Marcel J. Couture, Dip(AgrSc)'65, BSc(Agr)'72, est le vice-doyen et directeur, programme du diplôme pour la faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'environnement. L'Ordre des agronomes du Québec lui a nommé au titre de commandeur de l'Ordre du mérite agronomique. Cette distinction est décernée à un agronome qui a rendu des services exceptionnels dans le domaine de l'agriculture ou pour la cause agronomique, au plan des idées ou des faits, tout au long de sa carrière.

Jennylynd James, BSc'86, PhD'97, is an assistant professor at Florida A&M University.

P. Roy Wilson, BArch'24, has painted 1,450 watercolours to date, and is painting more than ever. Many of his works can be found in the archives of the McGill School of Architecture.

Raymond Moriyama, MArch'57, DSc'93, received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal on June 21, 1997. His recent design for the Saudi Arabian National Museum is now under construction in Riyadh. He resides in Toronto.

Jim Donaldson, BArch'62, is travelling around North America taping video interviews of graduates and professors from the McGill School of Architecture, helping in the creation of a living history of the school, particularly since it celebrated its centennial anniversary in 1996.

Billy Freedin, BSc (Arch)'77, BArch'79, is with the firm of D. D. Humes Financial Services Inc. as an investment funds representative.

Sevag Pogharian, BSc(Arch)'84, BArch'86, completed a project entitled Sprout, the first "envirohome" in Quebec, on St. Ambroise Street near the Atwater market. It is a new type of low-cost, environment-friendly, flexible housing which would meet the needs of a first-time home-buying family. He plans to live there for a year with his wife and baby.

H. Herschel Segal, BA'55, is the chief executive officer, president and chairman of Le Château Stores of Canada Ltd., which he founded 38 years ago. The clothing chain has more than 180 stores in North America. He makes his home in Montreal.

Ruth (Roskies) Wisse, BA'57, PhD'69, is Harvard University's first professor of Yiddish literature. She was recruited from McGill where she was the first incumbent of the Montreal Jewish Community Chair in the Department of Jewish Studies.

Ilyse Taub Segal, BA'59, illustrated a book entitled First Cat, Second Term, published by Capra Press.

Sonia Raikes, BA'61, was honoured as a Woman of Distinction by the YWCA. She is Vice-President of Standard Life Portfolio Manage-ment Limited, and was the first woman executive in the company. She was also the first female member of the Off the Record Club. She lives in Westmount, Que.

Ann McCall, BA'64, had an exhibit of her prints entitled The Grasses featured at the Espace Trois gallery, Montreal, in May 1997.

Gordon S. Blackman, BA'65, has been nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History. He is a teacher at John Rennie High School in Pointe Claire, Que.

Henry Srebrnik, BA'66, MA'70, published a book entitled London Jews and British Commun-ism, 1935-1945, Vallentine Mitchell Publishers. He is an associate professor of political studies at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Elaine Kalman Naves, BA'67, is a journalist and writer, and has a literary column in The Gazette in Montreal. Her book, Journey to Vaja: Recon-structing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, was released in 1996.

Ron Burnett, BA'68, MA'71, PhD'81, was appointed President of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. He also published a book entitled Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, Indiana University Press (1996) and has been working with UNESCO on a new educational project for third world countries.

Ross Paul, MA'68, was appointed President of the University of Windsor.

Penelope Elias-Winship, BA'69, MSW'71, is serving on the Self-Management Working Party of the Manic Depression Fellowship, UK, devising a course to teach sufferers how to manage their illness.

Frances Harber, BA'70, teaches in Victoria, B.C. She recently performed at Langham Court Theatre in a production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, along with two other McGill graduates, Alix Cowie, BSc'50, and Karen Schafer, BA'81, BSW'85, MSW'87. Her new children's book, The Brothers' Promise, is to be published by Albert Whitman, Chicago, in the Spring of 1998.

Richard Lande, BA'71, was appointed President of F.P.A. Logistics in Toronto, a transportation buying consortium whose members include Alberta food processors.

David S. Rovins, BA'71, is the Founder and President of Préservations Laurentides, a group which seeks United Nations recognition of the Laurentian mountains in Quebec, in order to preserve its environment. He also ran for the New Democratic Party of Canada in the Laurentides riding in the last federal election.

Ira H. Srole, BA'71, is photo-lab supervisor for the City of Rochester, New York. In addition, he runs a freelance photography business called Inflections. He married Margaret Merriman in l986 and is the father of two step-children and grandfather of two.

Donald Mackenzie Bullock Jr., BA'72, was married to Lesley Thompson on August 24, 1996.

Jacob Stettin, BA'72, is the General Counsel of En Pointe Technologies Inc., based in California.

Martha Perusse, BA'76, MSc'78, was appointed Principal of the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf.

Janet Spiegel, BA'80, was promoted to Director of the downtown Los Angeles Kaplan Center for Kaplan Educational Centers, a standardized test preparation company.

Mark Blumstein, BA'81, has published his poetry in Canadian Jewish Outlook and in the American anthology, Wind in the Night Sky. He returned to Montreal after living for a time in Israel. He presently writes for Outlook and the National Library of Poetry U.S.A., and works for the Equality Party.

Anne Meneley, BA'84, explores the everyday life, vibrant sociability and elaborate etiquette of Zibidi women in her new book, Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town (University of Toronto Press). She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore.

Murielle Nagy, BA'84, a obtenu un doctorat en anthropologie de l'Université d'Alberta en juin 1997. Elle avait obtenu une maîtrise en archéologie de Simon Fraser University en 1988. Elle termine un postdoc au Groupe d'études Inuit et circumpolaires de l'Université Laval.

Amy Schatz, BA'84, produces public affairs and arts documentaries. She recently received a Peabody Award for an HBO family special entitled How do you spell God? as well as a New York Emmy for an arts special about the beat generation. She lives in New York City.

Mark A. Price, BA'86, is the acting director, planning and treaty operations, of the British Columbia Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. He lives near Victoria with his wife, Leah, and three children.

Steve Smith, BA'86, MA'89, received a Com-monwealth Scholarship in 1987 tenable at Wolfson College, Oxford. After graduating with a DPhil, in 1992, he was employed as acquisitions editor for Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK.

