Robert M. Sears (LAW’71) of St. Louis, Mo., is vice president and general counsel at Clayco, a real estate development, design, and construction firm. Robert, who has more than 33 years of experience in corporate legal practice, also is treasurer of the board of directors of the St. Louis Bar Foundation and an instructor at Washington University School of Architecture.

Christine  Valenti Shock (COM’71) of Hopkinton, Mass., is cofounder and vice president of Shock PR International, Inc. Launched in October 2005, her company offers public relations franchises for professionals who want their own public relations businesses, but also want to have the benefits of a quick start-up organization, a support network of other professionals, and national branding. Visit the company’s Web site at www.shockpr.com and e-mail Christine at cschock@shockpr.com.

Elaine Bazarian (GRS’72) of Watertown, Mass., recently published By Wisdom and Courage, Part 1: The Legacy (PublishAmerica, 2005) under the pen name Marion Earl MacKenzie. The book, a sequel to No Hand Can Destroy (AuthorHouse, 2002), is about a young widow whose husband was murdered four years earlier and her child, who has inherited her father’s brilliant scientific mind.

Ella Delyanis (CFA’72) of Grafton, Mass., exhibited pastel landscapes at the Artana Gallery in Brookline, Mass., last October. E-mail her at ted.ella@verizon.net.

Louise Kleiner Forman (COM’72) of Princeton, N.J., is a business manager at the Rutgers University School of Engineering. She received her second master’s degree, an M.B.A., from Rutgers last May. Louise and her husband, Spencer Forman (CAS’71), have three sons, Drew, Robert, and Jonathan, all attending college.

Gloria Chapman Lewis (COM’72) of Minneapolis, Minn., is president and chief executive officer of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of the Greater Twin Cities, the fourth-largest BBBS affiliate in the country. Previously director of Minnesota’s Office of Minority and Multicultural Health, she is continuing her 25-year career bridging the public and private sectors to benefit children and families. Gloria is a member of Augsburg College’s board of regents and the University of St. Thomas’s M.B.A. advisory board. She is also on the board of directors for the American Heart Association and the board of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches. In 2004, Minnesota Physician Magazine named her one of its 100 most influential health-care leaders. She lives with her husband, the Rev. Craig J. Lewis. 

Gay Lloyd Pinder (SED’72) of Seattle, Wash., a speech-language pathologist, was awarded the Clinical Achievement Award at the Washington Speech and Hearing Association’s annual convention in October. The award recognizes Gay Lloyd’s contributions as a speech-language pathologist specializing in oral motor function, swallowing disorders, and feeding therapy and for her work with young children with neuromuscular challenges. She provides therapy and is program director at the Children’s Therapy Center in Kent, Wash., which she cofounded in 1979.

Richard Rossner (COM’72) of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Marilyn Anderson (GRS’68) of Marina del Rey, Calif., both comedy writers in Los Angeles, teamed up to write a family script, Son of a Gun, which won second place in the 2005 Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Their other collaborative script, Tough Cookies, was previously a winner in the Writer’s Digest Screenwriting Contest. Individually, Marilyn won the 2005 American Screenwriting Competition, and Richard won the Writer’s Digest Screenwriting Contest. E-mail Richard at richardrossner@sbcglobal.net.

Rachel Nickerson-Luna (CFA’73) of New York, N.Y., has published another book in her Eel Grass Girls mysteries series, The Desperate Message from Freeman’s Island (Emma Howard Books, 2005). The third book in the series, The Strange Disappearance of Agatha Buck, came out in 2004. Visit the Eel Grass Girls on the Web at www.eelgrassgirls.com.
James E. Rooks, Jr. (LAW’74) of Washington, D.C., is the coauthor of Recovery for Wrongful Death, 4th Edition (Thomson/West, 2005), a three-volume treatise on damages awarded in wrongful death litigation. The work has been cited numerous times by American courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Alan Matarasso (CAS’75) of Rye Brook, N.Y., is president of the New York Regional Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc.

Richard Waldman (CAS’75) of Highland Park, Ill., joined KeyBanc Capital Markets, based in Chicago, in diversified industries banking.

Warren Fitzgerald (CAS’76, LAW’79) of Andover, Mass., is president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Warren is a personal injury lawyer at the Boston law firm Meehan, Boyle, Black & Fitzgerald.  He has been an active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association for several years, working in various leadership capacities. In the past, he served as president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

Mark Hathorne (STH’76) of Cannock, U.K., earned a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Birmingham, England. His thesis, Building God’s City in Wolverhampton, is a study of local churches’ responses to ethnic and religious pluralism. Mark is vicar of a Church of England parish near Birmingham.

Robert F. Leonard (COM’76) of Sarasota, Fla., the owner of Bolen Communications, was named the 2005 ADDY Awards chair by the board of directors of the Suncoast Advertising Federation. The ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most comprehensive creative competition. As chair, Bob was responsible for ensuring that the local awards competition was successfully implemented. E-mail him at bob@bolencomm.com.

