1949 Frank Maley worked at the New York State Department of Health for 50 years as a research scientist and 10 years as an emeritus scientist. Maley was a professor of biochemistry at Albany Medical College for 20 years. He and his wife of 65 years, Gladys Ruth Maley, have three children, five grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. 1959 Terri Thal published My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me (McNidder & Grace, 2023). 1963 Bertram Gordon organized and chaired a panel, “From Soviets to Anti-Tourism,” at the American Historical Association annual meeting in San Francisco in January 2024. The panel covered how tourism has influenced history, from post–World War II Russia to space tourism in the United States to the broader phenomenon of anti-tourism. Mel Nutig recently published a memoir, Code Blues: A Surgeon’s Journey With Depression (FriesenPress, 2023). Harriet Shenkman published Wonder Wheel: A Collection of Poems (Grayson Books, 2023). 1964 Stephen Lewis published From Infamy to Hope (Austin Macauley, 2023), a 17th-century historical novel set in Puritan New England. At 81, Fred Stone is still working full time for a $60 billion multi-strategy hedge fund as part of its legal team. He is still married to Bonnie Stone née Dobkin, Class of 1965. 1966 Felice C. Frankel published The Visual Elements—Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering (Chicago University Press, 2023). 1967 Lynn Caporale organized the session “Immigration: Dramatic Historic Contribution to America’s Scientific Leadership” at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She spoke about the nearly 50 Nobel laureates in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine who were children or grandchildren of immigrants. Gail Lurie has been a potter for 55 years. Her work is in private collections worldwide and has been published in several books. She has a studio and gallery, Dockton Pottery, on Vashon Island, Washington. Lurie founded the Wedgwood Art Festival in Seattle 18 years ago and Claystation at the Seattle Center. Alan Pearlmutter teaches music history courses at Bristol Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Fitchburg State University. He has also been active as a composer and conductor over the years. From 1989 to 2001, he developed and conducted the Musical Diversions Society in St. Louis, which explored lesser-known orchestral works to help train students and amateur musicians. From 2011 to 2022, he directed and produced the concerts of the Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, a professional ensemble. He holds a D.M.A. from the Peabody Institute. Richard Weiner has been named professor emeritus/dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rhode Island College. He continues as a local affiliate at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the co-editor of Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (Routledge, 2020), co-author of Los Indignados: Tides of Social Insertion in Spain (Zero Books, 2017), and author of Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology (Sage, 1981). He is at work on his fourth book. 1969 Merle Molofsky is the editor of Jew-Hating: The Black Milk of Civilization (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2023). The book’s title is taken from a poem, “Death Fugue,” by renowned Holocaust survivor and poet Paul Celan. The book has been nominated for a Gradiva Award, granted by the National Association for the Advancement of Pyschoanalysis. International Books has also published two volumes of Molofsky’s fiction: a novel, Streets 1970, in 2015, and a collection of short fiction, Necessary Voices, in 2019. Robert Sarnoff’s documentary film The Block debuted on Amazon in 2024. “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz appeared on National Public Radio in April to discuss congestion pricing in New York City and its impact. 1971 Lucille Tamm retired after 40 years as a geologist with the Department of Interior. She is the proud grandmother of two granddaughters. 1972 Gary Schulman has been appointed advisory commissioner on the Arlington Partnership for Children, Youth & Families. Terry Stranksy retired to North Carolina after a 45-year career as a geologist. Sigmund Susser worked for the Social Security Administration for 35 years. After retirement he took classes and became a stand-up comedian. He performs at comedy clubs, senior centers, libraries, and synagogues. Susser appeared in a documentary about seniors doing comedy called Good Timing with Jo Firestone, shown on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Susser was a background extra in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. 1974 Marcia Bricker Halperin won the Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award for Food Writing and Cookbooks from the Jewish Book Council for her book Kibbitz & Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow’s Cafeteria (Three Hills, 2023). Charles Lachman, executive producer for the news show Inside Edition is publishing Codename Nemo with Diversion Books on June 4. The book tells the story of a crucial moment in World War II when American sailors outmaneuvered and outwitted the Germans and captured valuable intelligence secrets. 1977 Susan Buchalter has been a senior primary therapist/art therapist at Penn Medicine Princeton Health for 43 years. She is the author of various publications, including her most recent book, Reduce Anxiety Now: 150+ Ways to Lessen Stress and Increase Peace and Serenity (self-published, 2023). 