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Harry Kopald, retired from his accounting practice, stays busy as the treasurer of both the Hilltop Summer Citizens Association and the Community Council Hilltop Co-op #1. Eli Mason was named to "The Top 100 Most Influential People in the Profession" by Accounting Today magazine.
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With a 30-year background in government contracting, Martin D. Furst is now active in tax practice both in the U.S. and the U.K. and is a government contract consultant.
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Harry Leinwand is secretary of the Tucson CCNY Alumni Chapter.
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Murray Starr has been happily married for 49 years and has two children and four grandchildren. Norman Tipograph is president of SAIL (South Shore Association for Independent Living) and a member of PEIR (Professionals and Executives in Retirement). He is also on the board of appeals for Hewlett Harbor. Phillip Zimmerman (MBA '53) mediates for the American Arbitration Association, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the New York and New Jersey courts.
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Bernard Handel, JD, CPA, has been president/CEO of H.D.L. Associates in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., since 1957. Alexander Solomon, a Korean War veteran, was an international tax specialist for the IRS, retiring in 1995. He now helps individuals with their tax returns.
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Robert Rosenfeld and his wife, Dolores, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day 2000.
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William S. Kleiman is a self-employed CPA. He has four children and six grandchildren.
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Edwin Ehrlich is a trustee for the First Eagle family of mutual funds.
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Barbara Neuman Edelman has retired to Florida with her husband. Matthew Krakower served in the Navy for 20 years, retiring as a commander, Supply Corps. Most recently, he headed the business office of St. Brides Correctional Center. He is now retired and living with his wife of 42 years, Sheila. Barbara Hobberman Levine and her husband, Harold Levine, are the owners of ASLAN Publishing, Words Work Press. She is also the author of Your Body Believes Every Word You Say, of which the second edition was printed in October 2000. Matthew Wolfson, a lawyer and CPA, has lived in California for 25 years.
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Louis M. Jacobson, consultant on state and local taxes for Ernst & Young LLP, is also chair of the New York State Business Council's Committee on State Taxation.
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Frank E. Seipp is president of the Phillips House Museum, a Lions International director, and a Fossi Senior Citizens Board member and sits on the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Board.
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Felix R. Maneiro is assistant VP for finance at the CUNY Graduate School. Alan Weiner, senior tax partner at Holtz Rubenstein & Co., LLP, addressed participants from 24 countries at the 2001 conference of DFK International, a worldwide association of independent accounting firms and business advisers, held in Marbella, Spain.
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In April 2001, Prometheus Books published Police Unbound: Corruption, Abuse, and Heroism by the Boys in Blue by Anthony Bouza (MPA '68). Before his retirement, Bouza served as Minneapolis chief of police and commander of the Bronx police force.
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Harvey Wacht recently joined Shufro, Rose & Co., LLC, an investment advisor and money management firm in New York City, as a managing director.
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Harvey A. Holzberg (MBA) has been CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., since 1995.
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In June 2001, Lucille Feldman-Warner was promoted to first vice president of Kaye Insurance Associates, Inc., in New York City. She has been with the organization for 34 years. Walfrido A. Martinez (MBA '74) joined Workbench Furniture, Inc., as VP and CFO in April 2001. Helen Sklavos lives in Greece, where she is head of the Executive Secretarial Department of the American College of Greece.
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Michael Katz has been elected to the board of directors for the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women.
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Frederic Farber, CPA, was recently appointed to serve as chair for a year of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants Professional Education Committee.
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James J. Yarmus (MBA) was named Engineer of the Year (2001) by the Rockland County Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. He has served as commissioner of planning, public transportation, and solid waste management in Rockland since 1994.
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Mildred Garcia was recently appointed president of Berkeley College, which has five campuses in New York and New Jersey. She previously served as professor of social and behavioral sciences as well as vice provost for academic personnel at Arizona State University. Stephen L. Hagendorf (MBA) has a copyrighted seminar, "Network to Get Work," which deals with obtaining a position before graduation.