David S. Pollack (CAS’76, CGS’74) of Port Washington, N.Y., was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 2005, published by American Legal Media.
Lionel René Saporta (LAW’76) of Montauk, N.Y., published his first novel, A Hole in the Water (iUniverse, Inc., 2005), a legal thriller that takes the reader around the world and into the complexities of Kabbalist lore. Lionel is a former prosecutor and federal litigator and is coauthor of the nonfiction book Closing Argument: Defending and Befriending John Gotti (Crown Publishers, 2003).

Ralph Smith(GSM’76) of Waltham, Mass., has been named chief operating officer at Kayem Foods. He supervises the meat processing company’s finance and administration, information systems, human resources, customer service and marketing, sales, and plant operations at its facilities in Chelsea and Woburn, Mass. Ralph joined Kayem in 2001 as the chief financial officer.

Mary Pat Berry Bakke (SAR’77) of Madison, Wis., was honored for her extraordinary volunteer work by Traditional Home Magazine. She is president of the board of the Madison Foundation for Public Schools and has worked to create endowments for each of the public schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Jan Moidel Schwartz (CAS’77) of Wellesley, Mass., is the development associate for Etgar L’Noar, an organization that provides Jewish education to disabled children with moderate to severe disabilities. Jan writes, “Life is good. It’s hard to believe 32 years have gone by since I was a 17-year-old freshman in Towers. I have a daughter almost that age. Hi to all my old friends from Hillel — the new building is fabulous — please support the campaign.” E-mail Jan at janschwartz@comcast.net.

Rev. James A. Woods (SED’77) of Chestnut Hill, Mass., dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, received the Leadership Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education in November 2005. The award, the association’s highest honor, recognizes extraordinary contributions to continuing higher education. The association noted that James’s “influence and legacy extend across several generations and far beyond the ivied walls of Boston College.”

David E. Cherny (SMG’78) of Newton, Mass., a partner in the Boston law firm Atwood & Cherny, was included in the November 2005 Law & Politics/Boston Magazine listing of “Massachusetts Super Lawyers.” He was also named one of the top 100 lawyers in Massachusetts.

Mary Eugenie Burns Davis (COM’78) of Redondo Beach, Calif., published a new novel, The Model Man (Kensington, 2005). A film and television writer, Genie lives with her husband and two children. E-mail her at geniewrites@yahoo.com.

Jeffrey T. Guterman (CGS’78) of Miami Beach, Fla., published Mastering the Art of Solution-Focused Counseling (American Counseling Association, 2006), which describes theories and techniques for helping clients identify their strengths and problem-solving skills to promote positive change. E-mail Jeffrey at jguterman@gmail.com.

James W. Hughes (GRS’78) of Waterville, Maine, has been named the first Thomas Sowell Professor of Economics at Bates College. James has been a member of the economics faculty for 13 years. The professorship, established in 2002, honors economist, author, and commentator Thomas Sowell.

David Lebow (CFA’78) of Los Angeles, Calif., had 40 paintings featured on the 3-D television broadcast of Medium on NBC on November 21, 2005. Dave received a master’s degree in experimental animation from the California Institute for the Arts, where he now teaches. Aside from creating his own artwork in various media, Dave creates short animations for The Secret Life of … on the Food Network.

Sheila Curran Bernard (COM’79) of Hyattsville, Md., was the Anshutz Distinguished Fellow for the fall 2005 semester at Princeton University, where she taught a course on the presentation of history in film. An Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and consultant, she has done more than 40 hours of nationally broadcast programming for PBS, as well as shows for Lifetime and HBO. Sheila is preparing a second edition of her book Documentary Storytelling (Focal Press/Elsevier, 2003) for release in 2007.

Michael McKenna (COM’79) of Middlebury, Vt., is vice president for communications at Middlebury College. He worked previously as CEO, president, and chief creative officer at Marsteller, a global advertising, design, and production agency based in New York City. Michael is a trustee of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., a vice chair of the university relations subcommittee, and a member of the facilities planning subcommittee. He and his wife, Lynn, have two children, Lee and Jake.

Patricia Randell (CFA’79) of Long Island City, N.Y., starred in the world premiere of Jon Marans’s latest play, A Strange and Separate People, which opened at the Penguin Repertory Company in Stony Point, N.Y., in October. Patricia received positive reviews in the New York Times and other critical forums.

Sandra Waddock (GSM’79,’85) of West Newton, Mass., a professor of management at Boston College’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, received the 2005 Faculty Pioneer for External Impact Award from Beyond Grey Pinstripes, which surveys and ranks business schools. The award recognizes faculty who integrate social and environmental issues in their research and teaching. Sandra is also a senior research fellow at the BC Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Charles A. Winchester (SED’79) of Lexington, Mass., received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Middlesex County Bar Association last November. Charles, a 39-year employee of the Massachusetts Probation Service, began his career as a probation officer at Woburn District Court and was later appointed chief probation officer.
Norman Berg (SED’80) of New York, N.Y., published his first book Regret to Inform You in 1999, followed by My Carrier War in 2001. Both books are published by Hellgate Press/PSI Research.