spring 2018

MARTIN R. SANTIS, A58, M62, in Acton, MA. He practiced internal medicine and endocrinology in Concord, MA, for thirty-one years. He leaves his wife, Helen Santis; his children, David (and wife Kathi), Susan (and husband Brett Neal), and Elizabeth; and his grandchildren, Emily and Alexandra Santis and Jessica and Zachary Neal.

MEDICAL MICHAEL RAYDER, see MEDICAL 1987.

HILL Robert Scott continues to produce imaginative paintings.

ENGINEERING Edward M. Bloom was recognized by the Super Lawyers rating service as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer for his work in real estate law at Sherin and Lodgen LLP.

ENGINEERING After a brief retirement from Teknor Apex following forty-one years in the chemical and plastics business, BERT LEDERER was appointed executive director of Cherrystone Angel Group. Cherrystone invests in early-stage companies in New England.

HILL CAROL BEARNOT BASTIEN, LAURIE KLEIN BLOCH, LIZ COOK, ANITA HARMON MARCUS, DIANE MERKER, LESLIE MULLENS MARGOLIS, JANICE KASSALOW PETERS, PEGGY STEVENS SCHWARTZ, DIANE SMOOK, FRAYDA HIRSCH VIERA, NANCY BERSHAD TAMIS, and JUDITH LUBARSKY WASOW gathered in Washington, DC, recently for a reunion. They visited museums and monuments, dined, and talked. “We are all grateful to Tufts for bringing us together, and even more grateful to each other for sustaining and nurturing these relationships,” Marcus said.

HILL LAURIE KLEIN BLOCH, see HILL 1968.

HILL LIZ COOK, see HILL 1968.

HILL ANITA HARMON MARCUS, see HILL 1968.

HILL LESLIE MULLENS MARGOLIS, see HILL 1968.

HILL DIANE MERKER, see HILL 1968.

HILL Janice KASSALOW PETERS, see HILL 1968.

HILL DAN RUBENSTEIN and his wife, Nancy Bryson, published Railroad of Courage. The book, aimed at children from nine to twelve, tells the story of twelve-year-old runaway Rebecca, who travels from North Carolina to Canada. Harriet Tubman helps Rebecca to trust Friends—that is, freed blacks and other abolitionists who are a vital part of the Underground Railroad.

HILL PEGGY STEVENS SCHWARTZ, see HILL 1968.

HILL DIANE SMOOK, see HILL 1968.

HILL NANCY BERSHAD TAMIS, see HILL 1968.

HILL FRAYDA HIRSCH VIERA, see HILL 1968.

HILL JUDITH LUBARSKY WASOW, see HILL 1968.

HILL WILLIAM EMRICH published his second book, Have Racquet, Will Travel. It describes an interesting yet turbulent period of his young life, including fourteen months of US Army service in South Vietnam and approximately two years in which he worked in Caracas, Venezuela, with his wife and her parents. Emrich’s first book, Wild Maine Adventure, was published in 2016.

HILL RAYMOND DOWNING published his latest book, Global Health Means Listening, through Manqa Books in Nairobi, Kenya. The collected writings in it reflect on his thirty years working in health care in Africa. “Global health can help to ensure its relevance and effectiveness by continuing to monitor not just what happens to people, but especially what those people think about what’s happening to them,” Downing writes.

HILL The Super Lawyers rating service included NANCY SHILEPSKY in the Top 10 for Massachusetts for her work in employment and labor law at Sherin and Lodgen LLP.

HILL KAREN A. GIANNELLI, who has advised public and private companies and institutions throughout the country on financial restructuring, creditors’ rights, and financial services, was named the 2017 Woman of the Year by the New Jersey Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

HILL CLIFTON GRAVES, JR., was elected the first new probate judge of New Haven in thirty-two years.

HILL MARK K. GOOGINS was named Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America guide for his work at Verrill Dana in corporate law.