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Betty Butreas (MS '78) retired from teaching in 1996. She enjoys traveling, lectures, and mentoring at Long Island University, and stays involved with education by planning field trips for PS 93K. Wendy Z. Goldstein (MBA) was recently appointed president and CEO of Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. She previously was an executive at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. In August 2001, Gary T. Rizzo was appointed president and CEO of Muraspec N.A., a wallcoverings distributor headquartered in Massachusetts. Previously, he served as executive VP for the JM Lynne Company. José A. Rodriguez works for the New York City Department of Sanitation. In August 2001, James T. Tierney (MBA) joined Zürich North American Financial Enterprises as an executive in charge of the company's New York metro territory.
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Floyd C. Denison (MBA), who resides in Miami, Fla., is executive VP and CFO of Assurant Group, an affinity marketer of specialty insurance. Eric Popkoff (MBA '79), owner and publisher of Undisclosed Equities Research Corporation, has recently been engaged as investor relations representative for Inter-Con/PC, Inc. He is also an adjunct professor of business finance and economics at Touro College in Brooklyn, N.Y. In March 2001, Marc Wolfsohn, CPA, was elected CFO of New Jerseybased Wireless Telecom Group, Inc.
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In addition to running his own law firm, Hector Agostini is a full-time professor at a community college. Chris Alcamo was recently hired as manager of the tax department at Withum Smith & Brown, a Princeton, N.J.based accounting firm. Having retired in 1999 as director of overseas personnel for the Episcopal Church headquarters in Manhattan, Dorothy Gist remains active as president of the Flushing Photography Club and chairwoman of the Commission on Christian Social Action of the St. Albans Congregational Church. She lives in Queens Village, N.Y. Robert Lee (MBA) is assistant commissioner of the Department of Finance. In this position, he also serves as secretary of the New York City Banking Commission and Trustee to the N.Y.C. Retirement Systems.
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Alan Hayes (MBA) has started up three corporations in six years and is currently providing health care and technical advice to the public company HMSY as VP of strategies technologies. William Korman is a tax partner at Ernst & Young, LLP.
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Robert F. Dembia (MPA '91) recently accepted a position with the New York State Education Department as a regional associate with the Long Island Special Education Quality Assurance Office. Prior to that, he was an education director with the New York State Office of Mental Health. Edward G. Jones (MBA) has formed a firm to provide early stage global technology companies with venture capital and private equity funding services. Evan Stein has been promoted to VP of brand for Acclaim Entertainment, a worldwide interactive entertainment company based on Long Island, N.Y. He previously held the title of director of brand management for several of the firm's product lines.
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Nick Barcia was named VP of risk solutions for FAME Information Services, a time-series-based solutions provider for the financial and energy markets, headquartered in New York. Sonia Nazaire has a two-year-old granddaughter.
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In May 2001, Francis T. McCarron (MBA) was appointed senior VP and CFO of Triarc Companies, Inc. Prior to this, he was senior VP of taxes for Triarc, which is based in New York City.
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Gloria Feliciano recently joined San Franciscobased Esprit de Corp., the clothing and accessories manufacturer, as senior VP, human resources. Prior to that, she served as senior VP of human resources and administrative services at Polygram Holdings, Inc.
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Michelle H. Brown-Nevers (MSEd '90) is executive director of Columbia University's Health Sciences Division. In 1998, she completed her EdD at Columbia's Teacher's College.
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Donell Gibson has been promoted to controller of Roper Scientific. He and his family (including a new baby) will be relocating to either Tucson, Ariz., or Trenton, N.J.
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Kerry Benson, who lives in New Jersey, recently accepted a position with State Street Corporation as VP in the client technology division. She was formerly a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting. Catherine Keller is senior school coordinator with Everybody Wins Foundation, a nonprofit organization that brings volunteers from the business community into public schools. She works at the Ralph Bunche School in Harlem, N.Y.
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The CIGNA E-Commerce Office has named David A. Finkel (MBA) VP in charge of e-commerce service and distribution initiatives. Previously, he was chief administrative officer at HealthMarket, Inc.
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After working for several nonprofit organizations, Rose Gonzalez is executive director and co-founder of the Bronx Parent Housing Network. Its mission is to help single parents and low-income families through housing and education. William Rothe (MBA) has joined DMIND Corporation, a provider of e-business software and solutions, as chief technology officer. He recently served as a manager at Amerada Hess. CPA Susan Telesmanic is managing director of consumer marketing at the New York Times. She is married with two sons.
