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2007-2008 Honor Roll

Alumni Donors

Through the generosity of alumni, friends, parents, corporations and foundations, Hofstra University received more than $35 million in cash and pledges during the 2007-2008 year. Hofstra University is grateful to all donors who gave cash during the 2007-2008 academic year, which ran from September 1 to August 31. These gifts play an important role in advancing the mission of Hofstra University.

| Honor Roll | Corporations/Foundations/Grants | Friends/Faculty/Staff |
Alumni Donors: | 1939-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2007 |
| Senior Challenge |

1939

UNDERGRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
Lillian Schuttger Price

$1 to $99
Thomas E. Gutman
Margaret M. Oswald


1940

UNDERGRADUATE

$500 to $999
Charlotte B. Kraemer

$100 to $249
Helen Rand Lenke
Warren R. Omark
Dorothy W. Stack

$1 to $99
William M. Boger
Marguerite Herring Frost
Jean Miller Koistinen
Marion McCann


1941

UNDERGRADUATE

$100 to $249
James R. Grover

$1 to $99
Ruby I. Gelman
Sylvia Sherman


1942

UNDERGRADUATE

$250 TO $499
Chester L. Tuthill

$100 TO $249
Royal E. Blakeman
Mary Grover
Marjorie Bischoff Koehn
Jeanne Meyer Shinefield

$1 TO $99
Grace Ocker Berry
Norma P. Busch
Marion E. Forde
Madeleine Oswald Gerken
Edmund A. Ocker
Warren J. Oltmanns
Gloria DeVarennes Park
Phyllis Schneider
John R. Tree


1943

UNDERGRADUATE

$500 to $999
Edwin Moritz

$250 to $499
Robert Pfeiffer

$100 to $249
George C. Marks
Harold Silkworth
Helen Jasper Sullivan

$1 to $99
Phyllis Camp
Audrey Eilts
Clara Tillotson


1944

UNDERGRADUATE

$500 to $999
Betty Reid Lawson

$250 to $499
Murial Neumann

$100 TO $249
Thomas P. Smith
Donald C. Tiebout

$1 TO $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Joyce Bialkin
Amy Distler Cane
Doris Duerk-Ten Eyck
Margaret Flipse Edmiston
Nancy Sager Halpert
Eleanor Edwards Markland
Helen Schardt
Mary E. Valentine


1945

UNDERGRADUATE

$2,500 to $4,999
Alice O. Bennett

$250 to $499
Mildred B. Capuro
Virginia Ellison

$1 to $99
Joan Carman


1946

UNDERGRADUATE

$250 to $499
Ona Curran

$100 TO $249
Eleanor Schneider

$1 TO $99
Helene Barth
Rheba Handler Davidson
Edward S. LuBell
Gladys Schroeder

1947

UNDERGRADUATE

$250 to $499
Gloria (’47) and
Raymond Widmer (’49)

$100 to $249
Madeline M. Rappelt

$1 to $99
Paul Benenati
Edward J. Durnall, Jr.
Robert E. Miller
Irma Wesley


1948

UNDERGRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
Morton G. Yuter

$500 to $999
Marvin Wildenberg

$250 to $499
Edward P. Marcinkoski
Seymour C. Yuter

$100 to $249
Harriett Dilday Hackford
Catherine Hunerberg

$1 to $99
Frank Barth
William M. Dobriner
Robert Doyle
Jack Essex
Charles H. Frost
Franklin Jansen
Fred W. Langdon, Jr.
Edward J. Levie
W. Lysle Marshall
William F. Mills, Jr.
Seymour Nebel
William F. Pitt
Gertrude Pownall
Donald C. Rahman
Ralph W. Turner
Sena Turner
Pamela Harte Walter


1949

UNDERGRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
Paul Detkin
Jack Kuckens
John H. Weaver

$250 to $499
Robert Rais
Gloria (’47) and
Raymond Widmer (’49)

