  Lexington, 
Kentucky.  He  published  the 
following  articles:  "God  in 
Exile:  Abraham  Joshua 
Heschcl,  Translator  of  the 
Spirit,"  in  Bridging  the 
Abyss:  Essays  in  Honor  of 
Harry  Zohn — Briicken  iiber 
den  Abgrund:  Festschrift  ftir 
Harry  Zohn  edited  by  Amy 
Colin  and  Elizabeth 
Strenger;  "Sacred  versus 
Symbolic  Religion: 
Abraham  Joshua  Heschel 
and  Martin  Buber,"  in 
Modern  Judaism-,  and  "The 
American  Mission  of 
Abraham  Joshua  Heschel," 
in  The  Americanization  of 
the  Jews,  edited  by  Robert 
Seltzer  and  Norman  Cohen. 
He  also  lectured  on  Heschel 
in  Schenectedy,  New  York. 


Jytte  Klausen 

assistant  professor  of 
comparative  politics, 
presented  a  paper,  "The 
Declining  Significance  of 
Male  Workers:  The  'Golden 
Age'  of  Trade  Unionism 
Under  Assault,"  at  a 
conference  on  Politics  and 
Political  Economy  in 
Advanced  Capitalist 
Democracies  at  Humboldt 
University  and 
Wissenschaftzentrum-zu- 
Berlin,  while  on  leave  as 
visiting  scholar  at  the 
Center  for  European 
Studies,  Harvard  University. 
She  was  also  invited  to 
speak  on  the  topic  of 
European  social  policy  at  a 
seminar  for  senior  editors 
and  producers  at  such 
organizations  as  Tlie  Boston 
Globe,  The  Christian 
Science  Monitor,  The 
Miami  Herald,  CNN,  and 
NPR  organized  by  The 
Center  for  War,  Peace,  and 
The  News  Media. 

Ann  Olga  Koloski-Ostrow 

assistant  professor  of 
classical  studies,  codirected 
(along  with  her  husband, 
Steven  Ostrow  of  MIT)  an 
archaeological  summer 
program  in  Italy  titled, 
Naples  Bay  as  Melting  Pot, 
Always  at  a  Boil:  Social 
History  in  Coastal 
Campania,  sponsored  by  the 
Vergilian  Society  of 
America. 

Michael  W.  Macy 

associate  professor  of 
sociology,  was  awarded  a 
three-year  grant  from  the 
National  Science 
Foundation  to  study  the 
effect  of  an  exit  option  on 
cooperation  in  the 
"prisoner's  dilemma,"  the 
classical  game  of  conflict  of 


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interest.  He  spent  four 
weeks  as  a  research  fellow 
at  the  Netherlands  Institute 
for  Advanced  Studies  in 
Wasscnaar.  He  had  two 
articles  juihlished,  "Beyond 
Rationality  in  Theories  of 
Choice"  in  the  Annual 
Review  of  Sociology  and 
"Pavlov  and  the  Evolution  of 
Cooperation:  An 
Experimental  Test"  in 
Social  Psychology 
Quarterly. 

Tom  Pochapsky 

associate  professor  of 
chemistry,  was  the  plenary 
lecturer  at  the  ninth 
International  Conference  on 
Cytochrome  P-450,  held  at 
the  University  of  Zurich. 

Bernard  Reisman 

Klutznick  Professor  of 
Contemporary  Jewish 
Studies,  delivered 
commencement  speeches 
and  received  honorary 
degrees  at  Gratz  College  in 
Pennsylvania  and  Boston 
Hebrew  College.  Also,  he 
was  selected  as  a  Keter 
Torah  Honoree  by  the 
Bureau  of  Jewish  Education 
m  Newton.  He  participated 
in  an  Association  of  Jewish 
Communal  Professionals 
conference  in  England  as 
part  of  a  two-week  visiting 
professorship  that  took  him 
to  numerous  academic  and 
Jewish  communal 
institutions. 

Vardit  Ringvald 

lecturer  in  Hebrew  and 
acting  director,  Hebrew  and 
Oriental  Language  Program, 
presented  two  papers:  "The 
Peer  Tutoring  Project  at 
Brandeis  University — A 
Support  System  Outside  the 
Classroom"  at  the 
International  Conference  on 
University  Teaching  of 
Hebrew  Language  and 
Literature  at  the  University 
of  Central  Florida  and  "How 
to  Teach  Speaking  and 
Reading"  at  Maimonides 
High  School,  Newton,  MA. 


Nicholas  Rodis 

professor  of  physical 
education,  attended  a 
meeting  of  the  Sports 
Regulations  Commission  of 
the  International  University 
Sports  Federation  in 
Brussels.  The  commission  is 
responsible  for  sports 
regulations  for  the  World 
University  Games  and 
World  University  Sports 
Championships. 

Jonathan  D.  Sarna 

Joseph  H.  and  Belle  R.  Braun 
Professor  American  Jewish 
History,  authored  "The 
Road  to  Jewish  Leadership," 
published  in  Expectations, 
Education  and  Experience 
of  lewish  Professional 
Leaders:  Report  of  the 
Wexner  Foundation 
Research  Project  on 
Contemporary  Jewish 
Professional  Leadership. 

Donald  S.  Shephard 

research  professor.  Heller 
School,  was  named  to  the 
Board  of  Advisors  of  the 
Alfred  B.  Sabin  Vaccine 
Foundation,  which 
promotes  research  and 
delivery  of  vaccines 
worldwide.  He  has 
developed  a  cost-effective 
approach  to  setting 
priorities.  This  approach 
and  Its  application  to 
children's  vaccines  was 
published  in  Vaccine.  He 
was  also  an  invited  speaker 
at  a  conference  on  social 
policy  in  Jamaica  presenting 
facts  that  showed  that 
higher  user  fees  at 
government  hospitals  and 
clinics  have  not  deterred 
access  to  health  care  in  the 
country. 


Susan  Staves 

Paul  Prosswimmer 
Professor  of  Humanities, 
coedited  and  contributed  to 
a  collection  of  essays.  Early 
Modern  Conceptions  of 
Property,  published  by 
Routledge.  She  presented  a 
paper,  "Frauds,  Hoaxes,  and 
Thefts:  False  Attributions 
to  Particular  Women 
Writers,"  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  American 
Society  for  Eighteenth- 
Century  Studies  in  Tucson, 
Arizona. 

David  Wilson 

artist-in-residence  in 
lighting  and  sound,  built  a 
computer  sound  studio  for 
recording  and  editing  sound 
and  music  for  department 
productions;  designed  sound 
and  composed  music  for 
several  department 
productions;  designed 
lighting  for  New  England 
Conservatory's  productions 
of  The  Scarf,  The  Medium, 
and  The  Magic  Flute  at  the 
Majestic  Theater,  Boston. 
He  returned  for  the  sixth 
year  as  resident  lighting 
designer  at  Central  City 
Opera,  Central  City, 
Colorado,  for  Pique  Dame, 
The  Magic  Flute,  and  The 
Threepenny  Opera. 

Staff 

Albert  S.  Axelrad 

Jewish  chaplain,  while  on 
sabbatical,  visited  Vienna, 
Austria,  lecturing,  teaching, 
counseling,  and  conducting 
services  at  Or  Chadasch 
(New  Light),  a  young  and 
Liberal  Jewish  Community 
lacking  a  resident  rabbi.  He 
also  delivered  three 
lectures:  "An  Independent 
Jewish  Approach  to  Gays 
and  Lesbians:  How  One 
Rabbi's  Views  Evolved," 
"Passover  and  the 
Haggadah,"  and  "Leprosy 
and  Purity  of  the  Mouth." 
He  traveled  to  the  site  of 
the  Mauthausen 
concentration  camp  and 
conducted  a  memorial 


service.  In  addition,  he  was 
conferred  with  the 
leadership  of  the 
Israelitischen 
Kultusgemeinde  including 
the  Chief  Rabbi  of  Austria. 

Jeffrey  W.  Cohen  '64 

director  of  athletics, 
recreation,  and  intramural 
sports,  was  honored  with 
the  1995  Brandeis 
Community  Service  Award 
at  the  recent  City  of 
Waltham  Officials  Dinner. 
Cohen  was  given  the  award 
for  his  work  with  youth  in 
Waltham.  He  was  credited 
with  providing  a  home  at 
the  Gosman  Center  for  the 
Waltham  After-School 
Program  for  some  500 
young  participants  each 
Saturday  morning  in  the 
Waltham  Youth  Basketball 
Program.  He  also  works 
closely  with  the  Waltham 
Group  and  is  the 
University's  representative 
to  the  Waltham  Partnership 
for  Youth. 

John  Hose 

executive  assistant  to  the 
President  and  associate  vice 
president  for  University 
affairs,  was  elected  to  a  two- 
year  term  as  chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Governors  of 
the  University  Press  of  New 
England,  a  publishing 
consortium  of  10  New 
England  colleges  and 
universities  including 
Brandeis. 


13  Summer  1995 


enefactors 


Winokur  New  Chair  of 
Board  of  Trustees 


Barton  J.  Winokur,  voted 
chair-elect  of  the  Brandeis 
Board  of  Trustees  in 
January,  officially  succeeded 
Louis  Perlmutter  '56 
following  the  Board's 
Commencement  weekend 
meeting  in  May. 

Winokur,  a  graduate  of 
Cornell  and  Harvard  Law 
School,  is  a  partner  in  the 
Philadelphia  law  firm  of 
Dechert  Price  &  Rhoads.  He 
joined  the  Brandeis  Trustees 
in  1983  andm  1990  was 
elected  vice  chair.  He  has 
also  served  as  chair  of  the 
Budget  and  Finance 
Committee,  and  was 
cochair  of  the  1991 
Presidential  Search 
Committee.  Winokur  and 
his  wife,  Susan,  have  two 
children. 

"I  am  very  pleased  that  Bart 
Winokur  has  agreed  to  take 
on  the  chairmanship  at  this 
important  time  in  the  life  of 
the  University,"  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz  said.  "He  is 
an  extremely  able  and 
effective  Trustee  and  will 
bring  strong  leadership  to 
the  board." 


3arton  Winokur 


At  Its  April  9  meeting,  the 
Board  elected  two  Alumni 
Term  Trustees:  Kenneth  S. 
Kaiserman  '60  and  Jeanette 
P.  Lerman  '69,  to  four  and 
five-year  terms, 
respectively. 

Kaiserman  is  president  of 
Kaiserman  Management 
Co.,  Philadelphia.  He  has 
been  very  active  in  alumni 
affairs,  particularly  in  the 
Philadelphia  area.  He  also 
served  on  his  30th  Year 
Reunion  Class  Gift 
Committee  and  has 
participated  in  many  fund- 
raising  efforts  on  behalf  of 
the  University.  Kaiserman 
is  completing  the  five-year 
term  of  Thomas  L. 
Friedman  '75,  who  was 
elected  a  regular  member  of 
the  Board  in  January. 

Lerman  is  vice  president  for 
corporate  communications 
at  Time  Warner,  Inc.  Her 
Brandeis  service  includes 
membership  on  the 
National  Board  for  Women's 
Studies  since  1992.  In  1993, 
Lerman  was  the  recipient  of 
the  Alumni  Achievement 
Award. 


First  Prize  for  Rose 
Exhibit 


Correction 

In  the  "Benefactors"  section 
of  the  Spring  '95  Review, 
we  erroneously  identified 
Dr.  Donald  B.  Giddon 
as  a  dentist.  Giddon,  Ph.D. 
'61,  is  in  fact  a  psychologist. 
We  apologize  for  the 
mistake. 


The  International 
Association  of  Art  Critics 
(AICA)  has  awarded  its  first 
prize  for  the  best  regional 
show  of  1993-94  to  the  Rose 
Art  Museum  for  its  survey 
of  works  by  painter  Joan 
Snyder  that  ran  last  spring. 


The  prize  was  part  of  the 
association's  Best  Show 
Awards  in  nine  categories. 
The  AICA  is  a  worldwide 
organization,  with  a  United 
States  membership  of  more 
than  300  distinguished 
critics  and  art  historians. 
New  York  Mafiazme  also 
ranked  the  Snyder  show 
among  the  top  10  best 
exhibits  of  1994. 


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Trustee,  Philanthropist 
Maurice  IVIayer  Cohen 
Dies 


Maurice  Mayer  Cohen 


A  generous  benefactor  and 
Brandeis  Trustee  since 
1975,  Maurice  Mayer  Cohen 
of  Newton,  Massachusetts, 
and  Pahn  Beach,  Florida, 
died  April  13  after  a  long 
illness.  He  was  80  years  old. 

Known  for  his  selfless 
support  of  philanthropic  and 
educational  pursuits,  he 
established  the  Maurice  M. 
and  Marilyn  Cohen  Center 
for  Modern  Jewish  Studies 
at  Brandeis  in  May  1987. 
The  pre-eminent  institution 
of  its  kind,  the  Center 
serves  as  a  think  tank, 
providing  policy-oriented 
research  findings  to  Jewish 
community  institutions 
throughout  North  America. 

Cohen  was  treasurer  of  the 
Brandeis  Board  of  Trustees 
from  1985  to  1990,  and  the 


University  awarded  him  an 
honorary  doctorate  of 
humane  letters  in  1985. 
President  Jehuda  Reinharz 
described  Cohen  as  an 
exemplary  Trustee  who  left 
a  legacy  to  both  Brandeis 
and  the  Jewish  community. 

"His  vision  and  imagination 
were  a  driving  force  behind 
the  Cohen  Center  and  he 
deserves  so  much  credit  for 
the  Center's  vast  impact  on 
the  field  of  modern  Jewish 
studies,"  he  said. 

At  his  funeral  at  Temple 
Emeth  in  Brookline,  it  was 
said  that  Cohen  died 
satisfied  with  the 
knowledge  that  he  had 
accomplished  so  much 
during  his  lifetime.  Born 
February  13,  1915,  in 
Boston,  Cohen  grew  up  in 
Dorchester,  was  graduated 
from  Boston  High  School  of 
Commerce,  and  attended 


Boston  University.  In  1945 
he  married  Marilyn  Cobrain 
and  founded  Lechmere  Sales 
in  Lechmere  Square, 
Cambridge,  with  his  two 
brothers,  Norman  and 
Phillip  Cohen. 

Cohen  founded  the  Maurice 
M.  Cohen  Department  of 
Genetics  at  Hebrew 
University  in  Jerusalem, 
where  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Governors.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the 
American  Jewish  Joint 
Distribution  Committee, 
the  National  Foundation  for 
Jewish  Culture,  and  served 
on  the  boards  of  Hebrew 
College  in  Brookline  and 
the  American  Jewish 
Historical  Society  on 
campus. 


A  veteran  of  World  War  II, 
Cohen  served  in  the 
European  Theater  of 
Operations  and  was  a  32nd 
degree  Mason.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife 
Marilyn;  his  brothers  Phillip 
and  Norman;  his  two 
children,  Lewis  Cobrain 
Cohen  and  Betsy  Cohen 
Solomon;  and  five 
grandchildren. 


SImister  Awarded 
$1  Million  Grant 


Neil  Simister,  assistant 
professor  of  molecular 
immunology,  has  been 
awarded  a  $1  million  grant 
from  the  National  Institutes 
of  Health,  Division  of 
Maternal  and  Child  Health, 
to  study  the  protein 
gateway  through  which 
maternal  antibodies  cross 
the  placenta  and  deliver 
immunities  to  developing 
babies. 


Simister's  research  provides 
critical  new  information  on 
how  the  maternal  immune 
system  gives  infants  a 
running  start  in  the  battle 
against  germs  and  viruses. 
For  more  details  on 
Simister's  research,  see  the 
Spring  1995  issue  of  the 
Brandeis  Review. 


At  this  year's  Founders  Day 
Dinner  on  Saturday, 
October  14,  1995,  Norman 
S.  Rabb,  sole  remaining 
founding  Trustee  of 
Brandeis  University,  will  be 
honored  on  the  occasion  of 
his  90th  birthday.  Mr. 
Rabb's  actual  birthday  is 
September  13,  and  the 
University  community  is 
pleased  to  acknowledge  the 
support  and  dedication  of 
Norman  and  Eleanor  Rabb 
for  almost  five  decades  by 
having  this  celebration  take 
place  at  the  Founders  Day 
dinner.  Norman  Rabb  has 
served  on  the  Board  of 
Trustees  since  1947  and  as 
its  chair  from  1961  to  1967. 
The  Norman  S.  and  Eleanor 
Rabb  School  of  Summer, 
Special,  and  Continuing 
Studies  was  named  in  honor 
of  the  Rabbs. 


15  Summer  1995 


pring  Reunion  '95 


For  the  hundreds  of 
members  and  guests  of  the 
Classes  of  1955,  1960,  1965, 
and  1970  who  streamed  to 
campus  for  their  Reunions, 
most  would  agree  that  their 
expectations  for  nostalgia, 
renewal  of  the  bonds  of 
friendship,  and  recommital 
to  their  alma  mater  were 
exceeded.  A  late-arriving 
spring  in  New  England 
meant  that  shrubs  and 
flowers  bloomed  just  m 
time  for  Reunion  weekend, 
showcasmg  the  campus  at 
its  peak  bloom. 

The  Class  of  1970, 
celebrating  their  25th 
Reunion,  arrived  early  for  a 
dinner  with  President 
Jehuda  Reinharz  on 
Thursday  evening.  The  next 
morning.  Alumni  College,  a 
day-long  series  of  lectures 
and  panels  featuring  alumni 
side  by  side  with  Brandeis 
faculty,  discussed  "Shades 
of  Reality"  from 
perspectives  as  divergent  as 
Madison  Avenue  and  the 


courtroom.  Arthur  Levine 
'70  delivered  the  keynote 
address  for  Alumni  College, 
sharing  the  results  of  a 
recent  study  he  had  done  on 
"Today's  College  Students." 

A  highlight  of  the  Welcome 
Back  Dinner  was  the 
presentation  of  Alumni 
Pride  Awards  to  a  member 
of  each  Reunion  class  by 
Noah  Carp  '95  and  Robyn 
Friedman  '96,  student 
representatives  to  the 
Alumni  Association  Board. 
This  spring's  winners 
included  pnzc-winning 
novelist  Gloria  Goldrich 
Horowitz  '55,  theatrical 
agent  Lois  Zetter  '60,  Lilith 
Editor  in  Chief  Susan 
Weidman  Schneider  '65,  and 
Human  Services  Director  of 
the  New  Jersey  Center  for 
Developmental  Disabilities 
Deborah  Spitalnik  '70. 

The  Class  of  1955  walked 
away  with  several  honors  by 
winning  the  award  for  the 
class  with  greatest  percent 
in  attendance,  the  class 
with  the  greatest  percent 
(62  percent)  participation  in 
the  class  gift,  and  the 
highest  total  dollars  raised. 
That  62  percent 
|iarticipation  in  the  class 
.;ift  represents  an  all-time 


Susan  Weidman  Schneider  '65 
accepts  Biandeis  Pride  Award 
from  the  Student  Alumni 
Association  for  her  work  as 
editor  in  chief  of  Lilith 
magazine 


foan  Wallack  '60  expresses 
delight  at  seeing  classmates 
Sue  fohnson  Kanrich  '60 
and  Mimi  Berenson 
Silherstein  '60  at  a  class 
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Ellen  Levine  '60  talks  about 
one  of  the  books  at  the 
Alumni  Authors  Reception 


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Alumni  enjoy  some  shade 
at  the  Reunion  barbecue 
alongside  Massell  Pond 


Arthur  Levme  '10.  president 
of  Teacher's  College. 
Columbia  University,  rivets 
audience  at  Alumni  College 
with  his  keynote  address  on 
"Today's  College  Students" 


Earle  Kazis  '55  and  Burt 
Rosen  '55  acknowledge 
applause  for  their  work  as 
cochairs  of  their  40th  Class 
Reunion  Gift  effort,  in 
which  62  percent  of  the 
class  participated 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Larry  Sugar  of 
Woodland  Hills.  California, 
look  on  as  their  son. 
Michael  Sugar  '95.  and  Seth 
Schiffman  '95  accept 
congratulations  from 
President  Reinharz  on  the 
success  of  their  record- 
breaking  S22.873  senior 
class  gift  effort  for  the 
University.  The  Trustees 
matched  the  first  S  10,000 
raised  by  the  class 


record  high  tor  any  class  at 
Brandeis  University  to  date. 
The  Class  of  1970  was  the 
winner  of  the  award  for  the 
class  with  the  greatest 
numher  in  attendance. 

Recognition  was  given  to 
the  following  hard-working 
program  and  gift  chairs  for 
each  class:  Evelyn  B. 
Sheffres  '55  and  ludith  P. 
Aronson  '55,  Earle  W.  Kazis 
'55  and  Burt  Rosen  '55; 
Clemente  Cohen  '60,-  Toby 
Shemfeld  Nussbaum  '60 
and  Roberta  Milhauser 
Slatkin  '60;  Melanie  Rovner 
Cohen  '65;  William  S. 
Friedman  '65  and  Steven  H. 
Mora  '65;  and  Jane  Klein 
Bright  '70,  Charles  S. 
Eisenberg  '70,  and  Gates 
McFadden  '70;  Carol  Stein- 
Schulman  '70  and  Susan 
Fischer  Weinberg  '70. 

Saturday  afternoon 
activities  included 
Baccalaureate,  at  which 
Elaine  Phillips  Ostroff  '55 
and  Ellen  Bassuk  '65  were 
presented  with  Sanctity  of 
Life  Awards  for  their  work 
on  adapting  buildings  and 
environments  to  senior 
citizen  and  handicapped 
use,  and  as  president  of  the 
Better  Homes  Foundation, 
respectively.  Robert  Lerman 
'65,  formerly  on  the  Heller 
School  faculty  and  now 
chair  of  the  economics 
department  at  The 
American  University,  gave 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  address 
at  a  ceremony  that  inducted 
two  alumnae  into  the  Mu 
Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa: 
Carol  B.  Feigelson  '60  and 
Susan  Wides  Steinberg  '60. 

Dozens  of  alumni  authors 
from  the  four  Reunion 
classes  contributed  their 
works  to  the  Alumni 
Authors  Archive,  and 
several  spoke  about  their 
works  at  the  Alumni 
Authors  Tea. 


17  Summer  1995 


Commencement  '95 


On  May  21,  before  an 
overflow  crowd  that  packed 
the  Gosman  Sports  and 
Convocation  Center, 
President  Jehuda  Reinharz 
bestowed  704  bachelor's 
degrees,  101  Ph.D.s,  and  160 
master's  degrees  upon  this 
year's  graduates. 

"Your  class  will  always  be  a 
special  one  for  me  as  the 
Class  of  1995  is  the  first  of 
my  presidency,"  he  said  to 
enthusiastic  applause  at  the 
University's  44th 
Commencement  excercises. 

During  a  ceremony 
highlighted  by  the  celebrity 
presence  of  Barbra 
Streisand,  Daniel  L.  Schorr 
of  National  Public  Radio 
warned  that  if  all  our  new 
technology  has  achieved  is 
promoting  violence  and 
hooking  people  on  the  OJ. 
Simpson  trial,  then  his 
generation  has  failed. 

"The  premise  of  my  work 
has  been  that  better 
communications  would 
lead  to  better  understanding 
but  it  hasn't  worked  out 
that  way,"  he  said. 

"The  communications 
revolution  has  provided 
faster  and  better  means 
to  spread  confusion, 
misunderstanding,  and 
often,  incitement." 

In  addition  to  Schorr  and 
Streisand,  honorary 
doctorates  of  humane 
letters  were  bestowed  upon 
Walter  H.  Annenberg,  Miles 
Lerman,  Conor  Cruise 
O'Brien,  and  Louis 
Perlmutter  '56. 


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19  Summer  1995 


Walter  H.  Annenberg 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Miles  Lerman 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Conor  Cruise  O'Brien 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Walter  H.  Annenberg  has 
had  a  distinguished  and 
varied  career  as  an  editor, 
publisher,  broadcaster, 
diplomat,  art  collector,  and 
philanthropist.  In  1940  he 
assumed  responsibility  for 
Triangle  Publications,  the 
firm  founded  by  his  father, 
buildmg  it  into  a  highly 
successful  publisher  of 
newspapers  and  magazines. 
At  the  same  time  he 
became  owner  and  operator 
of  television  and  radio 
stations.  Donor,  president, 
and  director  of  the 
Annenberg  Fund,  Walter 
Annenberg  is  a  legendary 
philanthropist  with  a  deep 
concern  for  education.  His 
generosity  made  possible 
the  Annenberg  School  of 
Communications  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania 
in  1958  and  the  University 
of  Southern  California  in 
1971,  and  extends  to 
numerous  other 
educational,  health,  and 
cultural  organizations.  His 
recent  $500  million 
donation  to  help  reform 
public  education  is  by  far 
the  largest  gift  ever  made  to 
American  education  by  a 
private  individual.  From 
1969  to  1974,  he  served  as 
ambassador  to  the  Court  of 
St.  James  and  is  one  of  the 
few  Americans  granted  an 
honorary  knighthood  by 
Queen  Elizabeth  II.  Walter 
Annenberg  has  been  widely 
honored  for  his  work  and  is 
a  trustee  of  many 
distinguished  schools, 
museums,  and  hospitals. 


Miles  Lerman  is  chairman 
of  the  United  States 
Holocaust  Memorial 
Council  and  president  of 
Miles  Lerman  Enterprises. 
A  survivor  of  Nazi 
atrocities,  he  fought  as  a 
partisan  in  the  forests  of 
Southern  Poland  during 
World  War  II.  For  his 
bravery,  Poland  awarded 
him  the  Commander's 
Cross,  the  highest  award 
given  to  a  noncitizen,  and 
the  Partisan's  Cross  for 
bravery  in  combat.  In  1980 
he  was  appointed  by 
President  Carter  to  the 
United  States  Holocaust 
Memorial  Council.  He  was 
instrumental  in  negotiating 
historic  agreements  with 
the  former  Soviet  Union 
and  Eastern  bloc  nations  to 
help  secure  one  of  the 
largest  collections  of  Nazi 
artifacts.  As  chairman  of  the 
Campaign  to  Remember,  he 
led  the  effort  to  raise  the 
$190  million  needed  to 
build  and  equip  the 
museum  in  Washington, 
D.C.  In  recognition  of  these 
achievements.  President 
Clinton  appointed  him 
chairman  of  the  United 
States  Holocaust  Memorial 
Council.  Long  prominent  in 
Jewish  leadership,  he  served 
as  vice  chairman  of  the 
Israel  Bond  Organization 
and  was  awarded  the  Medal 
of  Achievement  by  the 
Prime  Minister  of  Israel. 


Conor  Cruise  O'Brien  is  a 
multilingual  statesman, 
diplomat,  scholar, 
politician,  journalist, 
political  theorist,  and 
authority  on  Ireland,  Africa, 
Zionism,  nationalism,  post- 
colonialism,  and  terrorism. 
In  the  1950s  he  was  an  Irish 
diplomat  and  served  as  U.N. 
Secretary  General  Dag 
Hammarskjold's  top  aide  in 
Katanga  province  during  the 
1 96 1  Congo  crisis.  He  has 
been  a  Labor  member  of  the 
Irish  Parliament,  the 
communications  minister 
in  an  Irish  coalition 
government,  and  editor  in 
chief  of  the  influential 
London  Sunday  Observer. 
O'Brien  writes  weekly 
columns  for  Britain's  The 
Independent  and  The  Irish 
Independent,  regularly 
reviews  books  for  the  Times 
Literary  Supplement  and 
The  New  York  Review  of 
Books,  lectures  at  leading 
universities  around  the 
world,  and  has  published, 
among  other  distinguished 
works,  a  universally 
acclaimed  biography  of 
Edmund  Burke,  the  18th- 
century  statesman  and 
political  philosopher.  He  is 
known  on  several 
continents  for  his  insight, 
wit,  and  stimulating  essays. 


20  Brandeis  Review 


Louis  Perlmutter 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Daniel  L.  Sctiorr 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Barbra  Streisand 
Doctor  of 
Humane  Letters 


Louis  Perlmutter  is  senior 
managing  director  of  LazarJ 
Freres  &  Company  and  an 
internationally  respected 
investment  banker.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Brandeis 
University  Board  of 
Trustees  m  1984  and  has 
served  as  chair  since  1989, 
the  first  alumnus  to  hold 
that  position.  Following 
graduation  from  Brandeis  in 
1956  and  receipt  of  his  law 
degree  from  the  University 
of  Michigan  Law  School  in 
1959,  he  practiced  law  in 
New  York  before  joining  the 
investment  banking  firm  of 
White  Weld  &  Co.  There  he 
created  and  directed  one  of 
the  first  merger  and 
acquisition  departments  on 
Wall  Street.  In  1979  he 
ioined  Lazard  Freres  & 
Company,  where  he  serves 
as  financial  advisor  to  major 
multinational  corporations. 
An  expert  in  the  field  of 
mergers  and  acquisitions,  he 
has  been  profiled  in  Fortune 
and  Forbes.  He  serves  as 
chair  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Board  of 
Governors  for  the  United 
Nations  Association  of  the 
U.S.A.  In  1994  he  became 
chair  of  the  Council  of 
Economic  Advisors  of  the 
U.S. /Middle  East  Project  of 
the  Council  on  Foreign 
Relations.  From  1988  to 
1994,  he  served  as  chair  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
American  Jewish  Congress. 


Daniel  Schorr  is  senior 
analyst  at  National  Public 
Radio  and  began  his  career 
in  print  journalism  as  an 
assistant  editor  of  The 
Jewish  Telegraphic  Agency. 
After  serving  in  the  army 
during  World  War  II,  Schorr 
was  discovered  by  Edward 
R.  Murrow  while  reporting 
for  ANETA,  the 
Netherlands  News  Agency. 
Recruited  to  join  CBS 
News,  he  spent  nearly  a 
quarter  of  a  century  as  a 
Washington  and  foreign 
correspondent.  In  1955  he 
opened  the  first  CBS  News 
Bureau  in  Moscow  where  he 
ran  afoul  of  Soviet 
authorities  for  refusing  to 
submit  his  reports  to  state 
censorship.  He  eventually 
became  the  network's  chief 
intelligence  reporter, 
broadcasting  in  February  of 
1976  excerpts  from  the 
House  Intelligence 
Committee's  secret  report 
on  the  CIA,  known  as  the 
"Pike  Report."  After  leaving 
CBS  News,  he  became 
senior  Washington  and 
foreign  correspondent  for 
CNN.  He  has  received 
numerous  honors  for  his 
work,  including  three 
Emmys  and  a  John  F. 
Kennedy  Profiles  in  Courage 
Award.  Daniel  Schorr  is 
widely  considered  one  of 
the  most  insightful  and 
thought-provoking 
journalists  of  our  time. 


Barbra  Streisand  is  an  actress, 
singer,  producer,  director, 
writer,  and  composer  whose 
career  spans  three  decades 
and  includes  an  array  of 
Emmys,  Grammys,  Tonys, 
Oscars,  and  Golden  Globe 
Awards.  Her  recording  career 
is  legendary.  She  has  been  a 
trailblazer  as  the  first  female 
composer  to  win  an  Academy 
Award,  and  the  first  woman 
to  produce,  direct,  write,  and 
star  in  a  major  motion 
picture,  Yentl.  One  of  the 
most  versatile  and  talented 
women  in  the  entertainment 
industry,  her  stage  triumphs 
include  her  portrayal  of 
Fanny  Brice  in  the  Broadway 
production  of  Funny  Gill. 
Her  movie  credits  include 
Funny  Girl,  Hello  Dolly!.  On 
a  Clear  Day  You  Can  See 
Forever,  The  Owl  and  the 
Pussycat,  What's  Up  DocI, 
The  Way  We  Were,  A  Star  is 
Born,  Nuts,  and  The  Prince  of 
Tides.  She  also  produced  and 
starred  in  a  series  of  award- 
winning  television  specials. 
Through  the  Streisand 
Foundation,  she  has 
championed  the  cause  of 
women's  rights,  the 
protection  of  human  and  civil 
rights,  the  needs  of  children 
at  risk,  and  the  preservation 
of  the  environment.  She  is  a 
leading  spokesperson  and 
fund-raiser  for  AIDS-related 
issues.  For  this  work,  she  was 
honored  with  the  1992 
Commitment  to  Life  Award 
from  the  AIDS  Project  Los 
Angeles  and  the  ACLU  Bill  of 
Rights  Award. 


21  Summer  1995 


These  images  are  from  the 
Holocaust  Project:  From 
Darkness  into  Light,  a 
nationally  touring  exhibition 
created  by  painter  Judy 
Chicago  and  her  husband, 
photographer  Donald 
Woodman,  which  will  be  at 
the  Rose  Art  Museum  for 
the  show's  only  East  Coast 
venue  from  September  17 
to  December  1 7,  1995. 


Text  by  Carl  Belz 


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The  exhibition  is  aptly 
described  as  a  project, 
for  it  started  with  a  radical 
transformation  of 
consciousness  and  was 
followed  by  a  sustained 
journey  of  learning  on 
the  part  of  the  artists,  both 
of  whom  grew  up  as 
assimilated  Jews  and  came 


to  maturity  with  little 
knowledge  of  the 
Holocaust.  As  Chicago 
writes  in  the  book  that 
accompanies  the 
exhibition,  "I  first  became 
interested  in  the  subject 
of  the  Holocaust  at,  of  all 
places,  a  1984  Christmas 
party  in  Santa  Fe,  New 
Mexico,  where  I  lived. 
I  met  a  poet  there  named 


Harvey  Mudd,  who  had  just 
completed  a  long  poem 
about  the  Holocaust.  It  was 
a  topic  that  had  interested 
him  since  childhood  but 
one,  I  realized  with  shock, 
that  I  knew  almost  nothing 
about."  Thus  sparked,  the 
interest  soon  led  to  eight 
years  of  research  on  the 


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Holocaust  and  Jewish 
history,  extensive  travel 
through  the  "landscape 
of  the  Holocaust,"  and 
the  development  of  a  series 
of  visual  images  that 
would  embody  the  artists' 
deeply  felt  and  broadly 
conceived  responses 
to  the  subject  they  rarely 
heard  about  when  they 
were  children. 


In  referring  to  their  broad 
conception,  I  mean  tiiat 
Chicago  and  Woodman 
took  upon  themselves 
the  task  of  acknowledging 
the  distinctive  aspects 
of  the  Holocaust  while  also 
placing  it  within  a 
larger  global  and  historical 
context.  The  exhibition 
relates  the  Holocaust 
to  past  and  present  events 
and  the  social  and  ethical 
issues  they  raise,  and  it 
stresses  concerns  having 
to  do  with  memory, 


vulnerability,  power,  and 
victimization.  These  are 
challenging  ambitions,  and 
they  have,  not  surprisingly, 
generated  controversy 
around  the  Holocaust 
Project.  But  that  has  been 
the  case  with  Judy  Chicago 
and  her  work  for  more  than 
two  decades,  for  she  has 


"always  elected  to  confront 
the  hard  questions  in  order 
to  achieve  her  ongoing 
goal  of  teaching  through 
art.  Sharing  that  goal, 
1  hope  you  will  have  the 
opportunity  to  experience 
the  exhibition  and 
that  you  will  engage  the 
dialogue  it  invites. 

Carl  Belz  is  the  Henry  and 
Lois  Foster  Director 
of  the  Rose  Art  Museum 
and  an  adjunct  professor  of 
fine  arts  at  Brandeis.  - 


BrandeJs's  new  Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics  and 
Finance  combines  the  best  of 
business  school  and  International 
relations  programs  to  stand  as 


A  School  in  a  Class  by  Itself 


by  Marjorie  Lyon 


Read  today's  newspapers  and  there 
is  no  question  that  in  the  last  10  or 
15  years  there  has  been  a 
globalization  of  the  world  economy 
and  business.  Particularly  active  is 
the  intersection  between  foreign 
policy  and  economic  trade  issues. 
An  example  is  President  Clinton's 
trip  to  Saudi  Arabia  last  spring  to 
sign  a  jet  deal  for  Boeing — a  foreign 
policy  issue  that  includes 
economics,  trade,  and  business. 

Traditionally,  to  be  trained  at  the 
graduate  level  to  work  in  that 
marketplace,  one  educational  route 
is  to  earn  a  master's  of  international 
affairs  or  international  relations. 
Students  take  diplomacy,  politics, 
and  many  courses  on  the  history  and 
culture  of  individual  countries.  But 
there  is  little  economics,  business, 
or  finance  taught  in  that 
curriculum.  Another  educational 
route  is  to  earn  an  M.B.A. — sure  to 
include  business,  economics,  and 
finance  but  usually  lacking  a  serious 
international  aspect.  So  neither 


approach  produces  students  who  are 
very  well  equipped  to  work  in  the 
international  marketplace. 

Enter  Brandeis  University's 
Graduate  School  of  International 
Economics  and  Finance — uniquely 
positioned  to  train  students  to 
handle  the  complex  problems  that 
arise  in  dealing  in  the  international 
marketplace.  Is  there  anything 
comparable?  Very  little — for 
example,  there  is  no  other 
professional  school  focused 
exclusively  on  these  skills  at  any 
major  U.S.  university. 