Lori Yersh, BA'87, MEd'92, MEd'97, is Senior Consultant, Grenzebach Glier & Associates, in Chicago. Lori spent 12 years at McGill, beginning as a student employee in the Alma Mater Fund and rising through the ranks to Associate Director of the Annual Fund. She was chair of the Women's Leadership Project with the Alumnae Society. Lori worked full-time while completing two master's degrees in psychology and education.

Glen C. Crawford, BA'88, finished a psychiatric residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., in July 1996, after serving as chief resident. He is currently the Head of Mental Health at the Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Christopher Thomas Dornan, PhD'88, has been appointed director of Carleton Univer-sity's School of Journalism & Communication. He and his wife had their first child in October.

D. Mark Prescott, BA'88, is a law student at the University of Saskatchewan.

Anne Kothawala, BA'89, a accepté le poste de vice-présidente, politiques, de l'Association canadienne des journaux.

Beth E. Machlovitch, BA'89, received a J.D. degree at New York University Law School in l992 and is now an attorney in legal and business affairs in the Motion Picture Group of Walt Disney Pictures & Television in Los Angeles.

Clarence Epstein, BA'90, is working towards a doctorate in the Centre for Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the 1997 Weil Prize by the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada for his work on religious buildings in Montreal during the British Colonial Period.

Gary Krysler, MA'91, is Vice-President, Member Services for the Women's Council of Realtors in Chicago.

Eric Block, BA'92, MA'96, completed his Bachelor of Law degree at Christchurch College, Oxford University. He worked for United Nations Watch in Geneva and as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe. He is pursuing an LLM at the University of Chicago.

Adam Dodek, BA'92, was married to Nicole Goldstone on July 20, 1997, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the guests were Eric Block, BA'92, MA'96 and Justin Cammy, BA'93. After graduation, Adam completed his law degree at Harvard University. He then clerked for the Supreme Court of Israel. Adam and Nicole are living in Pasadena, California, where he is a judicial clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Emma Parkinson, BA'92, is Project Manager, Distributed Development, with the Information Systems department for Bell Mobility.

James D. M. Stewart, BA'92, BEd'94, was recently appointed President of the Canadian Association of Panama for 1997-1998. He is a teacher at the Panama International School. He was married to Julia Thompson, in Ottawa, last July.

Jean Marc Benoît, BA'93, enrolled at McMaster Medical School in Hamilton, Ont. He was the 1995 Most Valuable Player with the McMaster cross-country running team.

Paulo Bilezikjian, BA'93, is the head equity trader for ING Barings in Brazil.

James C. Brown, BA'93, is at l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris studying for a DEA (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies) in the Pensée Politique program.

Justin Cammy, BA'93, recently married Rachel Rubinstein of Irvington, N.Y. Justin and Rachel are both pursuing a PhD in literature at Harvard University while also serving as resident tutors at Harvard's Quincy House. Justin, who co-founded the Hutchison Society while at McGill, is thrilled that co-founders, Eric Block, BA'92, MA'96, and Adam Dodek, BA'92, as well as adjunct Hutchisonians Abigail Wisse, BA'01, Zev Gewurz, BA'92, Ronald Balinsky, BCom'94, and David Diner, BCom'94, all contributed to the rowdy atmosphere at his wedding.

Oona S. Craig, BA'93, completed a BEd at the University of Toronto following an MA in classics at Dalhousie University. She is teaching high school math and working as a residence don at Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby, Ont.

Amy Rose, BA'93, has moved to Taegu, South Korea, to teach English for a year. Next, she plans to attend the University of Leeds, England, to obtain a bachelor's degree in health sciences midwifery.

Rochelle Tucker, BA'93, completed her Master of Health Science degree at the University of Toronto in 1995 and began a doctoral program in the Department of Health and Social Behaviour at the Harvard School of Public Health in September.

Robert Astroff, BA'94, recently graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Law degree. He is presently pursuing a master of arts degree at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa.

Kristen Boon, BA'94, MA'96, completed her term as a Canadian Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa. She began her law degree at New York University in September 1997, and plans to specialize in international law.

Stephen D. Borys, PhD'94, is the assistant curator, European art, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. He was one of 28 chosen from around the world to participate in the Royal Collection Studies Programme at Windsor Castle (England) in September 1997.

Sarah Schrank, BA'94, completed her third year of PhD work in American history at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the vice-president, internal affairs, of the university's graduate student body and an active member of the teaching assistant union movement there.

Trish Snyder, BA'94, was married last summer to Rob Harris, BEd'95. They live in Toronto where she works at Chatelaine magazine.

Tiffany Welch, BA'94, received a master's degree in mass communications from Boston Univer-sity, specializing in interactive media. She works for a Toronto company that develops Internet solutions for banks and other corporations.

Elizabeth Wiener, BA'94, BEd'96, teaches grades four and five English at the Hebrew Foundation School in Dollard des Ormeaux, Que. for the last year. On June 23, l997, she married Lee Shulkin, MBA'96.

Graeme Burt, BA'95, is a graduate student in geography at Pennsylvania State University.

Leanne Joanisse, BA'95, completed her master's degree in sociology at Concordia University in April 1997. She is now pursuing her doctorate in sociology at McMaster University.

Deirdre Kenney, BA'95, CertProfFr'96, is managing the commercial leasing department at StairMaster Sports/Medical Products in Seattle.

Bernard A. Machlovitch, BA'95, received a graduate diploma in sports administration, Dean's Honour List, from Concordia University in June 1997 and is now account executive with the Lifestyle Marketing Group in New York City.

David W. Mendelsohn, BA'95, received second place in the Washington University School of Architecture's Japan Weekend Sketch Problem, which asked students to design a mask that reflected their views on architecture.

Andrew H. Pijahn, BA'95, is a manager with Scientific Atlanta in Vancouver.

Sara Grose, BA'96, is working in the entertainment industry in Hollywood.

Therese Ho, BA'96, is working as a part-time newscaster and reporter for CJAD Radio in Montreal.

