1943M: Ralph K. Brooks of Annapolis, Md., looks forward to the 70th class reunion in 2013 after an enjoyable 65th in May with classmates Irv Taylor and Bill Hagen.1946: Milton Reisch has been enjoying winters in Plantation, Fla., and summers in Yonkers, N.Y., since retirement in 2005. He was elected to AOA in April, and he enjoys his great grandson Ethan.
1950: Thomas N. Corpening of Houston continues working every day. Frank T. Kasik Jr., of Baltimore celebrated his 90th birthday in June and enjoys retirement with his five children, 14 grandchildren, and eleven great grandchildren.1951: Eugene B. Rex of Winter Park, Fla., is getting his golf game back in shape after hip replacement surgery last September. He also enjoys spending time with grandchildren.1954: James H. Teeter of Waynesboro, Pa., retired from his surgical practice last December at age 80. He reports that grandson Mark is interested in medicine and would like to attend Maryland.1955: Murray M. Kappelman of Baltimore received the 2008 lifetime achievement award from the American
Association of Pediatrics.1956: Gilbert E. Hurwitz of Bethesda, Md., retired on January 1, 2008. Joseph S. McLaughlin of Baltimore is president-elect of the Baltimore City Medical Society. 1957: Harvey R. Butt of Annapolis, Md., enjoys retirement with wife Barbara and their children and grandchildren. Walter M. Shaw of Bonita, Calif., reports that the memories of their 50th medical school anniversary last year remain fresh in his mind, and he wishes classmates the very best.1959: August D. King Jr., and wife Netta of Lutherville, Md., celebrated their 50th anniversary in September and are blessed with five children and 13 grandchildren.
1960: Jerome J. Ross of Baltimore reports his blue and white ’54 Kaiser Manhattan was used in the new movie My One and Only, filmed around Baltimore and starring Rene Zelweger and Kevin Bacon. The movie should be released next year. Merrill T. Syphus is practicing general surgery and general medicine in his hometown of St. George, Utah.1963: B. Robert Giangrandi of Ellicott City, Md., is enjoying retirement from both his private practice and the administration at St. Agnes Hospital.1964: Barry M. Cohen of Hagerstown, Md., reports that he is fighting metastatic melanoma. Samuel Muher of Owings Mills, Md., is retired.1965: William H. Choate of Mayo, Md., proudly reports that an autistic boy he has been helping for four years at South River High School graduated with honors in June. Ann Robinson Wilke of Advance, N.Y., reports that her son, Maj. William A. Wilke, returned from Iraq in July, and his first request was for steamed crabs and beer! She and husband Robert recently traveled to the Galapagos Islands and South Africa.1966: Stephen F. Gordon of Savannah, Ga., reports that daughter Penny was made a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina Medical School. Her major interest is pediatric obesity. John E. Steers of Westminster, Md., reports that son John, ’88, is a general surgeon at the Carroll Hospital Center. Beresford Swan of Hamilton, Bermuda, is a consultant to the Hemodialysis center that bears his name at Bermuda Hospital following his retirement from clinical practice in July.1967: Allan S. Pristoop of Owings Mills, Md., reports that son Rafi is a teaching hospitalist at Kings County Medical Center after completing his senior residency in medicine.1968: Charles S. Samorodin and wife Lucy of Ruxton, Md., have a grandson, thanks to daughter Janet, a pediatrician, and son-in-law Chris, a family practitioner in New Mexico. Jon M. Valigorsky of Pittsfield, Mass., continues teaching in the medical and pathology residency program after retiring in July.1969: Leon Reinstein of Baltimore is chair of the AMA Specialty and Service Societies. The SSS caucus represents 135 medical specialty and military societies at the AMA House of Delegates. Reinstein is associate physiatrist-in-chief at Sinai Hospital. v Mark S. Sugar of Fountain Valley, Calif.,
is president of the California Society of
Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