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Robert F. Albertson
Richard S. Dirkes
George A. Fournier
Robert Kranzler
Gloria and
Fred Landsman (’49)
Anthony A. Reidlinger
Jane McDonald
Riesenberger (’50) and
Robert E. Riesenberger (’49)
Vitro Rizzi
William G. Robinson
Anthony Totaro

$1 to $99
Norman Fleishman
Jerome M. Forrest
Arthur A. Fox
Irwin Greenfield
Herbert Gurvitz
Robert T. Hollett
Herbert Johnson
Helen N. Kolokoff
James J. Quigley, Jr.
Herbert Shprentz
William J. Sims
Leonard R. Smith
Henry Velsor
Leatrice Yelman


1950

UNDERGRADUATE

$25,000 to $49,999
Barbara A. (’70) and
Norman Gross (’50)

$5,000 to $9,999
Dorothy A. and
Joseph M.* Margiotta (’50)

$1,000 to $2,499
John R. Lenz
Roberta (’52) and Bernard Marcus (’50)
Robert J. Thoms

$250 to $499
Bob McDonald
Arthur J. Venezia

$100 to $249
Harold H. Abt, Sr.
Betty Albertsen
Robert J. Barry
Warren G. Bornhoeft
Lois Fournier
Bruce Hackford
Eric C. Jorgensen
Otto Juelich
William F. Kiesel IV
John D. Killian III
William T. Maguire, Jr.
Albert Miller
Hazel Petersen
John Pfister, Jr.
Lenore Davis Reilly
Jane McDonald Riesenberger (’50) and Robert E. Riesenberger (’49)
Vivian Whitehead

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Robert F. Babb
Robert Bennett
Betty Wiesen Burney
Robert DePoto
Nina Dolganos Dobkin
Mark Essner
Thomas H. Fetherston
Benjamin A. Goerke, Jr.
Andrew Governali
Richard Hanley
Mary Jeanne Hurley Hickey
Walter P. Johnson
Robert R. Julich
Richard F. Konaszewski
James Koopmann
Barbara Goldstein Paltrow
Douglas Raynor
Lois W. Reeve
Robert J. Reuter
Doris E. Rouse
Helen Root Schieffer
Edward Schultz
Gerard Tully
Robert L. Williams, Jr.
Frank J. Wolling
Rafael Yerushalmi

GRADUATE

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University

$1 to $99
Franklin G. Jansen


1951

UNDERGRADUATE

$5,000 TO $9,999
Vincent A. Puglisi

$2,500 to $4,999
Joshua Bennett
Charles E. Vasoll

$1,000 to $2,499
Doris and
Forrest McMullen, Jr. (’51)
Benjamin N. Silvestrone

$500 to $999
Arthur Lehrman
Vincent P. Nagengast
Janet and Richard D.* Wasson (’51)

$250 to $499
Alice J. and Douglas R. Carroll
Harriet George
George Heyburn

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friends of Hofstra University
Bruce W. Burns
Beatrice Masini Clark
Robert Corwin
William Deveer
Walter Freese
Harold Gerber
Peter A. Hinrichs
Richard Jaeger
Virginia T. Jorgensen
Gil Leib
Eileen D. Massmann
Gordon E. McKay
Arthur Morr
Harvey Shane
Richard P. Smith

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Warren Amendola
Robert E. Galen
Irma Jacobs
Frances Wiener Liebman
Carla Lindsay Nowicki
Arthur Perfall
Richard Powers
Leonard Quint
Barbara S. Rubins
Morris Sinkowitz
Jack O. Townsend
Ron Tue
Helene Windt

GRADUATE

$100 to $249
Gilbert A. Leib

$1 to $99
Thomas H. Fetherston
Walter P. Johnson

1952

UNDERGRADUATE

$25,000 To $49,999
Norman F. Lent

$2,500 to $4,999
Patricia Clark and
J. Richard Block (’52)

$1,000 to $2,499
Leo J. Dunn
Walter Kohanowich
Arthur Strunk
Owen Walsh

$500 to $999
Dorothy C. Espach
Robert W. Espach
Jane Kreusler
Frank Riccioli
Morris Seidman

