http://www.lafayette.edu RSS Feed For Lafayette Alumni English graduate Shoshana Cohen Stopek '00 works for Warner Bros. Global Publishing to ensure that publishers properly portray the company's many licensed characters—including Speed Racer, Harry Potter, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo. "It's a natural progression that I ended up where I am because I'm working in the publishing business and writing on the side," she says. When a writer was needed for a series of books for children ages 2-4, Stopek's boss recommended her for the job. Those titles, Scooby Doo! New Friends at the Zoo, Scooby Doo! Your Everyday Hero, Scooby Doo! Team Player, and Scooby Doo! A Girl's Best Friend, help young children find their place in the world through the rhymed antics of the titular mutt. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12103 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12103 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12206 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12206 Members of the Alumni Association's London chapter hosted Qiong Wu '09 (Shanghai, China) for a weeklong externship. Jane Wiest '87 hosted him for his stay, and he had externship experiences with He Shen '97, Lloyds TSB; Vijay Rajguru '84, GoldenTree Asset Management; and Richard Landsberger S'77, Fairfield Greenwich Group. Lafayette President Dan Weiss and his wife, Sandra, will visit the chapter at a dinner and reception. The chapter plans to hold an event at the beginning of July for the 23 students in the summer interim course Ethical and Social Issues in Healthcare in the U.K. Peter M. Sullivan '82 is coordinating a Lafayette-Lehigh football telecast party in London this fall. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12188 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12188 Dec, 8, 2000. Mitchell Berger '77 and Jeffrey Robinson '80 are riding in a van, chatting idly about the recent Lafayette-Lehigh football game. They seem oblivious to the television cameras trained on their every movement. That night, footage of the conversation appears on ABC's Nightline—sans sound—accompanying a story about how the Supreme Court of Florida had ordered the Circuit Court of Leon County to tabulate by hand 9,000 presidential election ballots in Miami-Dade County. Berger and Robinson were key members of the team representing Al Gore in a recount of votes in the contest between him and George W. Bush. Their roles are being reprised in Recount, an HBO original movie scheduled to debut at 9 p.m. May 25. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12192 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12192 As senior project manager for Bovis Lend Lease, Jason Burrell '98 has been overseeing construction of the $74 million Macallen Building, a 140-unit condo in South Boston. For the past three-and-a-half years, Burrell has been instrumental in the development of the revolutionary "green" building. A documentary about it highlights his work. The footage, Burrell's included, was complied into The Greening of Southie. The film asks the question, "What happens when you're asked to build the city of tomorrowtoday?" The film, an official selection for the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Mo., and the Independent Film Festival of Boston, made its television premiere, fittingly enough, on Earth Day. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12186 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12186 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12187 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12187 President Emeritus Arthur J. Rothkopf '55 is the 2008 recipient of the Francis J. Michelini Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education from AICUP, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania. Rothkopf is past chair and vice chair of AICUP's board of directors. He is is senior vice president and counselor to the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. His responsibilities include leadership of the chamber's Education and Workforce initiative, including the nonprofit Institute for a Competitive Workforce. In addition, he is responsible for supervising the National Chamber Foundation, a nonprofit public policy think tank affiliated with the Chamber. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12181 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12181 Would you take a guaranteed $199,000 or turn it down for a shot at more? That was the choice contestant Mike Levy '01 faced recently on the NBC game show Deal or No Deal. Following the advice of his mother and fianc, Levy rolled the dice, turning down the $199,000. His decision was vindicated as Levy continued, but the show's banker then phoned in an offer of $274,000 to quit. With his fianc advising him to settle and his mother saying "No deal," Levy followed the former's advice and accepted the offer. The briefcase he would have won contained $750,000. Levy is a former defensive end and captain on Lafayette's Division I-AA football team. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12172 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12172 The friends and family of Dan O'Neil '06, who died in the Virginia Tech shootings last year, have compiled an album of his original music. Resident Hippy includes a booklet of lyrics and photos. The CDs cost $10 each and can be purchased at www.danieloneilmemorialfund.com. Proceeds go to the Daniel O'Neil Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships to graduating seniors from Lincoln (R.I.) High School who have financial need and wish to attend college. Scholarships are awarded to students who have participated in band or chorus and have demonstrated the same passion and commitment to music that O'Neil did. Donations also are being accepted for Lafayette's Daniel P. O'Neil '06 Memorial Fund. at 307 Markle Hall. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12173 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12173 Signing up for alumni events is easier than ever, thanks to the registration feature within the events calendar of the Alumni Online Community. Each calendar listing provides event information and a link to the names of those who have registered online. Secure online payment with a credit card is available for events with fees. In conjunction with this, the Office of Alumni Affairs is transitioning from email to paper invitations for many events, including chapter activities, Homecoming, and the Lafayette-Lehigh football telecast parties. This makes starting the RSVP process as easy as clicking on a link within the email. It also supports Lafayette's initiative to become a more environmentally friendly campus by reducing the amount of paper used for invitations. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12110 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12110 When people at IBM, then in its mainframe computer heyday, discovered that Bryan Satterlee '56 wanted to leave the company after ten years, they thought he'd lost his mind. He founded a company that pioneered the leasing of IBM 360 Series mainframes, a radical idea at the time. That market sense proved canny when he founded his next company, maker of the first all-electronic business phone system. In light of Satterlee's success, Harvard Business School wrote a case study on his ventures to discuss how a start-up company can compete against large competitors like AT&T and IBM. Satterlee co-founded Northeast Ventures in 1989, making minority investments in 45 high-tech ventures, nearly all surviving the Internet bubble of the early 2000s. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12123 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12123 Fred Gehle '55 is director of the Veterans History Project in the Augusta, Ga., and Aiken, S.C., area. Sanctioned by Congress in 2000, the project collects video and audio recordings of wartime tales of U.S. veterans. Gehle leads a crew of about 50 volunteers. "I was eight years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. From that point on until the Japanese surrendered, I followed the war," he recalls. His family housed a couple Royal Air Force pilots temporarily. "I brought these two Brits to school as part of show and tell." Collecting newspaper articles from those times, from D-Day to V-J Day, he turned his schoolboy interest into "a lifelong passion," eventually amassing about 1,500 books on WWII. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12097 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12097 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12140 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12140 Nicole Magnant Morrissey '98 is proud to have served as class Reunion chair for the past 10 years. Morrissey, a psychology graduate, is looking forward to seeing old friends at Reunion and "revisiting what life was like back in our late teens/early twenties." Melissa C. Ellis '98, an economics & business and psychology graduate, is also excited to catch up with old friends on campus. Both she and her husband, Jonathan Ellis '98, are looking forward to seeing the campus since they have not had the opportunity to visit often. Melissa Ellis believes that there will be a great turnout for their 10th Reunion this summer. "How often do we get to pretend we are back in College?" she says. http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12145 http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/12145