Carleton Patterson – Ensian Photographer (1949)
Carleton is a veteran of WW II and has written a book of his experiences during that time. The published book is nonfiction and is entitled One Sailor’s War Story by Carleton Patterson. It is a story of his life in the United States Coast Guard, which in war time is under the Navy Dept. He was the combat photographer stationed aboard the USS KIRKPATRICK Destroyer Escort 318 and made 18 crossings of the Atlantic trying to avoid the torpedoes of enemy submarines in our duties of convoying troops and equipment to the war zones of Europe. The book includes some of the many photographs taken during these trips. It can be purchased through the Internet at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com or any bookstore that can obtain it through Page Free Publishing at: businessaffairs@pagefreepublishing.com
Donald A. Yates – Daily and Gargoyle (AB 1951, MA 1954, PhD 1961)
Donald received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the period 2009-2010 to finish a memoir/biography of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). In December of 2008 he went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to carry out research. While there, he was honored as "Visitante ilustre" by the City of Buenoas Aires and received a citation from the Argentine Academy of Letters. Both awards were made in recognition of 50 years dedicated to translating into English the writings of a score of Argentine authors. In 2008, the Authors Society of London recognized the publication in 1962 of Labyrinths: Selected Writings of Jorge Luis Borges, co-translated and co-edited with James E. Irby, as one of the 50 most important translations into English over the past 50 years.
Donna Hendleman Rubens – Daily Senior Editor (ED 1953)
Nothing earth-shaking to report. But Donna does have an agenda for her aging years.
She plans to finish a novel, publish poems (or have them published), put on short plays and finish the play her late husband Paul was writing when he passed away. Meanwhile she lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. near her three children and eight grandchildren.
Past years were spent doing everything on community papers (having learned how to do it all on The Daily), and also working three decades as a NYC teacher. Is anyone still out there who remembers glue pots and scissors as necessary tools of the trade? And the exciting click-clack of the AP machine as it spewed out its papers behind the City desk? She would trade in her computer any day for a chance to put a paper together again in the old-fashioned way.
David Kessel - Gargoyle Editor (1957, PhD 1959)
After receiving a ‘lifetime achievement’ award at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) in July, he had a few days to wander around. The average life-span is 60, so there were mainly young people about. The organizers gave him a plaque and a bottle of cognac that he could not take on the flight back, so he gave it to the taxi driver. He realized he should have done this after reaching the airport, because he promptly opened it and he had to drive the last 3 miles while the driver slept in the back seat.
Harvey Wasserman – Daily Editorial Director (1967)
Harvey is continuing to fight nuke power, inspired in part by the 1966 meltdown at Fermi I, in Monroe, that almost killed us all. Our vision of a green-powered Earth has been published in Solartopia! (www.solartopia.org). We can and must have an economy converted to wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, etc., and end the 20th century nonsense of fossil/nuclear fuels. Go Blue, & No Nukes!
Sheilah Rae (nee Bernstein) Gross (1967)
Sheilah is thrilled to announce the publication of her musical, “Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother,” by Samuel French, the pre-eminent publisher and representative of theatrical product. The musical, based on the #1 NY Times bestseller by Lois Wyse, was co-written with the late Lois Wyse, with music by Robert Waldman. The piece has had many productions all over the country, as well as had East and West tours. Her latest musical, “I Married Wyatt Earp,” was most recently presented in concert staged readings in June 2008 at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles as part of the prestigious Festival of New America Musicals. At the last minute, Sheilah substituted in a performance for the ailing Carol Lawrence, who had to withdraw from the concerts.
This project has had several university productions as well as performances at the Greenwich Theatre in London, and a world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA. Sheilah is a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the recipient of the 1999 Galaxy Rising Star Award from the NY Women's Agenda. She is a proud creator and sponsor of “Curtain Call: 100 years of Women Designing for the Visual Arts” on view at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts through May 2, 2009.
www.sheilahrae.com
Cynthia Haven – Daily Executive Editor (1977)
Cynthia spent last summer as a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, doing her fieldwork mostly in Kraków, but also working in Warsaw, London, Oxford, and Prague. Her subsequent articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Times, with more on the way. Her forthcoming An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz will be published next year by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Her essay on Zbigniew Herbert's "Report from a Besieged City," originally on Words Without Borders website, will appear in the anthology Fall of the Wall (Open Letter Books) later this year. And she did her first podcast on www.poetryfoundation.org, to accompany her article on Miłosz, "The Doubter and the Saint,” a slow move into the media technology of the 21st century! Look her up on Facebook.
Marnie Heyn – Daily Editorial Director (1975)
Marnie is raking together poetry manuscripts of all sizes and eras, entering competitions and submitting for publication. She finally got serious about having a grown-up job. If you see one, please throw a net over it and give her a call.
Gerald Nanninga - Gargoyle Editor-in-Chief (BA 1976, MBA 1978)
Gerald has spent about the last 30 years working in retailing with firms like Best Buy, DSW, Filene's Basement, Shopko, Supervalu, etc. His roles have varied from strategic planning to marketing to finance. To keep his sanity, Gerald writes a blog on strategic planning (http://planninga-from-nanninga.blogspot.com). He recently realized that if one took all of his blog entries and streamed them back to back into a single word document, they would fill up about 800 pages (more than a ream and a half of paper). So he’s still in the writing business after all.
Leba Hertz - Managing Sports Editor (1976)
Leba has added, editor of the new movie section of The San Francisco Chronicle, to her duties. She is currently Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Chronicle, where she started working in 1985 as a sports copy editor. She eventually became Deputy Sports Editor before moving to the Datebook section in 2002.