1970: C.B. Marek Jr., of Lutherville, Md., has retired after 38 years in practice and now plans to travel.1972: Deborah Brandchaft Matro of Westfield, N.J., reports that daughter Jennifer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, daughter Becky graduated from Jefferson Medical School, and son Daniel completed his first year at Stanford Law School. Elizabeth R. Brown of Silver Lake, N.H., retired this year. Sumner H. Goodman of Loudonville, N.Y., reports that he is still ticking. John Niziol and wife Barbara of Wayne N.J., report that daughter Megan, ’07 was married in Ireland over the summer. Martin S. Rosenthal of Chevy Chase, Md., earned his MPH degree in May from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Ronald Staubly and wife Helen of Mt. Pocono, Pa., celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in February. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserves as a colonel in August after 30 years of service which included deployments during the first Gulf War, to Bosnia, and in 2003 to Baghdad. He is now a locums geriatrician working for the Wanganui District Health Board in New Zealand and reports that all three children are doing well.1974: David Zisow and wife Marcie of Pikesville, Md., are proud grandparents of Emily Kate, born March 7, and Samara Hope Silverman, born May 10. Zisow is a gynecologist and associate chief of minimally invasive surgery at Northwest Hospital.1975: Kenneth V. Iserson of Tucson, Ariz., retired from the University of Arizona after 27 years. In retirement he is working on his latest book Improvised Medicine, expected to be published in 2009. Iserson will be traveling to Peru in November to teach and perform clinical work, and he also plans to be in Kenya in early 2009. Thomas F. Krajewski of Towson, Md., is director of integrated medical services for Integra Health Management. Jeffrey and Sandra Quartner of Pikesville, Md., report that daughter Jennifer, ’06 will begin a cardiology fellowship next July at Maryland, following completion of her residency. Michael B. Stewart of Seattle is president of Northwest Pharma Consulting. Lloyd M. Van Lunen Jr., of Brunswick, Maine, is working three days each week and sails his 40' boat as much as possible. 1976: Bruce A. Silver of Dunkirk, Md., has been serving as a free-lance consultant for early clinical drug development since retiring from practice in 2001. He continues running and does an occasional marathon. Arno Zaritsky of Norfolk, Va., is senior vice president for clinical affairs at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. 1977: Anne C. Goldberg of St. Louis recently completed a year as president of the National Lipid Association. She reports that it was a valuable experience both professionally and personally. Beverli S. Goldberg of Catonsville, Md., although partially retired, was certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer. Richard B. Silver of Tampa, Fla., was certified in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography.1978: Stuart L. Jacobs of Severna Park, Md., reports that son Evan is working for McKinsey & Associates in New York City after graduating from Harvard, and daughter Rachel is attending Towson University after graduating from Anne Arundel Community College. Elizabeth M. Kingsley and Stephen A. Valenti of Annapolis, Md., congratulate daughter Elizabeth, ’08, on beginning her internal medicine internship at Maryland after her May graduation. They enjoyed the 30th reunion in May and look forward to the 35th. Bruce E. Weneck of Hagerstown, Md., proudly reports that daughter Margot Elizabeth has entered master’s in nursing program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, following her 2006 graduation from College of Charleston. 1979: Bernie Kozlovsky of Baltimore is medical officer for the Health Resources and Services Administration Division of Transplantation in Rockville. His daughter is a nurse in the cardio-thoracic critical care unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and his son is starting the St. John’s University Physician’s Assistant program in Queens. Marcy C. McKay of Huntsville, Tex., is working locums in semi-retirement. Peter Rork of Jackson, Wyo., hopes to retire from orthopaedic surgery in 2010 when his youngest graduates from high school. In retirement he plans to resume his aviation career that was started prior to medical school. Perri Laverson Wittgrove of San Diego reports that daughter Carli is attending Vanderbilt University after graduating from high school in spring.
