Dear Classmate,

Welcome to the inaugural on-line newsletter for the Class of 1987. Since most of us spend a significant amount of time on the Internet, we have put our newsletter on this—our class web site. From this site, you can update your contact information, join the On-Line Community, find other classmates, or submit a newsnote to be published in the next newsletter. We would like to start a tradition of effort and enthusiasm in creating a newsletter that engages our class and updates you about classmates and our alma mater. Through the difficulties of 2001, our connection to each other and to Penn has grown stronger and more important. Penn is family and now, more than ever, our allegiance to each other is crucial. Newsletters are a great way for us to all keep in touch and feel connected to one another.

We want to encourage any and all classmates to take an active role in our class newsletter. If you or a classmate you know has recently done something exciting, traveled, or just has some terrific news to share, please let us know! We know you all enjoy reading about your friends—and they would love to read about you! Please submit a newsnote about yourself, what you’ve been up to, or how this past year may have affected you. Our goal is to promote communication among classmates by personalizing the newsletters and generating enthusiasm in future class programming.

Finally, if you haven’t been back to Penn lately, why not return for Homecoming in November? This year Penn will play Brown on November 2nd. Please be sure not to miss one of the most exciting weekends for a Penn graduate! For any additional information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (215) 898-7811 or alumni@ben.dev.upenn.edu.

Best regards,

Barry Bear, C’87 Class President	Beth Starr, W’87 Newsletter Editor

A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z

Chris Albani EE’87, W’87 writes, “I have some interesting news to report... In the middle of 2001, I was promoted to "partner" of PRTM, a high tech consulting firm. In September, I relocated to Tokyo to help develop the firm's business in Asia. I welcome news and information from fellow Penn alumni in the Tokyo area!”

Barry Bear C’87 and Anne Mavor NU’87, GNU’91 proudly announce the birth of their first child, Ronald Thomas Bear on Sept. 5, 2001.

Gil J. Bonwitt W’87 and his wife, Elise Scheck, had their third son, David Scheck Bonwitt, on July 25. He joins big brothers Joshua and Keith.

Dr. Paul A. S. Breslin C’87, G’88, Gr’91 a psychologist with the Monell Chemical Senses Center near Penn, in August received a 2001 Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Perception/Motor Performance). He was recognized for his outstanding contributions to understanding the chemical senses, particularly taste sensation and perception. His work focuses on how we discriminate between tastes and how taste can be enhanced or suppressed, as well as how the acts of smelling and tasting combine to make flavor.

Stephen Chan W’87 joined American Century Investments last year, a Kansas City-based investment management company, as a portfolio manager of the international-equity investment team. Previously he was vice president of research for Merrill Lynch (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Doug Cohen C’87 writes, “My wife Nadine (a non-Quaker) and I welcomed our third child, Benjamin Matthew Cohen, on November 8. Benjamin joins big sisters Briya (three) and Adena (14 months). As you can imagine, if anyone wants to contact me at any time, I will basically be awake around the clock for the next few years.”

Rabbi Faith Joy Smith Dantowitz EAS’87 and her husband, David, are thrilled to announce the birth of their fourth son, Daniel Jonathan Dantowitz, on Feb. 27. Named in memory of Faith’s sister, Deborah, and her grandfather, John, he completes the Dantowitz brothers’ quartet. In addition to his full-time work in computers, Dad is a barbershopper, with the Big Apple Chorus in Manhattan, and looks forward to welcoming the boys into the chorus one day. Faith works at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, N.J.

Brian W. Esler C’87 e-mails, “My wife, Yvonne, was recently transferred to her company’s UK offices, which means we’ve moved from Seattle to Richmond upon Thames, a London borough. She’s now in charge of bringing home the bacon, and I’m in charge of frying it up in the pan, while also pursuing an LLM degree in intellectual-property law from the London School of Economics.”

Dr. Daniel M. Feinberg C’87 and Dana Feinberg announce the birth of their second child, Hannah, on October 29, 2001. I am Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at Penn and the Medical Director of Performance Improvement at Pennsylvania Hospital.

