Throughout her life, Merry Adler, GSEHD BA ’82, MA ’83, has looked to her late grandmother Rose Friedenberg as her guiding star. While “Nana” passed away in 1976, she remains vibrant in A...
After soaring to success on Madison Avenue, Linda Sawyer, GWSB BBA ’83, made the jump to entrepreneurship and co-founded Skura Style in partnership with her childhood best friend. Sawyer, CEO ...
As the old saying goes, “cooking is an art, baking is a science” – and that is no better personified than by Paul Arguin, CCAS BS ‘89. After his accomplished career in the medical field �...
Naomi Spinrad, CCAS BA ’68, ESIA MA ’86, has had a career in journalism that has taken her around the world and provided adventures: dropping out of a helicopter onto an aircraft carrier in ...
In the winter of 2011, a dazzling collection of Central Asian ikat textiles donated by Murad M. Megalli, SEAS BS’80, SEAS MS ’83 was prominently exhibited at The Textile Museum, then still in...
Members of GW’s largest alumni and parent network outside the national capital region gathered in Midtown May 9 to learn about George Washington University President Thomas J. LeBlanc’s visio...
As a child growing up in Washington, D.C., Antwanye Ford, SEAS BS ’87, GWSB MS ’93, learned that a single individual could have a significant impact on the world around him. His parents owned...
“When I first entered the financial services business,” says Jeanie Knigin, GWSB MBA ’83 and Morgan Stanley financial advisor, “I really stood out – women were extremely rare. Now it’...
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Frances Eizenstat, GWSB MA ’89, passed away on Feb. 17 at a Miami hospital. She was 68. Eizenstat worked on initiatives to strengthen low-income families and improve the lives of children, and ...
Adam Mitchell Beloff, ESIA BA ’86, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 1, 2012 at the age of 48. Raised in Ventnor, NJ, Beloff graduated fromAtlantic City High School, received a BA i...
Kathleen Brennan, ESIA BA ’78, SPHHS MS ’80, LAW JD ’85, accomplished lawyer, passed away on Nov. 16, 2012 at the age of 56. Brennan worked throughout her career to improve health care thro...
Carl Lounsbury, CCAS MA ’77, PhD ’83, recently had two book projects published: a collection of his papers entitled Essays in Early American Architectural History, and Bruton Parish Church: A...
Rose Gottemoeller, ESIA MA ’81, has been formally nominated for the post of Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. She has been serving in this capacity as Acting...
Steven L. Frick, CCAS BS ’87, a GW basketball standout and member of the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame, has been named chair of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Nemours Childre...
David Abrams, GWSB DBA ’87, opened a new law office in Lake Mary, Fla., serving Central Florida in aviation, bankruptcy, commercial, corporate, computer & internet, copyright and trademark, fam...
Douglas F. Schneiderman, GWSB MBA ’86, a partner in his family’s Washington area real estate development company, Madison Homes, passed away July 29. Douglas Foster Schneiderman was a native ...
David Hildebrand, CCAS MA ’87, analyzes the history of the “Star Spangled Banner” in the article “Document Deep Dive: The Musical History of The Star-Spangled Banner” in Smithsonian Mag...
David J. Fischer, LAW JD ’83, joined Crowell & Moring’s Tax group as a tax controversy and litigation partner. Focusing his national practice on tax controversy work, Fischer represents For...
Barry A. Wolfman earned a master of health services management degree at the GW in 1984. And now he is returning to Foggy Bottom 28 years later as the chief executive officer and managing directo...
Jeffry Taylor, ESIA MA ’86, passed away May 7 at the age of 51. Taylor spent his early youth in the Pittsburg area before moving to Ohio in the 1973. He graduated from Dennison University in...
Bradley L. Tesh, CCAS MA ’84, a senior Smithsonian Institution network engineer from 1999 to 2010 who helped oversee the organization’s computer system affecting more than 7,000 users from Ne...
Karl R. Gerlach, SEAS MS ’75, PHD ’81, was honored June 30 with the 2012 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. IEEE, the world’s largest professional associat...
Henry Ozga, CPS CERT ’83, a retired officer in the CIA clandestine service who became a landscape and garden designer after 27 years in espionage, died May 28 at MedStar Washington Hospital Cen...
W. Thomas Curtis, CCAS BA ’81, CCAS MS ’95, was awarded the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award for Service by the Financial Planning Association. He is managing director of FSP and Associates,...
Cookie Lea Olshein, GWSB BBA ’89, will become the first female rabbi at Temple Israel in West Palm Beach, Fla., in July. Olshein, a former practicing lawyer, was an assistant rabbi for four y...
