Aleta J. Williams, GWSB MPA ’94, was appointed director of global education practice for GRM International. In this role, she will build GRM’s education, youth, and workforce development practice by working to improve the quality of primary, vocational, and tertiary educational systems. Williams was working as the senior education advisor for the US Agency for […]
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David Abrams, GWSB DBA ’87
David Abrams, GWSB DBA ’87, opened a new law office in Lake Mary, Fla., serving Central Florida in aviation, bankruptcy, commercial, corporate, computer & internet, copyright and trademark, family, and real estate law. Abrams is licensed to practice law in California, Florida, and Maryland.
Stephen Haines, GWSB MS ’75
Stephen Haines, GWSB MS ’75, passed away July 2, 2012. As CEO and founder of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, he was one of the world’s foremost authorities on the application of systems theory to the practical issues of strategy, planning, marketing and organizational change. Haines took academic research and his own and translated systems […]
Douglas F. Schneiderman, GWSB MBA ’86
Douglas F. Schneiderman, GWSB MBA ’86, a partner in his family’s Washington area real estate development company, Madison Homes, passed away July 29. Douglas Foster Schneiderman was a native of Queens and a 1983 community development graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He joined the now-defunct Milton Co., started by his father, in the […]
Robert Kaplan, GWSB MS ’77
Robert Kaplan, GWSB MS ’77, published his first book, Nakam (Vengeance), the story of Nazi-looted Jewish art restored to the victim’s descendants through covert action. Outraged over anti-Semitism he experienced in Eastern Europe in 2009, Kaplan wrote the historical novel after a chance meeting in Prague with the frustrated great-nephew of a Holocaust victim denied jurisdiction for nine years […]
Tom Hohman, GWSB MBA ’94
Tom Hohman, GWSB MBA ’94, was appointed executive director of the Cruise Industry Charitable Foundation (CICF) and the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA). CICF focuses on non-profit organizations that encourage civic and community development, job creation and training, improved access to community services and that provide youth and adult education, particularly for minority and disadvantaged […]
Norman W. Getsinger, GWSB MA ’64, ESIA CERT ’02,
Norman W. Getsinger, GWSB MA ’64, ESIA CERT ’02, a retired Foreign Service officer who served in posts in Africa, Europe and Asia, died June 22 in Flint Hill, Va. He was 93. Getsinger joined the State Department in 1949 and served posts in Egypt, Italy and Turkey. A specialist in Asian affairs, he also […]
Sherry A. Lin, GWSB BA ’09
Sherry A. Lin, GWSB BA ’09, accepted a position at TCC Global in Hong Kong as the assistant program manager. TCC partners with many of the world’s leading retailers and designs programs that will successfully deliver concrete and measurable increases in revenue and market share. These retailers include grocery, petroleum, convenience and drugstores. Lin moved to […]
Adam Ferst, GWSB BBA ’05
Adam Ferst, GWSB BBA ’05, started his own gourmet food business, Ferst Specialty Foods, in Philadelphia. Learn more at ferstfood.com.
Jill Caren Goldblatt, GWSB BBA ’03
Jill Caren Goldblatt, GWSB BBA ’03, and Ari Andrew Jordan were married Saturday, July 8 at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Miami. Read the wedding announcement in the New York Times.