Ann K. Perry, BA'96, completed her master's thesis in history at Queen's University. She is now a legal intern at Davies, Ward and Beck, in Toronto.

Carmen Sorger, MA'96, and husband Daniel Brock, BA'84, BCL'97, LLB'97, had a son, Callum Alexander, on April 19, 1997. She works as a policy analyst at Foreign Affairs in the Peace Building and Democratic Development Division in Ottawa.

Allison Friedman, BA'97, has returned from a two-month medical program in Ghana, West Africa. She is now bartending and preparing for graduate school.

Pamela Friedman, BA'97, is interning with the Inter-Church Committee for Human Rights in Latin America in Toronto.

Ravind S. Grewal, BA'97, is studying law at Harvard University.

Jennifer Harding, BA'97, is working at Livent Inc., in Toronto, in the sponsorship department.

Bess Joffe, BA'97, is studying law at the University of Toronto.

Amélie Laberge Derome, BA'97, is a freelance translator and editor. She was awarded the Jean E. Launay Medal of Excellence upon graduation from McGill.

Lisa Maria Lackey, BA'97, is engaged to Philipp Duffy, BCom'93, LLB'97, and is employed as a customer service officer at Canada Trust.

Heather L. McCauley, BA'97, is at Dalhousie University studying for an MA in English.

Nili Myrth Solomon, BA'97, received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at University College, London. She plans to obtain a master's degree in medical anthropology.

Taein Yoo, BA'97, is pursuing a master's degree in film at the University of British Columbia.

David I. Hirsch, BSc'88, DDS'93, married Racquel G. Spivak, BSc(PT)'93, and received a master's degree and certificate in orthodontics from the University of Detroit. He is in private practice in Toronto. He also lectures part-time to undergraduate dental students at the University of Toronto.

William Klinck, BEd'66, MEd'71, was named a member of the Order of Canada. He has maintained a medical practice and was recognized for his work with the most vulnerable members of society, including battered women and the homeless.

John Killingbeck, MEd'67, was the first anglophone and first educational administrator to be given the Prix Carrière award as part of the Prix d'Excellence de l'Administration Publique 1997, awarded yearly by the province of Quebec. He was the managing director of the Lakeshore School Board, and retired in June 1997.

Louis Kirschner, BEd'74, taught at an elementary school in Quebec City for four years, and is now in his 19th year at the physical education department at Dawson College.

Brian Petersen, BEd'79, is completing his doctorate in educational technology at Concordia University, specializing in systems theory. He is the chief executive officer of Synerproject Inc. He lives in Mission Viejo, California, with his wife and three sons.

Dianne Hartley, BEd'81, MEd '92, has moved to Washington, D.C., with her husband, John Guiniven. She is the assistant director of the honours program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

George Burnett, BEd'85, has been appointed head coach of the Ontario Hockey League's Guelph Storm.

Victoria Jonas, BEd'86, and Alan Kapelanski, DipPubAcc'93, have a new baby daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, born August 21, l997.

Maria Viscosi-Latella, BEd'89, married Richard J. Latella on July 9, 1994. She is teaching kindergarten at Honoré Mercier School, in Montreal.

Gareth Reid, BEd'94, married Catherine Ferry, BEd'95, on August 2, 1997. They are both teachers in Prince George, B.C.

Nathalie St. Cyr, BEd'94, enseigne le français langue seconde depuis trois ans à Trafalgar School for Girls. Elle poursuit ses études à temps partiel à l'Université de Montréal à fin d'obtenir une maîtrise en éducation.

Betty Chow, BEd'95, married Daniel Yan on June 22, 1996. She is a full-time instructor with the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies in the Intensive English as a Second Language Program.

Catherine Ferry, BEd'95, married Gareth Reid, BEd'94, on August 2, 1997. They are both teachers in Prince George, B.C.

Rob Harris, BEd'95, married Trish Snyder, BA'94, this summer. They live in Toronto. Rob has spent the last two years teaching on a reserve in northwestern Ont.

Suzan Jette, BEd'95, is teaching grade one at Latuque High School in Latuque, Que.

Tass Paul Bey, DipEd'96, is director of the ESL Summer School at King's-Edgehill School in Nova Scotia.

Jennifer Pryce, BEd'96, has been working as an exercise instructor - aquatics and land - in and around Montreal.

Bradley Romanek, BEd'96, is teaching a variety of subjects at Trafalgar School for Girls in Montreal. Prior to this, he taught mathematics in Chibougamau, Que., for a year.

Cyril J. Tunis, BEng'54, MSc'56, has retired after a 30-year engineering career with IBM and eight years at Pacific Bell in California. He plans to remain in the San Francisco Bay area.

Colin Campbell, BEng'56, a past president of the Engineering Institute of Canada, is now the chair of the Institute's Honours Awards & Fellows Committee and President of Campbell Woodall & Assoc. in Calgary.

Pierre Y. Ducros, BEng'61, was elected to the Board of Directors of Atlantis Communications Inc. He co-founded DMR Group Inc. in 1972 and was the President and Chief Executive for 23 years. He is also a director of Cognos Incorporated, chairman of the Université du Québec, Associate Governor of the Université de Montréal and a member of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Centre. He was admitted to the Canadian Academy of Engineers in 1994 and is an officer of the Order of Belgium. He lives in Ile des Soeurs, Que.

Arun S. Mujumdar, MEng'68, PhD'71, has been named Honorary Professor by Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China. He was a keynote speaker at the National Heat Transfer Conference of Japan held in Sendai and held the Tokyo Electric Power Company Chair at Keio University, Yokohama, in May and June 1997.

Brian Fitzgerald, BEng'79, works in the technology transfer department of Shell Canada, based in Alberta.

Craig Downing, BEng'87, is working for Dipix Technologies in Ottawa.

Steven Lightfoot, BEng'88, works in technical support for Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., based in Montreal.

Mark Gerstein, BEng'93, received an MBA degree with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a real estate banker for Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York.

Martin Theriault, BEng'93, has moved to Dallas, Tex., where he is market manager, secondary electronics, for Air Liquide.

