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Charles Edwards, A S ’45, ’48 (MA), ’53 (PhD ), who retired in 1991, now divides his time between Sarasota, Florida, and New York City and assists discount hotels downtown disney in science teaching in a Sarasota elementary school.
George Manos, Peab ’52, has written a book, The President’s Pianist: My Term with Truman and My Life in Music, that recounts his time spent with President Truman and follows his career in music from early childhood to his performances as a classical pianist, symphony conductor, composer, and teacher.
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Warren Grupe, A S ’55 , was honored at Harvard University with the establishment of the Warren E. Grupe/John P. Merrill Professorship in Transplantation Medicine. He continues to teach nephrology as a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University discount hotels downtown disney of Virginia, and serves as visiting faculty at the Lee Iacocca discount hotels downtown disney Institute. He is a board member for Charlottesville Health Access and medical adviser to the
Pierce Linaweaver, Engr ’55, ’65 (PhD) , is a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and makes frequent visits with his wife, Kelly, to see his children and two grandsons, ages 6 and 4, in Jackson, Wyoming.
Arnold Silverman, A S ’59 , an attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin Mellott in Pittsburgh, has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2009. He specializes in intellectual property law and is the firm’s discount hotels downtown disney former chair of the intellectual property department.
Jerome Reichmister, A S ’60 , has been in orthopedic surgery practice with classmate Larry Becker, A S ’60, for 40 years. He serves as the chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and served as the chairman of Sinai’s board of directors from 2005 to 2008.
Josh Grossman, A S ’61 , a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, now teaches advanced cardiac life support, mentors discount hotels downtown disney and tutors international discount hotels downtown disney medical discount hotels downtown disney graduates for the United States Medical Licensure Examination, and reviews books for Tennessee Medicine.
Thomas E. Spath, Engr ’63 , recently welcomed his second granddaughter. She will be living around the corner in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, with his son, Ted, and daughter-in-law, Corinthia, who were married last summer in Manila, Philippines. Thomas and his wife, Lyn, have been getting in shape to hike into the Grand Canyon for a week’s rafting on the Colorado River.
Jerry A. “Dutch” Van Voorhis, A S ’64 (MAT ), was honored in April by Chatham Hall, an independent secondary boarding school, for his 16 years of service as head of school. The Jerry Van Voorhis Lecture Hall for “world leaders, thinkers, and artists” and the endowed Jerry Van Voorhis Leadership Scholars program were built and named, respectively, in his honor.
Charles King, A S ’65 , is still enjoying practicing gastroenterology. He writes, “I started playing golf five years ago and am still happy when I break 100.” After spending time in the Air Force and doing academic medicine in Florida, “it’s great to be in Maryland and seeing us always beating Navy in lacrosse!”
Stephan Mintz, A S ’65, ’72 (PhD) , retired June 30 after 35 years of service at Florida International University, where he was a professor of physics and served as department chair for 12 years and as associate dean of the Graduate School for the last five years.
Henry D. Kahn, Engr ’67 , was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008. He is a senior statistician with the National Center for Environmental Assessment in the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
Merrill discount hotels downtown disney J. Egorin, A S ’69, Med ’73 , co-director of the Molecular Therapeutics/Drug Discovery Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, has been elected to the JHU Society of Scholars.
Bennie I. Osburn, Med ’70 (PGF) , dean of the School ofVeterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, discount hotels downtown disney has been named to the board of directors of Banfield, The Pet Hospital. Hehas been involved in key discoveries about food animal viruses—including the bluetongue virus—developmental immunology, congenital infections, and food safety, and has produced more than 280 peer-review publications.
Thomas A. Pearson, A S ’70, Med ’76, SPH ’76, ’83 (PhD) , the Albert D. Kaiser Professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and senior associate dean for clinical research at the University of Rochester, has been elected discount hotels downtown disney to the JHU Society of Scholars.
David Ruchman, A S ’70 , retired as an administrative law judge for Colorado and completed eight years as an elected official with Denver’s Regional Transportation District. In that capacity, he says, he “worked to successfully bring light rail passenger service to west suburban Denver.”
