American Magazine: November 2013

class notes
David Smith, SPA/BA ’82,
published a book with the United
States Institute of Peace Press.
Peacebuilding in Community
Colleges: A Teaching Resource
includes contributions by 23
community college professionals,
arguing that community colleges
are well suited to strengthening
global education and teaching
conflict resolution skills.
Sylvia Lamar, WCL/JD ’83, was
appointed to the First Judicial
District Court of New Mexico
by Gov. Susana Martinez. Her
appointment was featured in
the Santa Fe New Mexican.
keepjudgelamar@gmail.com
Robert Surrette, CAS/MA ’83,
published an article in Prime
Time Cape Cod. “Lean on Her: A
Hand to Hold for Children and
Special Victims of Crime” profiles
Deborah Thompson, victim
services coordinator for the
Dennis Police Department.
Mike O’Brien, SOC/BA ’84, had a
book published by the University
Press of Mississippi. We Shall
Not Be Moved: The Jackson
Woolworth’s Sit-In and the
-1981-
TIME
CAPSULES
TOP TUNE
“Bette Davis Eyes,” Kim Carnes
TOP GROSSING FLICK
Raiders of the Lost Ark
IN THE NEWS
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the
first female Supreme Court justice;
52 hostages held in Tehran since 1979
are released; John Hinckley Jr. shoots
President Ronald Reagan in the lung,
wounding three others
AT THE HELM
Don McEachin was 1981–1982 Student
Confederation president; he’s now a
Democratic member of the Virginia
Senate, representing the Ninth District.
Movement It Inspired is the story
of the 1963 movement that shifted
the racial status quo in Jackson,
Mississippi.
Oliver Chamberlain, CAS/MA
’85, published Landscapes and
Writings of Harold Caparn, on
I learned my first trick from my
father, who showed me how to
‘remove my thumb’ by twisting
my fingers. It was a way for him to
communicate with me. I’ve been
doing magic all of my life, and I’m
still learning a new trick every
week—sometimes every day.”
—Simon Carmel, CAS/MA ’80, CAS/PhD ’87, on how
magic helped his father connect with his deaf son
the landscape architect of the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1912–
1945. Chamberlain is retired as
executive director of the Center
for the Arts at the University
of Massachusetts–Lowell.
ochamberlain2@verizon.net
Donald Leka, SIS/BA ’86,
Kogod/MBA ’97, and Claire
Leka, SOC/BA ’91, SOC/MA
’94, published a book, Cloud
Computing: The Glide OS Story,
Solving the Cross-Platform Puzzle.
The book tells the story of Glide,
an operating system that allows
users greater control over their
personal data across multiple
computing platforms.
Nicholas Malone,
Kogod/BSBA
’87, was named
CFO of the
Year by the
Boston Business
Journal.
Malone is CFO
of Wayfair.com, a
retail site for home
furnishings and decor.
Peter A. Quinter, WCL/JD ’89,
chair of GrayRobinson’s Customs
and International Trade Law
Group, was appointed liaison of
the American Bar Association
Section of International Law to
the Florida Bar.
1990s
Stephanie Bloom, WCL/JD ’90,
and her company, Bloom and
Grow, Inc., launched A Place to
Grow, an interactive children’s
reading and learning app for
iPad and iPhone inspired by
her award-winning children’s
picture book. appstore.com/
bloomandgrowinc
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David Heller, SOC/BA ’90, wrote
Facing Ted Williams, published
by Sports Publishing. The book
received favorable reviews from
the Boston Globe, ESPN.com, the
New York Journal of Books, and
the Library Journal.
Jeraline Shields, SPA/MSHR
’91, received a PhD in human
and organizational development
from Fielding Graduate
University in July.
Juan Nolla, SPA/BA ’93, was
widowed on April 24, after
his wife, Margarita Medina-
Feliciano, passed away in Ponce,
Puerto Rico.
Lawrence Polsky, SPA/
MSHR ’93, published
his third book,
Rapid Retooling:
Developing
World-Class
Organizations
in a Rapidly
Changing World.
Saima Huq, SOC/
BA ’95, played Cobweb
in Cheeky Monkey Theatre
Company’s production of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. The
show took place at the American
Theatre of Actors in midtown
Manhattan. Her other roles were
Tom Snout the Tinker and Wall.
Gretchen Bylow, SIS/MA ’97,
cochaired a charity benefit
for the Boys and Girls Club of
Greenwich, Connecticut, to raise
$650,000 for youth programs.
The benefit was themed “From
Greenwich with Love—007 Bond
with the Club.”
Jehan Harney, SOC/MA ’97,
celebrated the national premiere
of her film, The Lost Dream. The
film was broadcasted as part
of the World Channel’s Global
Voices series.
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