ALUMNI QUARTERLY
SPRING 1997
THE '30S

Stuart M. Chapman, BEng'36, was awarded the John S. Bates Memorial Gold Medal by the Canada Pulp and Paper Association. He developed the Chapman Smoothness Tester and the PPRIC dirt counter. In 1976, he retired as Assistant to the Director, Technical Services, Paprican, after 39 years of service.

E. Bower Carty, BCom'39, was granted an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Carleton University in recognition of a distinguished contribution to Canada as a longstanding Public Servant and philanthropist.


THE '40S

Harold S. Robinson, MD'42, was named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology in Orlando, October 1996.

Dr. Victor Goldbloom, BSc'44, MD'45, DipEd'50, DLitt'92, Canada's Official Languages Commissioner, received a fifth honorary doctorate in May 1996 from the Université Sainte-Anne at Church Point (Pointe de l'Église), Nova Scotia. He also received the 1996 James H. Graham Award of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and was back on the McGill campus as an honorary co-chairperson of McGill's 175th Anniversary Celebration.

William Feindel, MD'45, DSc'84, Professor of Neurosurgery at McGill, recently completed a five-year term as Chancellor of Acadia University, Nova Scotia. In November he was named Honorary Osler Librarian by the Board of Curators of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. He continues as Honorary President of the Medical Students' Osler Society of McGill.

Sheila Finestone, BSc'47, was the recipient of a "Women of Distinction" award at the 35th national convention of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO in Toronto, November 1996.

D. Ian Glen, BCom'47, was appointed Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (operations), Privy Council Office, in December 1994. He sat on the panel of judges for the 1996 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Awards.

Leonard R.N. Ashley, BA'49, MA'50, Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, retired in 1995 and thus has had time to publish more books. Some of his recent publications are The Complete Book of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck (1995), The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft (1995), The Complete Book of Devils and Demons (1996), and The Complete Book of the Devil's Disciples (1996). Scheduled for Spring 1997 publication is what he calls the "cookbook of the series," The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes.

Robert L. Baird, BEng'49, received an MA in history from Concordia University. He is co-author, with Giselle Hall, of The History of the City of Beaconsfield.

Mortimer Mishkin, MA'49, PhD'51, Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Associate Director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Mental Health, was presented with the Karl Spencer Lashley Award, given by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, in recognition of his "pioneering analysis of memory and the perceptual systems of the brain" and for his "seminal contributions to the understanding of the higher nervous system function." Mishkin shared the award with Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Professor of Neuroscience at Yale.


THE '50S

Maybe a retired engineer can help you! Greg Baylis, BEng'50, and Joe Broz, BEng'54 (seated from left), run the Engineering Summer Employment Program with other retired engineers: standing from left, Stan Pappius, Flip Lunen, Bill Ornstein, BEng'48, MSc'49, Steve Baburek, BEng'41, Chester Sawczyszyn, Charles Plamondon, BEng'43, Charles Damecour, BEng'43, MEng'70, Gerry Nobleman, BEng'49, Charles Craib, BSc'48, and Sam Tilden, BEng'54. Their goal: to connect students from McGill's engineering departments (there are 1,919 undergraduates) with employers. Call (514) 398-7434 or fax (514) 398-3031.


Edgar Bronfman, BA'51, was awarded the Rebecca Sieff Award at the 35th national convention of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO in Toronto, November 1996.

Thomas Millar, MD'51, published The Myth of Attention Deficit Disorder (Palmer Press, Vancouver) cautioning about the use of Ritalin.

Alfred Powis, BCom'51, is a Director of Noranda Inc., Brascan Limited, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Denison Mines Limited, Eden Roc Mineral Corporation, Power Resources Inc., Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited, Noranda Forest Inc., Norcen Energy Resources Ltd., Sears Canada Inc., Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, and a number of subsidiaries within the Noranda Group of Companies.

Marilyn (Lapedis) Berger, BA'52, MLS'83, has been named Acting Head of the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art at McGill. She compiled an extensive bibliography of Moshe Safdie's buildings and projects for the McGill-Queen's publication, Moshe Safdie: Buildings and Projects 1967-1992.

Myer Horowitz, DipEd'52, LLD'79, is a member of the Celanese Canada Internationalist Council. He is Professor Emeritus of Education and former President of the University of Alberta. The Celanese Council has created 100 scholarships allowing Canadians to study abroad.

George Siber, MD'52, was appointed to the position of Vice-President/Chief Scientific Officer for Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics at the Pearl River, New York, research facility. He was formerly director of Massachussetts Public Health Biologic Laboratories and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and at Harvard Medical School.

Sheila Kussner, BA'53, LLD'90, received a "Women of Distinction" Award at the 35th national convention of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO in Toronto, November 1996. She is the founder of Hope and Cope, a support program for cancer patients and their families in Montreal.

Douglas B. Floreani, BEng'54, retired from his position as Director, Engineering and Environment, of the City of St. Laurent on Feb. 1, 1997.

Brian Macdonald, BA'54, was appointed Senior Artistic Adviser to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He is a choreographer and director of the dance program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He was previously Director of Musicals at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont.