Joanne West, BEng'93, is the environmental supervisor at Avenor's Gold River pulp mill in B.C. She and her husband, Brian, had their first child, Scott, in May 1997.

Marco A. Baratta, MEng'95, worked for two years as a design engineer at Northern Telecom in Ottawa. He obtained his P Eng licence in 1996. He is currently pursuing an MBA at Cornell University, Johnson School of Management, in Ithaca, N.Y.

Mitch Ingham, BEng'95, is enrolled in a master's degree program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is doing research on the next generation of space telescopes.

Douglas McMahon, BEng'95, is a junior engineer for Rivalair Inc., based in Drummondville, Que.

Marc Riedel, BEng'95, is pursuing his PhD in the Parallel & Distributed Computation Labor-atory at the California Institute of Technology.

Alex Davidkhanian, BEng'96, is working at Hatch Associates in Toronto. As an engineer consultant, he is responsible for the development and marketing of new technologies in the iron and steel industry.

Leo Grepin, BEng'96, is working towards a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David O. Ohayon, BEng'96, has returned to Montreal after eight months of training in Cleveland. He is working as a sales engineer.

Chris Sauvé, BEng'96, is pursuing his master's degree in chemical engineering in McGill's Pulp and Paper Research Centre.

Ivan Burvill, BEng'97, will be studying at Carleton University and working part-time at Statistics Canada.

Thierry Casiez, BEng'97, is pursuing a master's degree in engineering at the aeronautics and astronautics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Scott Ingham, BEng'97, is now living in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and working at Algoma Steel Inc. as a quality engineer.

Maria Pia Longo, BEng'97, is an assistant transportation engineer for CANAC International.

Angelina Mehta, BEng'97, is with the International Olympic Committee of Canada as a "graduate-in-training."

Mufty Mathewson, Dip(P&OT)'54, has written a book entitled Courage after Coma: A Family's Journey, published by Uneek Experiences Limited, Edmonton, which relates the experiences of her family when her daughter Wendy went into a coma after an automobile accident. She lives in Edmonton.

Peter T. Macklem, MD'56, is the 1997 G. Malcolm Brown Lecturer, an honour given by the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation. He also received their 1997 Distinguished Service Award.

Hilary Dunbar Bethell, BOccTher'71, is managing director of Carib Rehab, the medical supply and equipment company she founded with husband Patrick Bethell, DipAgr'67. She is owner-manager of Friendship Occupational Therapy Clinic and offers a clinical placement for McGill occupational therapy students. She and Patrick live in Barbados, West Indies.

Lawrence T. L. Wong, PhD'71, is head of the physiology/pharmacology group at Hemosol Inc. He was previously a research scientist in Ottawa and at the University of Toronto.

Jean Latrielle, MD'73, is involved in the establishment of a breast cancer unit in the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer. It will be funded in part by proceeds from the fourth annual Montreal Breast Cancer Foundation's Dans le Jardin raffle-cocktail party, held in June.

Christopher Feindel, BEng'68, MD'76, surgical director of the heart-transplant program at Toronto Hospital, has developed a technique which keeps donor hearts to be used in heart transplant surgery healthy longer. It is a variation of a process known as perfusion - blood from the donor is passed through the heart at a particular rate.

Diane Ranger, BN'76, received her master's of science degree in education and is teaching French immersion at the primary and junior levels. She is married to Andy Baker, an airline pilot, and has two children, Danielle and Robbie.

Susan van Wijlen, BSc(PTh)'80, has moved to Boston, where she now works at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Centre for the Aged. She is married to Richard Yeager and has two children, Andrew and Katie.

Alan Barkun, MD'83, MSc'85, the incoming University Divisional Director for the Montreal General Hospital, has received a Wilson-Cook Endoscopic Research Scholar Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American Digestive Health Foundation.

Aline Levi, MD'84, married Richard Swieca, MD'84, in 1984. She has a paediatric practice and is chief of general medicine at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital in Montreal. He is chief of ophthalmology at Valleyfield and Fleury hospitals in Quebec. They live in Dollard des Ormeaux and have five children.

Tassos Dionisopoulos, BSc'81, MD'85, was appointed chief of the division of plastic & reconstructive surgery at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, in Montreal.

Denise Lai, BSc(P&OT)'92, is a physiotherapist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. She has received a status appointment at the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Sharon Booth, BSc(P&OT)'93, is working at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal.

Mary (Cavis) Dietrich, BSc(P&OT)'93, is work-ing part-time at two jobs, psychogeriatrics and hand-splinting. She resides in Kitchener, Ont.

Daniel Dubé, BSc(P&OT)'93, travaille au Commission de la Santé et de la Sécurité du Travail (CLSC) Ste. Rose ainsi qu'au C.A. Laval.

Nathalie Gagnon, BSc(P&OT)'93, was married in October 1996. She lives in LaSalle, Que.

Pascal Gauthier, BSc(P&OT)'93, travail en médicine physique adulte et gériatrique à l'Hôpital Anna Laberge.

Vivianne Grégoire, BSc(P&OT)'93, is working in geriatrics at the Centre d'Hébergement St. Georges and the Régie Régionale de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (Montréal Centre).

Lilian Heimbach, BSc'89, BSc(P&OT)'93, moved to Seattle, Washington, and is working in geriatrics.

Siu San Kang, BSc(P&OT)'93, is working with seniors in Foyer Rousselot in Quebec. She lives in Montreal.

Lise Lafleur, BSc(P&OT)'93, travaille en paediatrie à Sherbrooke et poursuit ses études en gérontologie. Elle et son époux Steve ont un petit garçon de 7 mois.

Heather Lambert, BSc(P&OT)'93, has published an article in P&OT in Geriatrics, volume 14(4).

Annette Lunkenbein, BSc(P&OT)'93, is working at the Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Sherbrooke in geriatrics.

Julie Morin, BSc(P&OT)'93, is working at l'Hôtel-Dieu de St.-Hyacinthe treating patients with work-related injuries and head injuries. She is pursuing a certificate program in Health and Safety.

Tricia Morrison, BSc(P&OT)'93, was married in October 1996 and is living in Ottawa. She works in vocational rehabilitation (insurance industry).

