Panther Spotlight

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Herbert Bissell,’25; is a retired vice-president of marketing for Honeywell, Inc, and lives in Minneapolis. He says he is in fine shape at the age of 92 and looking for some of his fellow classmates.

Nellie Coppola Arcara,’26; Owns Coppola-Arcara Real Estate in Glenside.

Ida C. Schmidt Williams, D.O.,’31; received the Family Physician of the Year Award and the Frederick J. Solomon, D.O. Award of Merit from the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society. She is the first physician to receive both awards in the same year. At age 91, Dr. Schmidt is still active, running her practice four days a week in Glenside, where she specializes in osteopathic manipulative medicine. She has also taught at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for over 30 years, where she continues to teach once a week.

Pauline Wells Hornberger,’34; was the subject of an article in The Record. A Mayflower descendent and a Daughter of the American Revolution, Pauline provided fellow gourmets her recipe for Pumpkin Muffins and Cranberry-Orange Muffins.

Elizabeth Langsdorf Miller,’35; is a well known artist.

Paul Robinson,’40; has retired after 40 years as a chemical engineer with DuPont, including five years in Germany. He is currently vice-president of the Brandywine Fund.

Judge Richard S. Lowe,’42; a CHS 2002 Hall of Fame inductee has retired from the Montgomery County Court System. During his college career he served for two years in Europe during World War II, where he received three battle stars. After graduating from Temple University Law School, Judge Lowe worked his way up the ranks going from private practice, to deputy attorney general, to assistant district attorney, to county district attorney and finally to the bench. During his 35 years in the Montgomery Court system he has been a driving force behind computerizing the county court system and making the juror system more efficient and tolerable for potential jurors.

Maxine Winokur Kumin,’42; is a Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Lew Klein,’45; a member of the CHS Hall of Fame, was recently inducted into the Temple University Hall of Fame. Klein served as a professor at the school for 50 years and was the executive producer of Bandstand when it originated in Philadelphia.

Dr. Marion Goldman Shapiro,’46; serves on the Board of Directors at Eagleville Hospital and is active in Macular Diseases Association.

Edward Azemar,’47; prior to his retirement, was regional manager for the East and Southeast region for A.B. Dick. He enjoys retirement with his wife Marie, his three daughters and six grandchildren.

Dr. William G. Mattox,’48; and his research have been instrumental in the Peregrine Falcon being removed from the national endangered species list. For the past 31 years, he has taken volunteer teams to Northern Greenland where after a 15 mile backpacking hike, they climb cliffs, band the birds, take blood samples, and attach radios to their backs so that the telemetry can be used to determine their flight and breeding patterns. All of this research was done on Dr. Mattox’s own time while working for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Dr. Mattox is now retired in Boise, Idaho and is the Research Editorial Associate with the Archives of American Falconry and is President of the Conservation Research Foundation.

Dr. Paul C. Brucker,’49; retired in June, 2004 as president of Thomas Jefferson University and founding chairman of the Jefferson Health System.

James E. Currens,’49; is a retired Cheltenham Township Police detective Sergeant. He currently resides in Ocean City, NJ and Winters in Ft. Myers, FL where he enjoys fishing and golf. He recently helped to run his CHS class reunion.

William F. Lee, ’51: has completed his first book. “The Bottom of the list.” Read it’s inspiring story of triumph over adversity.

Richard Levinson,’52 and William Link,’52; are a movie and TV writing and production team. They have won a number of Emmy Awards for Columbo, Mannix and special feature length TV movies.

Helen Callas Reiner,’53; presently chair person of the Business Department at CHS. Was the first woman ever inducted into the Drexel University Hall of Fame.

Ronald B. Cohen,’54; In the sixties was aboard the Prime Recovery ships for the Apollo recovery operations, sending the live television back to the States. The N.B.C. nightly news in July of 1988 had a four miniute segment showing his amateur (ham) television hobby. In the week of August 27, 1988 had a five page article featuring Amateur Television hobby in TV-Guide Magazine. Ron has been working in the Two-Way radio field for the last 34 years with the past 12 years at the Delaware River Port Authority. Working in the CHS Alumni office in spare time.

