fall 2017

HILL THOMAS H. DAHILL completed his most recent commission, The Canal that Bisected Boston, on May 19, 2016. The piece is housed in the entrance pavilion of One Canal Street in Boston.

HILL NORMAN R. BENNETT, F56, professor emeritus of history at Boston University, announced the republication of his book A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar by Routledge of London and New York. The first edition appeared in 1978.

ENGINEERING JIM NEWMAN received the John E. Matthews Award for Engineer of the Year at the annual meeting and awards banquet held by the Michigan chapter of the American Society of Sanitary Engineering.

ENGINEERING EDWARD BLOOM was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018.

HILL LOUISE McCORMICK, LOUISE MESSNER, CORDIE PUTTKAMMER, CAROLYN RHODES, and SHEILA WEIS, all Boston School of Occupational Therapy alumnae, met at the Inn at Millrace Pond in Hope, NJ, from April 30 to May 4 for a reunion.

HILL PETER BEREN, a literary agent and founder of the Peter Beren Agency, is delighted to report a new book deal. Tentatively titled Baron Wolman’s Classic Rock Instagrams, the book will feature more than two hundred candid shots and performance photos of rock icons like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, and Mick Jagger. The images, which come from the lens of the first chief photographer of Rolling Stone magazine, will be reimagined as Instagrams and paired with intimate anecdotes about the artists.

HILL This March, storyteller KATHRYN EIKE DUDDING released her fifth CD, Learning About Muslims. It’s a collection of traditional Muslim stories and poetry, stories about Muslims in the news, and stories about people Dudding has met at the Interfaith Story Circle Program, a storytelling group in upstate New York.

HILL NANCY S. SHILEPSKY, chair of the Employment Group at Sherin and Lodgen, was ranked as a Star Individual in Labor and Employment in the 2017 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She was lauded by peers as a “superb legal mind who…knows what is important to target and is concise, very detailed, and organized.” She was also selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018.

HILL JOHN de JONG, V85, was named president-elect of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

HILL ROBERT J. O’REGAN, G80, E10P, partner at Burns and Levinson, was selected as one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 2016 Lawyers of the Year. David Rosenblatt, managing partner at Burns and Levinson, said that “clients turn to Bob because he is an incredibly talented, powerful, and dedicated litigator who never stops fighting for what is right. No one is more deserving of this recognition.”

HILL SHAHÉ NAVASART SANENTZ delivered a speech in Times Square during the 102nd Armenian Genocide Commemoration. He shared the stage with Senator Chuck Schumer (NY), Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ), Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY), and other dignitaries.

HILL DAVID KATZ, CEO of Randa Accessories, which cocreated the Ryan Seacrest Distinction apparel and accessories brand, was named a Top Menswear Mover by MR, the magazine of the men’s fashion industry. Also, Women’s Wear Daily called him one of the fashion industry’s leading change agents.

ENGINEERING ROBERT STONE joined the building, civil, utility, and energy construction firm BOND as the new director of preconstruction, health care, and life sciences.

HILL MARJORIE J. PEERCE, a partner in Ballard Spahr’s New York office, was elected to serve on the executive committee of the New York City Bar Association.

HILL CANDACE LAPIDUS SLOANE, M84, was reappointed by Governor Baker to a third term on the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where she serves as chair. In addition, the Massachusetts Medical Society selected her as the 2017 Woman Physician Leader.

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HILL JAY FAMIGLIETTI, E16P, recently spoke at Case Western Reserve University’s Think Forum with ALEXIS ABRAMSON, E95, a Case Western Reserve University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who is director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute. Famiglietti spoke on the global water crisis, and together he and Abramson chatted with students and the audience about the importance of water sustainability in the coming decades.

HILL DAVID T. HARMON, a member of the law firm Norris, McLaughlin and Marcus and cochair of the firm’s executive compensation and employee benefits group, was recently quoted in an article by Monica Torres, “New case shows you have to check your LinkedIn contacts after leaving a job,” on Ladders, a website for job searchers.

HILL TAMSIN KAPLAN was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018.

HILL PAM WECHSLER published The Graves, the second in a series of three novels about a Boston homicide prosecutor.

HILL ED ELLISON, director of alumni relations at Tufts University, summited Mount Kilimanjaro with his son in August.

ENGINEERING JEROME WONG started Real World Experts, which aims to teach college students to get jobs. The goal is to enhance the information provided by college career services with strategies and perspectives from former Fortune 500 hiring managers.

HILL KIRSTEN DAY joined the law firm Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP as partner. Day will work for the firm’s real estate practice, handling legal matters for corporate clients as well as individuals. She received her J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

TRACEY E. DIAMOND was elected to the rank of counsel at Pepper Hamilton LLP. For the first time in its 126-year history, Pepper Hamilton LLP elected an all-female class of lawyers to the ranks of partner and counsel. Tracey is member of the labor and employment practice group in the firm’s Philadelphia office. She practices in the areas of employment law, human resources counseling, and employment litigation.

HILL TANIA ANDERSON LEWIS, a political officer with the Department of State, recently began an assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Mauritania. Lewis and her family came to Mauritania after two years in Brussels, Belgium.

HILL ELIZABETH STORDEUR PRYOR was promoted to associate professor of history, with tenure, at Smith College.

HILL DEBRA MOSS CURTIS was recently promoted to associate dean for academic affairs at the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She has been a tenured full professor of law there since 2007, teaching contracts and uniform commercial code courses.