Economist  Peter  A.  Petri,  a  faculty 
member  since  1972  and  leading 
expert  on  international  trade  and 
Pacific  Rim  economic  relations,  is 
dean  of  the  Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics  and 
Finance.  It  was  his  vision  that  fueled 
the  creation  of  a  program  that  would 
combine  courses  m  economics  and 
finance,  business  strategy,  and 
management,  all  taught  from  the 


international  perspective.  Listen  to 
him  ponder  the  task  ahead  and  you 
hear  an  academic  with  an 
entrepreneurial  bent.  "Academic 
institutions  are  under  pressure  to 
keep  up  with  rapid  changes  in  the 
international  marketplace,  because 
their  graduates  enter  the  real 
world,"  explains  Petri.  "On  the 
other  hand  they  tend  to  be  very 
sluggish  institutions  in  changing 
their  mission.  And  that,  for  us,  has 
been  a  real  advantage,  because  by 
recognizing  the  profound 
transformations  underway  in  the 
world  and  by  developing  programs 
that  really  address  those  changes, 
we  can  leapfrog  generations  of  older 
and  much  wealthier  programs.  We 
can,  in  effect,  jump  to  the  frontier  of 
professional  education.  The 
challenge  of  it  is  that  the  rate  of 
change  continues  to  be  very  fast — 
over  time  other  institutions 
continue  to  catch  up,  and  we 
ourselves  have  to  keep  moving." 

The  Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics  and 
Finance  evolved  from  the  Lemberg 
Program,  the  school's  two-year 
professional  master's  prograin, 
which  was  originally  established 
within  the  economics  department 
and  welcomed  its  first  class  in 
1988 — consisting  primarily  of 
Brandeis  undergraduates.  In  1989, 
the  first  class  of  12  students  was 
graduated.  This  year  31  students 
will  graduate,  and  next  year  35.  In 
May  1994,  the  Brandeis  University 
Board  of  Trustees  approved  the 
creation  of  the  Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics  and 
Finance  (GSIEF),  which  is  now  a 
stand-alone  professional  graduate 
school — the  second  at  Brandeis  after 
the  Florence  Heller  Graduate  School 


We  can  leapfrog 
generations  of 
older  and  much 


wealthier  programs. 


The  issues  we  teach 
and  research  are  at 
the  forefront  of  global 
policy-making. 


for  Advanced  Studies  in  Social 
Welfare.  The  administrative 
umbrella  of  the  GSIEF  also  includes 
a  new  Ph.D.  program  in 
international  economics  and  finance 
and  a  new  Asia-Pacific  Center  for 
Economics  and  Business,  which  will 
be  a  center  for  excellence  for 
research,  teaching,  and  outreach 
activities  focused  on  Asia-Pacific 
affairs. 

With  an  A.B.  from  Harvard  College 
and  a  Ph.D.  from  Harvard 
University,  Petri  did  not  expect  to 
fit  the  role  of  an  entrepreneur  into 
his  well-established  academic  life. 
But  he  relishes  the  chance.  In  fact, 
he  says  the  interest  was  always 
there.  Not  surprising — his 
professorial  demeanor  seems  to 
mesh  with  a  dapper  cosmopolitan 
businessman's  confidence  and 
charm.  "I  like  teaching,  research, 
and  the  sophistication  of  academic 
approaches  to  ideas  and  to  the 
world.  But  the  one  respect  in  which 
1  am  not  a  typical  academic  is  that  I 
have  a  bent  for  creating  institutions, 
for  building  things.  For  most  of  my 
career,  until  the  last  five  or  so  years, 
this  entrepreneurial  urge  was  not 
really  satisfied.  But  for  the  last  five 
years,  I  have  that  too — this  has  a  lot 
in  common  with  starting  any  new 
institution  or  enterprise  outside  the 
academic  academy." 

Although  It  IS  a  great  opportunity  to 
engage  that  side  of  him,  it  is  not 
easy.  "When  embarking  on 


something  like  this,  one  does  not 
realize  all  the  costs,  m  time,  in 
pressures,  in  responsibilities,  and 
duties  that  are  not  always  pleasant 
and  that  most  professors  in 
conventional  academic  positions  can 
avoid.  Many  things  are  now  part  of 
my  daily  life  that  I  never  imagined 
would  be."  Would  he  do  it  again? 
'Yes,"  he  says,  clearly  delighted 
when  he  talks  about  the  good  stuff. 
'It  really  is  fun.  The  issues  we  teach 
and  research  are  at  the  forefront  of 
global  policy-making.  The  classroom 
questions  are  there  on  the  front  page 
of  the  newspaper,  the  students  and 
faculty  attracted  by  the  school  are 
diverse  and  interesting.  We  have 
many  projects,  events,  and  visitors, 
and  get  deeply  into  these  issues 
from  a  variety  of  perspectives.  Some 
visitors  tell  fascinating  war  stories, 
thinking  of  business  as  combat." 

Combat  is  an  apt  analogy.  The  day 
after  a  28-year-old  commodities 
trader  working  in  Singapore  for  the 
230-year-old  Barings  Bank  of  London 
gambled  and  lost  big — big  enough  to 
plunge  the  bank  into  bankruptcy, 
the  Graduate  School  of  International 
Economics  and  Finance  students 
listened  to  a  guest  lecture  given  by 
Marshall  N.  Carter,  chairman  and 
CEO  of  State  Street  Bank  and  Trust 
Company.  He  did  not  have  to  strain 
to  get  their  attention  as  he  explained 
what  calls  he  made  the  night  before 
to  see  what  needed  to  be  done  to 
limit  his  company's  losses.  It  is  just 
this  kind  of  crisis  in  the 


international  marketplace — and 
they  come  fast  and  furious — 
that  engage  students.  They  see  time 
and  again  that  in  real  life,  there 
are  no  pat  solutions. 

And  that  is  a  daunting  challenge 
faced  in  the  contemporary 
classroom.  How  do  you  prepare 
students  to  function  effectively? 
Explains  Petri,  "Our  training  as 
economists  is  to  find  precise,  well- 
defined  answers  to  a  question, 
which  we  often  make  as  tidy  as  we 
need  to  in  order  to  admit  a  rigorous, 
definite  answer.  But  most  real 
problems  don't  have  an  obvious 
answer,  and  you  will  not  be  able  to 
get  enough  information — or 
sometimes  you  have  too  much 
information — to  come  up  with 
a  definitive  solution.  That  is  where 
the  tension  is.  Our  students 
and  faculty  often  feel  uncomfortable 
moving  away  from  courses  and 
subject  matter  in  which  they  control 
the  questions  and  know  how  to 
answer  them — to  move  from 
there  to  a  more  complex  and  less 
satisfying  world  that  most  of 
us  live  in." 

Petri  concludes,  "Because  of 

the  very  rapid  change  in  the  world, 

we  need  to  teach  students  to 

be  flexible  and  imaginative.  We  put 

a  lot  of  stress  on  solving  problems 

in  groups — often  problems  that  are 

open-ended.  We  don't  find  a  single 

solution.  We  arrive  at  multiple 

solutions.  Really  the  process  is  what 

matters — how  you  think  about 

what  fundamental  forces  are 

at  work,  what  alternative  solutions 

there  may  be,  what  information 

you  can  bring  to  bear  on  the 

problem,  what  the  constraints  are  on 

possible  solutions.  Sometimes  the 

problem  is  in  the  context  of 

a  very  specific  case  presented  in 

a  business  school  format,  sometimes 

in  the  context  of  a  policy  problem 

you  read  about  in  the  Wall  Street 

Journal  the  day  before." 


27  Summer  1995 


There  is  a  reason  for  that  approach: 
"to  instill  in  people  the  confidence 
that  they  are  capable  of  solving 
problems  that  they  have  never  seen 
before — that  there  isn't  any  magic 
to  attacking  new  problems.  The  key 
is  to  gather  information  quickly, 
to  be  very  open  to  new  approaches, 
and  to  share  the  ideas  with  other 
people.  That's  one  very  important 
part  of  this:  The  more  complex,  or 
unusual  the  problem,  the  more 
important  it  is  to  work  as  a  team 
rather  than  as  an  individual,  because 
chances  are  your  experience  alone 
won't  give  you  all  the  tools  that  you 
need,"  says  Petri. 

So  emphasis  is  deliberately  on 
teamwork.  Many  courses  involve 
extensive  group  assignments 
while  training  students  in 
accounting  and  econometrics,  in 
analyzing  and  evaluating  financial 
information,  in  economics 
and  business  strategy.  Computer 
training  is  an  essential  component. 

Classroom  discussion  is  enhanced 
by  visitors  of  enormous  stature. 
For  example,  Sumner  Redstone, 
chairman  of  Viacom  International 
Inc.,  the  premier  software-driven 
communications  company 
in  the  world,  was  riveting  as  he 
explained  how  he  built  Viacom  from 


The  more  complex, 
or  unusual  the  problem, 
the  more  Important 
it  Is  to  work  as  a  team 
rather  than  as  an 
individual,  because 
chances  are  your 
experiences  alone  won't 
give  you  all  the  tools 
that  you  need. 


Classroom  discussion 
is  enhanced  by  visitors 
of  enormous  stature. 


three  drive-in  theaters  to  a 
communications  powerhouse. 
Then  he  topped  that  with  a  blow-by- 
blow  account  of  his  bitter 
and  successful  takeover  battle  for 
Paramount  Pictures.  Students  were 
also  fascinated  by  lectures  given 
recently  by  Richard  Rosenberg,  CEO 
of  Bank  of  America,-  Kevin 
Mulvaney,  president  of  DRI/ 
McGraw  Hill;  Thomas  Friedman 
'75,  Pulitzer  Prize-winning 
columnist  of  The  New  York  Times-, 
Theodor  Schmidt-Scheuber,  CEO  of 
Dresdner-NY,  the  international 
securities  affiliate  of  Dresdner  Bank; 
and  many  other  men  and  women 
who  live  immersed  in  the  issues 
discussed  in  the  classroom.  Just 
as  impressive  lecturers  are  brought 
to  campus,  major  events  and 
conferences  are  sponsored — 
meetings  that  are  attended  by 
ambassadors  and  senior  public 
officials  including  Senator  John 
Kerry  and  Governor  William  Weld. 

The  Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics  and 
Finance  is  on  a  growth  path,  with  a 
plan  to  reach  maximum  potential 
without  sacrificing  its  intimacy  and 
sense  of  community.  Four  years 
ago  there  were  roughly  30  students 
in  the  program.  The  Class  of  1997 
is  expected  to  be  about  40,  and  there 
is  a  goal  of  50  students  per  class 
within  the  next  two  or  three  years. 
"At  that  point  we  will  be  up 
against  capacity,  in  terms  of  space 


and  faculty,"  explains  Kino  Ruth, 
associate  director,  his  staccato 
delivery  packed  with  facts  and 
analysis.  "But  also  we  feel  that  is  as 
large  as  we  can  go  and  yet  also 
maintain  the  sense  of  community — 
the  fact  that  everyone  knows 
everyone  else  very  well,  and  that 
you  have  close  faculty-student  and 
close  staff-student  interaction, 
which  IS  a  very  big  piece  of  our 
program." 

Being  in  the  midst  of  this  intimate 
environment  has  added  benefits  for 
students  when  half  of  their  peers 
are  from  35  different  countries.  With 
50  students  per  class  in  the  degree 
class,  and  with  80  percent  of  the 
classes  under  25  students,  a  sense  of 
cohesion,  team  building,  and  sharing 
of  experiences  is  pervasive.  In  fact, 
talk  to  the  graduates,  and  you 
will  hear  a  recurring  theme:  that 
they  value  teamwork,  that  they 
broadened  their  horizons  by  learning 
from  diverse  international 
colleagues,  and  that  they  built  an 
invaluable  international  network  of 
contacts  and  friends. 

Applications  have  risen  by  double 
digits  every  year.  For  the  incoming 
class  this  fall,  six  or  seven 
applicants  are  anticipated  for  every 
person  that  actually  enrolls. 
Admission  is  selective  in  terms  of 
quantitative  ability  and  foreign 
language  proficiency,  work 
experience,  sense  of  purpose, 


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diversity,  and  just  simple 
motivation.  But  it  is  not  rigid.  Ruth 
explains:  "As  a  young  program,  v^e 
are  a  lot  more  flexible  and  interested 
in  the  individual  than,  for  example, 
the  business  schools.  A  lot  of  the 
business  schools  have  'cookie 
cutter'  requirements:  two  years 
minimal  work  experience,  a 
minimum  G.P.A.,  a  minimum 
GMAT.  We  don't  have  that.  Since 
50  percent  of  our  student  body  is 
international,  we  look  at  the  overall 
quality  of  applicants  and  get 
outstanding  and  varied  students." 

Historical  numbers  are  SI  percent 
American,  49  percent  international, 
and  the  graduate  school  strives  to 
keep  that  balance.  Many  of  the 
second-year  students  are  abroad  on 
their  overseas  semester.  From  18 
schools  that  Brandeis  has 
relationships  with  worldwide,  there 
were  25  students  here  from  abroad 
last  fall,  and  there  were  eight  Ph.D. 
students.  So  if  you  look  at  the 
roughly  75  students  on  campus  in 
the  program  last  fall,  approximately 
two-thirds  were  international,  one- 
third  American.  "There's  probably 
no  program  in  the  United  States  that 
is  that  internationally  diverse,"  says 
Ruth.  "Right  now  we  have  the 
highest  concentration  of  Latin 
American  Fulbright  Scholars  ever 
sent  to  one  program  in  one  year.  We 
have  seven  Fulbrighters  here.  It 
speaks  to  the  quality  of  the 
program." 

What  better  way  to  learn  how  to  do 
work  internationally  than  to  go 
to  study  internationally  in  another 
language  at  the  graduate  level?  A 
unique  feature  of  the  program  is  the 
overseas  semester  requirement. 
Fluency  in  a  second  language 
is  mandatory.  The  participating 
network  of  18  schools  located 
in  Europe,  Asia,  and  Latin  America 
is  growing  by  one  or  two  a  year. 
For  example,  the  best  business 
school  in  Germany  has  a  very  large 
exchange  program,  where  they  bring 
about  125  M.B.A.  students  from  all 
over  the  world  each  semester.  So 
Brandeis  students  take  four  or  five 
classes,  become  fluent  m  German, 
meet  German  students  plus  a 
cadre  of  other  similarly  qualified 
master's  level  candidates  from  all 
over  the  world,  and  spend  six 
months  living  in  the  midst  of  it  all. 


Right  now  we  have 
the  highest 
concentration  of  Latin 
American  Fulbright 
Scholars  ever 
sent  to 

one  program  in 
one  year. 


A  case  in  point:  a  student  who  spoke 
not  a  word  of  Spanish  decided 
that  he  wanted  to  get  involved  in 
Latin  America.  He  spent  the  first 
year  taking  the  full  load  of  graduate 
courses,  plus  intensive  language 
courses  each  semester.  Then  he 
went  to  Barcelona,  taking  graduate 
level  courses  in  Spanish  for  total 
immersion.  By  the  end  of 
that  semester  he  was  fluent.  He 
graduated  from  the  program 
one  semester  later,  got  a  job  with 
Chiquita  brands,  and  they  sent 
him  to  Panama,  where  he  worked 
for  two  years  in  Chiquita  Brands 
corporate  finance.  Now  he  has  been 
in  Medellin  for  two  years,  as 
the  only  American — a  6-foot-3-inch- 
blond,  blue-eyed  Texan — running 
the  corporate  finance  department  for 
Chiquita  Brands  in  Latin  America, 
obviously  speaking  fluent  Spanish 
every  day. 

The  vision  that  no  one  was  training 
people  to  work  technically  in  the 
international  marketplace  has  tested 


well — graduates  are  virtually  100 
percent  placed.  Thirty-two  percent 
are  in  banking  and  finance,  21 
percent  are  in  investment  banking, 
20  percent  are  in  business  or 
management  consulting,  focused  on 
accounting  and  international  work, 
16  percent  are  in  the  corporate  arena 
and  1 1  percent  are  in  the  public 
sector.  They  are  not  stuck  in  one 
trajectory,  however — graduates  are 
equipped  with  skills  that  are 
applicable  across  career  paths.  A 
significant  portion  of  them  obtain 
positions  abroad,  in  locations 
including  Budapest,  Hong  Kong, 
Istanbul,  London,  Mexico  City, 
Moscow,  Prague,  Tokyo, 
Uzbekistan,  and  Vienna.  Among  the 
alumni  who  are  advancing  rapidly 
are  Robert  Brown  '89,  the  head  of 
Asian  Counterparty  Risk  with 
Morgan  Stanley,  Tokyo;  fuan 
Buendia  '93,  vice  president  in 
emerging  markets  investments  at 
Citibank,  New  York;  Thomas  Racky 
'90,  senior  executive  at  Morgan 
Grenfell,  London;  and  Paula  Spencer 
'91,  bank  examiner  with  the  Federal 
Reserve  Bank  of  Boston. 

Imagine  the  opportunities:  the  CEO 
of  a  major  bank  rolls  up  his  shirt 
sleeves  and  sits  around  a  table  with 
15  or  20  students  and  chats  about 
whatever  comes  up.  Three  senior 
executives  of  one  of  the  major  firms 
in  the  world  teach  20  students  in 
class  about  what  they  do  day  to  day. 
One  of  the  major  experts  on  Asian 
trade  gives  students  a  view  from  his 
vantage  point.  Good  contacts  at 
the  World  Bank,  the  United  Nations, 
the  U.S.  Government,  the  U.S. 
Office  of  Trade  Representatives 
create  myriad  opportunities  for 
visiting  lecturers.  The  point  is  that 
Brandeis  University's  Graduate 
School  of  International  Economics 
and  Finance  connects  students 
to  real  world  people  and  situations, 
gives  them  a  unique  set  of  tools, 
and  sends  them  for  a  semester 
abroad  to  become  immersed  in  the 
culture  and  language  that  they  hope 
to  eventually  embrace.  Expect  to  see 
them  in  tomorrow's  newspapers,  in 
positions  with  clout  that  influence 
global  economy  and  business.  ■ 


Despite  tough 
challenges  ahead 
for  U.S. -Asian 
economic 

diplomacy,  the  past 
six  years  point 
to  a  bright  future 
for  an  open, 
vigorous  Pacific- 
wide  trading  system 


A  P  E  C  :  America's  New 

Anchor 
in  tlie  Pacific 


by  Nancy  Adams, 

Peter  A.  Petri. 

and  Michael  G.  Plummer 


A  land  of  mystery,  intrigue,  and  profit,  Asia  has 
fascinated  American  business  for  300  years. 
Some  of  Boston's  earliest  fortunes  were  made  in 
the  China  trade.  In  1919,  the  Irving  National  Bank 
concluded  that  "...the  Far  Eastern  market  is 
capable  of  almost  unlimited  expansion...."  In 
1994,  the  Department  of  Commerce  established  a 
"big  emerging  markets"  program  focused  in  large 
part  on  China,  India,  Indonesia,  and  Korea. 

Over  the  past  decade,  U.S.  economic  interests 
have  shifted  decisively  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific.  America's  Asian  trade  surpassed  its 
European  trade  in  the  mid-1980s,  and  now 
exceeds  it  by  50  percent.  As  of  1992,  Asia  also 
hosts  nine  percent  of  U.S.  foreign  investment — 
approximately  on  a  par  with  Latin  America — and 
supplies  the  bulk  of  financing  for  U.S.  deficits.  A 
World  Bank  study  projected  that  half  of  the 
increase  in  world  imports  in  the  next  decade  will 
come  from  East  Asia. 

The  United  States,  in  turn,  is  an  important  engine 
of  East  Asian  growth.  American  and  now  North 
American  Free  Trade  Agreement  (NAFTA) 
markets  are  highly  valued  by  Asian  producers, 
especially  in  the  advanced  manufacturing 
industries  that  are  crucial  to  Asian 
industrialization.  Asia  also  benefits  from 
participating  in  the  globalization  of  American 
business.  The  United  States  offers  technology 
and  deep  and  diverse  capital  markets  to  the 
region,  and  plays  a  critical  role  in  keeping  it 
secure.  Still,  the  United  States  cannot  take  its 
Asian  relationships  for  granted.  As  East  Asia 
diversifies  its  trade,  the  share  of  the  United  States 
is  declining.  Most  of  East  Asia's  investment 
originates  in  the  region  itself,  with  Hong  Kong, 
Korea,  and  Taiwan  serving  as  important  investors, 
in  addition  to  Japan. 

The  much-heralded  Pacific  Century  has  arrived. 
Increasing  access  to  Asian  markets  is  as 
important  to  the  United  States  as  access  to 
American  markets  is  to  Asia.  The  directions  of 
U.S.  economic  policy  and  the  strategies  of  our 
strongest  companies  recognize  these  facts.  Great 
differences  between  U.S.  and  Asian  societies  and 
their  business  practices  complicate  the 
relationship,  however,  and  have  begun  to  pose 
challenges  to  policymakers  on  both  sides  of  the 
Pacific.  How  these  differences  are  handled  will 
greatly  affect  both  U.S.  and  Asian  economic 
performance  in  the  decades  ahead. 


Centrifugal  Forces  in  the  Pacific 

The  history  of  American-Asian  relations  is 
stormy — the  three  major  wars  fought  by  the 
United  States  in  the  past  50  years  involved 
Asian  adversaries.  Relations  with  Asia  are  now 
peaceful,  but  economic  frictions  persist,  and 
devolve  into  acrimonious  exchanges  more 
frequently  and  more  quickly  than  with  other  trade 
partners.  In  just  the  last  few  months,  for 
example,  the  United  States  threatened  to 
impose  severe  trade  sanctions,  once  on  China 
and  twice  on  Japan,  and  sharply  reprimanded 
the  human  rights  positions  of  China,  Indonesia, 
and  Singapore. 

To  some  extent,  these  confrontations  reflect 
misunderstandings.  Many  Asians  do  not  take 
America's  commitment  to  free  trade  at  face 
value,  while  Americans  often  fail  to  appreciate 
how  deeply  ingrained  business-to-business  and 
business-to-government  networks  are  in  Asian 
economic  life.  Misunderstandings  also  occur,  in 
part,  because  those  threatened  by  trade  (e.g. 
rice  farmers  in  Japan)  are  relatively  vocal 
compared  to  those  who  benefit  from  trade  (e.g. 
all  of  us  who  have  enjoyed  a  dramatic 
improvement  in  the  quality  of  automobiles  as  a 
result  of  competition).  Politicians  and  the  media 
in  the  United  States  tend  to  convert 
misunderstandings  into  pressures  to  "do 
something  now":  in  Japan  and  elsewhere  in  Asia 
the  pressure  from  politicians  and  the  media  is  to 
"say  no." 

But  trans-PaclfIc  tensions  are  also  rooted  in 
deep  differences  in  how  the  United  States  and 
Asian  countries  manage  their  economic  affairs, 
and  how  they  view  their  responsibilities  toward 
other  countries.  The  economies  of  Japan,  South 
Korea,  Taiwan,  and,  of  course,  China,  have  all 
been  more  state-directed  than  those  of  the 
West,  and  their  policies  still  "tilt  the  playing  field" 
in  favor  of  local  producers  over  local  consumers 
and  foreign  competitors.  Asians  frequently 
tolerate  business  practices  that  restrict  the 
access  of  outsiders  and  would  be  considered 
unfair,  or  even  blatantly  discriminatory  and 
illegal,  in  the  United  States.  Moreover,  there  are 
large  gaps  between  the  United  States  and  parts 
of  Asia  with  respect  to  workers'  nghts.  worker 
and  consumer  safety,  and  protection  of  the 
environment. 

From  World  War  II  until  the  1980s,  these 
tensions  were  held  in  check  by  the  preeminent 
economic  and  military  position  of  the  United 
States.  But  Asian  economies  have  grown  and 
diversified  their  trade  and  investment  throughout 
the  world.  U.S.  markets,  though  still  important  to 
Asians,  are  not  as  important  as  they  used  to  be. 
Similarly.  U.S.  power  enhances  Asian  security, 
but  IS  not  as  critical  as  it  was  at  the  height  of  the 
Cold  War.  Finally,  an  "Asian  identity"  is 
beginning  to  emerge;  Asians  are  proud  of  their 
accomplishments  and  confident  about  the 


superiority  of  their  legal  and  economic 
institutions.  All  of  these  trends  need  to  be 
managed,  lest  they  disrupt  a  vital  and  mutually 
beneficial  relationship  between  the  United 
States  and  Asia. 

Ultimately,  vigorous  trans-Pacific  economic 
exchange  is  in  the  interest  of  all  Asia-Pacific 
countries,  and  indeed  the  world.  To  maintain 
such  exchange,  however,  new  regional 
institutions  of  cooperation  need  to  be  developed. 
Some  believe  the  postwar  system,  based  on  the 
hegemonic  position  of  the  United  States,  must 
be  replaced  by  multilateral  solutions  that 
balance  U.S.  interests  with  those  of  China, 
Japan,  and  other  countries.  The  new  framework 
must  facilitate  the  resolution  of  regional 
disputes,  stimulate  the  opening  of  markets,  and 
promote  deeper  integration  of  the  region's 
economies. 

The  APEC  Solution 

As  early  as  the  1960s  Professor  Kiyoshi  Kojima 
of  Japan  proposed  a  free  trade  area  spanning 
U.S.,  Japanese,  and  Southeast  Asian  markets. 
These  ideas  attracted  interest  from  economists, 
but  little  happened  until  the  mid-1980s.  In 
January  1989,  Australia  formally  proposed  the 
creation  of  an  Asia-Pacific  Economic 
Cooperation  (APEC)  forum.  Interestingly,  the 
plan  would  have  excluded  the  United  States, 
and  that  was  just  enough  to  get  the  United 
States  interested.  Secretary  of  State  James 
Baker  declared  a  "new  Pacific  partnership," 
jumped  on  the  APEC  bandwagon,  and  led  a 
blue-ribbon  delegation  of  U.S.  officials  to  the 
APEC's  first  ministerial  meeting  in  Canberra  in 
November  1989. 

APEC's  early  years  were  unremarkable.  The 
annual  ministerial  meetings  in  Singapore  (1990), 
Seoul  (1991),  and  Bangkok  (1992)  articulated 
cautious  goals  and  established  working  groups 
in  such  noncontroversial  areas  as  human 
resource  development,  tourism,  and  data 
collection.  As  for  trade,  APEC  focused  its 
energies  on  lobbying  for  a  successful  conclusion 
to  the  Uruguay  Round  of  the  General  Agreement 
on  Trade  and  Tariffs  (GATT).  APEC  succeeded 
in  resolving  one  thorny  issue  by  becoming  the 
only  international  organization  to  include  the 
"three  Chinas" — Hong  Kong  and  both  China  and 
Taiwan,  which  are  technically  still  in  a  state  of 
civil  war.  With  the  three  major  regional  powers, 
China.  Japan,  and  the  United  States  as 
members,  APEC  had  the  clout  to  address  any 
and  all  important  issues. 

APEC's  host  country  rotates  each  year,  and  in 
1993  President  Clinton  took  advantage  of  the 
turn  of  the  United  States  to  invite  other  APEC 


Over  the  past  decade, 
U.S.  economic  interests 
have  shifted  decisively 
from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific.  America's  Asian 
trade  surpassed  its 
European  trade  in  the 
mid-1980s,  and  now 
exceeds  it  by  50  percent. 


...vigorous  trans-Pacific 
economic  exctiange  is  in 
the  interest  of  all  Asia- 
Pacific  countries,  and 
indeed  the  world.  To 
maintain  such  exchange, 
however,  new  regional 
institutions  of 
cooperation  need  to  be 
developed. 


heads-ot-state,  instead  of  ministers,  to  the 
annual  meeting  held  on  Blake  Island,  near 
Seattle,  Washington.  The  Seattle  meeting  was  a 
milestone  in  economic  cooperation  and  offered  a 
powerful  contrast  to  the  formal  summits  of  the 
developed  G-7  nations,  then  locked  in  a  bitter 
stalemate  on  the  Uruguay  Round  of  the  GATT. 
No  agreements  were  signed  in  Seattle,  but 
important  institutions  were  launched,  including  a 
private-sector  Pacific  Business  Forum  group, 
which  has  since  emerged  as  a  powerful 
advocate  of  freer  trade,  and  a  Committee  on 
Trade  and  Investment,  which  addresses  trade 
facilitation  and  liberalization  issues. 

In  addition,  the  leaders  kept  alive  the  Eminent 
Persons'  Group  (EPG),  an  international 
committee  of  nongovernmental  experts  who  had 
been  charged  for  the  Seattle  meetings  with 
drafting  a  "vision"  for  APEC.  By  calling  for 
regional  free  trade,  the  EPG's  vision  turned  out 
to  be  one  of  the  most  controversial  aspects  of 
the  Seattle  summit.  The  idea  of  an  open  Asia- 
Pacific  trade  and  investment  system  became  the 
dramatic  centerpiece  of  the  next  leaders' 
meeting  in  Bogor,  Indonesia,  in  1994.  President 
Soeharto  of  Indonesia,  perhaps  wishing  to  leave 
a  permanent  mark  as  APEC's  host,  led  the 
leaders  to  agree  on  free  and  open  trade  and 
investment  in  the  Asia-Pacific  by  the  year  2020, 
with  more  advanced  countries  opening  their 
markets  by  2010.  The  leaders  commissioned  a 
plan  of  action,  which  is  now  being  drafted  for 
discussion  in  the  November  1995  meetings  in 
Osaka,  Japan. 

In  1989.  few  would  have  predicted  that  within 
five  years  APEC  would  be  planning  the 
wholesale  liberalization  of  Asia-Pacific  trade. 
The  practice  of  rotating  leadership,  which  has 
created  a  strong  incentive  for  a  new  host  country 
to  generate  progress  each  year,  has  led  to  some 
unexpected  and  remarkable  achievements.  To 
be  sure,  results  so  far  are  abstract 
commitments,  not  agreements,  and  the 
effectiveness  of  APEC  remains  to  be  tested  in 
circumstances  that  require  genuine  concessions 
by  an  important  member.  That  test  is  underway 
this  year. 

ChaUenges  to  APEC 

Despite  its  rapid  progress,  APEC  faces  great 
uncertainty.  It  is  easily  the  most  diverse 
organization  in  the  world.  Its  members  range  in 
population  from  150,000  to  1 .2  billion,  in  per 
capita  income  from  $610  to  $28,190,  and  include 
some  of  the  most  open  and  some  of  the  most 
regulated  economies  in  the  world.  With  such 
diversity,  consensus  is  hard  to  come  by.  Some 
Asian  countries  object  to  formalizing  APEC  into 
an  organization  and  some  do  not  even  want  the 


word  "negotiation"  to  enter  its  lexicon.  Asian 
members  also  complain  of  the  legalistic  mind-set 
of  Anglo-Saxon  members,  contrasting  the  4,000 
pages  it  took  to  spell  out  the  NAFTA  with  the 
dozen  or  so  pages  that  launched  the  ASEAN 
Free  Trade  Agreement  concluded  among  six 
Southeast  Asian  countries.  Asians  fear  that  a 
legalistic  framework  will  give  Anglo-Saxon 
countries  an  advantage,  a  lever  to  probe  and 
penetrate  Asian  markets  and  to  exclude  imports 
from  Asia. 

These  objections  crystallized  in  the  proposal  for 
an  East  Asian  Economic  Group  (EAEG) — 
essentially  APEC  without  Australia,  New 
Zealand,  and  North  America.  In  the  view  of  its 
proponent.  Prime  Minister  Mahathir  of  Malaysia, 
the  EAEG  would  protect  Asian  economies  from 
the  "new  protectionism"  of  the  West,  i.e.  to  the 
increased  use  of  antidumping  duties,  voluntary 
export  restraints,  global  quotas,  and  unilateral 
trade  sanctions.  It  would  also  provide  bargaining 
leverage  against  free  trade  agreements 
elsewhere,  including  the  European  Community 
and  NAFTA. 

The  United  States  opposed  the  EAEG,  feahng 
the  emergence  of  an  Asian  bloc  that  would 
undermine  the  possibilities  for  economic 
integration  just  beginning  to  emerge  under 
APEC.  Still  dependent  on  American  markets, 
Japan  and  other  Asian  partners  eventually 
prompted  Mahathir  to  abandon  the  EAEG  idea  in 
its  original  form,  and  in  January  1992,  the 
proposal  was  downgraded  to  a  less  divisive 
"East  Asian  Economic  Caucus"  (EAEC).  The 
United  States  continues  to  object  to  the  EAEC, 
and  Japan  and  some  East  Asian  countries 
remain  skeptical,  but  the  idea  appeals  to  Asian 
pride  and  has  strategic  value  for  some  smaller 
countries. 

Osaka  and  Beyond 

In  November  1995,  APEC  heads-of-state  will 
meet  in  Osaka,  Japan.  It  will  not  be  easy  to 
match  the  far-reaching  results  of  Bogor.  The 
goal  of  free  trade  in  the  Asia  Pacific,  even  in  a 
25-year  time  frame,  is  ambitious  and 
controversial.  Since  APEC  needs  a  reasonable 
degree  of  consensus,  its  progress  can  be 
slowed  by  significant  opposition,  and  this  year's 
host,  Japan,  has  faced  a  string  of  problems  that 
overshadow  APEC.  These  include  the  Great 
Hanshin  earthquake,  the  gas  attack  in  Tokyo, 
domestic  political  upheaval,  the  dramatic 
appreciation  of  the  yen,  and  severe  trade  conflict 
with  the  United  States. 

While  Bogor  involved  abstract  commitments, 
Osaka  must  begin  to  translate  vision  into  action. 
This  requires  immediate  steps,  as  well  as 
concrete  long-term  plans.  The  Osaka  meetings 
could,  for  example,  signal  a  senousness  of 


32  Brandeis  Review 


APEC 

and  Brandeis 


purpose  by  agreeing  to  accelerate  the 
liberalization  programs  ttiat  countries  have 
already  accepted  under  the  Uruguay  Round. 
The  meetings  could  also  mandate  new 
measures  to  facilitate  trade  by  simplifying 
customs  procedures  or  developing  common 
standards  for  products  imported  into  different 
countries.  Finally,  the  leaders  could  map  out  a 
general  strategy  for  achieving  the  goal  of 
regional  free  trade  and  investment  by  2020. 

Great  diplomatic  care  will  be  needed  to  achieve 
these  outcomes  in  Osaka.  The  policies  of  the 
Clinton  administration  and  the  ideas  of  C.  Fred 
Bergsten,  the  American  chair  of  the  Eminent 
Persons  Group,  have  thus  far  been  the  driving 
forces  in  APEC's  progress.  Some  Asian  partners 
feel  that  APEC  is  moving  too  rapidly  and  that 
America  has  gone  beyond  leading  to  dominating 
the  process.  Others  recognize  that  creative 
ideas  are  a  necessary  component  of  this  very 
new  process.  On  the  whole,  however,  APEC's 
future  is  bright,  and  the  logic  of  an  open, 
vigorous  Pacific-wide  trading  system  is 
overwhelming.  The  rotation  of  meetings  among 
APEC  member-states  has  created  an  inclusive 
approach  to  decision  making,  with  strong 
incentives  for  host  countries  to  advance  the 
APEC  process.  The  process  is  also  receiving 
strong  support  from  private  groups.  The  Pacific 
Business  Forum,  for  example,  recommended  an 
even  faster  liberalization  schedule  than  the  one 
adopted  in  Bogor,  setting  2010,  rather  than 
2020,  as  the  target  date  for  open  markets. 

APEC's  new  institutions  are  also  becoming 
active  proponents  of  regional  integration  and 
exchange.  The  APEC  Secretariat  in  Singapore, 
though  small,  is  becoming  an  information 
resource  on  a  wide  range  of  regional  issues. 
APEC's  myriad  working  groups  address  many 
key  issues,  and  APEC  is  becoming  involved  in 
educational  exchange,  technology  transfer, 
small-  and  medium-size  enterprise  development, 
and  protection  of  the  environment.  APEC  has 
also  encouraged  the  growth  of  APEC  Study 
Centers  (see  sidebar),  which  promote 
international  research  projects,  encourage 
faculty  and  student  exchange,  and  stimulate 
curriculum  development. 

Considering  the  tremendous  diversity  of  the 
Asia-Pacific  region,  APEC  has  a  great  deal  to 
show  for  its  six  years.  It  is  worth  recalling  that 
the  much  more  homogeneous  European 
Community  did  not  get  the  Common  Market  off 
the  ground  until  more  than  30  years  after  it 
started.  And  while  APEC  poses  a  tough 
challenge  for  U.S.  and  Asian  economic 
diplomacy,  it  promises  a  way  to  promote  the 
vitality  of  the  Asia-Pacific  relationship  for  another 
three  centuries. 