$250 to $499
Joseph L. Scalise
Lawrence M. Stransky

$100 to $249
Phyllis Vance Boyle
Phoebe T. Corwin
Richard Edwards
Walter Jones
Harold Lazarus
Michael Picozzi
Melbourne Rappoport
Constantine Ricci
Amy Riemenschneider
Edward J. Rochford
Gerald M. Sauvigne
John E. Schwamb
Katherine May Totaro
Anne Trenkle
Benjamin T. Young, Jr.
Rush F. Ziegenfelder III

$1 to $99
Clarice Orso Bizzigotti
Kenneth G. Bonn
Emil Cianciulli
Ken Cloud
James DeGraff Carr
Anita Gelberg
Robert Heinecke
Mathilde Demisay Huckins
Barbara Maurer Hund
Noah Kunoff
Louis J. Laux
Roberta ('52) and Bernard Marcus ('50)
John R. Matthews
Helen Trenz Novinski
Robert L. Ohrtman
Annabelle Patiky
Alfred Roman
Joan Stein
Andrew A. Welden

GRADUATE

$5,000 TO $9,999
Vincent A. Puglisi

$1 TO $99
Beatrice M. Bromm
Mary and Charles W. Mayer ('52)
Charles W. Mayer
Morris R. Rogers
Doris E. Rouse
Kenneth J. Stacey


1953

UNDERGRADUATE

$5,000 to $9,999
Marjorie Strunk Shuart (’60) and James M. Shuart (’53)

$1,000 to $2,499
Richard J. Clavell
Anne and Joseph M. Heaney (’53)

$500 to $999
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Sondra Bernstein
Ginny Ruby Eulie
O. G. Kaufhold
Warren J. Rudolph
Joel Schwartz
Ben F. Wilder

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Patricia Acierno
Frank J. Alberti
John H. Bisack II
Hilda Kurner Carman
William Donnelly
Constantin Drivas
F. L. Grahlfs
Robert Kan
Ralph J. Kaplan
Arthur R Kuhn
Richard U. Laue
Patricia Dawson LeRoy
Ronald Match
Peter C. Panse
John J. Podsiadlo, Jr.
Virginia Bidwell
Margery Nelson Reynolds
Eric W. Spencer

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Frank Conklin
George B. Crofut
Frances D. Entwistle
Rowena Whitehouse Follett
Margaret E. Hellgren
Barbara Hirsch
Melvin Kass
Claire Katz
Estelle King
Adrienne N. Mantis
John S. McEnery
Helen S. Muller
Malcolm Musicante
Daniel O'Brien
Fred Reed
Edward J. Schmidt
Leonard M. Schnitzer
Irving Smyle
Lucille E. Thies
Vera Wallmann
Donald A. White
Bob White
Susan Wildberger
Claire L. Woolley

GRADUATE

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Harold Gerber
Eileen D. Massmann

$1 to $99
Richard Powers
Gertrude D. Pownall
Rafael Yerushalmi


1954

UNDERGRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
Louis H. Ng
Frank T. Pascarelli
George F. Wright

$500 to $999
Alex G. Fedoroff

$250 to $499
Michael J. Abbatiello
Laura Brownstein
Curtis Fisher
R. Lee Jordan
Robert G. Kurzman
Libby and Joseph G. Shapiro

$100 to $249
Carol Vickerman Bronzo
Dorothy and John Francis
Dolores Genovese
Norman W. Hosler, Jr.
Louis Irwin
Edward Lodi
Daniel J. McCarthy
Edward D. Murphy
David Quinn
Joseph Ristuccia

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Lin Ackerly
Donald B. Bennetter
Angelo Chiulli
Paul H. Echausse
Barbara Forrest
Sanford Halperin
June L. Heinecke
Eugene Heissenbuttel
Robert A. Israel
Sharon M. Kunoff
John M. Lieblang
Rolf Moller
Nancy Monje
Walter & Nancy Monje
Salvatore Nunziata
T. C. Ohland
Francine Rogers
Herbert Scolnik
Robert W. Stoeckler
Arlene Sweedler
Barry Tenser
Robert Vogel
Thomas E. Wagner
Warren Williams
Diane Yaris