Victor G. Finnegan WEv’87 is founder and chief executive officer of American Expediting Company, a rush/same-day courier firm based in Philadelphia. From a single taxicab service in the early 80s, he built a national package-delivery company that boasts 14 sites in major cities up and down the East Coast. As the marketing industry has always appealed to him, two years ago he opened his own full-service advertising agency, Ariel Advertising Group. Victor was
recently named to the board of the Arthritis Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania. He lives in Swarthmore with his wife, Mari, and three daughters.

Dr. Lisa A. Freeman C’87, Gr’91, Gr’95 was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book --Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage-- has just been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Robin Goodman C’87 e-mails, “I am very happy to announce the birth of my first two baby books, both available on amazon.com: Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (published last year by University of Minnesota Press), and Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (to be published this year by Rowman & Littlefield, Boulder, Colo.).”

Keith E. Gottfried W’87 <kgottfried@borland.com> emails “I am the senior vice president-law & corporate affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary for Borland Software Corporation, a publicly-held software company in Scotts Valley, Calif. At Borland, I am responsible for all legal matters affecting Borland and oversee Borland's legal department. I am also responsible for worldwide corporate affairs and governmental relations. I am admitted to the state bars of California, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts and am admitted to practice before the bars of the federal courts located in the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. I recently served as a member of the U.S. private sector delegation to the APEC Summit in Shanghai, China this past October which was attended by various world leaders, including President Bush and the leaders of China, Australia, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, Russia and the Philippines. I have also joined the Board of Directors of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).”

Rabbi Lisa Greene W’87 was married to Jonathan Polish in a June, 2001 ceremony in which their fathers, both rabbis, officiated. Lisa’s sister, Jackie Greene C’90, was the best woman. Alumni at the wedding spanned five decades. Lisa serves as associate rabbi for North Shore
Congregation Israel in Glencoe, Ill. She has been in Chicago for seven years, since ordination from Hebrew Union College. Jon, an alumnus of the University of Michigan and Michigan Law, is an associate at Sachnoff & Weaver. They live in Evanston, where they “continue to discuss the
relative merits of Penn football-game toast-throwing v. Michigan marshmallow-tossing.”

Jeff Hack W’87 recently married Amanda Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Participants in the wedding included Mark First W’87 and Michael Gordon C’87. Jeff is a managing director and the chief administrative officer of the Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, and Amanda is vice president
of marketing and business development for Origin Inc., a New York-based firm that helps companies place low-income individuals in full-time jobs.

Daniel H. Klausner W’87 writes, “I recently moved over to UBS Warburg LLC as an Executive Director in Investment Banking.”

Mark Levenstein W’87 lives in Los Angeles with his wife Pam and their two kids, Brooke (four) and Micah (one and a half). He is a Director of Production for HBO, overseeing production of original films. Pam is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Pfizer.

Maureen S. Loftus W’87 is a partner in the dispute-consulting group of Deloitte & Touche. Prior to joining the firm, she was with PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost 14 years, most recently as a partner in the New York office.

Ilana Long C’87 e-mails that she has been “married for two years to Steve Blatt and living in Seattle with our wondermutt, Ruby. I’m teaching high-school English and continuing to act and perform stand-up comedy.” She has recorded an original folk/rock single, “Our Hearts Sang America,” to raise funds for the NY Firefighters Sept. 11 Disaster Relief Fund. “The song is available on CD at Firedonations.com and Amazon.com. Or, to donate all proceeds to the firefighters by bypassing distribution fees, contact ilanalong@juno.com.”

Francis Mao C’87 and Kelly Chock-Mao W’90 e-mail, “We are happy to announce the birth of our first son, Evan Francis Lo’ihi Mao, on Nov. 18; he was 8lbs., 15oz, 21 inches—and already holding a drawing pen in his hand when born. Francis has been promoted to senior vice president for IDG Games Media Group, publisher of GamePro magazine, the world’s largest multiplatform video-gaming magazine. He has also launched the GamePro Presents line of action figures and vehicles, on sale nationwide this summer.”