The  Asia-Pacific  Center 
for  Economics  and 
Business  (APC), 
established  in  1994  in  the 
Graduate  School  of 
International  Economics 
and  Finance,  plays  an 
active  role  in  Asia-Pacific 
research  and  policy- 
making. Earlier  this  year, 
it  was  designated  one  of 
13  official  APEC  Study 
Centers  and  the  only  one 
in  New  England,  making  it 
part  of  a  network  of 
universities  with  special 
expertise  in  regional 
economic  integration.  In 
its  first  months  of 
operation,  the  APC  has 
attracted  nearly  $500,000 
In  external  research 
funding.  Several  Brandeis 
faculty  members 
participate  in  the  Pacific 
Economic  Cooperation 
Council  (PECO),  the 
private  counterpart  of 
APEC,  and  the  Pacific 
Trade  and  Development 
Conference  (PAFTAD), 
the  30-year-old  academic 
think-tank  of  Asian 
economic  integration,  and 
consult  with  major 
regional  organizations 
and  governments. 


The  Center's  current 
activities  include  a  large 
research  project  with 
Keio  University  in  Tokyo 
and  the  East-West  Center 
in  Hawaii,  and  various 
collaborations  with  the 
Institute  of  Southeast 
Asian  Studies  in 
Singapore,  the  World 
Bank,  and  major  Chinese 
statistical  and  policy- 
making bodies. 
Brandeis's  expertise  in 
Asia  and  APEC  is  also 
finding  its  way  into 
teaching  and  the 
curriculum.  Several  high- 
level  regional  officials 
have  visited  Brandeis  to 
speak  with  students  and 
faculty,  and  a  major 
international  conference 
drawing  70  distinguished 
Asian  economists  was 
held  in  1994.  This  fall,  two 
new  short  courses  will  be 
offered  on  the  Asian 
Economic  Miracle  and 
APEC,  featuring  a  unique, 
on-line  Internet  dialogue 
among  students  and 
experts  from  throughout 
the  region. 


Nancy  Adams 
is  assistant 
U.S.  Trade 
Representative  for 
APEC  Affairs. 


Peter  Petri 
is  dean  of  the 
Graduate  School 
of  International 
Economics 
and  Finance  and 
the  Carl  Shapiro 
Professor 
of  International 
Finance  at 
Brandeis. 


Michael  G. 
Plummer  is  an 
assistant  professor 
of  economics 
in  the  Graduate 
School  of 
International 
Economics 
and  Finance  at 
Brandeis. 


33  Summer  1995 


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°i-/(, 


Since  1958,  a  growing  networl<  of 
higlily  Influential  alumni  has  been 
spreading  around  the  globe,  thanks 
to  the  innovative  philanthropy  of 
Lawrence  Wien. 


At  the  end  of  a  busy  day,  in  a  rare 
quiet  moment,  might  you  question 
why  you  spend  your  time  the  way 
you  do?  In  that  reflective  mood, 
when  you  ask  what  has  meaning, 
when  you  ponder  what  really 
matters — take  a  moment  to  think 
of  Lawrence  Wien.  He  had  an 
answer  that  worked  for  him,  and 
he  passionately  believed  the 
same  answer  would  work  for  you. 
As  he  tells  it: 


'A  man  once  said  if  you  were  to  have 
$86,400  in  the  bank  every  day  of 
your  life,  and  you  had  the  right 
to  spend  that  money  in  any  way  that 
you  want — on  yourself,  you  could 
give  It  away,  you  could  throw  it 
away,  you  could  be  extravagant,  you 
could  do  anything  you  want  with  it. 
The  only  condition  being  that 
you  could  not  carry  any  of  it  over 
into  the  following  day.  Wouldn't 
that  be  wonderful? 

"The  fact  is,  my  friends,  that  each  of 
us  has  a  bank  of  86,400  seconds 
every  day  of  our  lives.  And  we 
can  use  those  seconds  in  any  way 
that  we  want.  Constructively, 
wastefully,  cruelly,  kindly,  but  we 
cannot  carry  any  of  them  over  to 
the  following  day.  And  I  recommend 
to  you  that  you  use  your  banks  of 
seconds  selfishly.  Use  them  to  give 
you  the  greatest  happiness  that 
you  can  create  for  yourself.  And  I 
submit  that  intelligent  selfishness 
will  make  you  participate  in  the 


The  Wien  scholars  are  seen  as 
ambassadors,  learning  about 
America  and  bringing  diverse 
cultures  to  the  Brandeis  community. 


helping  of  your  sisters  and  brothers 
throughout  the  world.  And  helping 
others,  who  not  only  will  benefit 
from  your  help,  but  will  create 
for  you  a  sense  of  enjoyment  and 
satisfaction  that  you  can  find 
nowhere  else.  And  someday,  here  on 
earth,  or  perhaps  somewhere  else, 
someone  or  some  being  will  say 
to  you,  'You  have  used  your  seconds 
well,  and  the  world — the  world 
is  better  because  you  were  there.'" 

He  could  be  describing  himself. 
A  major  benefactor  with  huge  and 
widespread  impact,  Wien  used  those 
words  in  his  address  at  the  25th 
anniversary  celebration  of  the  Wien 
International  Scholarship  Program. 
By  then  it  was  hard  to  imagine  the 
Brandeis  campus  without  the  Wien 
scholars  who  contribute  so  much. 
But  there  was  a  time  when  almost 
no  international  students  came  to 
study  in  the  United  States. 

The  original  idea  was  Abram 
Sachar's.  As  Wien  explains:  "Abe 
said,  'You  know  it  would  be  a 
wonderful  thing  if  we  developed  an 
international  scholarship  program, 
under  which  students  from  all  over 
the  world  could  come  to  Brandeis, 
and  it  would  make  the  student  body 
more  representative  of  the  entire 
world.'  Sachar  added,  'This  is  an 
expensive  thing,  it  will  cost  about 
five  million  dollars.'  I  said,  'Well 
there  are  two  people  I  know  who  can 
afford  it.'"  An  appointment  was 
made  to  see  one  of  them  in  his  office 
in  Chicago.  And,  says  Wien,  "I  made 
the  most  brilliant  presentation 
of  this,  that  this  was  an  opportunity 
for  a  man  to  become  famous — this 
was  really  more  significant  than 
the  Rhodes  Scholarships.  And  when 
I  got  through  with  my  brilliant 
presentation,  he  said  'Larry,  You're 
very  right,  it's  wonderful,  but  I  can't 
do  It  because  I  just  gave  $15  million 


34  Brandeis  Review 


to  Northwestern  University  and 
Chicago  University.'  And  as  we're 
going  back  on  the  plane  I  said, 
'For  God's  sake,  you  know  I  can't 
understand  how  he  could  turn 
down  an  opportunity  like  this.'  I  had 
convinced  myself  that  this  was 
something  that  somebody  should  do. 
So  I  did  It  myself." 

Lawrence  and  Mae  Wien  created  the 
Wien  International  Scholarship 
Program  (WISP)  in  1958  with 
three  objectives  in  mind:  to  further 
international  understanding,  to 
provide  students  from  other 
countries  with  an  opportunity 
to  study  in  the  United  States,  and 
to  enrich  the  intellectual  and 
cultural  life  of  the  Brandeis  campus. 
Almost  40  years  later,  scores  of 
individual  lives — of  the  visiting 
scholars  as  well  as  their  peers 
and  professors — have  been  affected 
m  exactly  the  manner  that  the 
Wiens  had  hoped. 

"This  gave  so  many  of  these  students 
their  start,"  explains  Faire 
Goldstein,  who  spent  18  years 
running  the  program  from  1976  to 
1994.  "At  the  time  the  program 
started  in  I9S8,  there  was  virtually 
no  money  for  internationals  in 
the  United  States.  There  wasn't  a 
lot  of  educational  exchange.  So 
this  was  an  extraordinary  program." 
The  Wien  scholars  are  seen 
as  ambassadors,  learning  about 
America  and  bringing  diverse 
cultures  to  the  Brandeis  community. 
Adds  Goldstein,  "They  were 
supposed  to  get  an  education,  they 
were  supposed  to  enrich  the  campus 
and  open  the  world  to  a  particular 
parochial  kind  of  student, 
which  IS  not  the  Brandeis  student 


necessarily,  but  the  American 
student.  American  students  know 
virtually  nothing  about  the 
world — they  cannot  conceive  of  a 
lifestyle  different  from  their  own." 

Applicants  numbered  as  many 
as  900  for  some  25  places,  and,  says 
Linda  Nathanson,  former 
associate  director  of  the  Office  of 
International  Programs  who  worked 
on  all  aspects  of  the  Wien  program 
for  12  years  with  Goldstein,  "I  don't 
say  it  was  easy  to  read  those  files — it 
wasn't.  But  it  was  easy  to  say  rather 
quickly,  'this  person  doesn't  have 
what  we  consider  to  be  the  bedrock 
requirement,  which  is  that  he  or  she 
be  very  promising  academically.' 
Then  we  looked  at  the  whole  gamut 
of  other  criteria — leadership, 
contribution  to  their  own  society. 
Our  ideal  Wien  scholar  was  outgoing 
enough  to  be  able  to  bring  the 
world  to  the  students  that  he  or  she 
met.  'This  is  what  my  country  is 
like,  this  is  what  our  problems  are.' 
I  personally  am  a  great  believer  that 
the  way  people  learn  is  through 
individuals — that  you  will  know 
Greece  through  one  Greek  student 
that  you  lived  with  that  year,  you 
became  friends  with,  and  during 
those  informal  conversations,  Greek 
problems  come  alive,  Greek  reality 
comes  alive.  So  that  for  your  whole 
life,  you'll  focus  when  you  read 
the  newspaper,  because  it's  hard  to 
imagine  the  abstractness  of  a 
country,  but  very  easy  for  it  to 
become  real  through  this  human 
being.  And  that's  what  I  always 
hoped  the  Wiens,  or  any  of  the 
international  students,  would  do." 

Continuing  contact  with  Wien 
students  was  an  unusual  and  greatly 
appreciated  facet  of  her  job, 
Nathanson  explains.  "Most 


Lawrence  Wien  and 
WISP  students  from 
Sweden.  Nigeria. 
Norway,  and  India  in 
October  1 960 


admissions  officers  read  the  file, 
discuss  it,  and  close  the  file. 
Rarely  do  they  have  continuing 
contact  with  students.  But 
Faire  and  I  were  responsible  for  the 
orientation,  and  for  all 
the  undergraduate  international 
students  right  through  the 
four  years.  We  counseled  them,  we 
worked  with  them  m  a  number 
of  ways.  So  we  were  able  to  accept 
students,  based  on  a  really  good 
hunch  about  them,  and  then  get  to 
see  them  develop."  Staying  in 
contact  with  former  Wien  scholars, 
Nathanson  adds,  "I  always  felt 
that  I  learned  at  least  as  much  from 
them  as  they  learned  from  me. 
Well,  really  more  so." 

Wien  scholars  face  an  adjustment 
when  they  arrive  on  campus 
from  afar,  but  they  take  delight  in 
a  new  challenge.  Reena  Shakya, 
a  20-year-old  current  Wien  Scholar 
studying  biochemistry,  plans  to  use 
science  in  the  field  of  development 
to  have  a  positive  impact  when 
she  goes  home  to  Nepal.  Her  focus, 
her  maturity,  her  ability  to  embrace 
the  American  culture  while  sharing 
her  own  background  is  evident  when 
she  talks  enthusiastically  about 
her  experience  at  Brandeis.  Working 


There  are  now  over  700  graduates 
from  more  than  100  countries,  they 
are  involved  in  vastly  varied 
professions,  and  make  substantial 
contributions  all  over  the  world. 


in  a  lab  and  at  the  international 
students  and  scholars  office, 
expecting  to  visit  home  possibly 
once  in  four  years  here,  she  looks 
back  on  her  first  year  and  sums 
it  up:  "Right  now  I  feel  very  much 
at  home." 

The  Wien  program  was  especially 
dear  to  Wien,  to  his  wife,  and  to 
his  family,  because,  says  Nathanson, 
'when  you  start  to  meet  the  Wien 
alumni  as  they  come  back  over  the 
nearly  40  years  that  this  has  been  in 
existence,  you  realize  it  was  like 
casting  wonderful  seeds  all  over  the 
ground  that  are  going  to  create  fruit 
for  generations.  Larry  Wien  really 
loved  meeting  the  Wien  scholars  and 
seeing  the  results  of  the  program." 

A  multifaceted  man,  Wien  is 
described  by  those  who  knew  him  as 
compelling  and  powerful.  David 
Squire,  of  the  Board  of  Overseers  of 
the  Wien  program,  worked  very 
closely  with  Wien,  his  friendship 
etched  in  his  heart.  "He  was  in 
many  ways  a  marvelous  man,  a  very 
special  person.  He  was  very  bright, 
extremely  self-confident,  holding 
very  strong  views,  which  he  believed 
were  absolutely  right.  Underneath 
it  he  was  extremely  kind  and 
extremely  generous  in  so  many 
ways,  so  many  places — in  all  of  New 
York,  Columbia,  Lincoln  Center — 
he  was  a  major  benefactor. 
He  believed  passionately  m 
philanthropy." 

Adds  Squire,  "He  started  real  estate 
syndication  in  the  United  States. 
It  means  you  buy  a  building  and  you 
have  limited  partners,  you  let 
different  people  invest  in  it.  He  had 
very  high  standards,  he  was  so 
good  to  so  many,  and  he  had  a  vision 
and  creativity,  like  when  he  created 
syndication.  He  was  our  major  fund- 
raiser in  Palm  Beach,  where  he  had  a 
home.  He  put  his  pocketbook  where 
his  mouth  was.  Before  asking,  he 
would  get  up  and  make  the  pitch  to 
give  pledges,  but  he  would  start  off 
by  pledging  $300,000  himself.  And 
then  when  it  would  start  to  drag  he 
would  throw  in  another  $50,000." 

From  a  different  vantage  point, 
Goldstein  describes  Larry  Wien  this 
way:  "Dynamic,  charismatic,  he 
was  a  short  man,  but  absolutely 
handsome.  He  walked  into  a  room 
and  you  knew  someone  had  walked 
in.  Elegantly  dressed  all  the  time, 
perfectly  tailored,  he  was  a  totally 


36  Brandeis  Review 


Wien  Inaugural 
Ceremonies,  October 
12,  1958.  From  left  to 
right  are  Lawrence 
Wien;  Abram  Sacliar. 
then-President  of 
Brandeis;  John  F. 
Kennedy,  then-U.S. 
Senator;  Wakal<o 
Kimoto,  member  of 
the  first  class; 
Leverett  Saltonstall, 
then-U.S.  Senator; 
and  George  Kennan, 
former  U.S. 
Ambassador  to  the 
Soviet  Union 


commanding  presence.  When  he  was 
with  you,  you  didn't  pay  attention 
to  anybody  else.  He  knew  exactly 
what  he  wanted,  he  wasted  no  time 
and  no  words.  My  average  letter 
froin  Larry  Wien  ran  about  three  or 
four  lines,  no  more,  telling  me  what 
to  do  in  as  concise  a  manner  as 
you  can  imagine.  Larry  just  told  you 
what  he  wanted.  My  conversations 
on  the  phone  with  him  were 
30  seconds  long,  a  lot  of  which  was 
taken  up  with  me  saying  'Oh  my 
goodness,  Mr.  Wien.  How  are  you?'" 

One  measure  of  the  Wien  program 
can  he  made  with  numbers — that 
there  are  now  over  700  graduates 
from  more  than  100  countries,  that 
they  are  involved  in  vastly  varied 
professions,  and  make  substantial 
contributions  all  over  the  world. 
But  the  impact  of  the  scholarship  on 
each  individual,  and  a  personal 
description  of  what  it  means,  is 
where  its  power  can  really  be  felt. 
Janet  Akyuz  Mattel  '65  is  a  Wien 
Scholar  from  Turkey  who  went  on 
to  earn  a  Ph.D.  in  astronomy  and 
is  now  executive  director  of  the 
American  Association  of  Variable 
Star  Observers  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.  She  reminisces,  her 


voice  filled  with  warmth:  "I  was  a 
science  major.  My  first  impressions 
of  the  University  were  that  it  was  an 
extremely  academic  and  intellectual 
atmosphere.  I  thought  I  knew  quite 
a  bit  about  physics,  but  when  I 
came  here  I  realized  my  high  school 
was  nowhere  like  the  high  schools 
some  of  the  graduates  had  come 
from.  I  was  used  to  getting  all  As 
and  all  of  a  sudden  I  was  not  getting 
As.  That  was  quite  a  traumatic 
experience.  But  I  found  the 
intellectual  atmosphere  extremely 
stimulating.  Brandeis  makes  you 
feel  like  an  intellectual  sponge; 
there  is  so  much  to  learn  there  and 
not  enough  time.  And  I  realized 
in  high  school  I  was  very  secluded  in 
terms  of  my  views,  because  I  was 
not  exposed  to  people  from  all 
around  the  U.S.  and  all  around  the 
world.  I  made  some  friends — I  think 
friends  for  life.  We  are  still  very 
close.  We  don't  see  each  other 
as  often  as  we  like  but  when  we  get 
together  it's  like  no  time  has  passed. 
That's  been  very  special." 

For  Mattel,  the  highlight  of  her  year 
was  when  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wien  would 
visit  the  students.  "I  was  so  grateful 
to  these  two  people — if  it  weren't 


I  was  so  grateful  to  these  two 
people — if  it  weren't  for  them  I 
couldn't  be  in  the  United  States; 
I  couldn't  be  at  Brandeis. 


for  them  I  couldn't  be  in  the  United 
States;  I  couldn't  be  at  Brandeis.  My 
father  couldn't  afford  it.  I  remember 
so  vividly  that  many  a  time  vv'hcn 
Mr.  Wien  came,  I  couldn't  express 
my  gratitude  with  enough  words. 
And  he  was  such  a  humble  person. 
He  would  say  'Please  don't  thank 
me.  I  thank  you  for  coming  here, 
and  leaving  your  country  and 
leaving  your  family,'  and  that  really 
touched  me  very,  very  much.  He 
was  always  very  interested  in  every 
one  of  us.  He  wanted  to  know 
everything  about  us.  He  was  very 
interested  in  what  we  were  doing, 
our  families,  our  country." 

It  was  just  this  kind  of  personal 
story  and  thanks  that  Wien  was  able 
to  experience  firsthand  at  a  time 
when  the  Wien  Scholarship  Program 
was  celebrating  its  30th  Reunion, 
and  Larry  Wien  was  dying  of  cancer. 
Goldstein  remembers,  "He  came 
and  I  had  all  the  alumni  at  a 
luncheon.  At  the  Sachar  Center  he 
was  sitting  on  the  balcony,  and 
the  alumni  got  into  a  huge  line — 
they  all  told  him  how  much  the 
Wien  scholarship  had  meant  to 
them.  No  one  would  go  to  eat  until 
he  or  she  had  gone  through 
the  line  to  see  Mr.  Wien.  He 
was  very  touched.  The  luncheon 
was  supposed  to  be  over  at  r.30 
and  it  wasn't  over  until  almost  4:00. 
The  celebration  was  in  October, 
and  he  died  at  the  beginning  of 
December.  That  was  really  his  last 
public  appearance.  His  wife,  his 
children  were  all  standing  there 
with  tears  running  down  their  faces, 
and  so  was  I.  There  wasn't  a  dry 
eye  in  the  house  as  we  watched — it 
was  quite  remarkable.  I  think  that 
it  overwhelmed  him." 

Emotions  run  high  when  Wien 
Scholars  talk  about  how  their 
experience  at  Brandeis  affected  their 
lives,  and  they  want  to  continue 
their  association  with  each  other 
and  Brandeis  when  they  graduate. 
To  help  them,  Rosita  Fine, 
development  and  alumni  relations 
officer,  creates  alumni  events 
and  programs  to  provide  networking 
opportunities  for  Wien  Scholars 
throughout  the  world.  "The 
Wien  alumni  are  members  of  a 
global  family,"  explains  Fine, 
a  native  of  Chile.  Working  closely 
with  the  Wien  family,  who  continue 
to  enthusiastically  support 
the  program,  it  is  her  responsibility 
to  raise  funds  for  the  Wien 


endowment  from  various  sources, 
including  Wien  alumni, 
corporations,  and  foundations. 

The  glory  of  the  past  has  faded 
somewhat,  although  the  intense 
nostalgia  of  Wien  supporters 
has  never  waned.  It's  easy  to  forget 
that  when  the  Wien  Scholarship 
Program  began  in  the  1950s  the  idea 
of  offering  scholarships  to  top 
international  students  was  very 
innovative.  But  that  untrodden 
ground  has  become  a  well-worn 
highway  almost  40  years  later. 
Potential  Wien  scholars  are  being 
courted  by  prestigious  schools 
across  the  country. 

Those  harsh  facts  confront  Susan 
Mack,  current  director  of  the  Wien 
program,  and  she  maintains  the 
stark  view  of  a  realist.  "So  many  of 
our  Wien  alumni  are  in  prestigious 
positions,  they're  doing  amazing 
things,  to  turn  the  world  around. 
That  was  really  Larry  Wien's  dream, 
that  we  could  change  the  world  with 
this  program,"  she  says,  obviously 
an  enthusiastic  supporter.  But  "I  see 
the  reality,  where  this  year  for 
example,  the  yield  was  remarkably 
lower  than  we  had  anticipated. 
We  made  26  offers  of  admission  to 
fill  10  places  and  only  eight  students 
accepted.  We  then  admitted  two 
students  from  our  waiting  list.  This 
is  my  first  year  running  the  Wien 
selection  competition  and  I  kept 
saying,  'What  if  we  end  up  with 
more  students  than  we  can  afford  to 
fund;'  One  week  after  the  deadline 
I'm  scratching  my  head  saying, 
'What's  wrong  with  our  offer?" 

What's  wrong  is  the  radically 
changed  marketplace — from  no 
competition  to  intense  competition 
from  schools  such  as  Harvard  and 
Stanford  for  the  most  outstanding 
students.  You  might  ask,  "Why  not 
beat  the  other  offers?"  We  would 
if  we  could.  But  the  Wien  program  is 
funded  by  a  rich  endowment 
diminished  by  inflation  and  based 
on  real  estate  investments  adversely 
affected  by  the  changing  market, 
compounded  by  the  huge  rise  in  the 
cost  of  tuition  (in  1958  to  fund 
one  student  cost  $3,000,  compared 
with  $29,000  today).  The  result 
is  that  fewer  scholars  can  be  offered 
admission  and  the  offer  is  not  as 
lavish  as  originally  conceived. 

Their  numbers  may  be  smaller,  but 
their  individual  impact  remains  true 


So  many  of  our  Wien  alumni  are  in 
prestigious  positions,  they're  doing 
amazing  things,  to  turn  the  world 
around.  That  was  really  Larry  Wien's 
dream,  that  we  could  change  the 
world  with  this  program. 


to  the  original  intent.  Among  Wien 
alumni  are  leaders  on  every 
continent.  For  example,  Wakako 
Kimoto  Hironaka,  M.A.  '64, 
member.  House  of  Councillors, 
Tokyo,  Japan;  Geir  H.  Haarde  '73, 
member  of  Parliament,  Iceland; 
Osman  Faruk  Logoglu  '63,  Turkish 
ambassador  to  Denmark;  Dimitrij 
Rupel,  Ph.D.  '76,  foreign  minister  of 
Slovenia.  They  chose  a  career  in 
government,  while  others  have 
made  contributions  in  education, 
high  technology,  journalism,  law, 
medicine,  business,  publishing, 
science,  and  research — almost  any 
field  you  can  name. 

Many  Wien  scholars  are  launched 
with  qualities  that  mirror  the 
benefactor's  generous  spirit — they 
live  his  philosophy.  Says  Mattel, 
"The  Wien  program,  where  I  was 
given  so  much,  made  me  aware  of 
the  value  of  giving.  Even  though 
unfortunately  I  don't  have  monetary 
things  to  give,  I  try  to  give  from 
myself  or  from  what  I  know  at  every 
opportunity.  I'm  especially  very 
interested  in  mentoring  young 
students  in  the  Wien  program  and  in 
the  whole  undergraduate  program  at 
Brandeis,  because  I  know  how  much 
it  meant  to  me  when  somebody 
helped  me.  In  fact,  Debbie 
Berebichez,  a  Wien  Scholar  from 
Mexico  City,  worked  in  my  office 
last  summer.  I  think  Mr.  Wien  not 
only  gave  me  a  future  through 
making  my  education  possible,  but 
really  taught  me  the  importance  of 
giving  whatever  one  can  give."  ■ 


37  Summer  1995 


y/'y 


Faculty 


^1 


Nodyo    Aisenber 


Nadya  Aisenberg 

Adjunct  Associate  Professor 
of  Women's  Studies 

Ordinary  Heroines: 

Transforming  the  Male 

Myth 

The  Continuum  Publishing 

Group 

The  ordinary  or 
contemporary  heroine, 
according  to  the  author, 
substitutes  moral  courage 
for  the  physical  bravery  of 
the  traditional  hero,  and 
enacts  her  "hero-ine-ism" 
from  within  the  parameters 
of  her  ordinary  life. 
Aisenberg  traces  many 
Western  societal  ills  to  the 
"heroic  code"  that  demands 
individual  separateness, 
superiority,  conquest;  all  at 
the  expense  of  negotiation, 
human  relationships, 
pluralism,  and  our 
connection  to  nature. 

Stephen  D.  Dowden 

Associate  Professor  of 
German 

Kafka's  Castle  and  the 
Critical  Imagination 
Camden  House 

Kafka's  final,  unfinished 
novel  The  Castle  remains  a 
celebrated  yet  most 
stubbornly  uninterpretable 
masterpiece  of  modernist 
fiction.  Consequently,  it 
has  been  a  lightning  rod  for 
theories  and  methods  of 
literary  criticism.  Dowden 
explores  the  historical  and 
cultural  contingencies  of 
criticism:  from  the  Weimar 
Era  of  Max  Brod  and  Walter 
Benjamin  to  Lionel 


Trilling's  Cold  War  to  the 
postmodern  moment  of 
multiculturalism  and  its 
turn  to  "cultural  studies"; 
and  also  shows  how  and 
why  The  Castle  became  a 
contested  site  in  the 
imaginative  life  of  each 
succeeding  generation  of 
criticism. 

Martin  A.  Levin 

with  Marc  K.  Landy,  eds. 
Levin  IS  Professor  of  Politics 
and  Director  of  the  Gordon 
Public  Policy  Center. 

The  New  Politics  of  Public 

Policy 

The  Johns  Hopkins 

University  Press 

In  The  New  Politics  of 
Public  Policy,  leading 
experts  examine  the  most 
important  arenas  of  modern 
domestic  policy  reform — 
health,  entitlements, 
environment,  and 
taxation — as  well  as  the 
changes  that  have  taken 
place  in  the  key  policy- 
making institutions  of 
Congress,  the  executive 
branch,  the  state,  and  the 
courts.  The  book  also  shows 
that  public  policy  is  no 
longer  a  struggle  for 
economic  superiority 
among  organized  interest 
groups.  Professor  of 
Politics  R.  Shep  Melnick  is 
one  of  the  contributors. 


STUDIES  IN  POLISH  JEWRY 

POLIN 


Jews  In  Independent 
Poland  1918-1939 


ANTONY  POLONSKY 
EZRA  MENDELSOHN  A 


JERZY  TOMASZEWSKI 


Richard  J.  Parmentier 

Associate  Professor  of 
Anthropology 

Signs  in  Society:  Studies  in 
Semiotic  Anthropology 
Indiana  University  Press 

Signs  in  Society  takes  up 
Ferdinand  de  Saussure's 
challenge  to  study  the  "life 
of  signs  in  society"  by  using 
semiotic  tools  proposed  by 
Charles  Sanders  Peirce.  The 
author  explicates  Peirce's 
fundamental  semiotic 
concepts  and  evaluates  their 
potential  for  cultural 


analysis.  Atter  considering 
the  possibility  of  using 
complex  semiotic  processes, 
Parmentier  examines  the 
relationship  between  social 
action  and  theoretical 
discourse.  He  applies 
Peircean  concepts  in  two 
ethnographic  case  studies 
based  on  fieldwork  in  Belau 
(Micronesia)  to  demonstrate 
the  effectiveness  of  semiotic 
theory. 


38  Brandeis  Review 


sTEWS 

I    J  oj  Boston 


Antony  Polonsky 

with  Ezra  Mendelsohn  and 
Jerzy  Tomaszcwski,  eds. 
Polonsky  is  Walter  Stern 
Hilhorn  Professor  of  [udaic 
and  Social  Studies. 

Polin:  Studies  in  Polish 
fewrv:  lews  in  Independent 
Poland  1918-1939 
The  Littman  Library  of 
Jewish  Civilization 

In  the  period  between  the 
two  world  wars,  Poland's 
Jewish  community  was 
second  only  to  that  of  the 
United  States,  and  was  the 
laboratory  in  which  the 
ideological  orientations  that 
dominated  the  Jewish 
world — Zionism,  Bundism, 
Neo-orthodoxy, 
Assimilation — were  tested. 
This  volume  of  Polin 
includes  contributions  from 
Poland,  Western  Europe, 
North  America,  and  Israel, 
which  provide  a  clear 
understanding  of  the  issues 
that  have  in  the  past  proved 
so  divisive. 


S[uJic\  linni  I'nlin    I  imii 
Shtetl  to  Sucialism 

The  Littman  Library  of 
Jewish  Civilization 

For  nine  centuries  the 
Polish  Jewish  community 
was  one  of  the  central 
forces  in  the  shaping  of 
Jewish  culture  and  its 
impact  in  the  shaping  of 
modern  Jewry  both  religious 
and  secular.  A  broad 
spectrum  of  subjects  is 
discussed,  covering  the 
origins  and  development  of 
the  community  and  the 
many  crises  it  experienced 
from  the  earliest  date  of 
Jewish  settlement  in  Poland 
to  the  establishment  of 
Communist  rule  in  postwar 
Poland. 


Jehuda  Reinharz,  Ph.D.  72 

with  Paul  Mendes-Flohr. 
Reinharz  is  Richard  Koret 
Professor  of  Modern  Jewish 
History  and  President  of 
Brandeis  University 

The  lew  in  the  Modern 

World:  A  Documentary 

History 

Oxford  University  Press, 

Inc. 

This  second  edition  is 
expanded  to  supplement  the 
most  vital  documents  of  the 
first  edition  including 
hitherto  unpublished  and 
inaccessible  sources 
concerning  the  Jewish 
experience  in  Eastern 
Europe,  women  in  Jewish 
history,  American  Jewish 
life,  the  Holocaust,  and 
Zionism  and  the  nascent 
Jewish  community  in 
Palestine  on  the  eve  of  the 
establishment  of  the  State 
of  Israel.  The  documents  are 
arranged  chronologically 
and  are  annotated  and  cross- 
referenced  in  order  to 
provide  the  reader  with 
ready  access  to  a  wide 
variety  of  issues,  key 
historical  figures,  and 
events. 


Jonathan  D.  Sarna  75,  M.A. 
75 

with  Ellen  Smith,  eds. 
Sarna  is  Joseph  H.  and  Belle 
R.  Braun  Professor  of 
American  Jewish  History. 

The  lews  of  Boston 
Combined  Jewish 
Philanthropies  of  Greater 
Boston,  Inc. /Northeastern 
University  Press 

This  volume  seeks  to 
provide  a  history  of  the 
Boston  Jewish  community 
in  an  accessible,  scholarly 
fashion.  Its  focus  is  the  Jews 
of  Boston,  and  how  from 
colonial  to  modern  times 
they  sought  to  define  and 
create  identity  and 
community  among 
themselves  and  within  the 
broader  citizenry  of  Boston 
and  America.  Essays  provide 
a  historic  overview  of  the 
community  from  its  early, 
tentative  beginnings 
through  Its  emergence  in 
the  20th  century  and  focus 
on  key  aspects  of  Boston's 
unique  role  in  American 
and  Jewish  history.  Other 
members  of  the  Brandeis 
faculty  who  wrote  essays 
are: 

Sherry  Israel 

Adjunct  Associate  Professor 
of  Jewish  Communal 
Service,  Hornstein  Program, 
Leon  Jick 

Emeritus  Professor  of 
American  Jewish  Studies, 
Joseph  Reimer 
Associate  Professor  and 
Director,  Hornstein 
Program,  and 

Stephen  Whitfield,  Ph.D.  72 
Max  Richter  Professor  of 
American  Civilization. 


39  Summer  1995 


Alumni 


Robert  F.  Barsky  '84 

Constructing  a  Productive 

Other:  Discourse  theory 

and  the  convention  refugee 

hearing 

John  Benjamins  Publishing 

Company 

This  book  is  a  description  of 
the  process  of  constructing 
a  Productive  Other  for  the 
purpose  of  being  admitted 
to  Canada  as  a  convention 
refugee.  The  whole  claiming 
procedure  is  analyzed  with 
respect  to  two  actual  cases, 
and  contextualized  by 
reference  to  pertinent 
national  and  international 
jurisprudence.  Since  legal 
analysis  is  deemed 
insufficient  for  a  complete 
understanding  of  the 
argumentative  and 
discursive  strategies 
involved  in  the  claiming 
and  "authoring"  processes, 
the  author  makes  constant 
reference  to  methodologies 
from  the  realm  of  literary 
studies  and  discourse 
analysis  and  interaction 
theory. 

Stephen  Bluestone,  Ph.D.  '61 

Bluestone  is  a  professor  of 
English  at  Mercer 
University  in  Macon, 
Georgia. 

The  Laughing  Monkeys  of 

Gravity 

Mercer  University  Press 

The  Laughing  Monkeys  of 
Gravity  is  a  volume  of 
lyrics  and  meditations  on 
the  landscape  of  loneliness 
and  the  voices  that  emerge 
from  private  vision  into 
song.  Three  sections  consist 


of  reflections  on  the  lives  of 
religious  figures; 
explorations  of  the  dark 
territory  masked  by 
laughter  in  the  films  of  old 
movie  comedians;  and 
celebrations  of  the  voices  of 
individuals,  Enrico  Caruso, 
Franz  Schubert,  Leonardo  da 
Vinci,  and  Emily  Dickinson. 

Felix  Zandman  with 
David  Chanoff,  M.A.  '73, 
Ph.D.  '74 

Chanoff  has  written  or 
coauthored  nine  books. 

Never  the  Last  fourney:  A 
Fortune  500  founder  and 
CEO  tells  the  story  of  his 
life,  from  victim  of  war  to 
victor  on  Wall  Street 
Schocken  Books 

Never  the  Last  fourney  tells 
the  personal  story  of  Felix 
Zandman,  who  as  a 
teenager,  spent  a  year-and-a- 
half  with  four  others  lying 
in  a  tiny  pit  beneath  the 
cottage  of  a  poor  Polish 
peasant  in  Nazi-occupied 
Poland.  That  experience 
gave  him  the  drive, 
discipline,  and  generosity  of 
spirit  that  made  his  later 
success  possible.  Zandman 
came  to  the  United  States 
in  1965,  and  has  since 
revolutionized  an  industry, 
today  employing  16,000 
people  worldwide,  among 
them  the  grandson  of  the 
woman  who  saved  him. 

Henci  Goer  '69 

Goer  is  an  ASPO-certified 
childbirth  educator  and  a 
professional  provider  of 
labor  support. 

Obstetric  Myths  Versus 
Research  Realities:  A  Guide 
to  the  Medical  Literature 
Bergin  &.  Garvey 


Anyone  working  to  improve 
the  childbearing  experience 
and  help  women  avoid 
unnecessary  intervention 
has  encountered  numerous 
"obstetric  myths"  or  "old 
doctors'  tales."  This  book  is 
an  attempt  to  make  the 
medical  literature  on  a 
variety  of  key  obstetric 
issues  accessible  to  people 
who  lack  the  time, 
expertise,  access,  or 
proximity  to  a  medical 
library  to  research  concerns 
on  their  own. 

Ellen  Herman,  Ph.D.  '93 

Herman  is  a  founding  editor 
of  South  End  Press  and 
teaches  in  the  social  studies 
program  at  Harvard 
University. 

The  Romance  of  American 

Psychology:  Political 

Culture  in  the  Age  of 

Experts 

University  of  California 

Press 

The  author  explores  the 
political  and  cultural 


significance  of  American 
psychology  beginning  with 
the  atmosphere  of 
international  military  crisis 
brought  on  by  World  War  II, 
sustained  through  the  Cold 
War,  and  its  spread  through 
the  general  public.  The 
Romance  of  American 
Psychology  looks  at  one  of 
the  dominant  forces  in 
American  society,  tracks 
psychology's  progress 
through  our  culture,  and 
explores  why  we  have  so 
willingly  succumbed  to  its 
influence. 

Cliff  Hauptman  '69, 
IVI.F.A.  '73 

Director  of  Publications, 
Editor,  Brandeis  Review 

The  Fly  Fisher's  Guide  to 
Warmwater  Lakes:  A 
Natural  System  for  Finding 
Bass.  Pike,  and  Panfish 
Lyons  and  Burford 

You  can  only  catch  fish 
with  regularity  if  you  are 
fishing  where  they  are 
located — the  initial  goal  of 
all  anglers  must  be  finding 
fish,  and  the  author  lets  you 
know  how.  The  Fly  Fisher's 
Guide  to  Warmwater  Lakes 
is  a  completely  new  edition 


40  Brandeis  Review 


tooth    imprints   on 
a   corn   dog 


of  Hauptman's  Finding  Fish, 
keyed  to  a  fly  fisfierman's 
needs.  He  explores  the 
cover,  structure,  and 
shorelines  of  warmwater 
lakes  and  ponds;  the 
question  of  light;  the  yearly 
cycle  of  lakes;  the  biology  of 
bass,  pickerel,  and  other 
species;  and  the  best  flies — 
and  how  to  use  them. 

