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Because of limited space, class notes are
edited to include as many as possible.
For the complete listing, please visit the
Boston University School of Law Web site
at www.bu.edu/law/alumni.
JD Program
1951: Edward J. Bander was the recipient of a
lifetime achievement award from the New England
Law Librarians in 2007.
1955: Barbara Evans has a trusts and estates
practice in McLean, VA, and recently celebrated
her 50 th anniversary with Larry Evans (’54). John N.
Samaha retired in 1990.
1956: Charles E. Bennett has been retired for over 11
years and lives in Florida.
1957: Raymond L. King retired but remains active in
public service. He looks forward to his 50th Reunion.
1959: Lewis L. Whitman took early retirement and
is in Osterville, MA, most of the year and Naples,
FL for the winter. He is also teaching one course at
BU Law.
1961: Armand Arabian retired from the California
Supreme Court in 1996 and became an active
participant in alternative dispute resolution, as well
as the practice of law. Ray Brearey continues to serve
as president of Cambridge Appleton Trust, N.A. Sam
Faulise retired in 2004 from his private criminal
practice.
1964: Burt Peltz is working part-time and spending
as much time as he can at his house on the Cape.
1966: Martin Kantrovitz maintains an active practice
and has five children, one of whom is in law school.
Sherwood R. Spelke is still practicing law in his
hometown of Stamford, CT.
1967: Lee Berk retired in 2004 as president of
Boston’s Berklee College of Music and moved to
Santa Fe, NM, with his wife, Susan. Joel S. Cohen
closed his practice after 30 years and now spends
summers in Germany and winters in Seattle. Harley
Smith retired in 2006 from Emerson Electric in St.
Louis, MO, after 22 years. Jeffrey R. Whieldon retired
from federal government service and joined Fish &
Richardson’s office in Washington, DC.
1969: Michael Wheeler continues to teach and write
in Gloucester, MA.
1971: Gary W. Holmes has practiced law in the
same small town since graduation but expanded his
second career as an estate-planning attorney with
a state-wide practice. James A. Neuberger left the
law in 1980 and is now working on a dissertation
in mathematics education at Rutgers. Erica Levine
Powers is a counsel at Tarshis, Catania, Liberth,
Mahon & Milligram PLLC in New York.
1976: Jeffrey M. Aresty started a bar association on
the internet. Nancy Barton retired in 2002 and spends
most of her time volunteering for local charities and
traveling. Elaine Friedman is married to Barry Bassik,
also a lawyer in general practice in Great Neck,
NY. Mark S. Granger practices in product liability
and toxic tort defense work at Morrison Mahoney
LLP in Boston. Larry Hyman is practicing in the San
Francisco office of a 175-lawyer firm specializing in
IP. Larry Magid is a partner at Allens Arthur Robinson
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in Sydney, Australia. Hugh Mo runs his own firm
in New York City. Carol E. Nesson started her own
practice in Boston and spends free time volunteering
for Rosie’s Place. David W. Slaby lives in Napa Valley
and owns Slaughterhouse Cellars Vineyard.
1977: Cheryl Fay Coon lives in Portland, OR, and
works to conserve and protect oceans, fish and
wildlife. Maurice Alan Libner is a member of the
board of Congregation Beth Israel, Bath, ME, and a
member of the Brunswick, ME, 3.0 U.S.T.A. men’s
and seniors tennis teams. Joanne M. Neale started a
landscape design business, Garden Mentor, serving
the Metrowest area of Boston, MA.
1981: Jay Fialkov is deputy general counsel and an
executive producer at WGBH in Boston. Elizabeth
Palmer Higgins works for the IRS in its large case
(LMSB) group. Robert M. Lippman was elected
president of the Defense Trial Lawyers Association
of Western New York.
1982: Matthew D. Baxter practices immigration law
in Huntingdon Valley, PA. Mark T. Broth is chair of his
firm’s labor and employment law department and
was elected to the College of Labor and Employment
Lawyers. Daniel Donovan founded Donovan & Rainie,
LLC in 2002, with BU Law ‘83 grad Denny Rainie.
Edward M. Kilbane is currently in charge of the
disease surveillance program at the Navy’s research
unit in Cairo, Egypt. Brant Maller recently joined the
international law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP as a partner and the Chair of both its
New York Real Estate Department and its firm-wide
Alternative Investments Team.
1983: Carol L. O’Riordan is based in Washington, DC,
and provides consulting services to governmental
and non-governmental entities.
1986: William Henry Cook teaches 7th & 8th grade
orchestra in South Orange and Maplewood, NJ. Alan
Fanger has a solo practice in Needham, MA. Joe D.
Jacobson is partner at Green, Jacobson & Butsch in
St. Louis. Margaret C. (Peggy) Jenkins works at home,
writing briefs for attorneys in the Northwest and far West
and lives in Moscow, Idaho. Gay Rineberg Schreiber
cofounded McCormack Schreiber Legal Search and
lives in Chicago. Paul H. Spitz bought a franchise called
The Great Frame Up.
1987: Melencio S.Sta.Maria is a full-time professor
at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law.
1988: Thomas Rechen was appointed to the Public
Defender Services Commission of the State of
Connecticut. Howard S. Weinberg is the Vice Mayor
of Surfside, FL.