Steward Feldman,’54; Spent 33 years in Washington working on fascinating problems with great allies. I worked for ten years to improve the GI Bill for education for Vietnam veterans (1969-1978). We got major changes in the legislation through Congress and ultimately $35 billion spent for scholarships. I have also worked for 15 years to see that a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial is built. We have a site across the Tidal Basin from the Jefferson Memorial and are raising money.

In 1984, I proposed the idea for the National Constitution Center. I returned to Philadelphia in 1994 to work on it, and am still on the board. It opened on Independence Mall on July 4, 2003. The Center is a new kind of museum that explains the Constitution and ideas behind our country to visitors, and creates a new experience for them. I hope all of you will go see it.

Nicholas Melair,’54; Nick was the Cheltenham Engineer for may years then became the Cheltenham Township Manager and then former Chief Clerk to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.

Richard Rothman,’54; Inducted into the CHS Hall of Fame, APRIL, 1993. World renowned orthopedic surgeon with a focus on replacement of the human hip and knee. Founded the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, at Pennsylvania Hospital. DR. Rothman also has a Ph.D.

Leonard “Len” Logan,’55; retired attorney who is the proprietor of Elizabeth’s Café & Winery in Duck, North Carolina. The café/winery was selected as “The Best Fine Dining Wine Restaurant in the U.S. by Sante Magazine. Stop by the Café if you are in the area and be sure to mention CHS.

Salvatore “Sam” Rizzo,’55; who has been honored in the past by the Greater Glenside Chamber of Commerce, owns SRJ Catering in Glenside, PA.

Charles Obrecht, ’56: was honored and received the award from Pennsylvania’s Gov. Ed Rendell in June of 2006 for 50 years as a dedicated volunteer firefighter for the Elkins Park Fire Co.

Anne Pileggi Gabbamonte,’56; took the old Cinderella fairy tale and rewrote it using rhythmic verse while maintaining the integrity of the original tale. The book entitled Cinderella in Rhyme is planned to be done as well as an audo book. She was recently elected to the board of directors of the Poor Richard’s Club.

Michael M. Baylson, ’57: was the US District Judge hearing the case “Pay-To-Play”, which was the City Hall corruption trial that took place in Philadelphia in April of 2005.

Michael Brown, M.D.,’58; a Cheltenham Hall of Fame winner and Nobel Prize winner, received the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize (second only in monetary value to the Nobel Prize) with his research partner, Joseph Goldstein for their work on cholesterol. They originally discovered that human body cells have receptors that determine how much cholesterol circulates in the blood. The recent research found how a family of proteins regulates the amount of cholesterol by controlling LDL receptors, and their discovery of an insulin-sensitive regulator that holds promise in treating a rare form of diabetes.

Marilyn Sernaker Berke,’58; is the CEO of a prominent Residential Interior Design Firm.

Allan H. Thomas,’58; is a Greyhound bus driver from Rockledge, Pa. He received a special award certificate from the State of Pa. for stopping his bus to rescue a man and his daughter from a plane crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

David Eskin,’59; November, 1998: Chief of Staff at Abington Hospital. September 27, 2002, Eskin was inducted into the C.H.S. Hall of Fame.

Ronald Spark, M.D.,’59; the director of the Tucson Pathology Society and editor for the Arizona Society of Pathologists, has joined the University of Arizona department of pathology as associate professor of clinical pathology.

Kinda Dennis Wachtel,’60; is a watercolor artist in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She has had pieces on exhibit recently including her own exhibit in Creations in Delray Beach, FL.

Donald Kohn,’60; was recently nominated by President Bush to a seat on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Kohn is a long time Fed staffer who currently serves as one of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s closest advisers on monetary policy.

