Class Notes Two Scoops, Please 1996-1997 Donor Report   Annual Fund   Program Support 1997 Commencement Photos

1994 Melanie Miller, MPH, married Galen C. Payne on October 26, 1996. The Paynes now live in southwest Washington, where Melanie works as an epidemiologist for the Southwest Washington Health District. 1995 Shaun Baran, MPH, is director of quality improvement at Codman Square Health Center in Somerville, Massachusetts. Lessina Cline, MPH, is a senior acquisition specialist and research assistant for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project, HIV/AIDS Research Synthesis, Analysis, and Application. The project's goal is to synthesize all rel evant, successful HIV/AIDS intervention studies. In addition to developing search procedures and strategies, she is conducting the search through major databases across the country. She is developing a bibliography and compendium for all the identified ta rget groups and plans to write a technical report on automated search strategies and procedures. The Morning Star is another name for the planet Venus, which represents the goddess of love, beauty, and wisdom. It is also the name of a new business venture by Susan Brothers Peterman, MD, MPH. This fall Dr. Peterman opened her doors for whole person counseling in an office adjacent to the Emory campus. A graduate of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Jennifer Goodenow Whitmire, MPH, is vice president of government affairs at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the board of directors for the Georgia Partne rship for Caring Foundation. 1996 Joan Borchardt, MPH, is a research associate with the Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research, a nonprofit research and educational institution based in Atlanta. Tina Lynn Paul, 96MPH, along with Amy Mehaffie, 97MPH, attended the nuptials of former classmate, Arian Boutwell, MPH, in July in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Boutwell married Jay Hadley, who holds a Mas ter of Science of Management from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a consultant at American Management Systems in Fairfax, Virginia. The Hadleys make their home in Arlington. Wedding bells also rang this summer for Amanda Katherine Dunnick, MPH, and David Stoddard, a marketing manager at ChemStar Corporation. Currently, Amanda is an environmental health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion. Gabriel E. Onofre, MD, MPH, is a community health promotion specialist at the DeKalb County Board of Health. Ellen Sara Schmid, MPH, is a health care consultant for Sun Data, Inc.

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These faculty members have the scoop: (l to r) Vicki Hertzberg, John McGowan, Kathleen Miner, and Richard Levinson.

hocolate, vanilla, strawberry? In May, faculty members Vicki Hertzberg, Richard Levinson, John McGowan, and Kathleen Miner donned waiter's hats and served three flavors of ice cream and a smorgasbord of topp ings to some 75 students and faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health. The occasion was a party thanking participants in the graduating class campaign. The 1996-1997 class raised more than $10,000 for scholarships. With last year's class gift, the t wo-year support for scholarships at the school from students totals $15,000. Dean James Curran was not to be left out of either the campaign or the party, matching the class gift campaign for the past two years with a contribution from the school. At the social, he donned a waiter's hat along with the faculty co-chairs, serving and eating his share of gelato.

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Virginia S. Bales

Dear Friends, As chairperson of the Annual Fund for the Rollins School of Public Health, it is my privilege to share with you the names of those individuals who helped make the 1996-1997 Annual Fund a resounding success. A more enjoyable task is hard to imagine! We had a stellar year, with giving up 131% over the previous year and average gif t size and total number of gifts increasing among both alumni and friends of the school. As you may know, the Annual Fund effort this past year helped support student scholarships. During the 1996-1997 academic year, the Rollins School of Public Health provided four full scholarships as well as 14 partial scholarships to outstanding studen ts. This support was in addition to that given to students who received scholarships as part of their financial aid package. Our gifts to the Annual Fund helped make these awards possible. Many donors also helped students and the school with other important initiatives. Gifts were made to support student internships and fieldwork, lectures, and the work of specific departments and faculty members. Thank you to everyone who gave so genero usly. To each of you whose name appears in the following donor report, thank you for your support of the school. Your generosity is deeply appreciated. We hope you will continue to see the school's work as vital and help to make the school even stronger with your ongoing financial endorsement. Virginia Shankle Bales, 71C, 77MPH Rollins School of Public Health 1996-1997 Annual Fund Chair

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These individuals supported the work of the Rollins School of Public Health through gifts to the Annual Fund.