1980: Richard M. Galitz of Aventura, Fla., sends his best wishes to classmates, and he encourages everyone to visit aventuraplasticsurgery.com. Larry Kaplan of Lake Mary, Fla., is assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine. Michael R. Kessler of Denver announces that daughter Laura graduated summa cum laude from Savannah College of Art and Design. Margaret E. McCahill of Jamul, Calif., received the 2008 Physician Humanitarian Award from the Medical Board of California for service to indigent patients and for training healthcare professionals in medically underserved settings. She enjoys spending time with her six-year-old grandson Connor and three-year-old triplets Colin, Emma, and Tara. Kenneth Silver of Pikesville Md., was recently promoted to vice chairman, department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins. Ken’s wife Jocelyne received her PhD in French studies from College Park a few years ago. His daughter Jessica works in Brooklyn, NY, and his son Jeremy just graduated from The American University in D.C., and will be applying to medical schools this fall. 1981: Carl Sperling of Baltimore reports that son Scott is a first year medical student at Maryland. Sperling practices internal medicine at Good Samaritan and Union Memorial hospitals.1982: Darryl B. Kurland of Princeton, N.J., reports that son Jason is a senior resident in internal medicine at Brown University and will remain there for a nephrology fellowship. Son Brian is relaxing after graduating with honors from Northeastern University. Laura L. Stephenson of Boalsburg Pa., continues practicing OB/GYN full time in State College. Daughter Rachel graduated from Juniata College and her son is attending Lock Haven University. Together she and husband Joseph operate a B&B and a perennial nursery.1983: Blaise Chromiak and wife Marjorie of Mobile, Ala., celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by taking a cruise to Italy and the Greek Isles. Mark Regan of Lancaster, Pa., enjoyed seeing classmates at the May reunion. Wife Therese is working on her masters in nutritional science; daughter Mary is in graduate school after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; son Matt is starting medical school after earning a chemistry degree from the University of Pittsburgh; daughter Bridgid is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in exercise physiology; and daughter Claire is a freshman at the University of Maryland. Milton S. Sniadach Jr., and his daughter of Englewood Colo., became Nitrox certified for their recent scuba vacation in Key Largo, Fla. They report catching four lobsters. Jim Spiegel and wife Sharon Tapper, ’84 of Stone Valley, Calif., recently enjoyed a two-week vacation in Europe.1984: Martin L. Schwartz of Irondale, Ala., is chairman of radiology at St. Vincent’s Birmingham. All three sons are in college and wife Elba is doing great! 1985: Joanne L. Kinney of Damascus, Md., reports that son Evan has joined daughter Mary at the University of Maryland College Park. 1986: Lisa A. Scheinin of Redondo Beach, Calif., took roller coaster rides in North Korea, China, Russia, Peru, Japan, and Vietnam during the last year. She also earned a silver medal in her division of a Hanmadang competition—a Tae Kwon Do world-level event. v Julia Ann Williams of Sedona, Ariz., continues to train and breed Golden Retrievers as service animals. She traveled to Honduras in June as a medical missionary, and is a ceramist and instructor at the Sedona Arts Center. 1989: Adam F. Dorin of San Diego reports that his book Jihad and American Medicine-Thinking Like a Terrorist to Anticipate Attacks Via Our Health System has proven to be prophetic, receiving rave reviews in Anesthesiology News and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
1990: Margaret Flowers and husband Brian, ’86 of Sparks, Md., hosted a fund-raising event at their home in August in support of Physicians for a National Health Program. Margaret is in her final year as a director on the Medical Alumni Board of Directors. 1993: Barbara Hutchinson of Bowie, Md., continues to enjoy her cardiology private practice in Annapolis. 