GRADUATE

$1,000 TO $2,499
Doris and Forrest McMullen, Jr. (’54)

$250 to $499
Alice J. (’54) and Douglas R. Carroll

$100 to $249
Peter C. Panse
Robert E. Riesenberger
Magill Shipman

$1 to $99
Janet H. Goldman
Anthony J. La Sala
John S. McEnery


1955

UNDERGRADUATE

$500,000 to $999,999
Joseph L. Dionne (’55)

$25,000 to $49,999
Robert F. Dall (’55)

$10,000 to $24,999
Robert J. Bernstein

$5,000 to $9,999
John Mesloh

$1,000 to $2,499
Susan and Thomas Nunziata (’55)

$500 to $999
Paul S. Goldstein
Anna M. Kerekes
Carl Orent

$250 to $499
Robert E. Hillman
Edward Smits

$100 to $249
Ronald M. Armstrong
James V. Brymer
Lucille Jane Caserio
Charles Dyon
Christine and Edward Hedman
Irene Schwartz and S. Robert Kroll
William Lampe
Paul Mackey
A. Patricia Moore
Morris Rosen
James W. Scott
Donald Seaman
L. Eugene Teolis
Allan M. Van Wickler

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
John Alexion
Merna Braun
Mary Jane Darmody Burns
Donald Chichester
Joan M. Chicosky
Raymond Combs
Ruth C. Feigen
Barry Fleischman
Richard L. Fricklas
Charles S. Frizzelle
Joshua Furman
Walton Gagel
John F. Hickson
William A. Hickson, Jr.
Robert J. Johnsen
Edward M. Myers
William T. Reed
Edward Reilly
John Smiley
Walter Steffen
Linda Wax Swirsky
Joan Werber Tweedell
Frank Vasata
Lawrence S. Vlaun
Marcia Lafferty Yeates

GRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
John R. Lenz

$100 to $249
Robert H. Flynn
Constantine Ricci

$1 to $99
Donald B. Bennetter
Kathryn E. Fuscaldo
Mary J. Hickey
Louis J. Laux
Adrienne N. Mantis
Stanley M. Ulanoff
Diane Yaris


1956

UNDERGRADUATE

$2,500 to $4,999
Robert W. Buckner

$1,000 to $2,499
Joyce M. Hanna
Albert Lahood
George Loros
Maureen and
Ralph A. Nappi (’56)
Robert M. Veit

$500 to $999
Herbert A. Deutsch
John L. Fetzer
Peter Meyer

$250 to $499
Ronald Binday
Alan Craig
Frank W. Gargano
Samuel Goldstein
William J. Nickel
William Thieben

$100 to $249
Richard T. Bennett
David Botwinik
Evelyn M. Camps
Frederick F. Courtney, Jr.
W. E. Everett
John Fahey
Marion Fahnestock
Thomas FitzGerald
William Harper
Phedon Charles Kontulis
Raymond Kuehnel
Joseph McPartin
David Morris
Robert Opdahl
Paul E. Seidel
Robert M. Single
Richard Travis
William H. Vandewater, Jr.

$1 to $99
Joseph S. Balbalian
Constance L. Bridges Bodley
George W. Brandeau
Ms. Carolyn J. Dee
Mr. William G. Ellerkamp, Sr.
Mr. Donald A. Hall
Mr. James F. Hurley
Mrs. Joan Laspia
Mr. Walter Lofgren
Mr. Ralph F. Mazza
Ellie Schotz
Dr. Martin J. Smith
Mr. Herbert F. Yengel

GRADUATE

$100 to $249
Marie Corrado
Constantin G. Drivas

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Robert F. Babb
Ken Cloud
Thomas E. Downey
Ann L. Fox
Wilfred J. Gray
Richard W. Hanley
Eugene H. Kaplan
Estelle King
Miriam ('56) and Herb Levy
William F. Mills, Jr.
Theodor C. Ohland
Carolyn M. Vita
William D. Vita
Lyman P. Young