David  I.  Kertzer,  Ph.D.  74 

and  Peter  Laslett,  eds. 
Kertzer  is  Paul  Dupee 
University  Professor  of 
Social  Science  and  professor 
of  anthropology  and  history 
at  Brown  University. 

Aging  in  the  Past: 

Demography,  Society,  and 

Old  Age 

University  of  California 

Press 

Although  improved  food, 
medicine,  and  living 
conditions,  as  well  as 
declining  fertility,  have 
dramatically  increased  the 
average  age  of  the 
population  throughout  the 
modern  industrialized 
world,  the  older  segment  of 
the  population  has  received 
little  attention  from 
historical  demographers.  In 
Aging  m  the  Past, 
authorities  on  family 
history  and  historical 
demography  explore 
changes  in  the  lifestyles  and 
social  roles  of  the  elderly 
over  the  past  three 
centuries,  and,  point  the 
way  for  further  historical 
demographic  research  on 
aging. 


Mark  Leyner  77 

tooth  imprints  on  a  corn 

dog 

Harmony  Books 

In  his  third  book,  Mark 
Leyner  brings  us  along  for 
his  dream  date  with 
Princess  Di;  savors  a  bowl 
of  Testosteroni,  the  pasta 
for  men;  wholeheartedly 
recommends  the 
wonderfully  lifelike, 
thoroughly  bendable  "This 
Week  with  David  Brinkley" 
action  figures;  reads 
Racine's  Phedre  to  a 
delighted  little  baby  Gaby 
(the  secret  is  to  read  in  a 
high-pitched,  squeaky 
voice);  and  speculates  on 
the  symbolic  meanings  of 
the  tattoos  sported  by  U.S. 
senators. 

Victor  I.  Rosansky,  M.A.  '69 

with  Y.S.  Chang  and  George 

Labovitz 

Rosansky  is  vice  president 

of  Organizational 

Dynamics,  Inc.  in  charge  of 

consulting. 

Making  Quality  Work: 
Leadership  Guide  for  the 
Results-Driven  Manager 
Harper  Business 

Total  Quality  Management 
— TQM — is  the  new 
management  concept  that 
puts  the  customer  first.  But 
for  the  results-driven 
manager,  implementing 
TQM  can  be  an  exercise  in 
frustration.  Making  Quality 
Work  presents  a  wealth  of 
practical  quality  strategies, 
techniques,  and  tools  that 
can  be  used  to  apply  TQM 
in  the  day-to-day  life  of  the 
business.  It  uses  true-life 
stories  from  companies 
including  Federal  Express, 


mark  leyner 


Reclaiming 

the  Dead  Sea  Scrolls 


Th*    HIslvry 


■■ckflr*«B4 
>l   dirUllaally 


f   Qaairaa 


Lawrence  H.  Schiffman 


41  Summer  1995 


Edited  by  PhilippaSti 


Procter  &  Gamble,  and  L.L. 
Bean  to  show  how  to 
motivate  employees,  build 
long-term  partnerships  with 
customers,  and  merge  TQM 
with  business  strategy. 

Lawrence  H.  Schiffman, 
M.A.  70,  Ph.D.  74 

Schiffman  is  professor  of 
Hebrew  and  Judaic  studies 
at  New  York  University's 
Skirball  Department  of 
Near  Eastern  Languages  and 
Literatures. 

Reclaiming  the  Dead  Sea 
Scrolls:  The  History  of 
fudaism.  The  Background 
of  Christianity.  The  Lost 
Library  of  Qumran 
The  Jewish  Publications 
Society 

This  examination  of  the 
Dead  Sea  Scrolls  reveals 
their  true  heart:  a  missing 
link  between  ancient  and 
modern  Judaism.  Schiffman 
refocuses  the  controversy 
from  who  controls  access  to 
the  Scrolls  today  to  what 
the  Scrolls  tell  us  about  the 
past.  He  challenges  the 
prevailing  notion  of  earlier 
Scrolls  scholars  that  the 


Dead  Sea  Scrolls  were  proto- 
Christian,  demonstrating 
instead  their  thorough-going 
Jewish  character  and  their 
importance  for 
understanding  the  history  of 
Judaism.  This  volume  puts 
into  perspective  the 
triumph  of  rabbinic  Judaism 
after  the  Jewish  military 
defeat  by  Rome.  Finally,  the 
author  maintains  that  a  true 
understanding  of  the  Scrolls 
can  improve  relations 
between  today's  Jewish  and 
Christian  communities. 

Amy  Schoenblum  '86  and 
Peter  Shwartz  76 

Schoenblum,  lead  writer,  is 
a  curriculum  developer  and 
Shwartz  is  a  video  producer 
at  the  Developmental 
Studies  Center  in  Oakland, 
California. 

At  Home  in  Our  Schools:  A 
guide  to  schoolwide 
activities  that  build 
community 
Developmental  Studies 
Center 


rhis  book  is  about 
siimething  all  schools  are 
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Text  and  photos  by 
Miriam  L.  Steinberg  '93 


From  individual  paintings, 
sculptures,  and  drawings,  to 
stations  and  public  spaces 
conceived  as  a  total  artistic 
environment,  the  exciting 
art  worlds  in  European 
subway  systems  and 
airports  are  the  result  of 
some  of  the  biggest 
investments  in  European 
monumental  art  since  World 
War  II.  The  basic  idea  is 
that  of  moving  people, 
these  venues  do  so  on 
every  level:  from  one  side 


of  town  to  the  other,  from 
one  country  to  another, 
from  one  era  to  another, 
from  one  state  of  mind  to 
another,  from  one  emotion 
to  another. 

Under  circumstances 
dominated  primarily  by 
financial  and  practical 
conditions,  artists  have 
presented  art  and  life  in 
common  public  places  of 
transportation  and 
movement.  They  have 


touched  passengers, 
enabling  them  to  see 
themselves  and  their 
present  purpose  in  a  new 
light,  reflecting  on  their 
surroundings  and 
themselves,  relating  to  the 
people  and  images 
immediately  around  them, 
and  connecting  sentiments 
inspired  by  the 
subterranean  works  to 
issues  above  ground,  in  the 
next  city  to  which  they  are 
traveling,  and  in  their  plans 


ssAr 

BBS-*  .. 


Car"*"" 


Light  Art  by  Keith  Sonnier,  Munich 


44  Brandeis  Review 


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for  tomorrow.  Passengers 
acquire  a  sense  of  pride  for 
the  artistic  movements  in 
their  cities.  Feeling  positive 
about  public  transportation, 
people  leave  their  cars  at 
home,  a  timely  reminder  of 
the  value  of  art  in  everyday 
city  life. 

The  purpose  of  public  art  in 
transportation  systems  is 
three-fold.  First,  and  most 
important  for  the  politicians 
involved,  is  improving  the 


public  image  of  the  system, 
subsequently  increasing 
ridership.  Second  is  the 
opportunity  for  artists  to 
work  in  such  a  large  space: 
literally  in  terms  of  area, 
and  figuratively,  in  terms  of 
audience,  "moving"  all 
elements  involved.  Third, 
and  perhaps  most 
important,  is  the  effect  on 
the  spectator.  Art  in 
transportation  confronts  all 
walks  of  life;  it  does  not 
discriminate  between 


wealthy  and  poor,  those 
who  visit  museums  and 
those  who  do  not,  nor 
between  those  who  choose 
to  look  and  those  who  do 
not.  In  such  environments, 
the  boundaries  of  art 
expand.  What  can  be 
deemed  "art"  grows 
emphatically  when  placed 
in  the  midst  of  everyday  life, 
encountering  situations  and 
people  who  might  not 
otherwise  choose  to  be 
involved. 


The  constant  movement 
and  fleeting  change  in  the 
Munich  airport  is  embodied    ,« 
in  the  work  of  art  titled  Light 
Room  by  New  York  artist 
James  Carpenter.  The 
artwork  relates  to  the 
passenger,  the  "transient," 
a  constantly  changing 
subject  and  mosaic. 
Sunlight  is  captured  by 
heliostats  on  the  roof  of  the 
building,  mirrored  down  and 
directed  to  a  cloud  of  metal     ,. 
reflectors,  and  beamed 


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^<' 


16  X  Icarus,  or  Happy  Metro 
to  You,  by  Paul  Van  Hoedonck, 
Brussels 


45  Summer  1995 


-'^  ^  H  i. 


Per  Olof  Ultvedt's  cave 
painting  in  tlie  Stocl<holm 
central  station 


through  two  mammoth  ring 
structures  of  glass.  The 
glasses  diffract  the  rays  into 
colored  light,  producing  an 
exquisite  play  of 
continuously  changing 
colors  projected  on  the  light 
granite  floor  of  the  hall  in 
every  shade  of  the  rainbow. 
It  is  an  extraordinary 
experience  that  touches 
everyone  who  encounters 
the  room.  What  appears  in 
an  airport  to  be  a  chaotic 
rush  of  coming  and  going  is 


actually  a  planned  series  of 
steps  for  each  individual; 
Light  Room  reflects  those 
forces  in  a  very  literal  as 
well  as  figurative  way. 

In  a  highly  controversial 
work  of  art,  Scottish/Italian 
artist  Eduardo  Paolozzi 
created  an  all- 
encompassing  mosaic  for 
Tottenham  Court  Road 
station  in  London.  Although 
studies  show  that  an 
aesthetically  improved 


environment  increases 
ridership  as  well  as  a  sense 
of  security,'  passengers 
were  disturbed  by  this  work 
of  art,  claiming  that  it  made 
things  seem  "out  of  control." 
London  has  done  no  further 
art  works  of  this  nature. 
However,  this  mosaic  can 
still  be  seen  as  a  successful 
work,  despite  the  public 
reaction:  for  the  first  time  in 
England,  the  artist  has  used 
the  entire  underground 
station  as  a  sort  of  canvas. 


producing  a  total 
environmental  effect.  The 
station  is  not  a  stage  of 
transport  with  a  piece  of  art 
plopped  in  the  middle  of  it; 
it  is  a  cohesive  entity  of  art 
and  function. 

Art  is  integrated  in  its  most 
varied  forms  in  the  Brussels 
underground,  where  "the 
city's  true  museum  of 
contemporary  art  is  found. "^ 
Collaboration  between  artist 
and  architect  is  of  utmost 


46  Brandeis  Review 


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I  -/ 


The  Mortimer  Hays/ 
Brandeis  University 
Traveling  Fellowship 
provides  one  year  of 
support  for  students  of 
art  or  art  history  to 
research  and  pursue  an 
Independent  project 
outside  of  the  United 
States  in  order  to  further 
experience  and  goals  in 
one's  discipline  or  field. 
Mimi  Steinberg's  project 
considered  European 
contemporary  public  art 
in  public  transportation 
systems,  particularly 
England,  France, 
Germany,  Austria,  Italy, 
Hungary,  The  Czech 
Republic,  Sweden,  and 
Belgium.  Ultimately,  she 
aimed  to  combine  her 
primary  Interests  of  art 
history  and  economics  in 
an  independent  course  of 
research,  study,  and 
photography  concerning 
the  economic  and 
aesthetic  factors  in  art-in- 


transit  programs  in  seven 
major  cities.  She  was  able 
to  begin  this  project 
thanks  to  the  Mortimer 
Hays/Brandels  University 
Traveling  Fellowship.  The 
undertaking  Is  still  living 
through  writing  and 
presentations,  as  well  as 
a  growing  Interest  In  a 
comparative  study  among 
various  other  continents. 

Steinberg's  interest  in 
public  art  was  born  at  the 
Cambridge  (Mass.)  Arts 
Council  during  her  senior 
year  internship  In  the 
public  art  department.  At 
present,  she  is  a 
candidate  for  a  master's 
degree  In  the  history  of 
art  at  Williams  College  in 
Williamstown, 
Massachusetts. 


'*'^m>    ^« 


Artist  profiles  by  Silvert 
Liridblom,  Stocliholm 


importance  here.  The  mural 
by  Roger  Somville,  titled 
Notre  Temps,  or  Our  Time, 
is  the  first  work  in  Brussels 
to  achieve  full  integration 
in  the  architecture  and  plan 
of  a  station.  The  1,625- 
square-foot  painting  is  high 
above  the  metro  tracks  on 
a  wall  that  crosses  the 
width  of  the  station.  It 
extends  onto  some  of  the 
side  walls  and  ceiling  as 
well.  There  are 
motorcyclists  in  outer 


space,  faces  amid  the  tops 
of  skyscrapers,  a  skeletal 
creature  in  chains,  and  a 
crowd  ready  to  follow  a 
prophet.  The  work  confronts 
the  passenger;  it  is  not  for  a 
conventional,  or  "dead" 
museum,  but  for  the  "living 
museum"  of  the  Brussels 
metro. 

Sixteen  golden-bronze 
colored,  life-size,  human 
forms  seem  to  float  and  fly 
as  they  spread  out  and  rise 


up  to  the  ceiling  of  another 
station  in  Brussels.  Artistic 
integration  is  again 
achieved  as  Paul  Van 
Hoedonck's  creation 
spreads  high  over  the  metro 
tracks  to  the  ticket  hall. 
Titled  16  X  Icarus,  or  Happy 
Metro  to  You,  the  figures 
are  suspended  from  the 
ceiling,  which  is  covered 
with  small  white 
hemispheres,  save  one  that 
is  colored  gold  and  to  which 
the  figures  are  all  heading. 


In  a  major  renovation  and 
rejuvenation  program,  Paris 
has  created  monumental 
works  of  art  in  the  majority 
of  its  metro  stations.  The 
most  recent  work,  by  Jean 
Bazaine  (1988),  is  titled 
Birds  and  Flames.  As 
subway  art  often  does. 
Birds  and  Flames  connects 
the  rider  below  ground  to 
the  history,  context,  and 
surroundings  of  what  is 
immediately  above  ground. 
In  this  case,  the  signatures 


Notre  Temps,  or  Our  Time,  by 
Roger  Somville,  Brussels 


MMi^fi:&M 


47  Summer  1995 


in  glass  mosaic  on  the 
ceiling  are  those  of 
philosophers,  writers, 
musicians,  actors,  and 
various  other  historical 
figures  who,  throughout  the 
centuries,  have  lived  and 
worked  in  the  Latin  Quarter, 
where  this  station  is  located. 

A  bustling  communications 
system,  a  modern  and 
efficient  transportation 
network,  moving  millions  of 
people  every  day  while. 


simultaneously,  being  the 
longest  art  gallery  in  the 
world,  a  museum  open 
around  the  clock:  such  is  the 
deeper  world  of  the 
Stockholm  subway, 
containing  the  most 
established  art-in-transit 
program  in  the  world,  started 
over  30  years  ago.  What 
seem  to  be  recently 
discovered  small  Syrian  gold 
treasures  are  glorious 
imitations,  magnified  and 
placed  in  a  total  "cave- 


station"  environment.  To  be 
sure,  Stockholm  had  an 
abundance  of  art 
underground  in  its  early 
days — up  to  12  artists 
working  in  the  concrete  box 
of  central  station,^  literally 
sticking  their  art  wherever 
space  was  to  be  found.  Yet 
Stockholm  is  built  on  a  bed 
of  granite,  which  yielded 
remarkably  beautiful  cave- 
like forms  when  tunneled 
into  and  blasted  away  for 
the  subway.  After  realizing 


the  inherent  beauty  of  their 
resources,  the  subway  art 
went  from  initial  multiplicity  to 
the  artistic  unity  of  Per  Olof 
Ultvedt's  cave  painting  of  all 
aspects  of  work  that 
contributed  to  the  completion 
of  the  Stockholm  central 
station. 

Transportation  is  about 
connections,  time,  and 
space— environments  to 
space,  people  to  places, 
people  to  each  other,  and 


^'/;/-"- 

*////./ 


r. ••*'_•".-* 


Paris  Metro,  Les  Halles  station: 
glided  bronze  scuipture  titled 
Energies  (1977),  figurative 
in  form  yet  abstract  in  content 
and  meaning 


sranaeis  Keview 


individuals  to  a  larger  whole. 
The  artist  can  have  a 
significant  role  in  such 
interactions,  fostering, 
perpetuating,  and  improving 
these  relationships.  Art's  role 
in  the  realm  of  public 
transportation  brings  riders 
back  to  public  transport.  It 
impresses  them  and  instills 
pride,  while  communicating 
and  soothing  the  burdens  of 
everyday  urban  life:  moving 
people,  u 


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Endnotes 

'  "Fact  Sheet  #5, "  concerning 
"Station  Modernisation," 
revised  and  distributed  by  the 
London  Underground  in  Inarch 
1987  notes  that  "research  has 
clearly  shown  that  a  bright. 


modern  environment  helps  to 
attract  passengers  to  the 
Underground  and  gives  an 
increased  sense  of  security." 
Paolozzi's  mosaics  most 
definitely  serve  to  brighten  and 
modernize  the  environment  of 
the  Tottenham  Road  Station. 
^Herman  Liebaers,  Metro-Art 


Dans  Les  Metropoles,  ed. 
Marianne  Strom  (Paris:  Jaques 
Damase  Editeur,  1990),  p.  120. 
^  The  Committee  for  Stockholm 
Research,  Art  Goes 
Underground:  Art  in  ttie 
Stockholm  Metro,  ed.  Goran 


Soderstrom,  (Boras: 

Centraltryckeriet  AB,  1985, 

1988),  p.  170-179. 

"  The  Committee  for  Stockholm 

Research,  p.  7. 

^Oliver Green,  Underground 

Art:  London  Transport  Posters, 

1 908  to  the  present  (London: 

Studio  Vista,  1990),  p.  16. 


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Above,  Sculpture  by  Felix 
Roulin,  Thief  fry  station  of  the 
Brussels  Metro. 

Left,  Birds  and  Flames  by  Jean 
Bazaine,  Paris 


A  Brief  Sojourn, 

A  Lasting  Legacy 


by  Ivy  George,  Ph.D.  '85  (Heller) 


His  thin  reed-like  voice  calling  lustily  for 
"freedom"  is  haunting.  That  was  in  early 
December  1994,  when  Iqbal  Masih  was  in 
Boston  to  receive  a  Reebok  Youth  in  Action 
Award,  and  when  Brandeis  University 
offered  him  a  college  scholarship  should  he 
eventually  desire  a  university  education. 

Iqbal  appeared  to  be  6,  although  he  was  12 
years  old.  As  a  child  he  had  only  one 
dream — to  be  a  child,  and  to  return  the 
stolen  childhood  of  all  the  other  little  girls 
and  boys  who  had  been  robbed  of  theirs. 
At  4,  Iqbal's  parents  indentured  hrni  to  the 
local  carpet  industry  to  defray  family 
expenses.  For  Iqbal,  every  day  for  six  years 
was  the  same.  He  was  up  at  4:00  am, 
chained  to  a  carpet  loom  in  ill-lit  chambers. 
He  laboured  12-hour  days  for  seven  days, 
mhaling  the  Imt  and  fluff  that  filled  the  air. 
He  was  subjected  regularly  to  scoldings 
and  even  beatings. 

There  was  no  one  to  whom  he  could 
complain.  Iqbal  was  without  recourse. 
Besides,  there  was  little  time  to  think. 
Concentration  was  crucial  as  his  fingers 
moved  deftly  and  diligently  to  tie  tiny  knots 
tightly  and  swiftly,  hour  after  dreary  hour. 

Of  one  thing  Iqbal  was  sure:  he  knew  that 
in  the  long  chain  of  production  and 
consumption,  he  was  one  of  the  first  links 
in  the  production  of  carpets.  He  knew  that 
the  factory  owners  were  the  big  winners  in 
this  business  and  that  he  and  all  the  other 
children,  earning  as  little  as  three  cents 
under  miserable  circumstances,  were  the 
losers.  The  original  price  of  Iqbal's  freedom 
was  Rs.600  ($12);  six  years  later  Iqbal's 
family  owed  the  owner  Rs.  13,000.  The 
possibility  of  release  remained  remote. 

But  Iqbal's  spirit  was  not  to  be  broken. 
One  day  in  1992,  Iqbal  defied  his  owner  and 
attended  a  rally  organized  by  the  Bonded 
Labour  Liberation  Front,  a  Pakistani  group 
committed  to  protecting  the  rights  of 
bonded  labourers.  Ehsan  Ulah  Khan  of  the 
Front  was  instrumental  in  delivering  Iqbal 
from  his  bondage.  He  remembers  seeing 


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a  10-year-old  "who  sat  cowering  in  a  corner, 
emaciated  and  wheezing  like  an  old  man." 
At  this  rally,  Iqbal  gave  an  extemporaneous 
address,  which  was  printed  in  the  local 
newspaper.  He  refused  to  return  to 
his  owner  thereafter.  He  was  enrolled  in  a 
Front-run  primary  school  in  Lahore,  where 
he  was  able  to  complete  a  five-year  program 
in  half  the  time.  Iqbal's  campaign  against 
child  labour  led  to  the  closure  of  several 
carpet  factories  and  the  release  of  many 
thousands  of  children.  Soon  Iqbal  became 
a  public  enemy  in  the  eyes  of  the  carpet 
mafia.  They  threatened  his  life. 

My  own  hopes  were  roused  that  wintry 
evening  when  I  heard  Iqbal's  story. 
That,  amidst  all  the  ambiguities  and 
contradictions  of  multinational 
corporations  and  academic  institutions, 
Reebok  and  Brandeis  would  commit 
themselves  to  Iqbal  was  promising.  After 
his  brief  visit  to  the  United  States, 
Iqbal  returned  to  Pakistan  to  resume  his 
campaign  against  child  labour. 

On  Easter  Sunday  in  April  1995,  Iqbal 
Masih  was  murdered.  Speculations  abound 
as  to  who  was  responsible  for  this  heinous 
act.  Had  the  carpet  mafia  become  unnerved 
by  the  12-year-old?  Or  was  it  an  ordinary 
and  independent  killing?  A  recent  news 
report  suggests  that  "an  independent  human 
rights  group"  has  "found  no  evidence  to 
support  allegations  that  the  carpet  industry" 
was  involved  in  Iqbal's  killing. 

Iqbal's  death  stands  as  an  inexplicable  loss 
of  a  life  and  a  chance  for  justice.  One  also 
laments  the  life  that  preceded  this  untimely 
death.  During  the  last  four  years  of  Iqbal's 
campaigns  for  the  protection  of  child 
labourers,  the  Pakistani  government  did 
little  to  protect  the  rights  of  such  children. 
The  government  did  not  move  to  eradicate 
the  corrupt  economic  and  social  institutions 
and  systems  that  bred  such  violence 
against  the  powerless.  Arguments  of  the 
powerful  won  the  day — arguments  for 
export  earnings,  foreign  exchange,  loan 
repayments,  liberalisation  of  the  economy. 


and  keeping  up  with  the  global  market. 
Human  rights  questions  would  have  to  wait 
for  another  time.  Besides,  they  argue  that 
such  abuses  were  part  of  the  evolutionary 
history  of  all  industrial-capitalist  societies. 
Meanwhile,  activists  say  that  there 
are  more  than  six  million  children  under  14 
years  of  age  who  sweat,  toil,  and  bleed  in 
Pakistan's  carpet  factories  and  allied 
industries.  There  are  more  than  200  million 
children  labouring  under  exploitative 
conditions  the  world  over. 

States  such  as  Pakistan  are  caught  in  an 
impasse  as  far  as  policy  and  program 
initiatives  committed  to  the  basic  social 
well-being  of  all  citizens  are  concerned. 
Located  on  the  periphery  of  market 
economies  generated  in  the  West,  the 
human  (including  the  children)  and  natural 
resources  of  these  societies  become  the 
disposable  factors  of  production.  Hard 
pressed  to  stay  afloat  as  viable  players  in  the 
global  market  by  international  lending 
agencies  and  from  the  domestic  elites  and 
middle  classes,  these  governments  engage  in 
massive  repression  of  the  poor  and  the 
weak.  Social  transformation  towards  more 
humane  employment  systems  requires  the 
cooperation  of  both  the  international  and 
national  constituencies. 

Constructive  social  change  in  the  realm  of 
child  labour  demands  a  reconsideration 
of  the  meanings  of  labour  and  work,  and  a 
movement  from  child  labour  (typified  by 
Iqbal's  harsh  life)  towards  child  work  where 
children  are  provided  with  an  integrated 
program  of  education,  production,  and 
recreation  under  adult  care  and  supervision. 
An  integrated  program  of  work  and 
education  can  enable  all  children  to 
negotiate  the  material  and  social  exigencies 
of  the  world  throughout  their  childhood, 
rather  than  the  present  pattern  of 
"protecting"  bourgeois  children  while 
exploiting  the  children  of  the  poor.  The 
logic  of  this  distinction  between  work  and 


Iqbal  Masih 


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labour  caffies''t'he'%&'8s  of  transformation 
for  all  employment  settings.  This  can  then 
lead  to  the  abandonment  of  the  perception 
that  some  children  are  disposable. 

Short  term  strategies  for  economic  survival 
through  the  avoidance  of  ethical  and  moral 
considerations  in  the  exploitation  of 
children  will  lead  inevitably  to  the 
distortion  and  mutation  of  human  potential, 
which  provides  the  very  cornerstone  of 
social  survival  and  social  thriving.  In  the 
end,  the  practice  of  child  labour  diminishes 
human,  national,  and  global  development. 
In  Boston,  Iqbal  reminded  us  of  this  fact  not 
only  when  he  put  the  producers  of  carpets 
on  notice,  but  when  he  told  affluent 
American  buyers  of  carpets  that  their  goods 
had  been  stained  by  the  blood  of  children. 

May  this  little  freedom  fighter's  call  for 
freedom  and  work  for  justice  inspire  us  to 
reconsider  our  world  of  production  and 
consumption,  which  we  have  come  to  take 
so  much  for  granted.  ■ 

Ivy  George  is  associate  professor  of 
sociology  at  Gordon  College  in  Wenham, 
Massachusetts.  She  is  the  author  of  Child 
Labour  and  Child  Worl<  {Ashish  Publishers, 
New  Delhi,  1990). 


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Jefferson  '68  Wins 
Pulitzer  Prize 


Margo  L.  Jefferson  '68  has 
become  the  second  Brandeis 
graduate  to  win  a  Pulitzer 
Prize  for  work  at  The  New 
York  Times. 

Jefferson  won  a  1995 
Pulitzer  Prize  for 
Distinguished  Criticism  for 
book  reviews  and  other 
critical  pieces  that  she 
wrote  for  The  Times  in 
1994.  She  was  cited  in  the 
award  for  writing 
"forcefully  and  originally 
without  ever  muscling  out 
the  author  in  question,"  the 
paper  reported. 

Of  some  70  Pulitzers  earned 
by  The  New  York  Times, 
Brandeis  alumni  now  hold 
three.  Thomas  L.  Friedman 
'75  has  won  twice.  In  all, 
Brandeis  alumni  have  won 
four  Pulitzers:  Richard 
Wernick  '55  won  the  prize 
for  music  in  1977. 

Jefferson  was  a  book  critic 
at  The  Times  from  1993 
until  early  this  year  when 
she  succeeded  Vincent 
Canby  as  Sunday  theater 
critic  at  the  paper.  Her 
"Sunday  View"  theater 
column  appears  in  the  Arts 
and  Leisure  section  of  The 
Times. 

According  to  The  Times, 
when  Jefferson  was  once 
asked  how  she  decided  what 
to  write  about,  she 
answered,  "Books  talk,  and 
when  I  can  talk  back,  I 
review  them." 


Jefferson  earned  her 
bachelor's  degree  cum  laude 
from  Brandeis,  and  her 
master's  degree  from  the 
Columbia  School  of 
Journalism  in  1971.  She 
has  also  worked  as  a 
contributing  editor  for  art 
criticism  for  Vogue  and  as 
a  contributing  editor  at 
Newsweek. 

The  Pulitzer  Prize  is 
awarded  annually  by 
Columbia  University  for 
work  done  in  the  preceding 
year  in  21  categories  of 
journalism,  letters,  and 
music. 


Margo  Jefferson 


Impressive  Showing  of 
Brandeis  Linguists 


The  West  Coast  Conference 
on  Formal  Linguistics,  held 
in  Los  Angeles  in  March, 
was  a  bonanza  for  the 
Brandeis  Program  in 
Linguistics  and  Cognitive 
Science. 

Papers  were  given  by  Sara 
Rosen,  Ph.D.  '89,  who 
currently  teaches  at  the 
University  of  Kansas; 
Soowon  Kim,  Ph.D.  '91, 
who  currently  teaches  at 
the  University  of 


Washington  in  Seattle;  and 
Pirsoka  Csuri,  who  is 
finishing  her  Brandeis  Ph.D. 

In  addition,  papers  were 
given  by  the  following 
individuals  who  spent  one 
year  in  the  graduate 
program:  Hubert 
Truckenbrodt,  a  graduate 
student  at  MIT;  and  Daniel 
Biiring  and  Katharina 
Hartmann,  who  now  teach 
at  the  University  of  Cologne 
and  the  University  of 
Frankfurt  in  Germany, 
respectively. 


According  to  Ray 
Jackendoff,  professor  of 
linguistics  and  Volen 
National  Center  for 
Complex  Systems,  the  West 
Coast  Conference  on 
Formal  Linguistics  is  one  of 
the  five  major  theoretical 
linguistic  conferences  held 
annually  in  the  United 
States. 


52  Brandeis  Review 


Chul-Seung  Park, 
Ph.D.  '92,  and  Rod 
MacKinnon  78 
Alumni  Networking  at 
Harvard  IVIedical  Scliool 


Rod  MacKinnon  and  Chul- 
Seung  Park 


When  Professor  of 
Biochemistry  Christopher 
Miller  talks  ahout  his 
former  graduate  student 
Chul-Seung  Park  '92,  he 
uses  only  superlatives.  The 
feeling  is  mutual.  "I  was 
well  accepted  hy  the 
department — the  professors 
and  the  faculty  are  very 
good  and  cooperative  to 
work  with  new  students 
from  other  countries  who 
don't  speak  English  very 
well.  That's  not  always  the 
case,  if  you  go  into  a  very 
competitive  field  in  a  hig 
university.  And  Brandeis 
biochemistry  has  a  good 
scholarship  program  so  you 
can  really  concentrate  on 
your  research  and 
education.  I  think  that's 
terrific." 

Park  had  been  an 
undergraduate  student  in 
Korea  at  Yonsei  University 
when  he  came  to  the  United 
States  to  study.  As  a 
Brandeis  graduate  student  in 
biochemistry  in  1987,  he 
chose  Miller  as  his  advisor, 
earning  a  Ph.D.  in  1992. 
Park  went  back  to  Korea  to 
serve  in  the  army  for  two 
years,  returning  to  the 
United  States  to  become  a 
postdoctoral  fellow  in 
neurobiology  at  Harvard 
Medical  School. 

Committed  to  basic 
research.  Park  is  interested 
in  probing  the  fundamental 
components  of 
neuroscience,  in  particular 
the  electrical  signaling 
through  the  central  nervous 
system.  He  expects  to 
pursue  a  career  in 
academics,  although,  he 
says,  "I'm  still  thinking  of 
what  I  will  do.  I  have  the 
chance  to  go  back  to  Korea 
to  get  a  university  job  or 
stay  here  in  the  United 
States  conducting  research 
in  an  academic  institution." 


Rod  MacKinnon  '78,  an 
internationally 
acknowledged  star  in  the 
field  of  neurobiology,  was  a 
postdoctoral  fellow  at 
Brandeis,  overlapping  with 
Park  for  six  months. 
MacKinnon  earned  a 
bachelor's  degree  at 
Brandeis  and  then  went  to 
Tufts  Medical  School  to 
earn  an  M.D.  Degree  in 
band,  he  returned  to  his 
primary  interest — basic 
research — in  Miller's  lab. 
When  MacKinnon  got  a  job 
at  Harvard  Medical  School, 
he  invited  Park  to  come 
back  from  Korea  and  join 
him.  "We  were  good 
friends,"  explains  Park,  "We 
had  kept  in  contact  when  I 
was  in  Korea,  and  I  decided 
to  come  back  to  Boston, 
where  I  feel  at  home.  I 
settled  in  very  rapidly.  So  I 
felt  very  grateful,"  Park 
says. 

One  of  five  siblings,  which 
includes  two  brothers  who 
are  M.D.s  and  a  sister  who 
earned  a  Ph.D.  in 
mathematics,  Park  is 
married  and  the  father  of  a 
3-year-old  daughter.  Living 
in  Newton,  he  is  close 
enough,  he  says,  to  come 
back  to  visit  Brandeis, 
where  he  remembers  with 
nostalgia  working  in  his  lab 


at  2;00  am.  He  describes  his 
experience  this  way: 
"Brandeis  is  one  of  the  best 
places  you  can  do  research 
as  a  graduate  student.  I  have 
many  friends  in  big 
universities  like  MIT, 
Harvard,  and  University  of 
California  at  Los  Angeles 
and  at  Berkeley.  Brandeis 
has  the  advantage  of  being  a 
small  college  with  top 
notch  scientists  who  are 


willing  to  teach  graduate 
students  and  work  with 
them.  They  are  really 
interested  in  training  good 
pct)ple.  I  was  very  inspired 
and  I  was  so  grateful  to  the 
school.  I  think  it's  great  to 
have  that  kind  of  experience 
in  my  life,  especially  as  an 
mternational  student.  I  still 
say  here  at  Harvard  that 
Brandeis  is  one  of  the  best 
places  in  the  United  States 
and  probably  in  the  world.  I 
really  think  that  is  the  case. 

'The  student-faculty  ratio  is 
small  so  you  can  really 
connect."  Park  adds,  "At 
Brandeis,  I  just  grabbed 
(.rhris  in  hallways  and  said 
Chris,  I  have  this  result.  I 
want  to  tell  you  about  it. 
We  just  sat  there  and 
talked,  talked,  talked  for 
two  hours.  We'd  argue,  and 
during  that  time  we  would 
find  a  good  approach  to 
explore  the  result.  I  had  a 
really  great  time." 


New  Mascot  Picked 


The  votes  have  been  tallied 
and  Brandeis  University  has 
a  new  mascot.  Stephen 
Silver  '84  drew  the  winning 
entry  in  the  Design  Our 
Mascot  contest,  sponsored 
by  Brandeis  Project  Pride 
and  the  Student  Senate. 
Silver  wins  a  $200  cash 
award  from  the  Friends  of 
Brandeis  Athletics  and  a  T- 
shirt  printed  with  the  new 
mascot. 

The  mascot,  as  yet 
unnamed,  will  be  used  on 
University  clothing. 


53  Summer  1995 


Esther  Rome  Seidman  '66 
Dies 


Esther  Rome  Seidman  '66,  a 
founding  member  of  the 
Boston  Women's  Collective 
and  a  coauthor  of  the 
group's  Our  Bodies, 
Ourselves  and  The  New 
Our  Bodies.  Ourselves  died 
June  24,  1995,  at  her  home 
in  Somerville, 
Massachusetts,  of  breast 
cancer.  She  was  49. 

Seidman  was  a  staunch  and 
articulate  advocate  for  more 
than  25  years  for  women's 
health,  believing  that  body 
image,  cosmetic  surgery, 
and  eating  disorders  were 
issues  of  culture  and 
economic  policy  as  much  as 
medicine.  She  was  a 
frequent  critic  of  the 
medical  system  and  the 
media  for  their  treatment  of 
women.  Seidman  was  also 
an  in-demand  authority  for 
women's  health  stories  in 
national  television 
broadcasts  and  newspapers. 


Born  m  Norwich, 
Connecticut,  Seidman  was 
graduated  cum  laude  from 
Brandeis  in  1966.  She 
earned  a  master  of  arts  in 
teaching  in  1968  from  the 
Harvard  Graduate  School  of 
Education. 

Seidman  joined  a  small 
group  of  women  at  a 
conference  at  Emmanuel 
College  titled  "Women  and 
Their  Bodies,"  in  1969.  The 
workshop  was  instrumental 
in  forming  the  Boston 
Women's  Health  Book 
Collective,  now  based  in 
Somerville. 

In  1970,  the  group  published 
Women  and  Their  Bodies,  a 
newsprint  guide  to  the 
psychological  and  physical 
experience  of  being  female. 
Turning  the  profits  back  to 


Esther  Rome  Seidman 


the  collective  m  1971  the 
women  changed  the  name 
of  the  book  to  Our  Bodies, 
Ourselves. 

It  was  not  until  1974  that 
the  group  began  to  pay 
themselves — $4  an  hour.  By 
that  time,  however,  the 
book  had  sold  more  than 
350,000  copies,  and  the  12 
women  had  incorporated  as 
a  private  operating 
foundation  and  signed  a 
book  contract  with  Simon 
and  Schuster. 

