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Biomedical Consulting Agreements:
A Guide for Academics by
H. Robert Horvitz and Edward Klees
’81. A guide for academic scientists
and physicians who are considering
consulting work in the field of
biomedicine (The MIT Press, $30).
Change the World Before Bedtime,
by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh
Chalmers ’86 and Karen Good. With
rhyme, Chalmers teaches children
that, through simple deeds, kind
words and smiles, they can change
the world a little at a time (Schiffer
Publishing, $16.99).
The Pope Stories and Other Tales
of Troubled Times by George Guida
’89. Guida addresses Catholicism,
family conflict and personal strife
in this collection of satirical and
philosophical fiction (Bordighera
Press, $15).
How to Look Hot in a Minivan:
A Real Woman’s Guide to Losing
Weight, Looking Great, and
Dressing Chic In the Age of the
Celebrity Mom by Janice Min ’90.
Min pulls together fashion, nutrition,
fitness and beauty tips from
Hollywood’s top experts for new
or expecting mothers (St. Martin’s
Press, $26.99).
Plaguewalker by Gemma Tarlach
’90. In Tarlach’s dark fiction debut,
Marcus of Ansberg, an executioner
in plague-ravaged 14th-century
Bavaria, embarks on a journey of
atonement and redemption while
searching for his missing daughter
(Grunaskhan Books, $8.99).
Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day
by Rachel Pasqua and Noah Elkin ’91.
Learn how to develop and deploy
mobile marketing strategies for
everything from brand building to
lead generation and sales to establishing
a compelling mobile presence
(Wiley, John & Sons, $29.99).
Glorieta by Quinn Kayser-Cochran
’92. Two young lovers find each
other during the decisive battle in
the New Mexico Campaign of the
Civil War (Westland Books, $19.95).
Your Next Big Thing: 10 Small
Steps to Get Moving and Get Happy
by Ben Michaelis ’95. Practical
strategies, quizzes and exercises to
help those who are feeling “stuck”
to realize their purpose, achieve
their goals and learn about their
true selves (Adams Media, $24.95).
A Secret History of Coffee, Coca
& Cola written and illustrated by
Ricardo Cortés ’95. In this work of
artistic journalism, Cortés explores
the history of the coca leaf and its
controversial relationship with the
Coca-Cola Co. (Akashic Books,
$17.95).
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox
Hall of Fame edited by Franklin
Foer ’96 and Marc Tracy. This collection
of biographical, sociological
and reflective pieces by numerous
authors, including Foer, explores
the influences of significant Jewish
athletes, coaches, broadcasters,
trainers and team owners (Twelve,
$26.99).
Becoming Frum: How Newcomers
Learn the Language and Culture of
Orthodox Judaism by Sarah Bunin
Benor ’97. The author explains how
non-Orthodox Jews learn Orthodox
language and culture through interactions
with community veterans
and other newcomers (Rutgers
University Press, $27.95).
The Politics of Energy and Memory
between the Baltic States and
Russia by Agnia Grigas ’02. Grigas
dissects the relationship between
Russia and the Baltic States in
terms of energy security concerns,
foreign policy and historical legacy
(Ashgate, $99.95).
Tokyo Utopia by Yuma Terada ’05.
Observing Japanese society from
within and abroad, Terada addresses
foreign perceptions of
Japan and Japanese culture and
also how Japan should respond to
these misperceptions (Bungheisha,
JPY 1,200).
Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills
and the Making of Political Intellectuals
by Stanley Aronowitz. The
author describes the role of the
late Mills, a professor of sociology
at Columbia from 1946–62,
in transforming the politics of the
American Left in the 1940s and
’50s and his influence on student
protests and antiwar movements
of the ’60s (Columbia University
Press, $32.50).
Globalization and Sovereignty:
Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy,
and Constitutionalism by Jean L.
Cohen, the Nell and Herbert Singer
Professor of Contemporary Civilization
and Political Theory. Cohen
analyzes the new sovereignty regime
emergent since 1990 and argues
for the continued importance
of sovereign equality (Cambridge
University Press, $36.99).