George D. Zames, BEng'54, Macdonald Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill, was awarded the Rufus Oldenburger Medal of ASME International (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), November 1996 in Atlanta. The award recognizes his pioneering work on the input-output stability theory for non-linear systems, including the small-gain theorem, the circle criteria and positivity conditions for stability, and for inventing the H theory of feedback optimization.

Donald D. Betts, PhD'55, was the first recipient of the Peter Kirkby Medal for outstanding service to physics in Canada, awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists, June 1996. He is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the department of physics at Dalhousie University. He has been editor of the Canadian Journal of Physics since April 1982, and since 1994 he has also been science editor of Royal Society of Canada publications.

Rosemary Brown, BA'55, the first black woman to be elected to provincial office in Canada, was awarded the Order of Canada in Ottawa in November 1996. She served 14 years as a member of the British Columbia legislature.

Blema Steinberg, BA'55, PhD'61, Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill, was promoted to Full Professor. Her recent book, Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision-Making on Vietnam (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996), received the 1996 QSPELL Award for "Best First Book."

William James, PhD'57, left his position as Chief Executive of Denison Mines Inc. in order to take on a new challenge at Inmet Mining Corp. where he will be President and Chief Executive.

Morris Shor, BCom'57, is a financial adviser in Montreal. He recently travelled to India to visit his daughter and ended up staying almost six months instead of the one month he had intended. He enjoyed the more relaxed pace of the Indian lifestyle.

Stanley H. Hartt, BA'58, MA'61, BCL'63, was appointed as Chairman of Salomon Brothers Canada Inc. He was previously Deputy Minister of Finance and Chief of Staff to then-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Ben Zion Dalfen, BA'59, of the McGill School of Social Work, is running a two-year, $140,000 research project that will test his theories of retraining and conditioning people who have difficulty finding or keeping jobs, specifically, intellectually handicapped adults.

André J. Galipeault, BCL'59, was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Canadian Centre for Management Development by Prime Minister Jean Chretien in September. Mr. Galipeault is President of the Institute of Corporate Directors. He was previously President of Fasken Martineau Davis. Prior to that he spent 26 years with Texaco Canada; his roles there culminated in the position of Vice-President and General Counsel.


THE '60S

H. Dean Journeaux, BEng'60, has been appointed President of Met-Chem Canada Inc., based in Montreal. Met-Chem is an international engineering firm specializing in mining, metallurgy and industrial projects.

George Kubanek, BEng'61, PhD'66, Director of Forest Technologies at the Noranda Technology Centre in Pointe Claire, Que., was awarded the Noranda Award for Individual Achievement in Technology. He initiated the research and development effort in forest products.

Henry Mintzberg, BEng'61, was named to the John Cleghorn Chair in Management Studies at a private dinner reception held by McGill's Faculty of Management. In December 1996, he was awarded the Prix de Québec for his research in management theory.

E. D. Monaghan, MSc'61, DipSurg'63, has been elected President of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons.

Hershey Warshawsky, MSc'61, PhD'66, is a professor of anatomy and cell biology in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill. He received an Honorary Fellowship in the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in September.

Guy Gougeon, BEng'62, was appointed President and CEO of TV5 Quebec Canada. He is based in Montreal and will be responsible for the development and management of TV5 Quebec Canada, TV5 Latin America and the Caribbean, and for the new U.S. network, recently announced at the XIth conference of the ministers responsible for TV5.

Herbert Inhaber, BSc'62, a Principal Scientist at Westinghouse Savannah River Co. in South Carolina, had a fifth book, How Rich is too Rich? published by Praeger. The Atlanta Journal described the book as a "sane discussion of a subject that typically degenerates into a hostile rhetoric, whether to the left or right.

James D. Sullivan, MD'62, MSc'67, an orthopaedic surgeon in Montreal, is President of the Montreal Medical Chirurgical Society (Med-Chi) for 1996-1998. The Med-Chi, established in 1841, is the oldest medical society in North America and has been associated with McGill since its outset. He teaches both graduates and undergraduates at McGill.

Richard M. Wise, BCom'62, has been elected Treasurer of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He has also been elected to the Board of Directors of the Cancer Research Society Inc.

Suzanne (Green) Dern, DipNursT&S'63, wrote the Dyslexic Spel-Wel Dictionary (phonetic-to-English translation).

Adam Symansky, BSc'63, was one of the producers of a National Film Board documentary entitled Referendum Take 2 ... Prise 2. The film is a montage of images and conversation clips from the weeks preceding the October 30 referendum vote, and was produced by a team of 23 English and French filmmakers.

Meriel V.M. Bradford, BA'65, is Vice-President, Government and Regulatory Affairs, at Teleglobe Inc. She sat on the panel of judges for the 1996 Foreign Service Officer Awards.

Charles Hill, BA'66, Curator of Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada, is author of The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, published by McClelland and Stewart and the National Gallery of Canada.

Peter Howlett, BCL'66, is President of the Portage Foundation, Canada's largest privately run residential drug rehabilitation program. The foundation treats about 3,000 patients a year at its centres in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.

Eric Walter, BEng'66, was named to the OUAA Football Legends Hall of Fame in November 1996. The induction honours his achievements as a football player, including finishing in the top three in OUAA scoring in 1962, '64, '68 and '69, ranking second in touchdowns in OUAA history, and being named League MVP in 1964.