In  the  early  1990s,  Seidman 
served  as  consumer 
representative  on  the  U.S. 
Food  and  Drug 
Administration  that 


investigated  the  potential 
dangers  of  silicone  breast 
implants.  The  committee's 
findings  led  to  a  partial  ban 
on  implants  by  the  FDA. 

Most  recently,  until  just 
days  before  her  death, 
Seidman  was  working  on 
her  latest  book,  Risking 
Health  for  Love,  with 
cowriter  Jane  Hyman. 

Seidman  leaves  her 
husband,  Nathan,-  two  sons, 
Judah  and  Micah  of 
Somerville;  two  brothers, 
Aaron  Seidman  of  Brookline 
and  Abe  Seidman  of  Beverly 
Hills;  and  a  sister,  Sara 
Levine  of  Dallas. 


Brandeis  alumna  Gates 
McFadden.  star  of  last 
year's  "Star  Trek 
Generations, "  conducts  a 
master  class  with  theater 
arts  students  in  Laurie 
Theater  April  11. 


Shapiro  '69  Nominated 
to  Ranit  of  Ambassador 


President  Bill  Clinton 
has  nominated  Ira  A. 
Shapiro  '69  to  the  rank  of 
ambassador  during  his 
service  as  senior  counsel 
and  negotiator  in  the  Office 
of  the  U.S.  Trade 
Representative  (USTR). 
Shapiro  will  have 
responsibility  for  bilateral 
negotiations  with  two  of  the 
United  States's  leading 
trade  partners,  Canada 
and  Japan. 


Shapiro,  who  was  graduated 
magna  cum  laude  with 
honors  in  politics,  has 
worked  in  senior  staff 
positions  in  the  U.S.  Senate. 
He  has  served  as  general 
counsel  at  USTR  since 
1993,  and  played  an 
instrumental  role  in  the 
completion  of  the  North 
American  Free  Trade 
Agreement  and  the  Uruguay 
Round  of  multilateral  trade 
negotiations. 


54  Brandeis  Review 


lass  Notes 


'53 


Norman  Diamond,  D.D.S.,  Class 
Correspondent,  240  Kendrick 
Street,  Newton,  MA  02158 

Norman  Diamond,  D.M.D., 
presided  over  the  20th  Yankee 
Dental  Congress  at  Boston's 
Hynes  Convention  Center  in 
January.  He  practices 
orthodontics  in  West  Roxbury, 
MA,  and  is  president  of  the  4,500- 
member  Massachusetts  Dental 
Society.  He  and  his  wite,  Judith 
Rottenberg  Diamond  '55,  live  in 
Newton. 


Norman  Diamond 


'55 


Judith  PauU  Aronson,  Class 
Correspondent,  22371  Cass 
Avenue,  Woodland  Hills,  CA 
91364 

Elaine  Phillips  Ostroff  was 

awarded  the  Environmental 
Design  Research  Association's 
1995  Achievement  Award  at  the 
association's  annual  conference  in 
Boston  earlier  this  year.  She  is 
executive  director  of  the  Adaptive 
Environments  Center,  a  Boston 
nonprofit  organization  which  she 
cofounded  in  1978  to  address  the 
architectural  barriers  that 
confront  people  of  all  ages  with 


Elaine  Philhi 


disabilities.  The  award 
presentation  commended  Elaine's 
"social  vision,  her  intellectual 
strength,  and  her  sheer  tenacity  in 
helping  make  architectural  access 
a  civil  right,"  citing  in  particular 
her  work  on  two  national 
projects:  the  Universal  Design 
Education  Project  and  the  ADA 
(Americans  with  Disabilities  Act) 
National  Access  for  Public 
Schools  Project. 


'56 


Lt'ona  Fcldinan  Curhan,  Class 
Correspondent,  366  River  Road, 
Carlisle,  MA  01741 

Raymond  Koenig  reports  that  his 
fourth  grandchild  was  due  m  May. 
He  IS  spending  a  lot  of  time  in  his 
Palm  Harbor,  FL,  home  (near 
Tampal  and  is  in  the  process  of 
turning  his  business  over  to  his 
brother  and  daughters.  He  looks 
forward  to  returning  to  Waltham 
next  May  Deborah  Rudnick 
Menashi  and  her  husband  are 
scmi-retired  and  spending  time 
figuring  out  what  they  "really" 
want  to  do;  so  far,  they  have 
traveled  quite  a  bit  and  she  has 
written  a  mystery  novel.  They 
continue  to  get  joy  from  their 
"very  satisfactory"  grandson. 
Lawrence  (Larry)  Saidenberg  is 
vice  president  of  First  Albany 
Corporation,  a  NYSE  member 
firm,  where  he  works  with 
institutional  and  discretionary 
accounts.  He  has  si.x  children, 
including  a  10-year-old  son  and  an 
1 1 -year-old  daughter,  as  well  as 
two  granddaughters.  Ruth  Torf 
Saunders  is  eagerly  awaiting  the 
40th  Reunion  in  May.  She  lives  in 
Dover,  NH,  but  winters  in  Boca 
Raton,  FL.  David  Schultz  lives  in 
the  New  York  metropolitan  area, 
but  looks  forward  to  returning  to 
Boston  for  Reunion.  Beverly 
Sachs  Silpe  is  still  working  and 
enjoying  life  in  New  York,  near 
her  three  grown  children.  She  has 
completed  17  years  teaching 
English  to  recently  arrived 
immigrants,  and  still  finds  it  fun 
and  challenging. 

'61 

Judith  Leavitt  Schatz,  Class 
Correspondent,  139  Cumberland 
Road,  Leominster,  MA  01453 

After  25  years  in  banking,  Bengt 
Ahlberg  now  works  as  a  credit 
manager  for  an  insurance 
company  in  Stockholm,  Sweden. 
He  and  his  wife,  a  language 
teacher,  moved  from  the  suburbs 
into  the  center  of  Stockholm 
several  years  ago,  "withm  easy 
reach  for  all  visitors!"  They  have 
one  son,  an  insurance  salesman, 
and  one  daughter,  who  is  studying 
law  and  working  in  hotel 
marketing  Sandra  (Sandie)  Cutler 


Bernstein  is  director  of  the  Jewish 
Community  Volunteer  Program  of 
Combined  Jewish  Philanthropies 
of  Greater  Boston,  which 
celebrated  its  10th  anniversary 
last  year.  This  central 
clearinghouse  volunteer  program 
matches  potential  volunteers 
with  opportunities  that  interest 
and  suit  them.  Sandie  is  active  in 
nonprofit  circles,  providing 
consultation  and  training  on  the 
effective  involvement  of 
volunteers.  Stephen  Bluestone's 
collection  of  poetry,  The 
Laughing  Monkeys  of  Gravity, 
was  published  this  year  by  Mercer 
University  Press.  Ronald  Carner 
is  general  chairman  of  the  eighth 
Pan  American  Maccabiah  Games, 
to  be  held  in  Buenos  Aires  this 
December.  He  will  also  serve  as 
vice  chair  ot  Israel's  15th 
Maccabiah  Games  in  1997.  Diane 
G.  Davis  was  one  of  36  members 
of  the  Public  Relations  Society  of 
America,  including  six  women, 
inducted  into  its  College  of 
Fellows  last  November.  She  is 
principal  of  Diane  Davis 
Associates  of  Wellesley,  MA, 


Diane  Davis 

founded  in  1971  and  specializing 
in  professional,  institutional,  and 
health  care  clients.  She  has  served 
on  the  board  of  directors  for 
numerous  community 
organizations,  including  the 
United  Way  of  Massachusetts  Bay 
and  the  Greater  Boston  Chamber 
of  Commerce.  Stanley  Davis 
reports  that  his  business  has 
become  global,  taking  him  to 
South  Africa,  Israel,  the  Arab 
Emirates,  Brazil,  Hong  Kong, 
Japan,  Australia,  the  United 
Kingdom,  and  Sweden  m  1994.  He 
spends  half  his  time  in  public 
speaking  and  consulting,  and  the 
other  half  doing  research  and 
writing.  His  new  book.  The 
Monster  Under  the  Bed,  which 
argues  that  business  is  replacing 
schools  as  our  maior  educating 


institution,  sold  40,000  advance 
copies,  including  26,000  to 
ATiS^T.  He  and  his  wife,  Bobbi, 
have  three  children:  Leu,  age  21, 
Rick,  age  24,  and  Hilary,  age  31, 
who  gave  them  their  first 
grandchild  last  year.  They 
planned  to  take  all  three 
generations  of  their  family  to 
Australia  in  July.  James  J. 
Feldman,  M.D.,  still  lives  in 
Denton,  TX,  with  his  wife,  Judith, 
where  his  surgical  practice 
"continues  to  suffer  from  either 
too  much  or  too  little  government 
interference."  They  have  two 
sons:  one  in  college  and  the  other 
in  medical  school.  He  has  not 
returned  to  the  Boston  area  in 
many  years,  but  invites  any 
classmates  passing  through  the 
Dallas-Fort  Worth  area  to  visit 
and  share  old  memories.  John  L. 
Frank,  M.D.,  and  Elaine 
Greenberg  Frank  continue  to 
en)oy  their  work,  family — sons 
Jeremy,  Ben,  and  Nathaniel — and 
friends  m  Philadelphia.  She 
codirects  After  Adoption  and 
Parenting  Services  for  Families, 
and  he  is  director  of  the  child 
psychiatry  residency  training 
program  at  Hahnemann 
University.  They  like  chocolate, 
dogs,  bird  watching,  roUerblading, 
and  "many  of  the  subjects  we 
studied  at  Brandeis."  Arthur 
Glasgow  and  his  wife,  Marian 
Katzen  Glasgow  '63,  live  in 
Newton  Center,  MA,  where  he 
continues  to  perform  laparoscopic 
surgery  while  she  stays  busy 
"making  other  people's  homes 
comfortably  elegant."  Last 
summer,  they  celebrated  the 
births  of  two  grandsons,  who  live 
nearby  and  visit  frequently. 
Jordan  Goodman,  MD.,  became  a 
grandfather  last  summer  when  his 
oldest  daughter,  Beth  Goodman 
Weisman,  M.A.  '88,  had  a  baby 
girl.  His  youngest  daughter, 
Danielle,  was  married  in  October. 
Otherwise,  he  describes  his  life  as 
"status  quo."  Leslie  Neiman 
Kingsley  changed  jobs  in  1993, 
becoming  a  human  resources 
manager  for  a  research  and 
development  group  of  Ciba 
Corning  Diagnostics,  a 
Massachusetts-based  medical 
diagnostics  company  with 
international  sales  and  sites.  She 
and  her  husband,  Chris,  are 
"doing  great."  One  of  their 
daughters,  Aliza,  is  married  and 
living  in  London,  while  the  other, 
Karen,  spent  a  year  teaching 
English  in  Japan.  Victor 
Kugajevsky  has  "no  earth-shaking 
news"  to  report  from  Washington, 
DC.  He  has  four  sons:  one  m  the 
U.S.  Army  paratroopers,  one  in 
engineering  school,  and  the 
two  youngest  in  high  school. 
At  Commencement  in  May, 


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usually  are  unable  to  print  lists  of 
classmates  who  attend  each  other's 
weddings  or  other  functions.  News 
of  marriages  and  births  are  included 
in  separate  listings  by  class. 


Bruce  B.  Litwer  concluded  his 
second  term  |a  total  of  four  years) 
as  president  of  the  Brandeis 
University  Alumni  Association. 
He  and  his  wife,  Vicki,  live  in 
Coral  Gables,  FL  Ronald  David 
MacDonald  describes  himself  as 
doing  research  in  a  "real  life 
laboratory,"  working  on  a  small 
horse  and  sheep  farm  in 
Washington  State  which  he  calls 
"full  of  manure.  .  .  and  more!" 
Richard  K.  Mazow  has  been 
practicing  law  for  30  years  and 
lives  in  Charlestown,  MA.  He  was 
remarried  tour  years  ago  and  is 
"enjoying  every  minute"  of  it.  His 
two  children  are  Laura,  an  MA./ 
Ph.D.  student  who  previously 
spent  three  years  in  Israel,  and 
Rob,  a  law  school  graduate  who 
was  married  last  year.  He  recalls 
many  good  memories  of  starting 
at  Brandeis  almost  40  years  ago, 
and  is  looking  forward  to  seeing 
everyone  at  the  Reunion.  "Is  it 
really  .35  years?"  Martha  J.  Case 
Moore  reports  that  her  long-time 
compani(m,  lerry  Wayne  Cordell, 
died  in  May  1994.  Earlier,  in 
February,  she  traveled  to  Hawaii 
to  attend  the  wedding  of  her  son, 
Thomas.  Robert  Moulthrop  is 
vice  president  responsible  for 
communications  in  the  human 
resources  department  of  Scudder, 
Stevens  t;.  Clark,  Inc.,  an 
international  investment 
management  and  mutual  funds 
corporation.  Beth  Rapfogel  Roy's 
book.  Some  Trouble  with  Laws: 
Making  Sense  of  Social  Conflict, 
was  published  in  October  by  the 
University  of  California  Press. 
Charles  (Chick)  Scher  is 
completing  his  first  year  as  head 
of  pediatiic  hematology/oncology 
at  Tulane  University  School  of 
Medicine  in  New  Orleans,  LA.  He 
and  his  wife,  Reda,  celebrated 
their  30th  wedding  anniversary  in 
December  and  are  looking 
forward  to  their  son  Matthew's 
wedding  this  Labor  Day  weekend. 
Susan  Nemser  Sekuler  was 
awarded  a  Guberman  Fellowship 
and  named  a  lecturer  in  legal 
studies  at  Brandeis  for  the  spring 
semester.  She  was  also 
reappointed  to  the  mediation 
panel  of  the  Middlesex  Multi- 
Door  Courthouse  in  Cambridge, 
MA.  Last  summer,  she  resigned 
her  position  as  executive  director 
of  the  Legal  Advocacy  and 
Resource  Center,  a  special  project 
of  the  Boston  Bar  Association,  to 
spend  more  time  writing, 
teaching,  and  mediating.  Susan 
Avrin  Spear  is  an  adiunct 
instructor  in  computer  science  at 
Rockland  Community  College 


and  will  resume  her  work  as  an 
alumna  interviewer  this  fall.  She 
reports  the  marriages  of  her 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  and  her  son, 
Noel.  Anje  C.  Stolp-Elema  sends 
greetings  from  Zetten,  Holland, 
where  she  continues  to  enjoy  her 
work  as  a  math  teacher  at  a 
secondary  high  school.  She  has 
two  daughters,  ages  24  and  26, 
both  of  whom  are  living  on  their 
own.  She  spends  holidays 
traveling  throughout  Europe,  but 
especially  likes  visiting  France 
and  Ireland.  Deanne  Cohn  Stone 
lives  and  works  in  Framingham, 
MA,  where  she  is  involved 
professionally  in  several  projects: 
a  lewisb  hospice  program,  the 
Yemin  Orde  Youth  Village  in 
Israel,  and  Atlantic  Union 
College's  John  Henry  Weidner 
Center  (in  memory  of  a  rescuer  of 
1,000  persons  during  the 
Holocaust)  Robert  Richard  Walsh 
is  proud  to  report  the  success  of 
his  daughter,  Karissa,  who  earned 
an  M.A.  in  international  relations 
last  August.  Martin  Zelnik 
published  his  third  book,  a 
professional  reference  work  titled 
Time-Saver  Standards  for 
Residential  Design  and 
Development,  last  September.  He 
continues  to  teach  interior  design 
at  the  Fashion  Institute  of 
Technology/State  University  of 
New  York,  where  he  holds  the 
rank  of  full  professor  and  has 
served  as  president  of  the  FIT 
Faculty  Association  for  two  years. 
His  architectural/interior  design 
practice,  Panero-Zelnik 
Associates,  designed  a  6,000- 
square  foot  residence  that  was 
featured  on  the  TV  show 
"Lifestyles  of  the  Rich  and 
Famous."  His  youngest  son, 
Noah,  took  a  leave  of  absence 
from  college  to  pursue  a  career  as 
a  professional  golfer. 


'63 


Miriam  Osier  Hyman,  Class 
Correspondent,  140  East  72nd 
Street,  #I6B,  New  York,  NY 
1 002 1 

Charles  Teller  is  country  director 
for  the  Peace  Corps  in  Ethiopia, 
developing  a  new  program 
focusing  on  teacher  training  and 
food  security/nutrition  after  an 
18-year  absence  of  the  Peace 
Corps  from  Ethiopia. 

'64 

Rochelle  A.  WoH,  Class 
Correspondent,  ll3Naudain 
Street,  Philadelphui,  PA  19147 

Myra  Hiatt  Kraft  and  her 

husband,  Robert,  were  honored  by 
Boys  &  Girls  Clubs  ot  Boston 
(BGCB)  at  Its  annual  Fttundcrs 
Award  Dinner  in  February,  for 
their  many  philanthropic 
endeavors  and  particularly  for 


their  public  service  efforts 
involving  children  and  education. 
She  serves  as  director  of  BGCB 
and  holds  positions  in  numerous 
other  nonprofits,  including 
executive  committee  member  and 
trustee  of  Facing  History  and 
Ourselves,  overseer  of  Children's 
Hospital  and  the  Museum  of  Fine 
Arts,  and  president  of  the  New 
England  Region  of  the  Jewish 
National  Fund.  She  is  also  a 
Trustee  of  Brandeis  University 
and  helped  implement  the 
exchange  program  between  the 
Kraft-Hiatt  Chair  in  Christian 
Studies  at  Brandeis  and  in  Judaic 
Studies  at  College  of  the  Holy 
Cross.  Robert  is  owner  of  the 
New  England  Patriots,  head  of 
several  Boston-based  companies, 
and  holds  leadership  positions  in 
numerous  medical,  educational, 
and  community  institutions. 

'65 

Joan  L.  Kalafatas,  Class 
Correspondent,  95  Concord  Road, 
Maynard,  MA  01  754 

Betty  Josephson  King  is  professor 
of  biology  at  Northern  Virginia 
Community  College  in 
Alexandria,  where  she  has  taught 
since  1978.  She  earned  a  Ph.D.  in 
microbiology  and  molecular 
genetics  from  Harvard  in  1972 
and  taught  at  Bard  and  Skidmore 
colleges.  She  is  active  in  the  anti- 
drug prohibition  movement,  with 
additional  interests  in  animal 
rights,  anti-death  penalty,  and 
libertarianism.  She  is  divorced 
and  has  one  son,  Geoffrey,  age  16. 

'66 

Kenneth  E.  Davis,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Mary  Chilton 
Road,  Needham,  MA  02192 

Roy  C.  Baban,  a  Wien 
International  Scholar,  is  senior 
economist/counsel  in  the  legal 
department  of  the  International 
Monetary  Fund  in  Washington, 
DC.  After  traveling  extensively 
for  many  years  on  IMF  business, 
including  long-term  assignments 
in  Geneva  and  Seoul,  he 
"welcomes  a  less  nomadic 
existence"  with  his  wife,  Cynthia 
S,  Juan  Loa,  in  suburban  Virginia. 
Linda  Goldberg  Seligman,  Ph.D., 
published  the  second  edition  of 
her  book.  Developmental  Career 
Counseling  and  Assessment.  She 
took  a  sabbatical  from  her 
position  as  professor  at  George 
Mason  University  to  write  a  new 
book,  Counsehng  People  With 
Cancer,  and  to  revise  her 
Diagnosis  and  Treatment 
Planning  in  Counseling  (1986). 
She  also  gives  workshops  for 
mental  health  professionals 
throughout  the  country. 


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Anne  Reilly  Hort,  Class 
Correspondent,  4600  Livingston 
Avenue,  Riverdale,  NY  10471 

After  l^  years  as  a  partner  in  a 
Portland,  ME,  law  firm,  Eve 
Hlavaty  Cimmet  changed  careers 
last  summer  to  do  full-time  AIDS 
work.  She  is  now  coordinator  of 
volunteer  programs  for  the  AIDS 
Project,  Maine's  largest  AIDS 
service  organization,  and  loves 
her  work.  In  her  free  time,  she 
writes  plays  and  acts  in 
community  theater.  She  is  still 
married  to  Joseph  Cimmet  '66 
and  has  three  children:  Brian,  a 
recent  college  graduate; 
Stephanie,  a  college  ]unior;  and 
Alison,  who  was  graduated  from 
high  school  this  year. 

'68 

lay  R.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  I  Childs  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Peter  Gidal's  1969  avant-garde 
film.  Heads,  was  purchased  by 
the  National  Portrait  Gallery  in 


Nancy  Sherman  Shapiro,  Class 
Correspondent,  9437  Reach  Road, 
Potomac,  MD  20854 

Judith  N.  Lasker,  Ph.D.,  released  a 
revised  and  updated  edition  of  her 
book.  In  Search  of  Parenthood: 
Coping  with  Infertihty  and  High- 
Tech  Conception,  in  lanuary.  She 
and  her  coauthor,  Susan  Borg, 
have  also  published  When 
Pregnancy  Fails:  Famihes  Coping 
with  Miscarriage.  Ectopic 
Pregnancy.  Stillbirth  and  Infant 
Death.  She  is  professor  of 
sociology  and  anthropology  at 
Lehigh  University.  Sharon  T. 
Sooho's  family  law  practice  in 
Newton,  MA,  launched  the 
publication  of  a  monthly 
newsletter  in  January.  Titled 
Family  Law  Advisor:  The 
Divorce.  Alimony  and  Custody 
Reporter,  it  covers  topics  such  as 
family  law  cases,  legislation,  and 
trends  as  seen  in  books,  films, 
television,  and  other  media. 
Judith  TcUerman  was  honored 
with  the  Sanctity  of  Life  Award  at 
the  1994  Commencement  for  her 
work  on  teen  suicide  prevention. 
She  IS  founder  and  developer  of  a 
program  called  Solutions 
Unhmited  Now  |SUN|, 
establishing  a  model  for  groups  in 
which  adolescents  learn  to  solve 
their  problems  within  the 
structure  of  a  lO-step  program, 
facilitated  by  an  adult  counselor. 
She  IS  in  private  psvchology 


Peter  Cidal 

London  last  fall  and  played  from 
November  to  January.  His  latest 
film,  Flare-Out,  was  shown  at  the 
National  Film  Theatre  and  in 
Koln,  San  Francisco,  and 
Budapest,  and  two  other  films 
have  been  in  an  international 
traveling  show  since  their 
inception.  He  has  lived  in  London 
since  1968,  writing  theory  and 
aesthetics.  His  1971  book,  Andy 
Warhol.  Films  and  Paintings,  was 
reprinted  with  a  new  introduction 
and  his  1986  Understanding 
Beckett:  A  Study  of  Monologue 
and  Gesture  is  being  reissued  this 
year.  His  writings  have  been 
published  in  German,  Italian, 
French,  Russian,  and  Chinese, 
and  his  latest  essay  was  printed  in 
the  retrospective/raisonne  catalog 
on  the  paintings  of  Gerhard 
Richter.  Although  he  still  loves 
London,  he  is  planning  a  move  to 
Paris  for  several  years  with  his 
partner  of  the  last  decade,  Therese 
Oulton,  an  English  painter. 


ludlth  Te!Icj:::.r: 

practice  in  Chicago  and  is 
supervisor  of  interns  at  Michael 
Reese  Hospital  and  Medical 
Center  Eugene  (Gene)  Wintner 
is  a  developmental  reading 
teacher  and  has  published  a 
textbook  for  use  in  developmental 
reading  classes.  He  lives  in 
Newburyport,  MA. 


Charles  S.  Eisenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  4  Ashford  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

William  Boro  is  still  practicing 
and  learning  chiropractic 
medicine,  and  had  the  "dubious 
honor"  of  being  the  first 
chiropractor  in  Kuwait  last 
spring.  He  lives  in  Annapolis, 
MD,  and  finds  raising  two 
children — Sam,  age  9,  and 
Deborah,  age  6 — a  full-time  job  in 
itself.  Karl  Herrup  is  thrilled 
about  his  move  to  Cleveland, 
with  Its  accessible  culture  and 
fewer  "neurotics  per  acre"  than 
on  the  East  Coast.  He  spends  his 
days  doing  research  and  teaching 
graduate  and  medical  students  at 
Case  Western  Reserve  University 
Medical  School,  and  his  evenings 
and  weekends  fixing  up  his 
family's  home.  Tobi  Konikow 
Hoffman  is  a  programmer  and 
technical  writer  at  Image  Data 
Systems  in  Marlboro,  MA.  She  is 
in  her  24th  year  of  marriage  to 
Curtiss  Hoffman  '67  and  has 
three  sons:  Adrian  '93,  Darrel,  a 
recent  high  school  graduate,  and 
Adam,  a  high  school  junior.  Raye 
Hurwitz,  M.D.,  is  a  faculty 
member  in  internal  medicine  at 
Baylor  College  of  Medicine  and 
clinical  director  of  Baylor's 
Chernobyl  registry,  part  of  an 
international  consortium  to  study 
the  health  effects  of  the 
Chernobyl  explosion.  She  holds  a 
joint  appointment  at  the  VAMC 
as  attending  physician  for  the 
Persian  Gulf  Service,  one  of  three 
such  services  in  the  country.  In 
August  1994,  she  participated  in  a 
scientific  dialogue  to  Kazakhstan 
on  the  effects  of  nuclear  weapons 
testing  in  that  region,  sponsored 
by  the  Methodist  Global 
Ministries.  She  is  an  avid 
horseback  rider  and  started  a 
group  called  Equestrians  for 
Hermann  Park  to  promote  the 
continued  tradition  of  riding  as 
part  of  a  local  park  renovation. 
She  lives  with  her  two  Cavalier 
King  Charles  spaniels,  Levi  and 
Reuben.  Miriam  Finch  Lerman 
calls  "keeping  up  with  our  six 
children"  a  challenging  and 
rewarding  endeavor:  her  oldest 
daughter  was  married  last  year, 
two  children  are  still  at  home, 
and  the  others  are  in  school  in 
Israel,  New  York,  and  Chicago. 
She  also  stays  busy  chairing  her 
synagogue's  chesed  committee 
and  the  community  day  school's 
script  program,  as  well  as  using 
her  house  as  a  "kosher  hotel"  for 
people  needing  shabbat 
accommodations  in  South  Bend, 
IN.  In  her  limited  free  time,  she 
enjoys  mahjong  and  bridge.  She 
and  her  husband,  Mike, 
celebrated  their  25th  wedding 
anniversary  this  summer.  Gary 
Lind  IS  in  his  16th  year  of  private 


law  practice  in  Arlington  Heights, 
IL,  concentrating  in  several  areas 
of  civil  practice.  In  his  spare  time, 
he  works  on  learning  the  latest 
computer  programs  that  he  finds 
he  needs  for  his  practice.  His 
wife,  Sandy,  completed  her  M.A. 
in  clinical  psychology  and  is 
beginning  practice  as  a  clinical 
counselor.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Joanna,  a  high  school 
lunior,  and  Allison,  a  sixth  grader, 
both  of  whom  sing  with  Lyric 
Opera  of  Chicago  and  have  soloed 
for  High  Holidays  services  with 
their  grandfather,  a  cantor.  Cary 
sends  warmest  thoughts  to  all 
Brandeis  friends  with  whom  he 
has  lost  contact,  and  would  love 
to  hear  from  them.  Haile 
Menkerios  is  Eritrean 
Ambassador  to  Ethiopia,  having 
been  engaged  in  armed  struggle 
for  his  country's  liberation  from 
Ethiopian  rule  since  1973.  (Eritrea 
achieved  liberation  in  1991  and 
became  an  independent  nation  in 
1993.)  He  IS  also  engaged  in 
current  peace  and  reconciliation 
efforts  in  Somalia.  His  wife, 
Hebret  Berhe,  also  a  guerrilla 
fighter,  is  a  graduate  student  in 
the  Sustainable  International 
Development  Program  at 
Brandeis.  They  have  two  children; 
a  daughter,  age  14,  and  a  son,  age 
3   Barbara  Friedman  Plasse's 
primary  career  pursuits  are  in 
food  and  nutrition:  catering, 
cooking  instruction,  recipe 
development,  and  personal  eating 
training  for  weight  control.  She 
established  Manhattan's  first 
kosher  gourmet  shop  and 
developed  some  desserts  for 
Haagen-Dazs,  but  is  now  on  the 
"fat-free  track."  She  holds 
graduate  degrees  in  nursing  and 
social  work  and  also  enjoys 
traveling  and  skiing.  She  and  her 
husband,  Terry  Plasse  '69,  M.D., 
have  been  married  for  25  years 
and  have  three  sons:  Amitai,  a 
recent  college  graduate  m 
illustration;  On,  a  yeshiva 
student  m  Israel;  and  Eitan,  a  high 
school  senior.  Susan  Saltzer- 
Drucker  is  an  elementary  art 
consultant  for  Farmington,  MI, 
public  schools,  while  also 
studying  piano  and  struggling  to 
balance  work,  family,  and  leisure. 
She  and  her  husband,  Daniel,  a 
professor  of  mathematics  at 
Wayne  State  University  in 
Detroit,  have  two  children: 
Joshua,  a  college  student,  and 
Matana,  a  lunior  in  high  school. 
Nancy  Zarin  is  president  of  a 
textile  manufacturing  company, 
Belding  Hausman,  in  New  York 
City.  Her  son,  Zachary  Kessin,  is 
on  leave  from  Brandeis,  and  her 
daughter,  Jessica,  is  a  high  school 
junior. 


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80  15th  Reunion 


Mark  L.  Kaufman,  Class 
Correspondent,  28  Devens  Road, 
Swampscott,  MA  01907 

Annemarie  Bleiker  has  lived  in 
Monterey,  CA,  for  five  years, 
where  she  and  her  hushand,  Hans, 
continue  with  the  small  company 
they  started  in  the  mid- 1970s. 
They  train  government  managers 
and  administrators  artiund  the 
country  how  to  effectively 
combine  responsibility  towards 
their  professional  mission  with 
responsiveness  to  the  public  they 
serve.  They  are  almost  constantly 
on  the  road  and  find  their  work 
"fun  and  very  rewarding, "  Robert 
Panoff  IS  chair  of  the  tax  section 
of  the  Florida  Bar  and  president  of 
the  Greater  Miami  Tax  Institute. 
He  will  be  included  in  the  1995- 
96  edition  of  The  Best  Lawyers  in 
America.  He  specializes  in  civil 
and  criminal  tax  litigation  and  tax 
planning  and  has  been  an  adiunct 
professor  at  the  University  of 
Miami  School  of  Law  Master's  m 
Tax  Program  for  14  years.  Victoria 
Free  Presser  is  living  m  White 
Plains,  NY,  where  she  continues 
to  raise  her  children,  run  the 
synagogue  book  fair,  and  "save 
the  world"  through  public 
relations  for  the  Westchester 
County  Office  for  the  Aging. 

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In  lanuary,  Jeremy  Spector  was 
named  a  partner  in  the 
Philadelphia-based  law  firm  of 
Blank,  Rome,  Comisky  iS. 
McCauley,  where  he  practices  tax 
law  as  it  relates  to  public  finance. 
He  is  a  certified  public 
accountant  and  holds  an  L.L.M.  in 
taxation  and  an  MBA.  from  New 
York  University  and  a  l.D.  from 
the  University  of  Miami.  Mary 
Davis  Thompson  moved  to 
Saratoga,  WY,  in  early  February, 
where  she  lives  with  her  new 
husband,  Mike  Glode,  and  her 
two  sons,  Sam  and  Benjamin.  She 
has  her  own  law  practice  in 
Saratoga,  a  town  she  describes  as 
"nearly  at  the  continental 
divide,"  in  the  heart  of  the  North 
Platte  River  Valley  and  bordered 
by  the  Snowy  Range  Mountains. 


75  20th  Reunion 


Barbara  Alpert,  Class 
Correspondent,  272  1st  Avenue 
Suite  #4G,  New  York,  NY  10009 

Janet  Katz  is  a  trial  attorney  at 
the  Department  of  lustice  in 
Washington,  DC,  where  she 
litigates  environmental  tort  cases. 
She  "lives  to  travel,"  and  went 
hiking  and  camping  in  the 
mountains  of  northeast  Turkey 
last  summer.  Pamela  Seavey 
Rosenbloom  lives  in  Fort 


Lauderdale,  FL,  with  her  husband, 
Ben,  and  two  children,  Jenna,  age 
8,  and  Adam,  age  6.  She  is  an 
associate  architect  for  Pierce 
Architectural  Group,  P.A.,  part  of 
a  design  team  that  won  a 
competition  for  the  New  World 
Aquarium  in  Fort  Lauderdale. 

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Beth  Pearlman  Rotenberg,  Class 
Correspondent,  2743  Dean 
Parkway,  Minneapolis,  MN  .S.S416 

Jon  Becker  is  an  attorney  for  the 
European  legal  affairs  division  of 
EDS,  currently  working  in  Rome. 
He  originally  took  a  two-year 
overseas  assignment  in  London  in 
1988,  then  spent  three  and  a  half 
years  in  Geneva  and  a  year  and  a 
half  in  Pans  before  relocating  to 
Rome.  He  writes,  "after  this 
experience,  who  knows!"  Liane 
Kupferberg-Catter  is  busy  raising 
her  two  sons — lonathan,  age  7, 
and  Michael,  age  2 — while 
working  as  a  freelance  writer  of 
fiction,  essays,  and  humor.  Some 
of  her  recent  work  appeared  in 
McCcill's,  Child,  Ghimour, 
CosmopoHtun,  and  Newsdav-  Her 
husband.  Marc,  is  president  of 
Carter  Consulting  Group,  Inc., 
and  they  live  in  Scarsdale,  NY. 


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Fred  Berg,  Class  Correspondent, 
ISO  East  83rd  Street,  Apt.  2C, 
New  York,  NY  10028 

Debra  Goldberg  Butler  and  her 
husband,  Steven  Butler,  M.A.  '78, 
Ph.D.  '84,  have  lived  in  Seattle  for 
over  7  years  with  their  two  sons, 
Eric  and  Gil.  She  is  principal  of 
the  Seattle  Jewish  Primary  School 
and  "would  love  to  hear  from 
outstanding  educators  looking  for 
teaching  positions!"  Gail  Risman 
DeFilippo  loined  the  research 
department  of  Ziff-Davis 
Publishing  in  February  1994.  She 
lives  in  Iselin,  NI,  with  her 
husband,  Dom. 

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Valerie  Troyansky,  Class 
Correspondent,  210  West  89th 
Street  #6C,  New  York,  NY  10024 

Marta  Kauffman  and  David  Ciane 

'79  created,  and  now  cowrite  and 
coproduce  the  network  television 
sitcom  "Friends,"  airing  Thursday 
nights  on  NBC.  Previously,  they 
created  the  HBO  comedy  series 
"Dream  On,"  nominated  for  12 
Ace  Awards.  Perry  M.  Traquina  is 
a  partner  at  Wellington 
Management  Company,  a  Boston 
investment  management  firm, 
where  he  specializes  in  analyzing 
the  high  technology  industry  for 
attractive  investment 
opportunities.  He  is  also  assistant 
director  of  research  and  a  member 
of  the  firm's  operating  committee. 


Ruth  Strauss  Fleischmann,  Class 
Correspondent,  8  Angler  Road, 
Lexington,  MA  02173 

Bernard  "Buddy"  Macy  has 

started  his  own  business 
designing  and  marketing  comic 
postcards,  called  Buddycards, 
many  of  which  consist  of 
humorous  photographs  of  himself. 
In  December,  his  enterprise  was 
featured  on  the  front  page  of  The 
North  Jersey  Herald  a)  News 
Metro  section.  Diane  S. 
Nahabedian  is  vice  president  of 
communications  and 
development  of  Central  New 
England  HealthAlliance  in 
Fitchburg  and  Leominster,  MA,  a 
parent  organization  for  seven 
other  health  care  enterprises.  She 
IS  responsible  for  all  internal  and 
external  communications,  public 
and  media  relations,  marketing, 
advertising,  and  overseeing  all 
development/fund-raising  efforts. 
She  and  her  husband,  Paul  J. 
Carroll,  started  Neighbors 
International,  a  nonprofit 
organization  to  bring  together 
children  of  cultural  backgrounds 
that  have  traditionally  been 
antagonistic.  Their  pilot  program, 
The  lerusalem  Project,  targets 
Jewish  and  Palestinian  children. 
"Most  important,"  they  are  the 
proud  parents  of  a  son,  Alexander, 
age  1    Kate  Dunn  Nikitas  enjoys 
her  lob  teaching  French  at  Saint 
Ann's  School  in  Brooklyn,  NY. 
She  has  a  3-year-oId  daughter, 
Sophie.  Susan  Tuchman  was 
elected  partner  in  the  Boston/ 
Providence  law  firm  Hinckley, 
Allen  Si.  Snyder  in  February.  Her 
practice  concentrates  on  general 
civil  litigation,  with  experience  in 
mental  health,  civil  rights,  and 
special  education  law. 