Theos Bernard, the White Lama:
Tibet, Yoga, and American
Religious Life by Paul G. Hackett,
lecturer in the discipline of classical
Tibetan in the Department
of Religion. Through interviews,
diary entries and personal documents,
Hackett examines the
religious, political and cultural
impact of Bernard, only the third
American to enter the holy capital
city of Lhasa, Tibet (Columbia
University Press, $32.95).
The Generation of Postmemory:
Writing and Visual Culture
After the Holocaust by Marianne
Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature. Hirsch posits that
the memory of others’ traumatic
events can shape the behavior of
their family members and the culture
at large (Columbia University
Press, $27.50).
Lead Wars by Gerald Markowitz,
adjunct professor of sociomedical
sciences at the Mailman School of
Public Health, and David Rosner,
the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor
of Sociomedical Sciences and
professor of history. An incisive
examination of lead poisoning
during the past half century and a
call to action for more responsible
public health and prevention in the
face of powerful polluters (University
of California Press, $34.95).
Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s
Secret Battle To Save the
World by Evan Thomas. Working
with newly declassified papers,
Thomas reveals how President
Eisenhower, also the 13th president
of Columbia, made a highrisk
but ultimately successful
bluff with nuclear weapons during
the Cold War (Little, Brown
and Co., $29.99).
Karl Daum ’15
Obituaries
1930
Malcolm S. Mason, attorney, Earlysville,
Va., on November 1, 2011.
Mason was born in the Bronx in
June 1910. He was a 1934 graduate
of the Law School and had lived
in the Earlysville area since 2003.
Mason was an expert in federal
grants law and was legal counsel in
several federal agencies, including
the National Labor Relations Board,
the Office of Economic Opportunity
and the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare. Up to the
time of his death, he was serving as
a senior fellow to the Administrative
Conference of the United States.
Mason was predeceased by his
wife, Irma; brother; and sister. He is
survived by his daughter, Jan, and
her husband, Ed Freundschuh; son,
Mike; and two granddaughters.
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Paul E. Queneau, Hanover, N.H.,
on March 31, 2012. Queneau was
born on March 20, 1911, in Philadelphia.
He earned a B.A. as well
as a B.S. (1932) and Ph.D. (1933),
the latter two at Engineering, and
began work at International Nickel
Co.’s (INCO) Huntington, W.Va., alloy
plant. Queneau graduated from
the Army Engineer School and was
deployed to Europe with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. He was
awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the
Army Commendation Medal and
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Paul E. Queneau ’31
earned five battle stars on his ETO
ribbon. In 1945 he returned to the
Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. In
1949, Queneau explored, mapped
and photographed the Perry River
region of the Arctic. He retired
from INCO after 35 years and in
1971 joined the Thayer School of
Engineering at Dartmouth, teaching
there for 25 years. Queneau and
his wife, Joan (née Hodges), spent
their free time on their farm near
Cornish, N.H. She predeceased
him. Queneau is survived by his
children, Paul and his wife, Jean,
and Josie; six grandchildren; seven
great-grandchildren; and brother,
Bernard ’30, ’33E, and his wife,
Esther. Memorial contributions may
be made to the Queneau Scholarship
Fund, Town of Cornish, 488
Town House Rd., Cornish, NH
03745, or the Fry Fund, Kendal at
Hanover, 80 Lyme Rd., Hanover,
NH 03755.
1932
Leonard S. Bases, otolaryngologist
and surgeon, Sarasota, Fla., on January
25, 2012. At the College, Bases
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At
the depth of the Great Depression
he and his brother, Joe, won his first
year’s P&S tuition by betting on a
long shot at the races. He earned
the rest of his tuition by working
as a shoe salesman and selling his
blood. Bases graduated from P&S in
1936 and was elected to the Alpha
Omega Alpha Medical Honor
Society. He was an intern, resident
and house surgeon at Mount Sinai
Hospital, a diplomate of the American
Board of Otolaryngology and
a fellow of the American College of
Surgeons. During WWII, he served
in the Army Medical Corps. After
the war Bases was a Special Fellow
in head and neck surgery at the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York City. He served
chiefly during the next 30 years as
an attending otolaryngologist at the
Northern Westchester Hospital in
Mount Kisco, N.Y. He also devoted
10 years to teaching and practicing
medicine in Afghanistan and Java
as a volunteer with CARE/Medico.