Janice (Goodfellow) Pesant, BSc'90, BSc(P&OT)'93, is looking after her three-year-old daughter Gabrielle and year-old son Antoine. She plans to return to work, switching from geriatrics to paediatrics.

Marlene Rosenbloom, BSc(P&OT)'93, works with seniors in a Jewish nursing home in Quebec. She has a 14-month-old son, Shayne.

Ira Silverstein, BSc(P&OT)'93, works at the Commission de la Santé et de la Sécurité du Travail (CLSC) Norman Bethune in Montreal.

Racquel G. Spivak, BSc(PT)'93, married David I. Hirsch, BSc'88, DDS'93, and worked as a physical therapist at the Henry Ford Hospital, in Michigan. She now lives in Toronto and is employed at the Toronto Rehabilitation Centre.

Sean R. Thomas, MD'93, is taking over a family practice in his hometown of Chilliwack, British Columbia.

Cathy (Tassone) Tobiasen, BSc(P&OT)'93, was married in September 1996. She lives in Vancouver where she works in acute care / neurology.

Tara Whelton, BSc(P&OT)'93, had a baby girl, Daria Nicole, in September 1996. She has since returned to her job at Ste. Anne's Hospital, in Quebec.

Andrew Kensley, BSc(PTh)'96, is living in Port Charlotte, Fla., and working in a sports physical therapy clinic.

Mélanie Savard-Côté, BSc(PTh)'96, has worked in a hospital setting in ortho and geriatric at La Tuque, Que. She is now studying medicine at l'Université de Montréal.

Lisa-Lune St-Jean Lemieux, BSc(PTh)'96, is working for an out-patient facility for Health South in Lake Worth, Fla.

Marie-Josée Guy, BN'97, is a nurse at the Montreal Children's Hospital.

Jason A. Knox, BSc(PTh)'97, is employed in acute neurology.

Julius Briskin, BCL'41, was honoured for his assistance in the development of the McGill University Children's Hospital Research Institute at the Institute's 30th anniversary celebration. He lives in Montreal.

E. Leo Kolber, BA'49, BCL'52, has been elected President of the Centre Board of the Sir Morti-mer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.

W. David Angus, BCL'62, is a member of the Advisory Board of Aon Reed Stenhouse, a senior partner in the law firm Stikeman, Elliot, a member of the Canadian Senate, and Chairman of the Montreal General Hospital.

Pierre Fournier, BCL'67, was named President of the Montreal Bar Association for 1997-98.

Jeremy H. Reitman, BCL'69, was appointed dir-ector of Provigo Inc. He is also the president of Reitmans (Canada) Limited, and lives in Montreal.

John Swidler, BCom'65, BCL'69, was appointed managing partner at Richter, Usher & Vineberg Chartered Accountants in October 1997. He is married to Vickie Endleman Swidler, BA'66, and has three sons. His son Todd is a student in the McGill Faculty of Management and scheduled to graduate in 1998.

Robert Razienne, BCL'80, has joined the firm of Davies, Ward & Beck as a partner practising in the tax area. He lives in Toronto.

J. Stuart Russell, BA'77, BCL'81, LLB'82, a lecturer in the Macquarie University School of Law in Sydney, Australia, has been appointed a part-time member of the Refugee Tribunal in Sydney.

Alan B. Gold, LLD'84, former chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court, was inducted into the Academy of Great Montrealers in June 1997. He is a senior counsel with the law firm Goodman, Phillips & Vineberg and vice-president of the Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal.

Linda Rychel, BA'86, LLB'89, is a counsel with the Department of Justice, Legal Operations Sector.

George A. Atis, BCL'91, LLB'91, has joined the Toronto-based Rider Group of Companies as Director of Legal Affairs. His son, Jason Jonathan, was born on April 2, 1997.

Nancy Girard, BSc(PTh)'89, BCL'94, is working as a physiotherapist, but is thinking about pursuing a career in law.

Jill R. Presser, BA'90, LLB'94, is doing criminal defence work with the Ontario law firm Pinkotsky & Lockyer.

Robert E. Juhasz, LLB'95, has joined the Amsterdam office of Coopers and Lybrand as legal counsel in the international banking and securities group. He is also branch contact for the McGill Alumni Association in the Netherlands.

Christian D.R. Beaulieu, LLM'96, received an honorary degree (LLM) from the London School of Economics in 1996. He is legal counsel for the civil law section of the Justice Department of Canada, and lives in Hull, Que.

David Cohen, LLB'96, finished a clerkship with the Honourable Mr. Justice G.V. La Forest at the Supreme Court of Canada. He will be attending Harvard Law School to pursue a master's degree in law.

Declan Hamill, BCL'96, LLB'96, started as manager, regulatory law and policy, at AT&T Canada Long Distance, in July 1997. He married Kathryn Jepson, BCL'96, LLB'96, on August 9, 1997.

Antoine Leduc, LLB'96, is a stagiaire at Mackenzie Gervais in Montreal.

Noah Stern, LLB'96, is a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Skadden, Arps, in New York.

Adam Atlas, BA'93, BCL'97, LLB'97, graduated in June 1997 as class valedictorian. He was also awarded the prize for best individual pleader at the Canadian Final Round of the French language Concours de procès simulé en droit international Charles Rousseau held in Montreal in February 1997.

Daniel Brock, BA'94, BCL'97, LLB'97, and his wife Carmen Sorger, MA'96, had a son, Callum Alexander, on April 19, 1997. Daniel works in the International Trade Law division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Internation-al Trade in Ottawa. He is also press secretary to the Minister of the Environment.

Louis-Simon Ferland, BCL'97, won the Prix d'Excellence Guy Lafleur, a $6,000 scholarship awarded annually to the Quebec university hockey player who best combines academics with athletics.

Cairine Wilson, MLS'77, was appointed vice-president, marketing, for Ontario-based EDS Canada.

Judy MacFarlane, BA'77, MLS'80, is director of business information services for Price Waterhouse.

Warren Chippindale, BCom'49, LLD'95, was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives in Mont Tremblant, Que.