Susan  Tuchman 


Lisa  Gelfand,  Class 
Correspondent,  19  Winchester 
Street  #404,  Brookline,  MA  02146 

Mitchell  Abramson,  M  D.,  lives 
m  Natick,  MA,  with  his  wife, 
Sandra,  and  their  two  children, 
lason,  age  4,  and  Jennifer,  age  2. 
Abbe  Silverberg  Aroshas,  D.D.S., 
continues  to  work  full-time  as 
director  of  the  dental  department 
in  a  Queens,  NY,  community 
health  center.  She  lives  in 
Woodmere,  Long  Island,  with  her 
husband,  Isaac,  and  their  two 
daughters,  Shiri  Lara,  age  9,  and 
Talia  Ruth,  age  .S,  all  of  whom  are 
"enioying  the  most  out  of  life  and 
giving  the  most  into  it."  Duane 
Berlin  is  a  corporate  and 
commercial  attorney  and  a 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Lev, 
Spalter  iS.  Berlin.  He  lives  and 
works  in  Norwalk,  CT,  with  his 
wife,  Stacey,  manager  of  the  office 
building  where  his  firm  is 
located.  Steven  A.  Block 
completed  his  Ph.D.  in  political 
economy  at  Harvard  University, 
where  his  research  focused  on 
agricultural  development  in 
Africa.  He  lives  in  Cambridge, 
MA,  and  frequently  travels  to 
Africa  for  research  and 
consulting  Fran  A.  Bloomfield- 
Landry  has  switched  from 
working  full-time  managing  a 
department  to  staying  home  full- 
time  with  her  children,  Hope,  age 
4,  and  Rick,  age  18  months.  Susan 
L.  Blumberg's  first  book.  Fighting 
itir  Ynur  Marriage,  was  published 
by  lossey-Bass,  Inc.  She  and  her 
husband  own  a  new  house  in 
Denver,  CO,  where  she  works 
both  in  private  practice  and  as  a 
community  clinical  psychologist 
for  the  Denver  Department  tif 
Health  and  Hospitals.  Lisa  Braun- 
Kenigsberg  has  lived  in  suburban 
Washington,  DC,  for  almost  six 
vears,  where  she  is  a  freelance 
writer  with  articles  in  The 
Washingtiin  Post,  USA  Today, 
.ind  Redbook.  She  and  her 
hushand,  Aaron,  a  cardiologist, 
are  "frequently  amazed"  to 
realize  they  are  the  parents  of 
three  children:  Ben,  age  8,  Sara, 
.igc  6,  and  Rachel,  age  3.  Lewis 
Brooks  w.is  promoted  to  vice 
piesiLlent  and  director  of 
iiitoimation  services  at  Griffin 
Bacal  Inc.,  an  advertising  agency 
in  New  York  City.  This  summer, 
he  celebrated  his  1 0th  anniversary 
with  Denise  Silber  Brooks  '84 
They  live  in  Bucks  Countv,  PA, 
with  their  children,  Eddie  and 
Hannah   Leslie  M.  Baer  Cole  is 
practicing  aviation  law  with  the 
firm  of  Bailey  and  Marzano  in 
Santa  Monica,  CA.  She  and  her 
husband,  Victor,  expected  their 


58  Brandeis  Re 


Births 


first  child  in  June.  Deborah  G. 
Cummis  returned  from  the  wilds 
of  Los  Angeles  to  her  native  New 
lersey,  where  she  and  her 
husband,  Richard  Klem,  bought  a 
house  in  West  Orange  and  are 
working  on  "acquiring  the 
remaining  accouterments  of  the 
suburban  cliche."  She  loined  the 
domestic  violence  unit  of  the 
Union  County  prosecutor's  office, 
and  Richard  is  a  sales 
representative  for  Bachman 
Information  Systems  in  New  York 
City  Normand  L.  Decelles,  Jr.  is 
on  the  medical  staff  at  the  V,A. 
Medical  Center  in  Providence,  Rl, 
and  a  clinical  instructor  in 
medicine  at  the  Brown  University 
Medical  School.  He  and  his  wife, 
Cindy  Hansen,  have  been  married 
for  1 1  years  and  have  two 
daughters,  Alison,  age  6,  and 
Carlyn,  age  4.  He  has  been 
enjoying  life,  classical  guitar,  and 
occasional  micro-brewery 
products  Frank  Donoghue  was 
promoted  to  associate  professor  of 
English  at  Ohio  State  University. 
His  book,  The  Fame  Machine, 
was  scheduled  for  publication  this 
year  Jennifer  N.  Edson  lives  in 
New  York  City  with  her  husband. 
Randy,  and  yellow  lab,  Cisco.  She 
IS  a  multimedia  producer  and  also 
serves  as  art  director  for  the  Wall 
Street  journal  Interactive  Edition. 
She  is  looking  forward  to  the  ISth 
Reunion.  Cynthia  D.  Fisher,  Esq  , 
is  executive  deputy  inspector 
general  for  the  New  York  City 
Housing  Authority,  where  she 
supervises  and  conducts  criminal 
investigations  of  all  allegations  of 
corruption,  including  contractor 
fraud,  bribery,  larceny,  and 
extortion.  Hilene  S.  Flanzbaum  is 
professor  of  American  poetry  at 
Butler  University  in  Indianapolis 
and  is  working  on  a  book  titled 
Jewish  Presence  in  Modern 
American  Poetry.  She  has  two 
children,  Susannah  and  Violet. 
Steven  Glassman  is  a  practicing 
dentist  in  northern  New  Jersey 
and  Manhattan's  Upper  West 
Side.  He  has  three  children  and 
resides  in  Demarest,  NJ.  Carrie 
Jalazo  Glazier  works  for  an 
actuarial  consulting  firm  m 
Allentown,  PA,  where  her 
husband,  Jeffrey,  owns  a  furniture 
store  that  has  been  in  his  family 
for  78  years.  They  keep  very  busy 
with  their  careers,  their  house, 
and  their  children:  Eli  Joshua,  age 
5,  Daniel  Abraham,  age  3,  and  a 
third  child  expected  this  past 
April.  Ellen  Click  is  an  infectious 
disease  specialist,  currently 


working  part-time  to  be  able  to 
spend  more  time  with  her  family, 
including  her  husband,  Dean 
Conterato,  and  their  two  sons, 
Ari,  age  3,  and  Jesse,  age  2.  Jill 
Blumencranz  Glickman  is  an 
attorney  who  practiced  real  estate 
law  for  SIX  years  before  opting  to 
work  as  a  full-time  mother.  She 
and  her  husband,  Barry,  live  in 
Scarsdale,  NY,  with  their  two 
daughters,  Stephanie  Belle,  age  5, 
and  Jane  Hillary,  age  2.  Lawrence 
A.  Goldberg  was  appointed 
adjunct  associate  professor  of  law 
in  the  department  of  accounting, 
taxation,  and  law  at  Long  Island 
University's  School  of  Business, 
Public  Administration,  and 
Information  Science   He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  New  York  firm  of 
Pester,  Goldberg,  Schiff,  Feldman 
«!k  Danzi,  PC,  concentrating  in 
civil  rights,  environmental,  and 
personal  iniury  litigation.  He  is 
married  to  Lisa  C.  Barnett,  who 
earned  her  M.B.A.  in  1993  from 
New  York  University's  Stern 
Graduate  School  of  Business  and 
IS  now  director  of  NYU's 
academic  computing  facility  help 
line.  They  live  in  Manhattan  with 
their  daughter,  Julia,  age  6.  Joel  A. 
Goleburn  returned  to  the  U.S.  in 
April  after  spending  four  years  in 
Japan  as  a  translator/interpreter 
for  Nomura  Research  Institute,  a 
think  tank  connected  to  one  of 
the  country's  largest  securities 
houses.  He  earned  a  master's  of 
international  management  degree 
in  1990,  after  working  as  a 
chiropractor  in  Italy,  Israel,  and 
Japan  during  the  1980s.  He  now 
plans  to  take  a  year  off  before 
starting  his  own  business,  which 
he  hopes  will  be  as  a 
multicultural,  multilingual 
entrepreneur  Matthew  Gordon  is 
the  GeoSciences  Group  leader  at 
Harding  Lawson  Associates  in 
Philadelphia,  while  his  wife, 
Karen,  took  a  few  months  off 
from  Merck  Research  Labs  to  be 
with  their  first  child,  Noah,  age  8 
months.  Jan  C.  (Yon)  Hardenbergh 
IS  now  an  author,  with  his  book 
on  3D  computer  graphics, 
Building  Applications  with 
PEXhb,  released  last  year.  He 
works  for  Oki  Advanced  Products 
in  Marlborough,  MA,  and  is 
"getting  wired  to  the  worldwide 
web."  Charles  T.  "Chuck"  Batten 
is  professor  of  English  and 
American  literature  at  Bellarmme 
College  in  Louisville,  KY,  and 
reports  that  things  are  "going 
great."  His  wife,  Tamar  Heller, 
also  teaches  English,  Sarena 
Kaminer  has  her  own  legal 
practice  in  Winnipeg,  handling 
class  action  suits  such  as  breast 
implant  and  Norplant  cases.  She 
stays  very  busy  between  work  and 
her  two  daughters,  Gabriella, 


Class 

I  Brandeis  Parent(s) 

Child's  Name 

Date 

1976 

Andrew  Levenson 

Jacob  Artliur 

October  17,  1994 

1978 

Barbara  Herman-Nevis 

Carly  Eliza 

Julys,  1994 

Renee  Heyman  Nachbar 

Jordan  Lee 

June  19,  1993 

Perry  M.  Traquina 

Kathenne  Leigh 

Novembers,  1994 

1979 

Diane  S.  Nahabedian 

Alexander  Nahabed 

July  14,  1994 

1980 

Fran  A.  Bloomfield-Landry 

Richard  Ernest 

January  11,  1994 

Donna  Levinston  BraH 

Carly  liana 

July  18,  1994 

Hilene  S.  Flanzbaum 

Violet  Tamsin 

November  4,  1994 

Rita  Goldman  Goldberg  and 

Nadinc  Beatrice 

October  18,  1993 

Fred  O.  Goldberg  '83 

Matthew  Gordon 

Noah  Jakob 

December  20,  1994 

William  Gorin 

Allie  Taylor 

September  9,  1994 

Russell  Greenfield 

Abby  Lawson 

November  11,  1994 

Bonnie  Becker  Krysta! 

Hannali  Lauren 

December  16,  1994 

Samuel  Ethan 

December  16,  1994 

1981 

David  Allon 

Samuel  Jonathon 

December  16,  1993 

Karen  Collins  Elofson 

David  Jeffrey 

February  11,  1994 

Elisa  Fishbein  Greenbaum 

Augusta  Eve 

October  23,  1994 

Robin  D.  Gunty-Evans,  M.D 

Spencer  Isaac 

February  17,  1994 

Marisa  Kesselman 

Eitan  Jeremy 

September  22,  1994 

Aryeh  Jordan 

September  22,  1994 

Karen  Schiff  Leff 

Sarah  Alana 

June  7,  1994 

Natanya  Lipkowitz-Briendel 

Jonathan 

October  22,  1994 

Jonathan  Maren 

Jacqueline  Sage 

October  6,  1994 

Debbie  Rodman  Sandler 

Kelsey  Jeanne 

September  9,  1994 

Tamar  Lange  Schriger 

Levona  Tova 

March  14,  1994 

Glen  Shear 

Jacqueline  Samara 

August  25,  1994 

Kimberly  Denis  Smith 

Shane  Preston 

December  24,  1994 

Toni  Lenz  Tinberg  and 

Leah  Jo 

November  5,  1994 

Howard  B.  Tinberg,  Ph.D.  '82 

Marjorie  Flacks  Wittner 

Alexandra  Bess 

February  17,  1994 

Bruce  Wollnian 

Ziv 

May  29,  1994 

Naomi  Ben-Attar  Yablong 

Akiva  Tzvi 

July  11,  1994 

Jonathan  Zabin 

Seth  Louis 

May  10,  1994 

1982 

Lisa  Burke  Simon 

Sharon  Diane 

September  10,  1994 

1983 

Karen  Kesner  Chapro 

Danielle  Meagan 

October  19,  1994 

198S 

Lisa  Ekengren-Towie 

Anna-Linnea 

April  21,  1994 

Edward  Fein 

Rachel  Ellen 

November  23,  1994 

(ames  Felton 

Samuel  Meyer 

December  21,  1994 

Beth  Roland  and 

Amanda  Jerin 

November  4,  1994 

Benjamin  Coopersmith  '86 

1986 

Michelle  Butensky 

Ari  Lee 

April  7,  1994 

Scheinthal  and 

Eitan  Chaniel 

April  7,  1994 

Stephen  Scheinthal  '87 

Gabriel  Natan 

April  7,  1994 

1987 

Rabbi  Greta  Bernard  Brown 

Ari  Daniel 

June  15,  1994 

1988 


1989 
1991 


and  Robert  S.  Brown  '86 

Laurie  Millender  Levine  and    Adam  Carlton  January  3,  1995 

Bruce  Levine 

Heidi  Siegel  Oletsky  David  Alexander  September  21,  1994 

Michael  Nathanson  and  Jacob  Tyler  May  31,  1994 

Dawn  Sziabowski  Nathanson 

Beth  Goodman  Weisman,         Erm  Sydney  August  8,  1994 

M.A.  '88 

Orna  Okouneff  Safer  Amalia  Nili  October  2,  1994 

Meredith  J.  Kates  Maya  Derora  October  4,  1994 

Suzi  Kaplan  Sandman  and         Aliza  llanit  April  19,  1994 

Jonathan  Kaplan  '89 


59  Summer  J  995 


age  4,  and  Rebecca,  age  1.  Anne 
Katz  has  been  living  in  Madison, 
WI,  tor  the  past  10  years.  Having 
switched  fields  from  actress  to 
arts  administrator,  she  now  works 
in  community  outreach  and 
education  for  the  Madison  Civic 
Center,  a  local  performing  arts 
center.  She  and  her  husband  are 
enjoying  their  son,  Raphael  (Rafe), 
whom  they  adopted  on  the  day  of 
his  birth  in  November  1993. 
Robert  Kevess  is  a  staff  physician 
in  the  student  health  services  of 
the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley,  where  one  of  his  areas 
of  focus  includes  eating  disorders. 
He  bought  a  house  in  Oakland 
last  October  and  reports  that  life 
is  getting  "better  and  better."  Lisa 
Kitinoga,  in  addition  to  doing 
consulting  work  with  the 
University  of  California  at 
Davis's  Postharvest  Outreach 
Team,  planned  a  trip  to  Senegal 
this  February  to  work  with 
Winrock  International  on  a 
women's  horticultural  crops 
marketing  project.  She  lives  with 
her  husband  of  two  and  a  half 
years,  John  Sargeant,  in  the 
mountains  about  an  hour  from 
Sacramento.  Roberta  Korus  is  an 
attorney  with  the  Sukin  Law 
Group,  an  entertainment  law  firm 
with  offices  in  New  York  City 
and  Nashville,  TN.  She  and  her 
husband,  Stephen  Ward,  a  music 
producer,  have  been  married  for 
just  over  a  year.  Aron  Lukacher 
moved  with  his  family  to  Atlanta, 
GA,  to  assume  the  position  of 
assistant  professor  in  the 
Department  of  Pathology  at 
Emory  University  School  of 
Medicine.  He  and  his  wife, 
Saundra,  have  two  children: 
David,  age  6,  and  Anna,  age  3, 
|ohn  McQuaid  and  Carol  Lanctot 
McQuaid  live  in  Lowell,  MA, 
where  he  is  a  certified  real  estate 
appraiser  and  she  is  lifestyle/arts 
editor  for  the  Lowell  Sun.  They 
have  two  children,  Peter,  age  S, 
and  Elizabeth,  age  1,  and  were 
planning  a  trip  to  Vatican  City 
this  past  winter.  Diane  Morse 
teaches  biopsychosocial  medicine 
(aspects  of  behavioral  medicine) 
to  residents  in  internal  medicine 
at  the  University  of  Rochester 
School  of  Medicine  and  Dentistry 
and  also  works  in  internal 
medicine  practice.  She  is  married 
to  Mark  Winsberg  '86,  a  physician 
in  family  medicine,  and  has  two 
daughters:  Sarah,  age  6,  and 
Rachel,  age  2.  Eric  Rajendra  has 
worked  and  traveled  widely  in  the 
last  15  years,  including  Indonesia, 
France,  the  United  Kingdom,  San 
Francisco,  New  York,  Paris,  and 
now  back  to  New  York 
temporarily,  working  for  an 
international  financial  services 


company.  He  would  love  to  hear 
from  any  classmates  who  have 
also  pursued  international  careers 
or  who  now  live  outside  the 
United  States.  Tila  Carrasquillo 
Ramin  is  at  home  in  Waban,  MA, 
with  her  children,  George,  age  6, 
Daniel,  age  2,  and  the  youngest, 
who  was  still  "on  the  way"  at 
this  writing.  Steven  Roseman  and 
his  wife,  Ellen  Robbins  Roseman 
'81,  live  in  Calabasas,  CA,  with 
their  two  children,  Eric,  age  5, 
and  Alyson,  age  1.  He  is  a  partner 
in  a  50-member  law  firm  in 
Beverly  Hills,  concentrating  on 
development  and  financing  of  real 
property,  while  she  is  a 
programmer  with  Litton.  Shelley 
Roth  IS  president  of  her  own 
literary  agency,  The  Roth  Agency, 
representing  writers  of  fiction  and 
nonfiction.  She  and  her  husband, 
the  writer  Daniel  Asa  Rose,  were 
married  in  the  fall  of  1993  and 
moved  from  Boston  to  an  ISth- 
century  colonial  farmhouse  in  the 
village  of  Rehoboth,  MA.  She  is 
the  stepmother  of  Alex,  age  19, 
and  Marshall,  age  IS,  and  was 
expecting  a  baby  this  past  spring. 
Robert  L  Rubin  is  house  counsel 
and  senior  trial  attorney  for 
Frontier  Insurance  Company  in 
Florida,  doing  malpractice  defense 
work  at  his  private  law  offices  in 
Fort  Lauderdale.  Previously,  he 
was  a  partner  at  the  law  firm  of 
Gordon  &  Silber,  PC.  in  New 
York  City.  He,  his  wife,  Deborah, 
and  their  daughters,  Rachel  and 
Alissa,  moved  to  Parkland,  FL,  in 
February.  William  Salton,  Ph.D., 
is  a  clinical  psychologist  in 
private  practice  and  an  instructor 
at  the  Albert  Einstein  College  of 
Medicine  and  Baruch  College  in 
New  York  City.  Lydia 
Zimmerman  Saravis  has  moved  to 
Las  Vegas,  where  she  and  her 
husband  are  adjusting  to  the 
hotter  climate  and  their  2-year- 
old  daughter,  Marissa,  is  enjoying 
playing  outside  more  than  in  New 
York.  They  have  not  yet 
discovered  too  many  fellow 
alumni,  and  would  love  to  hear 
from  any  classmates  that  are 
vacationing  or  traveling  on 
business  to  the  area.  Janis 
Boyarsky  Schiff,  her  husband, 
Phil,  a  legal  strategy  officer  at  the 
American  Red  Cross,  and  son, 
lustin,  5  years  old  and  a  yellow 
belt  in  Tai  Kwan  Do,  spent  the 
summer  sailing  on  Chesapeake 
Bay  on  their  sailboat,  the  Schiff 
Ahoy  II.  Paul  G.  Shapiro  was 
elected  partner  at  the  law  firm  of 
Cohen,  Shapiro,  Polisher, 


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Shickman  and  Cohen  in  January, 
where  he  will  practice  general 
civil,  criminal,  and 
environmental  litigation.  Prior  to 
joining  the  firm  in  1992,  he  was 
an  assistant  US,  Attorney  for 
New  Jersey,  spending  four  years 
in  the  civil  division  and  two  years 
in  the  criminal  division.  He  lives 
in  West  Windsor,  NJ,  and  serves 
on  the  board  of  the  Coalition  of 
New  Jersey  Cyclists,  a  nonprofit 
organization  advocating  hicycling 
as  a  transportation  alternative. 
Elizabeth  Kraus  Sher  is  a 
litigation  partner  at  Pitney, 
Hardin,  Kipp  ^  Szuch  in 
Morristown,  NJ,  while  her 
husband,  Leon  Sher,  is  a  systems 
programmer  at  the  Prudential  m 
Roseland,  NJ.  They  both  parent 
their  two  daughters,  Jessica,  age  9, 
and  Julie,  age  6,  as  well  as  sing  in 
a  vocal  ensemble  called  Beged 
Kefet,  which  performs  Hebrew 
and  English  folk  music  nationally 
to  raise  money  for  charity.  With 
five  of  the  seven  group  members 
Brandeis  alumni,  they  hope  to 
schedule  a  Brandeis  gig  soon! 
Nancy  Hamburger  Starr,  D.M  D., 
has  a  private  dental  practice  in 
Rockland,  MA.  When  not 
working,  she  enjoys  spending 
time  with  her  two  sons,  Zachary, 
age  5,  and  Alexander,  age  2.  She 
and  her  husband,  Steven,  a 
urology  practitioner  on  the  South 
Shore,  recently  built  a  home  in 
Canton,  MA.  Janet  Strassman- 
Perlmutter  and  her  husband,  Joel 
Perlmutter  '65,  have  a 
psychotherapy  practice  in 
Hopkmton,  MA.  She  also  works 
part-time  at  the  Fallon  Clinic 
Counseling  Center  in  Worcester, 
while  he  continues  with  his 
practice  in  Thompson,  CT.  They 
have  a  daughter,  Iiliana,  age  10 
months,  Gary  Taffet  fondly 
recalls  his  philosophy  major  days 
at  Brandeis,  but  has  mostly  given 
up  philosophizing  to  focus  on  the 
material  concerns  of  his  solo  law 
practice  m  Newark,  NJ,  He  and 
his  wife,  Audrey  Hemmat-Taffet 
'82,  have  one  son,  Justin,  a 
toddler,  Ian  Tick  is  manager  of 
marketing  communications  at 


Gilat  Satellite  Networks,  an 
Israeli  telecom  company  traded 
publicly  in  the  U.S.  His  position 
requires  some  travel,  so  he  warns 
fellow  alumni  not  to  be  surprised 
if  he  drops  in  "out  of  the  blue!" 
He  and  his  wife,  Bracha,  a 
"shiatsuist"  studying  Chinese 
medicine,  have  three  sons,  all 
Israeli-born:  Itai,  age  9;  Alon,  age 
7;  and  Din,  age  3.  Elizabeth  Topaz 
IS  practicing  corporate  law  in 
Providence,  RI,  where  she  lives 
with  her  husband,  Gordon 
Hatcher,  and  their  son,  Alexander, 
age  9  months.  Mark  Weinstein  is 
still  teaching  English  to  adult 
immigrants  in  California,  and 
reports  that  he  just  bought  his 
first  car.  David  Weisel  specializes 
in  real  estate  for  Arthur 
Andersen's  Corporate  Financial 
and  Valuation  Services  in 
Washington,  DC.  He  lives  in 
Potomac,  MD,  with  his  wife, 
Barbara,  an  international 
economist,  and  their  sons: 
Gabriel,  age  7,  Ezra,  age  5,  and 
Jonah,  age  3. 

'81 

Matthew  B.  Hills,  Class 
Correspondent,  25  Hobart  Road, 
Newton  Centre,  MA  02159 

Elisa  Fishbein  Greenbaum  moved 
her  family  and  business  from 
New  York  City  to  Westhampton 
Beach,  NY,  She  and  her  husband, 
Clint,  are  partners  in  Uncommon 
Stock  Corporation  and  their  own 
resort  business.  Mermaid  Manor. 
They  have  two  children,  Jake,  age 
5,  and  Augusta,  10  months — 
"Mermaid  Manor's  cover  girl." 
Lee  Grutchfield  is  a  general 
contractor  in  the  Montpelier- 
Barre  area  of  Vermont,  and  lives 
in  Plainficld  with  Merrick 
Hamilton,  whom  he  married  in 
September  1992.  David 
Hirschfield  is  managing  director 
of  Cable  House  Investment 
Services,  a  new  derivatives  fund 
management  company  in  New 
York  City.  He  lives  on 
Manhattan's  East  Side  with  his 
wife,  layne,  a  kindergarten 
teacher  at  the  A.  J.  Heschel 
School.  He  moved  to  New  York  in 
May  1994,  having  lived  outside 
the  United  States  since 
graduation.  Wendy  Cohen 
Hoffman  is  m  her  first  year  as  an 
economist  with  the  U.  S. 
Environmental  Protection 
Agency's  Office  of  Pollution 
Prevention  and  Toxics  in 
Washington,  DC.  She  and  her 
husband,  Sid,  moved  from 
Washington  to  a  new  house  in 
Rockville,  MD,  Kenneth 
Hornstein  and  Lucy  Spencer 


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Hornstein  live  in  suburban 
Philadelphia,  where  he  works  at 
General  Instruments,  supervising 
the  testing  of  cable  converter 
boxes,  and  she  is  in  family 
practice.  They  have  three 
children:  8-year-old  twins, 
Matthew  and  Joanna,  and 
Benjamin,  age  5.  They  are  hoping 
to  manage  a  visit  to  Brandeis 
soon.  Jay  (Jacob)  Inwald  continues 
to  practice  law  in  New  York  City, 
and  has  moved  to  the  suburbs 
with  his  wife,  Lynne,  and  their 
son,  lethro,  age  3.  Elizabeth  Etra 
Jick  has  worked  for  the  Boston 
public  finance  firm  Oppenheimer 
and  Company,  Inc.,  since  1985. 
She  has  also  spent  time  living  in 
the  United  Kingdom.  She  and  her 
husband,  Daniel  (D.(.)  Jick  '79, 
live  in  Chestnut  Hill,  MA,  with 
their  three  children.  Steven  L. 
Kalt  practices  general  dentistry  in 
Brooklyn,  NY.  His  wife  of  10 
years,  Robbin,  is  manager/vice 
president  for  Salomon  Brothers,  a 
Wall  Street  investment  banking 
firm.  They  have  lived  in  New 
Hyde  Park,  NY,  for  5  years  and 
have  two  children,  Rachel,  age  7, 
and  Andy,  age  4.  Wayne  Koven  is 
chief  legal  counsel  for  Mateh 
Yehuda  Regional  Council  in 
Israel's  largest  county.  He  lives  in 
the  "politically  incorrect" 
settlement  of  Beit  El  with  his 
wife,  Idit,  and  their  children, 
Yisca,  age  3,  Yotam,  age  2,  and 
Yadidya,  age  1    Susan  Rabinowitz 
Laiter  has  a  private  textile 
converting  business  with  her 
husband,  Allen,  and  is  returning 
to  physical  therapy  work  part- 
time.  They  live  in  Richboro,  PA, 
with  their  three  children,  Jessica, 
age  6,  Heather,  age  4,  and  David, 
age  1  1/2.  In  the  last  year,  Ruth 
Landsman  started  a  new  lob  at  the 
Santa  Cruz  Operation  and  bought 
a  new  house  in  Newton,  MA.  She 
reports  that  she  is  "loving  them 
both."  Gaytra  Lathon  is  manager 
of  product  development  for 
mental  health  and  rural  health 
products  with  Blue  Cross  Blue 
Shield  of  Georgia,  She  calls 
herself  "still  single,  but  actively 
seeking  a  spouse,  a  house,  2.5 
kids,  and  a  dog!"  Joung  H.  Lee, 
M.D.,  completed  his  neurosurgery 
residency  |"at  last!"|  at  the 
University  of  Virginia  in  1993  and 
now  lives  and  works  in  the 
Cleveland,  OH,  area.  He  is 
codirector  of  the  Center  for  Skull 
Base  Surgery  and  Head  of  the 
section  of  skull  base  surgery,  in 
the  neurosurgery  department  of 
the  Cleveland  Clinic.  He  and  his 
wife  of  nine  years,  Heeyang 
Namkoong,  have  three  sons, 
Terry,  age  8,  Nicholas,  age  6,  and 
Ryan,  age  4  Karen  Schiff  Leff 
lives  in  Atlanta,  GA,  with  her 
husband,  Steven,  an  ophthalmic 
surgeon,  and  their  two  daughters, 
Rachel,  age  3,  and  Sarah,  age  1. 


Tanya  (Natanya)  Lipkowitz- 
Briendel  has  taken  a  break  from 
practicing  law  to  have  two 
children:  Robin,  age  2,  and 
lonathan,  age  10  months.  Daniel 
Medeiros,  M.D.,  moved  back  to 
New  York  City  from  Connecticut, 
where  he  is  director  of  the 
Adolescent  After  School  program 
at  St.  Luke's  Roosevelt  and 
anticipates  beginning  an 
additional  private  practice  in 
child  psychiatry.  He  owns  a  condo 
m  the  West  Village  with  his  life 
partner,  Greg,  a  manager  of  sales 
development  at  HBO.  Arthur 
Mallock  IS  a  practicing 
veterinarian  and  owner  of  the 
Lloyd  Animal  Medical  Center  in 
Stoughton,  MA.  Since  the 
completion  of  a  new  building  last 
year,  his  animal  hospital  is  the 
most  modern  such  facility  in 
southeastern  Massachusetts.  He 
and  his  wife,  Tina,  were  married 
in  November  1993.  Marlene 
Mlawski  lives  with  her  husband, 
Ben  Golombek  and  their  son, 
Avery  Alexander,  age  2,  in 
Manhattan,  NY.  She  is  a  senior 
associate  with  Korn  Kerry 
International  in  New  York  City. 
Sara  Monoson  is  assistant 
professor  of  political  science  at 
Northwestern  University  in 
Evanston,  IL,  where  she  lives 
with  her  husband  of  one  year, 
Michael  Berns,  Moses  L.  Pava  was 
named  to  occupy  the  Alvin  H. 
Embender  Chair  in  Business 
Ethics  at  the  Sy  Syms  School  of 
Business  of  Yeshiva  University. 
He  IS  the  proud  father  of  two 
children,  Rebecca,  age  5,  and 
Jonah,  age  1.  He  hopes  to  spend 
the  coming  year  on  sabbatical  in 
Jerusalem.  Norman  L.  Pernick  is  a 
new  partner  m  the  law  firm  of 
Saul,  Ewing,  Remick  &  Saul  m 
Wilmington,  DE,  where  his 
practice  is  concentrated  on 
bankruptcy,  real  estate,  and 
general  commercial  law.  He  and 
his  wife,  Paula,  have  two 
daughters,  Jessica,  age  8,  and 
Sallie,  age  5.  Sherry  Buchwald 
Pollack  IS  director  of  sales 
training  at  Novo  Nordisk 
Pharmaceuticals  Inc.  in 
Princeton,  NJ,  where  she  has 
worked  for  1 1  years.  Her  husband. 
Dr.  Charles  Pollack,  is  a 
researcher  and  assistant  professor 
of  molecular  biology  at 
Rockefeller  University.  They  have 
two  daughters,  Hannah,  age  4, 
and  Aviva,  age  2.  Daniel  R.  Ravin, 
D.M.D.,  has  a  growing  family 
dental  practice  in  Scarborough, 
ME,  just  outside  Portland.  He  and 


his  wife,  Nancy,  have  two  sons, 
"the  joys  of  our  lives":  Neil,  age 
4,  and  Aaron,  age  1.  They  are 
close  enough  to  Boston  to  visit 
easily  and  look  forward  to 
returning  to  Brandeis  for  Reunion. 
Sara  Rosenfeld  is  in  her  second 
year  as  manager  of  the  Brooklme, 
MA,  office  of  Hunneman  &  Co. 
Coldwell  Banker,  the  largest  real 
estate  company  in  New  England. 
She  has  worked  in  real  estate  for 
13  years  and  is  also  a  trainer, 
teaching  courses  in 
condominiums,  local  historic 
preservation,  and  debt  reduction. 
She  serves  as  chair  of  the 
Someri'iUe  Historic  Preservation 
Commission.  Marlene  Finn 
Ruderman  had  three  articles 
published  in  last  fall's  issues  of 
Sagewoman,  Circle,  and  Solitary 
magazines.  She  continues  to  work 
towards  a  master's  degree  and  K-6 
teaching  certification.  She  spent 
part  of  last  summer  in  northeast 
England  visiting  her  penpal  of 
almost  25  years.  Debra  Sacks 
lives  in  Cupertino,  CA,  with  her 
husband  of  one  year,  Sunil 
Mohan.  She  works  for  a  local 
public  accounting  practice  and  he 
is  a  computer  scientist.  Albert  (. 
Sandler,  D.M.D.,  opened  his  own 
dental  practice  in  Methucn,  MA, 
last  September.  He  also  serves  as 
vice  president  of  Etz  Hayim 
synagogue  in  Derry,  NH.  His 
wife,  Sarah,  practices  dentistry  in 
Hampstead,  NH,  where  they  live 
with  their  two  daughters,  Erin, 
age  5,  and  Alyson,  age  3.  Debbie 
Rodman  Sandler  is  a  partner  at 
the  Philadelphia  law  firm  of 
White  and  Williams,  practicing 
management-side  labor  and 
employment  law.  She  and  her 
husband,  Mark,  have  two 
children.  Lee  Schlesinger  took  a 
position  as  test/reviews  editor  of 
Network  World,  a  weekly 
computer  trade  newspaper.  He 
lives  in  Natick,  MA,  and  calls  life 
with  a  baby  who  now  walks  and 
talks  a  "blast."  Silvia 
Tenembaum  Schneider  is  a 
practicing  clinical  psychologist  in 
Jerusalem,  specializing  in 
individual  and  couples' 
psychotherapy.  Her  husband, 
Alan,  IS  director  of  B'nai  B'nth 
International's  World  Center. 
They  were  expecting  a  third  child 
in  April  to  loin  their  two  sons, 
Gilad,  age  5,  and  Yonatan,  age  4. 
She  welcomes  contact  from  old 
Brandeisian  friends  and 
classmates  Tamar  Lange  Schriger 
and  her  family  purchased  a  home 
in  Efrat,  Israel,  in  Gush  Etziyon 
"outside  the  so-called  Green 
Line,"  where  they  planned  to 
move  this  summer.  She  continues 
to  work  as  a  dietitian  in 
Jerusalem  and  with  her  husband. 


Alan,  raising  their  four  children 
"to  be  Torah  Jews,"  Bonnie 
Schultz  IS  a  technical  writer 
living  in  NewtonviUe,  MA.  She 
and  her  husband,  Jon  Eckstein, 
have  one  child,  age  8  months. 
Glen  Shear  joined  the  Toronto 
firm  of  Cole  &.  Partners,  working 
in  corporate  financial  services, 
including  equity  financing  and 
mergers  and  acquisitions.  Gail 
Goichman  Sillman  lives  in 
Sudbury,  MA,  and  works  with 
Physician  Partners  of  New 
England  in  Framingham.  Keith 
Silverman  has  practiced  dentistry 
for  over  six  years  on  Manhattan's 
Upper  West  Side,  where  he  used 
to  tog  to  work  but  now  commutes 
from  his  home  in  Mt.  Carmel, 
CT,  His  wife,  Renee,  is 
completing  a  fellowship  in 
infectious  diseases.  They  have 
two  daughters,  Rebecca,  age  3  1/2, 
and  Hannah,  age  2.  Kimberly  D. 
Smith  and  her  husband,  Patrick, 
expected  their  first  child  by  the 
end  of  1994.  They  live  in  Norfolk, 
VA.  Margot  Steinberg  has  lived  in 
London  since  1989,  where  she 
spent  a  year  studying  drama  and 
now  works  as  an  actress  in  film, 
radio,  and  theater.  She  has 
produced  two  plays  for  her  own 
theater  company.  Nomad  T.  C. 
Previously,  she  earned  an  M.B.A. 
from  Harvard  Business  School  and 
was  an  advertising  executive  in 
New  York  City  for  four  years. 
Heidi  Gurian  Terens  is  director  of 
corporate  proiects  for  RJR 
Nabisco  in  New  York  City.  She 
lives  m  Scotch  Plains,  NJ,  with 
her  husband.  Bill,  a  urologist,  and 
their  two  children,  Natalie,  age  5, 
and  Tyler,  age  2  Daniel  Turetsky 
continues  to  work  as  a 
psychologist  at  the  Lab  School  in 
Washington,  DC,  and  has  also 
opened  a  private  practice  in 
Georgetown.  He  has  moved  to 
Rosslyn,  VA,  to  live  with  his 
girlfriend,  Andrea,  and  keeps  on 
training  to  be  a  professional 
basketball  player.  Mark  D. 
Vermette  and  his  wife,  Patricia 
Carando,  have  launched  their 
own  consulting  firm,  Wintermute 
Technologies  Ltd.  Co., 
specializing  in  the  design  and 
development  of  multimedia  and 
object-oriented  software.  They 
describe  their  enterprise  as  part  of 
a  growing  base  of  high-tech 
companies  m  their  home  area  of 
Austin,  TX.  After  earning  her 
MM.  m  flute  performance  from 
the  Boston  Conservatory  of 
Music,  Laura  Dow  Vincent  loined 
the  faculties  of  the  Brookline 
Music  School  and  Dana  Music 
School.  She  was  a  featured  soloist 


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with  the  Waltham  Philharmonic 
Orchestra  last  season  and  has 
presented  numerous  faculty 
recitals.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Concord  Hill  Woodwind  Quintet 
and  performed  with  the  Turtle 
Lane  Players  m  a  production  of 
Oliver!.  Amy  IVlintz  Wasserman 
lives  in  Needham,  iVlA,  with  her 
husband,  Steven,  and  their  two 
daughters:  Rachel,  age  3  1/2,  and 
Samantha,  age  2.  Eben  Werber 
spent  a  number  of  years  in 
graduate  schools  for  sociology, 
first  at  the  University  of  Chicago 
and  later  at  Yale  University, 
before  deciding  not  to  complete 
the  Ph.D.  degree.  He  is  now 
happily  working  in  Boston  as  a 
computer  network  consultant. 
Marjorie  Flacks  Wittner  is 
practicing  labor  and  employment 
law  part-time  with  Loretta  T. 
Attardo  '70.  She  lives  in  a  new 
house  in  Marblehead,  MA,  with 
her  two  children,  Michael,  age  5, 
and  Alexandra,  age  1.  Naomi  Ben- 
Attar  Yablong  earned  her  master's 
in  social  work  from  the 
University  of  Chicago  and 
planned  to  open  a  private  practice 
this  year.  She  has  two  children, 
Michal  and  Akiva,  and  "would 
love  old  friends  to  be  in  touch." 
Jonathan  Zabin  is  an  attorney 
with  Yost  &  Associates  in  New 
Haven,  CT,  specializing  in 
commercial  law  and  bankruptcy. 
He  lives  in  Hamden,  CT,  with  his 
wife,  Tracy,  and  their  1 -year-old 
son,  Seth. 