1957

UNDERGRADUATE

$50,000 to $99,999
Patricia K. and Frank G. Zarb

$2,500 to $4,999
Florence (’58) and Bernard Flaton (’57)

$1,000 to $2,499
Henrie Wolf Blau*
Patricia K. (’57) and Joseph R. Wamser (’58)

$500 to $999
Bernard Dickman
Henry T. Kohlmann
Gladys P. Kusterer
Harold F. Mayer
David Provenzano

$250 to $499
Richard Holland
Edgar R. Lellbach

$100 to $249
Marjorie Blachly
William Braun
James P. Doris
Myron Fishkind
Henry R. Janiesch
Richard K. Jones
Harold Matles
Lea Giblyn Pennington
Francis X. Reed
Saul Teichman

$1 to $99
Adrian Applebaum
David Bensen
Robert Bernitt
Janice E. Brown
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Martha Chestem
Paul Colon
Thomas Dell Aquila
Jack Foehrenbach
Suzanne M. Gaddone
Stuart Gordon
Constance D. Gronenberg
Irwin Gross
John F. Guy
Dorothy Hemer
Carol Johnson
Clara E. Jordan
George A Knaust
Irene C. Kuhn
William J. Lavin
Michael Marrell
Marcia Milne
Sheila and Richard F. Outcault ('57)
Michael Passariello
Robert Person
Joel Popkin
Richard Rafle
Catherine Rountry
Angelo P. Scarinzi
Joel Silverman
Dolores M. Steffen
Walter Wappaus
Robert Weidman
Frank S. Weiss
George H. Whitacre

GRADUATE

$500,000 to $999,999
Joseph L. Dionne

$250 to $499
Michael J. Abbatiello
Frieda A. Stahl

$100 to $249
Robert W. Keith
Ronald M. Quinn
Virginia M. Bidwell
Charlotte A. Sohl

$1 to $99
Marilyn S. Chiet
Joan Dell Aquila
Frances D. Entwistle
William T. Fox
Dolores C. Grieco
George C. McElroy
David W. Milne
Miriam C. Shorr
Eric G. Waxman, Jr.
Donald A. White


1958

UNDERGRADUATE

$10,000 to $24,999
Donna (’95) and James H. Marshall (’58)*
Marilyn Serota Plotz (’61) and Alan R. Plotz (’58)

$5,000 to $9,999
L. Peter Parcher
Salvatore Spano

$2,500 to $4,999
Peter DeMayo
Florence (’58) and Bernard Flaton (’57)

$1,000 to $2,499
George D. Benjamin
Joseph J. Martinez

$500 to $999
G. Lansing Blackshaw
Robert W. Dixon
Constantine D. Kyropoulos
Daniel Notine
Ross Weaver

$250 to $499
Eva B. Bernstein
Lawrence P. Magilligan
Lawrence H. Pierce
Thomas V. Reifenheiser
Elizabeth (’58) and David Roycroft (’59)
Peter Salit
Richard Turnau
Dolly Chessler Weisinger

$100 to $249
H. Lawrence Berman
Bruce G. Blower
Sheila Warren Bouwman
Richard A. Bradie
Glenn Camps
Joan Cavanagh
Leonard Cipolla
Albert W. Garrigan
Frank G. Giangrande
William J. Heimerle
Richard J. Hickey
John Hoffman
Marilyn Kontulis
Joseph Letta
Joseph G. Marshall
Eileen Mattes
Louise Mazzella
Arthur McLoughlin
Barbara Walsh Murphy
Sandy Reifel
Patricia and Robert Walker
Rochelle Weissbard
Helen Garrett Williams