Dr. William Klein, DDS'67, was elected President of Congregation Or Shalom, London, Ontario's conservative synagogue. In June he was Chairman and Master of Ceremonies for the London Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner, "A Tribute to Survival," honouring the 43 living Holocaust survivors who made London their home after the war.

Arun Mujumdar, MEng'67, PhD'71, lectured in Indonesia under a World Bank project in August 1996. He visited several R&D laboratories in India under the United Nations Development Program. He has been named a Senior Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and awarded the Tokyo Electric Power Company Visiting Chair in Energy Engineering at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan.

Diana Yun-Dee Wei, PhD'67, retired from Norfolk State University where she was a professor of mathematics.

Irene MacMillan Fournier, MSc'68, was married on Aug. 30, 1996, to Thomas Paul Fournier, and the couple live in New Mills, New Brunswick.

Art Hister, BSc'68, MD'70, hosts The Medical Minute with Dr. Art Hister and House Calls, both of which are broadcast on the Western Information Network. He has appeared on CBC's Morningside and was host of CBC's Doctor, Doctor from 1986-1989. His Good Sex video set viewer records on B.C.'s Knowledge Network. Most recently he was host of In the Name of Health, also for the Knowledge Network. He was the first full-time physician with the Pine Free Clinic, the first clinic in Canada to offer services to "disaffected youth."

C. David Hogg, DipEd'68, MEd'77, was appointed in October as Principal of East Hill School, a French immersion elementary school in Rivière des Prairies, Que. The community is looking forward to its new school building, scheduled to open in 1997.

Robert Jackson, BA'68, has recently been hired as a senior software developer for CERES Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., in Denver.

KarenPerego, BA'68, was elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Council of Communication Management at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago. Perego is Manager of Communications Programs at Royal Bank of Canada in Toronto.

John Doi, BSc'69, has moved from Camrose, where he was Superintendent of Schools, to Fort McMurray, Alberta, where he is now Principal of Westwood Community High School.

David Fleiszer, BSc'69, MD'73, MSc'79, is Director of the Montreal General Hospital's Breast Diagnostic Clinic.

Dr. Bluma Litner, BA'69, was the recipient of a 3M Canada Inc. and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1996 3M Teaching Fellowship. She is an associate professor of applied science at Concordia University. She is married to Mark M. Rosenstein; they have two children, Noah and Joshua.

Jonathan Hurstfield Meyer, BCom'69, is President and CEO of Cleyn and Tinker, Canada's largest manufacturer of worsted wool. The company employs 575 people in the town of Huntingdon, Que.

Eleanor Wachtel, BA'69, is a literary journalist and broadcaster. She has published a second collection of her interviews in a book entitled More Writers and Company.


THE '70S

Beverley (Williams) Hicks, BN'70, was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing and Health Studies at Brandon University in Manitoba. She teaches fundamentals of psychiatric nursing and group therapy in an undergraduate psychiatric nursing program, the only degree of its kind in North America.

Barbara Kelly, BA'71, was the 1996 recipient of the Federal Employee of the Year Award, given by the Federal Executive Association of Vermont. She is Chief of Nutrition and Food Services for the Veterans' Affairs Medical Centre in White River Junction, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Rhona Davine Rosenblatt, BA'71, DipEd'72, MEd'96, has been teaching for 24 years and has also raised a family. She retired in 1992 from playing and singing with the Montreal-based group "Talk of the Town." They had been performing in Montreal since 1976.

Stuart Woolley, BA'71, MA'79, is Supervisor of Accounts Receivable and Credit Manager at NTN Interactive Network Inc., an entertainment technology company. He hopes that a move to B.C., with his wife, Lesly Wade-Woolley, MA'90, will have a salutary effect on his avocation as a screen-writer.

Eduardo del Buey, BA'72, is the Counsellor in charge of the cultural, media and academic relations section of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City. He was the recipient of a 1996 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award. The award recognized his work in enhancing cultural and academic relations between Canada and Spain, and between Canada and Mexico.

Robert J. Sharkey, MSc'72, MA'74, PhD'82, was appointed Senior Vice-President and Chief Actuary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. He has held various positions with Sun Life since 1978. In his new position he will be responsible for corporate actuarial, dividend and taxation functions.

Dr. Inge Schamborzki, BScN'73, MScA'79, DEd'87, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the North Shore Health Region in Vancouver, B.C.

Susan Wheeler, BA'73, formerly Director of Public Relations at Trent University in Peterborough, is now Communications Director for the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education in Quebec City. She recently married Raymond Giroux, the editorial writer for Quebec City's Le Soleil.

Tony Vanvari, MEng'74, is President of Madi International, a fast food franchiser of 40 Croissant+Plus restaurants. He has opened a new Pizzalino concept, selling crustless pizza and high-quality pasta. His company was awarded two prizes at the Canadian Franchise Association Convention in Toronto on November 5, 1996.

Elliot Bier, BCL'75, LLB'76, facilitated the initiation of the Make-A-Wish program at the Palliative Care Unit of the Mount Sinai Hospital. The program grants wishes to terminally ill patients.

Donald N. McIlhone, BA'76, is Vice-Principal at Bishop McNally High School in Calgary.