David Na C’87 e-mails, “My wife, Jennifer, and I are proud to announce the birth of our son, Ethan David, on Sept. 5, 2001.”

Phil Nassos EAS/W’87, G’98 and Lisa Nassos welcomed their first child, Nicholas Ernest, into their family on March 20. Parenthood has been a wonderful, though sometimes tiring, experience for them both; he is a first vice president with Bank One Corporation in Chicago, and she will return to her job as a senior accountant with Cabot Microelectronics Corporation in June. They live in Naperville, Ill.

Dan Petronella C’87 e-mails, “I have just relocated to Columbus, Ohio, to be director of financial planning and analysis for The Limited, Inc. While this is a great opportunity for me, unfortunately this also means that I have resigned as president of the Central Florida Penn Alumni Club. I was a member for nearly five enjoyable years, the last three as president. I will miss the great Penn Central Florida group tremendously, but will stay in touch by e-mail.”

Helen Apostolou Phillips C’87 and Dr. Gary Phillips C’87, WG’91, M’92, GM’97 welcomed their second son, Christian George Phillips, into the world on July 17 in Basel, Switzerland. She continues to pursue her professional interests in nutrition, and Gary recently assumed the role of head of disease-area strategy in global marketing for Novartis Pharma AG.

Pedro Ramos C'87 vice president, and chief of staff to the president of the University of Pennsylvania received the Philadelphia Education Fund's 2002 Giving Forward Award on June 11, 2002.

Marcia Berger Rubin EAS’87 and her husband, Jay, are proud to announce the birth of their second son, Eric Russell Rubin, on Feb. 25. He joins his (four and a half) year-old brother, Sean. Marcia is taking a year off from her job as a system analyst at AT&T, as she did when Sean was born.

Karen Barry Seto W’87 and her husband, Steve, welcomed their son Ryan on Dec. 4. He joins big sister Kelly (three). Karen is special counsel in the San Francisco office of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, and she specializes in corporate and securities law.

Beth Starr W’87 and her husband Laurence Reffold live in New York City with their children Samantha (four and a half) and Matthew (two and a half). Beth is a Senior Vice President in structured finance at Lehman Brothers and Laurence is a Senior Technology Specialist at Microsoft. The family is enjoying their summer weekends on Fire Island, with lots of Penn visitors expected this year.

David Thayer W'87 writes “As a longstanding member of the Army National Guard, I was recently called to a ten-month tour of duty in Bosnia, serving as Armor Officer with the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, the oldest continously active military unit in the nation. More importantly, I recently became engaged to Miss Adrienne Bohlin, whom I met while living in Washington, DC. We plan to marry in the Fall of 2003.”

Shideh Zand Theunissen W’87, WG’94, G’94, and Paul Theunissen WG'94, are happy to report the birth of their first child, a healthy baby girl, Leyla Nicole, in October 2001. A future Penn alum (Class of ’22) – following in mom and dad's footsteps!!

Jan van Amerongen Jr. C’87 and his wife, Kathryn, and big brother Jan III, are overjoyed to announce the birth of Christian Alexander on Nov. 30.

Abby Wean C’87 e-mails she and Larry Venick are “happy to announce the birth of our second son, Joshua Isaac, on May 17; big brother Sam is now two. 2001 was also a big year, as it marked my five-year remission from Hodgkin’s Disease. Yippee!”

Neil L. Zola C’87 was promoted to the newly-created position of executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Garden City Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Crawford & Company (GCG). Zola previously held the title of senior vice president and general counsel. An accomplished writer, Zola's byline has appeared in The New York Law Journal and The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. A sought-after presenter on class action issues, Zola is also a recipient of the Distinguished Legal Service Award sponsored by Corporate Legal Times and Lexis-Nexis.