$1 to $99
Claudia A. Bartelt
Bobette Baskowitz Bergstein
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Donald J. Buchalter
John Cammarata
John H. Carter
Lynn Coleman
Philip Daniels
David Depp
Dolores Dillon
Diane Dismuke
Eileen Divone
Gregory J. Fleming, Jr.
John Fracchia
Frank Frasca
Charles J. Gregory
William E. Hall
Noel Haynes
Vincent Henry
Tom Herzberg
John Hickey
John Hill
Frank Jahrsdorfer
Henry Kellerman
Carolyn Kelley
Robert D. Ledlie
Joseph Leifer
Joseph Majewsky
Barbara Martin
Judith Martin
Richard Martin
William Mccoy
Hanford Merritt
Lester T. Morris, Jr.
Irwin N. Natov
William Olden
Dorothea Ann Prior
Elizabeth Ann Reller
Joyce Reller
Charles A. Ricklin
Joseph J. Rofrano
Michael Russo
Raymond Schaefer
Kurt Schielke
Roger W. Schmitt
Joseph C. Schuchman
Norbert Schuck
Carol B. Sewell
Nancy P. Stalb
Michael M. Sueiro
Daniel Sweeney
Bob Totter
Joseph Tucker
Mary Katherine Valenta
William C. Wanner
Robert Warden
James C. Waters
Stephen Weinstein
Edmund White

GRADUATE

$2,500 to $4,999
Robert W. Buckner

$250 to $499
Robert E. Hillman

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
John J. McDonald
John J. Podsiadlo, Jr.

$1 to $99
John Alexion
M. Joan Armbruster
Joan R. Grant
Constance D. Gronenberg
Walter A. Klein
Marion McCann
Evelyn Wicks
Herbert F. Yengel


1959

UNDERGRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
John G. Newman
Ralph R. Shaw

$500 to $999
Robert Boos
Norman R. Goldstein

$250 to $499
Allan Felsen
Renzie W. Lamb
Paul E. Levine
Elizabeth (’58) and David Roycroft (’59)
Edward Scott

$100 to $249
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Stephen Barbone
Philip R. Bowdre
Gail Cohen
Alfred Dirska
Caryl Perlman Ellis
James Klausen
William R. Laky
Donald Laux
Corrine and Charles Lucido
Michael H. Morris
Alan Neuschatz
Joseph M. Seaman
G. Donald Smythe
Darrol Solin
Irene Sullivan Shatz
Frank Terranova
Art Thunell

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Alice Culver
Clifford Bennett
Michael Borut
Doris Brass
Barbara Brown
John Brown
Gerald Caldera
Dolores Caradonna
James S. Chadwick
Diane Coleman
William V. Corby, Jr.
Barbara and Arnold Cramer
Yvonne Dorst
Cynthia Dunton
Barbara Eberst
Ernst E. Forster
Joseph Gaddone
Edward S. Gallmeyer
Stuart L. Gastwirth
Vera M. Goodman
Donna and Daniel Hanlon ('59)
Thomas Hughes
Robert K. Johnson
Alan M. Kirshner
Abby S. Klier
Carl Kornblum
Ann Leh
Paula Nowick
Adolphus J. Queripel
Michael Radest
Arvel Ricketts
Joseph Ryan
Henry Schwab
Helen S. Simpson
Arthur M. Smith
Gail Berkes Starkie
Linda Bizzano Stenn
Elizabeth Irmscher Tarasewich
Marilyn Thorne
Robert Wall
Madeline Wicksel
Robert W. Wilson III

GRADUATE

$1,000 to $2,499
Albert A. Lahood

$100 to $249
Frank J. Alberti
Mindy and Stanley Brownstein (’59)
Lenore Davis Reilly
Robert M. Single

$1 to $99
Anonymous Friend of Hofstra University
Richard Benson
Marjorie M. Campbel
Rita G. Devine
Doris Duerk-Ten Eyck
Regina F. Gallagher
Arnold R. Gould
Carl M. Haymes
Joy S. Jorgensen
Henry Kellerman
Roger W. Schmitt
Nancy P. Stalb
Elinor W. Tannenbaum
Fern S. Vezzani
Loretta and Robert Warden ('59)
George H. Whitacre

* Deceased