Emily L. Barr, GWSB MBA ’86, was named the next president and CEO of Post–Newsweek Stations, the television broadcasting division of The Washington Post Company, a diversified education and ...
Ann Casey Bukawyn, MVC BA ’80, was named executive vice president of global licensing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Bukawyn joins MSLO from Perry Ellis International, Inc., where...
Scott Mason, GWSB DPA ’81, joined Cushman & Wakefield as executive managing director and leader of its’s healthcare practice group in the Americas. Mason will lead the team in supporting clie...
Ilene Johnson, ESIA BA ’80, was elected to serve as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in September 2012. Johnson represents the 7th Congressional District of G...
For more than three decades, Datuk Thomas George, TSPPPA MPA ’86, has lead a distinguished public service career. “Being a public administrator gives you the opportunity to serve, and not to...
Kathleen McFall, CCAS BS ’84, and her husband Clark Hays co-wrote their second novel, Blood and Whiskey (Pumpjack Press, 2012) in the Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series. Their first novel, The ...
Joseph J. Yanish, SPHHS MS ’86, a senior health systems specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Providence, Rhode Island, was inducted as president-elect for the Rhode Island ...
Dong-Ik Lee, GWSB MS ’87, MBA ’93, was appointed chief investment officer of the Korea Investment Organization. Prior, Lee was head of investments at STIC Investments and headed the overseas ...
Kimberly Cockerham, SMHS MD ’87, joined Zeiter Eye Medical Group of Stockton as a specialist. Cockerham previously was chief of service at Allegheny General Hospital and UC San Francisco. She a...
Mark Weaver, ESIA MA ’86, is now VP of International and Domestic Sales for a MRO Aircraft completion center. He was working as a senior consultant for an international trade law firm in Dallas...
John Schweizer, ESIA BA ’83, joined Flagstar Bank as vice president of foreign exchange sales. He was working as a vice president at Fidelity FOREX, the Boston-based foreign exchange subsidiary...
David Hildebrand, CCAS MA ’87, is the primary music historian for a documentary in production, titled Anthem, about music of the War of 1812 and the true story of the birth of “The Star-Spang...
Jianhai Lin, GWSB DBA ’86, was named secretary of the International Monetary Fund, where he has served as the acting director of the Secretary’s Department since November 2011. Lin, a Chinese...
Joe Wassel, CCAS BA ’85, and his wife Christine, of North Wales, Pa., are proud parents of five daughters. The eldest Shea Wassel is already following in her father’s footsteps on the colle...
John L. Cox, CCAS BA ’84, GWSB MPA ’86, was appointed president of Cape Cod Community College by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education. Cox currently serves as vice president for financ...
Akshay Desai, SMHS MPH ’89, was named chief of the Republican Party of Florida’s finance committee. Desai is president and CEO of Universal Health Care Group, which he founded in 2002. He has...
Judith Keyserling, GWSB MBA ’85, a marketing executive in Washington, D.C., died Feb. 11. Keyserling was a native of New York and attended Sweet Briar College and University of Massachusetts be...
Sixty alumni and friends gathered Feb. 11 at the International Spy Museum for the spring’s first Culture Buffs event. Prior to touring the museum, guests met for a private luncheon at Zola’s,...
Deb Hauser, ESIA BA ’82, is the new president and executive director of Advocates for Youth, an organization that strives to help young people make responsible decisions about their sexual and ...
Luis Fujimoto, CCAS BS ’85, was appointed chairman of the State Board for Dentistry for the N.Y. State Education Department in Albany, N.Y. and vice president of the Osseointegration Foundation...
Rose Gottemoeller, ESIA MA ’81, was designated as the Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security by President Obama and will be advising the Secretary on arms control, n...
Gary Stevenson, GWSB MBA ’82, was elected to the United States Golf Association (USGA) 2012 Executive Council. He is a senior-level sports and entertainment marketing executive and is president...
Frances Morgan, CCAS BA ’83, is running for re-election in West Virginia’s Jefferson County Commission. Morgan first took office in 2006, and has since worked with the county’s Farmland Pro...
Andrew M. Lankler, CCAS BA ’85, LAW JD ’88, founder of a law firm that specializes in white-collar criminal defense, was profiled in a Jan. 28 Washington Post article about his role in high-p...
Daniel Barkan, CCAS BA ’84, and Natalie W. Barkan, CCAS MA ’85 Daniel and Natalie both chose GW in large part because of its location. Daniel came to Foggy Bottom as an undergraduate student ...