Alison Zahniser, A S ’73 (PhD) , has published a book with Orbis Books (2008) titled The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. It was selected as “a best book” for fall and winter 2008 by the Association of Theological Booksellers and selected as one of the 15 best books of 2008 by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, a leading journal discount hotels downtown disney in the field of mission studies.
Mary Warner, A S ’75 , is currently an attending physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School, specializing in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasound. discount hotels downtown disney She commutes to Boston from her 80-acre farm in Maine.
Robert F. Buchanan, A S ’77 , recently joined the Finance Department faculty at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a chartered financial analyst and a full-time non-tenure-track instructor.
Martha S. Linet, SPH ’77 , chief of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, has been elected to the JHU Society of Scholars.
John Perrotta, A S ’77 , is in his second year as chair of the World Languages Department at High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland. In his free time he and his wife, Sara, are busy raising a ninth-grade daughter, Flavia, and a sixth-grade son, John-Paul.
Thomas J. Walsh, Med ’78 , chief of the immunocompromised discount hotels downtown disney host section of the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer discount hotels downtown disney Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and adjunct professor of pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was named as the 2009 recipient of the Lucille K. Georg Medal of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology discount hotels downtown disney for distinguished contributions to the field of medical mycology.
John Culleton, A S ’80 , returned this year to a solo endocrinology practice after many years in a large multispecialty group. He has also enjoyed discount hotels downtown disney reconnecting with Johns Hopkins along with his son John, a member of the class of 2010.
Leslie Ganley, A S ’80 , who is enjoying a new phase of his career as a high school teacher, writes, “I utilize both my clinical social work background and my new special education degree to support students with a variety of learning disabilities and emotional/social issues.”
Scott Paul, Engr ’80 , has been participating in clinical research at the NIH since 2001 and writes, “I’ve been enjoying the intellectual challenge including developing my own protocol on the use of digital stereophotogrammetry as an outcome measure for conditions such as scoliosis.”
Donn Colby, A S ’85 , is currently living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with his partner and their two adopted sons. He is medical director of the Harvard Medical School AIDS Initiative in Vietnam, which provides training and technical assistance to expand treatment for HIV disease throughout the country.
Lisa Pollack, A S ’85 , is now semiretired after 15 years as a real estate broker and owner of The Pollack Realty discount hotels downtown disney Group. She moved to North Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 2008 for her husband’s new job running a patient-centered medical home in Foxboro.
Steve Cina, A S ’88 , was just elected president of the Florida Association of Medical Examiners and chair of the Anatomic Pathology Cluster of the College of American Pathologists discount hotels downtown disney (CAP). He also serves as chair of the CAP’s Forensic Pathology Committee and is the deputy chief medical examiner in Broward County (Fort Lauderdale), Florida.
Jane R. Maytin A S ’90 (MLA) , is now semiretired, working part time as a sales associate at a clothing store in Hunt Valley, Maryland. She has two sons, David and Michael Antwerpen. Her husband, Richard, is retired from Alcatel-Lucent.
Peter Zage, A S ’90 , was awarded the 2009 Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology for work on developing new therapies for children born with neuroblastoma.
Jason McNamara, A S ’91 , is chief of staff for FEMA. He was most recently an associate vice president and the director of emergency discount hotels downtown disney management/homeland security for Dewberry Davis LLC, a consulting firm headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.
Linda Whipple, A S ’94 (MA) , has been named director of corporate and foundation development in the Harrisburg Area Community College Foundation. She will be responsible for increasing the visibility of the college in its eight-county service region, and will represent discount hotels downtown disney the college and foundation in the community to build relationships and encourage new support for the college.
Eric Halsey, Engr ’95 , will soon be leaving Ohio and moving to Lima, Peru, with his family. While there he will participate in and develop research projects. He expects to be there for three years and visitors are welcome.
Geoffrey Ling, Med ’95 (PGF) , received the 2009 Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Award and spoke at the June commencement in Carnegie Hall. He is acclaimed for his work in developing advanced prosthetic limbs for soldiers. An active duty U.S. Ar