'82 


Ellen  Cohen,  Class 
Correspondent,  1 1738  Mayfield 
Avenue#lll,  Los  Angeles,  C  A 
90049 

Richard  (Dick)  Ellis  downed  a 
262-pound,  8-point  buck  during  a 
November  hunting  expedition  in 
northern  Maine  with  William 
Scott  Nutting  and  Frank  Raio  '83, 
their  11th  annual  such  trip.  Jesse 
Gordon  received  a  master's  in 
public  policy  from  Harvard 
University  last  June.  He  is 
cofounder  of  the  Buffalo  River 
Stewardship  Foundation  and 
editor  in  chief  of  The  Steward,  its 
quarterly  environmental  journal. 
He  still  runs  Kessel  Konsulting 
International,  his  computer 
software  consulting  firm,  and  Tuf 
|uz  5,  his  real  estate  limited 
partnership.  Monica  L.  Pats 
continues  to  work  as  an 
engineering  specialist  and  special 
assistant  to  the  deputy  chief 
engineer  in  the  Maryland  State 
Highway  Administration's  Office 
of  Bridge  Development.  Eric 
Pomerantz,  C.P.A.,  was  named 


Eric  Pomerantz 

controller  for  Barclay  Chemical 
Company,  Inc.,  a  regional  water 
treatment  firm  in  Watertown, 
MA,  in  January.  He  is  responsible 
for  coordinating  all  accounting 
functions  for  both  Barclay 
Chemical  and  its  parent 
organization,  Barclay  Water 
Treatment  Company,  Inc.  He 
lives  in  Sharon,  MA,  with  his 
wife,  Sally  Michael-Pomerantz 
'83,  and  their  family. 

'83 

Eileen  Isbitts  Weiss,  Class 
Correspondent,  456  9th  Street 
#30,  Hoboken,  NJ  07030 

Jennifer  Casolo  traveled  to 
Honduras  to  work  with  women  as 
part  of  the  Women's  Voices 
Across  Borders  program  of  Voices 
on  the  Border.  She  is  former 
director  of  Voices  on  the  Border/ 
the  VIDA  Fund. 


'84 


Marcia  Book  Adirim,  Class 
Correspondent,  211  East  18th 
Street  #5-G,  New  York,  NY  10003 

Gail  Rubin  Dauer  practices 
securities  law  at  Wachtell,  Lipton, 
Rosen  &  Katz  in  New  York  City. 
Having  lost  his  Capitol  Hill  job 
courtesy  of  the  November 
election,  Allen  Erenbaum  and  his 
companion,  Judy  Mark,  left  in 
January  for  a  six-month  trip 
around  the  world  which  would 
take  them  through  Africa  and 
Asia.  Craig  H.  Zimmerman  was 
made  a  partner  in  the 
international  law  firm 
McDermott,  Will  &.  Emery  in 
January.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
litigation  department  and  the 
environmental  law  group  in  the 
firm's  Chicago  office,  focusing  on 
environmental  and  criminal 
matters. 


James  R.  Felton,  Class 
Correspondent,  5733  Aldea 
Avenue,  Encino,  CA  9I3I6 

Lisa  Ekengren-TowIe  lives  in 
Sudbury,  MA,  with  her  husband. 
Rich,  and  four  children:  Axel,  age 
S,  Abel,  age  6,  Arlo,  age  4,  and 
Anna-Linnea,  age  I.  She  does 
freelance  editorial  work  out  of  her 
home,  and  heads  up  clothing 
distribution  and  collection  for  a 
local  food  pantry.  Rich  works 
with  a  software  development 
firm,  and  "together  we  are 
enjoying  life  tremendously."  She 
is  looking  forward  to  Reunion 
this  fall.  Geok  Ming  Ong-Pan  is 
living  in  Malaysia  with  her 
husband  of  eight  years.  Dr.  Pan 
Kok  Long,  and  their  four  children, 
three  boys  and  a  girl  between  the 
ages  of  I  and  7.  She  is  "a  full-time 
homemaker"  and  remains 
involved  with  church  activities 
and  community  projects.  She 
hopes  to  continue  her  studies 
when  the  children  are  older,  and 
possibly  teach  in  the  public 
schools.  Adam  Ari  Pack  is  senior 
research  coordinator  for  the 
Kewalo  Bason  Marine  Mammal 
Laboratory  in  Honolulu,  HI.  He  is 
also  vice  president  of  The 
Dolphin  Institute,  a  nonprofit 
corporation  for  education, 
research,  and  conservation 
dedicated  to  whales  and  dolphins. 
He  received  his  doctorate  in 
animal  behavior  and  marine 
mammal  science  last  year,  with 
studies  focusing  on  the  dolphin's 
ability  to  integrate  perceptual 
information  from  its  echoic  and 
visual  sensory  systems.  In 
addition  to  authoring  several 
scientific  articles  and  chapters  on 
dolphin  behavior  and  cognition, 
Adam  has  presented  numerous 
talks  at  scientific  meetings  and 
spent  several  weeks  of  field 
research  studying  humpback 
whale  behavior  earlier  this  year. 
Thomas  Peter,  an  Air  Force 
captain,  began  a  fellowship  in 
nephrology  with  the  U.S.  Navy  m 
coniunction  with  the  University 
of  California-San  Diego  in  June. 
Previously,  he  spent  two  years  as 
a  staff  internist  with  Keesler 
Medical  Center  on  Keesler  Air 
Force  Base  in  Biloxi,  MS.  His 
wife,  Brenda  Ferreira  Peter  '86,  is 
at  home  with  their  baby  son, 
Matthew.  Joshua  Spero  works  for 
the  Joint  Chiefs  of  Staff  as  a 
policy  advisor  in  the  Strategic 
Plans  and  Policy  Directorate, 
European  Division/NATO  Policy. 
His  responsibilities  include 
shaping  and  implementing  U.S. 
defense  policy  toward  Europe, 
both  with  NATO  Allies  and 
through  closer  ties  to  Central  and 
Eastern  Europe.  His  wife,  Ellen 
Rowse  Spero  '86,  began  a  whole 
new  career  as  a  Unitarian 


Universalist  minister-to-be, 
pursuing  a  master's  in  divinity  at 
the  Wesley  Theological  Seminary. 
She  is  interested  in  such  fields  as 
community  ministry  or  pastoral 
counseling,  but  for  now  is 
enjoying  studying  biblical  history 
and  applying  biblical  lessons  to 
contemporary  problems.  Gregg 
Stern  received  his  Ph.D.  in 
medieval  fewish  history  from 
Harvard  University  and  was 
awarded  a  Fulbright  postdoctoral 
fellowship  at  the  Hebrew 
University  in  Jerusalem.  He  was 
accompanied  to  Israel  by  his  wife, 
Naava  Frank.  Lisa  Guttenberg 
Weiss  is  assistant  attorney 
general  in  the  Office  of  the 
Connecticut  Attorney  General. 
She  and  her  husband,  David, 
celebrated  their  sixth  anniversary 
in  June. 

'87 

Vanessa  B.  Newman,  Class 
Correspondent,  45  East  End 
Avenue,  Apt.  SH,  New  York,  NY 
10028 

Judith  Feinson  was  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California, 
Berkeley,  last  May  with  a  master's 
in  public  health  and  a  master's  in 
city  planning.  She  lives  in 
Wilmington,  DE,  with  her 
husband,  Mike  Bailey.  Laurie 
Millender  Levine  is  a  family 
therapist  in  northern  Virginia  and 
more  recently  became  a  licensed 
clinical  social  worker.  Her 
husband,  Bruce  Levine,  is  an 
attorney.  They  have  one  son, 
Adam,  born  in  lanuary. 
Emmanuel  V.  Meimaris  opened  a 
private  law  practice  in  Arlington, 
MA,  after  earning  his  J.D.  from 
Massachusetts  School  of  Law  in 
1994  and  passing  the 
Massachusetts  bar  exam.  Laura  J. 
Snyder  is  a  graduate  student  at 
The  Johns  Hopkins  University, 
where  she  does  a  lot  of  writing — 
"including  (occasionally)  my 
philosophy  dissertation."  She 
coedited  a  book  entitled  Scientific 
Methods:  Conceptual  and 
Historical  Problems  which 
included  a  paper  by  her  on 
scientific  evidence.  This  spring, 
she  published  an  article  in  the 
journal  Studies  in  History  and 
Philosophy  of  Science,  and  last 
fall  she  presented  a  paper  at  the 
biannual  meeting  of  the 
Philosophy  of  Science  Association 
in  New  Orleans.  Last  summer, 
she  lived  in  London  for  a  month 
and  spent  time  hiking  in  the 
Swiss  Alps  and  sightseeing  in 
Florence. 


62  Brandeis  Review 


;88 

Susan  Tevelow  Feinstein,  Class 
Correspondent,  2201  Broughton 
Drive,  Beverly,  MA  01915 

Mari  Cartagenova  earned  her 
M.S.W.  from  the  University  of 
Southern  California  in  May.  She 
and  her  husband,  Joseph  Zahavi,  a 
software  engineer  at  Hughes 
Aircraft,  live  in  Beverly  Hills  but 
plan  to  move  back  to  Boston 
within  the  next  few  years.  Aria 
Medvin  is  pursuing  a  master's  in 
integrated  marketing 
communications  at  the  MediU 
School  of  Journalism  at 
Northwestern  University.  Franco 
Uccelli  IS  a  Ph.D.  student  in 
government  at  the  University  of 
Texas  at  Austin,  having  earned  a 
master's  degree  in  Latin  American 
studies  at  Vanderbilt  University. 

'89 

Karen  Gitten  Gobler,  Class 
Correspondent,  92  Morrill  Street, 
Newton,  MA  02165 

iWarc  B.  Shapiro  received  one  of 
10  Doctoral  Dissertation 
Fellowships  in  Judaic  Studies 
from  the  National  Foundation  for 
Jewish  Culture  for  the  1994-95 
academic  year.  A  doctoral 
candidate  in  the  Department  of 
Near  Eastern  Languages  and 
Civilizations  at  Harvard 
University,  he  is  writing  a 
dissertation  titled  "Between  East 
and  West — The  Life  and  Works  of 
Rabbi  Jehiel  Jacob  Weinberg." 
Sienho  Yee  loined  the  law  firm  of 
Sullivan  iii  Cromwell  in  New 
York  City  after  a  one-year 
clerkship  with  Judge  Robert  E. 
Cowcn  of  the  U.S.  Court  of 
Appeals  for  the  Third  Circuit   He 
was  graduated  m  May  1993  from 
Columbia  University  Law  School, 
where  he  pubhshed  a  note  in  the 
Law  Review  titJed  "The 
Discretionary  Function  Exception 
under  the  Foreign  Sovereign 
Immunities  Act:  When  in 
America,  Do  the  Romans  Do  as 
the  Romans  Wish'" 

9U  5th  Reunion 

Judith  Lihhaber  Weber,  Class 
Correspondent,  66  Madison 
Avenue  #9E,  New  York,  NY 
10016 

Melissa  A.  Fishman  is  entering 
her  third  year  of  a  Joint  program 
at  the  University  of  California- 
Los  Angeles,  where  she  is  earning 
a  law  degree  and  a  master's  in 
urban  planning.  She  works  for  a 
nonprofit  housing  development 
firm  Miriam  (Yummie)  Gelfand 
is  pursuing  a  master's  in  sacred 
music  at  the  Jewish  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York,  and  plans 
to  graduate  as  a  cantor  in  three 
more  years.  She  and  her  fiance. 


Robert  Oberstein,  who  is 

completing  a  residency  in  internal 
medicine  at  BeJJevuc  Hospital,  are 
planning  a  September  wedding. 
Glen  Hochkeppel  completed  a 
master's  in  education  at 
Duquesne  University  and  is 
teaching  high  school  English  in 
Leesburg,  VA.  He  invites  feJJow 
alumni  to  visit  him,  "deep  in  the 
bosom  of  the  Ct)nfederacy." 
Jeffrey  Murawsky  was  graduated 
from  LoyoJa  University  Stritch 
School  of  Medicine  in  Chicago 
fast  June  and  began  his  residency 
in  internaJ  medicine  at  Loyola 
University  Medical  Center. 

'91 

Andrea  C.  Kramer,  Class 
Correspondent,  165  Palmer 
Street,  Arlington,  MA  02174 

Rachel  Ablin  works  full-time  as 
an  investigator  for  the  Equal 
Employment  Opportunity 
Commission  in  Baltimore,  MD, 
while  attending  University  of 
Maryland  Law  SchooJ  at  night. 
She  IS  married  to  Steven  Kipnis 
'89,  who  received  his  master's 
degree  in  Jabor  relations  and  now 
works  for  Sweetheart  Cup. 
Benjamin  Y.  Albano,  Jr.,  worked 
as  a  research  assistant  at  Harvard 
School  of  Public  Health  for  two 
years  after  graduation  and  spent  a 
year  in  graduate  school  at  St. 
Louis  University.  He  is  now  a 
medical  student  at  St.  Louis 
University  School  of  Medicine. 
He  IS  author  of  a  paper  published 
in  the  lournal  Human  Pathology. 
Thomas  Amrine  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  Law  School  this 
year  and  will  begin  a  position  at 
the  Washington,  DC,  office  of  the 
law  firm  Jenner  iS.  Block.  Yafitte 
Bendery  is  working  in  the  press 
office  at  the  Israeli  consulate  in 
New  York  and  pursuing  a  master's 
degree  in  journalism  and  Near 
Eastern  studies  at  New  York 
University.  David  S.  Berkowitr  is 
in  Mail,  working  as  an 
agricultural  volunteer  m  the 
Peace  Corps.  He  has  no  firm  plans 
for  what  lie  will  do  after 
completing  his  two-year  service 
in  April  1996  Diane  Berman  is 
working  toward  a  master's  in 
architecture  at  Washington 
University  in  St.  Louis.  She  is 
still  considering  doing  a  joint 
degree  program  in  which  she 
would  also  earn  a  master's  in 
social  work.  Laura  C.  Block  was 
graduated  from  Mercer  University 
Pharmacy  School  in  May  and 
plans  to  do  a  residency  in  New 
York  City  or  San  Francisco, 
specializing  in  infectious  disease. 
Laura  Bogart  and  Jay  Gordon  are 


living  in  Pittsburgh,  PA,  with 
their  five  birds.  Andra  Brill  has 
taught  bilingual  sixth  grade  for 
two  years  and  looks  forward  to 
getting  tenure  and  finishing  her 
MA.  m  education  in  the  coming 
year.  She  keeps  busy  mountain 
bikmg,  rock  climbing,  and  skiing 
in  the  Denver  area.  This  summer, 
she  planned  a  3-month  trip  to 
Costa  Rica.  Paola  Drapkin 
received  her  master's  degree  in 
anatomy  and  cell  biology  at 
Columbia  University  and  is 
continuing  in  the  Ph.D.  program, 
doing  research  in  developmental 
neurobiology.  Her  fiance,  Ra),  is  a 
medical  student  at  Columbia. 
Carol  Hardy  Fanta  writes,  "I 
thought  life  would  be  easier  after 
the  dissertation — but  it's  not!" 
She  works  part-time  at  Boston 
University  School  of  Public 
Health  doing  research  on  Latina 
women's  leadership,  and  is 
working  on  a  biography  of  a 
Latino  community  activist  as  her 
second  book.  She  received  a  grant 
to  extend  her  study  of  Latino/a 
politics  to  the  statewide  level  and 
IS  working  with  a  group  to  do  a 
national  survey.  Although  she 
calls  her  family  life  "hectic,"  they 
manage  to  do  some  traveling  to 
relax  and  have  fun  together.  Eve 
Theurer  Finger  received  her 
master's  in  counseling  psychology 
from  Boston  College  in  1993  and 
has  worked  as  an  elementary 
school  counselor  in  Westchester 
County,  NY,  for  two  years. 
Sharon  Freedman  works  at  the 
Electronic  Cafe  International  in 
Santa  Monica,  CA,  working  with 
telecommunications,  arts,  and  the 
media.  Last  summer,  she  won  an 
internship  at  the  Academy  of 
Television  Arts  and  Sciences  and 
did  public  relations  for  a  major 
entertainment  firm  in  Beverly 
Hills.  She  was  an  M.F.A. 
candidate  at  California  Institute 
of  the  Arts,  concentrating  in  film 
and  video.  She  has  been  a  weight 
loss  counselor  and  substitute 
teacher  m  Delaware,  a  public 
relations  hostess  in  Las  Vegas, 
and  a  salmon  processor  in  Alaska. 
Jeffrey  Goldfarb  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  Law  School  in  1994 
and  now  serves  as  a  judicial  clerk 
for  the  Honorable  Irving  L. 
Goldberg,  circuit  judge,  U.S. 
Court  of  Appeals  for  the  fifth 
circuit  in  Dallas,  TX.  Elisa 
Aberman  Goldman  teaches 
second  grade  in  the  Bronx  and  is 
hoping  to  finish  her  master's 
degree  m  early  childhood 
education  in  the  spring  of  1996. 
Bonnie  Kwitkin  Goldstein  moved 
to  Israel  last  spring  with  her 
husband  and  their  daughter,  Ayala 
Irit,  age  19  months.  They  live  in 
the  West  Bank  town  of  Eli  and 
would  love  for  any  visiting 
Brandeisians  to  stop  by. 
Previously,  she  worked  in  a 


publishing  company  in  New  York 
City  before  going  on  maternity 
leave.  Antonio  A.  Goncalves  is  in 
a  doctoral  program  in  clinical 
psychology  at  the  University  of 
Miami.  Susan  Goren  received  her 
M.Ed,  in  student  personnel  in 
higher  education  from  the 
University  of  Georgia  in  Athens 
last  June.  She  is  an  area 
coordinator  for  Mary  Washington 
College  in  Fredericksburg,  VA,  50 
miles  from  Washington,  DC.  In 
lanuary,  Neil  Graff  began  a 
position  in  the  tax  department  of 
the  New  York  office  of  Deloitte 
and  Touche.  He  received  his  J.D. 
and  MB. A.  from  Boston 
University  in  December  and 
passed  the  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  bar  examinations.  Dana 
Greenberg  is  returning  to  Boston 
for  her  fourth  year  at  Tufts 
University  School  of  Medicine 
after  spending  a  year  doing 
rotations  in  Springfield,  MA.  She 
is  still  undecided  about  which 
field  to  choose — "so  far,  I  like 
everything."  She  is  looking 
forward  to  next  year's  Reunion. 
Allyson  Guy  is  an  attorney  in 
Atlanta,  GA.  She  was  graduated 
from  Emory  Law  School  and  is  a 
member  of  the  state  bars  of 
Georgia  and  Florida,  [onatlian  C. 
Hamilton  completed  his  master's 
degree  from  the  University  of 
North  Carolina  at  Chapel  Hill 
after  receiving  a  National 
Endowment  lor  the  Arts 
fellowship  to  complete  his  thesis, 
a  documentary  film  titled  Into 
the  Russian  Winter.  He  lives  in 
Arlington,  VA,  with  his  wife, 
Andrea  Marina  Garcia-Planas, 
whom  he  married  in  the  Republic 
of  Panama  in  January.  Jenifer 
Harlem  completed  a  master's 
program  at  Boston  University 
School  of  Social  Work,  interning 
at  the  Hebrew  Rehabilitation 
Center  for  the  Aged  in  Roslindale 
where  she  did  admissions  work 
with  elders  and  their  families.  She 
continues  to  teach  aerobics  at 
City  Gym  in  Boston's  Kenmore 
Square.  Kenneth  Harris  finished 
his  fourth  year  of  medical  school 
at  the  State  University  of  New 
York-Syracuse,  and  will  go  on  to 
training  in  internal  medicine  with 
additional  plans  to  train  in 
cardiology.  Hedy  Helfand  received 
her  master's  in  education  in  May 
after  student  teaching  for  a 
semester.  She  earned  a  certificate 
to  teach  in  elementary  schools 
and  a  certificate  to  teach  English 
as  a  Second  Language.  She  looks 
forward  to  being  part  of  public 


63  Summer  1995 


school  reform  in  Chicago.  Jeffrey 
E.  Hitchin  is  a  customer  service 
representative  for  U.S.  West 
Cellular  m  Seattle,  where  he 
moved  in  August  1993  after  living 
in  San  Diego  since  graduation. 
Julie  Hoffman  was  graduated  in 
November  from  the  University  of 
Colorado  at  Boulder  School  of 
Journalism  with  an  M.A.,  and 
immediately  headed  out  to 
Southern  California  to  work  as  a 
reporter  at  the  Orange  County 
register's  weekly  newspaper, 
South  County  News.  She  was 
featured  in  the  December  issue  of 
Tae  Kwon-do  Times, 
photographed  doing  a 
demonstration  in  front  of  6,000 
people  at  the  ninth  world 
championships  of  the 
International  Tae  Kwon  Do 
Federation  in  Malaysia  last 
summer.  She  sends  regards  to 
friends  from  the  Brandeis  Tae 
Kwon  Do  cluh  Amy  Horwitz  is 
an  associate  with  the  law  firm  of 
Berger  and  Small  in  Woburn,  MA. 
She  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
Law  School  in  lune  1994  and 
sworn  in  as  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bar  later  that  year. 
Fred  B.  Jacob  was  graduated  from 
law  school  at  the  College  of 
William  and  Mary  last  May  as  an 
executive  editor  of  the  Law 
Review.  He  now  clerks  for  ludge 
Karen  J.  Williams  of  the  U.S. 
Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Fourth 
Circuit  in  Orangeburg,  SC.  Gaye 
P.  Jacob  made  aliyah  to  Israel  in 
January,  where  she  hopes  to  teach 
English  and  conduct  research  in 
educational  policy  and  practice 
after  completing  a  six-month 
ulpan.  She  received  an  M.S.  in 
educational  psychology  from 
Georgia  State  University  in 
Atlanta  last  fall.  Previously,  she 
taught  school  for  two  years  at  the 
Jewish  day  school  and  two  years 
in  public  school  in  Georgia. 
Michael  Jacobson  is  in  a  joint 
program  of  Boston  College  Law 
School  and  the  Fletcher  School  for 
Law  and  Diplomacy,  now 
studying  at  Fletcher  after 
completing  two  years  at  B.C.  In 
his  free  time,  he  plays  basketball 
and  runs  Carrie  Lynn  Johnson  is 
assistant  director  of  development 
at  the  Fulbright  Commission  in 
Cairo,  Egypt,  putting  her  seven 
years  of  Arabic  study  to  use  every 
day.  She  and  her  fiance.  Tamer 
Hamdy,  whom  she  met  during 
junior  year  abroad,  are  planning  a 
wedding  for  the  coming  year.  She 


returns  to  the  United  States  once 
or  twice  a  year  and  can  be  reached 
via  her  mother  in  California.  "I 
would  love  to  see  everyone  at  our 
Reunion  in  1996!"  Debi  Johnson 
worked  as  a  research  assistant  to 
former  U.S.  Representative 
Stephen  J.  Solarz  '62,  who  was 
teaching  international  affairs  at 
the  George  Washington 
University  last  year  while  she 
was  completing  a  master's  degree 
in  East  Asian  studies.  She  spent 
the  1993-94  academic  year 
studying  Chinese  in  Taipei, 
Taiwan  on  a  fellowship  from  her 
department.  She  hopes  to 
continue  doing  research  on  East 
Asia  after  receiving  her  degree. 
Susan  (Suzi)  Sandman  Kaplan  is  a 
fourth  grade  teacher  at  the  Jewish 
Educational  Center  in  Elizabeth, 
NI.  She  and  her  husband, 
Jonathan  Kaplan  '89,  have  one 
daughter,  Aliza,  age  16  months. 
Ami  Kassar  is  business 
development  manager  for 
Cushion  Cut,  a  manufacturer  of 
concrete  cutting  tools  based  in 
Los  Angeles.  He  is  completing  his 
M.B.A.  at  the  University  of 
Southern  California  at  night. 
Meredith  J.  Kates  calls  having  her 
daughter  delivered  by  a  midwife 
in  a  New  Jersey  birthing  center 
"the  most  incredible  experience 
of  my  life."  Jay  Kaufman  lives  in 
the  Washington,  DC,  area,  where 
he  works  for  a  firm  that  provides 
consulting  services  for  the  U.S. 
Agency  for  International 
Development  and  studies  part- 
time  for  an  MA.  in  international 
affairs  at  George  Washington 
University's  Elliott  School.  He 
has  completed  internships  at  the 
Ford  Foundation  and  the  office  of 
Senator  Edward  Kennedy  ID- 
Mass.].  Jeffrey  L.  Klamka  teaches 
French  and  Spanish  at  Bethlehem 
Central  Middle  School  in  a 
suburb  of  Albany,  NY.  Previously, 
he  received  his  M.A.T  in  French 
from  the  State  University  of  New 
York-Binghamton.  He  is  putting 
together  an  "alternative  pop" 
band  in  his  spare  time,  and  hoped 
to  run  his  own  tour  of  France  this 
summer.  Rachel  Kogan  has 
completed  one  year  of  a  master's 
program  in  health  behavior  and 
education  at  the  University  of 
Michigan  School  of  Public 
Health.  Previously,  she  spent 
three  years  in  Washington,  DC, 
most  recently  working  on  Capitol 
Hill  for  a  congressional  health 
subcommittee.  Elisa  Kronish 
received  her  master's  degree  in 
journalism  from  the  Medill 
School  at  Northwestern 
University  in  December.  She  and 
Shaun  Budka  '89  plan  an  August 
launch  tor  their  start-up  magazine 
entitled  Modern  Dad,  a 
publication  for  fathers  of  children 
from  infancy  to  12-years-old. 
They  are  in  the  process  of  adding 


staff  members  to  further  the 
magazine's  success.  Lynn  Kugler 
is  a  physician's  assistant  at  a 
children's  hospital  in  Atlanta, 
GA.  She  holds  a  master's  degree 
in  medical  science  from  Emory 
University.  Brent  Lassow  teaches 
Spanish  in  a  pilot  program  at 
Cambridge  Rindge  and  Latin 
public  high  school  while  working 
towards  a  master's  in  education, 
with  a  master's  in  Spanish  soon  to 
follow.  He  was  nominated  for  the 
Sallie  Mae  First  Class  Teacher 


Brent  Lassow  and  his  students 
in  Colombia 

Award,  a  national  program  that 
recognizes  outstanding  first  year 
teachers,  and  was  invited  to 
discuss  his  teaching  experiences 
on  a  panel  at  the  Harvard 
Graduate  School  of  Education. 
Previously,  Brent  spent  the  year 
after  graduation  teaching  English 
to  first  graders  in  a  private 
bilingual  school  in  Cali, 
Colombia,  and  traveling 
throughout  South  America  and 
Mexico.  He  returned  to  Boston  to 
teach  Hispanic  youths  and  adults 
ESL,  GED,  computer  literacy,  and 
job  readiness  in  the  heart  of 
inner-city  Roxbury  at  La  Alianza 
Hispana,  a  social  service  agency 
for  the  Hispanic  community.  He 
visited  Brandeis  as  a  guest 
panelist  discussing  "Foreign 
Languages  on  the  Job"  for  the 
Department  of  Romance  and 
Comparative  Literature,  and  is 
looking  forward  to  Reunion. 
Susan  Lewis  is  a  computer 
programmer  for  Loews 
Corporation  in  New  York  City. 
She  received  an  M.B.A.  with  a 
concentration  in  management 
information  systems  from  the 
State  University  of  New  York- 
Binghamton  last  May.  In 
September,  Jared  Lighter  was 
promoted  to  outside  sales 
representative-Southwest  region 
for  Cheyenne  Software,  making 
him  the  youngest  outside  sales 
rep  in  the  company's  1 1-year 
history.  He  has  relocated  from 


New  York  to  Costa  Mesa,  CA. 
David  Lipson  and  his  wife,  Amy 
Holzberg,  are  living  in 
Washington,  DC.  He  is  a  judicial 
clerk  to  the  Honorable  Loren 
Smith,  chief  ludge  of  the  U.S. 
Court  of  Federal  Claims,  and  she 
IS  a  personnel  staffing  specialist. 
Amy  Kushner  Litwack  lives  in 
Boston  with  her  husband,  Daniel, 
and  IS  completing  requirements 
for  an  M.S.  in  speech-language 
pathology/audiology  at  Boston 
University.  Tedd  Lustig  passed 
the  Massachusetts  bar  exam  and 
works  at  Gelb  &  Gelb  in  Boston. 
He  was  graduated  from  Boston 
University  School  of  Law  last 
year,  where  he  was  a  note  editor 
on  the  Law  Review.  He  and  his 
wife.  Trine  Adler,  a  graduate 
student  at  the  Heller  School  and 
the  Hornstein  Program,  were 
married  in  Israel  in  July.  Laurie 
McMillan  moved  to  Pennsylvania 
this  winter  to  attend  graduate 
school   Susan  (Suzie)  Panichelli 
Mindel  has  completed  four  years 
of  a  clinical  psychology  Ph.D. 
program  at  Temple  University. 
Rajesh  (Raj)  Mundra  accepted  an 
offer  to  spend  the  coming  year 
teaching  and  helping  design  a 
progressive  science  curriculum  at 
a  K-12  school  in  Bombay,  India. 
Previously,  he  was  pursuing  a 
master's  in  teaching  at  Brown 
University.  Esther  Nelson  works 
for  TAMS  Consultants,  an 
environmental/engineering  firm, 
focusing  primarily  on  the  United 
States  Environmental  Protection 
Agency's  Hudson  River  PCBs 
reassessment,  one  of  the  largest 
superfund  sites  in  the  New  York/ 
New  Jersey  area.  She  is  pursuing  a 
master's  in  environmental 
sciences  at  night.  Jerome  Noll  and 
Robert  Lax  have  opened  their  own 
firm.  Lax  &  Noll,  specializing  in 
plaintiffs  securities  arbitration 
and  alcohol,  tobacco,  and  firearms 
law.  They  are  both  graduates  of 
the  Cardozo  School  of  Law.  Jay 
Perlman  finished  his  fourth  year 
as  a  rabbinical  student  at  Hebrew 
Union  College-Jewish  Institute  of 
Religion  in  New  York  City. 
Donna  Pincus  is  entering  her 
fourth  year  of  a  doctoral  program 
in  clinical  psychology  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York- 
Binghamton,  specializing  in 
pediatric  psychology.  She  reports 
that  she  is  happy  and  surrounded 
by  good  friends.  Bradley  Pinsky  is 
spending  two  years  as  law  clerk 
for  the  New  York  State  Court  of 
Claims  in  Binghamton.  Earlier 
this  year,  he  was  graduated  from 
Tulane  Law  School  and  School  of 
Public  Heahh  with  a  J.D./M.H.A. 
He  won  first  place  at  the 
National  Health  Law  Moot  Court 
Competition  and  was  also 
awarded  the  General  Motors 
Volunteer  Spirit  Award. 