Class of 1972 Dr. R. Clifton Bailey Class of 1976 Ms. Patricia M. deAndrade Mr. Allan B. Goldman Ms. Essie L. Rowser Class of 1977 Ms. Virginia Shankle Bales Ms. Margaret B. Douglas Dr. Nancy J. Thompson Class of 1978 Dr. Russell H. Roegner Class of 1979 Mr. Robin Steven Bales Ms. Ann L. Brown Ms. Emy Lou Faber Mr. Jack T. Jones Ms. Rebecca Hodges McQueen Dr. Kathleen R. Miner Ms. Iris E. Smith Class of 1980 Ms. Sara Jo Gaston Moore Class of 1982 Dr. Stanley O. Foster Ms. Karen Randi Holzberg Class of 1983 Ms. Elizabeth Leona Camp Ms. Mildred Morgan Hedrick Ms. Ellen Backman Kent Dr. Robert Louis Vogel Class of 1984 Dr. Erica Frank Dr. Dixie E. Snider Ms. Pattie Jo Tucker Ms. Barbara L. Ward-Groves Class of 1985 Dr. Thomas K. Welty Class of 1986 Ms. Wilma E. Barshaw Dr. Daniel S. Blumenthal Ms. Cathy Chase Boring Ms. Gail S. Garvin Ms. Penina Haber Dr. Bess C. Jones Mr. Michael Melneck Dr. Amrutha Varshini Nataraj Dr. John D. Rogers Dr. Aziz R. Samadi Dr. Rebecca J. Schilling Dr. Alan J. Sievert Class of 1987 Ms. Patricia Gedarovich Ms. Carolyn Hahn-Swanson Dr. Nader Kameel Mishreki Mr. Romulo T. Morales, Jr. Mr. Curtis Jackson Norvell Ms. Kathy H. Rufo Ms. Jane Downey Trowbridge Ms. Betsy S. Wallace Dr. Glen D. Williamson Class of 1988 Capt. Bruce Keith Bohnker Ms. Janice Elaine Brockman Ms. Ruth Rowan Brown Ms. Katherine H. Garrett Ms. Teresa Anne Hammett Ms. Barbara Peek Hanley Ms. Carol E. Hayes Mr. Dennis Farrell Jarvis Mr. Kedrick K. Kiawoin Ms. Victoria Meltz Ms. Patricia A. Poindexter Ms. Judith B. Seltzer-Stewart Ms. Aileen Smith Ms. Michelle O. Yaeger Class of 1989 Ms. Mary Hogan Brantley Ms. Patricia Drehobl Brugliera Dr. George W. Bugg Ms. Catherine Lisle Dempsey Ms. Ann Rondi Herman Dr. Jeffrey Hom Dr. Dale N. Lawrence Ms. Carol Bussey Levy Dr. Fatima Mili Ms. Marian Christopher O'Brien Mr. Allan E. Peljovich Ms. Virginia Ann Posid Ms. Judith E. Schmitt Ms. Nan Smith Ms. Lynnda Diane Transue Ms. Judith A. Vance Ms. Debra Lynn Veal Dr. Alan G. Waxman Ms. Kimberly Lisa Whittle Class of 1990 Ms. Tracy Lynn Jensen Ms. Kellen L. Meadows Ms. Diane Moran Narkunas Mr. Joseph Michael Posid Dr. Sandra Lee Riegler Mr. Mark L. Sciegaj Ms. Elizabeth C. Vogel Class of 1991 Ms. Melissa Alperin Ms. Jane Margaret Anderson Dr. John Tatum Carter Ms. Brigitte Sandra Garner Dr. Diane Carol Green Ms. Felicia Jane Guest Ms. Elizabeth Ann Hoelscher Dr. Michael Kenneth Lindsay Ms. Katherine Knutson Lindstrom Ms. Marion P. Meador Dr. Suzanne Margaret Smith Ms. Amy Johnson Warner Mr. Warren Gillespie Williams Class of 1992 Lt. Vincentia Adzo Agbah Ms. Margery Knoles Gardner Ms. Carol Ann Gourley Mr. Edward Leo Jones Dr. Michael P. Lischke Ms. Kitty F. MacFarlane Ms. Cynthia Ann Mervis Dr. Jane C. Nelson Ms. Nina S. Parikh Ms. Jodi Ilene Seitz Ms. Batool Seyedghasemipou Mr. Edward F. Tierney Ms. Nancy L. Wilkinson Class of 1993 Mr. Ye Kyaw Aung Ms. Kym Latece Barnes Dr. Stephen L. Cochi Ms. Catherine Tolan Curlette Mr. James Edmund Dahl Ms. Kathryn Heath Graves Ms. Deborah McKay Harris-Abbott Ms. Heidi Jo Knedlik Mr. John D. Lisco Ms. Kara Leigh Marchman Dr. Mary Pugh Mathis Ms. Jodi Jean McGill Ms. Sherry Loskoski Orloff Ms. Amy Elizabeth Sayle Ms. Donna Louise Schminkey Dr. Jorge E. Simmonds-Diaz Dr. Michelle Staples-Horne Mr. David Lee Warner Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Wiley Class of 1994 Ms. Elizabeth Clark Athanassiades Ms. Tracy Elizabeth Bidwell Ms. Emily Suzanne Dicks Ms. Regine Arcelin Douthard Dr. Chester L. Fisher, Jr. Dr. Diane Carol Green Ms. Suzanne L. Hair Ms. Connie Lee Hannah Mr. Ronald S. Hosek Ms. Wendy Michelle Kaplan Dr. Susanne Beckman Nahmias Ms. Melanie Miller Payne Dr. E. Anne Peterson Mr. Stephen Roy Pitts Dr. Tomofumi Sone Class of 1995 Ms. Andrea Tamara Chait Dr. Leslie F. Clark Ms. Amy L. Corneli Ms. Lynn Michelle Eberhart Mr. Jack E. Hanley Ms. Billie Antoinette Kizer Dr. Yvette Marie Martin Mr. Lyle W. McCormick Dr. Terrell King Murphy Dr. Susan Brothers Peterman Ms. Stacey Love Sims Ms. Andrea Denise Wenger Dr. Dawn Butler Willis Class of 1996 Ms. Sara L. Baden Ms. Caroline Murrell Ball Ms. Peony Dora Chen Ms. Andrea Jo Conlisk Ms. Lisa Anne De Roo Ms. Amanda Katherine Dunnick Mr. Gary Lonnell Ellison Ms. Laurie Ann Fischer Ms. Dorothy C. Foote Ms. Maria V. Fraire Ms. Linda J. Garrettson Ms. Melinda M. M. Haulbrook Ms. Laurice Ellen Haynes Ms. Deborah J. Isenberg Ms. Amy Eglinton Keller Ms. Corinne Lemal Ms. Lisa Lindsay Mr. Jonathan Terrell Macy Ms. Jennifer Marie Maida Ms. Uma Maheswari Mantravadi Mr. John Schilling Moran Ms. Jill M. Nielsen Mr. V. Ryan Oliver Dr. Gabriel Esteban Onofre Ms. Megan Elizabeth Parker Ms. Tina-Lynn Paul Mr. Scott Kyl Proeschold Ms. Amy L. Pullen Ms. Kimberly Anne Robinson Ms. Katherine Elizabeth Ross Mr. Roger P. Sherman Ms. Christine D. Steward Ms. Susan K. Swan Ms. Lynya Ileen Talley Ms. Jennifer Abby Taussig Ms. Nicole Sita Umemoto Ms. Karen Lynne Van Roekel Dr. Andres Villaveces Ms. Marlena Malmstedt Wald Ms. Katherine Park Wood Dr. Priscilla Lovetta Young Class of 1997 Ms. Lisa Katz Elon Ms. Erica Alanna Flowers Ms. Afrique I. Kilimanjaro Mr. Aun Lor Ms. Amy Wigginton Mehaffie Dr. Fatima Mili Ms. Sudevi V. Navalkar Ms. Emily Hughes Siegel Ms. Lyrna Siklossy Friends Mr. Ronald B. Bobo, 76B Dr. Catherine Bonk, 86M Mr. Mendal Bouknight Ms. Alice Brim, 37G Dr. James W. Curran Ms. Lynne D. Dougherty Ms. Robin Eidle Mr. Jason Matthew Fields, 90C Dr. William H. Fox, 79G and Mrs. William H. Fox Dr. Howard Frumkin Ms. Sarah E. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Philip Graitcer Ms. Portia J. Griffin Dr. William L. Heyward, 72C Dr. William F. Hill, 51C Dr. Carol J. Hogue Mr. and Mrs. Christian Jensrud Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, 80M Dr. Joseph M. Kinkade and Mrs. Jane B. Kinkade, 78G Dr. Richard Letz and Dr. Eugenia Calle Dr. and Mrs. Richard Levinson Dr. and Mrs. Reynaldo Martorell The Rev. Herbert M. McCallum, 60MBA Dr. Deborah A. McFarland Dr. and Mrs. John E. McGowan Mr. William H. McQuade, 74C, 77G Mrs. Pamela S. Melbourne, 89MN Dr. Jonathan Samuel Mittelman Ms. Uma Nagaraj, 96L, 00C Mr. Patrick A. Neither Mr. Enrique Paz Mr. Robert G. Pennington, 74O, 76C, 81MBA, 81L Ms. Jane Price Dr. Robin W. Roberts, 80G Dr. Thomas F. Sellers, 47C, 50M Dr. R. Keith Sikes, 49C Mr. Seegar Swanson Mr. Aleksander Szlam Ms. Valsamani Varma, 74G Ms. Lynne C. Woodward Dr. Sylvia Wrobel Mr. and Mrs. John H. Youngblood