MEDICAL GEORGIA TUTTLE received the key to the city of Lebanon, New Hampshire, and recognition from New Hampshire Executive Councilor Joseph Kenney and New Hampshire Governor Christopher Sununu, who honored her as the longest-serving mayor in the history of the city. She served nine years on the city council, one year as assistant mayor, and eight consecutive years as mayor. She also became the fifth recipient of the prestigious Josiah Bartlett Award. Among the accomplishments cited during the awards ceremony was her mostly successful nine-year effort to return the funds from a $110 million class action lawsuit to their rightful owners—physicians and other health-care providers or their heirs in forty-five states around the country and seven countries around the world. Tuttle was able to return 98.6 percent of those funds.

HILL The Super Lawyers rating service listed TAMSIN R. KAPLAN as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer for her work at Davis, Malm, & D’ Agostine, P.C.

HILL PAULA PAQUETTE published Poems for Your Brave Heart, a collection of poetry.

HILL IAN BALLON was included in the Daily Journal’s 2017 list of Top Intellectual Property Lawyers in California. Additionally, he was named Lawyer of the Year in Technology Law for Los Angeles in the 2018 Best Lawyers in America guide.

HILL KEITH GROSSMAN joined the California labor and employment law firm Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP as partner. He was previously a longtime corporate counsel at Starwood Resorts.

GRADUATE JESSECA D. FERGUSON had twelve of her images featured in Sténopés Exquis, an international exhibition of pinhole photography organized by Marie-Noelle Leroy. The show was on view November 29–December 24 at L’Atelier in Nantes, France.

HILL STEVEN FREDERICK was named one of the Best Lawyers in America for his work at the Stamford, Connecticut, law firm of Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky (WRKK). The rating service Super Lawyers has listed him as a Connecticut and New England Super Lawyer since 2009, and he has been called one of the area’s top lawyers in Greenwich Magazine, Stamford Magazine, and Connecticut Magazine.

MEDICAL SHAWN RAYDER, A13P, son of MICHAEL RAYDER, M57, and father of KACEY RAYDER HILL, A13, was named chief of radiology at Seacoast Radiology, which covers Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire, and Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire. He will oversee radiology at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital as the system merges with Partners Healthcare in the coming year.

HILL NEIL PERETZ, G90, cofounded a business-relationship management company called Contract Wrangler, which helps companies corral their stampeding wild contracts. The company was selected for the tech accelerator programs FFL Accelerator and LexisNexis LegalTech Accelerator.

ENGINEERING JOHN C. ROBINSON, vice president of industrial gases in the northern region, Americas, for air products, was elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of Team Pennsylvania, a charitable organization established in 1997 to bring government and private sector leaders together for the betterment of the state.

HILL TED SLAFSKY, the president and chief executive officer of 340B Health, recently celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a federal program that lowers the price of many prescription drugs purchased by hospitals, clinics, and health systems serving rural communities and communities with high numbers of low-income patients. At 340B Health, he is fending off attacks on the 340B Drug Pricing Program by the pharmaceutical industry. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife and children. You can follow him on Twitter @tslafsky.

HILL Tufts awarded MARIANA MAZZUCATO the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. The prize recognizes her research on the role of governments in fostering innovation.

HILL JACQUELINE RIDER was named Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America guide for her work at Verrill Dana in litigation of trusts and estates.

ENGINEERING BRIAN ERIKSEN, EG94, created a website called Get Your Pet (www.getyourpet.com). It is an online community that directly connects people who want to adopt a pet with people who need to find their pet a new home, so that pets need not be sent to an animal shelter.

HILL LISA ISSENBERG, a metal artist specializing in custom handcrafted awards for national and international events, is creating the award for a big event in Boston—The American Alpine Club Annual Awards. Sally Jewell, former secretary of the interior, will be receiving the award for her conservation accomplishments. The artist KATHY KISSIK gave a gallery talk on November 11 as a part of Second Saturdays, sponsored by the Boston Art Dealers Association.

ENGINEERING ELEANOR ALLEN, the CEO of Water for People, received the 2017 Water Environment Federation Fellows designation, which recognizes contributions to water quality.

HILL JANET SIEGEL BROWN and her husband, Eric, welcomed their first child, Ethan Joshua, on Thanksgiving Day. The family lives in Chicago, where Brown teaches and directs the judicial clerkship program at Northwestern University School of Law.

