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class notes Q. HOW MANY US PRESIDENTS HAVE VISITED AMERICAN UNIVERSITY? A. It’s only five miles (as the eagle flies) from the archivist’s office to the Oval Office, so it’s no surprise that so many commanders in chief have decided to drop by our campus for a visit. AU has hosted eight sitting presidents (Wilson, both Roosevelts, Harding, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama), one vice president who became president (Coolidge), and two former presidents (Ford and Carter). President Barack Obama has made the most visits to AU, with four. A new exhibit in Bender Library—on display through Inauguration Day 2017—features photos from these significant moments in AU history, along with audio clips from five presidential speeches. EMAIL QUESTIONS for AU history wonk Susan McElrath to magazine@american.edu. K. David Harrison, SIS/BA ’88, was appointed associate provost of Swarthmore College, where he is also a professor of linguistics. Carol Leary, CAS/PhD ’88, released her first book, Achieving the Dream: A How-To Guide for Adult Women Seeking a College Degree. She is president of Bay Path University. Susan Shelby, SIS/BA ’88, received the SMPS Boston Marketing Professional of the Year Award. Andrew Friedlander, WCL/ JD ’89, received the 2016 Chair’s Award at Charles E. Smith Life Communities’ 106th annual meeting in May. He was honored for his role in establishing the ElderSAFE Center to safeguard seniors from abuse. 1990s David Bisbee, Kogod/BS ’90, and Carolina Peguero, SIS/BA ’09, SIS/MA ’11, are two proud AU Eagles currently posted at the WTO in Geneva. Christian DeJohn, SPA/BA ’91, United States Army veteran, will publish For Want of A Gun: The Sherman Tank Scandal of World War II in January 2017. The book, featuring more than 500 new and archival images from museums in the United States and Europe, is based on 15 years of research and exposes a little-known scandal of World War II. Thomas Ryan, SPA/BA ’91, author of Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign, won the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central New Jersey’s prestigious 2016 Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award. Jeff Carey, CAS/BS ’94, is among the 2016 Rubys Artist Project grantees in performing and media arts. Adam Jacobson, SOC/BA ’94, has been appointed editor in chief of Streamline Publishing’s Radio + Television Business Report, an online business-tobusiness publication. He will continue to serve as publisher of the Hispanic Market Overview, an annual marketing and UPDATE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION AT ALUMNIASSOCIATION. AMERICAN.EDU/ UPDATEINFO. advertising industry report distributed through the Fort Lauderdale-based Adam R. Jacobson Consultancy. Rich Rosen, Kogod/BSBA ’94, is founder of Cornerstone Search, provider of executive and sale recruiting for software companies, which just celebrated 20 years in business. He recently was inducted into the Pinnacle Society, a consortium of the most elite recruiters in the placement industry. Jean Manes, SPA/ MPA ’96, was confirmed as US Ambassador to El Salvador. She is a career member of the Foreign Service. Patrick Krill, SPA/BA ’97, WCL/ML ’03, launched Krill Strategies, a behavioral health consulting firm exclusively for the legal profession, after serving as director of the Legal Professionals Program at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. prkrill.com Staci Garner, SPA/BA ’99, and her husband, Andrew French, welcomed their daughter Fiona Jean Louise on September 9, 2015. 2000s Paul Haberman, SPA/BA ’00, opened a law firm following 10 years of practice at other law firms in the New York area. paulhabermanlaw.com CONNECT alumniassociation. american.edu FOLLOW Twitter.com/ AmericanUAlum LIKE Facebook.com/ AmericanUAlum VIEW Flickr.com/photos/ AmericanUAlum BROWSE instagram.com/ AmericanUAlum 38 AMERICAN MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2016
Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” Kennedy, CAS/MS ’00, assisted in the development and enhancement of a proprietary clinical key indicator dashboard for the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. A study based on the dashboard appears in the September 2015 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Ken Biberaj, SPA/BA ’02, and wife Valerie welcomed son Grant on July 28, 2016. Grant joins big brother Hudson. Deborah Horwitz, CAS/BA ’04, launched PreparedPA.com, a prephysician assistant student advice and support services site. Alisa Jorgine Otten, Kogod/ BSBA ’04, and Lucas Tyler Otten welcomed their second child, Grace Jorgine, on July 25, 2016. Luisa Reyes, SIS/BS ’06, Kogod/ MA ’11, was this year named to Alexandria’s 40 Under 40 by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce. Adam Cordover, WCL/JD ’07, SIS/MA ’08, has been contracted by the American Bar Association to coauthor a book on building a successful collaborative family law practice. Monique Earl, SPA/MPA ’07, was named Los Angeles Department of Transportation assistant general manager. Jessica Kean, SPA/BA ’07, a mother of two and child advocate, is running for the Iowa State House to represent District 58, which includes Jackson, Jones, and Dubuque Counties in eastern Iowa. BRITTANY STEWART, SIS/BA ’11, KOGOD/MS ’15 + LILLIE ROSEN, SIS/BA ’09, SIS/MA ’10 Lillie Rosen and Brittany Stewart have what the doctor ordered: AN APPLE A DAY—or a pear, or a tomato. The two are colleagues at the food-focused nonprofit DC Greens, whose FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRESCRIPTION PROGRAM provides fresh, local produce to patients with diet-related illnesses. “It’s an actual physical prescription,” Rosen says. Participants bring the Rx to the “FARMACY” at their local farmers’ market and receive $10 of produce a week for each member of their family. HUNDREDS OF RECIPIENTS HAVE LOST WEIGHT, but more importantly, they’ve started coming back for regular checkups. As Rosen, the group’s food access director, puts it, “they’re getting a literal carrot to come and see their health care provider.” Stewart, the volunteer coordinator, recruits locals to run the Produce Plus program, which also provides farmers’ market vouchers to people in need. It’s an ENTHUSIASTIC CORPS OF VOLUNTEERS. “Most want to get involved in food access and food sustainability issues, and don’t really know how to,” she says. Produce Plus was created to keep farmers’ markets accessible to everyone in the surrounding community, and there are 50 PARTICIPATING MARKETS ACROSS ALL EIGHT WARDS. Stewart also cultivates volunteers for K Street Farm, a three-quarter-acre plot at the intersection of K Street and New Jersey Avenue. The farm provides job training, and produces vegetables, fruits, eggs, and honey to supplement the food raised and sold at schools across the city. The school garden markets are “A BAKE SALE, BUT WITH FRESH PRODUCE, and the kids run the markets themselves,” she says. The two colleagues hope these and other DC Greens initiatives will reduce some of the disparities in the nation’s capital. “I grew up in the DC area and just wanted to have an IMPACT IN THE CITY I LIVED IN,” says Rosen. Stewart sees food as the natural place to connect: “we all have to eat.” AMERICAN.EDU/ALUMNI 39
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