Celin Vaernewyck Schoen (COM’54) of Hobart, N.J., and her husband, Frederick Schoen, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on January 3. They attended Celin’s 50th reunion last May, only the second time she had been back to campus since her graduation. She writes that she was impressed with the University and remembers the valuable experience she had here in the 1950s.

Frank A. Halse, Jr. (CAS’55, STH’58) , of Brandon, Fla., was a campus minister at the Wesley Foundation in Potsdam, N.Y., and a Methodist chaplain at Syracuse University. He was shocked, he writes, when he was named to Who’s Who in America. E-mail Frank at whimsy@combase.com.

Morton Aronson (CAS’56, LAW’59) of Atlanta, Ga., has been honored with a Franchise Law Student Award Fund in his name at Emory Law School in Atlanta. The award recognizes student achievements and dedication to the legal profession. Morton, who has taught franchise law at Emory for the past 10 years, previously worked as counsel for the franchise group of Kilpatrick Stockton and for the Holiday Inn hotel chain.

Carolyn Stone Koonce (SMG’58) of Centerville, Mass., owns B and B Inn by the Sea and B and B Tennis by the Sea on Cape Cod. She is a professionally trained tennis teacher. “So glad I majored in business at BU,” she writes. “Wonderful training in so many aspects of business. My college sweetheart was Bob Hallquist (SMG’57) . We married in 1958 and had three children. He passed away suddenly in 1963, at 29. While a student, he assisted Lloyd Pederson in the IBM department doing final grades on computer in the first days. We both loved BU!” E-mail Carolyn at innbythesea@pocketmail.com.

Joseph H. Hagan (SED’60, Hon.’93) of Little Compton, R.I., was elected town moderator. He also was elected to Boston University’s Board of Overseers and the American Association of the Order of Malta’s Board of Councilors.

Martin Lobel (CAS’62, LAW’65) of Washington, D.C., was recently named one of the best lawyers in Washington by Washingtonian magazine. E-mail Martin at Lobel@LNLlaw.com.

William Avery (COM’66) of New York, N.Y., is the host and producer of Books on the Air on Manhattan’s Channel 34 on Fridays at seven p.m. He started the William Avery Literary Agency, which is accepting manuscripts of novels, collections of short stories, and biographies.

Richard Hughes (STH’66, GRS’70) of Williamsport, Pa., has written his seventh book, Lament, Death and Destiny, a comprehensive theology of lament inspired by his experiences during the civil rights movement.

Sharon Abramhoff Shipley (CAS’66) , of Seattle, Wash., has written a new play, StarCrossed, a comedy about the events that led to the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. The play premiered in February at the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, N.H., and will be staged at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco from May 13 to June 5. Visit www.angelfire.com/in2/mywork.

Carol Pries Moog (CAS’67) of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., is a psychologist in private practice. She also consults on advertising and marketing content and design and plays harmonica in her own band. Carol invites fellow classmates and the BU community to visit her Web site, www.carolmoog.com.

Alan T. Norton (STH’67) of Clinton, Conn., has been with Goshen Congregational Church in Lebanon since 1999. He completed 50 years of preaching on June 27, 2004, and Goshen celebrated its 275th anniversary on November 14. Alan and his wife, Eleanor, celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary on November 20.

Charles G. Douglas, III (LAW’68) of Concord, N.H., was appointed by Governor Craig Benson to chair the Judicial Retirement Plan Board of Trustees. The board began in January 2005 administering a new $43 million judicial pension plan. Charles is a former Superior Court and Supreme Court judge.

Cynthia M. Jones (CAS’68) of Portsmouth, Va., is a professor of ocean, earth, and atmospheric sciences at Old Dominion University. Last November she was named Virginia Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). A Fulbright scholar, Cynthia is the director of the Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology and recently received a Virginia Sea Grant to work on a project about fish habitat and population.

Gerald P. Koocher (CAS’68) of Chestnut Hill, Mass., was elected American Psychological Association president for 2006. Gerald is a professor and dean of the School for Health Studies at Simmons College in Boston and a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School and Boston College.

Elizabeth England (CAS’69) of San Francisco, Calif., a member of the law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, has been appointed to the executive committee of the state bar association litigation section. She served as vice chair and advisor to the real property law section from 1999 to 2001. A real estate litigator, she received a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1978.