1978 Neil Berliner is a psychiatrist and the medical director of a large mental health agency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is also a comedian and comedy writer with credits on Comedy Central Roast, The Howard Stern Show, the Friars Club roasts, and in MAD magazine and The New York Times. His recent comedy short film, Comedian President, has been selected by four film festivals, including the Golden State Film Festival in Hollywood, California. It was screened at the famous Grauman Chinese Theatre in February 2024. 1980 James McGirr had an essay, “Frankenstein in Three Chords,” co-authored by Elizabeth A. Fay of the University of Massachusetts Boston, published in the book The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings (Bloomsbury Academic 2024). McGirr works as a bassist in the pit bands for many regional music theater productions and plays in the garage-rock band The Orbits and Americana-country band Cattle Call. 1981 Madlyn Epstein Steinhart, a retired UFT teacher, has released her latest book of poetry, Beautiful Heart: A Collection of Heartfelt Poems (The Three Tomatoes Book Publishing, 2023). 1983 Elisha Benjamin Ankri has been a teacher for the last 47 years and a magician for the last 57 years. Ankri taught in a private high school for 16 years and the New York City public school system 30 years. He has spent the last 13 years instructing numerous magic classes at Children of Promise, an after-school and summer camp for children of incarcerated parents. 2000 Tyler Gore has published his debut essay collection, My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2022). The book was a National Indie Excellence Award finalist, a First Horizon Award finalist, and an Independent Publishers Book Award Bronze winner. 2003 Keith Hodne is the supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer of HBO’s Emmy-nominated documentary series 100 Foot Wave, winner of a 2024 Cinema Audio Society award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television-Non-Fiction, Variety or Music—Series or Specials. Hodne’s first Emmy nomination was for ESPN’s O.J.: Made in America. 2004 Vincent Cobb is an economics Ph.D. candidate at Howard University and an economics instructor at Morgan State University. 2007 Lorrain Mott-Baptiste traveled to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), where she was the founding chief of monitoring and school improvement. In her role, she identified strengths and weaknesses in teaching and learning in the school system and created a student-centered, research-based classroom monitoring tool. The tool and process were scaled to accommodate all 95 schools in the UAE. 2008 James Jennings published his novel Wings of Red (Soft Skull, 2023), a work of autofiction about a young Black M.F.A. graduate with a felony record who navigates the New York City school system. 2009 CJ Hauser was interviewed in Lambda Literary Review for her memoir The Crane Wife (Doubleday, 2022). She is also the author of Family of Origin: A Novel (Anchor, 2019) and The From-Aways: A Novel (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2014). 2011 Matthew Daddona, author of the poetry collection House of Sound (Trail to Table, 2020), published his first novel, The Longitude of Grief (Wandering Aengus Press, 2024). Daddona is a former nonfiction book editor and current ghostwriter. Alexandria Jackson is the director of alumni engagement at The New School following 13 years in Alumni Relations at Baruch College. 2018 Khaula Malik co-produced the feature documentary Girls State, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Jonathan Van Dusen has joined Rawle & Henderson LLP as an associate in the firm’s New York City office. He defends clients in cases involving medical and dental malpractice, architectural and engineering malpractice, and commercial motor vehicle accidents. He is a 2023 graduate of Brooklyn Law School. 2019 Angeline Gragasin was awarded a 2024 Film & Video Artist Residency at Yaddo, a historic artist retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. Lazarus Lazarides‘ short film Dreamer’s Playground was selected to screen at the 2024 Children’s Film Festival in Seattle in February. 2021 Jonathan Dalloo received the 2023 Continuous Improvement Professional Award from the Management and Strategy Institute. Jordan Dykstra composed the music for the Academy Award–winning Best Documentary 2024, 20 Days in Mariupol. Joshua Holz’s film Another Night (2023) was an official selection at the Chelsea Film Festival, awarded official selection at the Northeast Film Festival, and was a semi-finalist at the Academy Award–qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. Harrison Sheckler released a gospel music video with Grammy Award–winning entertainer Gloria Gaynor called “Talkin’ ’Bout Jesus,” to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday on January 15. Ezri Shor was named head coach of the women’s and men’s volleyball teams at Baruch College. 2023 Benjamin Brenkert was ordained to the diocanate of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, New York, in January 2024. Submit Your News Use the Class Notes form to send us information electronically. To become a Class Notes Correspondent for your class, call the Office of Alumni Engagement, 718.951.5065.
