Personal and Professional News

Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies

'62 Patricia Cote (Vicinus), retired from teaching at Natick High School and Framingham State College (part time), continues to work with Educational Testing Services in AP European history. Patricia is also continuing to travel and has visited all seven continents, the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, as well as the islands of the Pacific.

'65 Lana Ruegamer Eisenberg (Tam) edited and wrote the final chapter for Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century, by Emma Lou Thornbrough, published in 2001 by Indiana University Press. She has been associate editor of the Indiana Magazine of History since 1968.

'71 In Florida, Carol Avard has a law practice that serves clients primarily in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, and Sarasota counties, dealing chiefly in personal injury, disability, and employment law. Her husband Robert A. Hicks (AB '71) is the company's business manager. They also do volunteer work with the local orchestra, the Southwest Florida Symphony, in Fort Myers.

'72 Sylvia Shuman is now retired from social work but is keeping busy volunteering as a reading tutor at the Needham Senior Center and helping to prepare a comprehensive directory for all seniors in the town. She is also involved in a two-year adult Jewish learning program run by Hebrew College as well as lending a hand to her husband in his photography/video business.

'76 Richard C. Lacy is now in full-time private practice in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry/psychoanalysis. After earning his bachelor's degree at the Harvard Extension School, Dr. Lacy went on to earn a master's at the University of Chicago in 1978, a PhD in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1982, and an MD at St. George's University in 1989. He did his residency at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York in 1995 and graduated from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 2000.

'85 Sheira Freedman earned her medical degree at UMASS Medical School in 1989 and is now an associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco and works at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, California.

'96 Joan Bartlett runs a small business in which she helps people write their family histories. She also volunteers her time in efforts to preserve open space in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

'97 Richard W. Pearl recently joined State Street Corporation in Boston as an assistant vice president and communications officer for the community affairs division.

'98 Jess Clougherty completed her second year of graduate school at Lesley University, pursuing a master's degree in counseling psychology. She continues to work part time as an advocate in a battered women's shelter, in addition to an internship at an outpatient mental health clinic. In her spare time, she's learning photography and playing the guitar "badly." . . . Sally Cragin is enjoying doing theater reviews and writing arts features for the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix.

'00 Hampton Howell Long spent his first year after earning the ALB living in Berlin, Germany, where he perfected his German and worked for a film production company. He now lives in New York City, working as a paralegal/legal assistant for the law firm of Schlan, Stone & Dolan, LLP, handling the Austrian Bank Holocaust Litigation Settlement. . . . Mariana San Martin was admitted to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences PhD program in Spanish language and literature.

'01 This fall Laura Burns and Diane McGlynn began law school at Suffolk University. . . . Ann Obison is studying at the UCLA film school this fall.

'02 Lisa Barca began a PhD program at the University of Chicago in Italian literature. . . . Jessica Foley started a PhD program in clinical psychology at Nova Southeastern University. . . . Susan Gill has been accepted to Boston College's School of Education to study to become a high school teacher. . . . Patricia Lesense has been accepted to the master's in education program at Tufts University. . . . Robert Matthews will begin a master in arts education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. . . . Mark Pironti began studies at the UCLA film school this fall. . . . Jason Sexton has been accepted at Oxford University's Urban Planning for Historical Preservation Program. . . . Brian Turnbow was accepted to three divinity schools, the University of Toronto, Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. He plans to attend the University of Toronto. . . . Pamela Whitehead is studying for her master's in art history at UMASS-Amherst. . . . This fall Ryan Richard Wojewodzki began the master's program in classics at UPENN.

Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies

'92 Robert Pagliarulo attended his 50th reunion of Boston Latin School, class of 1951. Many of his classmates were present for their first reunion since 1951 and, of that class, 102 attended Harvard University.

'98 Heidi Jo Blair-Esteves recently accepted a professorship in the Department of Social Sciences at Western Iowa Technical College. She started teaching constitutional law and graduate studies in June.

Certificate in Applied Sciences

'85 Nancy Small Doorey is now living in Wilmington, Delaware, with her husband, Drew, and their three daughters. She is working as an educational policy analyst and completing a doctorate at Columbia University.

Certificate in Public Health

'92 Miguel A. Gonzalez is now the manager of IT administration for International Bonded Couriers, Inc.

'94 Dr. Ross Andrew Shiels is now the attending radiation oncologist at Allan Blair Cancer Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Certificate in Publishing and Communications

'98 Having worked in the publishing and editing fields since graduating from the Extension School, Gretchen Willenberg is currently working for Harlequin/Silhouette Publishing in New York as production coordinator.

'99 Sybil Carey continues in her position as assistant editor in the periodicals department for the Unitarian Universalist Association where she copyedits and proofreads their bi-monthly magazine, UU World.

'01 Carla Tardi moved to New York last September and is currently working at TIAA-CREF as a senior communications consultant.

'02 After completing her internship at the Atlantic Monthly, Larissa Glasser was hired part time by the magazine in November as production coordinator. Glasser also works at the Harvard College Library as a curatorial assistant in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room.

Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management

'88 John Wissman is currently working for a consortium of the Free University of Brussells, Brussels Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Brussels as directeur des études at the MBA Center, Brussels. They prepare university students for the GMAT and TOEFL exams and guide their planning for prestigious graduate studies outside of Belgium.

'94 Christopher Sperou is managing his family's Thai restaurant, Chez Siam, in Marlboro, Massachusetts. He is also the managing trustee for Hosmer Plaza Realty Trust, which oversees the property management of a retail/office mall in Marlboro.

'95 Kate Amelia Barnes received her juris doctorate degree from Vermont Law School in May 2001.

'97 Wayne A. Bishop, Jr., married Dr. Cherie A. Cahillane on November 10, 2001 in Northampton, Massachusetts. . . . Daniela Carvalho is currently working for General Electric in the medical systems business as the Latin America service operations manager, where she manages medical equipment installations, a call center for maintenance parts, logistics, and other service support activities for all of Latin America.

'98 Harry F. Chaveriat III is currently in his third year at the New England School of Law.

'01 While pursuing his CSS, Vishal Aggarwal enrolled in a course titled Managing a High Technology Firm. During the class he initiated and co-authored a case study with his instructor, Professor Raymond M. Kinnunen, and with Professor John H. Friar of Northeastern University. The case study, De-Copier Technologies, Inc., has since received significant recognition by being reviewed and published by NACRA (North American Case Research Association, Inc.) in 2001. This case was also been awarded the McMaster Award in Innovation and New Technology. . . . Susan Seefelt Lesieutre most recently worked as the assistant director for communications and external relations at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs at Cornell University where she updated the Institute's program brochure and assisted in the creation of its website.