HILL GAYLE PITTMAN, author of the Stonewall Award–winning This Day in June, published Feminism From A to Z. It’s an introduction to feminism, women and gender studies, and feminist activism for teens.

HILL AMANDA YESNOWITZ received the 2018 Kleban Prize for lyric writing for the theatre.

GRADUATE SHIELA PEPE showed her work in a group show titled Without God or Governance at the Marinaro Gallery in New York. The show ran for January and February of 2018.

HILL MAT RAPPAPORT presented a mobile video performance called Range at the Chicago Architectural Biennial & Street Level Festival on September 1 and during the Wabash Arts Corridor Crawl on October 20.

HILL ADAM SCHRIER was named president of Creative Co-Op, a leading importer and distributor of gift and home decorative accessories headquartered in Memphis. Schrier and his wife, CAROLYN LEVY SCHRIER, J98, are relocating to Memphis with their thirteen-year-old twins, Morgan and Evan.

HILL LARRY AZER is now the director of finance and operations for the King Philip Regional School District in Norfolk, Massachusetts, having previously held the same position for six years in the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District on Cape Cod. He is also a part-time senior instructor for Bridgewater State University’s political science department and Institute for Policy Analysis & Regional Engagement, teaching a course on public budgeting. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife and two daughters.

HILL ALISON GOLDBERG released her children’s book I Love You for Miles and Miles in December. It’s aimed at children who love vehicles that dig, carry, and lift.

GRADUATE SEAN P. O’BRIEN was named CEO of BSC Companies, an engineering firm in Massachusetts and Connecticut that works with New England clients in transportation, energy, and land development markets.

HILL CAROLYN LEVY SCHRIER, see HILL 1995.

HILL ERIC WARASTA joined the Boston-based employee-owned investment firm Moody, Lynn & Lieberson, LLC, as principal and portfolio manager in September.

A debut novel from SPENCER WISE, The Emperor of Shoes, is forthcoming in early June from HarperCollins. Set in contemporary South China, the novel centers on a young Jewish man from Boston preparing to take over the family footwear business from his father. The father, however, falls in love with a factory worker who’s using him as a pawn to start a revolution in the factory.

HILL ADAM CAPONE exhibited his sculpture on September 23 at exhibits in the New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey areas. One such exhibit was at the Trenton City Museum. He will be showing his work this spring as well.  

HILL LISA WICHTER, a health-care and medical malpractice defense litigator, joined Barton Gilman as a partner on January 1.

HILL DIEDRE BROWN produced crochet work that was featured at the Textile Arts Center in New York as a part of the Textile Trek for New York Textile Month.

HILL KRISTINE STRATTON was appointed to the board of the Environmental Health Strategy Center, a Maine-based public health organization working in the state and nationally for safer food and drinking water, toxic-free products, and good green manufacturing jobs. Stratton is the senior vice president of operations at the nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice.

HILL JOSHUA HERMAN, a New York City resident, was selected for the 2017 New York Metro Rising Stars list.

SACKLER VICKI P. LOSICK was recognized as an Outstanding Investigator by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for her research on wound healing. The designation carries a grant award of about $1.7 million.

GRADUATE SADAF QAZI received the 2017 Society of Women Engineers Distinguished New Engineer Award. The SWE celebrated her award at an awards banquet in Austin.

HILL SHANE LAVALETTE published a monograph called One Sun, One Shadow that was nominated for the 2017 Kassel Photobook Award. The work was also shortlisted for the Author Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles.

FLETCHER MARK MULLINIX will retire in June 2018 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond after three decades of service. Mullinix became the Richmond Fed’s first vice president and chief operating officer in June 2013, and has served since April 2017 as both the organization’s chief executive officer and chief operating officer.

HILL KACEY RAYDER HILL, see MEDICAL 1987

GRADUATE CAITLIN (DOLAN) ROBILLARD joined Pinck & Co.’s development consulting team as project manager. She was previously director of operations for The Possible Project in Cambridge, an afterschool program for student entrepreneurs.