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After 30 years in the corporate business world, James Davila began a new career as a general business teacher in January 2000. He teaches at Memorial High School in West New York, N.J., and is pursuing a master's degree in ESL/bilingual education at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Ronald Guzman is a manager in Ernst & Young's Profiling Group, which performs network security reviews. In May 2001, the Dial Corporation, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., appointed Evon L. Jones senior VP and chief information officer. He was most recently senior VP and chief information officer of America West Holdings Corporation. Edwin Lugo (MBA) is a member of the New York State Bar. Hui M. Peak recently joined Credit Suisse First Boston as assistant VP. Assistant Professor William Reisel (MBA, PhD '97) continues to teach management courses at St. John's University. He is married and has a two-year-old son.
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Janet Gottlieb is expanding her computer graphics service to include editing, proofreading, and promotional copy for major international financial institutions. Salvatore Lupo is a stock options trader at UBS PaineWebber. He plans to pursue his MBA at Baruch. Alfred J. Wilkowski (MBA) is currently president of Interstate Envelope Manufacturing Co.
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Margaret Mary Ann Fleming (MBA), senior vice president for Executive Enterprises in New Rochelle, N.Y., was married July 4, 2001, to Dennis Rees of Glen Cove. Margie Kirschstein has recently returned to school to pursue a veterinary degree. David Korn (MBA) has just completed his MS in taxation from Baruch. Father Philip T. Persico was recently appointed parochial vicar of St. Denis Parish in Hopewell Junction, N.Y. He previously served as parochial vicar at Holy Child in Staten Island.
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Brian F. Zen (MBA) recently founded zenway.com $ocial Club for people interested in networking and stock picking.
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Yaakov M. Meiri (MBA) joined Raymond of New Jersey LLC, a material handling distributorship in June 2001. He is the general services manager. Donna Quinn (MBA) is president of T.N.T. Industries, a construction services company within the JFK airport community. She is also the proud mother of two boys.
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Mary Atwater, an accountant with the U.S. Department of Labor, credits Baruch with helping her find her "true passion," computer programming. Sophia C. Brivio recently gave birth to a daughter, Lauren Victoria, and has taken leave from Bayer Diagnostics as a diabetes educator in order to raise her.
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Glenn E. Giles was appointed to senior VP, global support and delivery organizations, at Idea Integration. Angel Lorente received his MBA from Pace University in January 2001 and was recently promoted to manager in the controller's office of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. He is organizing his own consulting practice that will cater to small business owners in need of development services. After working as a computer consultant for Cambridge Technology Partners, Joanne Minezes currently teaches math at Cathedral High School in New York City. Kerri Rogers (MBA) is an economic development consultant focusing on retail, entertainment, and commercial space in urban areas. She recently purchased a brownstone in Harlem. In May 2001, Marcela Solano obtained her MBA from Fordham University's Graduate School of Business Administration. She is currently VP of marketing for the New York Chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs.
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Vincent Batista passed all parts of the CPA exam. Boris Matsolchin is working for Bloomberg Financial and has high hopes for his future.
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James Davis (MS) teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Bergen Community College, and the New York Institute of Technology. Girlie Delizio-Jasper worked part time for i3Mobile while attending Baruch. Upon graduation, she accepted a full-time job as project coordinator and was recently promoted to senior quality assurance analyst. Andrew L. Puzzio (MBA) is working as a financial advisor at Prudential Securities. He is the proud father of Aidan Kyle Puzzio.
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Ingrid Baird, who graduated with a degree in finance, continues to work for NDP, her employer of 20 years. LaShun Carroll is a staff member in the research pathology department at NYU Medical Center. Roy Cose is a financial analyst at USA Networks in New York City. Abby Fleischman married Steven Miller in June 2000 and currently teaches English and drama at James Madison High School in Brooklyn. David Golland is completing an MA in American history at the University of Virginia and working in special education at Jack Jovett Middle School in Charlottesville, Va. Divya Kapoor is employed at a mid-size accounting firm. In addition to forming Optimarket LLC, a business that counsels senior executives in career transition, Robert C. Sloane (MBA) is adjunct professor of marketing at St. John's University's Tobin School of Business and at St. Francis College, both in New York City.
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Elias Elia is pursuing an MS in computer science from City College's School of Engineering. Yeymi Pena is assistant budget analyst in New York City's Office of Management and Budget. Betty Wilson (MS) is an associate real property manager in the housing education services unit of New York's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. 
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