1970

Angelika Hoeher, professor at SUNY Cobleskill, recently received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Michael A. Burke is now an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Fitchburg State University following a long career as a consulting computer engineer.

1972

Beth Paskoff received the 2014 Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship. Beth is currently director of the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science. Michael Blumenthal, partner at Thompson & Knight LLP, has been selected for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers® 2014.

1973

Squire Patton Boggs partner Peter A. Pavarini recently commenced his term as president of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), the nation’s largest non-partisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to healthcare legal issues. Peter will lead AHLA’s nearly 13,000 members and continue to serve as a member of its board of directors, which he has served on since 2006.

1975

The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) national board recently elected Patrick Curran as national secretary. Patrick is a senior trial partner at Damon Morey LLP, Buffalo, N.Y. and has tried over 70 jury trials to a verdict in courtrooms across New York State.

1977

John Gionis, partner at Certilman Balin, East Meadow, N.Y., has been named to the 2014 “New York Super Lawyers List.” John has successfully tried cases to verdict in both the state and federal courts in the New York metropolitan area. Todd Burger, managing director at Boston-based Crackerjack Consultants, announced the launch of the firm’s new website at www.CrackerjackConsultants.com in November 2014.

1979

Michael Rhett was sworn into the Georgia Senate in January 2015. Michael is the Senator Elect of District 33, Cobb County. He is an alum of the UAlbany EOP (Educational Opportunity Program). Charles Greenberg has accepted an appointment as the founding library director of Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Eric Zaidins was elected to a two-year term as president of the New York State Administrative Law Judges Association in October 2014 after serving on its executive board for several years. Eric has been an administrative law judge for 18 years and lives with his wife in Chappaqua, N.Y. Ira Goldstein completed a Ph.D. in informatics and joined the Siena College computer-science department as a visiting assistant professor.