1989: Bryan Neft was elected partner at the law firm
of Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon LLP in Pittsburgh,
PA.
1991: Richard C. Conley teaches more and more
and recently became a dad. Celina Gerbic is a fulltime
mom in Washington, DC. Debra Grossbaum and
her husband live in Dover with their four children.
Foren L. Korr co-founded Katzman & Korr in south
Florida. Larry Pliskin is director of compliance and
in-house counsel for American Health Holding Inc.
in Ohio. Michele (Miller) Silver resides in Glen Rock,
NJ, with her husband and family. Donna (Ruberman)
Shahrabani is a partner at Buckalew Frizzell &
Crevina in Glen Rock, NJ.
1992: Jill (Beck) Gould and Steven Gould live in
Maryland where Steve is a founding partner at
Brown & Gould LLP, and Jill is a headhunter for
National Partner Search, LLC. Rebeca C. Martinez
moved permanently to San Antonio, TX, after 13
years of private practice. Hilary (Henkind) Plattus
works at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass in New
York City.
1994: Robert Anania rejoined the family business
and lives in the Finger Lakes region of NY. Kelly Bates
celebrated the fifth anniversary of Bates Consulting.
Nicolas Jansen Calamita does research and teaches
at Mansfield College in Oxford. Nicole Lawrence Ezer
practices Immigration Law in the private sector in
Texas. Julie E. Steiner joined the faculty of St. John’s
University School of Law.
1996: Gregory T. Casamento is a partner at Lord,
Bissell & Brook in New York. Paul R. Cohen is a
shareholder in the law firm of Baldi & Jenei PC in
New Hope, PA. William J. Connolly was hired as
State Street’s first in-house litigator. Dana Zartner
Falstrom is an adjunct professor at USF Law School
in San Francisco. Elizabeth A. Frohlich and Joe
Salama live in Marin County, CA. Elizabeth is with
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Joe is with Birnberg
& Associates. Mario Greco leads The Mario Greco
Group in Chicago. Katherine Ho works at Stanford
University as associate director of the Office of
Sponsored Research. Stephen A. Kaufman is the vice
president of business planning of Lennar Homes,
Inc. Steve Krause has a solo practice in Silicon Valley
and is working on material for his second CD. Nina
M. Sas works at the Criminal Prosecutions Bureau
of the Attorney General’s Office in New York. Ashley
Stanley is a partner at Hartman, Simons, Spielman
& Wood LLP in Atlanta.
1997: Joshua Goldstein has an immigration practice
in Boston, MA.
1998: Alison Fee Crane was elected to partnership
at Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel and Pedersen LLP. Dan
Rhein works for the Port Authority of NY and NJ.
Kenneth E. Rubinstein works with a 30-lawyer New
Hampshire-based firm. Raisha Vaidya started her
own law practice in Saugus, MA. Stephen D. Wilson
was elected a partner at Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau &
Pachios LLP in Portland, ME.
1999: Douglas Marrano was named a 2007 “Rising
Star” by Massachusetts Super Lawyers magazine.
2000: Leonard Herschberg joined Jones Day in
New York. Monica Rodriquez practices in Akin
Gump’s litigation section in San Antonio, TX. Sara K.
Thompson is at Greenberg Traurig in Atlanta, GA.
2001: Pat Costello supervises two in-house clinics
at the University of Idaho College of Law. Vanessa
Moreno Franklin works at Shearman and Sterling LLP.
Sarah E. Hancur is an associate in the trial department
at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC.
Kelly Koyama joined the McGraw-Hill Companies’
Corporate Legal Department as associate general
counsel. Melissa Tonor Lozner and Josh Lozner live in
Mendham, NJ. Alexander Lycoyannis is an associate
with Rosenberg & Estis PC in New York. Timothy
McIntyre is general counsel for Terracotta, a Java
software company headquartered in San Francisco.
Ernesto Pacheco is a deputy public defender in Palms
Springs, CA. Michael Primo has joined the New York
office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham
LLP. Jennifer Yen and Peyton Worley were married
in Boston. Jennifer practices business litigation at
Greenberg Traurig LLP and Peyton has a corporate
practice at Sullivan and Worcester.
2002: Jonathan Israel Bakalarz practices commercial
litigation in Miami, FL. Monica Cuan recently moved
to Zurich, Switzerland, where she accepted an inhouse
position at ALSTOM. Todd Alan McGee was
elected to the city council for the city of Holyoke,
MA.
2003: Gregory N. Blase relocated to Boston and is
an associate at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson
Graham. Katherine C. Gehringer is an associate with
Thompson Coburn LLP in Washington, DC.
2004: Orlando Cordero is a staff attorney at New Haven
Legal Assistance Association, Inc. AJ Picchione is
working in the tax department at the Boston office
of WilmerHale. Jason Pollak has joined the Chicago
Office of Deloitte Tax LLP. Margaret L. Weir began
her own practice. Kang Tai (Kevin) Weng is a Global
Equities Compliance associate at Goldman, Sachs &
Co. Marc S. Wilson joined Stinson Morrison Hecker
as an associate in the Financial Services Division in
Kansas City.
2005: F. Jackson Stoddard is working as legal counsel
to the California Public Utilites Commission.