Melissa Singer, BA'76, DipAir&SpaceLaw'81, LLM'83, was appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in June 1994.

C. Martin Webber, BCom'76, has joined J.E. Austin Associates, Inc., as Vice President, International Consultancy. Austin is a specialized consulting firm providing professional services in developing and emerging economies. He has two sons, David, 4 1/2, and Nate, 3.

Nancy J. Carrell, LLB'77, LLM'79, BCL'80, was appointed Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary at Celanese Canada Inc. and Hoechst Canada. She was previously Deputy Secretary with the Canadian National Railway.

Marc Daemen, BSc(Arch)'77, BArch'78, won a gold medal at the 1996 F.I.S.A. world rowing championships in Budapest, Hungary. He and his partner, Guy Knowles, raced in the men's masters double sculls, "B" category (ages 36-42), passing teams from Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy and France to win the 1000m race. The following day they placed third in the "A" category (ages 27-35). They also placed first at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in St Catharines, Ont., August 1996.

Cynthia Taylor, BA'77, is a minister in the Zion United Church, Apple Hill, Ont. She is completing a Master of Sacred Theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill.

Kim Bartlett, BA'78, MA'84, was appointed Associate Director, Admissions and Recruiting, at McGill University.

Patricia Bush, BTh'78, STM'82, is pastor of the Broadalbin United Methodist Church. She received her Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., in October.

Richard C. Duke, BSc'78, MSc'81, an immunologist on faculty at the Department of Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado, is President of the Denver-based company Ceres Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. Ceres is a start-up biotechnology company which develops therapeutic products that stimulate and suppress the human immune system. His article "Cell Suicide in Health and Disease" was the cover story in the December 1996 issue of Scientific American. His wife, Debra Minogue-Duke, BA'80, is Director, Corporate Development, at Ceres. They are the McGill Alumni Association branch leaders in Colorado and have an eleven-year-old son.

Brian R. Mingie, BEd'78, opened his own accounting practice in Ottawa in September.

Bill Nisen, MA'78, is President of the Home Interactive division of McGraw-Hill. This division develops interactive educational software for children between the ages of 10 and 14 to use in their homes. He lives in San Francisco.

Marc Blondeau, BCom'79, is News Director of Télé-Métropole (TVA Montreal).

William (Robert) Forde Thompson, BSc'79, is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Atkinson College, York University, and has a position in the Department of Music. He is currently on sabbatical at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.


THE '80S

Debra (Minogue) Duke, BA'80, is Director, Corporate Development, at CERES Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., in Denver, Colorado.

Neil Maisel, BCom'80, DipPubAcct'81, has returned to Soberman Isenbaum and Colomby as partner in the business valuations/ litigation support group.

Marie Thérèse Blanc, BA'81, BCL'96, LLB'96, MA'96, lives and works as a translator in Montreal where she is also writing the Quebec bar exams. This past summer she translated Guy Bertrand's Enough is Enough: An Attorney's Struggle for Democracy in Quebec. She is an occasional contributor to the quadrilingual literary review Ruptures, and she practises Zen Buddhism at a Montreal zendo.

Carleen Carroll, BA'81, is Director, Corporate Communications, at AT&T Canada Long Distance Services. She has a two-year-old son, Michael.

Linda Hodes, LLB'81, founded the Share the Warmth Foundation in 1989. The foundation is dedicated to alleviating the situation of the poor and homeless people of Montreal.

Beatrice Kowaliczko, MA'81, is a co-winner of the 1996 Association for Canadian Studies Award of Merit. She was praised for her ability to bring together members of the Canadian Studies community despite their divergent languages, regions and cultures.

Michel Lazure, BA'81, was appointed Vice President, Commercial Finance, at General Electric Capital Corporation in Montreal.

Patrick A. Perluzzo, BCom'81, BCL'84, LLB'85, is a partner at the Montreal law firm Martino, Perluzzo. He practises civil, corporate, commercial and real estate law. He is a member of the New York State Bar and has been married to Jasmine DePalma since May 29, 1993. He has a son, Marco Valentino.

Barbara Lewis, BMus'82, has released a new CD, Hara's Quest. She is director of Cutting Edge Productions, a production and distribution company.

Mark Miller, MD'82, has been appointed Chief of the Department of Microbiology and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the SMBD, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

John Craig Ronsley, BSc'82, completed an MD at the University of British Columbia and went on to do a psychology residency at the University of Toronto. In 1996 he was certified Clinical Fellow by the Royal College of Physicians, and now has a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Dean Starkman, BA'82, is a reporter at the Providence Rhode Island Journal Bulletin, assigned to the investigative team whose stories on corruption in the Rhode Island Courts won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1996.

David Arnoff, BCom'83, was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Administrative Officer, Management Board Secretariat, Ontario Government, in August 1996. He also teaches public finance in the Department of Politics at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto.

Juan Carlos Sanchez, BIng'83, a completé, après l'université McGill, une MScA (1988) à l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Puis, en 1989, il s'est joint à la compagnie Alcatel Cables Canada. Il a occupé plusieurs fonctions avant d'être promis directeur des services techniques en 1996. Il s'est marié en 1993 à son amour d'adolescent, Tania Schicharow, et ils ont eu deux merveilleux enfants, Nicolas et Katerina.