Bill Gartshore, BCom'49, and his wife, Shirley Parkinson, were awarded the Certificate of Merit for their volunteer contributions to the community of St. Bruno, Que.

Herb Gray, BCom'52, was sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada in June 1997. He has been Windsor West's Member of Parliament since 1963.

Patrick J. Keenan, BCom'54, CA'57, was elected as a Director of TVX Gold Inc. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Keewhit Investments Ltd., a director of the Ireland Fund of Canada, and a Trustee of the Ontario Jockey Club. He lives in Toronto.

Robert G. Coffey, BCom'56, retired as vice-chairman of KPMG, a Canadian public accounting firm, in 1994. In 1997 he formed Kinghaven Capital Corporation, a private merchant bank, as advisor and coach.

R. James McCoubrey, BCom'66, was named Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Kenneth Wightman, BCom'68, MCom'72, was appointed Vice-President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Twin Gold Corporation. He makes his home in Unionville, Ont.

Bruce Jenkins, BCom'69, is a partner with Deloitte & Touche in Toronto and was elected president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Peter Chodos, BCom'72, is executive vice-president, corporate development, of Philip Services Corporation, an integrated resource recovery and industrial services company. He lives in Ontario.

Marcel Roy, BCom'77, DipPubAcct'79, was appointed senior vice-president of the Corporate Recovery Group of Price Waterhouse. He lives in Montreal.

Mark Ellwood, BCom'78, published a book entitled A Complete Waste of Time: Tales and Tips About Getting More Done. He is a productivity expert in Toronto.

Michael Conway, BCom'79, DipPubAcct'80, was appointed vice-president and comptroller of BCE Inc. in June 1997. He is also treasurer and a director of the executive committee of the Montreal Children's Hospital.

Rex McLennan, MBA'79, was appointed senior vice-president and chief financial officer of Vancouver-based Placer Dome Inc.

André Ewert, MBA'80, has joined Whalen Beliveau & Associates in Montreal as an investment adviser. After graduating from McGill, he completed studies in accounting and law at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His daughter, Pamela Alex, was born in 1996.

Debra Hendler, BCom'83, DipPubAcct'84, was co-chairperson of the Israel Cancer Research Fund's annual gala, held on June 4, 1997, at Place des Arts.

Effy Papadatos, BCom'84, CertAcct'87, is assistant controller for Nivel Inc., a pharmaceutical distributing company. She lives in Montreal.

France Bélanger, BCom'85, completed her PhD in Information Systems at the University of South Florida and is assistant professor at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. She also started a new international management and tourism consulting business with her husband, Pierre.

Dania Loran Lebovics, BCom'85, DipPubAcct'87, is the author and publisher of a book for expectant and new mothers entitled Kiddy Chronicles, My Very First Biography from Pre-natal to Pre-school, distributed in America by Firefly Books Ltd. She has three sons with husband Daniel Lebovics, BCom'85, DipPubAcct'87, and lives in Thornhill, Ontario.

Laura Rosenthal, BCom'85, is Director of Alumni Relations at the University of Michigan, where she lives with her husband, Robert Schertzer, BSc'83, an ophthalmologist and medical informatics specialist at the University of Michigan's Kellogg Eye Centre.

Sylvain Bouchard, MBA'86, is president of Groupe Laperrière & Verrault Inc./Black Clawson-Kennedy Pulp and Paper Machine Group Inc. He lives in Montreal.

Jeffrey M. Singer, BCom'86, MBA'90, is an information technology consultant with Los Angeles-based Ernst & Young LLP.

Ronald Wolf, BCom'86, is associate partner of Andersen Consulting, based in New York.

Steven Wild, BCom'87, and his wife, Suzanne, had a daughter, Victoria, on February 22, 1997. He is a systems consultant at CIBC in Toronto.

Kevin Beckles, BCom'91, opened a company, Prestige Marketing Agency, in Barbados, W.I.

Jean Sébastien Vaast, MBA'91, is working for Électricité de France in the quality department of its engineering and construction division since 1993.

Alan Kapelanski, DipPubAcc'93, and Victoria Jonas, BEd'86, had a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, on August 21, l997.

Andrew Mens, MBA'93, recently earned a promotion and has moved to the corporate headquarters for CIBA Vision in the Atlanta area.

Marwan Nicolas Firzli, BCom'94, is working as a real estate analyst with GRA, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, in Paris.

Kelly L. Boon, BCom'95, works in labour relations in Ontario's largest nursing home chain, based in Guelph.

Stefan Hawes, BCom'95, is an account executive at Palmer Jarvis Communications in Vancouver.

Jill Kassner, BCom'95, is working at Royal Bank of Canada Dominion Securities in the department of mergers and acquisitions.

David Oh, BCom'95, married Beverly Williams, BSc'96, in Halifax in August 1997.

Sunny T. H. Chu, BCom'96, is working for Andersen Consulting.

Dave Frankland, BCom'96, and Raj Waghmare, BSc'94, are two of three co-founders of a small software company, Virtualis, in Nepean, Ontario.

Gail King, BCom'96, is pursuing a master's of social work degree at Barry University in Florida.

Jennifer McCaughey, BCom'96, is a business analyst for the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group.

Homam S. Michael, MBA'96, is working for Ontario Hydro at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station.

Knut O. Nesse, MBA'96, was appointed Trade Commissioner for Norway with the Norwegian Trade Council in Toronto.

Nicolas A. Pechet, BCom'96, is a business analyst for Braxton Associates, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group. He lives in Montreal.

Stephanie Shapiro, BCom'96, is an associate with the Boston Consulting Group, in Toronto.

Daniel Shiff, BCom'96, recently married Amy Pesner. He is working for Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a salesperson with the U.S. equity institutional salesforce.

Lee Shulkin, MBA'96, married Elizabeth Wiener, BA'94, BEd'96, on June 23, 1997.

Tim Smith, BCom'96, is back in Melbourne, Australia, pursuing a master's in economics at Monash University.

Rob Uditsky, BCom'96, is auditing at Richter Usher Vineberg.

Irina Blumer, MBA'97, is promotion manager, internet and special projects, in the Marketing Communications Department of Merck Frosst Canada.