1994: Kourosh Baghelai of Saint Joseph, Mich., proudly reports the birth of daughter Sophie, his second, on November 15, 2007. Amy S. Church and husband Rob are enjoying their small farm in Stockton, N.J., with two children, Erin age two, and Ryan, age one, along with two horses, three dogs, and a cat. Church works full time at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Louis Malinow of Owings Mills, Md., is a diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. He is also certified by the American Society of Hypertension as a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure, making him the only physician in Maryland with this dual specialty. Malinow plans to open the Lakeview Hypertension and Lipid Disorders Center where he will see patients for more aggressive management of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.1995: Kevin Dooley of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., reports that daughter Meaghan is a senior at the University of Tulsa and is a member of the crew team. Son Garvey is in college and hopes to be a surgeon one day. Dooley reminds classmates that their home is always open to visitors. Edward McDaniel and wife Brenda are stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Son Michael is in the second grade, while son Justin is a sophomore at Austin Peay University in Clarksville, Tenn.1996: Steven Komjathy is medical director for PRA International Clinical Pharmacology in Lenexa, Kans. Lisa Miller of Waynesboro Pa., reports that she and Vicki Ellis are back together again working at Waynesboro Hospital in OB/GYN and emergency medicine, respectively. 1997: Carol Swanson and John Cox, ’98, of Tampa, Fla., welcomed their third child, Steven, this past February. 1998: Herlene Chatha, husband Kevin Reed, and daughter Simrin, of Kensington Md., visited with Greg Cohen and his family during a recent trip to the nation’s capitol. Elizabeth Feldman and husband David of Washington, D.C., proudly announce the arrival of Nathaniel, their first. Feldman is a surgeon at Georgetown University. Karen R. Raksis and husband Rob have returned to Maryland and are currently living in Columbia. She works at Kaiser Permanente in Silver Spring. 1999: Eric K. Johnson of Evans, Ga., recently returned to wife Amy and three daughters after a third tour of duty in Iraq as an army surgeon. Ursina R. Teitelbaum and husband Benjamin of Ardmore, Pa., proudly welcomed son Asher in November 2007. He joined Lillie, age four, and Sam, age two. Mallory Williams is assistant professor of surgery and associate director of trauma at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport after earning an MPH in health policy and management from Harvard University. Shahid A. Zaidi was recently transferred from the Florida gulf coast to an U.S. Air Force Base in Eagle River, Alaska.
2001: Darren Feldman of New York City is now an assistant attending in the division of GU oncology in the department of medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Eric Klineberg is an assistant professor of spine surgery at UC Davis in Sacramento where he lives with wife Joy and their three children. Teresa Kulie of Madison, Wis., sadly reports that her dog Moses died this past year. Despite the passing, Kulie is doing well. 2002: Eve Fields and husband Michael of Vienna, Va., announce the birth of Theodore, their second son, on February 24. Matthew Keysor of North Las Vegas, Nev., married Beth Lisenbee on May 24th. Brett Levinson and wife of Baltimore announce the birth of Ruby Gabrielle on February 3. Levinson is in private practice with Baltimore Eye Physicians in Towson where he specializes in diseases of the external eye, including severe dry eye, LASIK Surgery, corneal transplants, and hard-to-fit contact lenses. Matthew Smith and wife Shelley of Richmond, Va., announce the birth of London, their first son. 2003: Todd W. Flannery and wife Jacqueline of Pennington, N.J., proudly announce the birth of son Quinn Joseph on July 3. Rachel Hartman and husband Isamu of Dallas celebrated the birth of a son who joins their one year-old daughter. Mohammed Manasawala of Brighton, Mass., is serving a neuroradiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. 2004: Michael Perraut and wife Wendy of Newark, Del., proudly announce the birth of Courtney Erin, their second daughter, on January 21. Kristina Suson and husband Boch of Baltimore welcomed Sage Maione, their first, on January 5. 2005: Julia K. Deanehan Lilley of Jamaica Plain Mass., and husband Brendan Lilley welcomed their son Colin Neil Lilley on March 1st, 2008. After finishing pediatric residency Kate now works as a hospitalist at Boston Children’s. Nicole S. Gable of Baltimore works with Pavilion Pediatrics at Greenspring Station. She and husband Chris were married in September 2007. 2006: Pamela Winterberg of Portland, Ore., will begin a pediatric nephrology fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas beginning in July 2009. 2007: Adriana Jones and Benjamin Laser of Baltimore were married September 14 in Westchester, N.Y.
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