Judy Stockton, BEd(PhysEd)'83, moved to Portland five years ago and is now President of Wolf Environmental Group, an executive search firm specializing in the placement of senior environmental scientists and engineers.

Christiane Lahaie, BA'84, est devenue professeure de création littéraire au Département de lettres et communications (Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines) à l'université de Sherbrooke.

Celia Rabinovitch, PhD'84, held an exhibition of her paintings and drawings in October in Lafayette, California. Over the years she has had one-person exhibitions in San Francisco, Toronto, Cleveland, Denver, Madison, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Her work has won awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and from the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts. In 1990 she was Visiting Artist at Syracuse University.

Maria Addona-Deschenes, BN'85, had a son, Patrick, born July 17, 1996. She is on maternity leave from the Montreal General Hospital and plans to return to work in a year.

Astrid Bouchard, BCom'85, is Vice-President, Sales and Marketing Client Systems, at the Toronto-based insurance brokerage firm of Johnson and Higgins. She and her husband, Gary Hudson, have two daughters, Lindsay Melina and Madison Alexia.

Kirk Duguid, BCom'85, is Director, Financial Planning and Analysis, at Merck Frosst Canada Inc.

Bruce Grant, BA'85, received the 1996 Book Prize from the American Ethnological Association, the largest and most prestigious wing of the American Anthropological Association, for his first book, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas.

Victor Lam, MEng'85, has recently relocated to India and has taken up an engineering R&D position with a wireless service provider affiliated with NTT International.

Michel Legros, CertHealth&SocialServices'85, CertPR'87, a occupé le poste de chef du service d'électrophysiologie médicale à l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont depuis 1989. Il a son troisième mandat consécutif a titre de président de l'Association des techniciens et technologistes en électrophysiologie du Québec. Le 13 juin, 1996, il était élu président de l'Association des cadres intermédiaires de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec.

Robert (Bob) Lomax, BSW'85, has an MSW from the University of Toronto. He is a social worker with the Acquired Brain Injury Program at the Parkdale Hospital in London, Ont. He is married to Bryna Warshawsky, MD'86.

Boyd Morgan, MA'85, was appointed Provost of Queen's College in Newfoundland.

Elias Nemer, BEng'85, MEng'89, MBA'93, lives in Montreal and works for Northern Telecom as a project leader in wireless communications.

François Blain, BSc(Agr)'86, MSc(Agr)'89, is a Director of Media Relations with the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in Montreal. For the past five and a half years he has worked with the federal government's Canadian Forest Service.

Éva Csarnay, DipEd'86, has taught piano at the McGill Conservatory of Music since 1986. She gives solo performances and plays in chamber music concerts. She completed a master's degree in music and performance in Romania in 1981.

Pierre L.M. Prévost, BEng'86, spent four years working on the Canary Wharf (London) and Euro Disney (Paris) projects. Since 1993 he has worked with the Hong Kong Airport Authority. He is a member of the construction management team whose responsibility is to complete a $10 billion (U.S.) airport on a man-made island by April 1998. He plans to return to Canada in mid-1997.

Christopher Voutsinas, BArch'86, recently graduated from the executive MBA program at the Wharton School and started a new job as Vice-President at Deutsch Bank, managing several closed-end real estate investment funds. He lives and works in Manhattan.

Bryna Warshawsky, MD'86, is the Associate Medical Officer of Health and the director of communicable diseases for the Middlesex-London health unit, London, Ont. She is married to Bob Lomax, BSW'85. They have a son, Joshua Eldon, born February 22, 1996.

Marc Berthelet, BSc(Agr)'87, PhD'92, is a science adviser for Revenue Canada. He lives in Pincourt, Quebec.

Rose Fierimonte, BSW'87, is a professional social worker. After graduation she lived and travelled in Europe. Following that, she worked for 8 years as a social worker in the Montreal area. In 1993 she married to John D'Orazio.

Glenda Ouellette, BA'87, was appointed Manager, Planning, in business planning services with the insurance corporation of British Columbia in North Vancouver. She has a son, Robert Douglas Joseph, born in July 1995.

Razmik Panossian, BA'87, is working on a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He recently co-edited a book entitled Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Chris A. Perks, BCom'87, completed an MBA at the University of British Columbia this year.

Marina Promies, BA'87, obtained a BEd(TESL) in 1993 and an MA in applied linguistics in 1996, both from Concordia University. She teaches at Bishop's University and is working on a second MA in educational studies.

Gail Schaffer-Goldberg, BCom'87, lives in Thornhill, Ont., and has been an employee at Fabriant Commonwealth for the past five years. She was promoted from Assistant Controller to VP Finance, to VP Sales, and is now Vice-President. She has been married to Mark Goldberg, DipPubAcct'82, for 12 years and they have two children, Sean, 8, and Kimberley, 6.

Hinrich Kaiser, BSc'88, PhD'93, was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the German government to continue his work on tropical frogs. He was appointed associate editor of the journal Herpetological Natural History.

Marie-France Leclerc, BEd'88, moved to Lindsay, Ont., in April 1989. She and her husband, Yvan Racine, are both French Immersion teachers. They have a daughter, Eve, born August 9, 1995.