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Designated gifts were made in support of several programs at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education Mr. Oliver J. Keller Mr. Gordon P. Rondeau Fulton County Fraternal Order of Police Earle B. and Stephanie S. Blomeyer Training and Resource and Health Fitness Centers Mr. and Mrs. Earle B. Blomeyer Virginia S. DeHaan Lecture on Health Promotion and Education Ms. Cathy Lewis Graub, 80MPH Ms. Lois F. Lunin Ms. R. Ora Williams Department of Epidemiology Total Language Resources Eugene J. Gangarosa Scholarship Fund Dr. Stanley O. Foster, 82MPH Dr. Raymond E. Gangarosa, 72C, 90MPH Capt. Nelson A. Leidel Mr. Henry B. Perry Mr. and Mrs. Brian Siegmund William A. Garrett Student Loan Fund Peacock Foundation, Inc. William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund William Randolph Hearst Foundation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Activities Fund Dr. and Mrs. John E. McGowan Kids Alive and Loved: Minority Health Research Laboratory Ms. Carol R. Cummings Ms. Portia J. Griffin Dr. Pamela H. Payne Ms. Marlena Malmstedt Wald, 96MPH Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Weyrauch Emmaus House Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition The Coca-Cola Company H.J. Heinz Company Foundation Procter & Gamble Company Grace Crum Rollins Public Health Building O. Wayne Rollins Foundation M. B. Seretean Center for Health Promotion Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architects Charles C. Shepard Scholarship Fund Mr. James W. McRae Student Research Project Massey Charitable Trust Student Trainee Fund El Adobe Corporation Lettie Pate Whitehead Public Health Scholarship Fund Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Women's & Children's Center Turner Foundation