HILL BRETT INGERMAN was named managing partner of DLA Piper’s Baltimore office. Ingerman focuses his practice on business and commercial litigation and arbitration, particularly complex commercial disputes and lender liability issues. He also counsels clients on corporate investigations and global compliance issues and serves as global cochair of DLA Piper’s compliance and governance practice.

HILL DAN BARBER was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in July 2017. He fondly remembered his grandmother’s dairy farm (which his family still owns) and chronicled his own entrance into the New York restaurant world, which included getting a real estate offer from David Rockefeller.

HILL PETER CAPOZZOLI and his wife, Kristin, welcomed their second child, Mia Caroline, on March 30, 2017. She joined big sister Alexandra. Peter and family live in Hermosa Beach, CA, where Peter works as the director of mission management for the aerospace company SpaceX.

GRADUATE DOMINIQUE SAVINELLI was elected partner at Husch Blackwell. She litigates and advises on behalf of clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and agribusiness industries in high-stakes toxic tort and product liability cases. She deposes and defends authoritative witnesses for bench and jury trials and arbitration proceedings, and also manages expert teams for complex commercial and mass tort litigation.

HILL STEPHANIE CARMAN of Hogan Lovells in Miami, FL, is president-elect of the Dade County Bar Association for 2017–18. She brings over fifteen years of litigation and health care experience at Hogan Lovells and a strong history of community service to the position.

HILL In April, MEHREEN BUTT was elected as the first Muslim female selectman in Massachusetts. She also became Massachusetts’ third-ever Muslim elected state official. She will serve as selectman in Wakefield, MA.

HILL JAFFAR MAHMOOD recently directed episodes of several TV comedies: Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, CBS’s Life in Pieces, ABC’s The Middle, ABC’s The Real O’Neals, and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

HILL EMILY KRETCHMER was recently promoted to the position of partner at Krokidas & Bluestein. Emily’s practice is concentrated in health care, nonprofit, administrative, and corporate law, and she has written and lectured on health care topics including corporate compliance, Medicare payment, and HIPAA. Boston Magazine’s New England Super Lawyers has named her a rising star four times for her work in health care law.

HILL JASON BERKOWITZ was elevated to principal in the Miami office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Berkowitz represents private and public sector clients in labor and employment matters in state and federal courts.

HILL NDUBISI EZEOLU was promoted to counsel at Tucker Ellis LLP. Ndubisi represents businesses, municipalities, and public entities in trial and appellate courts and before government agencies. He has represented title insurance companies, real estate lenders, and financial institutions in lawsuits involving mortgage banking, fraudulent transfers, forgery, identity theft, and loan fraud. He also represents companies and their executives in employment law issues.

HILL KISHORE SETTY was named head of the New York office of Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management. Atlantic Trust has fourteen offices nationwide with $29.1 billion in assets under management.

HILL CANDACE J. GOMEZ joined Bond, Schoeneck & King, in Garden City on Long Island. Gomez received her law degree from American University, Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an executive board member of the Moot Court Honor Society.

HILL CHIKE AGUH was selected as a 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholar. The Presidential Leadership Scholars program is a leadership development initiative that draws on the resources of the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Aguh, CEO of EveryoneOn, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make the Internet more widely available, is one of sixty applicants chosen for the program’s third annual class.

ENGINEERING RAJIT KAPUR was elected to principal shareholder in Banner & Witcoff’s Washington, D.C., office. Kapur primarily concentrates on preparing and prosecuting patent applications, and has drafted and prosecuted numerous patent applications for computer software. He also assists and advises clients with respect to trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property.

GRADUATE FERNANDO LIMA, assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at West Virginia University, earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work to improve modular systems for energy applications. The award comes with $500,000 in funding over a five-year period.

GRADUATE SCOTT MALIA earned tenure at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, in the theater department.

HILL ALEX BLOOM was promoted to senior director in the public relations division of O’Neill and Associates, a full-service government relations and public relations firm.

HILL JOSHUA YELLIN became an associate at Hunter Maclean, a business law firm with offices in Savannah and Brunswick. Joshua works in the firm’s real estate practice group.

HILL ERIN BALDASSARI shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news with a team of reporters for the East Bay Times. The prize acknowledges the “relentless reporting” of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, CA, last December that killed thirty-six people. Baldassari cowrote some of the East Bay Times’ first stories on the disaster and then wrote follow-up articles on such topics as the response by Oakland City Hall and the effects of the fire on the artist community.

GRADUATE MERON LANGSNER was promoted to senior associate at Cooper & Cooper Real Estate in New York City.

MEDICAL JESSICA LONG is one of four UMass Medical School students awarded $10,000 scholarships as 2017 Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars. Long, who earned a master’s degree in biomedical engineering at Tufts, is a recipient of the Dr. Sanfrey Lilyestrom Award and the Martin Luther King Semester of Service Student Award. She was also named Member of the Year for Region VII of the Student National Medical Association.

HILL THEO FRIEDMAN collaborated with Napa Valley’s Robert Mondavi Winery on three events. The first was at the Notorious B&B in Brooklyn in April with Robert Mondavi winemaker Joe Harden. For the second event, at The Loft in San Francisco, Friedman worked with another Robert Mondavi winemaker, Megan Schofield, and EMILY NIXON assisted as director of wine service. The third event was at the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa, where Friedman collaborated with winery chef Jeff Mother on the menu.

HILL JACK KISSEBERTH, who competed on the Tufts University Cycling Team, was granted a spot to race in the World Cyclocross Championships.