Susie Petersiel Berg, BA'88, gave birth to her first child, Jacob, in April 1996. In November of the same year she became editor of Chickadee, a science, nature and discovery magazine for six-to-nine-year-olds. She lives in Toronto with her husband Daniel and her son.

Kevin Wade, MD'88, is an ophthalmologist practicing at the University of British Columbia. He was awarded the Ross C. Purse doctoral fellowship on October 7. The fellowship is given in support of theoretical and practical research and studies in blindness and visual impairment. He and Michelle Mezei, MD'89, had a son, Phillip Anthony, on May 15, 1996.

Avrum Warshawsky, BEng'88, MEng'91, is a design engineer with Hewlett Packard Canada, in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.

Debbie Baluch, BEng'89, works in the business and planning group at Shell Canada's Montreal-East refinery. She was married in September 1996.

Kerry Buck, LLB'89, BCL'89, was the recipient of a 1996 Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for her contribution to Canada's leading role at the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women at Beijing in September 1995.

Jim Pascual, BEng'89, and Sandy Davison, BSW'94, are the proud parents of their second daughter, Chelsea-Brooke, born November 19, 1996. Jim has been promoted to program manager at IBM, while Sandy is working part-time as an academic advisor at Concordia University.


THE '90S

Adriana Affinito, BEd'90, spent two years as a cruiseship guest relations/social coordinator in the Caribbean Islands. She now lives in Toronto and was married in August to Michel Boucher, BA'91.

Pierre Cenerelli, BA'90, is researching his doctoral dissertation at Brandeis University, and is spending a year in Paris as part of an exchange program with the école normale supérieure.

Brenda Puchingez, BSc'90, DDS'94, completed a residency in general practice dentistry at Royal Victoria Hospital in June 1995 and now practices privately in Westmount, in association with her father.

Dominic Scott, BA'90, was awarded the Outstanding Foreign Service Officer award for 1996 in Ottawa. The award was presented by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers in Canada. The award recognized Dominic's role in the production of the festival Canada in Taiwan.

Benoit Tremblay, BSc'90, successfully defended his PhD thesis, Structure and Dynamics of Early-Type Galaxies, at Rutgers University on October 7, 1996. He is now a postdoctoral researcher in medical imaging at the the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.

Kris Trotter, MEd'90, is a student counsellor at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Alain Vinet, MgmtCert'90, is a manager in tool engineering in Peterborough, Ont.

Lesly A. Wade-Woolley, MA'90, received her PhD from OISE/UT, and is relocating to the University of British Columbia with an SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship in second-language reading. Accompanying her to B.C. are her three-year-old daughter, Eve, her husband, Stuart, and two golden retrievers, Jemima and Georgia.

Michel Boucher, BA'91, has been employed by Cascades Inc. since May of 1992. He was transferred to Toronto as HR manager in their paperboard industries corp. subsidiary in the Toronto Mill division. He and Adriana Affinito, Bed'90, have been happily married since August, and recently purchased a house.

Andrew Godfrey, BA'91, married Jenny in September 1995. They are both flight attendants for Air Transat based in Toronto.

Angela Jones, DipEd'91, has been an elementary school vocal and instrumental music teacher with the Elgin County Roman Catholic Separate School Board for the past five years. She also teaches private piano, flute and theory lessons at the St. Thomas Academy of Music. She is a member of the London Fanshawe Symphonic Chorus, under the direction of conductor Gerald Fagan.

Courtney Manning, BA'91, is a special assistant to the Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Larry Markowitz, BCom'91, BCL'95, LLB'95, was called to the Quebec Bar on December 9, 1996. He practises corporate/commercial law at Lavery, de Billy in Montreal.

Deborah Abacassis, BA'92, MA'93, DipEd'94, is working on her PhD in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill. She is married to Paul Warshawsky, MD'93.

Holly Schile Nielsen, BMus'92, has started a pilot program in the southwestern Alberta school system, combining agriculture with education.

Jeremy Sitcoff, BA'92, is in his third year of law school at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago where he is editor-in-chief of The John Marshall Law Review, a quarterly publication examining current issues in the law.

Christian Sylvain, MLIS'92, and his wife Angela have, between them, lived in eight provinces and studied at five universities. In 1992 they moved to Amsterdam where their son was born. At the end of this year, when he has completed an MSc in science and technology, they will move to London, Ontario, where he will begin work on a PhD at the University of Western Ontario.

Alexandra Yip, P&OT'92, travelled with her family on their "first pilgrimmage" back to their home country, China, in the fall of 1995. She works at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.

Jennifer Andrews, BA'93, is finishing a PhD at the University of Toronto. Her thesis concerns Canadian and American humour in contemporary fiction.

Stephanie Fowler, BA'93, teaches at the Wong Shiu Chi secondary school in Hong Kong, where she has been for two years.

Christopher J. Kent, LLB'93, BCL'93, practises international trade and competition law at Flavell, Kubrick, and Lalonde in Ottawa. He and his wife Monique are the proud parents of Ariane Elizabeth, born May 23, 1996.

Reisa Khalifa, BA'93, received an MA in journalism from New York University in January 1995. She produces the Avril Benoit show at CJAD radio.

Audrey Li, BSc'93, is in her third year of physical therapy at the University of Toronto.