Rita Kibrite, BCom'97, is following the CA program at McGill and training at KPMG.

Robert Silverman, BMus'64, has released three new CDs since completing his term as Director of the School of Music of the University of British Columbia. He has also passed the half-way mark in his eight-concert cycle devoted to the 32 sonatas of Beethoven, with the completion date scheduled for December 16, 1998, the composer's birth date. His website is www.sloth.com/silverman.

N. De Vries, BMus'70, is a musician, performer and educator in New Brunswick and has 8 bands.

Maria Calderisi Bryce, BMus'72, MMA'76, Head of the Printed Music Collection of the National Library of Canada since 1976, retired from the Music Division in March of 1995. She did not retire until she concluded her summa and terminus passion: a centenary exhibition and comprehensive inventory preparation of the Percy Scholes collection.

David H. Davis, LMus'75, is conductor of the Hamilton Children's Choir, which toured the Maritimes and France and is preparing for a tour of Britain. The choir has three cassettes to its credit and its first compact disc was released in November 1997. He has had more than 20 works published.

Jessica Halpern, BMus'88, is a free-lance translator and writer and recently revived the second edition of Jill Stainforth's A Survival Guide to Milan, Informer Publications. She was married in September 1996 to Giovanni Busato.

Karen Crowe, BMus'93, moved to Calgary after performing in Japan for three months. She released her debut jazz CD, Gush Gush, in 1996 and is working on her second CD.

David McCarthy, BMus'94, married Sherry Elias, BMus'94, in August 1995, and is working in Rochester, N.Y. He is finishing his master's thesis in music theory. She received her master's degree in music from the Eastman School of Music in New York State in 1996.

Gillian Keith, BMus'95, is enrolled in a two-year post graduate program in voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.

Clément Joubert, BMus'96, a fondé, l'été de sa graduation, le camp de jour de Conservatoire de musique de McGill.

Rev. Gordon Fresque, BTh'80, retired at the end of October 1997, and moved to the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Manse in Kingston, Ont.

Rev. Ralph T. Leavitt, BTh'94, is the new Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church in Knowlton, Que.

Mark Hoogsteen, BTh'97, was ordained on June 22, 1997. He moved to Port Carling, Ont. with his wife, Kathy, and their new son, Timothy Joseph.

Nathan Keyfitz, BSc'34, LLD'84, is back at Harvard, as Professor Emeritus, and living in Cambridge after 10 years in Vienna.

Samuel Solomon, BSc'47, MSc'51, PhD'53, has been inducted into the Order of Canada. He is director of the McGill Centre for Research on Endocrine Mechanisms. He resides in Westmount, Que.

Alix (Irwin) Cowie, BSc'50, lives and gardens in Victoria, B.C., where she has become active in the theatre scene. She recently appeared in a 15-performance run of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, at Langham Court Theatre, in the company of two other McGill graduates, Frances Harber, BA'70, and Karen Schafer, BA'81, BSW'85, MSW'87.

Norman S. Endler, BSc'53, MSc'54, was awarded the 1997 Canadian Physiological Association Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contri-butions to Psychology as a Science in June 1997. He also presented an address on Stress, Anxiety and Coping: The Multidimensional Interaction Model. He is a research professor at York University.

Petronella Clark, BSc'62, has spent most of the last 35 years in Africa in various teaching positions. She has two children, Roger, who was born in 1974, and Sarah, who is three years younger.

Richard Deckelbaum, BSc'63, is Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University. He is also a professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University and a former flying doctor in Zambia. Recently, Richard helped create a new medical degree program in International Health with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

David Mulder, MSc'65, has been inducted into the Order of Canada. He is surgeon-in-chief of the Montreal General Hospital, chairman of the Department of Surgery at McGill and the medical director of the McGill Sports Centre. He lives in Westmount, Que.

Cho-Fai Wong, MSc'65, completed his PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970, and is working at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He lives in Brisbane.

Gerald R. Buzzell, BSc'67, MSc'69, is professor of anatomy at Kuwait University.

Martin H. Poleski, BSc'69, MD'73, is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is Associate Director of the Barbara and Wilbur Strohn Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla. Martin is married to Barbara Winfield, BSWk'71, MSW'72.

Nick Di Pietro, BSc'72, MSc'75, has joined AGRA Moneco Terra Nova Offshore Petroleum Development as Deputy Mechanical Engineer Supervisor in London, England. He and his wife, Olga Di Pietro, BA'74, have three sons.

René J. Lévesque, BSc'75, was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives in Outremont, Que.

Joe Casola, BSc'77, has been appointed vice-president sales of the Montreal-based DMR Consulting Group.

Elizabeth Lachendro, BSc'77, gave birth to triplets: Tova, Stella, and Edwin. She and her family reside in Montreal.

Jon Adler, BSc'78, is director of information systems operations and technology for Cisco Systems in San Jose, Calif.

Nathalie Zinger, BSc'81, is the winner of the 1997 Mérite environnemental award in the environmental group category. She is the Quebec Director for World Wildlife Fund Canada.

Robert Schertzer, BSc'83, completed his residency in ophthalmology in 1994 and has been a glaucoma and medical informatics specialist at the University of Michigan's Kellogg Eye Centre since 1996. His wife, Laura Rosenthal, BCom'85, is Director of Alumni Relations at the University.

Joseph R. La Leggia, BSc'85, was appointed president and chief operating officer of AT&T Capital Canada Inc. He makes his home in Rivière-des-Prairies, Que.

Lorraine Laviolette, BSc'86, MBA'94, has been appointed Senior Representative for Quebec with the Bank of Canada.

Liana Melchiorre, BSc'87, holds the position of "Geowriter" for Emerging Africa Gold Inc., a gold exploration company based in Montreal. She lives in St. Bruno, Que.

Margaret Benoit, BSc'88, is an adjunct professor at California State University, San Marcos. She is also a full-time author and wrote The Crime Files, published by McGraw. She has a master's degree in forensic science from National University, San Diego.

Sophia Nadur, BSc'88, graduated with an MBA from Warwick University in July 1996. She is a management consultant at Price Waterhouse.

