Class Notes

Name: Jane Wattenberg

Class Year(s): 1973

Note: Jane (Chase) Wattenberg’s MFA ’73 (GAP) book Mrs. Mustard’s BABY FACES and Mrs. Mustard’s BEASTLY BABIES have been making babies happy for 30 years! It is still listed in the NYTimes: 7 Great Books for (and About) Babies. 7 Great Books for (and About) Babies: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/books/best-baby-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Jane is now researching and giving talks on the History of Photography in Photo-Illustrated Books for Children. Coming up is a symposium on this subject at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, March 2020. Her chapter on the subject can be found in the 2018 Routledge Companion to Picturebooks.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Robert Dickes

Class Year(s): 1996

Note: Rob Dickes ’96 (CIAS) recently excepted a position at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN as an assistant professor of Photography and Digital Media.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Jeffrey Newman

Class Year(s): 1992

Note: Jeffrey Newman ’92 (SCB) recently had the opportunity to record a podcast with Greylock Partners and Gladly CEO Joseph Ansanelli on how Porsche Cars North America is working to create customer experiences as legendary as their vehicles. https://www.gladly.com/latest/podcast/porsche-a-legendary-customer-experience-to-match-a-legendary-vehicle/

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Henry Sack

Class Year(s): 1981

Note: Henry Sack ’81 (CIAS) has moved to a regional sales role at nQueue, a legal software cost recovery and scanning workflow company. Henry spent the last 15 years at ProLaw, a Westlaw company of Thomson Reuters.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Alexander Liem

Class Year(s): 2017

Note: Alex Liem ’17 (CET) is a University of Colorado Boulder aerospace student who has been selected as a member of the 2020 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program. The initiative provides summer internships and executive mentorship to inspire the next generation of commercial spaceflight leaders. Now in its third year, the highly-selective program awards exceptional college juniors, seniors, and graduate students pursuing aerospace careers with paid internships at cutting-edge commercial space companies. Fellows also receive one-on-one mentorship from accomplished members of the space community, including astronauts, engineers, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and others. During his tenure at RIT, Alex was a member of the student-run Electric Vehicle Team and worked at SpaceX as part of his degree. Most recently, he completed an internship at the Aerospace Corporation and is currently pursuing a MS in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder with a focus on Bioastronautics. Alex is passionate about human spaceflight, and, after getting his degree, hopes to return to the space industry to help create new destinations in space (and the means to get there).

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Brian Buturla

Class Year(s): 1991

Note: Brian Buturla 91 (CIAS), owner of Brian Buturla Studios, is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer and 1,000 hour Dharma Yoga teacher. Working from his private studio in Norwalk, C.T., Brian delivers the best personal training session and yoga class experience available! Yogi Brian offers private yoga instruction, therapeutic rehabilitative yoga and group yoga classes to individuals seeking enlightenment and transformation. Teaching by example with compassion and inspiration, trainer Brian is a Sports Performance Enhancement Specialist with over 25 years experience and 10,000+ private sessions serviced!

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Andrew` Crane

Class Year(s): 2007

Note: Andrew (AJ) Crane ’07 (CAST) is the owner of A. Crane Construction, LLC and the company recently celebrated the 30th year in business and also moved into a new facility. In recent years, A. Crane Construction has moved from purely residential construction to a full service private commercial contracting firm and has tripled in size in the last 5 years alone. AJ credits his Civil Engineering Technology degree and his diploma is proudly hanging in his office for all to see that a small home building firm can morph into a substantial force in the commercial market with a little bit of training and discipline. AJ credits RIT for bringing him the skills to take his small family-operated business to the next level, and extends a thank you to the CAST faculty.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Harvey Levenson

Class Year(s): 1967

Note: Harvey R. Levenson Ph.D. ’67 (GAP) is the editor of the Ben Franklin Honor Society "Book of Wisdom." The book is comprised of 47 success stories from some of the most accomplished leaders in the graphic communication industry spanning the latter half of the 20th century to the present.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Roy Peterson

Class Year(s): 2012

Note: Officer Roy Peterson ’12 (COLA) started a new position at the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Peterson left his previous position with the University of Pittsburgh Police Department in order to expand his career opportunities.

Submitted on: September 22, 2020

Name: Jessica Liverman

Class Year(s): 2018

Note: Jessica Liverman ’18 (COLA) and Gautam Jagannathan MS ’14 (GCCIS) had two wedding ceremonies this past fall on August 25, 2019 in Chennai, India and on October 5, 2019 in Penn Yan, NY. The two met at RIT at Building M in the spring of 2012 and now live in Fairport, NY. Family, friends and many RIT alumni attended the wedding, including Lilia Pikulyak ’12 (CIAS), Karthik Vaidyanathan MS ’13 (GCCIS), Rahul Navinchand MS ’13 (GCCIS), Sree Anirudh Bhandaram MS ’15 (GCCIS), Robert Staunton ’84 (KGCOE) MS ’96 (KGCOE), Egzona Imeri ’14 (COLA), Michael Buonaccorso ’11 (KGCOE), Swati Agarwal MS ’15 (GCCIS), Shitij Kumar MS ’14 (KGCOE), Ph.D. ’19 (KGCOE) , Kinesh Satiya MS ’13 (GCCIS), Rujul Shah MS ’14 (KGCOE), Theresa Neidermeyer ’14 (CIAS), Srikant Ayengar MS ’15 (GCCIS), Shannon Bean ’10 (COS), and Nick Wyble ’19 (KGCOE).

Submitted on: September 20, 2020