64  Brandeis  Review 


Marriages 


Jeremy  Pressman  continues  to 
work  as  a  proiect  associate  at  the 
Carnegie  Endowment  for 
International  Peace  in 
Washington,  DC.  He  is  married  to 
Audrey  Sobol,  who  is  pursuing  a 
master's  in  Enghsh  literature  at 
the  University  of  Maryland. 
Matias  Ringel  is  happily  working 
at  the  Latin  America  Corporate 
Finance  Group  of  Salomon 
Brothers,  although  he  does  not 
like  New  York  City.  Daniel  Rosen 
is  enjoying  teaching  high  school 
English  in  New  York  City.  His 
wife,  Julie  Cardonick  '92, 
completed  law  school  at 
Columhia  University  this  year. 
Doronit  Singer  Roth  is  pursuing  a 
career  in  meeting  management 
and  lives  in  Waltham  with  her 
husband,  Jason  Roth  '93  Jane 
Rothstein  completed  an  M.A.  in 
American  history  at  Case  Western 
Reserve  University  this  spring.  In 
November,  she  presented  a  paper 
on  "Biblical  Women  and 
American  lewish  Women's 
Identity  in  the  American  Jewess, 
1895-1899,"  at  a  conference 
sponsored  by  the  Upstate  New 
York  Women's  History 
Organization.  Steven  Safren  has 
completed  two  years  of  a  Ph.D. 
program  in  clinical  psychology  at 
the  State  University  of  New  York- 
Albany.  He  has  years  to  go,  but 
hopes  to  move  back  to  Boston 
after  earning  his  doctorate. 
Claudia  T.  Salomon  loined  the 
law  firm  of  Mays  &  Valentine  in 
Richmond,  VA,  where  she  is  a 
member  of  the  governmental 
litigation  and  business/ 
commercial  litigation  practice 
groups.  Previously,  she  spent 
three  months  traveling  in 
Thailand  and  Indonesia  after 
being  graduated  from  Harvard 
Law  School.  Charles  Savenor 
completed  his  fourth  year  of 
rabbinical  school  at  the  Jewish 
Theological  Seminary  of  America. 
He  earned  a  master's  degree  in 
ludaic  studies  from  JTS  in  1993 
and  received  the  Abraham 
Berliner  Prize  in  Jewish  History. 
While  studying  at  ITS's  Jerusalem 
branch  last  year,  he  worked  as  a 
teaching  assistant  at  Hebrew 
University.  He  is  regional 
religion/education  fieldworker  for 
northern  New  Jersey  United 
Synagogue  Youth,  and  was  the 
group  leader  for  USY's  Eastern 
European/Israel  pilgrimage  last 
summer.  Laura  R.  Schenkman  is  a 
graduate  student  in  genetics  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin- 
Madison,  working  on  her  Ph.D. 


dissertation.  Jonathan  Shapiro 

was  graduated  from  Boston 
College  Law  School  last  year  and 
IS  now  a  law  clerk  to  the  chief 
federal  ludge  in  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  is  looking  forward  to 
lots  of  "skiing  in  the  happy  hills!" 
David  Sicilia  was  appointed 
assistant  professor  of  economic 
and  business  history  at  the 
University  of  Maryland-College 
Park   Steven  D.  Sladkus  earned  a 
J.D.  from  Brooklyn  Law  School  in 
1994  and  is  now  a  candidate  for 
an  L.L.M.  in  taxation  at  New 
York  University  School  of  Law. 
Stuart  Slotnick  is  an  assistant 
district  attorney  in  Brooklyn, 
having  been  graduated  from  New 
York  University  School  of  Law. 
After  a  "super-brief  foray"  into 
the  radio  industry,  Lisa  B.  Stein  is 
attempting  to  break  into  the 
freelance  writing  field.  She  has 
been  published  in  the  News 
Tribune  (Waltham/Newton,  MA), 
the  Daily  Transcript  (Dedhaml, 
the  Tab  College  Monthly,  and 
Boston  Book  Review.  To  pay  the 
bills,  she  also  works  at  Zoom 
Telephonies,  a  modem  company. 
She  and  her  fiance,  Scott  Fybush 
'92,  are  planning  a  spring 
wedding — lust  in  time  for 
Reunion.  Nancy  Steinberg 
completed  her  M.S.  in  marine 
environmental  sciences  last 
August  and  now  works  for  the 
Hudson  River  Foundation  in  New 
York  City,  which  sponsors 
environmental  research 
(including  her  graduate  studies) 
and  policy/management  and 
education  initiatives  related  to 
the  Hudson  River.  David  L.  Stern 
was  promoted  to  New  England 
reproductive  specialist  for 
Organon  Pharmaceutical 
Company.  He  lives  in  Brookline, 
MA,  with  his  wife,  Nella 
Teplitsky  '93  Randi  Sumner  has  a 
new  job  as  assistant  director  for 
the  New  Jersey  Apartment 
Association,  a  trade  association  of 
apartment  owners  and  builders. 
Samantha  Supernaw-Issen  has 
finished  her  first  year  at  the 
University  of  Texas  at  Austin 
School  of  Social  Work,  where  she 
is  pursuing  a  master's  degree  with 
a  concentration  in  mental  health 
and  chemical  dependency.  She 
had  started  law  school  in 
Washington,  DC,  m  1991,  but 
hated  it  and  took  a  permanent 
leave  of  absence.  Her  husband  of 
three  years,  Daniel,  is  a  software 
engineer  with  AIC,  having 
previously  worked  for  IBM  for 
two  years  Jonathan  Tabachnikoff 
completed  his  third  year  of 
rabbinical  school  in  Cincinnati, 
OH.  He  was  sworn  in  for  an 
officer  appointment  in  the  United 
States  Navy  last  year,  and 
planned  to  begin  chaplain- 


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Date 


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1973 
1977 
1980 


1981 


1988 
1989 
1990 


1991 


1994 


Bruce  B.  Litwer  to  Vicki  Abel 
Victoria  Free  to  Barry  G.  Presser 
Mary  Davis  Thompson  to  Michael  Glode 
Gail  Risman  to  Dom  DeFilippo 
Duane  Berlin  to  Stacey  Germain 
Robin  Breen  to  Don  Moses 
Mindy  Fleissig  to  David  Ginsberg  '79 
Judith  Mintz  to  Andrew  Kleppner 
Frances  Rajs  to  Timothy  Wagner 
Deborah  Gallant  to  Jonathan  Lieber 
David  Hirshfield  to  Jayne  Fisher 
Sara  Monoson  to  Michael  A.  Berns 
Debra  Sacks  to  Sunil  Mohan 
Mari  J.  Cartagenova  to  Joseph  S.  Zahavi 
Maria  Field  to  Simon  Olsberg 
Gail  Kersun  to  Frank  Julie 
Jeffrey  Murawsky  to  Sheryl  Kramer  '91 
Jodelyn  Shack  to  Mitchell  Malzberg 
Rachel  Ablin  to  Steven  Kipnis  '89 
Amy  J.  Cohen  to  Michael  Callow 
Jonathan  C.  Hamilton  to 
Andrea  M.  Garcia-Planas 
Amy  Holzberg  to  David  Lipson 
Amy  Kushner  to  Daniel  Litwack 
Peter  Szu-Yuen  Li  to  Kara  Paw-Pa  '92 
Suzie  Panichelli  to  Harvey  Mindel 
Jeremy  Pressman  to  Audrey  Sobel 
Stacy  Silberman  to  Mark  Ukishima 
Doronit  Singer  to  Jason  Roth  '93 
David  L.  Stern  to  Nella  Teplitsky  '93 
Eve  Theurer  to  Carl  Finger  '90 
Suzanne  Tuchin  to  Rob  Bikash 
Sara  Bank  to  David  Wolf 
Bobbi  Brachfeld  to  Aric  Bittker 
Krista  Ferrell  to  James  Hughes,  Ph.D.  '91 
Sharona  Grossberg  to  Ari  Schocket  '95 
Deborah  Karmin  to  Robert  Rose  '92 
Sara  iMant  to  Shawn  Peters  '93 
Miriam  Rabin  to  Anton  Smirnov  '93 
Ardra  Weber  to  Paul  Belitz 


December  26,  1994 
December  17,  1994 
November  25,  1994 
December  3,  1994 
Junes,  1994 
April  8,  1994 
May  25,  1995 
September  5,  1993 
February  20,  1994 
February  26,  1994 
February  20,  1994 
May  15,  1994 
July  15,  1994 
November  27,  1994 
December  26,  1993 
September  17,  1994 
May  8,  1994 
March  19,  1994 
July  10,  1994 
August  20,  1994 
January  6,  1995 

October  9,  1994 
lune  1994 
August  13,  1994 
March  1994 
May  29,  1994 
August  1994 
August  28,  1994 
June  19,  1994 
August  28,  1994 
July  17,  1994 
December  30,  1993 
August  21,  1994 
June  3,  1995 
June  1995 
June  1994 
May  28,  1995 
July  31,  1994 
June  9,  1994 


candidate  training  this  summer. 
Stephen  Treiman  is  a  third-year 
student  at  the  University  of 
Texas-Houston  Medical  School, 
where  he  is  enjoying  school, 
serving  as  president  of  an  AIDS 
education  project,  and  "doing 
surprisingly  well  for  an  ex-art 
maior!"  Previously,  he  completed 
Teach  for  America  and  spent  a 
year  doing  research  in  a  V.A. 
hospital.  He  writes  that  he  misses 
Boston,  Brandeis,  and  the  free 
time  he  had  in  college.  Amanda 
Trigg  was  graduated  from  Emory 
Law  School  last  May  and  is  now 
an  associate  with  the  litigation 
firm  of  Rubin,  Winter,  Rapoport 
ik  Hall   She  reports  that  Brandeis 
alumni  in  Atlanta  have  started  an 
alumni  group  which  they  hope 
will  prosper  in  the  coming 
months.  Matthew  Tuchband  was 
graduated  from  Georgetown 


University  Law  Center  in  May, 
where  he  was  articles  editor  of 
the  Georgetown  Law  Journal. 
Previously,  he  spent  a  winter  in 
Fairbanks,  AK,  running  dogsled 
teams.  He  has  worked  at  tlie 
Northern  Alaska  Environment 
Center,  Sierra  Club  legislative 
office.  National  Audubon  Society, 
and  the  Office  of  General  Counsel 
for  the  U.S.  Environmental 
Protection  Agency.  He  writes, 
"Though  lonely  at  times,  I'm  still 
smiling..."  Suzanne  Tuchin  is 
pursuing  a  master's  in  social  work 
at  Simmons  College.  She  lives  in 
Brookline,  MA,  with  her  husband 
of  one  year,  Rob  Bikash.  Stacy 
Silberman  Ukishima  received  her 
M.A.  from  the  State  University  of 
New  York-Stony  Brook  and  is 
working  towards  a  doctorate  in 
sociology.  She  is  employment 
counselor  and  program  developer 
for  a  homeless  shelter  in 
Arlington,  VA,  and  lives  in 


65  Summer  1995 


'93 


Frederick,  MD,  with  her  husband, 
Mark,  a  government  employee, 
and  their  puppy.  Jennifer 
Vangolen  has  been  with  Au  Bon 
Pam  for  three  years  and  is  partner 
manager  of  their  store  in 
Arlington,  MA.  She  is  working 
towards  an  M.Ed,  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts- 
Boston  and  hopes  to  teach  high 
school  chemistry.  Jarett 
Weintraub  is  systems  manager  at 
a  catalog  and  packaging  firm  in 
Mt.  Vernon,  NY.  He  is  also 
running  a  successful  business 
selling  collectible  cards,  with 
customers  everywhere  from 
California  to  Germany.  He  plans 
to  return  to  school  for  a  master's 
in  philosophy  in  the  next  few 
years.  He  is  happily  married  to 
Carol  Aschner  Weintraub  '92,  an 
elementary  school  teacher. 
Kenneth  H.  Wong  struggled 
through  his  first  year  as  a 
graduate  student  in 
bioengineering  at  the  University 
of  California-San  Francisco/ 
University  of  California, 
Berkeley.  He  writes,  "the  Bay 
Area  is  wonderful,  although  I  do 
miss  the  New  England  autumn." 
Julian  Zelizer  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
in  the  history  department  at  The 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  where 
he  is  working  on  a  dissertation 
about  Wilbur  Mills,  former  chair 
of  the  House  Ways  and  Means 
Committee.  He  delivered  papers 
at  the  Social  Science  History 
Convention  and  the 
Congressional  Papers  Conference. 
Stella  Zweben  is  a  clinical  social 
worker  with  adolescents  at 
Bellevue  Hospital  Center  in  New 
York  City.  She  earned  her  M.S.W. 
from  New  York  University  in 
May  1993. 

'92 

Beth  C.  Manes,  Class 
Correspondent,  6  Oak  Street, 
Harrington  Park,  Nl  07640 

Irina  Faermark  is  living  in  her 
hometown  of  Houston,  TX, 
working  towards  a  master's  of 
public  health.  Amir  Kami 
completed  his  third  year  at  Baylor 
College  of  Medicine  in  Houston 
and  IS  planning  a  spring  wedding 
with  his  fiancee.  Heather 
Horwitz  Brenda-Lee  Ravdel  is  a 
third-year  law  student  at  the 
University  of  Houston,  where  she 
just  completed  a  successful  year 
as  president  of  her  school's  Hillel 
group,  Lex  Judaica. 


Josh  Blumenthal,  Class 
Correspondent,  1 1  Leonard  Road, 
Sharon,  MA  02067 

Brian  Auster  is  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1997  at  Tufts  Medical 
School   Michael  Carasik  and 
Mark  A.  Raider  received  two  of 
the  10  Doctoral  Dissertation 
Fellowships  awarded  by  the 
National  Foundation  for  Jewish 
Culture  for  the  1994-95  academic 
year.  They  are  both  doctoral 
candidates  m  the  Department  of 
Near  Eastern  and  Judaic  Studies 
at  Brandeis,  where  Michael's 
dissertation  is  titled  "Israelite 
Theologies  of  the  Mind"  and 
Mark's  is  titled  "A  New 
American  Zionism:  The  Impact  of 
Labor  Zionism  in  the  United 
States,  1919-1948."  Both  plan  to 
teach  ludaic  studies  on  the 
university  level   Sara  Chandros 
took  a  year  off  from  her  doctoral 
program  in  law,  ethics,  and  health 
at  'The  Johns  Hopkins  University 
to  work  with  the  Advisory 
Committee  on  Human  Radiation 
Experiments,  a  program  created 
by  President  Clinton  to  examine 
Cold  War  experiments  and  to 
comment  on  practices  and 
policies  regarding  human  research 
today.  Sarah  Danielson  rode  her 
bicycle  past  rice  paddies  every  day 
on  her  way  to  teach  English  to 
high  school  students  in  a  small 
town  in  Japan.  She  completed  her 
second  year  there  and  "loved  it," 
especially  the  students  and  other 
teachers.  Hildy  S.  Karp  completed 
her  master's  in  women  studies  at 
the  University  of  York,  England. 
She  works  in  the  communications 
department  of  the  Ms.  Foundation 
in  New  York  City.  Last  August, 
June  Warren  Lee  received  the 
Mastership  Award  from  the 
Academy  of  General  Dentistry  in 
Indianapolis.  She  was  inducted  as 
a  fellow  to  the  American  College 
of  Dentists  in  San  Francisco  in 
November  1993  and  as  a  fellow  to 
the  International  College  of 
Dentists  in  New  Orleans  last 
October.  Ilene  Rosenberg  received 
her  M.A.  m  magazine  lournalism 
from  New  York  University  and 
now  works  for  the  pop-alternative 
band  They  Might  Be  Giants  as, 
among  other  things,  director  of 
their  fan  club.  Jason  Schneider 
has  entered  his  second  season  as 
assistant  child  talent  coordinator 
for  "Sesame  Street."  During  his 
hiatus  this  spring,  he  purchased 
an  authentic  antique  ice  cream 
truck  to  begin  his  own  ice  cream 
delivery  business,  Lickety-Split, 
Unlimited.  Jenna  R.  Sebolsky 
received  her  M.A.  in 
organizational  psychology  from 
the  Claremont  Graduate  School 
in  December  and  is  now  pursuing 
her  Ph.D.,  also  at  Claremont. 


Woody  (Sam)  Skura  works  in  the 
provider  relations  department  for 
the  managed  health  care  division 
of  The  Prudential,  while  also 
pursuing  a  master's  in  public 
health  at  the  Boston  University 
School  of  Public  Health.  He  lives 
in  AUston,  MA,  with  three 
Brandeis  alumni. 

'94 

Sandy  Kirschen,  Class 
Correspondent,  512  Brandon 
Avenue,  Apt.  A-5,  Charlottesville, 
VA  22903 

Amir  Siddiq  Raafikh  Abdullah  is 

in  a  Ph.D.  program  in  sociology  at 
the  University  of  Colorado  at 
Boulder.  Bradley  Adler  is  a 
research  assistant  in  the 
cardiology  department  at  Mt. 
Sinai  Medical  Center,  working  on 
thrombosis  and  gene  therapy.  He 
hopes  to  enter  medical  school  this 
fall.  Elizabeth  Arnold  completed 
her  first  year  at  Brooklyn  Law 
School.  Kerri  L.  Bacall  is  a  teacher 
in  Colorado,  living  in  Colorado 
Springs  with  her  husband,  Lt. 
Michael  E.  Slaney.  Carlos  Baia  is 
a  doctoral  candidate  in  political 
science  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  at  Amherst.  Ami 
Bailey  is  assistant  manager  of  the 
Chocolate  Factory  and  Summer 
Hill  House,  two  apartment 
complexes  in  the  Boston  area. 
Sara  Bank-Wolf  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  Jewish  history 
at  the  Hebrew  University  in 
lerusalem,  where  she  lives  with 
her  husband,  Dave  Wolf.  Ardra 
Weber  Belitz  is  working  for 
Bankers  Trust  and  living  in 
Riverdale,  NY,  with  her  husband 
of  one  year,  Paul.  Valerie  Beugen 
moved  to  San  Diego  to  attend 
California  Western  School  of  Law. 
Aric  Bittker  is  earning  his 
master's  at  New  York  University. 
He  IS  married  to  Bobbi  Brachfeld 
Bittker,  a  second-year  student  at 
Qumnipiac  Law  School.  Jason  D. 
Boroff  is  a  student  at  Brooklyn 
Law  School.  Larisa  Brikman  is  in 
a  Ph.D.  program  m  French 
literature  at  Rutgers  University. 
Jamie  Brissette  is  program 
coordinator  of  the  Health  Care 
Management  Program,  an  M.B.A. 
degree  program,  at  Boston 
University.  Mark  C.  Crowley  is  a 
corporate  analyst  in  mergers  and 
acquisitions  at  Lehman  Brothers 
in  New  York  City.  Jeffrey  S. 
Davis  works  in  global 
investments  at  Bankers  Trust  in 
New  York  City.  Dmitriy  Elentukh 
is  in  the  class  of  1998  at  Tufts 
University  School  of  Medicine. 


Steven  Ellenoff  works  at 
New  Boston  Communications. 
Krista  M.  Ferrell  is  serials 
librarian  in  one  of  the  libraries  of 
the  Medical  College  of 
Pennsylvania.  Allyson  Finkler  is  a 
case  manager  for  the  chronically 
mentally  ill  at  Hillview  Mental 
Health  Center  m  southern 
California  Amy  L.  Fishbein 
received  her  master's  degree  in 
journalism  from  Columbia 
University  in  May.  Jeffrey  Frank 
IS  starting  at  New  England  School 
of  Law  this  fall  after  spending  a 
year  studying  Talmudic  law  in 
lerusalem,  where  he  reports 
having  a  great  Thanksgiving 
dinner  with  several  Brandeisians. 
Lori  Freeman  is  spending  a  year  in 
Costa  Rica  with  World  Teach.  Ted 
Froum  went  to  Israel  after 
graduation  to  do  volunteer  and 
community  service  work  with 
Project  Otzma,  including  such 
projects  as  building  concrete 
bunkers  in  the  Golan  Heights  and 
working  with  Ethiopian  children 
in  an  immigrant  absorption 
center  in  Nazareth.  He  has  also 
realized  a  long-time  dream  of 
finding  falafel  better  than  that 
served  on  the  "healthy  eating" 
side  of  Usdan  cafeteria.  Michelle 
Geary  has  completed  her  first 
year  at  New  England  School  of 
Law  Cindibeth  Gelbwaks  is 
working  at  the  consulting  firm  of 
Brecker  &  Merryman  in  New 
York  City,  where  she  reports 
having  run  into  many  fellow 
alumni  over  the  past  year. 
Rachael  S.  Gordon  is  pursuing  a 
Ph.D.  in  school  psychology  at 
New  York  University.  Natalie 
Greenberg  traveled  out  west  as  a 
teen  tour  counselor  after 
graduation.  She  now  lives  with 
three  Brandeis  alumni  in  Allston, 
MA,  where  at  last  report  she  was 
looking  for  a  lob  and  hoping  to 
save  enough  money  to  begin 
traveling  again  next  September. 
Jennifer  Greenfield  is  a  product 
manager  in  the  marketing 
division  of  Stanley  Kaplan  in 
Boston  Alexis  Greenwold  is 
working  towards  her  master's 
degree  in  marine  affairs  at  the 
University  of  Rhode  Island. 
Sharona  Grossberg  is  pursuing  a 
master's  of  counseling  at  Boston 
University  Eric  Grossman 
completed  his  first  year  at 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in 
Philadelphia.  Amyn  Hassanally 
completed  a  one-year  internship 
with  International  Alert,  a 
London-based  agency  that  works 
to  promote  international  human 
rights  and  resolve  ethnic  conflict. 
As  a  media  and  information 
research  assistant,  he  is 
responsible  for  written 
publications,  press  releases, 
conferences,  and  monitoring 
media  coverage  of  human  rights 


66  Brandeis  Review 


issues.  Allan  Hirt  is  a  software 
quality  assurance  engineer  for 
MediQual  Systems  in 
Westborough,  MA.  He  and  his 
band,  Daybreak,  have  been 
putting  together  their  first  CD. 
He  also  played  in  the  pit  band  for 
the  Boston  Children's  Theater 
production  of  Peter  Pan  at  New 
England  Hall  and  published  his 
first  article  in  Buss  Phiyer 
magazine  in  March.  Adrienne 
HoUingsworth  is  a  mental  health 
counselor  m  the  respite  treatment 
facility  at  Valley  Programs,  a 
human  service  agency  in 
Northampton,  MA.  She  is  hoping 
to  enter  graduate  school  for 
psychology  within  the  next  year 
or  two.  Greg  D.  Isaacs  is  an 
analyst  in  the 

telecommunications  and  media 
group  of  Prudential  Securities  in 
New  York  City.  Katrin  Kaarli  is  a 
Ph.D.  student  in  economics  at  the 
University  of  Rochester,  and 
hopes  to  continue  her  research  in 
her  home  country  of  Estonia  after 
graduation.  Michael  Kalish 
completed  his  first  year  as  a  law 
student  at  George  Washington 
University's  National  Law  Center 
in  Washington,  DC.  Traci  Kampel 
is  getting  her  master's  m 
journalism  from  Columbia 
University  and  living  in  New 
York  City  with  Elissa  Shechter 
She  frequently  sees  Brandeis 
alumni  and  reports  that  there's 
even  a  restaurant  called  The 
Boulevard  near  her  home.  Peter 
Kant  is  working  towards  a 
master's  of  public  policy  at  the 
Terry  Sanford  Institute  of  Public 
Policy  at  Duke  University.  Josh 
Kantor  is  interlibrary  loan 
supervisor  and  reference  assistant 
at  Boston  University  Pappas  Law 
Library  and  is  planning  a  1996 
wedding  with  his  fiancee,  Mary 
Eaton  '96  Michael  Kenwood  is  a 
computer  consultant  for  Scudder, 
Stevens  &  Clark  in  Boston.  Seth 
Marshall  Kessler  works  for  the 
Beacon  Research  Group, 
publishers  of  the  Business 
Consumer  Guide,  in  Watertown, 
MA.  He  is  the  number  three 
person  in  the  company,  doing 
writing,  editing,  research,  design, 
marketing,  and  everything  else. 
Matthew  Kestenbaum  is  an 
assistant  editor  at  Fine  Cooking 
Magazine,  based  in  Newtown, 
CT.  Sandra  D.  Kirschen  is  earning 
her  master's  of  social  studies 
education  at  the  University  of 
Virginia  Joshua  Klainberg 
enjoyed  his  year  with  the 
National  Civilian  Community 
Corps,  part  of  President  Clinton's 


national  service  program, 
AmeriCorps.  He  reports  that 
"working  on  a  domestic  peace 
corps  has  its  perks... like  meeting 
the  President  and  the  first  lady!" 
Jeffrey  Korenman  is  attending 
Columbia  University  for  post- 
baccalaureate  premed  courses  and 
writing  memoirs  to  be  called 
"The  Bitter  End"  |of  course!. 
Daniel  Levine  is  a  student  at 
Tufts  University  Dental  School 
but  still  finds  time  for  his  theater 
career.  Earlier  this  year,  he 
performed  in  the  Boston 
production  of  Living  CJn,  a  play 
about  AIDS  Rachel  Molly  Loonin 
is  working  on  special  promotions 
in  marketing  at  HBO's  corporate 
office  in  New  York  City.  Taube 
Lubart  is  a  preschool  teacher  in 
Florida  and  loves  it.  Erin 
McKenna  earned  her  teaching 
certification  from  the  University 
of  Denver  in  May  and  hoped  to  be 
teaching  kindergarten  or  first 
grade  full-time  by  this  summer. 
She  plays  on  a  soccer  team  and 
this  spring  was  training  heavily 
for  several  road  races.  Sara  Mant 
IS  working  for  the  Studio  Blue 
Pages  at  Paramount  Pictures  and 
teaching  Sunday  School  in  Santa 
Monica,  CA.  Kiera  March  reports 
that  her  name  is  listed  under 
"production  assistants"  in  the 
credits  of  Speechless,  and  at  the 
time  of  writing  she  could  be 
found  on  the  unemployment  line. 
Lisa  Marmelstein  works  for 
Work/Family  Directions  in 
Boston,  where  she  helps  parents 
locate  child  care  and  counsels 
them  on  early  childhood  issues. 
She  also  studies  Tai  Chi.  Rachel 
Masters  lives  in  New  York  City, 
working  as  Gene  Shalit's  assistant 
at  the  Today  Show  and  seeing  a 
lot  of  movies  with  fellow 
classmates.  After  graduation, 
Jason  Miletsky  started  an 
advertising  business  called  Full 
Scope  Marketing  with  his  partner, 
lason  Violetti.  Based  m  New 
lersey,  their  biggest  clients  are 
three  McDonald's  franchises. 
Melissa  Morrow  is  attending 
Boston  College  Law  School.  Elina 
Nudelman  has  a  design  position 
at  Simon  &  Schuster  in  New  York 
City.  Martin  Nkansah  is  a 
research  assistant  for  the  Harvard 
School  of  Public  Health's  Project 
on  Human  Development  in 
Chicago  Neighborhoods,  an  eight- 
year  study  of  delinquency  in 
American  cities.  Marc  Tyler 
Nobelman  was  in  Los  Angeles 
right  after  graduation,  working  on 
a  movie  called  Salem's  Ghost.  He 
is  now  in  New  York  City, 
working  at  a  publishing  company 
and  revising  his  own  screenplays, 
and  hopes  to  hear  from  Brandeis 
friends.  Margarita  Paredes  is  a 
graduate  student  at  the  Illinois 
School  of  Professional 


Psychology.  Rachel  Pearlstein  is 

on  the  six-year  plan  to  earn  a 
master's  degree  in  the  Hornstein 
Program  for  Jewish  Communal 
Service  at  Brandeis.  Bonnie 
Pollock  completed  a  one-year 
master's  of  public  health  program 
at  George  Washington  University 
and  is  heading  to  medical  school 
this  fall,  either  in  Florida  or  New 
York  Miriam  Rabin-Smirnov  is 
working  in  a  small  ludaica  shop 
in  Boston,  waiting  to  hear  from 
various  Ph.D.  English  programs, 
and  "cantonng  away"  every 
Shabbat  morning.  Her  husband, 
Anton  Sinirnov  '93  ("the 
'Sherman  Couple'  is  now  legit"!  is 
pursuing  a  Ph.D.  in  physics  at 
Boston  University.  Eric  Richman 
IS  attending  University  of 
Pennsylvania  Law  School  and 
spent  this  summer  in  Boston. 
Deborah  Karmin  Rose  is  a  third 
grade  teacher  at  the  Dalton 
School  in  New  York  City.  Larissa 
Ruiz  IS  a  master's  degree 
candidate  in  Latin  American 
studies  at  the  University  of 
Florida  at  Gainesville.  Michelle 
Safer  is  earning  a  Ph.D.  in 
pharmacology  from  Cornell 
Medical  College  in  New  York 
City,  a  branch  of  the  Cornell 
University  Graduate  School. 
Deborah  M.  Scheinthal  is 
teaching  children  with  autism 
and  pervasive  developmental 
disorder  (PDDl  at  the  League 
School  of  Boston.  Andrea 
Schneider  is  working  in  the 
division  of  head  and  neck 
oncology  at  Dana-Farber  Cancer 
Institute  in  Boston.  She  is  new 
patient  coordinator,  handles 
administrative  duties,  and  does 
library  research  at  the  Countway 
Library  of  Medicine.  Batsheva 
Sarah  Shechter  completed  her 
first  year  as  a  medical  student  at 
the  Sackler  School  of  Medicine  m 
Tel  Aviv.  Elissa  Shechter  attends 
Fordham  Law  School  and  lives  in 
New  York  City  with  Traci 
Kampel.  Suzanne  Siber  is 
international  marketing 
coordinator  for  Cheyenne 
Software  in  Roslyn,  NY,  where 
she  began  as  an  intern  for  three 
months  after  graduation.  Last  fall, 
she  took  a  two-month  trip  to 
Argentina,  where  she  lived  with 
relatives  and  traveled  to  Chile 
and  Brazil.  Leah  Sokoloff  is 
working  in  the  strategic  planning 
department  of  Hadassah  and 
living  in  New  York  City,  along 
with  what  she  claims  "seems  like 
at  least  half  the  class."  Deena 
Stern  is  employed  at  Grey 
Entertainment,  a  subsidiary  of 
Grey  Advertising,  in  New  York 


City  Marshall  Stevenson  is 
working  at  WRKL  Radio  in 
Rockland  County,  NY,  as  a 
reporter  and  anchor.  Nicole 
Stewart  is  pursuing  an  MA.  in 
clinical  psychology  at  the 
Pepperdine  University  Graduate 
School  of  Education  and 
Psychology.  Deborah  Stopnitzer 
works  for  a  Boston  temp  agency 
as  a  staff  member  for  human 
services  and  is  enioying  living  in 
the  Back  Bay  area.  She  hopes  to 
attend  graduate  school  for  clinical 
psychology  in  Great  Britain  or 
Germany.  Gregg  Sultan 
completed  his  first  year  at  Loyola 
Law  School  in  Los  Angeles. 
Barbara  Tarter  is  an  assistant  in 
the  program  practices  department 
at  CBS,  Inc.,  the  division  which 
reviews  commercials  for  network 
clearance.  Dominic  Thomas  is 
teaching  in  Shimabara  City, 
Japan,  living  in  an  old 
"ramshackle"  house,  and  working 
to  coordinate  a  special  interest 
group  of  more  than  200  foreigners 
across  Japan  Jill  Weinstein  is  at 
the  University  of  Florida  at 
Gainesville,  where  she  is  earning 
both  an  M.A.  in  mass 
communications  and  a  law 
degree.  Elana  Weiss  is  in  Athens, 
Greece,  working  on  mergers  and 
acquisitions.  Robyn  Welfeld  is  a 
student  in  the  master's  of  higher 
education  program  at  New  York 
University. 

Grad 

Laura  S.  Altman  [Ph.D.  '88, 
Heller)  was  elected  a  principal  of 
Towers  Perrin,  an  international 
management  consulting  firm. 
Based  in  the  firm's  Boston  office, 
she  IS  responsible  for  directing  the 
Integrated  HealthSystems 
Consulting  program's  national 
behavioral  health  consulting 
practice.  Paul  Fennelly  (MA.  '71, 
Ph.D.  '72,  chemistry)  is  regional 
vice  president  for  ENSR 
Consulting  and  Engineering's  East 
Coast  region  consulting  practice, 
working  with  hazardous  waste 
management,  air  pollution 
control,  and  water  quality 
services.  ENSR,  an  international 
environmental  services 
consulting  organization  with  22 
offices  in  the  U.S.  and  Europe,  is 
one  of  the  country's  largest 
environmental  firms.  Paul  is  a 
member  of  the  Brandeis 
Environmental  Network.  Arva 
Holt  (M.F.A.  '71,  theater  arts) 
loves  her  work  as  a  marriage, 
family,  and  child  counselor  in 
private  practice  in  Brentwood, 
CA,  specializing  in  anxiety  and 
agoraphobia.  She  was  married  this 
spring  and  has  a  lovely  home  and 
two  cats.  She  still  does  some 


67  Summer  1995 


R\iN  Forest  Resciie: 
So  That  A  CmE  For 
Cancer  Might  Be 
Found  In  Your  L^etime 

uaving  lives  may  hinge  on  saving 
our  planet's  rain  forests.  Scientists 
have  identified  3.000  plants  as 
having  anti-cancer  properties... 
70%  of  them  are  found  only  in  the 
rain  forest. 

It  may  just  be  that  the  cure  for 
cancer,  AIDS,  or  one  of  a  host  of 
diseases  can  be  found  in  a  colorful, 
fragile,  little  flower  growing  deep  in 
the  heart  of  the  rain  forest.  If  we 
don't  act  now.  that  flower  may  be  lost 
forever,  and  the  cure  never  found. 

Rain  forests  are  burning  at  a 
shocking  rate... an  area  the  size  of 
10  city  blocks  every  minute.  Right 
now  you  can  join  The  National 
Arbor  Day  Foundation  and  support 
Rain  Forest  Rescue  to  help  stop  the 
destruction.  When  you  join,  the 
Foundation  will  preserve  threatened 
rain  forest  in  your  name. 

T(i  contribute  to  Rain  Forest  Rescue,  call 
1-800-222-5312 


Tlie  National 
'"V  Arbor  Day  Foundation 


Many  of  today's  wonder 
drugs  aie  derived  from  plants 
found  m  the  ram  forests 


acting,  but  spends  more  time  and 
effort  painting  and  gardening.  She 
IS  in  touch  with  several  close 
Brandeis  friends  and  calls  herself 
a  "very  proud  alumna."  Allan  S. 
lacobson  |Ph.D.  '71,  biology)  was 
named  chair  of  the  Department  of 
Molecular  Genetics  and 
Microbiology  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  Medical  Center  in 
Worcester.  He  has  been  a  faculty 
member  since  1973  and  professor 
and  acting  department  chair  since 
1 99 1 ,  He  has  served  as  visiting 
genetics  professor  at  the 
University  of  Washington  in 
Seattle  and  visiting  assistant 


AUdu  liicnbson 

professor  of  biology  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  Madeline  foteiston 
(Ph.D.  '88,  chemistry)  lomed  the 
new  patent  practice  of  Arnall, 
Golden  i^  Gregory  as  a  registered 
patent  agent/technology 

■    specialist.  She  specializes  in 
patent  portfolio  development  and 
the  protection  of  intellectual 
property,  focusing  on 
biotechnology  and  chemicals. 
Previously,  she  worked  for  the 
Boston  firm  Testa,  Hurwitz  <Si 
Thibeault.  She  received  her  I.D. 
from  Suffolk  University  Law 
School  in  December.  Grant  D. 
Jones  (M.A.  '68,  Ph.D.  '69, 
anthropology) received  a 
fellowship  award  from  the 
National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities  to  compile  his  15 
years  of  research  on  the  Itza  Maya 
into  a  broad  study  of  Maya 
civilization,  culture,  and  politics. 

'■    He  has  published  two  books  on 
the  Mayans  and  Spanish  conquest 
and  was  awarded  a  1993  grant 
from  the  National  Science 
Foundation  for  archaeological 
study  of  the  area  inhabited  by  the 
Itza  Mayas.  He  is  chair  of  the 
department  of  anthropology  and 
sociology  at  Davidson  College  in 
Davidson,  NC,  and  previously 


Grant  Jones 

taught  at  Hamilton  College  for  17 
years.  Sidney  R.  Kushner  (PhD 
'70,  biochemistry)  served  as  head 
of  the  genetics  department  at  the 
University  of  Georgia  for  eight 
years,  and  has  now  returned  full- 
time  to  research  and  teaching.  He 
and  his  wife,  Deena  Dash 
Kushner  '70,  celebrated  their  25th 
wedding  anniversary  last  year  at 
their  son's  graduation  from 
Stanford  University,  where  their 
daughter  is  now  a  sophomore. 
Mihalis  Maliakas  (Ph.D.  '89, 
mathematics)  moved  to  Athens, 
Greece,  to  take  the  position  of 
associate  professor  of 
mathematics  at  the  University  of 
Athens,  R.  L.  McNeely  |Ph,D,  '73, 
Heller)  was  admitted  to  the 
Wisconsin  state  bar  and  is 
counsel  at  McNeely  and 
Associates,  a  local  Milwaukee 
law  firm.  He  was  graduated  from 
Marquette  University  with  a  J.D. 
m  1994  after  being  awarded  the 
Marquette  University  Lawyer 
Scholar  Award.  He  continues  as 
professor  of  social  welfare  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin- 
Milwaukee  School  of  Social 
Welfare,  He  has  also  formed  a 
company.  Promethean 
Information  Enterprises,  which 
will  merchandise  informational 
booklets  relating  to  games  of 
chance  and  aspires  to  develop 
educational  materials  focusing  on 
human  rights  issues  for  audiences 
such  as  men's  rights 
organizations.  He  served  as  an 
American  Council  of  Education 
Fellow  in  the  Office  of  the 
Chancellor,  University  of  New 
Orleans,  in  1988-89,  is  a  research 


R.  L.  McNeely 

fellow  of  the  Gerontological 
Society  of  America,  and  has 
published  60  professional  articles 
and  two  books.  Samuel  Weisman 
(M.F.A.  '73,  theater  arts)  released 
a  movie  this  spring  called  Bye  Bye 
Love,  following  on  the  heels  of 
his  successful  Mighty  Ducks 
movies.  Barry  L.  Werner  (M.A. 
'71,  PhD.  '72,  physics)  is 
conducting  medical  physics 
radiation  research  in  Seattle. 

Obituaries 

Word  has  been  received  of  the 
death  of  Barry  George  Freedman 
'71  of  Chestnut  Hill,  MA.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Margery 
Diamond^eedman  '71.  Marshall 
J.  Mott  '61  died  March  5  in 
Hartford,  CT,  at  age  55,  He  was  in 
private  practice  in  law  and  had 
served  as  counsel  and  secretary  of 
Mott's  Supermarkets,  Inc,  He  was 
a  former  commissioner  of  the 
Connecticut  State  Human  Rights 
and  Opportunities  Commission 
and  had  also  worked  in  the 
Secretary  of  State's  office.  He  is 
survived  by  his  mother;  his  two 
daughters,  his  son  and  daughter- 
in-law;  and  a  sister  and  several 
nieces  and  nephews,  Marina 
Mrdjenovic  '79  died  September  4, 
1994of  AIDS-related 
complications,  A  San  Francisco 
resident,  she  performed, 
produced,  and  directed  with  her 
improvisational  comedy  group, 
Crash  and  Burn,  She  also  wrote 
pieces  for  stage,  television,  and 
radio.  After  her  illness  ended  her 
career,  she  continued  to  be  known 
for  her  elaborate  dinner  parties 
and  for  her  generous  and  loving 
nature.  She  leaves  her  husband, 
Mitch  Ashley;  her  mother, 
brother,  and  sister;  and  one  niece. 


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note  is  not  possible.  If  an 
inaccurate  submission  is 
published,  the  Brandeis  Review 
will  correct  any  errors  in  the  next 
possible  issue,  but  must  disclaim 
responsibility  for  any  damage 
or  loss. 


68  Brandeis  Review 


Listen  to  Your  Professors 
—Dr.  Wyatt  C.  Jones 


i,4Cw^ 


Life-income  plans  are  a 
good  idea.  Just  ask 
Wyatt  C.  Jones,  professor 
emeritus  of  social  research 
at  the  Heller  School.  Jones 
cherishes  his  relationships 
with  many  of  his  former 
students,  who  now  affect 
policy  in  government, 
academia,  law,  business, 
and  medicine.  His 
commitment  to  Brandeis 
is  constant,  and  he  has 
made  a  series  of  creative 
gifts  since  retiring  from 
teaching. 


/  had  directed  over  100 
Ph.D.  dissertations,  and  I 
,         found  that  economic 
H  li  conditions  forced  many  of 
my  students  to  get  jobs 
before  completing  their 
work.  I  wanted  to  give 
•^f  them  one  more  semester 
f     to  finish  their  studies. 
^g  Although  I  am  not  a 
-;,  ^    wealthy  man,  I  had  a 

«*  block  of  stocks  that  had 
i^i     greatly  increased  in  value, 
so  I  decided  to  give  it  to 
Brandeis  for  a  lifetime 
return  for  me.  I  enjoy  the 
income,  and  my  fund  is 
active  now.  The  results 
■r  -  -     are  great,  and  my  life- 
income  plan  pays  very 
well,  too. 

^^  ■    Jones  is  an  early 
''^  contributor  to  the 
Brandeis  University 
Pooled  Income  Fund  and  a 
charter  member  of  the 
Brandeis  Legacy  Circle. 
The  remainder  of  his 
gift  will  fully  fund  the 
t         Wyatt  C.  Jones 
.  ii  Dissertation  Fund,  a 
scholarship  for  doctoral 
students  at  the  Florence 
Heller  School  for 
Advanced  Studies  in 
Social  Welfare,  where 
student  aid  is  more  critical 
than  ever  before. 


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