Paul-François Paradis, BSc'88, a accepté l'offre de la National Aeronautics and Space Admini-stration d'être un CalTech Postdoctoral Scholar au Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Kaoru Takeuchi, MSc'88, PhD'92, recently wrote Kenji Miyazawa, Mysterious Fantasia of the Stars, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1996. He has translated John Horgan's The End of Science, published in 1997.

Ravi Agarwala, BSc'90, graduated with a medical degree from the University of Ottawa. He is a fellow in critical care medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

Bart Manning, BSc'91, received his PhD in neuroscience from Virginia Commonwealth Uni-versity in Richmond, Virginia, in 1996. He was awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Medical Research Council of Canada.

Tammy Clifford, BSc'92, MScA'93, is working on her doctorate in epidemiology at the Univer-sity of Western Ontario. On May 16, 1997, she married Greg Sholdice.

Peter Chu, BSc'93, obtained his master's degree in gene therapy research from the University of Toronto, and is on a full fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, doing his PhD in biomedical sciences.

Daniel Robitaille, MSc'93, received a master's degree from the earth and ocean department of the University of Victoria. He is a computer system administrator for the Climate Modelling Laboratory at the University of Victoria.

Seth Toback, BSc'93, graduated from Tufts Medical School in Boston and is a paediatric resident at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He and fellow classmates Genevieve Beauchemin, BSc'93, Kevin Busche, BSc'93, Sue Freitag, BSc'93, Martin Guibord, BSc'93, Kasandra Joss, BSc'93, BA'95, buried a time capsule on the McGill campus which will be opened in 25 years.

Irene Karantanis, BSc'94, married Tony Haakman in August 1996. She is finishing her master's degree in speech-language pathology at the University of Alberta.

Lidia Kasprzak, BSc'94, MSc'96, works as an hereditary cancer genetics counsellor at McGill's Department of Human Genetics and the Montreal General Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Chan Yong Lee, PhD'94, is an assistant professor at the Eulji Medical College in Taejon, South Korea.

Robert Spekkens, BSc'94, is pursuing his PhD in physics at the University of Toronto.

Raj Waghmare, BSc'94, and Dave Frankland, BCom'96, are two of three co-founders of a small software company, Virtualis, based in Nepean, Ontario.

G. Andrew Work, BSc'94, is working as sponsorship manager with the McGill Society of Hong Kong Executive.

Catherine Agbaw, MSc'95, is a computer software designer. She has relocated from Nortel in Ottawa to Nortel in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

John Murray Henderson, BSc'95, MSc'97, works in Atmospheric and Environmental Research, in Cambridge, Mass.

Linda Lieberman, BSc'95, began the PhD program in microbiology at Ohio State University in September.

Matthew Carr, BSc'96, is pursuing a PhD in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

Nathan L. Currier, BSc'96, will be starting his PhD program in December, researching erythraleukemic tumours through pharmaceutical agent administration in mice to augment natural killer cell activity and proliferation.

Jana Fuska, BSc'96, will be completing her master's degree with the McGill Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1998.

Andrea Jakob, MSc'96, is working at the ASTRA Research Centre as a research assistant in the department of pharmacology. She was mar-ried in June 1996, and lives in Nun's Island, Que.

Maria Kalergis, MSc'96, has been awarded the 1997 Dietitians of Canada Memorial Fund Graduate Scholarship. She is pursuing doctoral studies at McGill.

Gil Kimel, BSc'96, is working on his master's in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

Athena Manganas, BSc'96, is starting a master's degree in criminology at Université de Montréal.

Evelyne Pytka, BSc'96, received the 1997 DC Undergraduate award from the Dietitians of Canada. She is the author of Almonds and Raisins and Mostly Muffins: Choice Snacks for Healthy Eating.

Fiona Reid, BSc'96, is working for a high-tech instrumentation company in Concord, Ontario. In May 1998, she will start an MBA program in science and technology at Queen's University.

Howard Tong, BSc'96, is studying dentistry at the University of Toronto.

Beverly Williams, BSc'96, married David Oh, BCom'95, in Halifax in August.

Farooq Zahir, BSc'96, is pursuing a graduate diploma in Public Accountancy at McGill. He is working at Canadian National Railways.

Sandra Carriero, BSc'97, is pursuing a PhD in organic chemistry at Yale University.

Carolyn Cummins, BSc'97, will be attending the University of California, San Francisco, to pursue a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Paul Steven Giacomini, BSc'97, is attending medical school at the University of Toronto.

Spiros Karigiannis, BSc'97, is studying for a PhD in pure mathematics at Harvard University.

Jeff Kwong, BSc'97, is attending the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Xu Lin, BSc'97, is working at Revenue Canada and pursuing a master's degree in mathematics and computer science at the University of Ottawa.

Annie Prud'homme-Genereux, BSc'97, is pursuing graduate studies in biochemistry at the University of British Columbia.

Dorothy Costom, BA'61, MSW'63, was awarded a doctorate from the School of Health and Human Services of Columbia Pacific University. Her dissertation was entitled Self-Esteem and Nurturance of Birth Culture in Adopting Parents.

Steve M. Solomon, MSW'79, was named executive director of the Jewish Family Services of central Maryland.

Karen Schafer, BA'81, BSW'85, MSW'87, has relocated to Victoria B.C. and begun a new private psychotherapy practice. On the recreational side, she acted in a production of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, at Langham Court Theatre, in March, along with two other McGill graduates, Alix Cowie, BSc'50, and Frances Harber, BA'70.

Sylvie Spénard, BSW'93, is working at l'Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies in pédopsychiatrie.

Arlene Sternthal, BSW'95, is a speech pathologist in Montreal. Her three children, Adam, Ian and Rebecca, graduated from elementary, high school and CEGEP respectively.

Heather Astroff, BSW'96, recently graduated from New York University with an MSW in clinical counselling. She works at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.

Stephanie Raby, BSW'96, works for the Montreal General Hospital in the Immune Deficiency Treatment Centre.

John Thomas Compassi, BSW'97, is studying at the Université du Québec à Montréal for a diploma in issues related to death, grieving, and support for families and loved ones.