Terese Loeb Kreuzer.’60; a writer, editor, photographer and multimedia producer. My book, HOW TO MOVE TO CANADA: A PRIMER FOR AMERICANS, was published in Aug. 2006 by St. Martins Griffin. My articles and photographs appear regularly in large newspapers in the United States and Canada (the

Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Denver Post, Oregonian, Vancouver Sun and others, in case anyone is interested in looking for them) and I am

the editor in chief of the Travel Arts Syndicate, which I founded in June 2001.

David W. Marston,’60; was the former U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania’s 10 county Eastern District in Philadelphia.

Ronald M. Shapiro, ’60: in Jan. 2006 he co-authored the book “Bullies, Tyrants & Impossible People”- How to Beat Them Without Joining Them”. He is an Attorney, Sports Agent, Educator and Civic Leader and has lectured at Johns Hopkins University and The Wharton School of Business. He is also a Co-founder of Shapiro Negotiation Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. He was inducted into the CHS Hall of Fame in 1984.

Fredericka Waugh,’60; was re-elected to serve her second, four -year term on the Cheltenham School Board in Nov. 2003.

Dr. Robert Abel Jr., ’61: an Ophthalmologist and the author of “The Eye Care Revolution”, how to prevent and reverse common vision problems. He challenges us to read the facts and get the answers we deserve to hear.

Thomas Blumenthal,’61; is Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is internationally known for his studies of the basic mechanisms of RNA metabolism.

Betty Cataldi,’62; Charter Member/Director of Alumni Association -1977.; President of Alumni Association ; Elected to Cheltenham School Board 1995 and again in 1999; Member and past president of the Elkins Park Rotary Club. First female rotary president on Eastern seacoast. (1991)

Denise Cortese, MD,’62; has been named chair of the Board of Governors at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, a Mayo Clinic hospital. Dr. Cortese, a pulmonary medicine specialist, is a member of the Mayo Foundation Board of Trustees.

Susan Ginsburg Apollon, ’62: a psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher and healer with 20 years experience in Grief Counseling and she believes the dead do send messages. Now the Author of “Touched By The Extraordinary”. Learn how we are all capable.

Roy Kaysen,’62; For many years has had his own record store called, “Memory Lane Records” in Horsham, PA.

Judith Peller Hallett,’62; professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Maryland, has been appointed to The Maryland Humanities Council. The Council is a private, educational, non-profit organization which promotes public participation in the humanities and public humanities programming throughout Maryland. She also appeared on the PBS documentary series, The First Century in the Roman Empire.

Myles Rademan, ’62: is Director of Public Affairs and Communications for Park City, Colorado and President of “Rademan & Associates” a consulting firm specializing in keynote presentations, strategic planning, leadership training, and group facilitations.

Miles Shore,’62; is a partner in the law firm of Saul Ewing, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. He is also the father of 3 daughters, all CHS graduates.

Morton Mickey Simon,’62; was recently elected as a Cheltenham Township Commissioner from the 6^th Ward.

Jonathan Zimmerman,’62; is an architect of air-formed dome buildings based in Marin County, CA. Check out his work and contact him at www.zdomes.com.

Randy Brecker,’63; received a “Grammy” for his contemporary jazz album “34^th Street N Lex. Brecker has received multiple “Grammy” awards over the years.

James Faraco, ’63: owns and operates Havana Restaurant and Bar with his wife Jane, located in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Terri Saltzman,‘63’; owns Camp Canadensis in the Poconos.

Ruth Singer Damsker,’63; was re-elected to a second four-year term as a Commissioner of Montgomery County, PA.

Richard Weiss,’63; has been the chaiman of the math department of Tufts University since 1982.

Reggie Jackson,’64; professional baseball player for the N.Y. Yankees. Was the 1977 World Series Most valuable Player. He paid a surprise visit to CHS last Fall.

Jonathan Netanyahu,’64; was an Israeli soldier who led the raid on Entebbe in Uganda and was killed. A memorial service was held at C.H.S. and a plaque was dedicated.

Joanthan Zimmerman,’64; is an architect who specializes in the design of air-formed thin shell concrete structures ranging in size from single family dwellings to convention centers. Website; www.zdomes.com.