Nathaniel Warshay – Daily (AB 1982, RC 1984, AM 1987)
Since the 1980s, Nathaniel’s information gathering skills and writing have been focused on the social good. He has worked in the nonprofit sphere, first in program, then public relations, and finally in corporate and foundation philanthropy. His work focuses on writing to tell the story, to help compel donors to support the social good, be it housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or providing medical care to everyone, “From the very poor to the rich” he says, – “we're all human beings.”
In his career, he has helped to raise $75 million, allocate $55 million, develop nearly 200 units of housing for the homeless, and create after-school and enrichment programs for thousands of children. Presently, Nathaniel is the senior grant officer at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and is on the English faculty of Michigan Jewish Institute. He did work at the International Herald-Tribune, and was published in papers around the country.
Steven R. Hunter - Daily Sports Staff (AB 1984, JD 1987)
Who knew covering sports like wrestling and women's tennis would help prepare Steven for a career as a criminal defense attorney in Chicago. But dealing with crusty Lucious Doyle, the man who set the hot-type in the pre-computer's stone-age, was excellent preparation for dealing with crusty judges. Then he wrote on a deadline for publication, now writing on a deadline to file motions and briefs. He loved writing for the Daily, and loves practicing law. Anyone wishing to discuss either can reach Steven through his website at www.stevenrhunter.com.
Beth Fertig – Daily Arts Editor (1988)
Beth has written her first book. Learning to Read is about three young adults who got all the way to high school in the New York City public schools without learning to read. They won settlements from the city in the form of private tutoring, at a total cost to taxpayers of about $300,000, because they had learning disabilities that were never properly addressed. The book tracks their efforts to learn how to read, while also looking at the nation's largest school system's attempt to raise its reading scores under the technocratic leadership of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein. Learning to Read is scheduled for a September 2009 release by FSG Books. Fertig is a reporter at WNYC Radio, the New York City affiliate of National Public Radio.
Kathryn Ullrich – Daily (BS 1992)
She worked in a management development program, engineering, service and product marketing at GTE before attending business school. She graduated from UCLA Anderson School of Management with an MBA and top Carter Honors. In addition to starting a thriving recruiting business, Kathryn has also co-founded a Silicon Valley non-profit, now SDForum Tech Women’s Program, with the mission to educate, mentor and connect women in technology.
Kathryn has ten years of executive search experience with her own firm and Russell Reynolds Associates. She interviews and provides career guidance to C-level, VPs, Directors and Managers in high technology and consulting companies.
She leads the Getting to the Top career development programs at UCLA Anderson School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Through these career programs, well over 1,000 attendees have learned the career paths and skills to be successful in different functional.
Kathryn is the new Associate Director, Alumni Career Services in the UCLA Anderson Office of Alumni Relations. She will be helping alumni with resources for career development and job transition.
Kathryn was previously VP of the Board of Directors for the UCLA Anderson School Alumni Association, VP of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network Los Angeles Chapter, MBA Alumni Class President, Member of the Board of Directors for the University of Michigan Alumni Association, Regional Director for the Silicon Valley chapter of WITI, and a selected participant for Leadership California. She was the recipient of the Kenneth Ernst Thought Leadership Award at Accenture for a groundbreaking industry study and holds patents in video on demand from work at GTE.
Kathryn is mother of two young boys, plays competitive tennis, enjoys sailing and entertaining, and is writing Getting to the Top for aspiring career professionals.
Melissa Gollob Allsteadt - Daily Arts Writer (2002)
Melissa currently lives in California with my husband Jeff. I am a corporate attorney specializing in mortgage companies.
Email: Melly119@aol.com
Amy ("Ottens") Sewell - Daily (AB 1985)
Amy is a writer/filmmaker in New York City. Her works are below.
Documentaries: Mad Hot Ballroom (2005, Paramount), What’s Your Point, Honey? (2009, Cinetic Media)
Books: She’s Out There! The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates (4/2009 LifeTime Media), The Mad Hot Adventures of an Unlikely Documentary Filmmaker (2007, Hyperion).
Glenn Robertelli – Ensian Staff Photographer (BA 1998)
Glenn Robertelli, founder of Intelligen and makers of ViewGuard™ brand products, was selected as Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in Entrepreneur® magazine’s inaugural 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year contest presented by The UPS Store®.
Glenn, not only created a business that competes with a corporate giant, but he’s also done so completely on his own with a virtual, 99 percent paperless office. He started Intelligen in October 2006, which makes ViewGuard Anti-Glare Privacy Filters. He has since broadened his product line and estimates 2008 sales at $2.8 million.
About ViewGuard™: ViewGuard™ offers a full line of unique and novel electronics accessories including privacy filters, anti-glare and cleaning products for even the rarest computer or television models: www.BuyViewGuard.com.
Adriana Yugovich - Gargoyle Staff, Ensian Photographer and Daily Arts Photo Editor (BFA 1999)
Adriana received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2003, and is working as a freelance cartoonist, graphic designer and photographer in Los Angeles. Her alter ego, Furious Georgette, skates with the LA Derby Dolls, LA's premiere all-female, banked-track roller derby league.
Susan Shapiro - Daily
After publishing five nonfiction books, Manhattanite Susan Shapiro's debut novel Speed Shrinking will be published by St. Martin's Press in August 2009. Her website susanshapiro.net (designed by her brother Eric Shapiro, a U of M alum still living in Ann Arbor) will list all the readings and book events she'll be doing in Michigan and Chicago the week of August 12.
Robert Fowler – Ensian Copy Editor (2005)
Robert lives in Chicago and is working as an accountant at a large, public accounting firm.
Gabriel J. Edelson - Michigan Daily Senior Sports Editor (BA 2006)
Gabriel is currently finishing his final year of law school at New York University and will graduate in May 2009. He plans to begin working in the Chicago office of the law firm of Latham & Watkins in the fall.