Survivors include his wife of 71
years, Ann; sons, John and Terry;
daughter-in-law, Deborah; two
grandsons; and two nephews.
1939
Thomas P. Armstrong, retired
business administrator, Russell,
Mass., on April 15, 2012. Armstrong
and his two brothers were raised
on the Columbia Stock farm, a
thoroughbred horse operation on
Long Island, N.Y. After the College,
he studied Japanese at Penn
while serving in the Army during
WWII. Armstrong’s career included
sales, business ownership and
finally business administration with
Gowanda State Hospital in New
York. He retired in 1983. Armstrong
loved the outdoors and remained
active for years after retiring. He
was preceded in death by his first
wife, Grace Elizabeth (Bette) Cornell;
second wife, Carma Goodrich;
son, Robert; and son-in-law, Robert
Apolant. He is survived by his wife,
Jean Walther; sons, Thomas, and
Steven James Walther; daughters,
Pamela Armstrong Apolant, Carma
Lynne Goodrich Uhrich, Royanna
Goodrich Law, Cynthia Goodrich
Cowan, Emily Walther Golinski and
Karen Walther McCann; 17 grandchildren;
and 23 great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Hilltown Community
Ambulance Association, Box 353,
Huntington, MA 01050; American
Red Cross, Westfield Chapter, 48
Broad St., Westfield, MA 01085;
or The United Church of Christ,
Second Congregational Church, 487
Western Ave., Westfield, MA 01085.
Edward C. Biele, retired attorney,
apple farmer, Seattle, on November
3, 2012. Biele was born on June
29, 1917, in Hackensack, N.J., and
grew up in Yonkers. He earned a
scholarship to Columbia and upon
graduation entered the Law School.
He applied for and was accepted
into a naval officers program during
his second year of law school,
which led to four years’ service
in the Navy during WWII. Biele
served as lieutenant commander
on the submarine U.S.S. Sea Devil
during four patrols in the Pacific
during 1944 and 1945. After the
war, he returned to the Law School,
graduating in 1946. In 1950, Biele
moved to Seattle, where he practiced
admiralty law until his retirement
in 1982. He had a second career as
an apple farmer, which began in the
mid 1970s when he partnered with
his oldest son to acquire and operate
orchards in Eastern Washington.
Biele was predeceased by his wife of
61 years, Mary. He is survived by his
sons, John ’69 and Alec ’71; daughter,
Polly Lenssen; five grandchildren;
and five great-grandchildren.
1940
Gilbert H. Glaser, retired medical
school professor, North Haven,
Conn., on January 21, 2012. Glaser,
a 1943 graduate of P&S, trained
in neurology at The Neurological
Institute of New York at NewYork
Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia
University Medical Center and then
served at Brooke AMC from 1946–
48. He was recruited to Yale as head
of the neurology section, beginning
a 45-year career at Yale. Glaser
became full professor in 1963 and
was named chairman when neurology
became a department in 1971,
a position he held until his 1987
retirement. Glaser was internationally
known for his clinical expertise
and research in epilepsy and also
was a leader of a new generation of
physician-scientists committed to
disease-oriented laboratory research
as the basis for understanding basic
disease mechanisms as a prerequisite
to developing novel therapies.
Glaser was president of the American
Epilepsy Society in 1963 and
president of the American Academy
of Neurology from 1973–75. He was
editor of the journal Epilepsia and on
the editorial boards of many other
journals. Yale honored him in 2006
by establishing the annual Gilbert
H. Glaser Lectureship and in 2010
by creating the Gilbert H. Glaser
Professorship.
1941
Richard H. Kuh, retired attorney,
New York City, on November 17,
2011. Kuh was briefly the Manhattan
D.A. in 1974, serving between
the resignation of Frank S. Hogan
’24, ’28L and the election of Robert
M. Morgenthau. Kuh was born in
Manhattan on April 27, 1921. He
served as a combat infantryman
in Europe in WWII and graduated
magna cum laude from Harvard
Law in 1948. Kuh went into private
practice in New York in 1948 then
was an ADA from 1953–64, serving
as chief of the Criminal Court
Bureau and as Hogan’s administrative
assistant. Kuh’s role in the 1964
obscenity trial of stand-up come-
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