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Class Notes of the Special Prosecutions Division at the Westchester County District Attorney's Office (appointed Jan. 14, 2015.) As chief of that division, he oversees the prosecution of all cases of domestic violence in Westchester, including sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual assault, crimes against the elderly and human trafficking. Approaching his 30th year as a Westchester prosecutor, Fred spent the previous 14 years as chief of the adult sex crimes bureau at the Westchester DA's Office. He is also an adjunct professor at Pace Law School and at the State University of New York (SUNY Purchase) where he teaches classes in the field of sexual assault law. 1979 Congratulations to Ted Sperling who was mar- ried on May 31, 2015 to shoe designer Noah Waxman. Ted's busy schedule has included serving as music director for Lincoln Center's production of "The King and I" which won four Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. As Artistic Director of MasterVoices (mastervoices.org) Sperling also directed and conducted "The Pirates of Penzance" with MasterVoices and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, at New York City Center in October 2015, in the MasterVoices' first venture in a new series of operas and operettas in concert. That month the conductor hosted and directed a Marvin Hamlisch Tribute at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Sperling is also music director for the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" which opened on Dec. 17, 2015. Ted also serves as principal conductor of the Westchester Philharmonic. To keep up with the alum's schedule and to see him in performance visit: http://tedsperling.net. Prof. Madeline Schwartzman will publish See Yourself X (SYX): Human Futures Expanded in December 2016. The second volume of her series that looks at human perception and the sensory apparatus is a sequel to See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (2011), a collection of 50 years of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. Dr. David Sanders, Associate Professor, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University writes: "I was elected both as the Vice-Chair of the Purdue University Senate (I become the Chair in June 2015) and as City Councilor of West Lafayette, Indiana. My focus is on preventing the hostile corporate takeover of higher education and promoting public health. In the past year I have been interviewed many times in multiple media about the Ebola virus. It gave me the opportunity to advocate for focusing on regional centers as loci for Ebola-virus treatment and for providing resources for suppressing the virus in Africa, to oppose unwise travel bans and quarantines, and to introduce science into discussions of the likelihood of a widespread outbreak in the United States (infinitesimal) and the modes of Ebola-virus transmission. 1980 Minna Ferziger Felig, an attorney, lives in Israel with her husband Cliff and their four children. Both of her sons and her older daughter are serving in the Israel Defense Forces, in the Tanks Corps, the Paratrooper Corps and the Intelligence Corps respectively. In the summer of 2014 Minna posted two articles called "Army Mom", recounting the terror of having her two sons serving in combat units during the war in Gaza, and of the trauma her son experienced in losing a friend in battle. The articles can be found at: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom/ and http://blogs. timesofisrael.com/army-mom-when-theboys-came-home. Dewey Wigod is a producer on the documentary "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War" about Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and a social worker who risked their lives behind enemy lines to smuggle people out of Eastern Europe. Presented by Ken Burns, the film is directed by Artemis Joukowsky, grandson of the rescuers. Wigod spoke to a class at HM about the film in December 2015. The film is up for Academy Award consideration and will be shown in Los Angeles and NYC from Friday, September 9, 2016 through Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. The film will be shown on PBS on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:00pm. The website for the film is DefyingTheNazis.org. "It has been rewarding for me to be involved in such a worthy project, bringing content and media partners together, as I have done on the 'American Film Institute Top 100' specials and 'The Lost Kennedy Home Movies," Dewey wrote. 1981 Save the Date, September 24, 2016, for HM Homecoming and the 35th Reunion of the Class of 1981. Andrew Solomon published Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change in April 2016. (See more in the next issue of Horace Mann Magazine) 1983 Cassandra (Garner) Vaughan writes: "I mar- ried my soulmate, Wayne Vaughan, in 2009. We reside in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2012, I have been a teacher at Park Slope Collegiate, also in Brooklyn. I've been employed by the NYC Dept. of Education as a math teacher since 2004. Jane Mendelsohn, the author of the novels I Was Amelia Earhart (1997) Innocence (2001) American Music (2010) published Burning Down the House in March 2016. (to be covered in next issue of Horace Mann Magazine.) 1985 Beth Kissileff, PhD published Reading Genesis in Feb. 2016 Kissileff is the author of Questioning Return a novel, to be published in September 2016. (Both to be covered in the next issue of Horace Mann Magazine).She is also writing a book of linked short stories and a second novel. Kissileff has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Carleton College Humanities Center for work on the second book. She writes fiction, articles and criticism for a number of publications and online media, including JewishFiction. net, Slate.com, NYTimes.com, Washington Post.com, Huffington Post, USAToday.com, Haaretz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Tablet, Religion News Service, Moment Magazine, The Forward, Jerusalem Report, The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Week, and Jewish Book World. Follow her on Twitter @bethkissileff. 1986 Save the Date, September 24, 2016, for HM Homecoming and the 30th Reunion of the Class of 1986. Dr. Marina Rustow was named one of 2015's 24 MacArthur Fellows. Awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation this substantial fellowship is frequently referred to as "The Genius Grant." Nominees are evaluated for "exceptional creativity" and the potential for sustained creative development. Dr. Rustow is the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at Princeton University. In her work as a historian she uses the Cairo Geniza texts to shed new light on Jewish life and on the broader society of the medieval Middle East. Rustow's approach to the texts, hundreds of Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 51 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom-when-the-boys-came-home http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom-when-the-boys-came-home http://www.mastervoices.org http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/army-mom-when-the-boys-came-home http://www.Slate.com http://www.NYTimes.com http://www.WashingtonPost.com http://www.WashingtonPost.com http://www.USAToday.com https://www.twitter.com/bethkissileff http://www.tedsperling.net http://www.DefyingTheNazis.org http://www.macfound.org/ http://www.macfound.org/

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