Richard Bank,’65; has two books currently published: Why Be Jewish? A guide for Discovering and Maintaining Jewish Traditions and Values and The Everything Judaism Book: A Complete Primer to the Jewish Faith from Holidays and Rituals to Traditions and Culture. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School, Bank practiced law for many enjoyable years but is now happy to be able to focus more on writing on matters that are close to his heart.

Robert Gerhard Jr. Esq.,’65; was re-elected to serve on the Cheltenham Township Board of Commissioners in Nov. 2003. He has served on the Board for twenty-four years. In 2003, he was awarded a Legion of Merit Award in recognition of his distinguished 32-year career in the U.S. Army including his service in the Army Reserves.

Elizabeth Mason Givens,’65; is an editor and journalist for SEND International, an interdenominational faith mission agency, with 500 missionaries in more than 20 countries of Asia, Europe and North America. She also serves as school board president for the 16,500 student Plymouth Canton Community School District, MI.

Major General Wesley E. Craig, Jr.,’65; was appointed to be the thirty-fourth Commanding General, 28^th Infantry Division (Mechanized) PA. Army National Guard in Oct. 2003.

Donald Mathis,’65; is the executive director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Harford County, MD. He was recently appointed to the state’s Commission on Service and Volunteering.

Ronald D. Silverman,DDS,’65; was recently promoted to Brigadier General. General Silverman is the first Dental officer holding the rank in the USAR to command a medical brigade.

Deborah Weiss Mendelson,’65; was elected to serve a four-year term on the Upper Dublin School Board in Nov. 2003.

Joseph Bianchini, Jr.,’66; owner of American Restoration Specialties in Richboro, PA, rides Harley Davidsons and collects 1969/70 muscle cars.

Jay S. Schinfeld, M.D.,’66; director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also associate professor at Jefferson Medical Center in Phila.

Hope Boonshaft,’67; is a Senior Vice-President for External Affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. She recently served as a commissioner on the California Speaker of the House’s Commission on the California Initiative Process.

Josey Borowsky Stamm,’67; has helped 15,000 students create 96 giant, glorious and gorgeous mosaics on the walls of schools and other public buildings across the region. Each mosaic has a theme often environmental and an educational purpose. Her projects, which are created through her organization, NetworkArts, are funded with corporate grants.

Michael Brecker,’67; a member of the CHS Alumni Hall of Fame, won his eighth Grammy Award this year for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for his newest release, Nearness of You The Ballad Book. In January, 2002, Nearness of You was named Record of the Year and Brecker was named Artist of the Year in both the Critics and Readers Polls of Japan’s Swing Journal, which has the largest circulation of any jazz magazine in the World.

Susan Hoover Boner,’67; is a teacher at Glenside Elementary School.

Larry Lieberher,’67; was recently name assistant principal in charge of 11^th graders at CHS. Lieberher was at the Elkins Park School for many years.

Benjamin Netanyahu,’67; Former Prime Minister of Israel, elected in 1996, defeated in 1999. Born in Telaviv. Served as Chairman of The Likud Party. Inducted into C.H.S. Hall of Fame, Oct 1999.

Neil Petullo,’67; is currently the project director for the phase II renovations going on at Cheltenham High School. Neil works for Granary Associates who have the contract to oversee the $23 million dollar renovation program.

Frank Staub,’67; is a free lance photographer-writer based in Tucson, AZ. His credits include many publications. He has done the photography for 27 children’s books, most of which he wrote. His books have received 7 national honors. He spends his free-time bicycling, climbing mountains, sea kayaking, and diving.

Samuel Stern,’67; a Math teacher at CHS, is a professional photographer who shares his talent in the CHS community by photographing the Hall of Fame and Alumni scholarship winners each year.

Randy Ward,’67; is the Dockmaster/Harbormaster for the city of Naples, FL. He is in charge of an 84 slip marina and a 1000 foot gulf side pier. He has just finished his term as President of the Marine Industries Association of Collier Country.

Dae Bong Sunim, ’68: also known as Larry Sichel, is a Zen Buddist Monk and Head Teacher of the Kye Ryong Sahn International Zen Center of Korea. He spoke on April 6, 2005 about “Spirituality in the Modern world”. He travels the world and resides in Korea.