Georges Pigeon, BCom'93, obtained his CA designation in February of 1996 and has been working at the accounting firm KPMG for three years. He has recently transferred to London, England.

Rochelle Steinwald, BCom'93, works in Toronto at Kraft Canada as a product assistant in the marketing department. She will be married in August 1997.

Paul D. Swanson, MA'93, has joined Bell Canada's law department in Toronto after having spent three enjoyable years in British Columbia obtaining his law degree. He invites friends from McGill and the economics programme to contact him whenever they visit Toronto.

Paul Warshawsky, MD'93, is chief resident of internal medicine at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He is also Pulmonary Fellow at McGill. He is the 1996 recipient of the Sheldon Zemelman Award in internal medicine at the Jewish General Hospital. He is married to Deborah Abacassis, BA'92, MA'93, DipEd'94.

Talat Chughtai, MD'94, is in the third year of a surgical residency at McGill. He was in Toronto to enjoy Pakistan's victory in the Sahara Cup cricket tournament.

Ken Dustin, BEng'94, completed an MBA and is a project manager in Montreal.

Larry Forlini, BEng'94, is a project manager for Kimmins Environmental Service Corp. in Florida, and is enjoying the Tampa lifestyle.

Sarah Gagan, LLB'94, completed the Ontario Bar Admission Course and was called to the Bar in February. She practises franchising, intellectual, property and computer law at Osler Hoskin and Harcourt in Toronto.

Veronique Hivon, LLB'94, BCL'94, has completed a master's degree in public administration at the London School of Economics. She is now an intern at the Quebec National Assembly.

Irene Karantanis, BSc'94, was married in August to Tony Haakman. She has just moved to Edmonton where she will attend the master's program in Speech Language Pathology at the University of Alberta.

Maryse Langevin, BSc'94, has been working in an industrial bakery for a year and a half.

Martin Larochelle, BEng'94, worked for a local government research centre on a project in fluid mechanics in Santiago, Chile for a year. He then spent four months back-packing through Chile, Peru and Bolivia. He is now back in Santiago on a two-year contract with SNC-Lavalin.

Nathalie Lavoie, BSc(Agr)'94, has a master's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Saskatchewan. She is working towards a PhD at the University of California at Davis.

Vera Morgado, BA'94, worked as a political attaché for the National Assembly of Quebec and as Census Commissioner for Statistics Canada. In 1995 she travelled in Europe. She is now pursuing a master's degree in London, England. She is also an active member of the McGill Young Alumni and a freelance writer.

Guy Morin, MBA'94, has a new job as Project Manager at GIRO Inc.

Frank Runcie, BA'94, is pursuing an MA in comparative literature at the Universität Bayreuth in Germany.

Rabih Abouchakra, BEng'95, is at McGill working on a master's of engineering in telecommunication and signal processing. He recently travelled to Cuba, France and Lebanon.

Cindy Anderson, BEng'95, works at Pratt and Whitney as a design engineer (turbine design). Last summer she travelled through British Columbia to the Rockies.

Robert Bohbot, BCom'95, works for the accounting firm of Wasserman, Stotland, Bratt, and Grossbaum. He is studying to become a chartered accountant.

Ann Karen Brassinga, BSc'95, is pursuing an MSc degree in microbiology and immunology at McGill.

Sarah Clark, BA'95, completed a master's degree in European Studies at the London School of Economics and has begun work as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Toronto.

Marie-Hélène Coté, BA'95, is a graduate student in psychology at UQAM. She expects to be a researcher-clinician by 1999. All is well with her five-year-old daughter, Raphaëlle.

Debra Cullen, BA'95, worked with Frontier College as a labourer-teacher with immigrants on a fruit farm in Ontario. She then did volunteer environmental work in Eastern Germany. Last summer she spent three months in El Salvador doing volunteer work with Québec Sans Frontières, followed by a month in Guatemala. She participated in the Official Second Language Monitor Program in Val d'Or last year and is doing a second year at Collège de la Région de l'Amiante in Thetford Mines.

Kinga David, BSc'95, has been working in community nutrition and research in James Bay (Chisasibi) since June 1995.

Warren Dunn, BEng'95, is studying for an MEng in fluid mechanics at the University of Ottawa.

Paula Dupuis, BA'95, completed an MA at the University of Toronto and is now in the PhD program in history at the University of Victoria.

Anna-Maria Fantetti, BSc(N)'95, works at St. Mary's Hospital in the maternal-child care unit (ante and post partum).

Osama Faris, BSc(Agr)'95, received a Systems Engineering Certificate from Microsoft and now works as a Systems Integrator at Trilan Canada. He lives in St. Laurent, Quebec.

Ian Gilchrist, MSc'95, is the resident naturalist at the Taiga biological station in eastern Manitoba. He is conducting field work towards a PhD in zoology at the University of Manitoba.

Daniel A.G. Gilroy, BTh'95, will be returning to Montreal in September 1997, after completing a master's degree.

Christopher J. Godak, BMus'95, gives private flute lessons and teaches high school English and music in Osaka, Japan.

Eric Holdrinet, MBA'95, is an industrial technology adviser for the National Research Council of Canada, with an industrial research assistance program. His office is at CRIM, the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal.