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These corporations, foundations, and organizations contributed to programs of the Rollins School of Public Health during the 1996-1997 year This Donor Report includes donors to the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) whose gifts were received between September 1, 1996, and August 31, 1997. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this report is accur ate. We apologize for any errors or omissions and hope that you will bring them to our attention. Please report any corrections to the RSPH Development Office at (404) 727-3311. Thank you.

ABT Associates, Inc. American Cancer Society American College of Cardiology American Health Foundation American Statistical Association Association of Schools of Public Health Batelle Laboratories BellSouth Matching Gift Center Cancer Research Foundation of America CARE Children's Trust Fund of Georgia CIGNA Foundation Cobb County Board of Health The Coca-Cola Company Egleston Children's Hospital Environmental Protection Agency Fulton County Juvenile Court Georgia Academy for Child and Youth Professionals Georgia Department of Administrative Services Georgia Department of Human Resources Georgia Human Relations Commission Georgia Medical Care Foundation Georgia Southeast Health District Georgians for Children Hewlett-Packard Funds Hughes Electronics Corporation Institute of International Education International Life Science Research Institute Foundation Japan International Corporation of Welfare Service Jeptha Lucent Technologies Foundation Management Sciences for Health Nestle Research Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation Oppenheimer & Company, Inc. Pediatric AIDS Foundation Pfizer, Inc. Research Triangle Institute Elinor Beidler Siklossy Foundation Sisters of St. Joseph Fund, Inc. John Snow, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Thrasher Research Fund United Nations Children's Fund Wisconsin Energy Foundation World Health Organization World Vision Zap Asthma Consortium, Inc.

Dean James Curran plucked a flower from the commencement decorations to present to Aja Diack, who was the graduating student who had most recently given birth (just a few days before graduation). Stan O. Foster gave Svati Shah a hug along with her award. Shah won the Eugene J. Gangarosa Award for demonstrating a creative approach to solving public health problems and showing promise for outstanding service in the international arena.

The 1996-1997 graduating class of 216 students included commencement speaker Aun Lor (right) and Chidehanok "Mei" Ruengorn. Dorothy Monroe Allen traveled to Atlanta from Houston for the graduation of her niece Chanda Mobley.

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