Nancy Rhodes Johnson,’68; is a full time artist doing permanently installed public paintings and murals. In a recent project she did the first mural in the country celebrating our Women in the Military for the Veterans Administration in Syracuse, NY. A national poster will be made out of this work.

Jack Elias,’69; is the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Elias is the Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Dee Engle Arnett,’69; owns and operates eight company owned Luxury Car Washes and Franchise Company which she started in 1987. The business has been voted the best in Atlanta for 11 years.

JoAnne Epps,’69; a recent CHS Alumni Hall of Fame inductee has been named president of the board of directors of the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Ms Epps is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Craig Littlepage,’69; a member of the Alumni Hall of Fame, was named Athletics Director at the University of Virginia. Littlepage, who became the first African American in the Atlantic Coast Conference to hold the post, has served as interim director since June 2001.

Dr. Robert Sklaroff, ’69: has dedicated his life to caring, detecting and treating cancer. He is currently fighting to ban smoking in all public buildings in Pennsylvania.

Andrew Schloss,’69; is President of Culinary Generations, Inc. and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. His eight cookbook, Almost From Scratch: The New Home Cooking, is out this summer. He still resides in Elkins Park with his family.

Jeff Lorber,’70; in July, 2004, Lorber participated in a tribute to the late Grover Washington Jr. in Philadelphia.

David Mascione,’70; is a member of the support staff at CHS.

Robert Clearfield,’71; was appointed Chairman of The Citizen Advisory Committee to the Southeastern Pa. Transportation Authority (SEPTA) by the Montgomery County, Pa. Commissioners. elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in Nov. 2003.

Connie Tavel,’71; is a producer-manager living in Beverly Hills. She represents Academy Award winner Helen Hunt and is currently producing the new hit show, “Judging Amy”.

Olga Shast McHugh,’72; serves as chairperson of the Cheltenham Township Drug, Alcohol and Mental Health Committee.

Karen Spiegel Franklin,’72; was recently elected to the board of the American Association of Museums. As director of the Judaica Museum in Riverside, NY, she was the first director of a Jewish museum to achieve this honor.

Mark Harnitchek,’73; was promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and is the new commanding officer of the Naval Inventory Control Point here in Philadelphia. His 25+ year naval career has taken him to Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, South Carolina, California, Guam and Japan. It’s nice to have him back home.

Susan Bogdanoff Housman,’74; is the owner of two World Gyms in the Boston area. One of her gyms is one of the training facilities for the world champion New England Patriots.

Lisa Gant Hawkins,’74; handles residency services for the Cheltenham School District.

Gary Jaffe, Esq.,’74; founder and Senior Partner of the largest local law firm in Cheltenham Township. He specializes in banking, finance and general corporate law.

Susan Murphy Schechter,’74; after many years in commercial radio and TV in New York, has started her own TV production company working exclusively for PBS. She has also been an adjunct professor at Hofstra University’s School of Communications.

Eva Shast Monheim,’74; was awarded a $25,000 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship. She will use the scholarship to take courses next year at the University of Reading in London.

Dr. Robert Kevich, ’75: is currently practicing Plastic Surgery at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown.

Ilene Chaiken,’75; creator of the Showtime series “L” word.

Marc Spitzer, ’75: an Attorney in Phoenix Arizona, has served as an Arizona State Senator from 1992-2000, as Majority Leader for the Arizona State Senate from 1996-2000, and now a Corporate Commissioner for the State of Arizona from 2000 to present.

George Whipple, ’75: a Presbyterian Minister, Advertising Manager and a Historical Columnist for The Presbyterian Outlook. (One of the last National Religious magazines.)

Thomas Feeney III,’76; was sworn into the 166^th U.S. Congress in January 2003. He won the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after serving in the Florida House of Representatives for 12 years, the last 2 of those as Speaker.

Dr. Raymond L. Singer,’76: currently the Associate Chief of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Lehigh Hospital in