Azim Hussain, BA'95, spent a year in London doing a master's degree in sociology at LSE and now studies law at McGill.

James Knopp, LLB'95, works with the Securities Fraud Office, a joint effort between the Attorney General, the RCMP and the British Columbia Securities Commission.

Melanie Köszegi, BA'95, is in her second year of a law degree at McGill.

Rich Latour, BA'95, received an MSc in journalism at Columbia University in May 1996. He is a production assistant and researcher and is employed at NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, in New York.

J.L. Marc LeBlanc, BCom'95, is a coordinator, game operations/special events, with the Toronto Raptors Basketball Club Inc. of the NBA.

Tatiana Levy, BSc'95, worked at the Montreal General Hospital for a year after graduating and now lives in Vancouver. She is a flight attendant with Air Canada. She plans to resume her studies within the next few years while continuing her travels.

Stephen Liu, BEng'95, was married in September to Cristina Langiano, BN'93. They spent their honeymoon at at Montego Bay, Jamaica. Stephen has been transferred from Montreal to Washington, D.C., where he will be a field engineer for the St. Elizabeth Line and Tunnel contract.

Sophy Mak, BCom'95, is at Concordia, studying to be a chartered accountant. She works with KPMG.

Lisa McGregor, DDS'95, works in a private office in Old Montreal and is on staff at Royal Victoria Hospital's dental clinic.

Christopher Metrakos, BA'95, completed a master's degree in international economics at Queen's. He worked for Nesbitt Burns in the corporate finance department until leaving in October 1996 to join Salomon Brothers in Toronto.

Luigi Santamaria Moschetta, BEd'95, teaches French at Westmount High School in Westmount. He is working towards a master's degree in education from McGill.

Nadine Paquet, MD'95, gave birth to a girl, Marie-Sophie, on August 16, 1996.

Michelle Paradis, BA'95, is working towards a master's degree in sociology at New York University, and lives free of charge on Park Avenue in exchange for walking a King Charles spaniel in Central Park.

Maya A. Patrie, BCom'95, has settled in Edmonton. She works at Nesbitt Burns and is completing her licensing requirements.

Lynda Psumas, BEd'95, was promoted in October from buyer to merchandising and styling research. She was married on October 19, 1996, and spent her honeymoon on a Jamaican and West Caribbean cruise.

Patrick Reilly, BSW'95, MSW'96, is a social worker and family therapist in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Wilson Ricarte, BA'95, moved from Montreal to Calgary where he now works in the Quality Assurance department as a technical documentation specialist for CSI Inc. (Communications Systems International). The company is a leader in DGPS (Differentiated Global Positioning Satellite) beacon receiver units. He writes and controls the technical documentation and autocad drawings integrating the company's engineering, R&D and manufacturing departments.

Doug Roberts, BMus'95, was hired as an access services assistant in the Wilfrid Laurier University Library.

Danya Noura Vidal Sabih, BEd'95, has worked in daycare and is now head teacher. She is still looking for a "real" teaching position. In August she married Sacha Francis Sabih. He is in the Master's in Agricultural Economics degree program at MacDonald Campus.

Andre Saidah, BEng'95, works for a stainless steel corporation as a project/field engineer in Montreal.

Rafik Salama, MArch'95, is a research associate in architecture at McGill. He received the CIDA Professional Award in International Development and is presently, in collaboration with Professor Derek Drummond and the minimum cost housing centre at McGill's School of Architecture, conducting a research project about housing transformations. His paper about housing transformations, entitled Tradition, Location, and Community: Place-making and Development, is published by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the U.K.

Jeff Schoolcraft, BEng'95, has finalized a contract with an environmental firm and is starting with a structures firm in Sherbrooke, Que.

Helgi Sigurdsson, MEng'95, vacationed in Iceland this summer and now holds a position as a Software group leader with a small company in Ville St. Laurent. The company is called Modular Vision System and specializes in industrial machine vision for the semiconductor industry.

Christine Spanik, BSc'95, is beginning an MSc in the Audiology and Speech Sciences School at the University of British Columbia.

Francine Sternthal, BA'95, is a direct marketing specialist for a software company in Montreal.

Sophie Thauvette, P&OT'95, worked in West Palm Beach, FLa, as a pediatric physical therapist for six months. She now works at Anna- Laberge Hospital in Chateauguay.

Florian Patrick Thomas, PhD'95, joined the faculty of St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1995. He holds an appointment as an associate professor of neurology, molecular microbiology and immunology, and molecular virology. He uses transgenic mouse technology to study the neurological complications of HIV and the genetics of inherited neuromuscular diseases.

Claude Tremblay, BSc(PT)'95, lives in New Orleans.

Melanie Vrba, BEd'95, lives and works in Lebanon with Brian McEwen. They teach at the American Community School.

Kaurosh Etemadi Zarganeh, PhD'95, is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council at the Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of Toronto.

Melanie Fried, BA'96, is a social worker at Castle School in Cambridge, Mass.

Dana Gornitzki, BCom'96, is in London, England, for work abroad experience. She lives in Hampstead, the northwest area of London, and plans to later pursue a graduate degree in communications and media studies.

Peter Wilson Yates, BA'96, spent three months backpacking in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, and then worked briefly in the U.S.A. before returning to Canada. He plans to attend law school next year.